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Tears, nth
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Light and Brightne'o long here, without 'Re

'va-vation ; m en wend hj'Experiente, that'

in the I-Iea-uens, he never its once a Month
to change and
her Splen
For it i:
the Excellency of Art, to repre ent Nature,
e-ven in her ahente; and their heing a Piece
done to the Life, h] one that had the advan

tageqf' the true Light, a: well a: the Skill

ofDrawing, in this hind, to Perection; he

le; good an Ortginal, which wax o well'

Capied h] another Hand, that the Pictnre
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mlght
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for may)
Tears
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to 'hat-ver'have
vzjeitthe
*0f the
Illoo't,._v

ight oft eir Mire/f, even in the &lathe/I

Nights ; two! when [he nyu retired to put on
clean Smach qcxtriom,
Phoebushehis
p aiifthcj
to Apartment;
have emozti

'ragedt Bxp'qen.
v
Home-per," Reader, you have 'tow a taml
Went qf her, And that made' theme Cava?
with the Sun too, which.
very rare ;
mcezg
were.I (iC'UC'f
een hezemhe
are' 'in
ICZ'MjZ-TZEMJHTG
would. have

tzrdd,lthd- their Eye:- heiect'g dqzled with

thy/orient Light of' the Sat', the] hould

no! echcri- or Few Wi urely the Wed/r:

'te' qf the; Organ, and Imagination, h] the
help
Mib'rottr, will notfail to dicover.

'them &QFhiZJiThWZIZ Cyn'thia' tye bid under

Ap'od'sz hiningMdzttle,
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. o muchfozt.

, Maria-'che
Worlds,
v fox-gar;" hdectzw,
[me]which,
tall thewith
Old'Am;
and
&gw ;,fcth4t'

the ' Moon havingieer' dicaz?

pened;
'the itt'DztQ-verj'
imPetfectZj, by
others,
but Aft:
the,
Sqn ming
'wholly
itq our

that?" laide/eapo- huhtz but the' Izzgeniom.

in holt/15 m well
extraordinaer
piped fptizihg' iquritieg,
Natural,

Men/i:

civil; the? . if he be not yet?

ciedtdteed
(one' (which
Worlq,
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to the Reader;
(which I nmfnre ome are) to'think ofmaking
a Voyage thither, ne our Author he: done; he

will nt lea he plead with. his Relations.

Neverthele, ince this Age' produces agree:

man] hold-Win', that hoot' even'hejond the

Moon, and cannot endure,- (no more than

onr Author) to heinted hj Magierial Au

thorit] , and to helie-ve nothing hnt what
Grey-headed Antiquity gives them len-ye :
It's pit] ome onring Virtuob, inead of

Travelling into France, does not ta/ee night

up to the Sun ,* and hy new Oher-vntionsjnp
ply the defects ofits I-Izor] 3 occaioned not
h] the Neglzgence of onr Wittj French An

thor, hnt h] the accured Plnginr] of ome

rude Hand, that in his Sicknei, ried his

Trunks, and tole his Papers, M he himelf

complains.

'

Let ome ventnrons Undertnher anici

on] attempt it then; and neither of the

two 'Univerities , Greham-Colledge , nor
Greenwich-Oherwtory cnnfurnih him with
an Inrmnent ofCon-uejnnce *,.let him tr] his
own Invention,- or make ne of our Author's

Machine: For our Los is, indeed, o great,

that one would think, none hat the declared E

ne'n] of Mankind, would have had the Mu

lice, toanlg'n andie thoe rare Diho-oe
ries, w ich our Author made in the Province

gf' the Solnr Philotphers; and which uns

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doubtedly would have gone r, a to the et
tlelng our Sullumry Philohpbj, which, a:
Wed 46' Religion, is lamentall) rent by Sect:
and ' Wbim/ejs ; and [mue convinced m,
per/MPJ, that in our preent Doubt: and Per
plexities, 4 little more, or a little les of' ei

ther, would better-erve our Turns, and more

content our Minds. v

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Comical _Hi0_riy
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OF THE

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OFgTHE

WORLD
OF THE

MOON.
Written in French by era'ta Bergerac.
And now Englijhed by A. Loyall. A. M.

L O N D O N,
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our return home , about Nine of the

Clock at Night, the Air erene, and the
Moon in' the Full , the Contemplation of
that. bright Luminary, furnihed us with
uch
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being xed Upon that ately Planet, every *

' one poke what heo thought of it: One

would needs have it be a Garret Window of
Heaven ; another preently armed That
it was the Pan whereupon Diana lhwothi

ed Apollo's Bands ;. whil another Was of

Opinion, That it might very well be the'

Sun himelf, who putting his Locks up

under his Cap at Night, peeped through a.
hole, to oberve what was doing in the

World, during his abiznce: And for my

part, Gentlemen, aid I, that I may put
in for a hare, and gUes with the re; not
to amue my elf with thoe curious Notions,

wherewith you tikle and purjon owpaced Tilne; I'believe, that the' Moon is
a World like oule, 'to which this of' ours
erves likewie for a Moon. This wasl re

ceived With die-"general 'LaughteZof the _

Cdm'pany. 'And perhaps, aid I, (Cera

' tlemen )' ju' o they laugh now in the

Moon, at om? whvz maintaJM>_thhat this

Globe, wherewF are, is. a World.z But Pd
as gbod'ha've aid'nothngzj "as-have alledg

cdxo tha' That: a great;me Learned

iMen _
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that only madethem lau
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However, this thought, wieh beteiuzof

its boldneuted my Humdti;=being con
rmed by Contradiction, urjkdeefp'd- _
to my mind, that during

te o ' the

Way, I was big With Denitinns Of' the'

Moon, which-I could not be delivered Of:

Inomuch that 'by riving t'dv Perie ths
Comical Fancy,
Reaons' of apgeari *

Weight, I had do ' rW'adbdx"

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already of therth on ; w 'a' Izraii

. cle ,' Accidentj,-- Ptovidence;" brenne;"

what, perhaps, lowe may 'le viion; o;"

- , thers'Fiction-*thniey orjif (sqwillj

Folly,

'me W' _ anoqca xon, Hth

engaged 'me into

Diconreg 'Bei'
Come hornezl' ZWent up into My 'Gloe-t',
where I fondde Book open

the Tas

ble, which I hadznOt pur them? I; Was a

piece of Carddttw; and thoughllghad
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degn to read in it, yet I fell at r
as by force, exactly u'pon afa'agq
a;

Philobpher, wherehetellsm, That ude

ing one evening by Candlecghgfhe

_.

ceived Two tall old Men, 'enter inthrop if

the door that was mWho after any clue!
ions that he put-m them, ma e hlmlan
Ever, and thereuWere
Inhkieantzctkhe
Moon,
n imrriediaitely'
dih -'
peared. I wasb urpried, not only to
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poked
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Nrtals,
that the Moon
World,
j'udzI tQctyi-'Rl
havingis;zju
now, How-4
talked
jot: a [thingyban a_ Book, "which, perhaps,
i's'. Lhe', Qly

in' the World, than treats

fOthh'aLmack
particularly,
down
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me Shelf o
upontz'pyr
zTablc,ybecome
capable'OfReabnj it; ppigg ocxactly at _

I'the Plafce Of'd iaxigsan adventure z force

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afsrimp?r...tosloqknupon
tits" 'And
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i &'tomy Fggcy the. Keqxions,
Tand'fdle-x .ill'<&D=gxzs..wiziczz.I lzacch-c. Without dolzbtz-Cdwesi 17, xthWO-old
'Mc'nz whd pbarpd to tgz famous Phioh,
pher,"f'are'chggl very; mc- 'Wim have L (tak-en

down;
and. The;
omuc.
itaacnhaquge;
FQ
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de?
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t9' Ffz-T -. akapguer whls-zk-I shewmadc . tQ

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I planted myidfin the middle'ofalgi'eat'

many Glaes full of' Dew, tied-*a'about*

me ; 'upon which the Sun o violently'dktl '.

ed his Rays, that the Heat'zihichitfract; -

them,measupit odoes
neckeej-iquds;
cata j
'ried
hi the
h, that
at lie-112th I5fouctnd
my elf above t e middle Regionol"v the
Air. But zcing that Attraction hurried me
up with o much rapidity, that inead of
drawing near the Moon, as I intended, he
kem'd to me to 'be'- more diant, thatr'at
my r tting Out ;* Izbroke' Riveral of my

Vials, until I ound my weight exceed the

force of the Attrection," and that I began to

decend again towards the Earth. I was

not
kentoin the-ground
my opinion, a for
time
aftermia
I fell
ainome
; and
to *_i
reckon from the hour that I- et out at, it mu then have been-about midnight. - Ne

verthele I found the Sun Fto beinf'the *

Meridian, and that it" was Noon.

'_

B3

- -

I leave'

it \

leOe'Hiory

the

i,th you tovjud e, in What Amazementl

%*

was

trut 15, I, was lb rangely fur-3

',**Z;5
P

priEd,

knowing what to think

of that, Mira'ele, I had the', inlblence'. to

Jzdx
P
MA.

When thatin favour of'my Boldnes,

_' had-zo'nqemore nailed the Sun to the '
Parliament, to light lb generous an Enter

prie; , 3 That which encreaed my Aonihn ' 2?zz;' _

ment was, That I knew not the-Country
&FS'*
, where I was; it eemed to me, that ha

ving mounted raight up, I'hould have

fallen down again in the ame place I
parted Erom, z However, in the Equipage
I was in, _I 'directed my coure towards a
kind of Cortage, where I perceived ome .
moke; and I was not above a Piol
hot from it, when I aw my elf envi-'

'rened by a great number of People, ark'

naked: They eemed to be exceedingly
urpried
the (as
ight
of me;
iwas the at
r,
I think)
that for I

fig'

352
as?be:

NC
SH'QZ

had ever een clad in Bottles. Nay, and

to bathe all the Int cuations, that they

*_ST
'__=
-z-a_:1ung

could put upon that qUiPYLz they Per'

'ceivedz' that; I hardly touched the ground
as I. walked; for, "indeed, they undern. r
ood not, that. upon the leat agitation I
gave my Body, the Heatofthe beams of.

the Name-Sde m: upwdth my Dew;

_ -_, _

And: 'that in; hadrhad Vials 'anon

p)-_ _

me,
itiogld pobly hawmrrie
up
ZWUF:* H'vvu Fl*'u 01 aa'--1{3-Lnui
r

--\"

isu

' World'ofthe Moon.

_ 7'

into the Air in 'their view_., I had a man

to have poken to them; but as ifFear had

changed them into Birds, immediately I loi
ight of'them, in an adjoynin'g Fereh How:

ever, I catched hoid of one, whole-'ings

had, without doubt, betrayed his Heare. - Iv

asked him', but With ' at, *reat'dea10f " A

(for [was
quite
Chok'
) - how
J'ai' they
reckoned
kamthence
to Paris
?' Howloing
Men had

ne naked in France ?' and wh i

they ed om me in o great Conernan- 3

Of! .' The'Man I' poke to was' an oId_tawny Fellow, whopreerjtl'y felT at my Feet,

and with Mad-up Hands," joyned behind.

his Head, opened his Mouth and'zm

his Eyes : He mumbled a long _whiIe be?
then his Teeth, buck I could not diin
gnih
an articulate
Word
; o tharI
his
Languagc
for the
maing
noie took
ofa i
Dumb-man.

-' Some kithe after, I tw aCompany of

Sonldiers marching, with Drums beatin ';
and I perceived Two detached from ' e'
re , to Come and take peech of me._ *
When they Were come Within hearingtl *
asked
Whem!
m
Frame,them,
anizwered
they was?
: But You
'what are
Devil
hath put you into that Dres? And how -

comes it that we know you not ?, Is _t*he

. Fleet then arrZVEd? Are you going to car;

ry the News of if i) the Governor?
B 4
And

8..

"

Terz'ijry'afte,,

And
have
you divided
into oWhy
many
Bottles?
To all your
thisiIandY
made

anwer, That the Devil had not put me

into that Dres: 'That they knew me not;

becaue they could not know all Men a

That knew nothing, of the Seine': car-.

'tying 'Ships to Partit: That I had 'no
news for the' Marhal ale l'Hoital; and
that' I was not loaded with Brandy. Ho,
. Lo, Bid they to me, takin me by the

' Arm, you' are'a 'merry Fe ow, indeed;

c'omc, th'eiovernor will make a hiftlto

know you, no doubt on't. 'They led line,

tp their Company, where] learnt tha I

was in realityin France, but that it was in

,NeW-Frm_ce; So 'that ome time 1after, I

eas rented before the GOvernor, who

asked meyny Country, my Name and Ala

lity ;* and afterv that I had ltised him in

all Po'iritSfahd
'cold him:
the hebelieved
pleaant SuG-_
- "eeis
ofmy Voyage
whether
it,
'__,.

or' only pretent'de': tq'db lb, he had the,

goodhes
to'o'rder-N'mie' 'a Chamber in his

. Aparunem; lYWISeerYhaPPY, imperin

Z with
Man
eapable'df
loffyed,Opinions,
an
Who aWas
not'
at'all, .,1'1,rpr'cti
when I told
. lliirrlctzthatthe gamth ineedelhave

-.\.

.*

q durmg
my Elevatjoh
eeing.Ijeaghesct'from.
that havmg *
begun 'tdglout
aho'lilctt; Two,

Paris, -Iwa$-Faen,' as it were, byg Here r

Pendieular Line His-wax,"

' ' , Thee
&ix.

World of the Moon.

When I was going to Bed 'at night, he

c-ame into my _,Chamber, and poke to me
to this purpoe : I houldnot have come to diurb your - Re , had vI_ not thought /
that one who hath found out the ecret, of-

Travelling o far in Twelve hours pace,

had likewie a charm again Latudc.
But

ou know not, adc-ed he, What a

plea ant (Daniel I have ju now had with

our Fathers, upon your account? They'll,

have you 'abblutely to bea Magician; and

the-greate favour you can expect from
them, is tobereCkoned-only, anlmpoor : .

The truth is, thatMoi-ziOn which you, attri

bute to the Earth, - isa pretty nice Paradox ;

and for my- part I'll frankly tell'you, That

that which hinders mefrom being of your
Opinion, is, That though you parted yeer
day from Paris, yet you mi ht have arrived
today in this Country, wit out the Earth's
t turning: For the Sun' having drawn you
up, by the means of your Bottles, ought he.
not to have brought you hither; ince ac;
cording to Ptolemy, and the Modern Phi- .

loophers, he marches obliquely, as 'you \

make the Earth to move ?, And beides,
what great Probability have" you' to ima
'ne,' that the Sun is immoveable, when we
He it o? Andwwhat appearance is there,
* _ that _ e Earth turns. with o great Rapidity,

When we feel it rmundcr car Pect? Sir, .

\, *
repied

10

The Hiory

the

replied I tohim, Thee are', in a manner,

the Rea-ibns that oblige us to think o :

In

the r place, it is cononant to common

Sene, to think that the Sun is placed in the

Center of the Univere; eeing all Bodies

in nature, anding in need of that radical
Heat, it is t he hould reide in the heart of

the Kingdom, that he may be in a condi

tion, readily to upply the Necetie$ of eve
Part ; and that the Caue of Generations,

hould be placed in the middle ofali Bodies,

that it may act there with greater Equality
and Fale: After the ame manner, as Wife

. Nature hath placed the Genitals in Man,

the Seeds' in the Center of Apples, the
\Kernels in the middle of their Fruits", and in the ame mannegas the Onion, under
the cover of ib many Coats that eneom Is.
it, preerves that precious Bud, fromw ich
Millicins of Others are to have their bein ,
the'
Seed,hotter
parts
thereof, r
for an
Apple-is than
in itthe:
elfOther
a little
Univerg;

' i M-_-____-*_ _

is its Sun, which diues about it elf that

natural Heat, which prefErves-its Globe:

And in the Union, the Germ is the little

Sun of that little World, which vivies and

nourihes 'the vegetative Sat: of that little
mas. Having laiddown this, then, for

a ground, I ay, That the Earth anding in \

need ofthe Light, Heat,'and Inuence of
this great Fire, it turns romd it, that it
L

'z

Writ! (thei'

may receive in all' parts alike, that Vhtue"

Which he'epsit in Being. ' For it w0uld be

as ridiculous to think, that that va lumi

nous Body, turned about' a "point, that it has

* no: the lea need of ; as to imagine, that
When we fee a' roaed Lark,that t'heKitchin
re mu' have turned round it. Egg-were it

the Part of the Sun to do that drudgery,

itwould eem. that the Phyician ood in
'need of the Patient ; that the Strong hould

yield to the Weak ; the Superior forve the

Inferior; and that the" Ship did not ll auz
bout the' Land, but the Land about the
Ship.

Now if you cannor eaily conCeive,

how o ponderous a Body can move ;' Pra ,

tell me, ' are theStats and HeaVens, whi ,
in your-Opinion, are o olid, any way
lighter? Beides, it is not o dicult for-ne,

'who are aored of 'the Roundnes of the

Earth, 'toinferits mation from its Figure : '
But why dqye uppoe the Heaven to be
round, fecting you cannoc know it, and
dmyet, ifit hath not this Pi ure, it is imo
POblC it can move? Iobje _noe to you

your Extentrith: nor Ezteydu, which you

cannot explain hue very' confuedly, and

_.

__\

'which are out of doors in my Syeme.

Let"s reect only on the natural Caus of
that Motion. To make' good your Hy
pOtheis, y0u are forced to have recoure to
Spirits or Inn/tigmet, that move and go
.

i,

,_,,

5.',

_,._.
r

' 12 4,

. TbeHiDrydethd

vern' your Sphere's, sBut for: m'y.part, with-v

0ut diurbing 'the _rep0\e of the upreme
Being, -_wl_10, without doubt, hath made

Nature entirely perfect,and whoe Widom.

v ought O'to have compleated her, that ben
ing perfect in one- thing, hehould not
been and
defective
in anocher: Sun,
I i ,_thatr '
u have
theBearins
Inuenccsofthe
' greularly, upon-the 'Earth-la; makeit to
' turn, as withzazturn of the Hand, 'we .
make
aGlobe
to move;
or,which
whichis
much
the L'ame,
thatthe
Steams
continu-v
ally evaporate from that ide of it, which.
the; Sun hines upon , being reverbera
'ged by; the Cold of the middle Region,

* rebound upon it, and riking obliquely,

do necety make it whirle about in that
- manner,
A
'The Explication of the Other Motions is
les perplexed ill -; for pray, conider a lit
tle-"47 At thee words the Vice-Roy inter

rupted me: zI; had; rather, aidth you.

would excue(yqulfp elf from _ tha'ti trouble ;v

for i have'rea ome Bjooksok Grade on

that' ubject: And -zh.ear.- whatonezof our

Father-s, who maintained your-10 inion one'

day,_,anwered LZIIQ-

Really, z aid; he," I

fancy that. the Earth does'.moye,. not for

the Reaons alledged by "Capemitw 3. but;
' becaue Hell-re, being hut up in=the Cen

' ter oFthe Earth, the damned rwhbinake a,

.

"

' great _

'lVord ofthe Moon,

-* i;
great' bue to avoidi 'its Names', cratctnble
up toibthe
Vault,as
far as .to
they
can from
them,
and
make
ithe Earth
turn,
as a Turn'

pit 'makes the 'Wheel ' go round, when he .n-'ms about in it.

. We applauded that Thought, as being a pure 'eect of the Zeal of that good Fa
ther : And then the ViceeRoy 'told fme,
That he much wondered, how the Syeme ,
of Ptolemy, being o improbable , hould
have been o univerally received. I' Sir, ' 'laid

I to him, mo part of

who judge of '

all things
byperwaded
the Senes,by
have
uered
* elves
to be
their
Eyes th'ent
z'andct
as he who Sails along:a.Shoar, thinks: lthe
Ship immoweable, 'and
Land in mation;
even. o. Mentuming. with the! Earth round

the Sun, haveahought thatit was'zthe'Sun

that moVed_-about-them,: ' Knu- this 'may be'
added,the unupportablePride of"Mankind,

who
.perw'ade made
themelves
, that
Nature .
hath onlybeenl
fonthem
;'as ifaware
likely: 'that vthe Sun, a ' va 'Body, .Four
hundred and thirty fourtinieszbigger'than '

the Earthc had only been kindled to ripen

theirMedlars, and plumpen 'their Cabbage.
Form' part, I'arn o far- from complying
with-t' ir;Inolence, that] believe the Pla
nets - are fWorldsI about dheun, and that
the-xed-Starsf are alo
which have' -

Planets. about them, think-to lay, Wogldis,

-:'v .

'

w rc .

14.

The Hiory ofthe

whiCh becaue of their mallne, and that

their borrowed light: cannot reach us, are

no: dicern-able by Men in this World : For
ingood earne, how can it be imagined,
that uch pacious Globes are no more but
va Dems; and that ours, becaue we
live in it, hath been framed for the habita

tion 'of a dozmof proud Dandyprats ?

HOW, mu it be aid, becaue the Sun

' meaures our Days and Years, that it 'h-axh

oulybeen made, to keep us from running
our Heads again the Walls? No, no, if

that viible Deity hine upon Man, is by

accident, as the King's Flamboy by acciz'
dent lightens a Pocter than walks along the
Street: But, aid-be to me, if, as you
arm, the xind Scars be o many Suns,
it Will follow, that the World is innite;

&cinth is probable, that the People of that

World, which moves abouc that xed Star;
ms-ry
tas-e

you take for. a e Sun, dicover above them

. Lives odmrxed Stars, which, we cannot

perceive from hence, ando onhers in that
Wininiom.
3'
'
Never qucion, mpliod I, but as God
could create the Soul Immortal, He could

_-_-0_ -.4

zli) make the World Innirc; if o it be,

that Etern'nzy is nothing ele, but'an illimi-i

- ted Duration, and an i'tfyua boundlee

Extenon : And then God himelf would

thinire, hppong tb Warld me. page

.

cp-u-yz-z?

* Work! of the Moon.

. I5
innite, eeing he cannot be where nothing r
is, and that he could not encreae the
reames of the World, without' adding
&men-hat to his own Being, by beginning
to exi, where he did no: exi before. We

mu believe then, that as from hence we

ee Saturn and Jupiter ; if we were in e

ther of the Two , we hould' dicover a

great many Worlds which We perceive not,
and that the Univere extends o' in inie
1 vein-ny.

'

_ I' faith, replied he , when you have

aid all you can, I cannot at all camp: ex
hend that: Innitude. Good now, replied

I whim, do you comprehend the Nothing

thatis beyond it Fx Not at all. \ For when
you think of that Notth you imagine it

atleato be like Windor Air, and that isz; '

Being: But if yQ'u? conceive no; an Innite

in general, Yon 'comprehend at

it;
- particulars;
it imo: diicultto famy
to our elves beyond the Earth, - Air, and
Fire which we ee, When. Airyand other

Eart, Mother Him, Now. Wtude-is

nothmgeer, _ butxa boundlsSzSeues a 'all
thee.

'But If yqu ask me, Howtheie

Worlds have

made,- eezng Hgly Scrip

ture peaks._qnly a. one xbat ed unde?

Myanwu 15, That I leve no more to hy-z

-F9r moblige ple togivea Regqq for; every
dung, that comensmzommmwwzom a
. - ,. '
to

'16
The Hiory of the
to op my Mouth, 'and make me confe', i
that in things of that nature, my Reaon
hall always oop to Faith; He ingeni
ouly acknowledged to me, that his Wei
on was to be cenured,but bid me purue my
notion : So that I went on, and told him ,
Tha't all the other Worlds, which are not
ken, or-bUt imperfectly believed, are no
_ more, but the Scum that' purges" out of the

Suns. 'For how could thee- great Fire'sx

ubi withOut ome matter, that erved
them forF'ewel? Now as the Fire drives
from it-'the' Aihes that would ie it, or

the Gold-in 'a Crucible, Parates from the

Marcaite and DroS, and is rened to the r

hi he-Standard 3' nay, and as ourAStomacle

d' charges it Helf'by Vomit', of the Crudil

ties 'that oppres it ; even o thee Suns dai-' _

ly evacuate, and reject the Remains Ofmatz
ter, that ' might incommode 'their Fire :

But when they have wholly iconumed'tha't

matter, which entertains' 'them 5' ou are 'not

'to doubt, but they pread thenne ves abroad

on all ides, to leekv for-ehlFeWel', and'
faen - upon the Worlds ,P _which here
tofor'e'they have made, 'and ipartieularl p
uponv thoe 'that are neare :'Then the e

great Fires, 1- reconeocting' alli the Bodies,

Will as fonnetly force them'out'again, 'Fell-e well from allparts; and being iby little and -

* . little purid,--th y'll begin 'f'to [lee for

'k-'_-

-$uns

World ofthe Moon.

_ I7

Suns, to Other little Wotlds, which they

procreate by driving them out of their >
Spheresi And that withour doubt, made,
the
Pythagoream foretel ' the univeral
agration.
* ' _ Con
'
'
- This is nolridiCuIOuS Imagination, for

New-'France Where *we are,

ivcs us a very

eonvincing inance' of it. -

he va Con-j

' tinentlof America', is one '1211de the Earth;

which in pight of our Prcdeceors, Who a

Thouland times had crulied the. Ocean,
was not at that' 'time dicovered : "Nor, in) deed, -was it then in being, no more than a"
great many Iands, Peninules, andeOUns
tains'that
arted
inourGlobe;
when thehave
Sun ince
purged
out up,
itsExcrementsi

to a convenient'di'ance, and' lcient

Gravity, to be attractEd by the' Center- of
out World, either in mall Particles, per
haps, or, it may be alo, altogether in one

lump. That is 'not lo unreaon'able, but

that St. Autin would have applauded to
it, , if that Country had been dicovered
in his Age. Seeing that teat Man, who
had avery clear Wit, a ures us, That in
his time, the Earth was at ike the oor

of an Oven, and that it oated 'upon the

Water, like the half of an Grange : But if
ever I have the honour to (be youv in France,

l'll make you*0befve',by means of a mo

excellent Celeicope; that ome Obimrities;
-

which

_'I_

LZ

T/Je'Hi/Xory ofthe

which from hence appear to be Spots, are

. Worldsa forming.

\ i

My Eyes that hut with this Dicoure,

obliged the Vice-Roy to withdraw. Next
- Day, and the Days following, we had

ome Dicoures to the ame purpoe .- But

ome time after, incethe hurry of Aairs
upended our Philoophy, I_ fell afreh

3
&L'va
5?
IITQ
-._..

-_'\-'_ _ _

uponvthe deign 'of mounting up to the *

Moon.
__ ,
So
bonz
as
he
was up,
ct . ifnuing in the Woods,
howI Walked
I might.about:
may
+w

nage. andvucce'ed in my Enterprie; and at

len th on St. Jalm's-Eve, when they were

at ouncil in the Fort,whether they hould

ua the Wild Natives of the Countrya
a ain the Imguem; I went all alone to
t e top o alittle Hill, at the back 'of our

Habitation, where I putlin' Practice What;

ou hall hearJ had made a Machine,which

i fancied might carry me up as highzasj

pleaIEdJo-that nothing eeming to be Want; A
ing to it, I laced my elf within, and fran
the Topo a Rock, threw my iZzlf in the
Air : But becaue I had not taken 'my mea;
ures aright, 'I fell with a oh in the Valley
below. HBruied as I was, however, .I re-.
turned to my Chamber, without loong

. courage, and with Beef-Marrow v-I anoint

ed my Bedy, for I wasall over mortified
from Head to Foot : Then having raisen-a
,
.
* _.
ram

F'S LE'.E*

.vq.-

World

the Moon.

'1'9

dram of Cordial Waters to rengthcn

Heart, I went back to look for my Ma
chine; but I could not nd it, for ome Sol
diers, that had been ent into the Fore, to
cut wood for a Bonere, meeting with it
by chance, had carried it' With them to the
Fort: Where after' a great'deal of gueing

what it might be, When they haddee."

vered the invention of the SPring, Me
nd, that a good many Fire-W'Orks hould
be faened to it, becaue their Force carrY
in'g them up on high, and the Mechine play
ingfz its large Wings, no Body-But' wold
take it for' a Fiery Dragon. 'In the 'mean
time I was Long in earch of, - it, 'butolmd

it at length in the middle of'the Marei

place of Keeck, ju as they' were ttinbr

Fire to it; 1 Was tis tranpoma with

to nd the Work of my Hands in o gr'edt
Peril, that I ran to the Sduldiemhat was gh

ving Fire to it, Caught hold of hisv _

pluckt
the Match
in
great' rage
threwour
myofhis'
le Hand,
, into myand'Mzthine', that I might unde the FireeWorBs',
'that they had uck abour it; but I came'
too late, for hardly' were both my Feet with
* in, When whip, away went I up in aClovd :
The Horror and Conerncion Iwas in,

did nor o confound the faculties of my

Soul, butI haVe ince terncmbred all that
happenedto me at that inant. For o [bon "
.C2

as

cap

He? Hiory." oftbe

thejFlamei had devoured one tire of

_$guibs,- Which-Were ranked by ix and ix,

_by
means of; ianorher
a; - Train,tire
thatwent
reached
half-dozen
o, every
and
then another ;_-__0,that the Salt-Peter taking

,__EIX'C, put o the danger by encreaing it.

HoWever, all the combuible matterbeing
'_pent,__there was a period put to the Fire
,w0rk; and;.-whill*c I thought of nothing

its, than to knock my Head again the

cop of ome Mountaiu, I felt, without
the lea irring, my elevation continuing;

and adieulMachine, forI aw it fall down

'ain towards Lthe Earth.

That extraor

Adventure pued up my Heart '

Wah. ituxzcbxamcma Gladnels s that, ravih

,edzd-to ee my, half delivered from certain

Hanger, I. . had'zithe impudence: to 'philoo

YPU, zjekupop it,,-._;'Whil: then; with Eyes
an 'Thou ht, Lca about, to nd what

ha ,t.-,'be.zt szeazlc of in] perceived my.

blow-manam ._.i.11_ greay. with the
Marrow, that 'Yhadzdaubed my elf; over

WT'F', 'RNQBWRS of my- fall = I knew

iklhtrthe Moon being then in theWain, and

that'it
for, her ofrAnimals
in that.Q1-_1_arter,
to 'uckibemg
up the Marrow'
;_ Ahe r .
drank up ctthatvivherewithlil was anointed,
With o much the more. forgeth that her
Globe was nearerto me, and that no interz

Poti0n0f91duidansaksnsd hawtxractionz
When
o

lfl'l

World ofthMaon.
21.
When'I had, according-to the, computa
tion I made ince, advancedaw good dealL
more, than three quarters of the paqe, that
divided the-Earth from the Moon; all Ofv

a udden I. fell With my'He'elS' Up, and

' Head down, though I hadma'de'nonTi-ipj

and indeed, I hadknot been enible 0f-'it,}'

had notI felt my Head loaded under the'
weight of my Body : The*truih'is,*'-I knew

very well, that I was not falling again' ton'

wards our World ; for though I found-my

lie'l to be betwixt two MOOns, and eaily

obisrved, that the nearer I drewto the

one, the farther I removed dm the other;

yet I was certain, thatours was the bigs

ger Globe of the two: Becaue after one
or two days Journey, the remOte Refracti

ous of the Sun, confounding 'the diverity

of Bodies and Climates, it' ap red-to
me only
alargethat
PlateI byaedv
of God:
That
made
me as
imagine,
toWards
the Moon; and I was-conrmed in that

Opinion, when I began to eall to mind, -

that I did notfall, till I was 'pa three'

uarters of' the way. For, aid I to 'my
izl, that,Mas being les than ours, the
Sphere of its Activity mu be of les Ex
tent alo 5' and by conequence, it was la;

ter before I felt the force of its Center. A

In' ne', 'after 1 had been a 'very long
while in falling, as I' judged, for the -vvi
i _ . .
C 3

olence

32

The' Hiory ofthe

olenee of my Precipitation' hindered me

from Obrvmg it more exactly ; The

la thing I can remember is, That l found

my elf. under aTreo, entangled with three

or four pretty large Branches, which I had
broken o by my' fall; and my Face be:

meardwith an Apple, that had dahed

i

p m.

i B

good luck that place was, as you

hallyknow by and by ----e--. So that you

mayvery well conclude, that had it not
been for that Chance , if I had had a
/ thouimd lives, they had been all lo. I

haVe many times ince reected upon the

vulgar Opinion, That if one precipitate
himelf from a very high place, his breath
is out before he reach the ground; and
from my adventure I conclude it to be

fale, or ele that the ecacious Juyce of

that Fruit, Which quirted into my mouth,
mut' needs have recalled my Soul, that
was not far, from m Carcas, which was

ill, hot, and in a ipotion of exerting

the Fumtiormv of Life. The truth is, o

oon as I was upon the ground, my pain

was gone, before I could think what it

was ; and the Hu er, which l felt during

my Voyage, was ully atised with the

ene that I had lo it. '
- Whenl Wasgot up,aI had hardly- taz

. ken notice of ,. e brae- of Four gnat

.

Lives.

World' ofthe Moon. -

_ is

Rivers ,- which by their 'conuximctake a

Lake; when the Spirit, or' inviible Soul

of Plants, that breath Upon that Country,
refrehed my Brain with a delightful mell:
And I fonnd that the Stones there, were
neither hard nor rough 5 but that they
Carefully oftened themelves, when one

trode upon them. I preently lighted u n

a Walk with ve Avenues, in gure ike

to a Star; the Trees whereof eemed to

reach up to the Skie,a green plor of lofty
Boughs : Ca'ing up my Eyes from the
roor to the top, and then making the ame
Survey downwards, I was' in doubt whe
therthe Earth carried them, or they the

Earth , hanging bytheir Roots : Their

high and ately Forehead eemed alo to

bend, as it were by force , under the

weight of the Celeial Globes; and One

would ay, that their Sighs-and out-retch
ed Arms, wherewith they embraced the
Firmament, demanded of the Stars the

bounty of their' purer Inuences, beOre

they had lo any thing of their Innocence,

in the contagious Bed of the Elements.

The Flowers there on all hands, without'
the aid of any other Gardiner but 'Na
ture, end out o weet I(though wild)

a Perfume , that *-it rouzes and delights

the
Thereand
thethe-lively
incarnateAinreiof
of a Roeai A
uponSmell
the :Buh,
C 4

Violet _

24.

The'Hi/Zory'ofthe.

Violet under- the Ruhes, captivating the

Choice, make each of themelves to be

judged the Faire: There the whole Year

is a Spring; there no poylonous Plant

prouts forth, but is as oon deroyed;
vthere the Brooks by an agreeable murmure .

ing, relate their Travels to the Pebbles ;

there ThouZLnds of Wriers make the
Woods,reound with their melodious NOtes ;

and the quavering Clubs ofthei: divine Muv

cians are o univeral, that every Leaf of

the Forei', eems to have borrowed the.
Tongue and hape of a Nightingale ; nay,

and the Nym h Eeeha is o delightul'with

their Airs, t at to hear her repeat, one
would ay, She 'were ollicitous to learn
them. 'On theides of that Wood, are
Two Meadows, whoe continued Verdure
eems an Emerauld, reaching out of ight.

The various Colours, which the Spring bee

ows upon the numerous little Flowers that

grow there, o delightfully confounds. and
mingles
theirvwhether
Shadows
3 that'it
is, hard;
to
be knoWn,
thee
Flowers,
haken,
with 'a entle ctBreeze, purue themieLves, '
or' y rat erJctfriom the Carees of the,Wan,
ton Zephzira z one would likewiejake that

MeadOw
an ocean,tpbecauie
as the ino;
Sea,"
it' preentsfOrnoctShoar
the, view;

much, that mine r Eye fearing zit might

[oh Itzl -h'a.-ving'.r<2a\aes1 o long, and

World of the Mooiz.

'

diovered no Coa, lient my Thoughts prctea

a andy thither; 'and my Thoughts, imagin,

ing it to be the end. of the World, were

willing to beperwaded, that uch' charm.

ing places, had, perhaps, forced the Heaz
vens to decend, and join the Earth there.
In the mid of that va and pleaant Cat,

pet, a ruick Fountain bubbles up in SiL

ver Purles, crowning its enamelled Banks
with Sets of Violets, and m'ultitudes of o

ther little Flowers, that cern to rive,

which hall r behold it tlf in: that Chry

al Myrroir': It is as 'yet in the Cradle,.
being butnewly Born, and its Young and

mooth Face. hews not the lea Wrinkle.

The large Compaes it fetches, in circling
within it. lf, demonrate its unwilling.
nes to leave its native Soyl : Andas if it

had 'been ahamed to be careed in pre

ence of its Mother, with a Murmuring it
thru back my hand, that would have
touched it : The Beas that came to drink
there , more rational than thoe of our
-

World, eemed urpried to he it day upon

the Horizon, whil the Sun was with the

Antipade: ;' and dur not bend downwards

upon the Brink, for fear of falling into the
Firmament.
I mu confes to you, That at the ight
of o many Fine things, I found my zlf
tickled. with thee agreeable. Twitches,
i which,

' i

36
The Hiory of. the
which, they ay, the Embrjo feels upon the
infuion of its Soul: My old Hair fell o,
and gave place for thicker and ofter Locks :
I perceived my Youth revived, my Face
grow ruddy, my natural Heat mingle
gently again, with my radical Moiure :
And in a word, I grew younger again, by
at lea Fourteen Years.

D'r-s-Ka_T-_

I had advanced half a League, through a

a Fore of Jeamines and Myrtles, when I_

perceived omething that irred, l ing in

the Shade: It was a Youth, who e Maje
.ick Beauty forced me almo to Adorati

on. He arted up to hinder me ; crying,

It isnot to me, but to God that you owe
thee Humilities. You ee one, anwered
I, unned with i) many 'Wonders, that I
knew not what to admire mo 3 for corn.

ing from a World,whic_h without doubt you

take fora Moon here, I thought I had ar,
rived in another, which our Worldlings
call a. Moon alo; and behold I am in Pa.

radice at the Feet of 'a God, who will not '

be Adored. Except the quality of a God,

replied he, whoe Creature Ionly am, the * *

re you lay is true : This Land is the
Moon, which you he from your Globe,
and this place where you are is
Now

at that time Man's Imagination was o

rong, as nor I'being as yet corrupted,

neither by Dew.th the Crudity ofAlir

ments,

___->4)>i_

World aftbe Moon,

a7

ments, nor the alterations of Dieaes, that

being excited by a violent deire of coming
to this Sanctuary, and his Body becoming light, through the heat ofthis Inpiration;
he was carried thither in the ame manner,

as ome Philoophers, who having xed

their Imagination, upon the contemplation
of a certain Object, have prung up in the
Air by Ravihments, which you call Exta
es. The Woman, who through the in

rmity of her Sex, was weaker and les

hoc, could not, without doubt, have the
Imagination rong enough, to make the
Intenion' of her Will, prevail over the Pon
derouneh of her Matter ; but becaue there

were very few

The Sympathy which ill united that

half to its whole, drew her towards him

as he mounted up , as the Amber. attract;

the Straw ; the Load-one turns to
wards the North, from whence it hath been

taken, and drew to him that part of him

elf, as the Sea draws the Rivers which
proceed from it. When they arrived inv

'your Earth, they dwelt betwixt Me

ym'a and Arabia : Some People knew them

by the name of -----, and others under

thatof Promtbem, whom the Poets feign

ed to have olen Fire from Heaven, by
reaim of his Off-pring, who were endowed
with a Soul as perfect as his own : So that
i

to

'28
- The Hzory aft/Je
to inhabit your World, that Man let this
deitute; but the All-wie, would nor have
o bleed an Habitation, to remain without
Inhabitants: He uered a few ages after
that ------ cloyed with the company of
Men, whoe Innocence was corrupted ,
had adere to forake them. This peron,
however, thought no retreat coure enough

from the Ambition of 'Men, who already

Murdered one another,about the diributi

* on of your Worldzexcept that bleed Land,

which his Grand-Father had o often . mew

tioned unto him, and to which no Body.

had as yet fonnd out the Way : But his
Imagination upplied that; for eeinc he
had
oberved
lled' Two arge
Veiels
'whichthat
he------Healed he
Hermetically,
and

faened them under his Arm-pits :' So oon

as the; Smoak began to rie Upwards, and
could not pierce through the Mettal, it for

\ zed up the Veels on high, and with them

alo 'that -, Great Man. .When he was got
as j-high as the-Moon, and had ca his
Eyes upon that lovely Garden, a t of al
mo lipernatural Joy convinced him ,
that that was the place,- Where his Grand
father had heretoforelived. He quickly
- untied the Veels, which he had girt like

Wings about his Shoulders, _'and did- it i)

luckily, that he was carcely 'Four Fathom
in the' Air above t the' Moon, when he' lyt
\
us

.
a
*'

W'o'rld ofthe Moon.

a9

his Fins a going; lyet he was high enough

ill, to have been hurt by the fall, had it

not been for the large skirts of his Gown,

which being welled by the Wind, gently

*-upheld him, till he et F00t on ground,
As for the two Velels, they mounted up
to a certain place, where they have conti
nued : And thoe are they, which now a
days you call "the Balam'e.
.
I . mu .now tell you, the manner how
-I came hither :l I-believe you have not far
got my name, eeing it i's not long ince I
told it you; -You$ hall know then, that I

lived on the agreeable Banks of one of the

mo renowned Rivers of yoquorldzwhere

among my Books, I lead a ._Li.fe pleaant

enough, nor to be lamented; ' though it (lipt
away fa eno h.'- In the mean-While, the'
,m;ore.-I encre ed in Knowledgegthe more

.I; knew my Ignorance. our Learned 'Men

never put me in' mind of the impus Mad',

butzthe thoughts ofhis-perfect Philob hy

made' me to Sigh. i I was deihiting o bect
ing ableto attain to: it, when Fone day, af
ter 'along and profbund
I took -.

_a piece of Lead-[one about. two Face

' quare', which-[put mtO a Fumace; and'
then after .it was well, putged,-.Lprctip'ita4
tedand diolvedl drew the dalcined f-Ati '

- tractive of it, Land'reduced it into'zthe ize

of.ab0ut'an
ordinary
Bowl.
I ';J;;
.
*

"a
. i

* A

30

* The Hiory ofthe

After thee Preparations, I got a ver

light Machine of Iron made, into whic
I went ------ and when 'Iwas well eated

in my place, I threw this Magnetick Bowl,

as high as I could, up into the Air. Now"
the Iron Machine, which I had purpohly
made more mave in the middle-than at
the ends, was preently elevated, and in a
ju Poie; becaue the middle received

the greate force of Attraction.

So then,

as I arrived at the place, whither my Load

one had attractcd me, I. preentlythrew
up my Bowl in the Air over me. But,
itid I, interrupting him, How came you
to heave up your. Bowlio reight over

yoiir Cha'ri'ot, that it never happened to be

on One ide of it? That eems to me to be
no wonder at all, (Said he; for the Loada
one being ones thrown up in the Air,

drew the Iron raight towards it r; and _ lb

it was impoible, that ever I hould mount ,
ide-Ways. _NaY.more,,-I can tell you, that
when I held the Bow inmy hand, I was

ill mOunting upwards; becaue the Cha- >

riot ew always to the Leadctone, which

I held over it. But the eort of the Iron',
to be united to my Bowl, was i) violent,

that it made my Body bend double ;\ o

shet I dur but once eay that new Ex
periment.

The truth is,":it*was a very

urprizing Spectacle to behold; Lfor the .

Steel

_
4.-_'"-_tL 4_ilAM-_: ML_4J-

World of the Moon.

3I

Steel of that ying Houe, which I had

very carefully Polihed , reected on all

ides the light of the Sun, with o great

life and lure, that I thought my lblf to
bealland
onfollowing
re. In of
ne,
Bowl
ing
my after
Ca,often
I came,ctalz

y0u did, to an Elevation, from which I

decended . toWards this World; and be
caue at that inant, I heldmy Bow] ve

ry fa between my hands,- my Machine,

whereof. the Seat preed' me hard, that it

'might approach its Atractive, did not for
ake me,- all that now I feared was,_that

I hould break. my Neck.:*-.But to lime

me from that, ever 'now zand then, I

rolled up my Bowl; that by its attactive

Virtue, it might prevent the' violent De-v
cent= of my. Machine,- and. render my
fall morezeaie, as indeed it happened;

for when I aw m elf,

three hundred fat

Two-or

m of the Earth, I

threw out my Bowl on all hands, level with

_ ,the Chariot, ometimes on. this ide, and
ometimeson that, until I came to a ten
tain Diance; and immediately then , 'I

toed it up above me; H that m Ma

chine following it, I lefe "it,
t..my
Half Lall on the other de, as gently 'as I
could, upon the Sand; inomuchithatmy
fall was no greater, than ifvit had beenrbnt
my ownv height. I hall. not decribe-to

you

I 32- -

The Hiory of the

you the'amazemcnt I 'was in at vthe'ight:

of the wonders of this place, eeing it was
o like the ame, wherewith I ju now '
rew you eized -----'--

Scarcely had I taed it, When a thick

Cloud overaca. my Soul: 'IIAW no body
now near me', and in the whole Hemict'

phere, my Eyes could not dicern the leat

Tract ofthe-zway I had made; yet, never-a
theles I fully. remembred every thing that
befel me. \When, I reectedzinCe Upon"
that Miracle,.l fanced that the skin of'the'
Fruitzwhiclrl Tbit', had not rendered the"

altogether brutih ; 'becaLLe- my Teeth

' piercing through it were, azlittle moie'nli
' ed by the Juyce within, the ecacy wThereu'
ofhad dipated the Malignities of the'
Rind. I was not a little urpnihd to ee;
my elf
in a Country
r * not;
. It all
wasalone,
'to no-pupoe
for me,-I toknew.
are' "
and-look about me; for no :--Creature ap

peared to Comfort Tme : At length, I reolved

to march forwards , till Fortune hould

aford' me the company of 'ome Beas,

or atleathe means ODyingrq-J- .z:She favourably granted (rays-deire; for

within halfa qUarrer Ofa League,lsmet two

huge Anirmls, one 'of-which optbefb're
me, and the other edzwiftly tajts'Den ;

for lb I thought at leaz.beca1_1iE:*-tliat - ome

time after, I 'per'Ceilved it come baekagain,
.'r
in
s

World qftbe Moon.

33

in company of above Seven or Eight hun

dred of the lame kind, who beliet me."

When I could dicern them at a near dio

ance, I perceived that they were propor
tioned and haped like us. This adven
ture brought into m mind, the old Wives
Tales of my Nur e concerning Sjrenes,
Faunes and Satyrs : Ever now and then
they raied uch furious Shouts, occaioned -

undoubtedly by their Admiration, at the

ight of me, that I thought I was e'en

turned aMoner. At length one of thee
Bea-like men, catching hold of me by the
Neck, ju as Wolves do when they carry
'away Sheep, toed me upon his baCk, and
brought me into their Town ; where I was
more amazed than before, when I knew

they were Men, that. I could meet with

none of them, but who marched upon all
four.

When thee People aw that I was i) little,

( for mo of them areTwelve Cubits long,)
and that I walked only upon Two Le s,

they could not believe me to be a Man : or '

they were of opinion, that Nature havin
given to men as well as BeasTwo Legs an?
. Two Arms, the ' hould both make ue of

them alike. An , indeed, reecting upon

that ince, that cituation of Body did not -

em to me altogether extravagant ; when I

called to mind, thatDwhil Children are
ill A .

74

' '51 4

*' (flieHiibrybf'tbe

' ctiHFUndeir'the nurtur'e of,Nat_ure, they go -

"upon an. fouir, and that they r'ie inot on

Ha-urqa

- theirtWO Legs, but by the care of their

_ Nures; Who et them in little running

dChairs, and faen rapsto them, to hin
"der them from falling on all four, as the

only poure that the hape of our Body

' naturally inclines to re in.

_\
Bj-S

They aid then, (as I had it interpre

* 'ted to me ince ) That I was infallibly the

an

. "therefore
Female ofasthe
Worms
little Animal. I'wctas
And'
uch,
or omewhatcteliz,

the

carried reight to the ToWn-Houh, Where

-dth
I 'oberved
the muttering
and geures,
Of 'thebyPeople
and Magirates,
'that

1 fm

thliey
_;it_hing.- I'were
couldconulting
be. Whenwhat
they ort
had Of
cona
l vferred, together
a lont ie While,
certain
'Bii'fgheg
'Who ihad
keePinga of
the
range Beats,
beought
Ma or and,
3-i___lderi1}en
to 'commit
me the
to ihileuOd

itillijthe'V Wit;"an end-for; me to Jcmip e

Tfie 'tom _ , i, ale' i_ pigs-(as granted, vvith

jbuzzu'iyhisiHoUe
_icu1ty,; 'wherehe
'and that Juggler'carrich
. greate
taughtiirhie-ito

LTu'mch, JVTaiilt,
make Mouths,
andin' tihe
'iaTI'uridred
odd- Triclrs,if6r
'Which

, * L.(After_n06_ns'h'e
- 'ffo-thb Wit(modied
'caxefieMen?
it? s?arette
me:"doat,
Bat >
_ '_HeaVenzp1_ty1_ng

and vein: 'to

itssorrows,
Wheiriprofaned,
ctlb p

' Bothe Temple

.

ordered

'W'orld

the Moon.

Ordered it, 'that one day as I was 'tied*to_a

Rope, wherewith the _Mountebank made

me Leap' and vShip to divert the People;

I heard a Man's voice, who asked me what
I was, in Greek. I was moch'hrpried
to hear One peak in that country, as they

'do in our World. He put-ome (Lueions

J'OW-I-'ku'

to me, which I anwered, and-then gave

him a full acc0unt of my w'hole deign,
=and the ucces-of my Travels: He vt'ddk
the pains recomfort me, and, T'as 'I taik'e-it,
aid to me : well, "Son, atkhgthyoudct
for 'the frailties o'Pyohr Wrld : There is 2a
-Mobi_le here, as well as there;that'can-away '

DF'

Iwith nothing ', but What they eare-accoh

to .- for
Bet-know,
that-youare'bdtjly
* "med
erved;
Jhad-any one
of't'hilearth, had

'\U \UP*I(D*'L -G:Z"

the fboldnes 'to imount u'p 'ty-yours, i'sth

call himhlf/'a Man, Your sages'wouldxh'aye

derOYedihim'as a Mone'r. ' FHethhnltold

me, That he Would' ac'duaint theConti '

with 'my dilaer z adding', 'that Ffboon. as

'he had 'hea'rd'the news t'ha't'Went dfme, 'he

"came toee me, and Was latidedthatl Was

v'a man ofthe World, -'0fwhich LITaid 'I
;
becaue he had TraVelled Fthjere'formerly,
'and 0j0urne'd linct'Greeci'eL-'hkrb "he" was called
ith'eDen-M &son-ate: i That:Eter'thexDeath
'othhat 1'Philoepher, he Fhad governed and i
'V'

'taught Epamiandt-Thebes :,Ater Which

Being 'gone-carer to the Romans, juice

'-

- '

D 2

had

..
e',
-_ _Agnus
':LA'_:*_.

A13.'7!

'

._'_1'z Hthfthe

hadoblig'ed him to 'epoue the party of

' the YoungerkCato, : ' That after. his Death, he
had addi ed himelf to Brutm- : That all

thee great Men, having le'ft in that World

no more, but the hadow of their Virtues, -

.- he with his Companions, had retreated to

' Temples and Solitudes. In a word, ad-"
_ ded he,the People of your World became ib

dull and upid, that my Companiohs and _

_I lo all the Pleaure, that formerly we had
had in inructing them : Not but that you
a have heard Men talk of us 3 for they called
us Oracles', Nymhs, Grniuer, Fairies,
,H0uhold-Gods, Lemmes, Lawes, Lamiers,
t abgoI/Zim, , Nayader, Imabujfes, " Shades,
' .M4ne.r., I/iiamand Apparitiom: We aban
* igum,
doned your
World,
of Auto
not long
afterin I the
had'Reign
appeared
Drum the Son of Livid, who waged
War in Germa'zjl, who m I forbid to proceed

any farther.

It is not long ince I came *

'from thence a econd time 3 within thee

Hundred
Yearsl
had a Commion
*Yiel thither:
I roamed
a. great deal toinTra
Ea- Rope, and convered with ome, whom po
'bly you may have known. One Day,
vamongt Others, I appeared to Gardzm, as

he was at his Study; I taught him a great

many things, and he in acknowledg
ment promihd me , 'to inform Poeri
ty, of - Whom he had thoe FWonders,

' which

\'va."
_:.A-n5-*c7.-_
an'

World of the Moon.

3'7.

which he intended to leave in writing

There I lw Agrippa, the Abbot Tritbemz'
m, Doctor Lu/ar, La Broje, Caear, and
acertain Cabal of Y0ung Men, who are
commonly called Raacrmiam or Knights of

the Red-Gras,wh0m I taught a great many

Knacks and Secrets of Nature, which, with
out doubt, have made them pas for great
Magicians : I knew Campamlld alo ; it was
I that advied him, Whil he was in the In

quiiti'on at Rome, to put his Face and Body

into the uual Poures ofthole, whoe in

ide he needed to know, that by the ame

frame of Body, he might excite in himelf,
the thoughts which the ame cituation had
raied in his Adverlaries; becaue by) do- ' -

ing, he might bettermanage their Soul,

when he came to know it ; and at my de

ire he began a Book, which we Entitu
led, De 'Senu Remm. I likewie haunted

in France, La Motbe [e Vdje andGaen

aim ;' this la hath written as much like a'
Philoopher, as the 'other lived : I have

known a great many more there, whom

your Age call Divines, but all that I could
ind in them, was a great'deal of Babble,
and a great deal of Pride. In ne, ince

I pa overfrom your Conntry into _Eni

gland, to acquaint my ielf, with the man
ners of its Inhabitants, .I lm'et with a Man, _ _

the hame of his (2013er ; for-'certainly

L' .

13

38 v

A The Hiory. oftha

is a; great hame for the' Grand'ees of yqur

States, to know the virtue which in
'
has its Throne, and not to adore him z

ThatI may give, you an Arbridgement- of

'his Pancgyrick, he, is al] Wit, all Heart,
'and pae-Its all the Qualities, of which one;
alone- wa-s herotqfore ucient to make an

Hence-2 It Was, Trian the Hermite. The

Truth is, I
tell you,- when I per,
\ zceived. o: exalted' a. Virtue, I miruedit
would not, be. taken notice of, and there: .

fore I endeavoured, to, make him accept

Three Viala, the r lled with the Oyl .
a-p.__r.,-_

(If Talk, the Other with the, Powder' of

- Projection, and the third with

Pea

uiks but he: tefufhd them witha more

genqbug Didain, than Diogene; did the
,"o,mplem_ents &Alexander. In ne, I can
add nothing, '50 thq EIOgY of that Great
'Maz but 'that he is the only Poet, thq

only Blilohpher, and the; only Fre'ezman

KVOBZW zOJ-lL Thee are the coniderale
Paron:-

I- convered with; all the

'fz at lean that I know, areb far bv

IQW Men, that: have een Beas ibme:

Whataovethm.

., .

_1.1.;ft6.31]z-_I am not as-Nhtiwexneithcn of

tth COUHFW not yoursz- -.I was born in

WSW i but-bequ thinnth our- won,

is, QYQFMOLle-With Me,- by. realbn-..o

&YQIHWWZQL the _ . himan andhat

va

*
k

1.: F.

lll

t tsrg

He"

World oft/je Moon.

there is hardly any Wars, or, Dieaes a:

mong them : our Magirates;

time'

t'o time, end Colonies into the neigourin

Worlds. 'For my own part, [Was dom;

manded to go to yours; being declare,

Chief of the Colony that accompanyed me,

I came ince into this World, for the, cal

hnscontinue
I told you,
that' which
here, and
is, becaue
it__l'_e,Meni are'
great lovers of T-ruth ," have hLPedan

among them; that the Philolbphers ar,

nie'v'ef peruadsd bin by Reaqu 'and the

the Authotiry
a Doctor,.,'ox.
brain-gree
number,
is notOfpreferred
before'ithe
Opiz
hide f a Threher in al Bath, When. he.
has
right on
his fide. in In
hort,.npii_e are
reckoned
Madim'en
this'Cquctltl'Y,
Spiphiers and Orators. I 212de hi'mhow
they'thouand
lived Po he
madeandanwer',
three 'or
four
Years,thus' wenten:
i' *
Though ithe Inhabitants of the Sun,
not o numerous'as' thoe of this World;
Yet the Sun is many timesover ecked, be;
caue the People 'being of a hot conitu7
tion, are irring and attribitious, and diget
much.

'i

' You ought not to beurprihd at whatl '

tsll
Y0u ; for thdflh
vel e;
andzzzors'irde;
'ti'QAir'h_ Globe
deic"beparriefoxe
the ed'orrourpdxopcx Years; and You-at ths' suof'Fifxxz.
When;.,_,..
charmed
.M..._ it 5204.;
apake .

,'l

./\

'
The Hiory oftbe
_-C 40
are not o many Stones as clods

of Earth,

nor o many Animals as Plants, nor o ma-.

'ny Men as Beas; ju o there ought not
to beo many Spirits as Men, by reaon of
the dicu'lties that occur in the Generation

ofa perfect Creature.

* I asked him, if they were Bodiesas we

are? He made anwer, That they were
Bodies, but not like us, nor any thing

ele which we judged uch; becaue we

call nothing a 'Body commonly, but what

we can-touch : That, in hort, there

was. nothing in Nature, but What was
material;
andthey
thatwere
though
they when
themelves
were o, yet
forced,
they i

Q
.Ari-m
-_'mzn
*r:->'!_=$'"c*2<

had a mind to appear to us, to take Bo-.

dies proportionated- to what our Senes are

able to know; and that, without doubt,
that was the reaon, wh many have taken
the Stories that are, to d' of them, for the
Deluions of a weak Fancy, ecaule they
only appeared in the nigh: time : He
told me withal, That eeing they were
necetated to piece together' 'the Bodies,
- they were to make ue of in great hae,
many times they had not leiure enough, to

SF:*O

_ .*-'
2

render them the Objects of more Sens

-r?_ __,_ =

than one at a time, ometimes of the. Hear

ing, as the Voices of Oratler, ometimes of

the Sight,, as the, Fire; and Vijiam, omee

Piers Of Fhs Fselinga. as the hawk-i 5

.

-_-.

. and

World of the Moon.

4t

and that thee Bodies being but Air con

' _ dened, in luch or uch a manner, the Light

dipered them by its heat, in the ame

manner, as it catters a Mi.
.
So many ne things as he told me, gave
me the curioity to queion him about his

Birth and Death,- if in the Country of the

' Sun, the individual was procreated by the -

wa s of Generation, and if it died by the,

di olution of its Conitution, or the dill
compoure of its Organs? Your enes, re!
plied he, bear but too little proportion to
the Explication of thee Myeries : Ye
Gentlemen * imagine,

that

whatoever

you cannot comprehend is, piritual, or that

it is not at all ; but that Conequence is ab
urd, and it is an argument, that there are

a Million ofthings,perhaps,in the Univerle,"

that would require a Million of dierent
Organs in you, to underand them. For
inance, I by my Senes know the caue of
the Sympathy, that is betwixt the Load-i \
one and the Pole , of the ebbing and
owing of the Sea, and what becomes of
the Animal after Death; you cannot 'reach
thee high Conceptions but by Faith, be

caue they are Secrets above the POWer of

your Intellccts; no more than a Blind-man
gan judge of the beauties of a Land-skip the Colours of a Picture, or the reaks of
a Rainzbow ; or at be he will fancy them
* tO

46

The Hiwx af- the)

\
'

tg beomewhat palpablez to he like Eating>

, a'ihould
Sound,
or a pleaant
'Smell
: Ev'enwhat
hy'
I attempt
to. 'eXplain
to you,
I 'perceive by the Senes whichctyou want,

bmg'am_e.m

yonwoulld repreiZnt it to your alf, as ome'

, what that may be Heard , Seen, Felt,

Smelt or Taed, , and yet it is no 'uch'
thing.
*
He was gone. 'on o far in hisyDihourij,

' * when my juggler perceived," th'atthecchng,

pzny began to be weary of my Gibberih,

. that
not, and
which 'they
top; they
to undertood
an inarticqlatEd
Gruinting:
He.

Nor-52)

r therefore fell to pulling WYWPLZ-iafreL;

t' make me leagandski

tl the' Spectah

am
r * gar;
having
had their"
Belly-ulls'deah" * h-. '
armed't'that
T had'ialfribi'asct'inamh
We', as, ttht-afsof.that CQTHXYLI audi?

USz
HSFT'

bxoke uP-. .
_Thus,,ofall
had during
the
thihry
'mythe
hardepqurtx
Uage, were
the viits

E_
": *.42.n>-*"a'-w_
O

ofthis OciOuSSPirit; vfor- Yo'u maniud 'c'

Khateqhvetion I_ could' have, With the e \
' Hatucazme tp theme, ncebeides that they _
dale of the' *Ca{e'g6r1' 'of wB'lruits, I* neitheri

qnly: cept me. ir. 'anAnzrx'iaxz 'in'rhchi'ghe

aderopd
their Languege'z
'notare
they'think'
z For
you mupknw,
'that there
but twci
2

" "

Isiioms in. u? in 'that 69? tial," (me TT 'the

PQP-le illa'
Gran dees, apd. EHQFF . . 'I
general:

'r
y ....\
.-' a' '1

_
_

- That"

t d

u____j4'World of'tbe MHQ'I.

43

That of the great ones is no, more, buiq

' various inarticulatez TQnCSJ much Like
to our Muick, when the words are not:

added: to the, Aip: and in. teal-ity iztip; an

Invention,

very, ue-ful and pleaant i

for when they, are Weary of talking, or; di?

dain to proitute their Throats t0_ that O

ce, they take either a'Lute, or tbmeothet

_Intumcnt, WhCECb they eommunieaw
their Thoughts,,as we. 1 as by- their Tongue:
So that ometimes Fifteen or- Twenty in a
Company, will handle a point of Divinity,
ordiious the dicultizes, ofaLaw-uit, in

the mo hatmonious Conxrt, that eve; t

tickledtheEat. _

The cCOnthich is ued by' the Vulgar.

is performed by a hiVering of the Mem:
bers,- but not, perhaps, as you may imaz

gine, for ome parts Of the BOdY g:

nie An entire Dicour-E; for example, th', *
agitation of a Finger, a Hand, an Ear,
aLip, an Arm, an Eye, a Cheek, every
' one &veray will'make up. an Oration, or a

Period with all the parts Of it. ; Othots

srve only. inead of Wopds, as the knits

ting of the Brows, the eyeml'- quiverings

ofthe Mucles, the turning of the Hands,

the amping of the. Feet, the Contorion

of- the Arm; ht-hat When they peak, as
their Cuom is, ark naked, their. Memr J '
hers being uijed togeiiottlatc their_ Concepr
'

44,

The Hiory ofthe'

tions, move o quick, that one would not

think it to be a Man that poke, but a Body
that trembled.

'

. Everyday almo the Spirit' came to ce

me, and his rare Converation made me
patiently bear with the rigour of my Cap
tivity. At length, one morning I aw a
'Man enter my Cabbin, whom I knew nor,
who havinga long while licked me gently,.
took me up ll his Teeth by the Shoulder,
and with one of his Paws, wherewith he
held me up, for fear I might hurt my elf,
threw me u on his Back; where I found

'my le o o tly ated, and o much at my

ea, that being aicted to be ued like a

Bea, I had not the lea deire of making
my ecape ; and beides, thee Men that go
upon all four, are much witer than we,

eeing the heavie ofthem,make nothing of

running down a Stagg.
- In the.that
mean
time
wasofextreamly
troubled,
I had
no Inews
my cour* ' i
teous Spirit; and the r night we came

'to our Inn, as I was walking in 'the Court,

expecting till Supper hould be ready, a

pretty handome young Man came mil
ing in my Face, and ca his Two
Fore-Legs about my Neck.

After I had

a little conidered him : How! aid he

in French, do not you know your Friend
then ?.. I leave you to judge in whirt

.z

ca e

World ofthe Moon. '

45

ca: I was at that time; really, my ur

prie was o great, that I began to imagine,
that all the Globe ofthe Moon, all that had
befallen me, and all that I had een, had on

ly been Enchantment : And that Bea-man,

who was the ame that had carried me all
day, continued to peak to me in this
manner; You promied me, that the good.

OcesIdid you, hould never be for ot

ten, and yet it eems you have never een
me before; but perceiving me ill in amaze :
In ine, aid he, I am that ame Demon

of Socrates, who diverted you during your

Imprionment, and who, that I may ill

oblige you, took to my elf a Body, on

which I carried you to day -:' But, aid I
interrupting him, how can that' be, lee
ing that all Day you were of a very
long Stature, and now you are very hort;
vthat all day long you hada Weak and
broken Voice, and now you have aclear
and vigorous one; that, in hort, all day
long you were a Grey-headed: old Man,
and are now a brisk young Blade yzplsv it
then that whereas in my Country, the

Progres is from Life to Death; Animals

here go Retrograde from Death to Life,
and by growing old become young a
galn*',
'
'
,.
'.

So oon as-I had poken to the Prince, A

aid he, and received orders to bring yqu
.

to

349

H'zory'ofzihe

to'Cdurt, iwmt'arid ound'you'out where X

were, and 'have brought 'you hither;
burthe Body fl-acted in, was i) 'tired (hit

With 'the Journey, that all lits 'Organs re-v

failed-metheir ordinary/Functions, o that
Ienquir'ed't'he Wayito t'heHoital 5 Whefe'
Being cofn'e ih iI fou'nd the Body oa young
- Made, ju then expired by a 'very odd
'Medidetz lbut 'yet very common in this
' I(th'iiuritry ' " ' " I drew near . him, pre

l iteridilh'g to Fnd 'mOtio'n in jhim "ill, and

'Efo'tei-n'g toitho'le Who We're-preet, that

' e 'vir-as 1n0t dead, and 'that what (they

thohght 'to be the 'caue o'f his Death,
'Was nobbre-But-a ba're- Lethargy;
'o that
Withbuit-b'eihgeteeiVEd,
-ct<I putm-y Mouth
'toihi's, by Which I*e'ntted"aS'-Witlia breath : '

TTh'en 3d6Wh 'dropt 'thy vold 'Garcas, Sa'n'd

ea's Lif '1 had been thatiyou'tig Many [I '

Arc'ie

toobk- rfoi' "yea, lear/3ng

YEeQMdtbfs "crying Fa- Mimde.

With,

&hiethey 'dame eto dallnsfto Bupper, and

<Ilfollowediy=6uide into'a Far-lour -l?iC-i"1*

11 lrhea; 'But Whereq found-nothng

- ' r to &leaden-1 No V-'itua-ls hparing,
Wlieh -I'1re'adyt'0->di'e 'of-4 Huge!"' ' '
r'iiiahe 'ime leek him WHEPEQEHFCIoathwas
kid 2'z 3But -I Wld inthhhaY'Mihatlhe an

wered , for at that inant 'Three Her

Mr'iydungJBbys, 'Children 'd the Houe,

kwine'ar, and With-inth CNili'ey hee: r

:

me
/

4,

*'47

"Warld oft/Je Mo'on.

This new iCei'etOny r

. me t'o the Shirt.
X
o aonihed me , that 'I dur not _(b

'much as ask my Pretty Valets de Chamb

-\

b'er the caue of it; and 'I cannot tell hew

my Guide, WhOvZLSde 'men/"hat I would

begin
with , Acould
drawbutfrom'
me had
't'heiz'
tWo Words,
Patage;
hafdly
lI
'pronounced them, When I melt 'the 0

dour ofth'e'mo agreable soop, thatFeVer

'eamed in the rich Gluttons' Noe : [was _

about
'riedelicious
from'inyvScent
place, tothat
might
trace to
that
itsI'ourCe,
but my Cairrier hind'eired 'ifie' ': Whither
are You
He,"now,
'we ithall
'fetc'l'a'
'w'alk
bygoing,
and byid
; ibut'
is time
tip

- Bat , 'make an end: &your. Pata e, 'and

'then wan
'haveiisithe
omething
'And
"behete
the Devil
Pa'hig'e '?culi:
_'ar1wefe'd

I halggn'gr'y ; K Haeeyou laide' wage-Men

.eer 'me all'this Day? 1' bght, 'renied ,
thd,
he , *th'at"ait_
iyoukhad,
'een the
TyotirToWn'FWe
Mict" Io'i''came
otiie,'Bo

ie'le et '7tneal, Jaind *teit'si,.t'he -lfea*_b*n,,

itdl'd
yau not,
howthen'
Pealei'feea
COuntry.
Seeing
Wide "in"
ll'This
g. 3
noranth you imu' Hide', jit tiefe

ging an Steams. The eir'ti. GECOerr'yj-ls

_to_hut iup_=inI iigfeat veels;

"G'n

Purpoe , the . EXhaIaItidns 'thag-zezecfefe'd

, tgnz gaze "them, Whilijt i1'_s*'a*dren";'

and when they have iovfded fedbug '

'

.- everal

48 '

The Hiory of the

veral orts, and &veral taes,' according

'to the Appetite of thoe they treat;
they Open one Veel where that Steam
is kept , and after that anOther ; and

o on till all the COmpan'y be atised.

Unles you have already lived after this
manner', you would never think, that
the Noe without' Teeth and Gullet, can

perform the oce of the Mouth, in feed

ing >a Man; but I'll make you experi
ence it your ielf.

w.'.L,-<'4

He had no ooner aid

o, but I found o many agreable and nou

4.,'ty
L:*7>-.:

rihing Vapours enter the Parlour, one

after another, that in les than half a

quarter of an Hour I was fully atisi- \

' ed. When we were got up ; This is nor

rE-'L-Z'E

a matter, aid he, much to be admired

at, nor
eeing
youoberved,
cannot have
o long,
i and
have
thatlived
all orts
of
;:,*

Cooks, who eat les than People of another

ited
hy"

Calling , are nevertheles much Fatter.

Whence proceeds that Plumpnes , d'ye
think, unles it be from the Steams that
continually environ them, which pene

Ell
Jh

trate into their Bodies, and atten them? -

_Hence, it is, 'that'the'People of this World

' enjoy a" more 'eady and vigOrous Health,

I?
''557.
i-_

by reabn that their Food 'hardly engen

'ders any Excrements, which are in a

manner. the original of all Dieaes: You

"were, perhaps< urpritd, that before up
'
'
per

l-U
tI-A'-Tic-qi.'

World ofthe- Moon. v

4.'9

per you Were ript, in'ceit is sounen;

not practied in y'Our Country;- bu't it is

the
of this,may.
andbeforthethisenduEd,
that fahion
thei Animal
mere trani
pirable to the Fumes:

Sir , Janwered

I, there r is -a great deal of 'probability in

What you ay, and I 'have found ome'
what of it my E:lf by experienCe; but
>I mu franle tell you ,_ ThatZ notjbe

ing able to Unbrute my lf o'hoh , I

hould be glad to feel omething, that

my Teeth might x upon; 'Hepromil

ed I hould, but n0t before neXt Day;
becaue, aid he, to Eat o oon after your
meal, would breed Crudities'.v 'After we
hadct- to_
diant-lied
allit'tletolonger,
"Were
went
Up
a Chamber
takejour'
zxa
Man met, Us onthe =top offzthe_ Stairs,
Who-havin attentively Eyed' _u_s',', led me

into
a Cloth
, where the'Thf'eeoot
oor was row
ed 'with
Grange-Flowers
'*hickct,
and my " p Spirit into another', *l]_ed' with
Gilly-Flowers and Jeamine: Perc'eivin'g

me amazed at 'that 'Ma' niieehce, he

try; -. In ne', we laid our 'iizlvesi down', 'to .
'told me, they were th'e Ber ofthe'COunL

re, ' in Our everal Cells, __and_'_,Q.:oon "as -' I

had 'retched 'my-le: out Uponniy Flov'fv'? "
ers, .by 'the fight-of many llarjgeQLOW- s

worms hiitzn

them; ( being'

'thei only'Cdndles'fbhronlusg) "I per-'i .

i'

- -'-

'E

i >

ceived '

59

- The. &hovfe

'eeived thev Three or Four Boys , who

'riPt me before Supper, One tick
ling 'my Feet, another'niy Thighs, the
Third my Flanks, and the Fourth my
Arms, and all o delicately and daintily,
that in les than in' a-Minute I was fa '

aleep.

Next Morning by Sun-riin , my Spi

rit came into my Room, and 'aid tome,

Now I'll be as good as my Word, you

hall breakfa this Morning, more lblidly

5
3'

than you Supped 'la Night. With that

Rch?
25

_I get up, and he led me by the Hand

jjto a plate, at'the back of the Gardeh,
where one of the Children of the Houe:

ger-erse

' ayed for Us, with a Piece in his Hand,

_r_nueli like' to one of our, FireLoeke.

He" 'asked my Guide, if I would have a

dozen of Larks, becaue Bishop: (one-of
52"

'* which betook the to be,) loved to, feed

them? * I_ had hardly anwered, Yes,

'

When the Fow1er dichar ed a Shot. am!

Twenty or Tiu'rt Lar fell at our Feet
ready
Roacd.elf, veries
' , thought
I preent;"
ly Withtmy
the' Proverbi
in,
l our World, of a

53

where Lark;

falljready'Roaed s without doubt,- it has

been made'by. ome Body that

from

' hence. Fall too, falltoo, aid my

> He:er

' don't parejor'they haven knack of W

'ling a

with- 'dzgs- 'Pow er

_E'i.5_*

-1q*
N-

World of' 'be Moon.

5I
._;,.T_ ,_

Powder and Shot, which Kills, Plucks,

'Roas, and Seaons the Fowl all at 0 ce.
I took up ome of them, and eat t em
upon his word; and to lay the Truth, In

all my Life time, I never eat any thing o -

delicious. Having thus Breakaed, we

prepared to be gone, and with a Thou
, (and odd Faces, which they ue when they
would hew their Love; our Landlord

received a Paper from my Spirit, I asks

ed him, if it was a Note for the Reckon-i

ing? He replied, No, that all was paid,

and that it was a Copy of Verbs. vHow i
Veres, aid I, are your Inn-Keepers here
curious of Rhime then? It's, aid he , *

the Money of the Country, and the

charge we have been at here, hath
been computed to amount to Three Conpi
lets, or Six VerEs, which I have given
him. I did not fear we hould out-run
the Conable ; for though we hould

Pamper our elves for a whole Week;

we could not pend a Some', and I have
Four about me, beides Two Epigrmr,
Two Odes, and an Eclogue. . Would to
God, aid I, it were o in our World;

for I know a good many hone Poets

there, who are ready to Starve, and who
might live plentifully , if that Money
would pas in Payment. I Farther asked
him, If thee Veris would-always erve,
Ea

if

A.--.-. -.<*.-; A.-

I 5;

_-_-\The_Hz;/ierj,bfthe i

* * ifaone Tranribejd' them? He made an'

Wer,zNo,z
Landyou'entany;
on. he
When
an
Autlloraszompoled,
carries
them the
togthezMint,
wern
Po
ptisdf
Kingdom wherethe
it_,in Ceurt.
There'

thee verifyingKJCers eay the pieces;

and if they bee-judged Sterling, theyare

rated not according to their Coyn ;-that'*s

may, That _a Sweet is nor always as good
as a Samet 5.v but according to the intrinick
value
3 o that if
any Men
one
Starve, ofhe the
mupiece
be a Blockhead
: For
of Wit make always. good Chear.,. With
Extaie, Iwas admiring, the judicious Po;

licy of that Country,"when he 'proceeded

inthis manner : There are others who

keep Bublick-houe, after a' far dierent '

manner :.. When oneis about to be gone,

they demand proportionably to, the Char

ges, an Acquittance for the other- World-5

' and whenthat _-is given them, they write

'dogw'nl- in a great Regier',- 'Which they
call Doomdzzatgaok, imich. after i this
manner. delivered\ucl1_
J Legg, Ihe ._valuesofo.uch
many;
i' Yeesh
a Day,,ato
'a

Perong 'which xhe ;is_ to zpay upon the re

Ceitpf.
this_;_Acqhittance,out _0f.,
'rea-L.
die
Cah
;\,.Angl;_when-{they
findhisthem
elves 'in danger of Death, theyzcalue-thelei =
R'egiers
to begClioptbecaue
in pieees,.'and.wal-low.
theriiLi'idowng
they, believe, *
<,4
vLA

" -

'-

that

P'
,Q

World alake. ma.

, (5 3' '

that ' ifthey . were;notTthfnsCdigeed,r

.wouldbe good fonnothingpzzi

-a-i-"g-w_
:-:

tie; i'le

- This Cenyeration'wa's no hinderance to

our Journey ;.. for. my . Four-leggedl Por'ter

jogged, onzunder'. me, auntred iradlin'g

on his Back." I hall nottbepartieular in' re;

lating 'to y0Lv,: "all." the . .Adventures 12,1' that'

happened- to: us 'on ourlwa'yl tillrwej 'arri-z

-ved at length-at' the T0W1,*T\where' the
King holds. his - Reidehceg' =IT wasu'n'o
ooner:- come, ; b'utr they carryed" me toilie'

Yalace, Where-'theGrandeesfreceiv-sd me
With more:_.-Moderatibh, zethan he People
'had done, Ias'T I paed. the'Streets :- - But
both great and: mall concluded, =That,**

A-hcv7.WA-n-

Without doubt; I'fwasV the Femaleof the

WeenTs little.:Anima_l.-L My-'Guide was"

may:_ _-MA

my. Interpteterlnandlyet he himelf u'n*'-'

derood not' the Riddle," and knew n'ot

What to make '._0f;_.that.little'\ Animal of

the v()_Lieen*__._s*'; "but we.-W'ere-_oon 'atis
ied as to that; for vthe Kihghavingome
time conidered, me, ordered-'it ito be
brought , and 'about half ran'fhour after;
I aw,acompanyj_of .Apes, wearing Rus
and .Breeches,'<;0me in,'and among them a

little Man; almo ofmy own Built," for the'

went on Two-Legs; ciobn; as' he Per: *
ceived*
Accoed- sme'
with a _ Crim
do de- me,'he
wrenaitmerc'ed;
I- ianWered
his:
Greeting, much
.- '

the ame' Terms: But

3

alas!

54.

The Hiory cthe

alas ! no ooner had they een us talk to

gether, but they believed their Conjecture
to be true ; and o, indeed, it eemed;

for he of all the By-anders, that pa

the mo favourable Judgment upon Us,
proteed , that our Converation , was
a Chattering we kept for Joy at our meet
ing again. That little Man told me, that
he wasan European, a Native of old Ca-'1
of'
up toa means
the World
le .-Birds,
That to-mount
he had found
by theofthe
help

EWiVl

- WZ

.i
ilsl

Moon, where then we were: That falling

into the Queen's Hands, hehad taken
him for a Monkey , becaue Fare would
have it o : That in that Country they
cloath Apes in a Spamh Dree; and that

upon his arrival, being found in that he?

bit, he had made no doubt, but he was
of the ime kind.

It could not other;

wie be, replied I, but having tried all

Fahions of Apparel upon them, none were
found lb Ridieulous, and by conequence
more becoming a kind of Animals, which

are only entertained for Pleaure and Di

veron. That hewe you little under.v
and the Dignity of our Nation, anwered
he, for whom-i the Unive're breeds Men,

only tobe odrSlaves, and Nature pi'oduces

nothing but objects of Mirth" and' Langh
ter. ' He then. intreatedtnetocell' him, how
dW bae bold, as to- Scale' the Moo'g

World oftbe Mart,

5;

with the Machine I! told: him', Of _? Ian-e'

we'rcd, That it was beeautehe had

away the Birds, whichv- I intended to have'

made ue of.
miled at thisRaillei-y ;_
and about a quarter' of an hour' after, the;

King corhmanded the Keeper o the Monk'

keys to carry us back, 'with expres Order-3 to make the szzhiardand me lie' t other; *
that wemight procreate a breed ' A"
in
Kingdom. The King's Plea

wasv punctually obeyed; at which I was

HWmuw _

very glad, for the atisfaction I had, (if had'

ving-a Mate to oonVerle with, during the
olitude of my' Brutiication.- One Da '
my Male (for I was taken for the Female
teid me, That the true reaon, which had

obliged him to travel all over the Earth,

m
'<
r-Z
i

I'.n
i'-l

and at length to abandon i tir the Moon,

Was,- that hewntd not nd lb much as

one Country, where even Imagination

was at libertjh Look ye, aid he, how
ache Wittie' t, Bigg-(You can ay, unlei you
wear a.Come' " ap, if it thwart the
Principles of the DoctOrs of the Robe ,
you are an Ideot, a Foo'l, and omething
' wore, per-haps.

I Was about to have been

put into the Inq'uiition at home , for

maintaining to the Pedants Teeth, That
there was a Van-m',- and that I knew no
one matter- inv the World, mere Ponderous

than another. 'I asked-him,- whatprobable

E4

Argu

56 a

The Hiory ofthe s. .

_ Arguments he had, to conrm o new an 'O-r' p

pinion ? _ To evince that,- ->anWered he,

you mu uppoe that there is butone. Elez .

ment; for though We ee Water, Earthz_
Air and _Fire diinct, yet are they never:
found to be o perfectly pure ,, but that
'there ill remains ome Mixture. For ex-'

afnle, When you behold- Fire, it ,is not.

Ere but-Air, much eXtended; theAir. is
bin: Wagerzmuch dilated; Water is but

liqui'e'd
LEalrt, -_. and
the..Eart'h
it elf,
but .'
sondendWater>
z and'
Jt'hus, -1f_ you
weigh

Matter eriouly', ,you*ll nd_ it is but one,@

likeanexcellent
here .-be-.
, Which
low acts.
5Bartg,_. =in_ Comedian
_al],-9ir-ts;QfDrees
:
Othchie ws mu admit-as. many Ele-,<
niesz a_s thezjc, are kinds; o. Bodies : And

if . Yet; ask-zznezwhy- Fire. burns, and Wav

. ter cools,* ince it is but; oneand. the &me

matter, LarLWer, That-[than matter acts .

by Sympathy,; apcording _ to ,the Dipoitiq
on it is in,_ at the time when it acts. ' Firev
Which riothirrgw bpt Birth alo , -m0re
dilated.
that;toisghange
zt 'fOrzthezQOnitutiOn
of
Aiir, rives
into-itelf, by Sym
' pathyzUWhateverjt
meetsthemo
with ; ubtile
,Thus,- *
the. heatct 'of Coals, bein

Fire, (and mo, proper o; penetrate a Bo-

c'! , at r idqs through the= Pores of our,

_ S (inv ,j god ecar; it.i,s z-atnew'; matter: then,

lls Yfz. zr WkFS. us, exhale in Swear:

-

FhZY

IVorld of the Moon._

37;

that Sweatdilated by the Fire is c'onver-z

t'ed to a- Steam, and becomes Air ; that Air

being farther rariied by the heat of the

AntzPeria/is, 0r*ofthe Neighbouring Stars,

is called Fire, and the Eaith abandoned
by the Cold and Humidity, which were
Ligaments to the whole,falls to the ground :

Water , on the other hand, though it no

ways dier from the matter of Fire, but.
in that it is cloer, burns' us not 3 becaue

that being dene by Sympathy, 'it cloes

up the Bodies itlmeets with, and the Cold
we feel is no' more, but the eect of our
Fleh contracting it elf,-. becaue of the

Vicinity 'Of Earth .or: Water, which con

rains it toa- Remblance. -\ Hence'it is,

that thoe who are troubled vwith a Drop

ie, convert all their nourihment
Water ; and. the Cholerick 'conVert all the

Blood, that=is: formedin their Liver, into

Choler. .z-It . being then uppoed , that
there is butr'one Element'; it is mo cer

tain, that all Bodies, according to their e

veral qualities, . incline equally towards the.

Center of the Earth.

.
.
.,
- But , you'll ask me , Why then
does Iron, Meta-l, Earth and-Wood, de;

cend more wiftly to the Center than .a

Sponge, if it' be not that it is',full of Air,"
which .naturally 'tends upwards ? That

is not. at all the Ream ,_ and thuskl

i ,

'

ma e

58

He Hiory

the

make it out : Though a Rock fall with

greater Rapidity than a Feather, bozh of
them 'have the ame inclination for the
Journey; but a Cannon Bullet , for in
ance, where the Earth pierced through,
would precipitate with greater hae to
the Center thereof, thana Bladder full of
Wind *, and the reaim is, becaue that malis

of Metal, is a great deal of Earth contract

ed into a. little pace, and that Wind a
very little Earth ina' large pace :* For all
the parts of Matter, being o cloely joined
together in the Iron, enereae their far-ce
by their Union; becaue being thus corn.
pacted, they are many that Fight again
a few, eeing aparoel of Air equal to the
Bullet in Bigne s, is not equal in. Quin
mv>
: Not to ini on a long Deduction a
Arguments to prove this, tell me in oed
earne, How a Pike, a Sword or a ag' ger wound us? If it be nor, becaue the

Old
0Pe
hoc
all l
the!
EBHZ'Y'HEA

&BE-

8
g.o*
3

Steel, being. a-matter, wherein the parts are

more continuous, and more cloely knit co-"
WIFE!
s:

gether, than your Fleh is, whoe Pores

and Softneh hew, that it contains but very

little Matter-within a great extent of Place ;

and that the point of the Steel that pricks'us,
being almo an innumerable' number of
Particles of nutter, again a. very little
Fleh, itforoes it? to' yeild to the ronger,
\
m

Worldpf th' Man.

in the ame manner as at

'33

adronia cloe

order, will eaily break _e magh a more

ripen Ram-Him; for why docsa- Bie of red '

do; Iron, burn more than-s Log- of- Wood

all on Pipe' ?* Unlet' be, that-in the; Iron,

thered more Fire in ama

ing is adheres, to all the 'parts

he Ma
tal, than] in- the Wood which being very
. Spongy, by conequence contains a great
deal of Fmizy; and Wax),- being
but a Prive'ztion of Being, cannot receive

the forme Frm But', you," object,- you .

l ea mew, asiftzou hadppovedit
an that's begging of ' e'queon-z WUE

then I'll' prove it, and tho:sz that di- \

_ culty bathe Si-er OfthevGor' &nium-yet
my Arms are rong enough to- - become is
Alexander.

> '

- Let that-vulgar- Ra, then, 'who

not think it thi a Man, Had- it net been mid
o, anwer me if it car-2 Suppo-HOW
therebe but one Mater, ay I think! have

uciently peoved; whence come-sit', that'

according to itsv A ppetite, it enlargesor eo'n
tracts its elf; whence is it', than a piece of
Earth, by being Cond'e'nzd becomw a
Stone? Is it that the' W- O- that Stone'
are placed one with anorher, in uch a
manner, that' wherever that

ain- of Sand

is'ettled, even there, or-int e hmepoint,

Ianocher grain of Sand is Lodged? That.

'
"
'
cannot

6o

_- The Hiory bf'tbe

cannot be, no, not accordingto their own 4

di

Principles, eeing there is no Penetracionof

vlirz

Bodies .- _ But that mattermu have crowd-

' _ Gn

ed to etherLand r if you will, abridged it

Wi

elf, Othat ithath lled' ome place which A

zha

was empty before; To ily,that_itzisincom_

prehenb'le, that there hould be a Nothing ,

ir
reif

in the World, that we are in part made

;,up_of Nothing; Why nor, pray?_Is not _

the whold-World wrapt up in Nothi 3
Since you yield rne this point,_ then con a; ' .
ihgeniouy, zthat it's as rational, that the
'

h
n:
mri
reo

Werdhcmld. have &Nothing-within it, as

in

thing'azboucie z
, . '_
.,;;zI>wsz11perceivc-you'll put the queionm
_

nd
red

W.hy.=Waterzcompreed in a veelby

am

REEVE l'hquld break. it, if it be not, to

hinder a Vacuity? But I anwer, That
by; only.- happens, &caueth-s Air over-

m
lsz
- as

sad, which its well. asEarth and Water,

-' 'Ac

tenels to the;(;?ex_1ter, meeting with anetnp+

_ ' Wz

27..Tun_b'.,'tl1wa}<>. takesup his Lodging

an

there; zI ignd the. poreszoftha; Vee-I;

that's to aYz-zzhe ways that.sz to that;

void. placezztoo parroWz,t0,0 long,"- and tOQ

. c

groplzed, with impatience it breaks through' 7

end-.%rr:_ives%t>it.s,Tunz

- ,

1 'Exf- me Motion-5. 9: ell? afsrzexration- of Bo,-.

'A

42."-

"

. _ ' " . .;

But not totriea'yvay time,in_anwering

_a_l_lth_eir objections, I darebesbold to ay,That if' there-Were no i[fact-try,'there could
'

dies

m
jm

p,

7
.,
F

T?- . r

Wokldoftbe Moon. *

ar

_ dies mu be' admitted ; for it would be 'a

little too ridiculous to think', that when a'

Gnat puhes back a parcel of Air with-its \

Wings, that-parcel drives anOther before it,
that Other another ill', and that o t-he

irring of the little Toe ofa Flea, hould

. raie a bunch upon .the Back of the Uni

vere.

When they are at a and, they

have recourleto Rarefaction : But in good

earne, How can it be when a Body is
raried," that one Particle of the Mas does . - '
recede from another Particle, without leav

ing an empty Space betWiXt them; mu,

not the
twobeen
Bodies,
which
ju 'in
eparad
ted,
have
at ithe
'lameare
time'
the
ame place of this ,* * and that-o the

mu

have all three penetrated 'each ot er .P I

you'll
me, why
thrOugh
a Reed,
'aexpect
Syringe
or ask
a Pump,
'Water'
is forced
to
acend contrary to its inclination ?_ To
which I anwer, _ That that's'z by Violence,

and that it is not the fear ofa urety, that

turnslinked
it out to
of_the
the Air
rightby'way
bot' that b'e- inctg
an ',-*iinperCept-ible
Chain, it ries when the-"Air, to. which it vis -

vjOil1k3_d,is raiiad; ' .- /_

, , ,A\.._- .

That's' no uch knotty Diculty,- when

one knoWs 'the perfect Circle; - and-the deli-,

' eate' Concatenation of the Elements:l For'

. if'you attentiver conider the-Sliez-Whicli

joines the Earth and Water' regeier'in Mer

' 3 *. ,

' nage,

62

The Hiory aftbe

ringe, you'll nd that it is neither Earth

nor Water ; but the Mediator- betwixt

thee Two Enemies.

In the inne manner,

the Water and Air reciprocally end a Mi,

that dives into the Humours o both, to ned
xgotiate a Peace betwixt them ; and the Air

[ll
E'S'P.

is reconciled to the Fire , by means of

an interpoing Exhalation which Unites

them.
I believe he would have proceeded in his
Dilbourle, had they n0t brought us our
Victuals 5 and (being we were a hungry, I
Rope my Ears to his dicouz'e, and opened
my Stomach to the FOOd they gave us.

so
._,

B
F'PZ
D==zzE-I

I remember another time, when we

were upon our Philooph , for neither of

us took pleaure to Di coude of mean

things: I am vexnd, lind he, to ee a Wit

of your amp, infected with the Errors of

nQ

the Vulgar- You mu knOWtben, inpight

oftbe Pedantryofdri atte,with which out

School: in France il. ring,That eVery ' ig
is m eYery thng ; that's th y,f0r inance,
That am
Water there: is Fire, in the Fire
Water, m the Air Earth, and in the Earth
Air: Though that Opinion makes Scho

l? GPRM Eyes as big as Sawcers, yet

1: 18 caier to prove it, than p'erwade it.

Forlrek them, in the r lace, if Wa
'
breed Fih: I, theydeny it,
DE itll'milg a "Fit, ll-it with meer Elez
,_* A.

ment,

ES-ZLFHS-EYSK

'World of. the Moon.

63

ment, and toprevent all blind Objections,

let them if they pleae, rain it through a

Strainer, and I'll oblige nryielf, in call: \

they nd no Fih therein, within a certain
time, to drink-up all the Water the

have

poured into it: But if they nd Fi , as 'I

make no doubt on't; it is a convincth
Argument, that there is both Salt and Fire
there, Conhquentially now, to nd Wa

ter in Fire 5' I take it to be no dicult

Task. Far let them chuie Fire, even that
Which is mo abracted from Matter, as
Comets are, there is a great deal in them
ill; Being if that Unctuous Humour,

whereof they are engendred, being redu>

to a Sulphur, by the heat of the Anti

periais which kindles them, did not nd

a curb of its Violence in the humid Cold,
that qualies and reis it, it would pend

it elf in a trine like Lightm'ng. * Now that

- there is Air in the Earth, they will not de
ny it ; or orherwie they have never heard of

terrible Earth-quakes, that have lb of

tea haken the Mountains of Sicily: Be
idcs, the Earth is full ofPores, even to the

lea grainsof Sand that compas it. Nes

verthele, no Man hath as yet aid, that
thee Hallows were lled with Van-city: It

Will no: be taken amii then, I hope,

the Air takm up its qua rters them I'
ranaimrohc proved, thatdtercisan'hil:
t

. 4<'-p._._.=-.,=._

64.

The Hiory of 'be

'the Air; but Ithink it carcely worth my

pains, eeing you are convinced of it, as o- -

ten as you ee, uch 'numberles Legions of

Atomes fall upon your heads, as even ie
Arithmetick.
'

But let us pas fr0m imple to compound

Bodies, they'll furnih me with much more

frequent subjects; and to demonratc that

all things are in all things, n0t that they
change into one another, as your Peripate
tie/e: Juggle, ( for I_ will maintain to their
Teeth, that the Principles mingle, hparate,
and mingle again in uch a manner,that that
hath been made Water by the Wiiz Creator
of the -World, will always be Water : ) I
hall uppoe no Maxime, as they do, but
what I prove. '
' -

Lll

And therefore take a Bil-let, or any other

combuible u, and et Fire to it, they'll

is?

ay_when it is in aFlame, That what was

Wood is now ibecome Fire;" butI main- '

Box'

(low
a J

tain the contrary, and that there is nomore

wa

Fire inv it, Whemit israll in Flamethan

5m

before it was kindled -; but that 'which be

fore was hid in the Billet,': and by the Hu
midity and vCold hinderedfromf 'acting z

Me;
lien

an

being now aed by the * Stronger, hath

rallied its forces again..the,-Phlegm that

choaked it,and command-ing theField of Bats '
tle,that was eedby its Enemy5triumphs
over, his Jay- or, and apch; without 'Fet-L .

_ ,

ters.

&VE

in
'all

MMu-u

World ofthe Moon.

5
kers. DOn't you he how the Water Hees
O'ut at the two ends of the Billetz hot and
moaking 'from the thht it was engaged

in.

That ame which you ee riiz on high,

is the purer Fire, unpeered from the Mat

ter;
the readie
to re i
turn and
homebytoconequence
it izlf : Nevertheles
it Unites

it elf, by tapering into-a Piramide, till it

rie to a certain height, that it-may pierce

through the thick Humidity of the Air,
which reis it ; but'as in mounting it di

engages it elf by little and little, from the

violent company of its Landlords; o it
diues it islf, becaue then it meets with

nothing that thwarts its paage, which

negligence , though, is many times the
caue of a econd Captivity : For natching
ragglingly, it wandersibmetimes into a
Cloud, and if'it meet there with a Party of
its own, ucient to make head again a
Vapour ; they Engage, Grumble, Thun
der and Roar, and the Death of Innocents

is many times the eect of the animated

Rage, of thoe inanimated Things. If

when it nds it lklf peered, among thoe
Crudities of the middle Region, it is not
rong enough to make a defence; it yields
to its Enemy upon dicretion, which by its
weight,: And
conrains
it to inclo
fall aegdain
the
Earth
this Wretch,
in atodrop
of Rain, may, perhaps, fall at the Foot of an
F

Oak,

66

- 'The Hzory yf the

Oak, whoe Animal Fire will invite the

poor Straggler, to take a Lodging with
him', and thus you have it in the (ame
'condition again, as it was a few Days be
fore.
But let us trace the Fortune of the Other
Elcments, that compoed that Billet. The
Air retreats to its own Quarters alo ,

though blended with Vapours; becauethe

Fire all in a rage, drove them briskly out
Fell-mal! together. Now you have it crv*
ing the Winds for a Tennis-ball, furnihing
Breath to Animals, lling up the Vacuities
that Nature hath let ; and, it may be, alo

wrapt up in a drop ofDeW,uckling the thir

y Leaves of that Tree.whither our Fire re
treated : The Water driven from its Throne
by the Flame, being by the heat elevated to

the Nurizry of the Meteors, will diil a

gain in Rain upon our Oak, as oon as up
on another ; and the Earth being turned to

Ahes, and then cured of its-Sterility, eii

ther by the nourihing. Heat of a Dunghill,
on which it hath been thrown, or by the

vegetative Salt of ome neighbouring Plants,

or by the teeming Waters of ome Rivers, p
may happen alo to be near this Oak,
which by the heat of its Germ, will at

tract it, and convert it into a part ofits

bulk.
In

an,
__p=__A__,._

World of the Moon.

67
In this manner, thee Four Elements un
dergo the ame Deiny, and return to

hl"c" F_..
a-"F'v

the ame State, which they quitted but a

few days before : So that it may be laid,
that all that's neceary for the compoition
Ofa Tree, is in aMan ; and in a Tree, all

that's neceary for making of a Man. In

ne, according to this way, all things will
be ound in all things ; but We want a PO-e

met/yem,to pluck us out of the Boom of Na

ture, and render us enible, which I am
willing to call the Fir Matter.
_
. which
Thee
were
the
things,
I
think,
with
we pa the time ; for that little spi
m'ard had aquaintWit.

OUr converation,

however, was only in the Night time; be

caue from Six a clock in the morning une

til night, Crowds of the People thers

came to are at us in our Lodging, woul
have diurbed us : For ome 'threw u's
Stones, others Nuts , and Others Gras;
there was no talk, but of the Kings Beas;
we had our Victuals daily at et hours, and

the King and (Deen took the pains often to

feel my Belly, to e if I did not begin to

well, for they had an extraordinary deire

to have a Race of thee little Animals.
I cannot tell, whether it was that I minded

their Geures- andTOnes, more than my

Male did: But I learnt ooner than he, to
underand their Latiqguage, and to matter
'

2 \

a,

68

_. The-Hiory ofthe

a little in it, which made us to belookt

upon,in another 'gues manner than former

'ly ; and the news thereupon ew preently

all over the Kingdom , that two Wild
Men had been found, who were les than
other'Men,
by Delarts
reaon of
the whoctthrough
bad Food wea
had had in the
; and
defect of their Parents Seed, had not the

fore Legs rong enough to upport their Bo

dies.

This belief would have taken rooting,

by being pread, had it not been ,for the
Learned Men of the Country, who oppo

ed it, aying, That it was horrid Impiety

to believe, not only Beas, but Moners to
be of theirkind. It would be far more
probable, ( added the calmer Sort ) that
our Domeick Beas, hould participate of

_ the priviledge of Humanity, and by conis

guence oflmmortality,as being bred in our
ountry, than a Monrous Bea, that
talks of being born I know not where,in the
" Moon 3, and then oberve the dierence be

tWiXt us
and them.
We walk
uponoFour
Feet,
becaue
God would
not tru
pre-
cious a thing , upon weaker Supporters,

and he was afraid lea marching other

wie, ibme ' Michance might befall
Man ; and therefore he took the pains, to

re him upon four Pillars, that he might

not
in
' fall, but didaining . to havea
handthe

World of the Moon.

A 69

the Fabrick of thee two Brutes, he left

them to the Caprice of Nature, who not
concerning her Half with the los 'of o mall

a matter, upported them onlyby Two

Feet.
"
' Birds themelves, aid they, ' have not
had o. hard i'meaure as they; 'for they
have got Feathers,*at leatovupplyvthe
weaknes of their Legs, and to_'-ca them-4'

elves in the Air, when We purue them;l

whereas Nature, depriving =' thee'Moriers
'h'
(O
T
rt-t
*'<

of Two Legs, hath diabled them from'

lcaping our Juice.

- -

r,

'

Beides, conider a'little how they have

thev Head raied toward Heat/en, it is bed
caues Godwould punih them with carci- >

ty of all things, that he 'hath o placed

them ; for that upplicant Poure, hews
that they complain to Heaven 'of him that

' Created them, and' that they beg Permi-.

x'n-z

on to make their be of our Leavings. But

we, on the contrary, have the Head bend
ing downwards, to behold the Blengs,
whereof we are the Maers, and as if there
were nothing in Heaven, that our happy
condition
Envy. or the like,daily
I heard needed
uchDilEourZzs,
t

at my Lodge; and at length they o curb

ed the 'minds ofthe people, as to that point,

that it was decreed, That at beh l hould
only- pas for a Parrot without Feathers;
'
F 3
for

7q

The Hiory' ofthe

for they conrmed thoe, who were already

perwaded, in that I had but two Le s no
more than a Bird, which was the cau e that
1 was put into a Cage, by expres orders

from the Privy Council.

taking
theThere
pains the
dailyQgeen's
to teachBird-keeper,
me to While,
asi
the do Stares or Singing-Birds here, I was.
real happy in that I wanted not Food z
In t e mean while, with the Sonnes the

$pe8cators upned me, I- learnt to peak

Fethey
5 o of
that
I was
to be r
muchdid
Maer
thewhen
Idiom,
as togetexpres.

o
mo ofmy thoughts, I told them the e
ne of-my Conceits. The Waintnes ofmy.

sayings, was already the entertainment of

all Soeieties,
Wit was
much
eeemed
, that;and
themy
ctCouncil
wasi),obliged

to Publih an Edict, forbidding all People

to believe, that I was." endowed with Rea
on; with expres Commands to all Per-,
ons, of what anlity or Condition oever,
pot to imagine," but that whatever I did,
though never o wittily, proceeded only

' fer Iniqft- z

'

_' Nevertheleis, the deciion-of what I was2

'divided the. Town. into Two zEactions. The
party that ood; for me, enereaed, daily;
apdat
in. pighr of.
Amzezm,"t
xthFCbYlength.
they ndcaYQUirethocaxe
the mule

was; Ihzy who hew-me demands

'E .
'
\

Warld ofthe Moon.

7 if

ed a Convention of the States, for determind

ing that Controverie. I't was long-befOYe they could agree,in_the Choice'of-thoe who

.y')"la-r'

hould have a Vote ; but- the Arbit'rators pa

cied the heat, by making the number of?
bath parties equal, who ordered that 'j-II

hould be brought unto the Aembly, as I

Wed-.
man

was : But I was-treated'there gwith all &ma-T

ginable Severity. My Examiners,-' arriongl
other things, put queions' of Philooi
. phy to me; I ingenuoully-told-them, all: .

that my Tutor had heretofore taught me,v

but they eaily refuted me by more cona
vincing Argum'ents: tSo that having.- non'
thing to anwer for my sl, my la refuge'
'.
=n\.<=
pan-T
v.to

was to the Principles of Arz'otle, which:

Ood me in as little ead, as his Sophims
did; for in two-Words, they let me ee the

fality ofthem.

That ame Ariotle, aid'

they, whoe Learning you brag o much

of,
didtoWithout
doubt accommodate
ciple's
his Philoophy
'Sex inead- of'Prin
ac-ct
commodating his Philoophy to Princi les;
and beides he ought to have proved t em,
at lea to be more rational, than thoe of

the other

you' mentioned 'to us :

Wherefore the good Man will not take it

ill, We: hope', if' we bid- him God b'w'.

In ne, When they perceived that I did
norhing but bawl, that they were not more
knowing than a Ariotle, and that' I was
F 4

forbid

73;

_ The Hiciry 'ofthe

forbid to dipute again thoe who denied

his Principles; They all unanimouy conz'
eluded, That I was not a' Man, but, per-.

haps, akind ofEffridge, eeing I Carried.

m
Hc

my Head upright like them, that I walked

., ,
llii'.

on two Legs; and that, in hort, but for'

a little Down, Iv was every' way like one of'

them, o' that the Bird-keeper was ordered

to have me back-to my Cage. . I pent my

time
pretty pleaantly
there,Language,
for becauetheI \
had correctly
learned their
whole Court took pleaure to make me

prattle, z The Ween's Maids, among the

re- , ipt alvvays ome Boon into my
Basket ; andthe gentile of them all, hav-.
ing Conceived ome kindnes for me, was o
tranporced with Joy, when
private I
entertained her, with' the manners and di

vertihments ofthe" People of our World,and

r epecially out Bells, and'Other Inruments

of Muiek, that he prOteed to me, with
Tears in' her EYes, That if ever I found my -

,_el'in a condition to fly back again to our

World, he would
follow me with
'all . her.
i _
r
' '

Heart'

- One Morning early, having arted out

Ofmy Sleep, I found her Taboring upon'
the grates "ofm'y Cage: Takev good-heart;
hld he to" "me, yeerday in- Couincil,"

a War' was' reolv'pd upoln , Zgain' she

'

'_'Iloe'tat
.
p

urin
e
' ghurry

lar

- World of the Moon. -

7;

hurry of Preparations, whi' our Mo

narch and his Subjects are abent, I may
nd an, occaion to make your ecape.
How, a War, aid Iinterruping her, have'
the Princes of this World, then, any quar

rels among themelves, as thoe of ours

have? Good now, let me know their way
ofFighting.
When the Arbitrators, replied he, who
are freely chom by the two Parties, have

appointed the time for raiing Forces for

their March, the number of Combatants,
the day and place of Battle, 'and all with
o great equality, that there is not one
Man more in one Army, than in the other :
All the maimed Soldiers on the one ide,
are lied in one Company 3 and when they

come to engage, the Marehalls de Camp,

take care to expoe them to the maimed
of the other ide: The Giants are matched

with Coloes, the Fencers with tho

that can handle their'Weapons, the Val

ant with the Stout, the Weak with the

Inrm, the Sick with the Indipozd, the
Sturdy with the Strong; and if any un

dertake to rike at another, than the E

nemy he is matched with," unles he can

make it out, that it was by miake, he
is Condernned' for a Coward. When the
Battle is over, they take an account of
the Wounded, the Dead and the Prio
'

'

ners,

74,

' The Hiory ofthe

ners, for Run-aways they have none ; and

if the los be equal on bOth ides, they draw

Cuts, who hall be Proclaimed Victori

ous.
But though a Kingdom hath defeated
the Enemy in open War, yet there is
hardly any thing gOt by it 3 or there are
Other maller Armies of Learned and Wit
ty Men, on whoe Diputations the Tri- .

umph or Servitude of Statcs wholly de

pends.
"
One Learned Man grapples with ano
ther, one Wit with another, and one Ju
dicious Man with another Judicious Man:

' Now the Triurnph whicha State gains in

this manner, is reckoned as good as three

Victories by open force. After the Pro

clamation of Victory, the Aembly is bro
ken up, and the Victorious People, either
chae the Enemies King to be theirs, or con
rmtheir own. -

. I could not forbear tO-Laugh, at this

crupulous way ofgiving Battle; and for

an Exarn leo much ronger Politicks, I
alledged t eCuorns of our Europe, where
the Monarch would be ure, not to let ip
any favourable occaion of gaining the
day; but mind what he aid asf'to that. *
Tell me, pray, if your Princes ue not
a preteXt of Right , when they levy

Arms; No doubt, anwered I, and [of

.

'

t e

chi

World of the Moon.

the Juice of their Caue too.

7;

Why then'

replied he, do they not chue Impartial

and Unupected ArbitratOrs to compoe
their Dierences ? And if it be found, that

the one has as much Right as the other,

let/things continue as they were', or let
them play a game at Picket, for the Town
or Province tnat's in dipute.
But Why all thee Circumances , re
plied I, in your way 'of Fighting ? Is it
nor enough, that b0th Armies are equal in
' the number of Men? Your Judgment is

Weak, anwered he.

Would you think

in Concience, that if you had the bet'

ter of your Enemy, Hand to Hand, in

an open Field, you had fairly overcome
him, if you had had on a Coat of Mail,
and he
if heand
hadinhada but
a Daifghe
er,
and
younone;
a Tuck;
Word,
had had but one Arm , and you both

yours? Nevertheles, what Equalityx oc

ver you may recommend to your Gladiaz
tors, they never ght on even terms;
i'br the one will be a tall Man, and the.
other Short; the one skilfulv at his Wear

pon , and the other a Man that never

andled a Sword 5 thenne will be rong,

and the other Weak: And though thee '

Diproportions were not ,_ but that the
one were as skillful and rong as the o-.
ther; yet. ill they, might- not be rightly

' .

- '

mate ed;

76

The Hiory ofthe

marched ;_ for one, perhaps, may vhave

'more Courage than the Other, who being
rah and hOt-headed, inconcerned in dan
ger, as not foreeing it, of a bilious Tem
per, a more cpntracted Heart, with all the

all
* on

xgo
* do
bll

qualities that conitute Courage, ( as if

that," s Well as a Sword, were nOt a

Weapdn Which his Adverlary hath not: )
He makes nothing of falling deperately,

upon terriinng and killing this poor

Man, who forees the danger; has his
Heat choked in Phlegme, and a Heart
too wide to cloe in the Spirits in uch
a poure , as is neceary for thawing
that Ice, which is called Cowardie. And
now you praie that Man, for having kill
ed his Enemy at odds, and praiing him
for his Boldnes, you praie him for a Sin

again nature; zeing uchBoldnes tends

to its deruction. And this puts me in
mind to tell ye, that ome Years ago, ap
plication was made to the Council of War,

for amore circumpect and concientious

Rule to be made, as to the way of Fighta
ing. The, Philoopher who gave the ad;
vice,if I miake it not,pake in this manner.

You imagine, Gentlemen," that you have

very equally balaneed the advantages of
two Enemies, when you have choen both

Tail Men, bOth skillful, and both couragi-r.

ous; But that's not enough, eeing aftelri
,

hl
, ,n
Tr
ll
w<
l'll

Worlcoffhe Moon.

77 '

all, the Conquerour mu have the better

on't, eitherthrough his Skill, Strength, or
good Fortune. If it be by Skill, without
doubt he hath taken his Adveriary on the
blind ide, which he did not expect; or

ruck him ooner than was likely, -0r

faining tO'make his Pas on one ide, he
hath attacked him on the other: Never
theleis all this is Gunning, Cheating, and
'Treachery, and none ofthee make a brave
Man : If he hath triumphed by Force,
would you judge his Enem'y over-come, be
caue he hath been over-powered? No;
doubtles, no more than you'll lay, that a

Man hath lo the Victory, when over

whelm'd bya Mountain, it was not in his
power to gain it: Even o, the other 'was
not overcome, becaue he was not in a

uitable Dipoition, at that nick of time,

to rei the violences of his Adverary. If

Chance hath given him the better of his E
nemy, Fortune ought then to be Crowned,
ince he hath contributed nOthing to it;
and, in ne, the vanquihed is no more to

be blamed, than he who at Dice having

thrown Seventeen, is beat by another that
throws three Sixes.
'
-

They confeed he was in the right 5 but

that it was impoible, according to humane
Appearances, to remedy it 3 and that it was
better, to ubmit to a mall inconvenierce,
-

'

t an

i 78

The Hiory of'be

than to open a door to a hundred of greater

Importance.
She entertained me no longer at that
time, becaue he was afraid to be found

alone with me o early; not that Impu

dicity is a Crime in that Country : On

. the contrary , except Malefactors Con

victed, all Men have power over all Wo
men; and in the ame manner, a Wo

man may bring her Action again a Man

for refuing her: But he dur not keep
me company publickly, becaue the Mem
bers of Council, at their la meeting,
'had aid, That it was chiey the Women
who gave it out that I was a Man, that
under that pretext they might cover the
violent deire they had of enjoying Beas, r

and of committing
with me
ins was
again
i Nature,
without a bluh;
which
the
reaon, that for a long time, I neither
aw her, nor any other of her Sex.
In the mean time , ome mu needs
r have revived the Diputes, about the De

nition. of my Bemg; for whil I was

thinking of nothing ele, but of dying
in my Cage, I was once more brought
out to have another Audience.

5'

I was _

THAIPE

thenuqueioned, in preence of a great

many r Ceurtie'rs', upon ome points' of Na
turali-Philohphy; and , as I take it,- my

Anweris gave ome kind! of Satisfactie

*
on;

-I-_-l

World of the Moon.

79

on ,* for the Predent declared to me at

large, his thoughts concerning the ru
cture of the World. They eemed to me

very ingenious ,' and had he not traced

it to its Ori inal , which he maintained
to be Eterna , I hould have thought

his Philoophy more rational than our

own :

But as loon as 'I heard him

maintain a Foppery , o contrary to our

Faith , I broke with him; at which he

did but laugh; and that obliged me to

tell him , That ince they were therea
bouts with it, I began again to think,
that their World was but a Moon. But
then all cried, Don't you Ice here Earth,
Rivers, Seas? what's all that then? No
matter, aid I, Ariotle aures us it is
but a Moon; and if you had laid the
contrary in the Schools, where I'have been
bred , you would have ' been hied at.
At this they all bur out in laughter ; you
need not ask, if it was their Ignoranoe, that'
made them do o; for in the mean time

I was carried back to my Cage.

But ome more paonate Doctors, bee

in informed, that I had the boldneis to

a rm, That the Moon, from whence'I

came, was a World z and that their World
was no. more but a Moon , thought it
might give' them a very ju pretexr, to

have me condemned- to the Water for

,
- '
'
t at's

IT'TZ
:
iil

80

.The Hiory of the

that's their way of r00ting out Hereticksa

'For that end, they went in a Body, and corn-

plained to the Kin , who promied them

Juice ; and order d me once more to be
brought to the Bar.
Now wasI the third time Unscaged;

and then the mo Ancient poke, and

\ pleaded again me. I do nor well re+
member his Speech; becaue I was too
much frighted,l to receive the tones of his
Voice withou-t dibrder; and becaue alo

in declaiming, he made ue of an Inru

ment, which unn'd me with its noie:
It was a Speaking-iTrumpet, which he
had choen on pu-rpo, that by its Mar-L
\ tial Sound he might roue them to my
death; and by that Emotion of 'their Spi

rits , hinder' Reaon from performing its

Oce : As it happens in our Armies, where *
the noie of Drums and Trumpets, hinders
the Souldiers from minding the importance _
of their Lives.

When he had done, I roe

' up to defend my Caue ,* but I was excud

ed from it, by an Accident that will ur'- _
prize you. ju as I had opened my
Mouth, a Man, who with much ado had

preed through the Crowd, fell .at the

King's Feet, and a long while rouled him-s
elf upon his Back in his preence.- -.This practice did not at al] urprize me, becaue 3

I knew it to be thepoure they vput

'

them

IVorld of 'be Moon.

8I
themEIves into, when they have a mind
to be heard in publick: I only opt my
own Harangue, and gave Ear to his.
Ju Judges, aid he, lien to me ; you
cannot Condemn that Man, that Monkey
or Parrot, for aying, That 'the Moon,
frOm whence he comes, is a World ; for if

he bethe
a Man,
he were
from
MOon,though
ince all
Men not
are come
free,
is not he free al), to'imagine what he

Plealers i' How, can you conrain him not

to have Viions, as well as you? You 'may
Very Well force him to ay, 'That the Moon
is nOt a World, but he will 'not believe it

for all that 5 for to believe a thing, ome'

poibilities enclining more to the Yea,than

to the Nay,mu oer to ones Imagination :
And unles you furnih him with that Pro- '
- bability, or his own mind hit upon "it, he

may very well tell you, that he believes,

but ill remain an Infidel.

I am now to prove, that he ought not to

be condemned, if you li him in the Cata
logue ofBeas.v
For u poe him to be an Animal with?
out Reagn, would it be rational in you to

Condemn him, for Oending again it ?

He hath aid, that the Moon is a World.

NOW- Beas act only by the ininct of i

Nature : it is-Nature then that ays o, and
not he: To think thatwie Nature, who
*

hath

82.

The Hiory oftbe \

hath made the World,and the Moon knows

not her elf what itlis; and that ye who have

no more Knowledge, but what ye derive
from her, hould more certainly know it,
would be
very Ridiculous.
But Principles,
if Paon '
hould
mak'eiyou
renounce your

and you hould uppoe, that Nature does

nOt guide Beas; bluh, at lea, to think

on't, that the Caprices of a Bea hould o

dicompoe you. Really , Gentlemen ,
hould you meet with a Man come to the
[Years o Dicretion, who made it his bu

ines to inpect the Government of Pi

mirer, giving a blow to one that had over
thrown its Companion,imprioning another

that had robb'd its Neighbour of a grain

. of Corn, and inditing a third, for leavmg
its Eggs z would you not think him a mad '
a Man, to beemployed in things o far be- ,

low him, and to pretend to give Laws to '

Animals, that never had Reaon? How

will ou then, mo Venerable Aembly,

jui; e your elves, for being o concerned at

the Caprices of that little Animal? Ju

' Judges, I have no more to ay.
When he had made an end, all the Hall

"ung again with a kind of MucalApplauEI;

and after all the Opinions had been can-va- * *
ed, during the pace of a large quarter. of

an-hour, the King gave Sentence :

That '

World oftbe Moon.

a;

That for thectfuture, I hould be repur

edto be a Man, accordingly "at at liberty,
and that the Punihment of being Drown
ed, hould be converted into a publick
Digrace ( the mo honourable way of la
tisfying the Law in that Country) where
a'u-_nv.'
..3T

by I hould be obliged to retract openly, _ ,

what I had maintained, in aying, That
the Moon was a World, becaue of the Scan'

dal,that the novelty of that opinion, might

give to weak Brethren.

This Sentence being pronounced, I was
taken away out'ofthe Palace, richly Cloath

ed; but in deriion, carried in a magni

-*
i-F'
L':
mon
l2'

cent ChariOt, as on a Tribunal; which

four Princes in Harnes drew, and in all
the publick places of the Town, I was
forced to make this Declaration:

Good People, I declare to you, That

. this Moon here is not a Moon, but 'a
World; and that that World below is not

a World, but a Moon: This the Couneil

thinks t you hould believe. After I had

Proclaimed this, in the ve great places of

the Town ; m Advocate came and reach

ed me his Han to help me down. I Was

in great amaze," when after I had Eyed
him, I found him to be my Spirit; we
were an hour in embracing one another:
Come lodge with me, aid he, for if 'you

return to Court, 'after a Public-k Digrace,

G 2 7

you

84
-s*

The Hiory of' the.

you will not be well lookt upon 1 Nay

more, I mu tellyou, that you would have
been ill among the Apes yonder, as well ,
as the Spmiard your Companion z if I had
not in all Companies publihed the vi our
and
of your
Wit, and gained
rom
yourforce
Enemies,
the proteCtionv
of the great
_Men, in your favours, Iceaed not to
thank him all the way, till we came to his
Lodgings ; there he entertained me till
Supper-time, with all the Engines he had
list a work to prevail with my Enemies.

Notwithanding, the mo pecious pre

teth they had ued for riding the Mobile,
to dei from o unju a Prolecution : But
as they came to ac uaint us, that Supper

Lcn

_was upon the Tab e, he told me, that to

bear me company that evening, he had in

vited Two Profeors of the Univerity of

the ToWn to Sup with him : I'll make
them, aid he, fall upon the Philolophy,
which they teach _in this World, and by that

meansasyouWitty
hall aeeYouth
my Landlord's
Hect's
as ever ISon
met:
'with ; he WOUld prove another Socrates,

If"le
w)
E"
i

if he could ue his Parts aright, and not

bury in ViCe the Graces

wherewith

God continually viits him, by aecting

_aLibertinim, as he does, out of a Chi
merical Oentation and Aectation of .
the name of a Wit. I have taken Lodg

ings

_._
.'
,,_;J

World oftbe Moon.

85"

ings here ', that I may lay hold on all

Opportunities of Inructing him: He'

aid no *more, that he might give me'

the Liberty to peak, if I had a mind
to it -; and then made a ign, that they

hould rip me- of my digraceful Orna

ments, in which I ill gliered.
The Two Profeors, whom- we' ex
pected, entered, ju as I wasundre, and
we went to it down to Table, where
the Cloth' was laid, and where we ound
the Youth, he had mentioned to, me, fal
len to already. They made him a low
Reverence, and treated him with as much

repect, as a Slave does his Lord. I

asked my Spirit the reaon of that, who
made me an'Wer, that it was becaue of

his Age; leeing in that World, the Aged

' rendered 'all kind of Repect and Die
rence to the Young ,- and which is far
more, that the Parents obeyed their Chil

dren, o oon as by the Judgment of the

Senate ofPhiloophers, they had attained
to the Years o Diretion," You are ama- '
zed, continued'he, at a Cuom. o con

trary to that of your Country; but it

is n0t all repugnant to Reaon : For lily,
in your Concience, when a brisk young
Man is at his Prime in Imagining, Judg

ing, and Acting, is not he tter to go

vern a Family, ct than
G 3 a Dccrepit piece
Threeof .

86

The Hiory ofthe

Threecore Years , dul] and

doting ,

whoe Imagination is frozen under the

Snow of SiXty Winters, who follows no

other Guide, but what you call, the Ex

perience of happy Succees; and yet are

no more, but the bare eects of Chance,

again all the Rules and Oeconomy of

humane Prudence ? And as for Judge.
ment, he hath but little of= that neither,

though the people of your World make it the Portion of Old Age: But to undeH.
ceivethem, they mu know, That that
which is called Prudence in an Old Man,

is no more. 'but a panick AppteheniOn,

and a mad Fear of acting any thing,
where there is danger : So that when
he does not run a Risk, whereina Young
Man hath lo himelf z it is not that he'

foreaw the Catarophe , but becaue

he had net Fire enough to kindle thoe

noble Flahes, which make us dare ;

Whereas the Boldnes of that Young

lt*

Man, was as, a pledge of the good Sucu

ees of his deign z becaue the ame Ar

dour. thatpeeds and facilitates the execu*

tion, thru him upon the undertaking.

As for Execution, I hould wrong your

Judgment;
endeavouredthat
td Youth
convince
itv by pro0fsif3- I Youctknow
a
dle,

lone is-propet for Action

;_ and;
werepray',
you
Putctfxctly..pkkwaded
-of-_this,'_
tell me,

w:

World oftbect Moon.

877

when you repect a Man of Courage, * is

it not becaue he can revenge you on
your Enemies or Oppreors. And does
any thing, but meet Habit, make you con-i

ider him, when a Battalion of Seventy

January: hath frozen his Blood ,- andv
chilled all the noble Heats that youth is
warmed with? 'When you eild to the?

Stronger, is it nor that he Ould beob

liged to you for a Victory, which you'
can Dipute him? Why then hould you'
ubmit to him, when Lazines hath

oftened his Mucles, weakened his Ar

teries , evaporated his Spirits , and

iickt the Marrow out of his Bones?

If You adore a Woman, is it not becaue
of her Beauty ? Why hould you* then
continue your Cringes, when Old Age

hath made her a Gho, which only re

' preents a hideous Picture of Death ? In

hort, When you loved a Witt Man,
it was becaue by the inckne s of his
Agprehenion, he unravelled an intricate

A a ir, eaoned the choice Companies'

'with his quaint Sayings, and ounded the

depth of Sciences with a ingle Thought ;
and do you 'ill honour him, when-his
worn Organs' dihppoint his weak Nod

' dle, when he is'become dull and uneay

in Company, and when he looks like an

aged Fairy. rather than-'a rational Man ?
G4

Con

88

The Hiory ofthe

Conclude then rom thence, Son, that it

is tter Young Men hould govern Fami-.
lies, than Qld ; and the rather, that accord
ing 'to your own Principles , Hercules,
'_zlqhilles,

Epaminondm, Alexander , and

Caear, of whom mo part died under

Fourty Years of Age, could have merited
no Honours, as being too Young in your
account, though their Youth was the only

la

caue of 'their Famous Actions; which

a more advanced Age would have render:

ed ineectual, as wanting that Heat and

Promptitude, that rendered them o highe
ly ucceful. But you'll tell me, that all>
the Laws of your World, do carefully en-.
join the Repect that is due to Old Men .

ll

That's true 3 but it is as true alo, that all

who made Laws, have been Old Men,

Dill

who feared that Young Men might july

have dipoeed them of the Anthority they
had uurped
.* .
_ You owe 'norhing to your mortal Ar
__

chitector, but your Body only -; your Soul

comes from Heaven, and Chance might
have made your Father your Son, as now

you are his.

Nay, are you ure he hath

not hindered you from Inheriting a

Crown P . Your Spirit left Heaven, per

. haps 'with a deign t'o animate the King o

the Ramlarzr, in the Womb ofthe Emperes ;
it caually encountered the Emb'rjo, of

' You.

World of the Moon.

, 89

you by the way, and it may be to horten

its journey, went and lodged there: No,
no, God would never have razed your

name out of the Li of Mankind, though

your Father had died aChild.

But who

knows, whether you might not have

been at this day the work of ome va

liant Captain, that would have aocia

ted y0u to his Glory , as well as to his

Eate. So that, perhaps , you are no
more indebted to your .Father, for the
life he hath given you, than you would

be 'to a Pirate who had put you in Chains,

becaue he feeds you: Nay, grant he had
begot you a Prince, or King; a Preent
lo es its merit, when it is made with
out the Option of him who receives it.

Caear was killed, and o was Cam too:

In the mean time Cam was obliged to
the Slave, from whom he begg'd his

Death, but o was not Ccfar to his Mur

derers , who. forced it upon him. Did

your Father conult your Will and Plea

ure, he
when
your Mother?
Did
ask he
you,Embraced
if vyou thought
t'to
ee that Age, or to wait for another;

_if you would be atisfied to be the Son *

of a Sot , or if you had the Ambition
to pring from a Brave Man ? Alas, you

whom alone the buines concerned, wee

t C

_ 90
The Hiory of the
- the only Peron not conulted in the
cae; May be then, had you been hut
up any where ele, than in the Womb
of Nature's Ideas, and had your Birth

[0

r lit

been in your own Opinion, you would

[he

have aid to the Parm, my dear Lady,

take another Spindle in your Hand: I
have lain very long in the Bed of No

thing, and I had rather continue an Hun

dred years ill without a Being , than
to Be to day, that I*may repent of it
to morrow: However,Be you mu, it was
to no purpoe for you to whimper and
huall, to be back again, at the long and'
darkbme HOue they drew

ou out of,

they made as if they believe you cryed

ter
all

ll'C
WC

bt
l

Fn

for the Teat.

Thee are the Reaons, at lea ome of

ri

them, my Son, why Parents bear o much

an

repect to their Children: I know ver

well, that I have inclined to the. Chiii
drens fide, more than in juice I ought;

and that in.avour of them, I have poken

* a little again my Conience. But ince I was willin to repres the Pride of ome
Parents,

r o inult over the weaknes of

their little Ones ; I have been forced to do

as they do, who to make a crooked Tree

* reight, bend it to the contrary ide,

that betwixt two Converions it may be
come

World of the Moon.

9!

come even : Thus I have made Fathers re- "

ore to their Children what they have

taken from them, by takin from them
a great deal that belong

to them ,

that o anbther time they' may be con

tent with their own.

I know very well

alo, that by this Apology I have oend,

ed all Old men: But let them remem- ',

ber, that they were Children before they

were Fathers, and Young before they'

were Old ; and that _Ij mu needs have

lpoken a great deal to their advantage,
ee ing they were nor found in a Parlley-,
bed .* But, in ne , fall back , fall edge,

though my Enemies draw u'p againm .

Friends, it will go well 'enough ill
with me; for I have obliged all men',
and only diobliged but one half.

'

'

With that he held his tongue, and'our

Landlord's Son pake in this manner;

Give me leave, aid he to him, ince b
your care I am informed of the Ori i-f

nal, Hiory, Cuoms, and Philoop y

of the
World , toofwhat
this little
Man;aidto '; '
' add
omething
you haVe
and to prove that Children are not ob

liged to' Parents for their Generation ,

becaue their Parents were obliged in
- ConIcience
to procreat'e
them.
. The ricte
Philoc-Phy
of that World
' '

ac;

92

The Hzory

the

acknowledges that , it is better to dye,

ince to dye, one mu have lived, than

not to have had a Being. Now eeing,

by not giving a Being to that Norhin ,
I leave it in a ate wore than Deat 1,
I am more guilty in not producing,
than in killing it. In the mean time,
my little Man, thou would think thou
had committed an unpardonable Parra

cide, hould thou have cut thy Sons

throat: It would indeed be an enor
mous Crime, but it isfar more execrable, '
not to give a Being to that which is

capable of receiving it: For that Child

Whom thou deprive of life for ever,

hath had the atisfaction of having en

joyed it for ome time. Beides , we
know
but thee
depriVed
of poor
it, but
for
hine that
ages;it is
_but
forty
vlittle
Nothings , which thou mighte have
made forty good Souldiers for the King,
thou art o malicious as to deny them

Life; and lette them corrupt in thy

Reins, to the danger of an Apoplexy,

which will ie thee.

This Philobphy did not at all pleae
me, which made me three or four times

hake' my Head; but our Preceptor held

. his tongue, becaue Supper was mad to

be gone-

=
We

I.
ill'

lVorld of the Moon.

' 93
I.

We laid our elves along, then, upon _,

very oft Wlts, covered with large Car

pets ; and a young man that waited on

us, taking the olde of our Philoophers,

led him into a little arlour apart, where
my Spirit called tO him, to come back
to us, aoon as he had upped.
This humour of eating eparately, gave
me the curioity' of asking the Caue of
it: He'll not relih , aid he, the eam
of Meat, nor yet of Herbs, unles they'
'die of themelves, becaue he thinks they

are enible of Pain. I wonder 'not o

much, replied I , that he abains from
Fleh, and all things that have had a
enitive Life : For inour WOrld the Py
thagoream', and even ome holy Amborites,
'have followed that Rule; but not to
dare, for inance, cut a Cabbage, for fear
of hurting it; that eems to me altoge
ther ridiculousr And 'for my part, an
wered my Spirit, I nd a great deal of

probability in his Opinion;

For tell me, Is not that Cabbage you

peak of, a Being exient in Nature, as

well as you? Is nor he, the common

Morher
of you
Nay itmorev
would
even
eem that
he borh?
hath taken
care
of ,
the Vegetable , than of the Rational,
ince he hath referred the-"Generation of
aMan

94.- *
The Hiory oftbe
_
a Man to the Caprices of his "Father,

B-G
Pus-o
na

whoit, may,
as he
has him:
a mind
to
beget according
him, or not
beget
A_
rigour wherewith he hath not treated
the Cabbage; for inead of remitting it
to the dicretion of the Father, to gene
rate the Son , as if he had 'been more
fearful, lea the Race of Cabbage hould

gilt-1

perih , than that of Man; he or

' ces them , whether they will or no , to

give a Being to anorher, and nor o as

Men, who engender not , but according
to their Whimhys; and who, during

their whole life, cannot procreate above

a Score; whereas Cabbages 'can produce

many Thouands aHead. Yet the Opi

QEES'S'

nion that Nature is kinder to Mankind,

than to Cabbage-kind, tickles and makes

us laugh: But eeing he is incapable of

Paon , he can neither love, nor hate
any thing; and were he uceptible of
Love, he would rather beow her af

fection upon this Cabbage , which you

grant cann0t oend her, than upon that'
Man who would deroy her, if it lay
in his power. And moreover, Man can
not be born Innocent , being a Part of
the r Oendor: But we know, very
well, that the r Cabbage did nor of
fend its Creator. fo it be aid, that we

are

Fte:
8
-nag
Pa
-'EL-Es?

World ofthe Moon-

95

are made after the Image of the Su

preme Being, and o is [not the Cabbage;
grant that to be true; yet by polluting
our Soul, wherein we reembled Him, ,

we have effaced that Likenes, eeing no

thing is more' contrary to God than Sin.
If then our Soul be no longerhis Image,
we reemble him no more in our Feet,
Hands, Mouth, 'Forehead and Ears, than
a Cabbage in its Leaves, Flowers, Stalk,
Pith, and Head : Do nor you really think,
that if this poor Plant could peak," when .
one cuts it, it would nor ay, Dear Bro
ther Man , what have I done to thee

that deerves Death? I never grow buc *

in Gardens, and am never to be 'found

in dert places, where I might live in

Security: I didain all Other'company but
thine; 'and carcely am I owed in thy

Garden, when to hew thee my Good

will, I blow , retch out my Arms to
thee *, oer thee my Children in Grain;
'and as a requital for my civilit , thou
cau vmy Head to be chopt 0 . Thus
would a Cabbage dicoure , if it, could

peak; Well, and becaue it cannot corn

plain, may we therefore july do it all
the Wrong which it cann0t hinder? If I
find a Wretch bound Hand and Foot,

may 11antu kill him, becaue he can

\
not
_-.

95

The' Hiory oftbe'

not defend himelf; o far from that,

that his Weaknes would aggravate my

Cruelty? And thoughthis wretched Crea=

ture be poor, and deitute of all the ad
vantages which we haVe, yet it deerves
not Death; and when of all the Benets

of aBeing, it hath only that of Ene'reae,

we ought not cruelly to natch that away '

fr0m it. To maacre a Man, is not o

great Sin, as to cut and kill a Cabbage,

becaue one day the Man will rii: again,

but the Cabbage has no Other Life to -

hope for: By putting to death a Cab- *

bage, you annihilate it '3 but in killinga
Man, you make him only change his
HabitatiOn: Nay , I'll go farther with

you _ill, ince God dOth equally cherih

all his Works, and hath equally divided

his Benets betwixt Us, and Plants, it is

but ju we hould have an equal Eeem

. for Them, as for our Selves. It is true,
we were born__r, but in' the Family

of God there is no Birth-right, If then'

the Cabbage hare not with us in the in

heritance of Immortality, without doubt,

that Want was made up 1by ome other
Advantage , that may make amends for
the hort nes of its Being; may be by an

'univerl_Intellect, or adperfect Know

ledge of all things in _their _ Caues ;

. .

'

'and

World oftlje Moon;

'97

and it's for that Reaon; that the wii: Mov

er of all things, hath not haped for it Or
gans like ours, which are proper only for a

'**-**
'*_-Z_

imple Reaoning, not only*weak, but ma

ny times fallacious tooz but Others,- more

ingeniouy framed, tronge-r , and more

numerous, which erVe to manage its Spe
culative Exercies. You'll ask me, per
haps, when ever any Cabbage, imparted
thoe lofty Conceptions to us P But tell
me, again, who ever dicovered to us c6r+r
tain Beings, which we allow to be above
us; to whom, we bear no Analogy, nor
Proportion, and whoe Eriience, it is as

hard for us to comprehend, as the Under

anding and Ways, whereby a Cabbage

exprees its irlf to its like, though not to

us, becaue ourSenes are too dull to pene
trate o far.
'
Maer, the greate of Philoophers, whn '
drew the Knowledge of Nature, from (the
Fountain-Hcad, Nature her elf, hinted

this truth to' us, when he poke of the

Tree of Knowledge 5 and without doubt, .
_ he intended to intimateto us, under that'
Figure, that Plants, in Excluion-ro Man

kind, poes perfect Philoophy. Remem

ber, then, O thou Proude of Animals! .
that though a Cabbage which thou cutrc,

iyh not a Word, yet it pays it at Think

ing 5 but the poor Vegetable, has no it.
H
Ora

'*'*_F"*
Al

98 r '

The Hzory of the

Organs to howl as you do, nor yet to

frisk it about, and weep: Yet, it hath thoe
that are proper to complain of the Wrong
you do it, and to draw "a Judgement from

Heaven upon you for the lnjuice. But i

you ill demand of me, how I come to
know, that Cabbage and Coleworts con
ceive uch pretty Thoughts? Then willI
ask you, how comeyou to know that
they do not? And that ome among
them, when 'they hut up at Night, may
not Compliment one another, as you do,
aying : Good Night, Maer Cole-Curled
Parts your mo humble Servant, good
- Maer Cabbage-Round-Hedd.
i
' So at was he gone on in his Dicoure,
when the young Lad, who had led out
, our Philoopher, led him in again-3, What,
Supped already P cryed my Spirit to him.
He anwered, yes, almo: The Phyiogno

mi having permitted him to take a little

more with us. Our young Landldrd ay
ed not, till I. hould ask him the meaning
of that Myery z lperceive, aid he, you
vwonder at this way o Livingz know

then, that in your World, the Govern

ment o Health is too much neglected,
and that out Method is not to be de

pid.

'

'

World of the Moon;

* 95

In all HouEs, therev is'a 'Phyiogbmi

entertained by the Publick,_ who in hine."
manner, reembles your Ph' 'miling _' ave
that
heonlyofprecribes
tb't'he
Healthfuh.
and'judges
the different
manner,
ho'wi',
we areto be' Treated,q'on'ly' according to'

the
__ 'and SS'ym'erry
of
our Proportio'n,
Membersz by'Figure
the' literatureslof
the hoe;
the
Complexion,
Sloitnes
of theof
Skin,"
the Agility
o the the
Body,
the 'Sound
itth
Voice, "and, the COlour, Strength; and;
Hardnes
JDidlnot
you;
now
mind othe
a Man, Hair:
of a pra-gy:
lowsngunz;

whythe'ey'd
you, Aure
he warre;
hyidgnomij
of
Houe:
ye'utctjelf,
ther-'Leg

cordingjas
he obewed
yourQConifurion;
he hathdiveried
the'iExhalation
ofi'ydur:
SUPPCL': ,Mrkithe Quuszg which ydglug ._ _ _
, how
diant it
our-YQr;
Copchcs
5 wig ,
Ql'lt' doub'xz;
"liefis from
judged;
CQHWiQFi
to be ardifierent
from' 'ou'r'szevaporatectst
inkelfid
' eated,
that' t e" Odou'riwliicllctf

fromNoes,
thoe 'might
attempting'gratied
'our
reachyou, o'r that under'
Yours' t
might team" ratus 5 at" Night, yo'u'll' ee'ct
him ehuiz.theT.F10wers for' your Bed, 'W'i'th

the lame LCircumi>ectiOn. iDuring all' this,

li)i\i*;ou'r'ie,lv I made Signs to" my Landlord,>_

that heWOul'd try', if he could obligethe

Phileophers,_ tho'- f'all' upon ome mea or

Ille'
* '

Much' they profeedc He Was

. H a'
'led

lOO

The Hiory of the '

too much my Friend, not to art an Oc

caion upon the Spot: But not to trou
ble the Reader, with the Dicoure, and
Entreaties, that were previous to the
Treaty, wherein Je and Eame were
o wittily interwoven, that it can hardly
be imitated z l'll' only tell you, that the
Doctor, who came la, after many things,
pake as follows.
It remains to be proved, that there are
innite Worlds, in an innite World:

Fancy to your (El then the Univere,__as

a great Animal, and that the Stars, which
are Worlds, are in this great Animal, as

Other great Animals, that (Erve recipro

cally for Worlds to other People. Such
as we, our Hores, &a.

That we in our

HOl

turns, are likewie Worlds to certainrother

Animals, incomparably les than our elves,
uch as Nits, Lice, Hand-worms, do. And
that thee are on Earth, to others more

imperceptible ones; in the ame manner,

as'
every tothee
one of us,
appears
to bePerEaps,
a teat
World,
little
People.
21'

our Fleh, Blood, and Spirits, are nothing

are, but a Contexture of little Animals

that correpond , lend us Motion from
theirs, and blindly uer themelves to be

guided by our Will, which is their Coach

man; tor otherwie conduct us, and all

Conpiring together, produce that Action

r , '
which

if!

'le

Ille
the
of

World ofthe Moon,

which we call Life.

'I o t

For tell me, pray, is

it a bard thing to be believed, that a Loui:

takes your Body for a. World; and that
when any one o them, travels from one
. o your Ears to the other, his Companions
ay, that he hath travelled the Earth, from
end to end, Or that he hath run from one
Pole to the other.> Yes, without dbubt,

thoe little People, take your Hair for the

Fores of their Countryz the Pores full
ofLiquor, for Fountainsz Buboes and Pim
pies, for Lakes and Pondsz Boils, for Seas; '

and Deuxions, for Deluges: And when

unm'us-n*h:*nime

you Comb your le, forwards, and back

wards, they take that Agitation, for the
Flowing and Ebbing of the Ocean. Doth
not Itching make good what Iiiy .> What
is the little Worm that cauies it, but one
of thee little Animals, which hath broken

o from civil Society, that it may Fat up

. for a Tyrant in its Country ,.> If you ask

me, why are they bigger than Other im
perceptible Creatures? lask you, why

are Elephanrs bigger than we.> And the

Irzh-men, than Spaniard: P As to the Bli
ers, and Scur, which you know not the
Caue of'z they mu either happen by
the Corruption of their Enemies, which
thee little Blades have killed, or which

the Plague has caued by the carcity

of Food, for which the- Seditious wor
H g
tied

LIOQ

Iliac'HiOryio the

tied. one anpthegztjand letMountains o

LDeiidLarcaes rotting in the'Fieldz or

becaue the Tyrant, havingzzdriyen away
onallHands hisCompanions, who by their

Bodies, opt up the Pores-of ours, hath

.made way out for the waterih Matter,
whiqh beingextravaated, and out o the

_Sphere of the-Circulation of our Blood, is

orrupted. Altgmay beasked, perhaps, why
a Nit, or: Handzwmm, produces o many
diprders P Bntfthat's eaily conceived 5, for
as one Revolt begets another, o thee little

People, egg'd_xon,-by the bad Example of

' their'SeditiousCompanions, apire veraL

lv to Sovereign Command; and occaion .

every where, War, Slaughter, and Famine.

_ But you'll ay, ome are at les ubject to

Itching, than othersz and, nevertheles, all
are equally inhabited by thee little ABir

mals,_in_ce you ay', they are the Caue of our Life.

That's truez for we oberve,"

that Phlegmatick
People, are not vo much

. given to cratchlng-as the Cholerick r, be7

caue the Peoplg ympathizing with the

Climate,they inh'abit, are (lowerinza cold

Body, than thoe others that are heated
by the temper of their Region, Who risk

and ir, and cannot 're in aplaee: Thus

.'--T'_L_
a
Cholerick Man,
is more
delicate
than a
zi' Phlegmatick
z becaue
being
animated
many more Partszand the Soul, being the
.

- .

, \

Act'

_* World of the Moon.

103

'Action of thei: littleBeais, he is capable

of Feeling, in all places where thoe Cat

tle tir.

Whereas, the Phlegmatick Man,

wanting ucient Heat to put that ir

ring Mobile in Action, is enible but '
in aJew places-3 and to prove more plain
ly "that univeral Vbrmiculariy, you need
but conider, when- you are wounded,

how the Blood runs to the Sore: Your

Doctors lay, that it is guided by provi
dent _Nature', who would uccour the

parts debilitatedz which might make us

conclude, that, beides the Soul and Mind,
there .Were a third intellectual Subance,

that had diinct Organs and Functions:

And therefore, it eems to me far more
Rational, to ay, That thee little Animals,
nding themelves attacked," end to de

mand Aance from their Neighbours,

and thatR'ecruits Hocking in from all Parts,
and the Country being too little to' contain
o many, they either die of Hunger, or are

ied in the Pres. That Mortality hap

pens when the Boil is ripe 5 or as an Ar
gument, that thee Animals at that time
are iied, the Fleh becomes inEnible :
Now, if Blood-letting,- which is many times

ordered to divert the Fluxion, do any

good, it is becaue, much being lo by
the Orice, which thee little Animals

laboured
to lop, theyHteue
their_ Allies
ct
4.
A

I 04.

The Hzory of the

Aance, having no more Forces, than

is enough to defend themelves at home.
Thus he concluded, and when the e
cond Philoopher, perceived by all our
' Looks, that we longed to hear him peak
in his turn:
' . Men, aid he, eeing you are curious to

inruct this' little Animal, (our like) in

omewhat of the Science which we pro

es, I am now dictating a Treatie, which

Iwih he might ee, becaui: o the Light
it gives to the Underanding of our Na
tural Philoophyz it is an Explication of
the Original of the World: But eeingl
am in hae to ct my Bellows at work,

(for to Morrow, without delay, the Town

departsz ) lihope you'll excue my want '

of time, and l promie to atise you, a-.

oon as the Town is arrived, at the place

whither it is to go.
At thee words, _the Landlord's Son cal

led his Father, to know what it was a

Clock? who having anwered him, that-it

was pa Eigthe asked him in a great Rage,

Why he did 'not give him norice at Seven,according as he had commanded him, that
he knew well enough, the Houes were to

'be'gone to Morrowz and that the City

Walls were already upon their'Journey?
Son, replyed the good Man, ince you ate
down to Table, there is an Order publih

ed,

i1
i,

World of the Moon.

I 05

ed, That no Houe hall budg before next

day :

That's all one, anwered the young

Man z you ought blindly to obey, n'ot to

examine my Orders, and only remember

what I commanded you. Qgick, go fetch

me your Egies :So oon as it was brought,
he took hold on't by the Arm, and Whipt
it a whole quarter ofan Hour r Away you

ne'er be good, continued he, as a Punih

ment o: your diobedience z it's my Will
and Pleaure, that this day you erve for a
Laughinglock to all Peopler and there
fore l command you, not to walk butupon

two Legs, till Night. The Poor Man went

out in a very mournulCondition, and the

Young Man exc'uizd to us his Paon.

I had much ado, though I bit my Lip,

to orbear Langhing at o pleaant a Pu

nihment z and therefore to take me oo
this odd piece o Pedantick Dicipline,
which, without doubt,would have made me

bur out atla z l prayed my Philoopher

to tell me, what he'meant by that Journey
o the Town, he talked of, and i the
Houes and Walls Travelled .> Dear Stran

ger, anwered he, we have ome Ambula

tory Towns, and ome Sedentary zthe Am
. bulatory, as for inance, this wherein now
we are, are Built in this manner:

The

Architector, as you ee, builds every Pa

lace of a very light ort o Timberz up- '

port

-1 06

The Hiory of the

ported by four Wheelsunderneathz in the

thicknes of one othe Walls, he places ten
;.Z!=''t

z, _. _.-

large pair of Bellows, whole Snouts pas

in a Horizontal Line, through the upper
Story, from one Pinacle to the other; o
that when Towns are to be removed, from

one place to another, (for according to

the Seaons they change the Air) every one

preads a great many large Sails, upon one

'ide o the HouEI, before the Noes o the

-*Bellowsz then having wound up a Spring,

to make them play, in les then Eight days
by Moniers
the continual
'i time,
whichtheir
theeHoues
Windy
blow,Pus,
are
driven, if one Pleaes, an Hundred Leagues
and more.vthey
For are
thoealmo
whichliketo
we call your
Sen
dentary,

Towersz aVC that they are oTimber, _

and that they have a Great and Strong
Skre-w, or Vice in the Middle, teaching

from the Top to the Bottom 5 whereby

they may be hoied up, or let down as
People pleae. Now the Ground under-,
neath, is dugg a's deep as the Houe is
high sand it is o ordered, that o oon as
the Frosbegin to chill the

Air, they

* may link their Houes down under Ground,

where they keep themelves ecure from the
'Severity 'o the Weather .- But aoon as
the gentle Breathings of the Spring, begin

..to oten and qualie' the Airz they raie

>

them

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197

them above Ground again, bygmeans of

theme-at Skxewl. tid, you'o. [prayed

him, ince-he'hadvhew'dme o machgood- .

nels, and that the Town Was not to part

tillznext, day, that hewould tell me ome
what othat Original of theIWorld, which
hehadzmentioned. not longbeorez and

-I promie you, taidI, that in requital,

) oon as I'am got back to the Moon,

from whence my Governour (painting to

my Spirit) will tell you that Iam come, 'i

I'll pread vyour Renown there, by relat
ing the rare things you hall tell me: I

perceive you Laugh at that promie, be

caue you do not' believe, that the Moon,
v
I vIeako, is a _World, and that iam an Inhabitant of it 5 but I can aure you al
o, that the People of that World, who

take this only or a Moon, will' Laugh

at me, when I tell them that your Moon
is a .World, and that there are Fields, and '

Inhabitants in it: He anwered only with a

mile, and pake in this manner-5

Since in Acending to*the Original, o

this great ALL, we are forced to run in
to three or our Aburditiesz it is but rea

onable we hould. follow the way, where

in we may be lea apt to umble I (by
then, that the'r Obacle that ops us
horn-is thej'Eternity o the World; and

- the minds omen, not being able enough to

*
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I 08

The Hiory of the

conceive it, and being no more able to ima

gine, that this great Univere, o lovely
and o well ordered, could have made it

ieli; they have had their recoure to Creati-y

on .- But like to him that would leap into

a River, for ear of being wet with Rain,

they ave themelves out of the Clutches
o a Dwar, by running into the Arms of
a Giant z and yet they are not afe for all

that : For that Eternity which they deny

the World, becaue they cannot compre
hend it, they attribute it to God, as i he
ood in need of that Preent, and as if it

were eaier to imagine it, in the one than

in the other, for tell me, pray, was it e

ver yet conceived in Nature, how Some

thing can be made of Nothing ?' Alas!

betwixt Nothing and an Atome only, there

are uch innite Diroportions, that the

harpe Wit could never dive into themz

therefore to get out of this inextricable La
byrinth, you mu admit of a. Matter Eter
nal with God : But you'l ity to me, grant
I hould allow you that Eternal Matter z
how could that Chaos dipoe and order
'it elf .> That's the thing [lam about to ex
plain to you.

My little Animal, after you have men

tally divided every little Viible Body, in.
to an innite many little inviible Bodies 5
you mu imagine, That the innite Univcrl'e
con

World oft/re Moon.

I 09

conis only of thee Atomes, which are

mo olid, 'mo incorruptible, and mo

implez whoe Figures are partly Cubical,

partly Parallelograms, partly Angular, part
ly Round, partly Sharp-pointed, partly
Pyramidal, partly Six-cornered, and part
ly Oval z which act all everally, accord

ing to their Various Figures; And to

hew that itis o, put a very round [vary

Bowl u on a very mooth place, and with

the lea touch you give, it will be halfa
uarter of an hour before it .re : Now I
ay, that ifit were perfectly round, as ome
of the Atomes [peak ofare, and the Sur
face on which it is put perfectly mooth, it

would never re. ifArt then be capable,

of inclining a Body to a perpetual Motion,
why may we not believe that Nature can

do it.> It's the lame with the other Fi

gures, of which the Square require a per
petual Re, others an oblique Motion, o
thers a halMorion, as Trepidation zand the
Round,whoe Nature is to move, joyning a
Pyramidal, makes that, perhaps, which we

call Firez becaue not only Fire is in conti

nual Agitation, but 'alo becaue it eaily

penetrates : Beides, the Fire hath die

rent eects, according to the opening andv
quality of the An les, when the round Fi
gure is joyned; or Example, The'Fire of

Pepper
is another ithing,
than thei oFirelof,
i
4
sugf-"a

1 1 10'

The, Hiory of? the' *

Sugar, the Fire of Sugar diers ro'm'that':

of Cinnamouz
that ofCinnamon,
thata
o
the Clove'z'cta'nd'this
from the from
Fire'oif
Faggot. Now the Fire, which is the Ar-'

chitect o the parts and! whole of the Uni

vere, into
harh-andriven
and'ofCbngre
gated
Oak, together,
the quantity
Fi dread
' which are neceary for 'the Comp'oiti nTiof
that Oak : But 'you'f thy, how couldzct'Ha-z
z'ardl congregate intoone place, all the 'Fii'
gures that 'are neceary for the production'
o that Oak P" I'" anwer," That'.it'*'i5*ntf
Wonder" that ' 'Matter l expoed, Tttttld' *
form an Oak'5__'butthcl wonder Would-have;
been greater, vif'thelVLatter heit' o' di or?
ed, the Oak had not' been'progueed; 'ad
"EW-'lesi
o ome
Figures," it' \
, 'there
wouldbeena
have Been
an Elm;
a'Pop'lar,'a.'Wiil*zi
low 5 and erveroflkm ill,; it wouldave'
been the,
sanidvePlantSa'r'row,
,* an Oyer,
_ a':
Worm,
a Fliect,
a Fr'og,a
an*Ape,

a Man. * If three Dice being ungupon a'"

happen a
Rae otwo,
all',
aTable,
"three,there'
a nur,;alnd<
a*ilve','or
two orfixes,"
and a third in'tl'le bottom', would Ydlldyz':

O rangel that each Died hould 'turn

uch a chance, 'wheni there'werd oitnany-i
othersr A'Sizciuence offthrbe'hath' hzttppett'-_i
ed, O range . Two:lifti,ru,rncd'-ut>;'add*
z 4 ure
the bottom-of
the third; -'O<'_range
Frawz
that being a.
. youuaekvr,
c

'make

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Warld of the Moonl

III

make uch Exclamations z for ince there is

but a certain quantity of Numbers upon

the Dice, it's impoible but ome of them

mu turn up z and you wonder, after that,

how matter hued together Pell-Mell, as

Chance pleaes, hould make a Man, eeing
o many things were neceary for the Con
tuction of his Being. You know not then,
that this Matter tending to the Fabrick oa.

Man, hath been a Million of times iopt in'

it's Progres, for ormingometimesa Stone,
ometimes Lead, ometimes Coral, ome
times a Flower, ometimes a Comet 5, and

all becaue of more or lets Figures,that were

required for the raming o a Man :So that

it is no greater wonder, i among innite
Matters, which inceantly change andir,
ome have hit upon the conruction o the
few Animals, Vegetables, and ' Minerals
which we ee, than i ina Hundred Cats o the Dice, one hould throw a Rae .
Nay, indeed, it is impoible, that in this

hurlingzand
o things,
hould admired
be pro
duced
yet thisnothing
willibe always

by a Block-head, who little knOWs how mall

a matter, would have made it to have been o
therwie, When the great River o

makes a Mill toGrind, guides the Wheels:

o a Clock,'and theBrook of
only

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The Hzory

the

only runs, and ometimes abconds, you

will not hy', that that River hath a great
deal of Wit, becaue you know that it hath
met with things,dipoed for producing uch
rare Featsz for had not the Millood in the
way, it would not have ground the Corn;
had it not met the Clock, it would not i
have marked the Hours: and i the little

Rivulet I peak of, had met with the ame

Opportunities, it would have wrought the
very ame Miracles. Ju o it is with the
Fire that movesof it elfz for nding Or

gans lit 'for the Act of Reaoning, it Rea

onsz when it nds only uch, as are pro'
per for Senation, it Senatesz and when
uch as are it for Vegetati-on, it Vegetares.
And to prove it is o, put out but the Eyes
of a Man, the Fire of whoe Soul makes
him to ee, and he will ceae to eez ju

as our great Clock will leave o to make

the Hours, if the= Movements o it be

broken.
\
,
In ne, thee Primary and indiviible.
Atomes, make aCircle, whereon without

diculty move the mo perplexed Dicul

ties of Natural Philoophyz not o much

as even the vesy Operation 'o the Senes,
which no Body hitherto hath been able to
conCeive,
but]Liet
willuseaily
by thee
little Bodies.
beginexplain
with the'Sight.

It deirives, as being the mo incnmprebeni

ble, out r Eay.
It

znr

World (tbe Mo'd'i.

t ' i i;
. it is peiormed then, as I-imag'ine, When'
the Tun-icl'es of> the Eye,- whole Pores re'
mble th'o'i! of Glas, tranmitting._tha*>*
-ery-Du,=-which is called'*Viual Rays,"

the- ame__'is opt b'y ome'opacous Mat

ter, which' mak'es'it recbilz and then, meet-

ingin-itsreireat' the' Image of 'the Objcct,

that fOrCed'it '.bbc'k, 1 and that Image, bei

ing bur'an innite number of little: Bo

di'ed, exhaled'in -a-n_eqt'1al Superce; from

the Objet beheld-5 it" purues it to out

Eye.- You'll sum 'ail to" Objecti, 1- know;

that Gla- is an' Opacous Body, and very
Compact z- and that-nevertheles, intead
of reecting' ether Bodies, it' lets them' pai-_

through :' But I'anwer, that the Pores' of

.Gl'as',
are haped
in the ame Figure,as 7
thoe Atoines
are which'pas'through
it z and'
as a Wheat-Sieve is n0t\'pr0per for Sifting
of Oats, nor' an Oat-Sieve to Sift Wheat 51

o a Box ofDeal-Board, though it be thin;"

and lets a ound'go through it, is 'impend

tra'b'lc to the Sight; and' a piece of Chry-"

at, though tranparent, and pervious tdl

the Eye, is'no't penet'rable to the Touch.

I cauld not" heirev forbear tolinte'rnipthim':

A great Poet and Philoopher of out:

World, aid l, hath,- after Epicurm and

Demdc-tw, poken of thee little BO<.ilES,i

in' the-ame' manner almo'- as you'doz attrthv

therefhrez-'you dun'tK ait Fli'urprie m'c',

_

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'14

The Hiory 'of the

that Diouternly, tell me, Ipray, as

you proceed, ow, according to your Prin
ciples, you'll - xplain to me, the manner

onymhun_u

o drawing ybur Picture in a Looking

Glas. That'slvery eaie, replied he, for

imagine with Your , that thoe Fires of'

A.
_*--v
-..-.

our Eyes, having paied through the Glai,

and meeting behind it an Opacous Body,
that reverberates them, they come back the
way they wentz and nding thoe lit

tle Bodies, marching in equal Superces

Upon the Glas, they repel them to our
Eyes, and our Imagination, hotter than

a_\a.-_. H-r_

the other Faculties o our Soul, attracts

the more ubtile, wherewith it draws our Picture in little.

It is as eaie to conceive the Act o

Hearing, and for Bre-az'tier ake, let us only
conider it in the Harmony of a Lute,

touched by the Hand o aMaer.

You'll
Sr'4

ask me, How can itbe, that l perceive at

o greata diance, a thing which Ido not

ee P Does there aSponge go out o my
Ears, that drinks Up that Muick, and

_ brings it back with it again ..? Or does the

Player, beget in my Head anorher little
Muician, with another little Lute, who has

Orders like an Eccho, to ing over to me

the ame Aits?

Noz But that Miracle

proceeds rom this, that the String touched,

triking thoe little Bodies, o whicbthe
:.

'

t;

World of the" Moon;I'- I gy

Air is compoed, drives it gently into my
Brain,- with thoe little Corporeal Nothings;

that Weetly pierce into it z 'and accordingas

the String is retChed, the' Sound is high,be-=
-J-'*-d'-I

n_.*
"

caue it more vigorouy drives the Atomes 3

'and the Organ being thus penetrated,
urniheth the Fancy, wherewith to make
a Repreentationz i too little,- then out'
Memory, not having as yet nihed its I-'
mage, 'we are forced to repeat the ame

ound to it again z to the end it may take

enou

o Materials, which, or inance,

thehgeaures of a Sardbdd, furnih it with,

for nihing the Picture o that Sdrabdnd z

but thatOperation, is norhing near o won-t
derul, as thoe Others, which by the help
o the ame Organ, excite us otnetimes to
Joy, ometimes to Anger.-_'-

And this happens, when in that motion,

thee littleBodieszmtetwith Other littleBodies

within us, moving in the ame manner, or

whoe Figure,renders them uceptib'le o the

ame AgitatiOnz for then thee New>comers,

ir up their LandIOtdsto move asthey do; St?
thus,
a violent
Air 'meets
withame'
the Mo-'
Fire
o
ourwhen
Blood,
it' inclines
it to the
tion, and animates it to a Sally, which is
the thing

we call Heat o Courage; it'

theSound be oter, and have only ore:

enough to raie a lei Flame, in greater AA
gitation', by' leading it along the Nerveszi
.

1 a

Meni

17 16 '

The Hiory of the

Membranes, and through the interices of

out Fleh, it excites that Tickling which
is called joy : And o it happens, in the

Ebullition o the other Paons, according ,

as thee little Bodies, are more or les vio

lently toed upon us, according to the

Motion they receive, by the rencounter of
other Agitations, and according as they
nd Dipoitions in us or motion. So much
for Hearing.
Now, I think the Demonration o

Touching, will be ever whit as eaiez i

we'conceive, that out ooall palpable Mat

ter, there is a perpetual Emion o little

Bodies, and that the more we touch them,
the more'evaporatez becaue, we prei them

out o, the Subject it izl, as Water out of

a Sponge, when we queez it.

The Hard,

make a' report to the Organ, o their

Hardnesz the. Soft, of their Softnes 5 the

Rough, &e. And that this is o, we are

not o quaint in Feeling with Hands ued
to Labour, becaue o the Thicknes of

theSkin, which being neither porous, nor

animated , with diculty tranmits the
_ Evaporations o Matter. Some, perhaps,
may deirehas
to its
know,
where the
o
Touching
Reidenccte.
ForOrgan
my part,
I think it is pread over all the Surface o
the Body, eeing in all parts it feels :, Yet I
imagine, that the nearer the,Member,whe_rel; Y
.
Wit

_'m >_- _

11'7,

World ofthe Moon.

with we touch, be to the Head, the oon

er we diinguihz which Eaperience con'- _

vinces us of, when with hut Eyes we
handle any thing, for then we'll more ea'
ily gues'what it isz andvif on the contra
ry, we feel it with our hinder Feet, it will be harder for us to know it: And the

Reaon is, becaue our Skin beingall over

perforated, our Nerves, which are of nd
compacter Matter, loe by the way a great
many of thoe little Atomes, through the
little Holes of their Contexture, before

they reach the Brain, which is their Jour

neys end: It remains, that I peak of the

Smelling and Taing.

,
4
Pray
tell
me,
when
Itae
a
Fruit,
is
it not becaue the Heat of my'M'outh meltsi
it .> Confes to me then, that there being
Salts in a .Piear, and that they being epa

rated by Diolution,into little Bodies ofa

dierent Figure, from thoe "which make
the Tae of an 'Applez they mu needs' .

pierce our Pallate, in avery dierent man;

ner : Ju 'o as the' thru 'Ofiay Pike, that
paes through ime, is' n'or' like the Wound
which a Piol-Bullet makes the feel, Witli
a- udden artz and as that'Piol-Bullet, '
makes me uer another ort of Pain, than
' that of a Slug of Steel.
*
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13.'

4,

_l

t 18'

The Hzory of the

i [have nothing to lay, as to the Smel-i

ling ,. eeing the Philoophcrs themelves

confes, that it is performed by a continu
l _al Emiion of little Bodies,
Now, upon the ame Principle,wi_ll I

explain to you, the Creation, Harmony,

and Inuence of the Celeial Globes,
with the immutable variety of Meta

ors.He wasabout toiproceedz but the Old

Landlord coming in, made our Philoopher
think of withdrawing; He brought in Chri
tals ull of Glew-worms, to light the Par

lourz but eeing thoe little ery lnects, '

loe much o their Light, When they are
not freh

athered, che; which were ten

daysold, -ad hardly any at all, My Spi

rit-tayed not, till the Company hould
lit, but
went up toback
his Chamz
'ct complain
er, 'andofcame
immediately
again,
with two-Bowlsxof Fire oSparkling, that

all wondred he burnt not his Fingers.

Thee incomuihle Tapers, aid he,
WilliErve
tis-better
than
Week
of
Worms. Theyizare
Rays
o your
the Sun,
which

Ihave purged from their Heat, otherwie,

the corroive qualities of their Fire, would

have
and oended
yourincloed
Eyes z it[
actve dazzled,
xed their
Light, and
within thee tranparent Bowi's. That ought
Pot tg aord you any great Caue o Ad?
nllr

_= .->n,- ._.=-*H_->a

World ofthe Moon.

t 19 -

mirationz for it is not harder or me, who

am a Native of the Sun, to condene his

Beams, which are the Du o that World,

than it is for you, to gather the. Atom'es 'o

the pulveriz'd Earth of this World. There
upon our Landlord ent a Servant, to wait
upon the Philoophers home, it being then

Night, with a dozen Globes of Glow

worms hanging at his our Legs. As for
my Preceptor,
myPhiiognorini.
elf, we went He
to
re,
by order and
o the
laid me that Night in a Chamber o Vio

lets'and Lillies, ordered me to be tick

led 'ater the uual manner 5 and next Morn

ing about Nine a Clock, my Spirit came

in, and told me, that he was come from

Thqu-WJ

Court, where 3 One o the deens

Maids of Honour 'had tent for him, and
'

an_-*'v-'v.r.-_.=*_-

that he had enquired after me, proteing,

that he ill peried in her Deign, to be
as good as her Word z that is, that with all
'her Heart he would follow me, i I would

take her along with me to the other Worldz

which exceedingly plearZ-d me, (aid he,when_
Iunderood, that the chief Motive, which
inclined her to the Voyage, was to become

Chriian : And therefore, I have promiv

ed to forward her Deign, what lies in
mez and or that end, to invent a Machine,
that
you
i may hold three* or
I 4our, wherein may

120

The Hlery of ths,

may mount. tb ddy, both together, i you

think t. 'l'll go eriouy (Et'pbom the

performahce of my Undertaking 5 and 'm

the mean time," to entertain ypu,'d_urin%1my \

Abence,'1 leave you here; Book, w ''oh

heretofore l brought 'with me rpqimy Na:

me. Countreyz the'Title of'ik'is, The
' lditiod
State: qnd
Empire:
of the
Sun,szctzrk
With an[alo
Ad
of the
Hiory
of the
give you this, which I eeem milch more,

1t
is the great
Work
of_the
Philoophers,
_compoed
by one
othe
greate
Wit? go _

the Sun. He 'proves in it,_'t>hat_au thing?

are true, and _hews the "ward-uniting
Ph'yically, the Truthso every "ContradiQ
idn
5 as, for
Examplez
gn'd 'Black
White
zi thatThatWhite
one' mayv is
be,Black
anct
not be at the fame tiigeiz
there may be
ais-omething,"
MOuntzzin withouta
ztha;_that
nothirzg
and 'thatVaHey
alllthin'g's
are;

dre'notz butqberve, 'that he'pxqv'es all

t'hefdunheardwa
Parado'xcs,
without
any
Cawis or' Sophiical'
Agumenx,
Wh_en_v

' you hie' weary of Reading', you' may Walk,

r SECOnvervvnh'our Landlordk Son, he \

\ ' hasa'ivery Charihi'z'n'g Wit'szth that Which

I-diuke in him is," that he. 15 a'ule Athcte; .

ial. ' If

ehaheeto Scandaiizyou, Ox;

byhny Argumdn! hake yQui: F-ciixhs ail-dais'

rmeoiarely
eome
and prop'ggjc
the,
gydL I'll cle-4!iqitlhe
Djcuhjies
pfigit' ,t_o
z_ any;

- "

' - * '

"

1' Other'

FHIS;"
l2
ral-m-Ifi!

World of the Moon.

l2I

other, but l, would

you to break
Company with himz but ince he is ex
.treamly proud and conceited, I am certian,

he would take your ight for a Defeat,

and would believe your Faith to be groun

ded on no Reaon, if you refued to hear

his. Having aid o, he left mez and no

g!
=m_'
-..L

ooner was his back turned, but I fell to

conider attentively my Books and their

Boxes, that's to ay, their'Covers, which
eemed to me to be wonderfully Rich z the
one was cut of a ingle Diamond, incom

parably more replendent than ours; the

cond looked like a prodigious great Pearl,

cloven in two, My Spirit had tranlated

thoe Bookszinto the Language of that

World z_.-but becaue I have none of thei

Brim, I'll now, explain to you the Fahion

of thee two Volumes. '
,
'
. As l/ opened the'Box, I found within
hmewhat of Metal, almo like to out
' .Clocks, full of ' I- know not what little
Springs, and imperceptible Engines : lt was
a Book, indeed; but a Stra'ngerand Won
_ derful Book, that had neither Leaves nor

Letter-s _;* In ne, it was a Book, made

whollyv for therEars, and not the Eyes. So

that'when any. Body has a mind to read in

ir,hewinds up that Machine, with a great

many little Strings-3 then he turns the Hand
tothea Chapter which he deires to hes:

an _

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The Hiory of the
and raight, as from the Mouth o a Man,
or a Mulical Inrument, proceed all the
diinct and dierent Sounds, which the

Lunar Grandees make ue o, for expre

ing their Thoughts , inead of Lan

gnage.
'
When [ince reected on this Miracu

o-oIrl-HE"F\

lous Invention, I no longer wondred, that

the Young-Men of that Country, were

more knowing .at Sixteen, or Eighteen
years Old, than the Gray-Beards o our

Climatez or knowing how to Read as

oon as Speak, they are never without
Lectures, in their Chambers, their Walks,
the Town, or Travellingz they may have

_. _. _.

in their Packets, or at their Girdles, Thir

tyof thee Books, where they need but

wind up a Spring, to hear a whole Chap.
ter,and o more, it they have a mind to hear

A_.___-A_

the Book quite throughz o that you ne'

ver want the Company o all the great

Men, Living and Dead, who entertain you
with Living' Voices. This Prezn' employ
ed metoabout
an hour'z
thenPendants,
hanging .
them
my Ears,
like aand
pairof

Iwent a Walking 5 but l was hardly ati

End o the Street, when I met axMuli

titude
very Melancholy."
Fouro
oPeople
them 'carried
uipon their Shoule
_ -. -. _

ders, a kind o a Here, covered with

Black : I asked-a Spectator, what that PrO-F

Ceion

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ceon, like to a Funeral in tny'COuntry,

meant? He mede me anwer, that that.

naughty

called o by the Peo

ple, becaue ot a knock he had received up- '

on the Right Knees who being convicted
o Envy and lngratitude, died the day
beforez and that Twenty Years ago, the ,

Parliament had Condemned him to die in

his Bed, and then to be inerted after his

Death. l ell a Langhing at that Anwer.

And he asking me, why.e You amaze me,

aid I, that that which is counted a Bleing

in our World, as a long Liez a peaceable
Death, and an Honourable Burial, hould

pas here for an exemplary Punihment.

What, do you takea Burial, for a preci
ous thing then, replyed that Man? And, ,
in good earne, can you conceive any

'thing more Horrid, than a Corpscrawling

'With Worms, at the dicretion of Toads,

'which feed on his Cheeks; the Plague it

el Clothed with the Body o a Man?
Good God! The very thought o having,

even when l am Dead, my Face wrapt up

in'a Shroud, and'a Pikeedepth of Earth
upon my Mouth, makes me l can hardly

fetch breath. The Wretch whom you ce

carried here, beides the digrace o being
[thrownginto-a Pit, hath been Condemned,

to _b_e attended by an Hundred and Fiftyf'

.

i 1 2'4 i

The Hiory of the

o his Friends z_ who are rictly charged,

as a Punihment for theirhaging loved an

envious and ungrateul zPerhn,_. to appear

with a ad- Countenance at his" Funeral z
and had it not been that the Judges took
ome compaon of him , imputing his
Crimes partly to his want of Wit, they
would have been commanded to Weep there
alo. All are Burnt here, except Male
:afictors: And,- indeed, it is a mo ratio

nal and deoent Cuom : For we believe,

that the Fire having eparated the pure
from the impure, the Heat by Sympathy
Teaembies the natural Heat-5 which made
the Soul, and-givesvit force to mount up,

till'it arrive at ome Star, the Country of

certain tha'dusz
people, becaue
more immaterial
and ought
intel
lectuali
their Temper
'to uit-with, and participate of' the Globe
whichtheyinliabit.
.
'
v
. , hHowever, this is not our neatei way of

' Burying neither-3, for when any one of

our'Philotbphers- comes to an Age, Wherein

he'nds 'his*:>Wit begin to decay, and the

_

Ice ofhis years, xto numm 'the Mations o

histzhul, xhq-invitesall his Eriends to a

* lrmptiuone Ba ' 'net z= then having declared

bolthem r-thd-Keaons, that move himvto
_ bidrrtwel togctNature, and _t-he little hopes
hahas, ti-Paddin'g any thing-more to" his
Worthy Actiohsyxthey [hew him Favotpr'g
.
_t at's,

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1 25

that's to lily, they uer him to Dye, or

otherwie are vere to him, and command
-wmru -H '

him to Live. When then, by plurality of

Voices, they have put hisLife into his own
Hands, he acquaints his deare Friends

with the day and place. Thee purge,

and for Four and Twenty hours abain

from Eating zthen being come to the Houe

of the Sage, and having Sacriced to the
Sun, they enter the Chamber, where the.
generous Philoopher waits for them on a
Bed of State z every one embraces him,- and
whenit comes to his turn,whom he loves be,

having
kied him
up.
oin his Boom,
andaectionately,
joyning Mouthleaning
toMouth,
with his right hand he heaths. aDagger in
his Heart. The Loving Friend parts not
\ his Lips from his Friends Lips, till he nd
him expiredz and then pulling out the
Steel, and putting his Mouth. cloe to the
Wound, he ucks down his Blood, till a
Second ucceed him, then a Third, Fourth,

and o all the Company: Four or Five

Hours after, .every one has a Young
Wench, of Sixreen or Seventeen Years of

Age, brought to him 5 and during Three or .

Four days, whil they are taing the Plea-.

ures of Love, they feed on nothing but
the Fleh of the Deqead, which they eat
rawz to the end that if tom an Hun

dred Embracements anyv vthing Sprihng, ..

t ey

1'26

The Hiory of the'

they may be aured it is their old Friend

bi

Revived.
I interrupted this Dicoure, aying to
him that told me all, That this Manner of

Acting much rembled the ways o omev

People oour World z and o purued my

Walk, which was o long, that when I'
came back, Dinner had been ready TWO
Hours. They asked me, why I came o

all
rhi
it
de
* no

-' Cu

late? It is not my Fault, (aid l to the Cook,

who complained :. [asked what it was a

Clock everal times in the Street, but they
made me no anwer, but by 'opening their
Mouths, hutting their Teeth, and turning v
their Faces awry.
How, cried all the Company, did not
you know by that, that they hewed
you what it was a Clock a? Faith, aid
I, they might have held their great Nohs

in the Sun long enough, beore I had un

derood what they meant. Ic's a Com
modity, aid they, that aves them the Trou
ble of a Watch z for with their Teeth they *
make o true aDial, that whenthey would
tell anyBody the Hour o the day,they'do no
more but open their Lips, and the hadow

o that Noe, falling upon their Teeth,

like the Gnomon o a SunDial, makes the

precie time. Now that, you may know the

reaon, why all People in thi; Country
have great Noes z, aoon as a Woman is '\

ought

en)
we
rit
is

lit

World ofthe Moon, ,

I 27

brought to Bed, the Midwife carries the

Child to the Maer afthe Semina'y z and

exactly at the years end, the Skillul being
aembled, i his Noe prove horter than
the anding Meaure, which an Alderman
keeps, he is judged to be a Flat Noe, and
delivered over to be gelt. You'l ask me,
no doubt, the Reaon o that Bararous
Cuom, and how it cornes to pas, that we,
among whom Virginity isa Crime, hould

enjoyn Continence by force zbut know,that

we do o, becaue after Thirty Ages expe
rience 'we have oberved, that a great Noe

is the mark oa Witty, Courteous, Aable,'

Generous and 'Liberal Man z and that a
ma

little" Noe is a Sign o the contrary :

Wherefore ofF/at Nozr we make Eunuchs,
becaue the Republick had rather have no .
Children
all,than Children
He
wasiill aatpeaking,
when, Ilike
awthem.
a man

comein ark Naked zl preently (Fit down

and put on my Hat to hew him Honour,
for thee are the greate Marks oRepect,
that can be hew'd to any in that Coun

try.

The Kingdom, aid he, deires you

would give the Magirates notice, before

you return to your own World z becaue a

Mathematician hath ju now undertaken

before the Council, that provided when
you are returned home, you would make a

certain Machine, that he'l teach you how

*

to

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The Hzt'ory of the
to doz he'l attract your Globe, and jctoyrrit
to this. Good
now,was
(aid
I totellmymeLand
lord,when
the other
gone)
whyi
that Meenger carried at his Girdle, Privy
\ *Members of Brasz a thing I have often
een, whilt I was in my Cage, but dur
K not ask the Reaon, becaue I was always'

environed by the Qgeens Maids of Ho

nour, who'm I eated to oend, if in their
preEnce I had talked of uch a oul Subject P
He made me 'this anwer: The Females
here, no more than the Males, are not o

ungrateul, asto bluh at the ight of that

whichv Forged them-'5 and Virgins are'not

ahamed to love upon us, in Memory o

Mother Nature, the only thin 'that repre
mts her be. Know then, 'that the Scar
wherewith that Man is Honoured, and
which for a' Medal has the Bauble of a

Man hanging at it, is the Badg oa Genn

tleman, and the Mark \to diiinguih the'
Cavalier from the Clown. This, emed'
to me, to be o extravagant a' Paradox,

_ that I could not forbear Laughing." Iloole _

upon that, replyed I, to be a-veryextraordinary Cuom, for in.:our Warld, to"
wear a Sword is the Badgof a Gentleman. _

But, my 'dear little "Man, cried" my- Hot

without artlingz What, are-the great Men?

'DE-your World-Mad them; to' make often;"

J wide?
'O'S
_x

-World oftlje Moon."

I - 2
_r_LA-i

tation of an lnrument, that's the marle

of a Hang m'an, made only to deroy usz'

and in a word, the worn Enemy of allv
that has Life? And On the contrary, to
hide a Member, without which, We had

been ranked among the things' 'that are not; the Prometbem of every ' Animal, and the' '
indefatigable Repairet of the Frailties-of
Nature?
Unhappy Country!
where the' '
Marks
of Generation
are lgnominiou's,*andt
thoe of Deruction Honourable : In' the'
mean time, you call that Member thehamed
ful Privy-Parts, as if any thing were more'

Glorious, than to give Life, or any thing.

more digraceful, than to take it away.

_ During all this Dicoure, we went on with

our Dinnerz and as oon as we roe from'
Table, we went 'to take the Air in the'

Garden, where tak-ing Occaion to peak

of the Generation, and Conception of
things,
he aid
to me, You
mu
know,
that _
the Earth,
converting
it lf
into
va Tree,

from a Tree into a Hog, an'd from a Hog>

into a Man, is an Argument, that all things

in Nature, apire to be Menz ince that is

the mo perfect Being, as being a Qgintel'
ence, and the be devied Mixture
the WOrldz which alone unites the Animal
and Rational Life into one. None bur a

Pedant will deny me this, when we' he'

that a Plumb-Tree, by the Heat of its Germ;
K

a?

4-wa._chx4__4 ._A-

I 30

The Hiory of the

as by a Mouth, ucks in and. digeis the

Earth that's about it z that a Hog devours
the Fruit of' this Tree, and convert: it into
the Subance of it elf z and that a Man

feeding on that Hog, reconcocts that dead

Fleh, unites it to himelf, and makes that

Animal to revive under' a more Noble Spe

cies: So the Man whom you ee, perhaps
threecore years ago, was no more buta
Tut o Gras in my Garden z which is the
more probablez-that the Opinion o the

Py'hagorean--Metamorpho_ir, which o many

Great Men maintain, in all likelyhoodhas
only reached us, to engage us into an En

quiry after theztruth of itz as, in reality,

we have ound that Matter, and all that

has a Vegetative or Seni'tive Life, when

once ithath attained to the period of its

Perection, wheels about again, and de

cends into its Inanity, that, it may return,

upon the Stage, and Act 'the ame Parts

over and over. ,.I went down extreamly
ittisfyed to the Garden,'and was beginning
to
reheare
to myme
Campanian,
out
Maer
had taught
z when thiewhat
Phyiog

nomi.:came to. conduct us to Suppr, and'

afterwards to Re. "
' K
Next Morning, o oon as Iawoke,l Went'

'to call up my Antagoni.

It is, aid- I,

accoingzhim, as great a Miracle to nd

a great Wit, like yours, buried in Sleep, as?
. '.

'

'.

to

World

the Moon.

tgt

'to ike Fire, without Heat and Action .- He

bore 'with this ugly Complirnent 5. but,
(erYed he, with a Cholerick kind o Love)
wili you never leave thee Fabulous Terras?

- Know, that thee Names defame the Name

of a Philoibpherz and that eeing' the wie
Man ees nothing in the World, but what'
he conceives, and judges may be conceii
ved, heought to abhor all thoe Expre4

ons o Prodigiesz and eitradrdinary EVents

o Nature, which Block-heads haire invent-

ed, to excue the Weakne's o their Unders

anding.

I thought my elf then obliged in' 'Cods

cience, to endeavour to undeceive him;

andthereore, aid I, though you be 'very

i and obinate in your Opinions, yet!

have plainly een uPernatural Things hap

pen .- Say you b, continued he z you lite'
tle know,- th'at the'orce of Imagination',- is
ll

able to cure all the Diais, which you' at:

tribute toirpematu'ral Caues, by reaon o

a certain natural Balam, that 'can tains Quae

lities zuite contrary to the qualities of 'me
Dia s that attack Usz which happens,

when' our Imagination informed by Pain;

earches in that place for, the pecifick Red
Nedy, which fit applies to the Poion;

_That's thereabn, Why an able Phyic'ra-z o

Your-World, advles the Patient to make

IZ (ialghdratit BoilorJv'vhomhe eeem: .

K 2'

'i

I 32

' The Hzory of the"

to be very knowing, rather than o a very

Skilful Phyician, Whom he may imagine
to be lgnorantz becaue he ancies, that
our Imagination labouring to recover our
Health, provided it be aed by Remedies,
is able to cure us z but that the ronge
Medicines are too weak, when not applied

by Imagination. Do you think it range,

that the r Men of your World lived o
va'
inns.

many Ages, without the lea Knowledge

Of Phyick .? No. And what mi ht have
- been the Caue ofthar, in your iu , ementz r
unleigheir Nature was as yet in its force,and

that natural Balam in vigour, before they

were poilt- by the Drugs , wherewith

Phyicians conume you; it being enough 5

then for the recovery of ones Health, ear-_
nely to wih for it, and to imagine him,
- elf cured .> So that their vigorous Fancies,

lunging into that vital Oy_l,, extracted; the

lixir o it, andapplyin

Activesto Pai

ves, in almo the twin ling of an Eye,

they ound themelves as ound as before :
Which, notwithanding the Depravation of
Nature, happens even at this day, though

lbmewhat rarelyz and is by the Multitude

icalled a Miracle .- For my part, I believe not

r a ioc on't, and have this to ay (bra my elf;
that it is eaier for all thee Doctor's 'to
miaken, than that the other may notea

ly come to pai :. For I put the Queiog to

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, i 133

them-3 A Patient recovered out o a Feaver,

'me

heartily deired, during his icknes, as it is

in
our

like, that he might be eured, and, may be,v

made Vows for that eects o that o nece

its,
zdl

ity he mu eithervhave dyed, continued

il

ick, or recovered : Had he died, then

would it have been aid, kind Heaven hath

lgt,
llu

put an end to his Pains z Nay, and that ac

cordin to his Prayers, he was now cured

of all ieaes, praid be the Lord : Had

.llt

his Sicknes continued, one would have *

. aid, he wanted Faithz but becaue he is
and
cured, it's a Miracle forooth. Is it not far

more likely,that his Fancy being excited by

violent Deires, hath done its Duty, and
wrought the Cure.> Forgrant he hath
ecaped, what then.> mu it needs be a Mi
' racle.> How many havewe een, pray, and a
tet many olemn VoWs and Proteations,
go to pot with all vtheir fair Promies and
Reolutions. ' But, at lea, replied I, to him, i what * '

you ay of that Balam be true, it is a mark

othe Rationality of our Soul; eeing with
out the help ofour Reaon, or the Concur- \
rence o .our Will, he Acts o her el z as

i being without us, he applied the Active

Now, if' being eparated
romus heis RationaLit necearily follows,

'to the Pave.

that he is Spiritualz and i you acknow

ledge her to be Spiritual, I conclude he is
'

K 3

im

34

The Hzory of 'the

immortal; ceing Death happens to Anie

mals, only by the changing of Fortns, of ,

which Matter alone is capable. The Young
Man at that, decently'tting down u
his Bed, and making me ali) to it, dicour

ed, as I remember, in this manner : As 'or

the Soul o Beas, which is Corporeal, I
do not wonder they Die z eeing the be

Harmony o the four (Atalities may be di

[olved,' the greate fbrce o Blood quelled,

* and the lovelie Proportion o Organs di
concerted z but I wonder very much, that
our intellectual, incorporeal, and immortal

- Soul, hould be conrained to diodge,

and leave us by the (ame Caue, that makes
an 03 to perih. Hath he covenanted with

gur Body, that as hon as he hould 're

ceive a prick with a Sward in the Heart, a
Bullet in the Brain, or a Musket- hot through

red-NA

the Che, he hould pack up. and be gone,

_->-_--and i that Soul were Spiritual, 'and

' of her-elf oRational, that being Sepa
rated
Mas, with
he underood
as
Well asfrom
when'our
Clothed
ai Body', why

5.

Basasg-mloct

ucannot Blind Men,\born withal] the fair ad

vantages ofthat intellectual Soul, imagine

what it is to ee P Is it, becaue they are
-no_t as yet deprived oSight, by the Death
v(fall-their Senes? How! cannot then
make ue jomy Right Hand, becaue l have

.A_nd in ne," to' make a ju

6'

. .

corn

World of the Moon.

ma.
d
me

ir'35':

comparion, which will overthrow all that

you have aid 5 I hall only alledge to you a
Painter,who cannot work without his Pen

cil: And I'll tell you, that it is ju o

xcur

with the Soul, when he wants the ue o

slcr
5le
bel
My:
A),

the Sens. O yes, but added he

In
the mean time, they'l have this Soul, which
canonly act imperfectly, becaue of the ,
los of one of her 'Tools, in the coure-of
Life, to be able then t0_. work toLPerfecti

me

on, When after out death, he hath 'lo

th,

them all. - Ifthey tell me, over and over a

m,

gain, that he needeth not thee Iriru

nag,

. ments, for performing. her Functions, I'll

nag,

tell them e'en o, That them all the Blind

my

about. the Streets, ought to be Whipt at a

dlz

Carts-Are, for playing the Counterfeits, in

m',

pretending not to See a bit.

on,
gog

have gone on in uch impertinent Argu

ments, had not I opt his Mouth, by deir

He would

ing him to forbear, as' he did for fear of a

If,

quarrel 5 for he perceived [began to be in

dy

a heat :

So 'that he departed, and left me

* admiring the People, of that World', a

,
g-I,
7,

mong whom even the meane have Na

turally o much Wit; whereas thoe of
oursvhave ovlittle, and yet o dearly bought.

MF

At length my Love forl'my Country, took

lb,

me o ofthe deire and thoughts I had of

h;

aying there, I minded nothing now but

to be gone; z but I aw h much impori- -

wi

K4

htY

I 36

The Hiory of the

lity in the matter, that it made me quite

peevih and' melancholick. My Spirit ob_
erved it 3 and having asked me, What was

the reaon, that my Humor was o much al

tercel?
Itrankly
the me
Caue
of fair
my , i
Melancholy,
buttold
hehim
made
uch
Promies concerning' my Return, that l re
lied (wholly upon him. I acquainted the
Council with my deign; who ent for me,
and made me rake an'Oath, that I hould
relate in our world, all that I had een in

than-t My- Pas-ports 'then - were expeded,

and my Spirit having made neceary Proviz
fionsforo long a Voyage, asked me, What

porto-'my Country I deired to light in? I

told him, that ince mo of the RichYouths
of Elixir,- once in their life time,_ made a

JOurneysF to Rome-5 imagining arrer that',

that'there remained no mare worth the do
ing orjeing, I 'prayed him to be.0 good
as to let'me imitate them: But withal, aid.

I,in What Machine hall we perform theVoy

age,- an'd what-Orderszdo yOu 'think the
Mathematician, 'Who talked t'othe-r day of *
joyningthis Globe to' ours, will give me P
'As to. the Ma-themarician, aid he; let that
be'nor. hinderance to; you z. for he. is a Man
who promies much,'and periorms little or
nothing. : And as to the Machine, that-'s to
carry you back, it hall be the ame which

broughtyou to Courtfi How, aid l, will '

the

World oftheMoom

is?

the Air/become aslblid as the Earth, to '

bear your eps .>_ [cannot believe that:

And it is range, replied he, that you

_ hould believe, and not believe. Pray

why hould the Witches of your World,
who march in the Air', and conduct whole
Armies of Hail, Sndw, Rain, and other

Meteors, from one Province into another,

have more Power than we ?* Pray have a
little better opinion of me, than to think
I would impoe upon you. The'truth is,
aid- l, l have received o man gnod
Oees from you, ' as well as 'Shot-ate',
and the re, for'whomyouhaveo great

kindnes, thatJ-'dare tru my' lf in

* your hands, 'as now I do, reigning my

elf heartily up? to' you. I had no hon
er id the word," but he 'roe like a .
-v iiif
T
:1kuzfn
-H;-.>

Whirl-wind, and' holding me 'i between 7

- his Arms, with'Out the lea-Uneaines,
he made me pas-'that- va pace, 'which

Aronomers reckon betwixt the Moon and us, in-a day and- all-halfs-time 5

which convinced _ me, that they tell a

Lye, who ay 'that a Mill-one would'
be Three Hundred Threecore, and I

know not how many years more,"-in falling

from Heaven, ineel was o hort a while,
in dropping down from the Globe of the
Moon upon this. At length, about the
beginning ofthe Second day, I perceived I
*

was

138
TheHz'ory. of the
was drawmg nearzour World -z ince I could
alread di'm

ih Europe from A'ica, and

both tom
when. I, melt Brimone,
which _I Dweaming out of a very high
Mqumim. that incotntnOded me o much
- than-fainted away upon it.

I cannot tell

aghateel me afterwards; but coming to

myeu pin, I-ound-I was among Briers
anthe'e -_ o>;a Hill, Lamid ome - Shep
,,wha';pake Italian. I, knew not

whaewasxbocome ofmyzzslairit, and I ask

theShepherds i they: had not een him.

At that ,-,word they made the ign of the
Qdilwkd upon me, as ifI had been

- a Devil my, elf s

But when I 'told them

that I wasaphriian, and that I begg'd

the iitynf them, that they would lead
mezuo; ome zplaee, whereI might take a little *
, te, they-conducted me intoa Village, a
- boutra.Mie zpz where, no ooner wasl

Wbutall the Dogs o the place, fiom

the-"lea Cut, to the bigge Mai, ew
uponme, and had torn me to pieces, if I
had, nothhund a Houe,'_wherein l aved my
elf;
hindgred
notto
tinue Butxzthat
their-Barking
and them
Bawlingi,
(6 con
that

the Maer o. the; Houe began to look up.

on me With an Evil "Eye, and really I
think, as. ,;people are very apprehenive,

when Accidents which they look upon to

i be ominous" happen, that
man could have
i
- de
tell

Warer eft the Mix-52

egg

delivered :ureupa'o a Prey totbte accured

Beas, had med harbought niyz-'f ,-'> that"
that which wedded i'heni 1672th lar-ing'
was the -Wot'ld he; 'Whem-[1 more 'it-Bet

'crude barngnqceomed tobatk make'ng

they melct il
from-thence, by *' the'
cent oimyicloaths; Whibh
to
as a Seaaindllcharrgs NNW; Who have
been long-'till SliipzbOar-d,
iafl
ter they come ahote.'
AirmYfien,
1 lay three or four hours in the Sun, upon
a Terras-walkz and beingafterwardscome
down , the Dogs, who nlelt no more that

inuence which had made me their Enemy,

let "barking," and peaceably went to their
everal hornes. Next day I parted for x
Rome, where Iaw the ruins ofthe Triumphs
of ome great Men, asv well as ofAges : I ad
mired thoeil'ovdy Relicle and the Repairs

of (bme of them made by the Modern. A:

length, havin ayed there a fortnight in

Company of" onieur de Cyram my Coun,
who advanced me Money-for my Return,
I went to Cz'az'ta oecchia, and embarked ina

Galley that carried me to Ma'iller. Du

ring all this Voyage,my mind run upon no- _
thing, but the Wonder: of the la I made.

" At that time'l began the "Memoires of it z

_ and after myzrerum,-p\rtit*hemintoas good

order, as same, WhidhctCOnnes me to'Bed,

would permit.
*

foreeing, that it will

Put

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ut an end to all my Studies, and Travelsz

that I may beas good as m word to the

Council o that World z [gave begg'd o

Monjieur le Bret, my deare and mo con
ant Friend, that he would publih them,
with the Hiory o the Republick of'be Sun,
that of the Spark, and ome other Pieces of
my Compoing, i thoe who have Stolen

them from us; reore them to him, 'as I ear

nely adjure themto do. *

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OF THE

STATES and EMPIRES

OFTHE

xWORLD

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Written in French by erana Bergemc.
And now Englihed by A. Lovell. A. M

LoNDON,
Printed for Henry Rhoder, next door to
Swan-chiern, near Bride-Lane in Flee:
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ty of our Voyage, we mutually embrac'd, _

and took ourleaire one-Df another, .l For

um part, eingintheWorld of the Moon',
w ence I came, 'a Song goes for Money,and
that I held quite 'forgot the ue o it 5 jthe

hone Maernthought himl ucientl

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par

' The Hiory of the

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paid for my paage, by the Honour he had

of carrying (in Board a Man who had dropt
from Heaven: So that nothing hindred our
Progre to -a Friends Houe o mine near
Thou/oue. I was impatient o 'ceing him,
in hopes that-I might fill him with joy by
the Relation of my Adventures, _l__1liall

not trouble you with an account of all that

happened to me upon the Roadz Itired
my elf, and took rez I felt h'un er and

thir,
drankHounds,
and eati'mid
a ak,
tiwentyand
or thirty
that belong'ectho
him.
Though] yvas
much dis
ured,
lean
and Sun-burnt,
'he knew
me For
all thatz

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m
=-*

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being tranported with Joy, he ew about

Tam

my Neck, and having in a'n Extaie oCon

tent kiied me above an hundred times, he

pulled me into his Houe, where o oon as
Tears had given way to Words :' We live

L._.L_L_-. _

E'_

' now,_at length, cried he, and hall live,

arb-qkd

in pightjo all the Accidents, wherewith

Fortune'hath' toed our Life. But, Good
God! Itwas a nut- report then, that you
were burnt 'in Canada, 'in that great Fire

work,nevertheles,
whereof you
the: Peons
Inventor?
LAnd
twowere
or ctthtee
'o *
Credit, among thoe who'
rue-the
ad Tidings, worekt'o mejthat they had' (ben

and touched
that Bird of o ded;
wasteth _
Ly'ou
'Were 'hurried_away,'
'They'toldi-'inq
vthat
'* it 'Was

your Misfortune
- i fro'go into 'it
at

"Big

iRUL:_

A?

World-vngrEaSaa;

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- at the 'very inant ahsy_--ipu& Fire IPi-ixz

and that the rapid-Foment thesquibs, that

burnt all round it, carried. Mnohigb-'tbet
the Spectatoralo igbU-ifryphv':

charge

they proteed,you were-armharzdegree conr

umed,rhac rhchachina fall'mgAlmot-gain;

i'ery little'ofgourAveszr-tzere ,to_ 'e
vh r-._

Ihee Ahes, Sir,,then, anwered _.I,--we_re_the' r

Ahes oftheMaehine itzldfz (for thejirp'

e'tlzi'd;\1r>tiuaert-h*= lea hunta NNW-WHAT

were faenedpn she. matick-r, and by FQ-D?

equencerrheireat would WFJHCOWQW me'

I'.-

'*' '.

* 3 I) "Sm-

l'---3

-.Now.you r'nu knowrrhatzaoonasie'

Saltvpcfr-Maspcm; rtbe-&mhemousx fared
of, the Fireaworks being no' longer gablep

bear up the Machine, it fell tOKhchrQWil

blaW-it fall-5 _ andrwhenzlsthonght to have

rtum'bled damaged-longwirh fatal; was-re

- fry- mueh urpriaed to _-nd,that [mounted

up towards the Moon. But [mu eigle

tofyou the Caue of aneect, which you

they, lookuponzasa Miraclea,

r , _-' .
_ i, 'e,'-Day.-when thatAzccident happened,
I had, becaueof ome bruisvrubbedvngy
:Body, 'all over with Marrowapl Now the"

-Maon being thenin the Wain, at which'

itiur'e
attractsMarrow,__
he anointed
uckt upmy
[o
agreedily
thatiwherewithd had

zFrlehz-epeeially When my box awas _.;go_t _ as

&OR-heWUQKCZIYWMCBQCLOud-Pai
,

a' ,'

KH

a.

The Hiory of the

ter'poed to Weaken her Inuence," that my

Body followed the Attractionz and I pro
te? (he cODtiiiued "to luck _me up o long,
' 'that at lengtiari'riVed at that World,which
here they call-the _MOOn; - '
cZ'ZThen I tol'd him' in-full allxthe particulars

of' my Voyage,- and Moneur de Colignac, ra

'V'ihed to hear things o extraordinary, ad

_R'WP

n-'jo
"P=z_A.

tjured me t'o Put-'themin Writing. I, who

dove Repoe, declined it as long asl could,
W'reaon 'of 'the Viits that uch' a Publica

'tion in all probability would procure vme z

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but being out of Countenance at the Re

'rbachmhereWith he conantly baited me,
v"that I made ight of his Entreatiesz I reol
ved at length 'to give him that atisfaction.
'I put Pen to Paper then, and he being more
'impatiently tickled with my glory, than his
'ownz no ooner had l made'an end o- 'a

Sheet, but he haened with

to Tbaulau,

there to giva it vent in the mo ingenious

Aemblies.

Seeing he had' the Reputation

of one of the Wittie Men of the Age, my

Praies, of which he was the indeatigable

Herald, made me known of all Men.

The

' Engravers,without ever having een me, had

already engraven my Picturez and theHaw

kers unned the whole City, crying abodt

the Streets till they were hoare again,
Who'll [my the Pictnre of the Author of the
State: and Empire: of 'be Moon. Among
*
thoe

World of the Supra; '

* 51:

thoe who read my Book,_there. Were a;

D-

great many lgnorants that were likewile,

8,

medling.

Ch

Wits of the - highe ight , applauded, '

Thee that they might act the, .

its
nld'hollll,

as others did, clapt at every Word, for

fear of being miaken, and ravihed with
delight, cry'd, It's good! evenwhere they;
underood not a tittle :_. But SuperitiOnv
diguized
into
RemOre,
hath
very
harp Teeth
under
a Fool's which
Coat, lb
knaw'di

u- .
nezit

the Heart of them, that they choe rather

to renounce the Reputation of a Philoo
pher, which, indeed, was a Habit that did

me,

not at all become them, than to anwer for

zo':
&on.
rot
ihi
oz
szt

it at the day of Judgment. U

Here, then, is the Ptevere of the Medal,
he's the be Man now that can retract r.
The work they had o much eeemed, is
no
moreTales,
now abut
a Hodge-podge
ridi
culous
heap
of incoherent of
Shreds,

in;

a Fardel of idle ories, to wheadle young

tion
m)
ablt

Children to Bed with5 and ome who hard

ly underood the Grammar of it, condem
.ned the Author to Bedlam

The

This' clahing of Opinions betwixt the

had . Wife-men and Fools, encreaed its Reputa

szNur

tion. Shortly afterwards Manucript-copies

of it were old privately 5 all the World,

tain,

and what is out of the World alo, that's

'zlc

* to ay, all from the Gentleman tothe Monk,

zg:

brought Up the piece: nay, and the Wo

ot

B 3

men

53 '

TZEeFHibry

Athe

mgncam-'hrai hare t'ooz every Faas'xly- _

-_ Was divid'," And the lme'reis of that

*
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quhrr'ewem ad-"far, 5thatche Whole City"

koke intq two; the Lhmctrimd Ailhmf Fae

4'

tions.
*'.' ' '
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3- 'Thus
t-heWZai' carried-on by Skirmi'hihgp, When-lpne' Morning I perceIVed nine
'r ten Beirzisbf the lo'ng'llobe enter Ca-

*<
' V
<<

igh'de Chamb'gfh who' preently poketd _

- him td'thi's'rpoc. V Sir, vydu know that

U
z

'*nyfour
there"Aliei,
is' tibiibman
oheo- ushe're,
whoandis that
no'S
or Friend,

* **V

e QbyconqueneenoDigz-'acecan befalyou',

e but what' mu'reect upon us: Never- ' a

A." theles we'areihormed'frpm' good hands,
a
it that you-'Enfenain a Sorcerek iyour ., V
F'Houi: : AQSorcerer, cried Coligmtc i * a]
'GGOQd
! Name
me,>\_agdl'll
9? ddli'VeFGod
himru
into him
yourto "Hands
z\'b__ut
V[e
St'ybu WET-have deare it be not a Calum-

it]

'How-5
"Sit, (Said dne
moany
veT? nexable,
it'ikerrupting
him ofthe
5 is there
' E'F'Pa'tliainent there skilkcd in Wizards than

' in,et

Hours? In "a wb'-dI Dear Nephew, that

Yf
may bold You do longer in upence ,
Hihe Sbrcerer whOm we accue, is the Auf'hdr
Smtes deny,
and Empire:
of the
'Moonof: He eabxwt
having confeed

'u

he hngdnnem thatHow
he isisthe
'ifE'vhat
eR M'ag'rcian_inBur0pP,
it greakz
po* Kf je
up'T- tb the
'. tg ghoupg.
'
' MbonzWithoutthe
When),

la
a:a:
<<u

_ __,_-v* -_-*_v**_<w

led of thefctthli,

a help Of-- - a; IJdare tibtfnametbe Bea; '

" for in hort, telle'me, what' went kid-222.'
V bout to do in the Moone!" A pretty.r

U queion, (aidanother-interruptingzz..hr 7
' '-' went to be preizntat a meeting 'that pa-3;
*' ibly waslrept there'that day: - - And-am,
" deed, you rke he' was'acquainted' with'
a the Demott of'Spcmrer'. = 'Ate you urpti-o"
5" zed then," that' the Devil, 'at he "aith,- a

" brought hirrrback again iii'tbtbisWotld-h

" But hovvever'it be, look-ye, o mahyr

V Moons, o many Progrees and Voyages A

"F through the Air', are good for nothinng
*' [ay nothing at-'all zand betwixt you and
" me, (at thee words he put his Mouth't'd '
"the others Ear) l never knew a'orcetei

" but had Commerce with the Moon. Af

ter thee good Counc'ds they held their
peace z and Coligmc ood o amazed at
their' Common Extravagance, that he could

not peak one word .- Which a grave Corn

comb,who had aid nothing asy'et,perceiv

ing. '* Look you, ays he,Couin, weknow

** where the matter pinches 3 the Magician
V is a peron whom you love, but be not L 1 _ -' -

" artled, for your ake avour hall be

5' hewn him, only deliver him fairly over
*' rous, and in conideration of you we
** engage Our Honour, to have him burnt

'4 without Scandal.

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Colrg-Z

TheHz'ory of the.

r?"- Colignac, atthefe words, thoughhe held

his ides,- could-not hold, bUt 'bur otu in

' to;a_t of. Laitughter; which did not a little

oered the Gentle/en his 4Kinmen z inn;

omuch. thatrhe _had'no 'power to make an
wer toany point of?their Harangue, * but by
la'a-daa's or ' hoooo's,5*.whi'ch_. 'o zcandalized
hiscyvorthy Relations, that they-departed

Withihame enough to carrybackwith them

tow'ilaae;
.When;they.
l drew
Galig'zaccti'mrqhis
Gloet, wetegone,
Where o oon
as I
_ had-hut'theFDOor,-*Count,. aid. I, to him,

Theie-long-bearded Ambaadours I don't

iike,=.rhey eem.to me to be: bl'a'zing Starsz

'lr'mtaraid thenoiethey have, made, may

bathe clap of-ithe Thunder- bolt that's. rea
dytto fall. ,.Though'their Accuation be ri
, diculohs,=and,*
an les
"eect
of Man,
their
Stuctpidity: yet Iperhaps,
hall beno
a dead
'bhoughza dozeni-McnzctzSdrie,who may ee
meloaed, rh'ouldctay' that myjudges are
&Stag-rallthe Arguments they: might ue to
prove' my renomee would not bring me
toizagainz- and myAhes would be every
jot'- asxoldlinfarave, as in the'iopenAir':
ndrheresre; zWith-Submion to your

better 'J ignidnt; I hould joyfully conant

to a'Temptationanything-eih-this
which ugges tozProvi-nee
me, no:
Ioleaveigthemf

_but my Picture: For it 'would-make me

A Bath-tarting mad, to die _for a thing which

'agn

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zzti

World

.itljeszif

i rg

I-z'donit believe; K'Colignac, -hmd7har'dly, the,

Patience to hearmeom; v However, atz r!
BD-Di-MT I'T

he 'did but railly me; but'_wzhen,.-he1 aw,

that! was in earne .- Hal- sideath, cried.
he, before
they
touch ahaixzoijourHead
Iimy
elf; my
Friends,
Vaalsand all than i

repect me, hall-zPerih rt; zMy Houe'

cannot be-Fired-withOUtCannonz it and ,.

advantagioulyzz and. is well flAnkgd .* But

I'm a-'againzctthe
Fool, continued
to caution myt
'lf
thunderhe,
of Parchment:
ltsx _ '

hmetimes more to 'be feared, replied-1,

than
the Thunder
Of the-econd
Region ..of
he.All'-v
.'
,.'
T, r Zt From that time forwardvye talked oftno-z

thing but diverting our zelves, One day

.we
hunted, another.
We walkt. and
took
the
Airzlometitnes
,we-.re,ceived
jViits,
i_ and
ometimes Weirendted them; .ln a word we
alwayschan ed ourecreationsefore they
became tire ome._,

,_ _

- . The Marque of Cuav, a Man who un

derands
World, was
ct us,
and .Wethe
with<him5
andcommonly
to renderwith
the

places of out abode the more agreeable by

' vicitude, we went from Coligmc toCuan,

'and returned from Cran to Coligmc. The

>-s='*'($
'ef

, innocent Pleaures which refreh the Body,

made but the lea part ofours. We want
ed none of thoe that the mind can nd

in Study and Converationz "and out Libra

-

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ries

' Lo, ,

The Hiory of the

' riesxuniting like our minds, broughall the

Learned into our Society. We mingled

reading
with
Converationz
Converation
with
good
Cheer,
that with Fihing,
Hunt- _ .i
ing, or Walkingz and in a word, I may
ay, we in'oyed out elves, and whatever

Fature hat produced for the Pleaure of

ife, and ued our Reaon only to limit our
Deires. In the mean time, to the prejudice

o' my rep'oe, my Reputation pread it el

in the Neighbouring Villages, nay and in
the Towns and Cities o the Provincez all

Men being invited by the current Report,

made a pretext o. coming to ee the Lord,

that they might ee the Sorcerer. When I
went abroad, not only Women and Chil

dren, but the Men alo ated at me, as i _ '\

I had been the Bea. Epecially, the Paor
of Coligmrc, who, whether out of Malice or
Ignqrance, was in (ceret my greate Ene- r
my. That Man being in-ap'pearance im

ple, and of a lowand plain Spirit, which

made him very pleaant in a kind of natu
ral B-luntnes,' was in reality a very wicked
Fellow : He was revengeul even to Furyz

a Backbiter omewhat more than a Normanz

and o great a Barretter, that the love of
Wrangling and going tolaw was his predo

minate Paton. Having been a long time _

atLaw with 'his Lord, whom he hated the
more,as that he had ound him rm again-all
'
'
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'World

the Sun:

r-t

hisAttaek-s, _ lie-feared his Reentment, and'

that he might aVOid it, had'oered to ex- >

change his Living: But; whether he had
changed his Deign, or had only deferred
itto be revenged on Coligmcin my Peron,
during the time that he continued in his
place, he rove to perwade the contrary;
thOUgh the frequentdlourneys he made to
Thou/arie gavegroun s to-uect it. There >
he told a Thouand ridiculous ories of my
Enchantmentsz and the Suggeions of that
malicious Man, concurring with the Voice
of the imple and ignorant People, made 'my
Name accured in that place : They talk
ed no otherwie vof me thario a new A

grippaz and we hadtlnformation, that'a'

ProcesWas even commen'ced again me,

at the [hit of the Cutate, who had been

* Tutor to his Children.

This we had

Notice of from everal Perons,

who

concerned themelves in the Aairs of

- Coligmrc and the Marques. And al

though the blockih Humor of an entire

Countrey, was to us a Subject of Amaze
ment and Langhterz neverthele I was
tartled at it in private, when [more near

ly conidered,the troubleome Conrquen

ces that uch an Error might produce. My
good Geniw, without' doubt, gave me the
Alarumz it enlightned my Reaon with

thee notices, to let me ee the Precipice in

'

to

'a

- The-'Hiory rf the

to-which I YWZS ready to tumblez and nOt

thinking it enough thustacitely to advie me, it; reolved- to vdeclare more ex'prely.
in.,.my Favors. AA' mo troubleome Night
having ucceeded one o the pleaante,

Days that we, had pent at Coligme, I aroe .

by Break of Day 5._and to diell the Clouds
and_Ca;res,t-hat ill dulled and dicornpoed
myMind, _l went into the Garden, where
Verdure
Flowers
Artthe
andEyesz
Na
Fiure, charmed
theand
SoulFruits,
through
whenat the ame'inantl erceived the Mar
ques,walking by him-Zl ,wit_h a (low Face,
and penive Countenance, in a large Alley,

which dividedthe Garden into two. I was

much. urprieditgzz ee him, contrary to
Cuom, o earlyz, that made me haen up

}Q_him, that' _I-might ask him the 'reaon o

it, He made me anwer, that ome trouble
ome Dreams, wherewith he had been di
ordered,fwa_s_ vthe Caue, that contrary to
' Cuom, hevwas come o early _to cure by

Day,an Evilhe had contracted in' the Night.

1 confeed _to him,_t_hatza like Misfortune
. had hidCdeC tern leeping, and was a.
bout to tellhim; the Particulars thereoz
_but ju as I._..w2_ts_,.opening my Mouth, we

perceived at the Cornel- _o a railed Walk,

.__which croied into ours, Coligmc coming
7in great hae. So oon ,_as he aw us at a -

, diance_,Ge_ntlemen, cried he, take here

.

'
l

one

World of the Su'rz'; v

13

one who hath ju ecaped'rorn the mo

dreadfulViions, that are ableito turn the'

Brains ofa mortal Man. I could hardly take

time to put on my Doublet, ibeore I came
down to give you an account-o my Adi
venturez but nd-ing neitherco; you in
your Chambers,'I haenedzto
uppoing
youimig'ht
be there." the
'TheGarden;
Truth
is, the poor Gentleman was. almo out of
Breath. So oon ias he hadtakend little '
Breath, we 'entreated 'hint to eae himelf

oa matter, which, though many, times .v'e

ry ight, neverthele 'Weighs heavy. I de'
ign to do o, replied he; biltzlet's r ;it

down. An Arbor ofJeami>netoered us

very [Sat both Seats and Shade:,We enter'
ed it, and every one being placed, *Cdlzgnhc
thus continued :- You mu know, that af
ter two or three diurbed-Sleep-s, [fellaw
bout Day-break intofa Slumber, wherein
I dream'd, that m'y dear Gdei there, Was

in the middle, betwiirt-the Matqes and

me, and that we embraced him raightly,
when a black Moner, 'coniing wholly
'of Heads, came all of? a, tidden' to natch

him from us: Nay, I fancy'd,z- he Was'abom

'to throw him into a great Firc,< kindled

hard byz for already he helddritn upend
ed over the Flamest But aVirgin, like one
of the' Mues, whom they call Euierpe, ell

' upon her Knees before a_ Lady; Whom

adju

34

Tin-&Hiory. - the"

adjnred to ve him (that Lady had the

Brence,and-\Marzks which Painters uisio

give in repreenting of. Nature) Hardly *

had he heard out the'Prayerszof her Wait
ing-amid, when rall amazedz Alas! cried
he, he is one of our Friends. Jumediarted

'ly thereuponzzhe put to her 'Month a kind

d a long Pipe, like a Saclibut; and blew

o ongthroughxit, undervthe-E'eet of, my

dear 'Guehzthnt he made him/mount up
to'ZxHeaven, and. protected him from the

Gmelties o. the Moner with an 'hundred

Heads. rIzzincdeihat I. cried a longctime
tet bing. 'and Ladji'ar'd; him not tO-bezgmie_
without' me z - when 'an innite mnmbenw

Jiwie roundA

els, whocalledzthemelves

B-_n _

the Child-ten' o the iMorningzicarried me

to the ame Countrey whither heeamed
to y, and hewed me -things*Whi0h-=_lrhall
not relate, becaue lloolr.v
n them' as riz

>diculous. Webehught'bim, th the would

tell usihemhowever. limang my elf,
continuedhe, to be in the Sun, and that'

'the Sun'was a World. zl had been ill in'

the ame Miake, had not the neighingo.

any Hore awakned me, and convinced
Athat I was a Bed. When .thev_:Marques
perceived that Coligmc had made an end:

:.Well, then, aid he, Monieur 'Pyram- *

zwhat was your Dream 3 As for miner'

ariwered I, though it. be nowulgarDmgm,

-=_

yet

l-'-'_-2.5MA":d=*:r.-n m

'V

World of-tb

1'

\1_5

yerl- lay no (hes upOn it. I am a bilious

Melancholick; 'and 'tha't's the reaon' that

all y'Hfdt'fme I have dreamt o nuthing

but bf Caves and Fire. 'In thev ime of my
Y'O'uth, -I fancied in mySleeprat *l was be; x
dom'e light; iand mak-'a ight up to the

Clouds, 'that 'I might avoid a the Rage of'a

TCompany of Mardemrs that purued me';

but that after a lo'ng Pand vigorous-Att'empt,

ame Wall'alvvay's 'withtood niethough'ri _
had 'urmounte'd a great many -0tbe'rsz

the Foot
whergo,
tired
out10"
with
and
'La bour,
I i"ma-ver
failed
b'e Sttuging
opt 3 qr
otherv'viiz,
I- imihgined
that-I
Wook my
Fligbt rightifupwa'r
s, though'
Iieimed
hi

a long timeio have wumjin-the -Skies,y'et

I llfound my-lncalf the' Earth-3, and coa
trary to all reaon, though I "thought my
(Elfneitherweajy nor heavy, yet I was ill
'Within reachlof- my'Enemies, who tretch
ed forth 'their Hands 'to catch me by the

Foot; and pull me to 'them- Since I knew

'any thing', [never had 'any Other Dream's
. but nch as "this, Unles la-'nightz when

havi ng, according to'mY'Cdm', iown a '

long while,-- and ot'eh 'kaed "from my
'Perecut'ors,*
'Piou'ght
m:3 it'
length',
that-1
-lo>ight'*bf'the,m
s' and? that
an open
'and "

&eat-Sky, * gh'yl-Bb'dy eaed dl-Hea'viM,

[puried my Vdj/a'g'ehto 'a iParac'ae'where

1-Light-ande'5t-arehatched; v tabula-with'
on'

z16, a

Theliefy the.

' murdoubtr oberved-as greatzmaey other

Fhiugzzbut tharmy. 'Agitation to! yzbrought

me o - near the Beds ide: that 21; fell-uan

the Floor-en, my naked Belly, with Eyes

Full-open; This, Gentleman is thczhgtt

and long _oE mYLDreamtz zwhiph .l= Onlynlk
ripen-as Sun-Eef-t-nf thoe two .' anlitiea
ghat
PteSPredominantiti-zmy.dierent-'fng
Ganhtusiona
Iforthroughctthjsibe
a little'

'thoe which; I commle have a? in What 'I

ex'wzup-to &clear-m withoutzfelling bashz
yerzlzpuiyfaoribn that; Alteration-m: my t

Blood;
byrthe-Rlcauresoourer
erdactyz'sdilated
Diuerohs,
whichzhathdiipated *
MYTMCKWLMHPM by buoyipg- o ituupf,
Fleatcdz-zit..:ftom._-that Weightineie- which

helde memmble: dawn;- a-gaitl t. But after

all, thatisa-fveryv'conjectural sciencezliFazith,

rantiznutd Law-mon artzin-zbeltightzoe

it'saquger'ppdgef ofall. the-things we have

thought opjxjhen awake, :a_ monrous Chi

zmeraf, a Maer o conueqlzlldea's, which

- the Pancygthat during Sleep," is not gui

dded bszzeaon, preentsto us, without

erderz
outo
we think
to
queeze
thewhich
true nevertheles,
Meaning,-,andv
draw
from Dreams, as from Qracles, . the KHOWF
fledge of things futurez. but 31; yow, [could
never nd any other Conformity betwixt

'ii
By

zthem; but that Dreams, like Oracles, can

.npt be underande HOWFYW 'judge

35) .>

I e

<Prpim_'

World of the Sun.- *

17
he worth o all the re, by mine which is .
not at all extraordinary. I dreamt that
was very ad, vand that] met with) Djrcozizt
in all places, who called for our Aanceo
But without beating m Brains any more,
about the Explicati'op o thee 'dark Riddlesz

I'll tell y'e their Myical sene in two'

Wordsz
that's,
troth,
our
Dreams atand
Caligaac
are invery'
bad, that.
and that-i
i you'll take rny Advice, we'll go'andhave
._.='-_
H-g;

.nd.
-.._F
1?

better at Cuan. Let's go, then, .aid the

Count tqme, -mce this Man is o uneaiq
here.
We reolved
to 'be
tame _
dayz and-i
prayed them
to etonepthe
,out,beore,
becaue l was willing, eeing (as they
agreed upon it) we were to be there a '

Month, to have ome 'Books carried alongv

-F

with me .j They condecended, and imme:

diately after Breath-fa 'got on [Fork-back,

In the mead time; l. packed UP ome V.0

lumes, Which limgined not to be in the"

Library
of three
Cyan,in put
upon aet,Male;
and
about
the' them
Afternoon
outct
upon a very good Pad. _ However, lwcne

but a Foobpace, that Imight attend my

little Library, and at more leiure enrich
my mind with the Liberalities of my ight,
Butuctrprii:
lien to
an_Adventtire,that will certain?
" ly
Yon.

>_ [was
gotqrwards
four
Leagctues,
when oh
Ifoundjourney
my elfabove
ina;
C

Country'

'I 8

The Hiory of the

Country which I was certain l had een

omewhere ele before: The truth is, lol
licit'ed my Memory o much to tell me, how
I came to know that Landskip, that the pre
ence o the Objects, reviving pa lmages,
Iremembred that that was exactly the place,
which the Night before [had een in a
Dream. That odd rencounter Would have
zFJ-A-'_4H_.LA_
d

buied my thoughts longer than it did, had

I not been diverted by a range Appariti
On. A Spirit, ( at lea I'took it for one )

meeting me in the middle o the way, took

hold of my Hore by the Bridle. . ,This

'd
d
2:77.;
L-cn-c

, Ehantome was of a prodigious 'Shape, and

what Icould gues by the little I aw of his v

. Eyes, had a urly and ern Look;

[can

not tell, though, whether he was handome

or ugly; or along Gown made of the

Leaves of a Church plain Song-Book, co
r:

\ vered him to the Fingers-ends, and hisFace

was hid under a thing like a Horn-Book,

wherein was written the in Principio.

The

r Words that the Phantome uttered, were

with great amazementltS'aiam-r Diaholaer, I

conjure thee [a] the Greet and Living God,

---at thee Words he uck, but ill rep'eatin

'I the Great and Living God, and with a wilg
and skared Look, caing about for his Pa'u ,

or to blow into him the re z when he

ound, that to what ide oever he looked,

his Paor was not to be een, he ell into'

ich.* a dreadful
haking "Fit,
ex-z
\
' _ that
' '* by hisitra

dhn gn(7*mHL-J

Wo'rld qf the sz'i

tfaordinary thattering and didderin'g'hbne

halfthe
bMbic
is'Te'etb'
drbptunenwhich
out', and tWo
Thirdvs
d
i-'nO't'es*,
helurkt;

ew
n 'e Thie;
game,
back',-db'Of
hoWiever',
tc'Mards.Down.
me, AndHe'With
if
Look that eemed neither7 o n'b_r urly, by'
Which I perceived he? Was in" dou'bt Wha'f ,
co'ur'i: Was b'c o'k him. tb' take, whether td

be roughDiabaliu,
or mild:by"o!aid hee'
he,
Safdn'w'r
'be wenchen,
Blaod I cojctui-e
in i/Je Nailie of God, died of Mu-Jobr'z',, let'
'He do my Bit'm : For f/an' irre/I efz'F'Zn-nV
Hand or Fo'o'tz Devil talqu-thy Guh" afe',
1 hadbei'ng*alni'
a lah at himebb-siked
withxhe
Bridle'
[Veins i'*'but
_wifh
langhte'ir;

had little' rbngfh t doj any thing: Beidejs'

that, Cam'ei-dut
ab"on ha'l
a 'hunafed
Cbuntry walk;
Ped
ple,
from'
behi'ind aHedge,

ing uponWith
their,Kjrie
Knees,
and tearing't'hei'
Throatis
Eleibnf.
' When' they"
Wake' get n'af'enough, ow' o the' ron

g'e of the KUUt, having r plunged lt'eifr'

&Nd

Hands' inxd' (a'l Holy Wa'tgrzpjo't, 7 Which Way"

pu-rpvely carried? bijhe Pried's Man',

ca'ug'tichold
_<'>'_}_me by
Neck,- MapNo qd'
c'r
was 1 a-tc'ettea;_
B'II'ctt_t_h*e
it! come?
Job-2a
-'v-'n
n-rgon

Wva dqufnlfjnng'ddr his'krol'e; bound'

me
(hit Wl"an'dctChildfen,
't'z and, p'rnily
sike-3p'ighjt
aotk
o'f'wou'ieki
thin
or .

'all'tthad 'r chhid- wake', Mexd

bi a" 'g'i'Eat' Sneet' 'zv Wigarejn I Was ib dkztf

20.
The Hiory of the teroully wadled, that nothing was to be
een o me but the Head. ln this Equipage
they carried me to Thaulouez as i they

had been carrying me to myrGrave: By

' and by cried one, Had not this been done,

We hould have had a Famine, becaue,

when they met me, [was certainly going
to lay a Spell upon the Cornz and then I
heard another complaining, that the-Scab

' did not begin among his Sheep, till of a

Shdday, when the People were coming from
Vejm, [clapt him on the Shoulder. But'
in pighto all my Diaers, I could hard

ly orbea'r to laugh, when] heard a young Country Girl, with a dreadful Tone, cry
after her Sweet-heart, did: the Phantome,

who had eiz'd my Hore. ( For you mu

know, that the Younger had got on the
Back o him, and purr'd him briskly, as if
. he had been his own already,) Wretch, '
bauled out his Duckling, What art blind
then .? Does n't ee that the Magician's
Hore is blacker than Coal, and that it is

the Devil in Peron carrying thee away to

t ameetingo Witches? Our AmOrousClown
terried at that, rumbled backwards o'ver
the Beas Tail 5 b that m Hore was tt 'at X

Liberty.

They conulte whether or not

they hould eize my Mule, and agreed in

the Armativez but having unrit the Pack,
' and at the opening of the rBook hitting
I, A
.
p upon

World of the Sun.

iai

Decartee: Phyicks, when they 'aw the \

Circles whereby that Philoopher diingui
hes the Motions o the everal Planets, all
o them with. one voice roared out,- that

they were the Conjuring Lines,l ued to draw

- for raiing of Beelzelmb. He that held it in his
Hands, eized with a panick fear, let it fall;
and by michance, it opened at a Page,
where the Virtues of the Load-one a're
explained : lay, by michance z becauib,

in the place 'I peak of, there is a Cut o that

Metallick Stone, where the little Bodies,
that are let looe from the whole, to faen
to the Iron, are repreented like Arms. No
ooner 'had one of the Racals perceived it,
but I heard him crea-rn out, that that was,

the TOad which was ound in the Manger

of his Couin Dick's Stable, when his Hores

died. At that Word, they Who eemed to *

be in the greate heat,clapt their Hands in

to their Booms or Packets. Ma Je'ng

cried with open Mouth, that they hould
take pecial care not to touch any things
that all thee were Books of down-'right

Conjuring, and the Mule a Satan. The

Rabble thus rightened, let the Mule depart
in Peace. Nevertheles, -I_ aw Joan the
Paron's Maid drive him towards her Ma
er'sStable, for fear he might get into the
Church-yard, and there pollute the Gra'

of the departed. '

C3

' It
O

a:

The Hiory of th' .

_ It was-fullseveno theClock at Night,

vWhen we arrived at a Town, where for 'my

" Reiehmsnr I was dragg'd 'to nal: Far

rhtReader would not believe me, 'if l aid

aw-eI:-A._._-_

that they Buried me alive in a Hole .- And

nevertheles it is true, that with One'tutn

I urveycd the whole extan a it.- In a
p Word, there was nopBody that aw me in

-'l-H

that-Place, but would have taken me for a

. bit of Wax-Candle, lighted under a CUP?

ping-Glas. At- r, when my Qoachr turn,- _

ed me into thatpave; I you give me, aid

EL

Firm
m-f'n
H--*-r1
'Ya-'r'
-'q-u_4n_>-.'x_m4

1 to him, thisStoneGarment for aDoubler,

it is;th bigz but if it be or a Tomb, it's .

too little.

The days here are only to be

recknnsd by Nightsz of my ve Stns, I

retain only theiuc of rwg, Smelling and

*Fecli.ngz the One, to make In? enbl; of the ink of my'Prion 5 and ths: other, In
render it Palp'ableto mc- In reality, 1.- prn

teth you, I hOuld think Iwcrc damned,

if
[knew-,not
rollen.v
zf- that
.. no Innocent Peron gates
_

At that ward longer-nt, tthQalrr bur

PLUF into. Langhtrr- Nay,.Faixh, aid he,
you
of any
onr under
right. Birds
then,
for I
neverareyrtonekept
my Hey,
bmuzirh.
thlemsn as thee After our: either *
Complimnts aof. that, Nature z * zhs goad
Man, took the pains to. rith Irn, lknpu nar

--n.

_
.

._ ._-, .

'en what deignz but becage of the Dill; -_

_,
ba'

'

gence

World of the Sun.

93

gtnce he ued, l conjecture it was for what -

. I had. The pains he took in earching be

ing all in vain, becaue during, the Battel
of- Diabolw, Ihad conveyed my Gold into
. my-Stockingsz when after a mo-exact A
natomy, he ound his hands as empty asbe

orez both o us- were within an Ace Of

Death, I for eat, and he or grief. S'ounds,
' cried he, foaming at the Mouth, at r ight
I knew he was a- Sorcerer, he's ass-poor as
the Devil.

Go, gO, Comrade, continu

' v ed he, mind the Aairs oyour Concience

in time.

He had no ooner-laid i), but

that l heard the'knell of-a'bunch of Keys,

among which, he lookt for thoe of my

Dungeon. 'His back was turnedz and
therefore for fear he might take his revenge ,

for the misfortune of his Viit, I cunningly

pull'd three Pioles out o their Ne, ay.
ing to him, Maer Houeokeeper, there's
a Piole, pray end me a bit o omewhat,

for I have not eat thee eleVen hours pa.

He tookit very avorably, and protecd

he was troubled at my Misfortune. When I
perceived he- was a little molliedz come,
here's another, continued l, as an Acknow- .

ledgtnent o the Trouble, I am ahamed to

give you-At once he opened hisEar, Heart,
andHand z and I added, making them up

three; ineado two, that: by the third I

' begg'd of him to let one of his Men came
_

and
\
\

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The Hiory of the

and keep me Company, becaue the unforz'

ought to dread
Solitude.
'
'
tunate
i Being'ravihed
at' my
Prodigalities,
he

prOmiEd me all things,"embraced my Le'gs,

railed again the Juice; 'to'ld me, that he
dwell erceived] had Enemies, but-that!
houl come o 'with Honour; that I h0ul_d

take good Heart; and that in the mean

time, he engaged himielf before three days

Were over, to have my Cus Wait for me.

I thanked Xhim very eriouly for his Courtei

e; Neck,v
and mytill
dear
havingrangled
hung about
lr'ny
heFriend
had almo
me,
-'went his way, _bolting and double bolting

the Door. '

*
'* '
'
' * [remained alone, and very Melancholick,
lying round u'pon a little old Straw, redu

"ced 'almot into Du. However, it was

_not yet
o mall,
_bu't athat
aboveof
hala
'dred
Rats
were ill
grinding
it. ' hun'
The
2Vault,' Walls', andv Floor, were made up of

"x Grave-Stones,__that having Death over,

* zmder and about r'ne, [might not quei
on my Enterrment.

The cold Slime of

and 'the
'_rdapy the
Venom
Toads,
, -Snail's,
'drOpt upon
my Fctacez"
Fleas of
'there
had
Teeth longer ethan their Bodies z' l found
my elf tormented with the Stbne, which
'Was'hot the lefe ainul, becaue it 'was Eit
- ernall' _In a Word, vfl'a'ncfy thath wanted

Lridrnorc bur'a Wife, and 'a' 'Put-(heard 'to

make me a real Jaw

B-q-_=-._-_

World of the Sun.

a;

v I had, however, overcome all the Hard.

hips of two very irkom Hours, when the
noie o a' Gros of Keys, with the ratling
othe Bolts o my Door, diverted me from

mindin my Pains. After the jingling noie,

'bya litt e Lamp-light, I perceived a urdy
Clown. He unloaded an earthen Dih be

tween my Legs: And there, there, aid he,

be not diurbed, there's a good Cabage

Sopp for ye; and were it

but indeed it
is my Mires's own Soopz and faith and
troth,as the aying is, there is not one drop

of the Fat taken oon't. Havin 'aid o, he

dives his four Fin ers and Thum to the ve
ry bottom Of the Eih, to envite me to do

. the like. 'I followed my Copy , for fear o

'dicouraging himzand he with a jdyful glance

.toan Eye, S' diggers, cried he, you are an

hone Brother. Theyzay you've got Ill
willers: S'lid they are Traytorsz yes Dad,
they are very Traytors : Well,wou'd they'd
come hete and ee. Ay, ay, it is oz he goes

'fir that leads the Dance. This blunt sim

'plicity brought a t of. Laughter two or
'three times up to my very Throat. Howe

verI was o happy" as to check it: I percei

ved, that
ofthis
Regne,z
eemed
toFortune,
oectr meby
an means
occaion
oLiberty
'and therefore it extreamly concerned me to
'gain his Favorz or otherWie to ecape, it

was impoible. The Architector that built.

.

my

26

The

of the

my Prion, having made my Entries into it,

did not bethink himelfof making one Our

let.

NeV--_.t._
Jw'
hc'm

Thee Coniderations were the Caue,

. that to ound him, I pake tohim to this pur

poe,My good Friend, thou art a poor man,

is n't that true? Alas! Sir, anwered the

Clown, had you been with the cunning

Man, you could not have hit righter. Here
then, aid I, take that Piole.

_ I ound his hand'to hake o, When I put

tim

the PiPtOIe into igthat carCeIY could he hut

it. That begining (cerned to me to be a lit

c-m_ -_ .n_-'

_ tle ominou$= However, I quickly perceiv

ed 'by the heartines of his Thanks, that
he only trembled for Joyz and that made
_ me. go on:- But wert thou a man, that Would
be concerned in the accomplihment of a

Vow which l have made, beides the Salva

tion
of thy Soul, , thou
might'
bethine
as ure
of
t-wentyiPioles,
as thou
art o
own

L
Ld
l'UD-ml

Hair: For thou mu know, that it is not as

yet a full quarterofan Hour, in a Word, a

moment before thou came, that an Angel

appeared to me, and promied to make the

Nr

Ju ice ofmy Caue appear, provided] went

_ to morrow- to our Lady's; Church o this

- Town, and had, aMas and at the high Altar
there. I pretended toexcue my eupon the
account of my 'cloeflmPridnmentz but the
Angel made Anwer, That' a man hould

._

come, ent from the Goaler, to keep me

_l

r
.A

, com

E'E'Ei
=-ra

'+T

World of the

27

.. raw, WPBI Lhqulslzatmmmandia

WPWF m Few me to Church, and bring

me had; again to Prioqz that! hodch.

i'n hiW'SFFTFif Quilld 19'

Without

gainayiqgr ripen P.a.in9.f\dyiag<witbin the

Years and if he gus-inted the Truth of

what iaid, 13191414 give-him this 'token

thack? had betatpuchrd far- te Evil,

Nowthrough
the ReaderI had.
Ran
hPlF of hisknew-s
shirt,that
a picce
ov
FhF King'sqld. - WiFh uggeed tQ-mc the
Whole Sczits at. this. Apparition- Yea; ve

rily then, t thi, 1353ngqu Sir, l hall even _

do. what. the. ngcl has gmmanded mea

but it nant? ba at Pins- of the Block in- the,

Mpxnirzg, bacaae at that-time QUrMacx

will * be at The-dw- abqut the makng up

a a Match betwixt hisSpn, and the. Maer

of 'be la? War/tis Daughi-z D'Y-c mind

me. Sir, the Haogman. has aName, as. well
as. a Cra-lquc = , They talk as if he hould '

have' rpu! her Father, as plan-i' vCrowns in Portion, asmighx make UP a King's Ranhm
In hort, he is. Fair and: Richz but uch

Windl-fallseldomfall in the way-o a PQQI' ' '

Ypung-Man- . Alasl
Sir,
wou'd
have you how-wi failed not here to.
interrupt
himz for I. (on-aw
by, thebebegin-e
qf lhliDQh
that lhpuld
haire
. 9 by a long tal; or a Tu- Our Plor bee
ing gery cautiouy laid betwixt us, the - '
Clown

28

The Hiory of the

Clown took leave of me; and itiled not

next Morning to come at the preixt hour,
and untomb me. I left my Cloaths in the

Prion, and dreed my elf in Ragsz for

iea I might be known, we had i) ordered
it the Night before. So oon as we were

lete-_

A
FZ-a
hkj

abroad in the open Air, I forgot not to

tell him down his twenty Pioles. He'

looked and ared upon them very wiilly.

They are good Gold and of full weight,
S-n

*upon my Word, aid I to him.

Ha, Sir,

replied he,- that's not the _thing lmindz but

'_d

I'm thinking that great Ralpb's Houe is to

be old, with a Gloe and Vineyard. 'I can

XWDG'DQ?

have it for two hundred Francks, it will

require eight days time to make up the Bar

gainz and I would beg of you, good Sir,

if it be your Will and Pleaure, o to or
der the matter,* that till great Ralph have
told and received your Pioles, and lockt

,_.,z_.

them itte up in his Che, they may not

turn into ells. Icould not but laugh at
the lm icity of the Knave. ln the mean
_ ' time, 'we jogg-'d on towards the Church,
where-'at length we arrived. Short] after

ELcti'
S-Lg-ZD
2..

high, Mas began z but o oon as I Zw my

Keeper rie in his turn to go to the oering,
I skipped at three leaps ou't of the Church,
and at as many more whipt into a little Bye
Street or Alley. I had a great many thou ghts

* va'
it
ol

' ' 'in myhead at that inant'z but that 'which

C)
I . '*.

l.
World of the'Sunz'

29

X lfoiloWed was to get to ThJulau-Z, which

was but half a League diant from the place,

with Deign to take Po there.- I got to

the Suburbs in very good time z but I was
o ahamed to be ated at by all the Peo-_
-*n>u . _-.>

>P;-=ea-V
o'T

ple that aw me, that [was quite Out of

Countenance
That Iwhich
was my Dres.* zior
beingmade
butathemlare,
Novice in
the begging Trade, had marhall'd my
Clouts about me o odly, that with a Gate
that uted not at all with my Habitz I them.

ed to be one in Diguit'e, rather than a Breg

garz beides that, I made great hae, look
ed down, and asked nothing. At length,

conidering
this eneral
ofthe Peoplethat
threatne
me withObervation
ome d-an- i

gerous lue, I overcame my Bafhfulnes.

.a -Fs'v-r'

So oon as I perceived any one 'that lookt

at me, I retched him out my, Hand : Nay,
- I even importuned the Charity of thoe
that did not in the lea mind me. _ But re

'v''

ect a little, and wonder how many times

by uing too great Circumpection, about
the Deigns wherein Fortune will have
ome hare, we poil them by- Provoking
that haughty Goddes. I make this Ober
vation, upon Occaion of the Accident that

befel mez fOr perceiving a Manirrrhe Dreis

of an ordinary Citizen, with his Back to
wardsme, Sir, aid I, pulling "him by the

Cloak, i there be any Bowels of pity-r;

goV '1; had not;

The' Hz-jzoz-y d ye?

orththeword fha't'JWidsl.

to come next, when the' Man_t'u'rne'd about

his Headz 2 (good God! What' was He I'

Nay; was
Goddod!
That' sau
very
Man
m .Goctalei*What'tiyi'asl?
z We odd both'
zed with Aximiration to' ee; one dniz'tr in

the lacezwe.didi
Hisnothing
'EyEs Were
Who'ly"
xe
on meand [had
in z'zieit'ai"
but
him,
_I
ajcomtn'on
[rite-e. the'
thou'h'
Yery digerent,
recvered-iui'out'of
. ir
t'ie wherein both or us

re' plui' ed, Ha!

erqc that _I_ mew; t e:on e?"

(14 then, be-catch-t?

Thatrctniictnd
wardthe_St'r"2ifa*gei-ini
or a Johns
meaningzp
into my
you, hall;
Sto'p Thick', Gentle-'men
lop Th'nek; criedle as loud around-haw;

Immoqu
(retains Jewe's 'or
the'
Countes
of. izf
a th.
v12_]'Z.-4grigt.ictz\-*IJsz'rcttfe'lie'eril
it' yea:
jpzanch
of him, Fnii]
sailed-si),
ddn'n'ued
I, all-in a_'__'_i_t,';a
redPiHOleis
t'hitfr
xhallga A [chid]
No'fooner.
He: fl '
i that
thee,sz
bura'l'roo'
'o'tixehad
Rabble'fei'
upon
poptzamctpizifetch. _ The Sdi-i'
rize- that, myzimpude ceihad ca himi into,
' einghexiglrtgnedzbyd]I
gkiinzginandnhehsa,

a xavwithozlt &Ye-dy,

.
1.

A
en tb' that arche

.$aints.ingclprv,,wh" 'ii it' p5@.6hk7e'

through
tm Walls'ormyreotz',
not
havezmadc
my e, 'i ,.
t'r'ahileisure
'hired

_,him,' tha_th'e_was rock a, ohii and arras

Witne.- 'He came rd'h'ixhraii Agnng' Hurr

ever,

- ' World of the Smi.

' 31

ever, at lengthz and the r Words he ued

to undeceive'the Mobile, were, That they

hould baye acar'e they did nor commit;

miake; that he was a- man' of Honour and

R utation.theWithout'donbthe
wasa' dozen
about
toegicwer
Whole Myery: But

oCoer-mongers,_Lackeys and Chair-men,

being deirous to erve me 'For my Money,

opt his Mouth With Fifty-'cusz- and in as much as they fanciedgha't theirReward hciuld

be proportioned vto the degree o lnl'lence,

Wherewith they inulted over the weaknes

o the' poor 'unn'd'Ma'n, 'every One' vcame *

running in to havea touch' at him, either
\ with' Hand Ory Foot. Here's your Man of

Honour, cried the Ri-raz and yet he'

could not forbear to fay,o oonas he knew

the Gentleman," that he ' was catcht. The
Cream o the Je' was,thati my Goaler being'
in his tly-'days CloathsziWas ahamed to a
:HY

'ell A

confes himelf to be the' Hang-it'nan's Church-'3

Wardenz nay, he Was afraid that by dilZoF '
vering' himelf to be what he Was, he might'
but encreae the number 'of his Blows. For

1t0,
lad'

the
ire
ild

my own part, whil the cule Was at the

length I took my' ight. ' I trued my are.
ty to my Legg, which would have oon

et me at Liberty; But as the Devil Woold _ .

K have it, the: Pdop'le"
A beginningpf new all
to are at me, ' I ound"niy_le in asbad
drs ' . apickle again aslat n
" 'the Spectacle:
W- U
,
o
er,
.\'

42

The Hiory of' the

o anyhund-red
Rags, about
which me,
like adid-excite
ran of
vlittle
Be garsct danced'
the zctCurloity
o- any
Loutfead
to ate
_at
me
I was afraid
thatgaping
he might
in _my
Fore-head', that [Was one that had broken
Prion. l any one pan by me, put his

Hand
Clan,
I'fancy'd
to
be outnrider
a S'erjieant, his
who
retched
out him
his'
Arm to lay hold on the. , lfct l oberved iano- \
ther campigictng along the Streets', without
Cang an ye on me, l perWadEd thy elf
thathe' ej ned nOt to ice nzct ,, to the end
hap me
behind;
I perceived
a Shop-lZeeper
enter'hiis
shop', now,
aid I
he is gone to fetch out his Conabl'es Sta:

If I came intda' place wher there was any

'extraordinary ConCOnre o - People, o ma;
n'y Men, thought' I, could not be got toge
t'her there Without onie Deign, 1 I anoz
X ther place was empty, here they] e'in wait
for me. I;_Did
with; a op,
now,
thought
they[meet
havebaroc-adio'd
the Streets

r)--_

EMZTOP-'lid

to hut me in. In aword, Fear perverting

thy Reaon, every Man eem'd to the to

be noilE,
an Ocer,_
every _Word,Raittlin
Sto , andofeve
r'y
the inupportable
the
F
5)
-=-*_*

Bolts of' my la' Prion. Beingt Us beet'

With paniclt Fear, I reolved vto play the

Begga'r a ai'n, that o [might Pas the re'

of the -ity,'t'ill l or tqtbe Fat-houe .j

But faring' le _ni'y' oice might betray mei

--=

' World of the sz. '

- .z: 33

'Iman.
thought,
be tothen
_ Counterfeit
the Dumb
I advanc'd
towards thoe
wh'octtn
ne

I pereived to Eye met; I pointed withnyt

"i
.C

his
lim

hu

Finger under my Chin, then over my

Month,and gaping made an unartieulate Cry,

to give them to underand hy this'Actionz.
that a poor Dumb-man' begg'd their Chari

ty. Sotnetimesl had a compa onate Shruzg'

of the Shoulders ot- an Almsz by and by! o

m:
ell

felt a mall ,Bribe*ipt into my Fi 5' and

anon again I could hear the good Women

mutter, that perhaps I might have been

that manner Mortiyed for the Faith in Tur

key. .In hort, I learnt that the eggingi

' Trade is a great Book, that lnh'ucts us in

, the manners of People at a_cheaper rate,than

all the long VoyageS' of Colnmbw and qu.

gellan can. o
i , _
_ A
_, That stratagem however, could not as
yet prevail over the. Head-rongnes of' my
Deiny, nor overcome the ill nature there
of: But whatother Invention could I be
take my elf nnto 3? For to croi o great

a City as Thoulouje is, where my Garb had

made me known eyen to the [letting-wives,

having more haggy Bags dandling abont'

me, than the errante Tatterdemallion in_

the World, was it not very likely 'that Iv

hould immediately he taken notice o and
known i' _An_d that the only charm again'
that danger was to peronate the-Beggar,
'qu,.<

.f

'

D '

'- whoe'

34.

The Hiory of the

whoepart is Acted under all Shapes P And

then ranting this Trick had not been pro
j'ectef with all neceary Circumpection, I "
fancy ill that among o many fatal Jun
ctures, it was a ign of a very good Judg
ment, not to run ark mad.

'

l was etting forWard on my journey

th n, when all of a udden i ound my elf
vob iged to turn back againz For my vene
rable Goaler, and about o a dozen of O

cers of his Acquaintance, who had recued

him out o the Hands of the Rabble, [Et
ting out upon the Hunt, and cowring all
the Town to nd me, ell unluckily in my

way. So oon as with Eagles Eyes they per

ceived me, you may imagine, that they run,
and l run, with all the Speed we could. I '
was o nimbly purued, that ometimes my

Liberty ell upon its Neck, the Breath of

the Tyrants who ought to opprels it: But
it eemed that the Air, which they puhed
forwards running after me, drove me on

before them. At length kind Heavens or

Fear rather carried me four or ve Lanes on
Head o them. Then it was that my Hun
ters lo the cent, and I the view and hame

ful Noie o that troubleome Chace. Cer

tainly he, that hath not ecaped uch like
Agonies, [peak by Experience, can hard
ly meaure the )oy wherewith [was tran

ported, when Ifound my elf our of their

Clutches.

iWor'ld of the Sun. '

Clutc'hes. However, eeing my Safetyirequi
Id

red all my skill, I reolved avaritiouy to

l, 1

Husband the time which they pent in dog'

lil'

ging of me. I bemeared my Face, rabbed

na'

my Hair withDu, ript o my Doublet,

let fall my Breeches, threw my Hat in a
Cellar z and then having pread my Hand

it'

'kerchief upon. the Street', with four little'

anc

Stones on the Corners, as they dowho are'

m:

infected with the Plague, I laid my elf '

doWn upon my Belly over again it, and
with-a lamentableTone fell a Groaning mo'
languihingly. Hardly Was I pla_ced in this p
manner, when I heard the cry ofthe where'

'uL

zing Rabble, long before I heard the ound

a their Feet-5 but I had ill Judgement

wi.

in hopesthat [might not beknownz and I

1 0'

But

was not miaken,or all taking me for one'

lneted, they paed by me in great hae,

hid

opping their Noes, and mo of them

Of

throwing a Double upon my Handkere'

uel

et.
lah _

enough-"to'keop my elf in the ame paure,

. chief.

The-orm being thus over, l-lipt intd

ur
DE'

Ter

ke
rd

an Ally, put on my Clothsagain, (and once'

more trued
elf totFortu'nez But I had
run o long that 'he was Weary of follow
'ing me. No body could think 'otherwie-53
_ for having imddled over o many publick
Places and anrterso the Town, tripta- .

ill

longand turned' o many Streets, thatlofty

, ,

De'

God-i
-*

36

iT/zeHz'ory of the

Goddes, unaccuomed to march o fa, to

put a op to my Carriere, uered me blind
ly to all into theHands of the Ocers that
purued me. At our meeting they thun
dred out o loud an Hue and Cry, that!

was quite unn'd with the Noie. They

thought they wanted Arms enough to hold
me, and Aherefore employed their Teeth,

not believin they had me ure enoughz

one
dragge whil
me bythethe
another by
the Collar,
lesHair,
paonateiried
mez and had better luck than my Goaler
at the r earch, for they ound the re of
my Gold.
_Whil thee Charitable Phyicians were
'taken up in curing the Dropie of my Pure,

a great Hubbub aroez all the place reoun

ed with thee Words, kill, killz and at the

inne time litw drawn Swords. The Gen

tlemen who dragg'd me along, cried that
they were the Ocers o the City Magi
rates, who had a mind to take their Prio

ner from them. But take heed, aid they

to me,tugging mealong with greater Force, '
that you do not fall into their Hands, or
if o, you'll be condemned within four and
twenty Hours, and then the King cannot
ave you. At length, however, they them

elves being afraid of the Rout, that began

to come up With them, let me o univer
illy , that I remained all alone in the mild

le

2-4\_-_-_-_

Worldoftbe-Sun: '
dle o the Street, whil the Aggreors
in the mean time, butchered all they met

with. I leave it to you to judge, whether

or not I betook my elf to my Heels, hav

ing caue to be equally afraid o both. In

a trice I was got at a diance from the Hur
ry*I but ju as l was asking the way to
the Po-Houe, a torrent o People that
ed from the Scue broke into my Street z

being unable to rei the Croud,I followed

itz and being vexed to run o long, I gain
ed at length a little dark Gate, into which

I threw my elf pell-mell with thoe that

ed. We hut it upon our elves z and then
When we had all taken Breath : Comrades,

laid one o the Gang, i you'll take my ad

vice, let us pas the two Wickets, and *
make for the Court. Thee dreadful Words

ruck me with o urpriing a Grief, that I

thought to have fallen dead upon the place.
Alas! I perceived immediately, but too
late, that inead o iving my elf; as I
thought in a Sanctuary, 1 had ca my Half
- into Prionz i) impoble it is to avoid the
InuenceoonesWatehkulStarsJlookt upon '

that Man more attentively, and knew him

to be one of the Ocers, who had o long
given me the Chace: 1 ell into a cold
Sweat, and lookt Pale as i 1 had been rea

dy to aint away. They who law me in o

weak .a Conditioneing moved with Com

'

D3

- Paion

, '

39

The Hzory of the

paon, call'd for Water; eVery one drew

nigh to a me 5 and by michance that
accured Ocer Was one of the r .* He
had noooner beheld me, but that he knew

Wr-roZOTE=ao-on
mtm

me. He madea Sign to his Campanions, '

and at the ame time I was aluted with an
I Art-e you Prioner in Name of the King.

They needed not go far ,to enrol my.

Name.
I remained in the Cage till Night, where
Every Turn Key one after another, by an
' Exact Dicction of the Parts of my Face,
drew my Picture upon the Cloth of his
Memory.
At even a Clock at Night the jingling of
a Bunch of Keys'gave the ignal oRetreat.

pre_qr-_-P.m_

They asked me i I would 'be carried to

a Chamber of a Pitolez I anwered with a

nod of the Head. Money then, replied
the Guide.

Frm
_J'rFi'\mn

I knew very well I was in a

place where I mu pocket' a great many

uch-Snubs : And therefore Iprayed him, in
cae he ebuld not be o Courteous,as to give

me Credit till next Morning, that he 'would

tell the Goaler from me, he houldreore

me the Money that had been taken from
me.
He, hola-iMa-n
I'faith,ofanwered
put' Mater-is
Heart, hetheVillain,
gives no _
ds;

thing bacl<._ Doe ye think then that for the

ake of yohr pretty Noe.--.-along, along, to

the' Dungeon, Having! aid "o, he hew'd

:;<
t_..,.

Al

a;

World of the Sun;

'39
me the way by a luy Thump with his Bunch .
of Keysz the weight whereof made' me

tumble and ide from the top to the bottom

of a dark Acent, till I knocked again a
Door that opt me: Nor, indeed, had 1
known it to be a Door, but for the tap, 1

gave again it .- For I had not-nowmy

Eyes, they remained at the Stairs-Head
under the Figure of a Candle, whichrny _

Hang-man Guide held in his Handfour

core eps above me. At length that Ty
ger of axMan being come down Pian Piana,
unlocked thirty great Locks, pull'd out as
many Barsz and the Wicket being only

half opened, with a joult of his Knee he

ingulfkd me in that Pit, whereof I had not
time to oberve the Horrour, o uddenly
he pulled the Door after him. I ood in
mire up to the Knees. I I had a mind to
get to the ide, I ell in up to the middle.
The terrible clucking of the Toads that
crawled
in the
Veel,
me wih
my
elf
Dean
I elt
Asksmade
creeping
bytny

Thighs, Serpents twiing about myNeckz

and one 1 epied by the omber light of
his parkling Eyes, from a Mouth black
with Venom, dart'mg a forked Tongue,
whoe brisk Agitation made it look like a
Thunder-bolt, et on Fire by itsEyes.
I cannot expre the rez it paes all be

lief, and beides, I dare not reect upon

D 4'

the

40

The Hiory of the

the ame; o afraid I am, that the Auran'ce

I think my El in, o being reed from my

Prion, hould be no more but aDreani, p

out of 'Which Iam ready to awake. The

Cnomon had marked Ten o the Clock up
on the Dial o the great Tower, before any

_Body came to knock 'at my Tomb : But

, about that time, when bitterGrie and Sor
' 'row began already to pres my Heart, and
dicompoe that ju Harmony wherein con
is Lie, I heard a voice that bid me take
hold 'of the Pole that was preented unto
me. Having a long time elt about in the
dark to find it, at length l met with one

end thereofz with extraordinary motion I

took hold on't, and my Goaler pulling the
Other end towards himz angled me out of
the
of that Mire.o[began
to upect.
thatmiddle
the Countenance
vmy Aair's
was

changed, for he hewTd me great Civility,

poke to me hare-headed, and told me that
ve'or ix Perons o Quality waited in the
Court to i=e me. Among the re, not o
' much' as that wild Bea who hut me up in

'the Den, which I have decribed to you,

but had the lmpudence to acco "me, vwith

one Knee on the Ground, having kied my

Hand, he beat o a teat manYSnails that '

. uck to my Hair'with one o his Paws, and
'With the other a great cluer of Leeches,
Wherewith my Face Was. Vizor-masked., '
>
'
'
Having

ny.
if

[F
nr
lui

nd
bli

World of the Sun,

41
Having performed this rare piece of Ci
vility z at lea, Good Sir, aid he to me,
you'll- think on the Care and Pains that
great Nzcolm has taken about you: S'death,
d'ye mind me, when it .was 'done for the
King, it is not for yOU to upbraid him for
it, I trow. Being madded at the Impu
dence of theRacal, l made him a Sign that
I hould think on'tz Througha Thouand
dreadful turnings, at length I came into the
Light, and afterwards into the Court, where

ll0

as oon as I entred it, two Men caught. hold

on me, whom at r I could not know,- by
reaon they faened about my Neck at the
ame time, and joined their Faces cloe to
mine. It was a pretty while before I could >
gues who they werez but the Tranports '
of their Friendhip intermitting a little, I
knew my' dearCoIignac, and the brave Mar
ques. Coligmc had his Arm in aScarf; and
Cuan was the r that came out of his

Extaie.

Alas! aid he, we had never u

pected uch a diaer, had it not been for

yourHore and Mule, who that Night came

to my Gate,- Their Girths, Cruppers, and
all were broken, and that made us prefage
ome Misfortune was befallen you. We pre

ently got on' Hore-back, and had not rid

two or three League's towards Coligmrc,
when all the Country alarm'd'at that Acci
dent, told us the particular Circumznees

t ere

42

The Hiory of the

thereof. We preently gallop'd to the

Town, where you were in Prionz but
being there informed of your ecape, up
on the rurnor that went, that you had
taken your coure towards Thouloue, with
what menwe had, we poed thither in all
hae. The r man we asked news ofyouz
told us that you were retaken, at the ame
time we purred our Hores towards this
Prion z but others aured us, that you had
vanihed OUt ofthe Hands of the Serjeants :
And as we ill went on, the Towns people
were' telling one another, how you were
become inviible. At length having made
further and further inquiry, we came to
know that after you had been taken, lo,
and retaken, I know not how many times,
youwere carried to Prihn, in the great
Tower. We way-laid your Ocers, and

by good Fortune, through more apparent

>than real, met,] attacked, beat and put

' them to Flightz but we could not 'learn,e

veu of the Wounded whom we took, what

was become of youzuntil this Morning word

was brought us, that you your elf had
blindly ecured your elf in Prion.

Colig

me is wounded in everal places, but very

z=2-\_

lightly. After all, we have ju now taken

!-D___

order, that you be lodged in the faire

Chamber that's here : Seeing you love an
open Air, we have caued to be furnihed
a
v

r
..'

World of the Sun.

43

a littleAppartment for you alone in the top

l4=:=--I-T
&E-R:
'r''-:TI'I

of the great Tower, the Terras whereof

will erve you or a Balconyz your eyes, at

lea willbe at Liberty, in pight othe Body

they are faened to. Hal my Dear Dy.

com, cryed the Count peaking nextz we
were unfortunate we did not take you a
long With us,when we parted from Coligmc:
My Heart by an unaccountablcSadnes, that
Icould give no reaon for, preaged ome
terrible Diaerz but it matters not, I have
Friends, thou art Innocent, and let the
&g-a

wor come to the wor, I know what it is

to dye Gloriouy. One thing only puts

me in depair.

The Villain on whom I re

olved to try the r roke o myRevenge,

BWE=LBMP

(you well conceive! peako my Curate)

is now out of condition ofeeling it z the

wretch is dead, and I'll tell you the parti

culars o his death: He was running with

his Man to drive your Hore into hisStable,
when the Nagg with a delity hei-ghtened
perhaps, by the ecret notices of his In
D<L
WHV'Z'
"A

inct, falling into a udden Fury, began to

wini: and kick 5 but with o much rage and
ucces, that with three kicks o his heels he

made Vacant the Benece of that Bue

head.

Without doubt you cannot con

ceive the Rea'ons' of that Fools barred,

but l'll dicoVer them to you .- Know then

that lmay trace the matteralittle backwagd,
t at

44

The Hiory of the

that that Godly man, a Norman by Nation,

'and a litigious Knave by Trade, who for
the Money o Pilgrims ociated in a or
aken Chappel, commenced an Action ofDe
volution again the Curate o Colz'gnac z and
maugre all my endeavours to maintainthe ' _
Poieor in. his right, o wheadled the

Judges, that at length in ight ofus, he was

made our Paor. _
At the end of the r year, he went to
Law with me alo, pretending that I hould
pay him Tythes : It was to no purpoe to
tell him, that time out omind my Lands

_-'.-__-I

were free; he went on ill with his Suit,

which he lo. But during the Procei, he

arted o many Caes, that Twenty other '
Suits have prung from them, which now
are at a andz thanks to the good HorZ:

whoe Foot Was harder than Mar-jo/mr

Head.

This is all that I can conjecture

otheVertigo of out Paor. But it's won

' derul with how much fore-ight he manag
ed his Rage : I am lately aured, that hav

ing' got into his Head the accured deign of

yourImprionment, he had Ecretly exchang
ed his Living oColignac, for another Liv

ing in his own Country, whither he in

tended to retreat o oon as you hould be '
taken : Nay his 'own Man hath aid, that
eeing your Hore near his Stable, he had
heard him mutter, That the Bea would car

rY

s
--an

World of the Sun.

i 4.;

ry him into a place, where they could not

reach him.
r
'
After this Ditoure, Colignac admonih
ed me to miru the Oers and Viit, that *
_ perhaps might be rendred me by a very

powerful Peron, whom he named zthat it

was by his Credit, that Mu-John had gain
ed the Caue ofDevolution z and that that

Peron of anlity, had ollicited the Af

fair for him in recompence of the Services,
which that good Prie had rendred hisSon,

when he bore a mall Oce in the Colledge.

Now, continued Coligmc, reing it is very
hard to be at Law without Rancor,and with
out a cincture ofEnmity,that remainsindeli
ble in the mind 5 though we have been
made Friends, hevha th ever ince ought oc

caions Ecretly to cros me : But it mat

ters not, I have more Relations of the long
Robe than he has, and a great many Friends,

or if it come to the wor, we can procure

, the King to interpole. his Authority in the
Aair.

When Coligmc had made an end, they

both endeavoured to Comfort me z* but it

was by uch tender Teimonies ol Sorrow,

. that my own Grief was thereby encreaed.
In the mean while my Goaler came back,
and told us that the Chamber was ready.
Come let'sgo (lie it, anwered Curm z and

- with, that he went r, and we followed

him :

46
him:
'i -iti-

, The Hiory of the

Pound it in very good Order: I

want nothing, itidl to them, unles it'be

a tw Books. Coligmc promied to end

* Wi'i
Zi-i

me n'ext day, as many as I hould give him

a 'CatalOgue'o

When we had well coni

dered and found b the' height ofmy Tow- '

er, the largenei' 0 the Ditches that 'envi
-HWVT-"v'
wcrzw

7 roned it, and by all the Circumancesof

my Apartment, that to ecape was an en
terprie above humane reach-5 my Friends

looking
'on one
and thenBut
caing
. their
Eye-son
me,another,
fell aweepinga
asict

all of a udden out Grief had oftened the

A'nlger of Heaven, an unexpect ed Joy 'their
po eon 'ofmy Soul z Joy brought Hope,
and Hope ecret 'Illuminations, wherewith
my Reaon 'was o dazlethhat with an 'un

voluntary' Tranfport, which eemed ridicu; 1

inns to my el: Go, aid] to them, go
ttrltpetfirtne at Coligmcz [hall be therewith
in thee three daysz and'end me all the'

Mathematical Inruments wherewith I uu

ally work: 'In hort, you'l nd in alarge
Box, a great many peices 'of Chrial cut
'into everal Figures, be ure 'not vto forget
' them; however, it will be [bonerdon'ejfli

at down what things I need in la Memoo

' randum.

They took the Note I gave them, being.

unable todive into my 'deignz andthcn

departed.

,,a

From

m-1_I'_.__..n-_._.

World of the Sun.

A 47

From the time they were gone, I did no

thing but ruminate upon the Execution of

the things I had premeditated, and I was

'f'L-i
T
52.-Pi$
(i-'a:

thinkin on them next day, when all that I

had (Et down in my Catalogne was brought

me
from told
them me,ithat
: One ofColz'gnac's
Valennot
de
Chamber
his Maer had
been een ince the day ,beorectz' and that 1

they could not tell,what was become ofhim.

Iwas not at all troubled at that Accident,
becaue it prehntlycameinto my mind that
gz-g
'FtX;
EZLTR

pobly he might be gone to Court to ol

licite my Liberty : And therefore without

being urpried at it, I put hand to work z

for the pace of eight days,l hewed, plain
ed and glewed, at length I framed the Ma
chine, that Iam about to decribe to you.
lt was a large very light Box, that hut

tight and cloe z ofabout ix Foot high, and

three Foot Squa're. This Box hada holei'n
it below z and over the Cover, which had

likewie a hole' in it, I placed a Veel 'Of

'c-'.>
'Flozi
"a,

Chrial, bored through in the lame man

ner, made in a Globular Figure, but very
large, the Oricetwhereof joyned exactly
to and was enchaced,in the hole I had made
5.
1:

in the head.

The Veel was purpoly made with ma

ny Angles, and in form ofan Icoaedron,
to the-end that every Facet being' convex

and concave, my Boul might produce

' the eect Oa_Burning-Glas.
The
e:

48
The Hiory of the The Goaler, and his Turn-keys never'
- came up to my Chamber, but they found
me employed in this' workz but they were
not at all urpried at it, becaue othe ma

ny Mechanick Kn'acks which they met with

in my'Chamber,
whereoothers
I told there
them was
I wasa ithe
Inventor .- Among
Wind-Clock, an ArticialEye, wherewith
one might ee by night; \and a Sphere

wherein all the Scars followed (the regular

motion that they have in the Heayens .- By

thee things they were perwaded,._tha_t the

MachineI wasa making, was a Cu'rioit-y
of the like Naturez and beides the Money wherewith Colignacfgreaed their s, made

them go air and o t. Now it- was about'

nine in the Morningz my-Keeper was gone'
down, and the Skie was hazy, when I'
placed this Machine on the top omy Tow
er, that's to lay, on the opene place omy

Terras walk: lt hut o cloe, that a grain

of Air could not, enter it, _except by the

two openingsz andl had placedalittle ve- _

ry light Board within for my elf to (it
upon.
\ Things being ordered in this manner, I
"hut my elf in, and waited there almo an
hour, expecting what it might pleae For
tune to do with me.

'

the began
Sun breaking
theWhen
Cloudsi,
to hineoutrom
upon myunder
'Ma
*
6'

Bblcj

I-_.-'
_

World of the Mr;

49

chine, that tranparent Icoaedzron, which

through its Facets received the Treaures of

the Sun, diued by it's,0rice the'light

ofthem into my Cell zand ceingthatplen

dor grew fainter, becaue of the Beamsthat
could not reach me, without many Refract'
dons, that tempered vigour oflight convert

ed my Cae intola little Purple WFirmament,

enameled with Gold. p
With extae I admired the Beauty' of
uch a mixture of 2*(_Iolt_)urs.z when all ofa'
udden I found my Bowels to mOVe in the
ame manner, as one nds them that is to
izd inawing. '.
U

I Wasabout to open, my Wicket,to_ know'

the caue of that emotionz but asI was'

retching out my Hand, through thehole

of the, Floor of my Box, I perceived my.

Tower already very low' beneath me 5 A and _

my little Cale in the Air, puhing my Feet

upwards, in a trice- hew'd me Thouloufe

inking into the Earth. ,That Prodigy ure

pried mez nor at all by reaon of o udd

den a oaring, but becaue ofthat dreadful
tranlort of Hamane Reaon, at the Succes
. ofa deign, which even fri htned mein the'
Project. The re did not at all Startle'
me; for I foreaw very well, that the Va
cuity that would happen in the Icoaedron, '

by reaon of the Sun-beamsz united by thev

concave Glaes,would,
pace, ,
'
' to ll up theattract

_ '5'0

The' Hiory of the

attract a great abundance of Air, whereby

my Box would be carried upz and that pro
?pOrtionably as Imounted, the ruhing Wind
that hould force it through the Hole, could

'not rie to the rOof, but that furiouy pene

trating the Machine,it mu needs force it up
ron high. Though my deign was very
cautiouly projected, yet I was miaken in
one circumancez becaue I was nor coni

dent enough ofmy Glaes. I had prepared

round my Box a little" Sail , eaie to be

"turned, with a Line that paied through
the Orice of the Veelz and which I held

by the endz I had fancied to my elf, that

When-I'hould be in the Air, I might thus
_ make ue of as much wind,as might Cl'VC
to convey me, to Coligmc: But in thetwin
* kling of an Eye, the Sun which beat perpen
dicularly,
and Icoaedron,
obliquely upon
the me
Burning
Glaies
ofthe
hoied
up o '

high, that] lo ight o Thouloujk. That .

made me let go my heet, and oon after I
perceived through one of the Glaes,which
> I had put in the four ides of the Machine, r '
my Sail ying in the Air, andtoed to and

fro by a Whirl-wind that had got With

till
rn It. '

I remember, that in les than an hour 1

was gOt above the Middle Region z and I

oon perceived it, becaui: I aw it hail and

rain below me: It may be asked, perhaps,

'

whence

World

the Sun:

Whence th'ein came that wind (Without

which my Box Could not mount) in a ory
in
the Sky
exempta from
Meteors
zbut pro
I'vided
I' may'have
hearing,
I'll anwer
thati
Objection. I' have told you, that the Sun
which beat vigoroully upon my Concave,
:ry

Glaes, uniting his Rayes in the middle OF

the Veel, Iby his heal: drove out the Air it: *

was ullo through the upper anduitz

and that o theVeel being void, Nature, '
which abbot-s Vacuity,tnade it uck in,by th'e'
opening below, other Air to'll it again 5
Iit lo much, it regained as muchz and
o out: is not to Wonder, that in a Region'

above 'the middle Where the winds are,

-Icontinued to motrnt upz becauevthe

abcr became Wind, by the Urious Rapidity

wherewith it'fo'rced in to hinder a Vacui

_ t'y, and 'by conequence ought inceantly
puh upmy Machine.
1 eltlittle orno' Hung'er, except. when
Paed that Middle Regibn o the Air 5 for"
in reality the coldnes of the Climate,made'

tne een-it-at a diance: I ay at a diance,

becaui: a Bottle of Spirits which I carried
always about me, whereof Inow and then'
took a dram, kept it toniv approaching me.
During the re o my Voyage, Ifelt' not
the lea touch of i'tz on the contrary 'thef'
more I advanced tOWards that enam. d

World, the ronger I ound my el. I elt'

E a

my'

&I'LJLS-LJ.Z
i'i':

52

r:
-_
*

L'E-.

_The Hiory of the

my Face _to be a littlerhotter and more gay

than ordinary 5 my Hands appeared to be
o an agreable Vermilion Colour, and I
know not what Gladnes mingled with my
Blood, which put me beyond my el.
I remember, that-reiecting once on this
Adventure, lreaoned thus with my elf.
Hunger without doubt cannot reach me,
becaue that pain being but an Ininct of
Nature,which prompts Animals to repair by
_Nourihment, what they loe oftheir Sub- -

ance:
At pure,
preentcontinual'and
when he nds,
that the
vSun
by his
neighbour
ing Irradiarion , ocks me with more na

tural Heat than l lot-5 he gives me no more

that Deire, which would be uieles.

Ne

vertheleil objected again thoe Reaons, '

that eeing the Temperament Which maketh
Life, conied no't only inznatural Heat,
but alo in radical Moiure, on which that

heat is to eed, as the Flame in the Oyl o a

Lamp: The ole Rays o that vital Fire,
could not make Liez unles they encoun

tered ome unctuous Matter that hould x

them. But I preently overcame that di
culty, when I had oberved, that in our
Bodies the radical' Moiure and natural
Heat'are
bur one,
and the
elf amewhether
thing z
for
that which
is called
Moiure,
in Animals or in the Sun, that great Soul of'
the World, is but a ux o Sparklesz more
_
r
conti

._ .

_ , Worldo the Sunf

lay

be

il
my"

'53 ,

continuous becaue of their Mobility z and

that which we name Heat, a Conco'ure of
Atomes of Fire, which appear looer be
caue o their interruption z but though
the radical Moiure and natural Heat were

[lllz

ell

two diinct things, yet it is certain, that p

the Moiure Would not be neceiary for
living o near the Sunz for (ceiug that Hu

lol

midity in'living Creatures, erves only to '

lbY
lulr ,

detain the heat, which would exhale too

dle .

fa, and could not be reored o oon 5 I

was in no danger of wanting it,in a Region

Oll'

whereof thee little Bodies of Flame which

nor
Ne
'or
tal
[a ,
lhr

Being,then eparated from it.

There's another thing that may be

conitute Life, more of it was united to my ,

wondered atz and that is, why the ap

proaches of that burning Globe conumed

me nor, for IWas already gor almo with
in the full Activity of it's pherez but l have

a reaon at hand for that.To peak properly,

.'llf v

it is not the Fire- it elf that burns, but a

lllll'

groler matter,toed to and fro by thedart

ings out of it's mbveable Nature; and that

dil

Powder of little Sparks, which I call Fire,

ot

moveable of it elf, owes, poiibly, all it's

In,

Action tothe Roundne of it's Atomes; for

lg1

they
tickle,of warm,
or burn,
according
to
the Figure
ithe Bodies,
which
they draw

are i

m"

along with them. So Straw ends not forth

o burning a Flame as Wood doesz -Wood
E 3

>

'burns

5+J

The Hiory f the

burns with les violence than Iron; and the '

Reaon of this is, becaue the Fire of iron,

of Wood, and of Straw, though init elf it

be the ame Fire, yet it acts variouly,acco_r%

ding to the diverity ofthe Bodys that it
moves : And therefore in Straw, the Fire

(that piritual Du, as it were,) being en

tangled only with a oft Body, is le corro
-,ve: In Wood, whoe ubance is mOre
compact, it enters more hardly 5 and in I
ton, the Mai whereof isalmo wholely o

lid, and knit together by Angular Particles,

it penetrates and conumes in a trice whato
ever it touches.

Thee Obervations being

alo-familiar, no Body will wonder, that l

approached the Sun without being burnt '5
eeing that which burns is not the Fire, but

the matter to which it is joyned, and that

the Fire ofthe Sun,cannot hemingled with

any matter.

Don't we even, nd by ex

perience, that Joy which is a Fire, becaue

itonly moves an Ae'rial Blood, whoe' ub

tile Particles beat gently again the Mem
branes of our Fleh', tickles and pro

duces I know not what blind Pleaure '5

and that that Pleaure, or rather that r

rogres OF Pain,'advances not o Far as to

threaten the Animal. with Deathz but only
tomake
cauesa
Motion inhim
ourenible,
Spirits, that'
whichDeire
wie call
Joy,
Not but that a Feaver, though it have quite

con

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World of the Sun.

55
contrary Symptoms, is a Fire as well as joyz
but it isa Fire, wrapped up in a Body of'
Horned Particles, uch as the Atm bilis or
Q'MFEYv'Ql
V'lg

Melancholy, which darting out his hook

ed Points, in all parts Where its movable
Nature carries it, pierces, cuts, excoriates, . '

and by that violent Agitation, produces

that which is called the Heat of a Feaverz
but this Concatenation of Proos is uelesz

the mot vulgar Experiments are ucient

to convince the obinate. I have no time
, to loe, lmu look to my elf: I am like
Phaeton in the middle of a Career, where
wed-5'

I cannor turn back again z and wherein if

LYa)
T
W'NFB'M

able to ave me.

I perceived mo diinctly, what hereto
ore I upected , when I went up to, the

I make but one fale tep, all Nature is nor

Moonz that, indeed, it is the Earth that

moves from Ea to We about the Sun, and

_ nor the Sun about it: For I aw next to

France, the Foor of the Bootof Italy, then
the Mediterranean-Sea, then Greece, then
the Boborw, the Euxin-Sea, Per/la, the
':P'.._.

-*'*-*<o

India, China, and at length japen, pas uc

cevely over again the hole of my Lodg
ing z and ome Hours after my Elevation,
all the South-Sea having turned, gave way

to the Continent ofAmericaJ clearly diin

guihed all thee Revolutionsznay,and l re
member that a long time after, I aw Europe

'

\ E 4

mount

56

The Hiory of the

mount once more again upon the Scenez

but I could not now oberve the eparate
States thereof', becaue I was exalted too

high.

I let by the way, ometimes on the

tight, and ometimes on the let, everal

Earths like ours , _where i ] touched'the

lea'upon the Spheres of their Activity, I

ound my el incline ide-ways: Howe

ver, _the rapid force o my oaring Flight,
urmounted the 'Power o thee Attra
ctions.

'

1 coaed by the Moon, which at that

'time was got betwixtthe Sun and the Earth,
and I let Fem- on my right-hand. Bur
now I am peaking of that Sta'r, the old

Aronomy hath o long preached, that the

Planets are Stars which turn round the
Earth, that' the Modern dares not make a
doubt o it: And nevertheles, Ioberved, .
that during the whole time, that Ileum ap
peared On this ide the Sun, about which
he turns, Iaw her always Crecent z but

nihing her coure, I oberved that as he

pa gradually behind him, theHorns drew
nearer, and her Black Belly Was guilt a
gain. Now this viciiitude o Light and
Darknes, makes it very evident, That the
\Planets are like the Moon and the Earth,

Globes without Light, capable only to re

flect that which they borrow.

The

World of 'the Sun.

5' 7

The Truth is, as I ill mounted, I

made. the ame Obervation of Mercury.
I oberved beides, that all thee Worlds

have other' little Worlds alo which

move about them. Muing afterwards on
the Caulias of the Conruction of this great
Univere, I imagined that at the clearing of
the Chaor; after that God had created the

Matter, Bodies of the-like Nature joined

together, by that Principle of unaccounta
ble Love, by which we ee by Experience
that every thing covcts its like; Particles

formed after a certain Fahion aembled to

gether, and that made Air: Others again,
to which the hape gave a circular Motion,
by clinging fa together, compoed the
Globes that are called Stars,which not only,

beCaue of that Inclination of whirling a

bout upon their Poles, to which their Figure

determines them, ought to trui together

into a Round as we ee them; but ought in
the ame manner, as they evaporated from
the Mas, and kept a Parallel March in their
_ flight, make the leer Orbs, which they met

in theSphere of their Activity, to turn: And

therefore Mercury, Fame, the Earth, Mart,

Jupiter, and Saturn, have been conrained

'to whirlegig it, and move both at once a
bout the Sun. Not but that one may ima
gine, that heretofore all thoe other Globes
have been Suns, ince the Earth till retains
.lP.

' 58

The Hiory of the

> in pight o its'preent Extinction, heat e

nough to make the Moon turn about it, by
the circular morion of the Bodies, which
are detach'd from its Mas , and that

Jupiter retains enough to make four to turn;

But thee Suns by the length of time, have

uained o coniderable a los of Light and

Fire, by the continual Emion of the lit

tle Bodies, which make Heat and Lightz

that they remain no more but a cold, dark,

and almo unactive Caput Martium. Nay,

we dicover that thee lpots which are in the
Sun, and were not perceived by the Anci
ents, dayly increae: Now, who can tell
but that it is a Cru ormed in its Superce,

it's Maiz that extinguihes proportionably

as the Light leaves it z and if'it become nor,
when all thee moveable Bodies have aban
doned it, an obcure Body like the Earth P
There are very diant Ages, beyond which
there appears no Veige of Man-kind :
perhaps heretoore, the Earth was aSun peo
pled with Animals,proportioned to the Cli
mate that produces themz and perhaps thee
Animals, were the Demom of whom Anti
quity relates o many Inances. Why not?
Is it not poible, that thee Animals after
the Extinction of the Earth, have ill lived

there for ome time, and that the Alterati

on o their Globe, had not as yet deroy
ed all their Race? In eect, their life- con

tinu

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59
tinued until the time of Auguw, accord
ing to the Teimony of Pln'areb. [t would
even eem, that the prophetick and acred
Tearnent of our Primitive Patriarchs, de

igned to lead us by the Hand to that truth.

For we read in it of the Revolt of Angels,
before mention is made of Man. ls not
that Sequel of time, which the Scripture ob
erves, half o a Proof in a manner, that

Angels inhabited the Earth before us? And

that thee proud Blades, who had lived in
our World, whil it was aSun, didaining,
perhaps, ince it was extinct, to abide any

longer in it, and knowing that God had pla

ced his Throne in the Sun, had the boldnes

lOl,

to adventure to invade it P But God who

reolved to punih their Audacity, banih'd
them-even from the Earth, and created Man

'ln

th?
llCll
id :
to
Cli
isle
ill
at?
Per
ed
ti
ny
'l'

les perfect, but by conequence les proud,

to poies their'vacant Habitations.
About the end of four Months Voyage,
at lea-"as near as one can reckon, When

there is no Night to diinguih the Day 5 I

came upon the Coa of one of thoe little
Earths that wheel about the Sun, which

the Mathematicians call Spots; where by

- reaon that Clouds interpoed, my Glaes
now not uniting o much heat, and by

conequence the Air not puhing my Shed

with i) much Force, what remained of
the Wind could do no more, but bear up

mX

60

The Hiory of the

my fall, and let me down upon the top of

a very high Mountain,to which I gently de
cended.

'

l leave it to You to conider what Joy I

felt, whenl aw my Feet upon rm Ground,
after I had o long acted the part o a Fowl.
Words, indeed, are too weak to expres
the Extaie of Gladnes'; Iound my El inz
When, at length, I perceived my Head
Crowned with the Brightnes of the Hea
vens. However, I was not o far tranpor

ted yet with that Extaie, but that Ithought

o getting out of my Box, and of covering

the Capital thereof with my Shirt beore I

let itz becaue l was appreh'enive, that if
the Air becoming Serene, the Sun hould
again kindle my Glaes, as it was likely.
enough, l might ndtny "Houe no more.
By Gullies which eemed hollowed by
the fall o Water, I decended into the
Plain, where becaue o the thick Mud,
that atned the Earth, l had much ado to

go: However, having advanced a little

way, I arrived in a great Bottom, where I
rencountred a little Man ark-naked, it

' ting and teing himelf upon a Stone. I

cannot call to mind whether I poke to him,
r,
if ititWas
that put
thteeion
to
me:or But
is ashefreh
in my
Memory, as
i Ihcard him ill, that he dicoured to

me three long Hours in a Language,which I

knew

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61

knew very well I-had never heard before,

and which hathnor the lea reemblance
with any of the Languages in this World z
notwithanding I comprehended it faer,
and more intelligibly than my Morher
Tongue. - He told me, when I made enqui
rtl's

ry about o wonderful 'a thing, that in 'Sci

ences there was a true, without which one

ral
lea
u

was always far from the eaiez' that the more

an Idiom was diant from this truth, the _
more it came hort of the Conception, and

lgti

ring

was lei eaie to be underood. Invthe ame

manner, continued he, in Muick one ne

)ul

ver nds this true z but that the Soul .immediately ries, and blindl'y apires'after it. '
We [be it not, but we feel thaLNature ees

rely

it; and without being able to conce'ive,.in

'it
at l

what manner we are wallowed up by it, it'

ill ravihes us, tho we- cannot oberve

where it is. It's the very ame with Lan

guagesz he who hits upon that verity of
Letters, Words, and Order in expreng

himelf, can never fall below his thought,

he peaks always with congruity to his Can'
ception; and it is becaue you are ignorant
othis perfect Idiom, that you are at a and,
net knowing the Order,nor theWords,which *
in
ior

might explain what you imagine. I told

v as

him,that'the r Man of our World,had un

lm
Tlll

caue the everal Names which he gave to

doubtedly made ue of that Language, be

_
Cl'l'

62

The Hiory 'of the

everal things, declared their Eence. He

interrupted me, and went on. r-It is nor

abolutely neceary, orexpreng all the

mind conceives, but without it We cannot

be underood o all. Seeing this ldiom is

the lninct or Voice of Nature z it ought:
..

to be intelligible to all that live under the

Juridiction of NaturezAnd therefore i you
underood it, you might Dicoure and
Communicate all your thoughts to Beas,
and the Beas theirs to you z becaue it is
the very Language o Nature, Whereby

he makes her elf to be underood by all

Living Creatures.

Be no more urpried, then, at the faci

lity wherewith you underand themeaning

of a Language, which newer ounded be

fore in our Ear. When l peak, your
Soul nd; in every Word o mine, that
Truth which it grapes after z and though
her Reaon underand it not, yet he has

Nature withher that cannot ail to under?

and it.
without
doubt,
cried I,ldiom,
it wasthat'
by
vthe(Hal
means
o that
Emphatick'
Wn g rmn_

attr r 'Father heretofore convered With

Animals, and was' by them underood z: for eeing the Dominion over all 'the kinds
o them, was given to- him, they obeyed
him, becaue he commanded in a Language
that was known to them zz and it is for
that

Sun.
63
V thatReahnWorld
alo, of
thatthe
(thiis
Original Lan
guage being lo) they come not at preent,
when they are called, as heretoore they

did, eeing now theydo not underand us.

The little Man eemed as if he. had no

mind to anwer me z but reiming his dil
coure, he was about to go on, if] had not
once again interrupted him. I asked him,
then, what World it was that we breathed
in, ifit was much inhabited z and what

kind of Government they lived under? I

arn going, replyed he, to dicover Secrets
to you, which are not known in your Cli
mate.
Conider well the Ground Whereon we
goz it is not long, ince it was anv indige
ed diorderly Ma s, a Chaos ofconfued Mat- -

ter, a' black and glewy Filth, whereof the

Sun had purged it lid: Now after that' .

'by the force ofthe rays, which the Sun dart
ed again thoe
it, henumerous
mingled,Clouds
preed,o'fand
compacted
A

tomes .- After, iI ay, that by a long and

powerful Coction, he eparated the more'
contrary, and reverted the more imilary

parts of this Bowlz the Mas pierced through

with heat weat o, that it made a Deluge,

which covered it above Forty daysz for o

muchWater required no les time, to fall

down into the more declining and lower Re
gions of ourGlobe.
The

64

The Hiory 'of the

The Liquor of thee Torrents being a*

imbled, formed the Sea, which by its Salt
makes it ill apparent,that it mut needs be

a conux of Sweatz all weat being Salt.

When the Waters were retired, a fat and
fertile Mud remained upon theEarth: Now
when thy Sun hone out, there aroe a- kind
of a' vT'umor or Wheal, which could not,
becaue of the Cold, thru out its bud: lt
therefore received another coction-3 and
that coction ill rectifying and perfecting it

bya more exact mixture, it ent forth a

SProutz endowed then only with Vegetati

on, but capable of Sene : But becaue the
Waters,which had o long ood upon the
lime, had too much chilled it,the welling ,
broke'notz
thea- Sun
it ct
once more z o'
andthat
after
thirdrecocted
Digeion,

that Matrix being o thoroughly heated,

that the Cold brought forth a Man z who
hath retained inthe Liver, which isvthe eat
of the vegetative Soul, and the place of the

r Concoction, the power of Growing;

' . in the Heart, which is the (cat of Activity,

and the place of econd Concoction, the

vital Power; and in the Brain, which is the

eat ofthe Intellectual, and theplace of the

third Concoction, the power of Reaoning: *

\ Otherwiiz, why hould we be longer in
the Womb of our Mothers, than the re

lo Animals, unles it be that our Emhrjo re

*

ceiVea

World of the Sui'z.

63

ceives threediinct Concoctions, for forms

ing the three diinct Faculties of our Soul;

and the 'Beas only two, for forming their:
two Powers? l know that the Hore is not
compleatedin the Belly of the Mare, before
the tenth, twelfth, or fourteenth Month:

But eeing he is of a Conitution, o contrai

ry to that which makes us men, that he ne-z
ver has Life but in Months,which are oberi
ved to be fatal to ours, when we remain in

the Womb beyond the natural Coure; it

is no wonder, that Nature needs another pe-=

riod of time for delivering a Mare, than

that which brings a Woman to Bed. It is
o; but in ne, ome body may ay, The
Hore remains longer than we in the Belly
of his Mother 5 and by conequence he red'
ceives there, either more perfect, or more *
numerous Coctions r Ianwer, that it fol

lows not; for, not to rely ttpon the Ob

ervations, that o many Learned men have'
made upon the, Euergy of numbers, when
they prove, That all Matter being in motion;
ome Beingsare compleated in a certain RC'
. volution ofdays, which are deroyed in aJ
nother z nor yet to lay any great res, ups
ing?

on the Arguments they deduee, from the

Caue ofall thee morions, to prove that the

r ll

number Nitre is the mo perfect; I hall

tell
r:

content my (Elf with this anwer, Thatthe

li

Bud- Of man being hg'tter, the Suninteerere;

an

66

The Hiory of the

and compleats more Organs in the pace o

'pine Months, than he hath rough-hew'n in
a Colt during a whole year. Now it is riot

'to bedouhted, but that a Hore is a great . -\

deal colder than a Man z hein that Bea
never dies, but of a Swelling o the Spleen,

or other Dieaes that proceed from Melan

choly.

Nevertheles, you'l tell me, there

is no man in out World engendred o'Mud,

and produced in that manner : I believe it,
your World at preent is over-heated; for

i) oon as the Sun draws a rout out othe

Earth, finding none o that cold Humidity,
o'r to ay better, that certain Period ocorn
pleated Motion, which obliges it to &veral

Qoctions, it tur-ns it preently into a Vegeta

ble z or it it maketWo Coctions, eeing the

&cond has. not time enough to receive per

ection in, it only engenders an lnect. And
it isv a Remark that I have madealof'hat the
A-pe, which, as we,carrysit's young almo

nine Months, reembles us in o many Hu

mors, that not a ew Naturalis have rank
Cdus in 'the lame. Species-3, and the reaon is,

that-'their Seed 'being oa- temper, much like ours, hath during that time, had almo
the leiure to per e thoe three Digeions.

You'l undoubtedly askme, o whom I

haue 'the Story, that now I have told you z

- you'l tell me, that I could nOt have hadit

fromthoe that were not in being: It's true,

World of the' Sun;

Iand
am by
theconequence
only perlbn[can
'that give
hath noVouchers
'hit upon it,
for it, becaue it's a thing that happened
before I was hornz that's likewie true: But
take this along with you ali), That in alle
gion bordering upon the Sun,as ours does,
the Souls full of Fire are more illuminated,

more' ubtile, and more penetrant, than

'hoe ofothcr Animals in remorer Spheres.

Now ireing even in your World,there have .
been Prophets heretofore, whoe minds,
heightened by a vigorous Inpiration, have
had Fore-knowledge of future things zr it is
notimpoble, but that in this, which is fat'
nearer theSun,8c by conequence morelumi
nous than yours, a rong Gem'w may have'
ome melling ofw-hat is pa z that his ac

tive Reaon may move as well backwards,

as forwards, and'tha-t it may be able to at

, tain to the Caue by theEects, eeing it

can reach the Eects'by the Caue.
Thus he ended his, Philoophical Dif=
courfe; but after a more particular Confe-i
rence, that we had, about very deep Se
erets, which he revealed to me 5 part where
of I-'lxl conceal, and" of which the re has'

ecaped mez he told me, That it was not as '

yet three Weeks, ince a clod of Earth, im-r
pregnated by the Sun,- was brought toBed
of him. Conider that Tumor attentively.
Then i he made ate oberve,
L know.-whas
not
F a

_A4._u,_.,_. ,_._

7 68

- The Hiory of the

what Swelling upon the Mud, not unlike

to a Mole-Hill: That, ays he, is anApo
ume, or to ay better, aMatrix, which for
thee Nine Months pa, hath contained the
I-__f_)-_ .A-_ _ _

Embryo of one of my Brothers. I wait

here, on deign to play the part of a Mid

wife to it.
He would have gone on, had he not per
ceived a Palpitation of the Earth,about that
Swelling of Clay. That with the bignes
of the Tumor, made him conclude, that
the Earth was in Labour,and that thatShake,

was already the eort of the Pangs of Tra

vel. He thereupon' immediately left me,
that he might run. to it z and for my part,

I went to look for my Lodge.

I therefore clambered up again the
Mountain, I had come down from, and was

LL-u_4'_.-._4 ._

very weary before Igot to the top of it.

'You may imagine what trouble I was in,
when I did not nd my Houe, where I had
left it. I began to lament the los of it,
when!
perceived
and vaulting
at a great
dianceit,z wIskipping
ran thither,
as fa as
my Legs-could carry me, till I was out of
Breath again, and really, it was an agree
able Diverion, to behold that new way
of Couringz for ometimes, when I had
almo my Hand upon it, a new encreae of
Heat, got into the Glas-Ball, which attra

cting the Air with 'more force, and that

World of the sun.

ke
for
tlr;

69

Air raiing my Box up above my reach,"

made me leap after it, as a Cat does to a *
Hook, where it ees a Hare hanging. Had
not my Shirt been upon the Capital, to re

tal:

i the force of the Glaes, it would have

.lll

made the Voyage by it ll alone.

But to what purpoe is it, to call to mind

at
th:
If

an Accident that I cannot think on, but

with the ame Grief; that I felt at that time!
It's enough to know, that it bounded, row

ll'

led; and ew l'o long; and that I jumped,

llll:

run, and skipped i) much, that at length,

I aw it fall down, at the Foot of a very

high Hill. It had perhaps led me a Dance,
a great deal farther,had not that lofty Swel
lin of the Earth, by its hade, that black
ne the Sky, to a large diance upon the
Plain, pread forth a Night of half a Lea
gues Circumnence: For falling into that
Darknei, the Glas thereof no boner felt
the Cool, but that no more Vacuity was en
gendred in it, no more Wind through the
Hole, and by conequence, no more Impul

r?

ion to upport it; o that it rumbled down,

and would have broken into a Thouand
'hivers, had not by good luck, a'Pond of
Water, into which it fell, yielded under

the weight. I drew it out of 'the Water,

repaired' what was bruied 5 and then hav
ing taken fa hold of it in my Arms, car
ried it to the top of a little Hill, hard by.
'
_ F 3
'There

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The Hiory of the

There I took my Shirt o on't z but I could

not put it on, becaue my Glaies beginning
to work their eect, l perceived my Cale
already wagging to be gone. I had no

more time let, bur uddenly to get in, where

' I hut my elf up as at r. _
The Sphere of our World, appeared to
me as a Planer, much about the bignes o
the
he appears
to us: Nay,asl
it
grewMoon,
les andas le,
ill proportionablyi
acended, inomuch that it became a Star,
then a Spark, and then nothing at all z for -

that luminous Point grew o harp, that it

might equal that, which terminates the la
Ray o my ightz. that at length it wasvval
lowed up in the common colour of the
Heavens,

..

-_-_-_
'

some perhaps may wonder, that

during o long a Voyage, I was/not over.

taken with Sleepz. but eeing Sleep is

=-\'u-u-'cn-gd

only produced by the gentle Exhalation of

the 'Victuals, which evaporate from the

Stomach to the Brain, or by a Neceity
r that Nature nds o looking up our Soul,

.4- .- _.-

that during Repoe, he may recover as ma;

ny Spirits, as have been pent in Exercie: l
._.* *'3>

had no mind to Sleep, ince l did not Ear;

and that the Sunupplied me,with more ra

LJ

dical Heat,than I conumed,

ln the mean

while, my Elevation continued, and pros

portionablv,as it brought rne nearer to that
/ enampd World, lelt a certain Joy diue
!F\

' <
l(

World of the Sun. _

it elf through my Blood, which rdctilitd,

ii:

it, and advanced to my very-Soul. Ever

now and then l looked upwards, ithat-l
might admire the Vivacity of the Lure,

that rayed into my little Chryal-Houq and

it is freh in my Memory ill,- tha't at' the
a time i put my Eye to the Orice of' the'

Veiel, behold, with a' udden art', Iel':v

omething heavy, that ed from all tas'

parts of my Body. A whirling Cloud of
very thick, and, in a manner, palpablq
Smoakphoaked my Glai with Darknesz and
when l Ood up to conter'nplate that Ob
curity, which blinded "me, law no more,- neither Vtel, nor Burning-Glaes, Glas- .

Window, not Covering to my Shed .- I

looked down, then, with Dei nto ee'
What made my Maer-piece thus all to rub
ine'zbut in place of it, and o the four

Sides and Floor, I found nothing but the

Heavens round about me. I was rightned
beyond meaure, when Iotmd, as i the'
' Air had been pettied, Iknow not what
inviible Obiacle, which forced back my'
Arms, when] thought to retch them forth'
It came then into my imagination, that

mounting o high, I had without doubt'

got into the Firmament, which ome Phiios
ophers and Aronomers have maintained

to be oiid. I began to Fear, I hould remain

udded in therez but the Horrour'that the

'

F 4

odd

72

The Hiory of the

oddnels of that Accident ca me into, Was

exceedingly encreaed by thoe that fol

lowethor my ight, that rambled here and

there, falling by chance upon my Brea,

inead of opping at the Surface of my

Body, went quite through, then a mo

ment after, [thought aw behind me, and
almo Without any interval, as ifmy Body

had been no more but an Organ of ight:

I perceived that _my Fleh, being cleaned
from-its Opacity, transferr'd Objects to my
Eyes, and my Eyes Objects through it.
At length, having above a Thouand times
hnockt again the Roof; Floor, and Walls

of my Chair-volant, without being able to

[he it, I found, that through a eCret Nece

ty ofthe Light in its ource, my Shed and

I were both become tranparent. Nor but

that lought to have-perceiv-'d it,thoughDia

pharme, eeing we very well perceive Glas,
Chryal, and Diamonds that are o z but I
fancy that the Sun, in a Region o near

himelf,
purgesby'ranking
Bodies moremore
perfectly
from
their Opacity,
riaightly
the imperceptible Pores-ofthe Matter, than
in our World 5, wherevhis Force,worn out al

mo by o long a paage, is hardly able to

transfue his Lure into precious Stones;
However, by reaon ofthe internal Smooth
nels of their Surfaces, he makes them

reect through theirGlates, as through little

'

Eyes,

World ofthe Sun;

73
Eyes, either the Green of Emeralds, the
Scarlet of Rubies, or the Violet of Ame

thys, according as the dierent Pores of

the Stone, either more raight or more

winding, extinguih or rekindle that weak

Light, by agreat many Reexions. One
diculty may puzzle theReader,to wit,How
I could ee my elf, and not my Houe, (e'e
ing l was become Diaphanous, as Well as it.>
I anwer, That without doubt the Sun acts

otherwie upon animate, than upon inani

mate Bodies; becaue no part neither of my

Fleh, Bones nor Entrails, tho' tranparent,

had lo its Natural Colour; on the contra

ry, my Lungs under an incarnate Red, ill

retained their delicate Softnes' t My Heart

ill Vermilion, gently movedwith its SjOIt,
and Diaole .- My Liver cemed to burn in
a Purple Red, and boyling the Air which]

breathed, continued the Circulation ofthe

Blood:
In hort,
I aw, and
touched,
and feltl
my elf to
be theiame,
nevertheles

Was not o.

Whil I was conidering thisMetamorpho

is, my Voyage grew hortet and horter ill,
but with a great deal of lownes then, by
reaon of the Serenity ofthe Bher, which
was raried proportionably,as I drew nearer
the ource ofDay ; for eeing the matter in

that Region is very thin,becaue ofthe great

'Ell

Vacuity it is full oand that by coniequetlilce

-

t at

74;

.\- The Hiory

the

- thatMattzer is very lazy,by' reaon oftheVaeu

ity that has noAction,thatAir pang through

the hole orny'Box, could not produce but

a little Wind, hardly able to upport it.

l never reected upon the Malicious Ca

prieiounes o Fortune, which always o ob

inatl oppoed the Succes of my under-tas

king, utl wonder my brains did nOt turn.
But lien to a Miracle, which future Ages
will hardly be inclined to believe.

Beinghut up in a Box asclear as day, that

l had ju lo ightoand my ight agging
o, that] had mach ado not to allz m a

word, being in a condition, that all that's

contained in the great Fabrick othe World,

Was unableito a mez l ound my klf re

" duced to the Period of extream Misfortune:
Nevertheles, as when We are expiring, we
nd an internal Impule in us, to embrace thoe who have given us a Being 51 lited up
'ny Eyes to the Sun, our common Father.
That ardour oWill, n'Ot only upported my
Body,but alo raied it up towards thetthing,
which it a ith to embrace. My Body puh
ed orWardE my Box, and in' that manner I
continued my Voyage. So oon as [perceiv
ed this', more inteny than ever,I plyed all'
the aculties of my Soul, to raie my Imagi
nation towards that which attracted me z
but my head being loaded with my Shed, a-'

gaintt the upper-part whereof, the Eorts

fo

' Worldof the SunH '

75

of my Will pan: it,whether I would or nor,

that did o incommode me, that at length ib

much weight, forced me to grope for the *
place nfits inviible Doct'. By' good fortune l ound it, and having opened it, threw

' my ef out .* Butthatnathtal Apprehenion

o ailing, Which all Animals have, when
nd nothing'to
them, 'mi
made
i they
me briskiy
retch forthupport
myArm,thatl
ht
take hold o hmewhat: I had 'no ot er

t Guide but Nature, Which'iands not upon

Reaoningz and therefore Fortuneher Ene
my,maliciouly forced my 'hand upon the Cen
* pital o Chryial. Alas! what Thunder-'

clap to my Ears, Was the ound ofthe Ico

iedron, whiCh tomy hearing broke in pie
ees I Such a Dihrder, Misfortune, and

vFright are beyond all expreions! The Glal

&sattracted no more Air, at no more-Va

euity was made; the Air became no more

wind, by its haening to ll it , and the

wind ceaed to carry my Box on high : In

hort, immediately after that wrack,I aw it

long a falling through thoe yat plains of

the World. 'It recontracted inzhe lame Re

gion,the dark Opacity which it had exhaledz '

in repect that the emerge-tick Vertue of the

Light,"ceaing in that place,it 'greedily 'vnited

again to the obcure Thicknes, which was
in a manner eential to it; in the ame

manner as Spirits, long after their Separatiz Ql]

76

The Hiory of the

on,have been een to come in earch of their

Bodies, and that theymight rejoyn them,
to wander for the pace ofan hundred years

about their Graves., l fancy it lo in this

manner its Tranparency,for I have een it

ince in Poland, in theame conditionIt was

in, when r I entered it.

Now l have

been informed, that it ell under the Equi

noctial Line, in the Kingdom of Borneo zthat

' a Portugue' Merchant bought it of the [lan
der that found it, and that from hand to

hand, it fell into the poeiion ofthat Polz'b

Engineer, who makes ue ofitat preent to

_Lnn-'

y with.
Thus, then, hanging in the open pace o
the Heavens, and terried already by the
Death, which myfall threatned me with, I
turned, asI told you, my ad eyes toWards
the Sun: My Sightcarried my thought thi
ther, and my Looks being xed upon his
Globe,marked out a way which my Will fol
lowed , to tranport my Body to the ame
place,
'
That vigorous Launching out of my

Soul, will not be incomprehenible to

any, that will but conider, the imple
Eorts of our Will', as, for Inance, It is

very well known, that when l havea mind

' to leap, my Will being excited by my Fanq
' cy, raiEs the whole Microcom,and endea

vours to tranport it to the mark, that it

pro

World of the Sun.

77

propoed to it izl. If it attain not always

it

an
his
i ll

was
at:
qui

to it, it's becaue that the Univeral Prin

ciplos o Nature prevail over the Particu
larz and that the Power o Willing be

ing particular to enitive Beingsz and that '

ofalling to the Center, proper to all things,

mater'ial in general-3 my Leap is orced to

chi '

ceae, o oon as-the Mas of my Body,

having overcome the Inolence of the Will,
that urprized it, draws near the Point to

lm

which it tends.

l to

I hall wave what ele happened to me,

1! r:

during the re omy Voyage, let l hould

be as long in relating,as Iwas in making it :
I'll only tell you in general, that at th'e end
of 22. Months, I at length happily arrived
at the great plains of Day.

That Land looks like akes o burning

Snow, o luminous it is z nevertheles itis a

thing pretty incredible, that I could never
comprehend, after that my Box ell, whe- ther I mounted up, or decended towards
the Sun. I only remember, when I arrived
there, that I walkt lightlyz I toucht only,
the Ground in a point, and loten rowled

to

like a Bowl, nding it alike commodious,

uplf

to walk either upon my Head 'or Feet.

I: 15

Though ometimes my Feet were towards

'ind

Heaven, and my Shoulders towards the

Earthz yet in that poure, I ound my

far

'an
lea
lt it
ro

elf as naturally ituated, as imy Feetbhad

. een

78

The Hiory of the

been towards the Earth, and my Shoulders

towards Heaven. Upon what part oevet
of my Body I placed my elf, whether no
on my Belly, or Back, on Elbow or Ear, l

found my elf anding.

By that l knew,

that
the5' and
Sun that
is a asWorld,
which
tulaiom
no
Center
l was at
enougv
the active Sphere of ours, and Of all the o
thers w-hichl met; o by conqaence, "it *
was 'un oble, that lhould ill be ponde
rous, eeing Weight is nothing ele, but an
Attraction o the Center, within 'he Sphere 7
of
its Activity.
_ _, [printed my'
ct The
Repect, wherewith
eps upon that Lum'mous Plain, upend

' ed for ome time, the eager Deire] had to

advance on my Journey. l was all ahered

to walk upon Ihethy : Nay, and my alto

nihed Body, deiring to telle upon mine

Eyes; and that tranparent Ground, vlphich

they pierced, not being able to upport
them 5 my lninct in pight of me, now
. become Maer of my thought, burried it,

Into the Aby of' a bottomles Light. My'

Reaon nevertheles, by degrees lind-wet
Ved my. Ininctz lWalked condently, and

without tremblinguponthe Plain, and dt

rected
my perceived
eps o boldly,
that' World,
iMen \
coctuld have
me from their
they would have taken me or'ome Powee

watching upontheClmdsstmM-I.think, "R

World of the Sun; '

travelled about teen days time, I Came in
to a Country of the Sun, not o replendent
as thoe l had let. [ound my (Elf tranport
ed with Joy, and I imagined, that undoubt
edly that Joy proceeded from a ecret Syml

pathy, which my Being ill retained, with its '

Opacity. Neverthelei, the knowledge [had
othis,made me not dei rom myEnterpriz;
or then] was like' to thoe leepy old men,

who tho' they know that leep is hurtful to

them, and that they have ordered their Ser
vants,to natch them out ot it*s, Clutches, are
_ nevertheles very angry when they awaken

them. . In like manner, tho' my Body

growing obcure,as I reached the darkerProi
vinces, recontracted the weaknees,that that:

inrmity o matter brings along. with, itz _

yet I was pleaed therewith : Growing wea'

ry,eep invaded mez for that attering Hea

vines, wherewith the apProaches o eep

charms us, diilled o much pleaure into'
my Veins, that my Senes overcome thereby,
forced my Spirit to congratulate the Tyrant,
who chained its Servants z for Sleep,that Anv

tient Tyrant of one halfof our days, who

becaue ohisOld age, being unable to _i1p

port the Light, or to, look on it without
fainting, was forced to forake me, upon my
entry into the hining Countries or the Sun,
Was come to expect mean the Connes of

the duskyx-Region fpeakofz where having)

,,

'

caught

80
The Hitory of the
caught me, he made me Prioner,hut up my
Eyes, his declared enemies, underthe dark
vault of my Eye-lids, and for fear that my o
ther Senes betraying him, as they had be
trayed me, might diurb him in the peace
- able poeon ofhis Conque, he tied them

sz-H-z-z=aA

fa to their Everal Beds. The meanhg of

all this is in two words, thatl lay down up

on the Sand, and fell aleep. lt was a plain

Country, and o open that as far as my ight
could reach, I did not dicover o much as
one Bulh zand nevertheles when Iawoke, I
found my elf under a Tree, in repect of
which the talle Cedars would but appear

I-il

p
A)$
=1

as Gras. The Trunk of it was of Mave

.R'D'UE:7S

Gold, it'sBranches ofSilver, and it's Leaves

ofEmeralds,which upon the replendentVer

dure of their precious SurfaCe, repreimted,
.as in a Looking-Glas, the Images of the

Fruit that hang about them.

But judge ye
'I

whether theFruit owed any thing to the

20.?

Leaves zthe enamed Scarlet ofa large Car

_AW'QE
EZZVFP'Z
FZ-S'

buncle, compoed one half of every one of

them, and the other was in upence, whe

ther it held it's matter of a Chryolite, or

ol' a piece of gilt Amber z the-blown Blo

oms were large Ros of Diamonds, and 0*

riental Pearls the Buds.

ANightingale,whoe mooth Plume. ren

dered it exceeding lovely, perching on the

highe prig, eemed ollicitous, with _it's

Me

' World of the Sun.

8i

Melodyct, to force the Eyes to canfeiz to thev

Ears', that it Well deisrved the ThrOne where;
on it ate.

'

.l ood a lo'ng While amaZed at the ght

ofthat rich Spectacle, and 'I could not have

my un of beholding it : But whil my"

thoughts were wholly taken u'pin' contemplaJ
ting, among the Other_Fruit,'an exceeding
lovely Pomegranate, whoe Fleh was a'
_;-L"L,

Warm of large Rubies in cluers,l aw that

little CroWn tht ands itinead ofa Head
move, which lengthened it elf, as much ad

was needful, to form a Neck; neXt I aw

omewhat white bubble and' boil' over it;
which by means ofCondenlation,C0n'cretiori

advancing and rePelling thematter in certain,

places, appeared a't len'gth to' be the face of
a' little bulk ofFieh. That little b'u'lk hap'
ed it (Elf into a round Figure towards the"
girdle, that's to ay, that in the lower part

o it,it ill retained the hape oanAppleNe

Verthel'es it eXtended it elfby degrees, and the tail of it being converted into two Legs;
each Leg divided it iel into veToes. So"
than a's the Pomegra'nate was humanized,it

broke orom its alk, and with a gentle"v

Tos ell ju at my Feet. I confes, really;
when I aw marching ately beore me that
rational Apple, that little Butr-en-d o a

Dwar, no bigger than my Thumb, al YCE

o powerful as to ctgjtehitkiel a' I' was eiz'eck

t .'

, With

82

The Hiory of the

with Veneration. Human Animal (aid he

to me, in that Original Tongue I told you

obeore,)
after]
hadBranch
longconidered
thee, ,l
from the top
of the
where l hungz
I thought I read in thy countenance, that
thou wa no Native othis World,and that's

the reaon why I am come down tobein

formed othe truth. When I had atised
his Curioity, as to all the queions he put to
me
But pray, aid Ito him, tell me who
you are z for whatl have now en, is o

rangely urpriing, that I depair of ever

knowing the Caue o it, unles you dico

ver it to me. How! a great Tree allof pure
Gold, the Leaves whereofare Emeralds, the
Fiowers Diamonds, the Buds Pearls z and
beides all that, Fruit that make themelves

men in the twinkling o an Eye .> For my

part, I confes it paies my Capacity, to corn

prehend uch a Miracle. Having uttered this

Exclamation, whil [expected his anwer:
You will not take it amis, aid he to me, if .

being King oall the people that make up

this Tree, I call them to follow me. When
he had o aid, I oberved that he recoiled
within himelf: Icannot tell, whether by

bending the internal pringso his Will, he

excited without him ome Motion, that pro
duced what now you hall hear: But o it:
is, That immediately after, all the Leaves
and Branches, in hort the whole Tree,broke.
(0

_ _n.\-_ _

World of the Sun:

at'

s;- .

w piec'ee, And became little Men,- that' aW,'

felt, and Walked 9 Who as if the " intd'ded
ta'cezlebme their' Birthiddy, zit t eVety he

&725er

ank' 'ofthe'ir production, fen a dancing a

bout me t Of all,- liu'v none but the Night:
ingale retained it'sy farme? hdpe, and was"

not' at a11= Wfakndrphdied z it came and

perched iide the' Shbhldct of viii little'

Monarc'h, wrie'r'e it" Sang o' melanchbl'ick

and amuto'us an Air; that the whole A-'eu'

bly, and the P'rihe'e' him, mollied by'the't'

weethuguihigsotsdying Voicezccmlci
'giz-z.

not fOrb'edr to hed ame' Tears. A Curioicyv

td learn 'Whem-3' that Bird came, eiz'ed me
ar that msz' uch z'n extraordinary ItcH

oTotrgbe, that' I could notomy heart ted

[dis

n it. sit,addrengry
Kingdid
Ib'dtaid
fed?l, to
trouble your&quotth
Majyi'z

I Would ask you the' que'dn, why among?

th

o many Transormationsghe Nightingale a'd

'one haret'aiine'd itskind- P'Tha 't tle-Prin'ee *

Ie'ned tame With o' intmh Civirity, that ii '

kez
M:

EIV.

_ heW'd he hada great dea'l ofgood Nature;

and knowing my Curioity: The Nightiw
gale, repi'red he,-hath n'ot changed its Form'
as We dVeVdone', bec'due it tduld no'tlz- it? -

t ol

a real Bill-ax Arid nethng e'l that' What it

appeamdbe to you. But lqt'gotowar'ds
obuune KEng;
by the way

a'6

man You- th t am', ana'gWe YW'thdeo'f

no?
ar

17 ofhegkngs kindly had [intiran

ilk?
t PN

td

84.

The Hiory of the

ted to him,theSatisfaction that l receiv'd from ,

his oer, when he kipped nimbly up upon

one of my Shoulders. He ood upon his lit
tle Tip-toes, that he might reach my ear with

his Mouth z and ometimes winging, ome

times peered in my Hair: In troth, aid he,
thou mu e'en excue one that's already out

of breath, eeing in a narrow Body my

Lm'tgs are contracted,and by conequence my
Voice o mall,that l am forced to take a great
dealof pains, t'o make my alfbe heard :The_
Nightingale would do be, to tell it's own

_ -_ -_-._

Hiory it elf, let it ing, then, if it think

t, we hall have'the Pleaure, at lea to

th_- H _F 'nx_ -_A4_

hear it's Story in Muick. l replied,that I was

nor as yet, uciently acquainted with the
Language ofthe Bird, that a certain Philo
S opher, indeed, whom l met with, as l was
mounting up to the Sun,had given me ome
generalPrinciples,for underanding theLan
guage ofBr'tes zbut that they were not u
cient,or the underanding ofall words in ge

neral, nor for being aected with all the De

licacies that occur in an adventure, uch as.
that mu needs be. Well then, aid he, ince
thou'lt have it o, thineEars hall nor only be
deprived, o the weet Songs ofthe Nightins

-_J
Tno
=_"U
i-T-li"

ale z but in a manner of all its adventure

alo, ofwhich Ican tell thee no more, than

what is come to my knowledge a However

be content with that Pattern zbeides the',
I-TF'

'7-1

World of the-Sun: ' I knew it ully, yetthe hortnes oourjour'

ney into' it's Country, whither' l am going
to carry it back again, would nor iler me
to enlarge in my Relation. Having aid o, -

he jumpt down from my Shoulder upon the '

,' ground z then he gave the-hand to all hislit
tle People, and fella dancingwith them ina
kind o Figure, that I cannot repreent, the
like having never een. But hearken, O ye
people of the Earth, to what I don't at all
oblige you to believez ieeingin thatWorld,

where your Miracles are but natural Eects,

this hath pa for a real Miracle. So bo'n as
thee little men were fallen a dancing,- I
thought [ elt their, Agitation in my elf,
and my Agitation in them. I could not be
hold that Dance, but that I Was enibly'
drawn out o my place, as by a Vortex that
moved by it's own whirling, and by the

particularAgitation of every one othem, all

the parts of my Body were put intoAgitatid
on z i) that l felt the ame Gaynes uh in

my countenance, which a like Motion had

pread upon theirs.As the Dance cloed more
and more, the Dancers hued together, by
t a prompter and more imperceptibie way of,

skipping. The deign of the Ball eemed to

be, to repreEnt a huge Giant z for by ap
proaching to one another, and redoubling

the witneis of' their Motions, they ming

led h cloe together, that [diinguihed no
G 3
more

p 86

The Hiory' Of the

more, buta great tranparentolawz how;

ever my eyes aw them enter one into ano
ther. About that time, it'began to be out
ofmy powerzany more to dicern the Diver

ty of their aven-al Motions, by reaon of

their extream Volubility z and. alo becaue

thatVolubility, comract'mg more and more,

according as it approached to the Center,
each vqrtical Tripatlength,tool<; upo little

[pace that it ecaped my eye-gh- Nee

- _.-_

' vertheleil believe,'that the parts ill ape

marched one anotherz for" that human?

as, hostelere o huge-ly great, Was by

degrees reduced. into the hape of a young
Man, oa middle ature, whoi: Members

were proportioned with o exact-a Symetry,

that 'he highet Idea of, perfection could ne-.
Ytrtcachit: He was heauriful, beyond all

that the &ncy pk Painters couldeverimaginz

but that Which emed to me very range

was, that all the parts which compleated

that perfect Microcolin, were link'cd tOng.

ther in the twinkling of an eye; the him,

mOAF-'A_. _. _

blf-r ort. "o our little Dancers cut a Capriol,

to She-heightandnatural paure a hun:

ipg a Head. The better. but les agile, formed
the Hearts and thee that were much heavi
er, furnihed Only-the Bones, Fleh, and
"iz
a'
f?

Plumpneliz
'

,-

When that lQVClY big young Man, Was

sampkady nihed , though the &got-dy
._.
.

World of the Sun,

'

Compotion of him, had hardly allowed

me time to oberve any interval in the Ptoz
greiion
z Iaw
of all thee Peo-j
ple,
of whom
he the
wasKing
an Abridgement,
end *
ter in at the Mouth: Nay, it eemed to me, t
that he was drawn into that Body, by'the
Repiration of the Body i't ilk? This Pile

o little Men, had not as yet given any ign

of Life; but o oon as it had ucked in its
little King, it perceived it elf then, robe

no more but one.

For ome time he ood.

conidering o- me, and eeming. by his looks, now acquainted with me,- he drew
near, careed me, and giving me his Hand:
Now it is, aid he, . that without wrong

ing the delicatenes omy Lungs, I can en

tertain thee with the things,that thou pa- _

onately deired to know I- But r of all,
lel

it's but reaonable, that I hould dicover

to thee, the hidden' Secrets of our Original.

Know then, that we are native Animals o

the brighter Regions of the Sun - the mo

Ul '

ordinary, as well as, the mo uul of our

Employments, is to Travel Over the va
Countries of this great World. 'We curi
ouly oberve the Manners 'o People, the
Genius of Climates, and the Nature of all

things, that deerve our Coniderationz by

means whereof, we form to our izlves,a cer

tain Science o every thing that hath a Be

ing. Now thou mu know, that my Va
G 4.

(als

. 83

_The Hztory'of the

als travelled under my Conduct, and to the

end, we might have time to oberve things '

* morecuriouy, we retained not that par

ticular Conformation of our Bodies, which

cannot fall under thy Senes,and whoe Sub
tilty would have made us make too much
hae, but we converted our elves into

Birds, all my Subjects, by my Qrders, be

came Eagles, and as for my irlf, lea they.

might grow weary, I Metamorphod my

- elf into a Nightingale, to weeten their La
bour, by the Charms of Muck: Without
ying, l followed the rapid ight of my
People, forl perched upon the Head of
one of my Vaals, and we were ill puru
ing our Journey, when a Nightingale, an
Inhabitant of-a Province' o the obcur'e
Country, that at that time we Travelled
- through, aonihed to ee me in the Power
of an Eagle for it could take us for none o
ther, but what it aw usto be) fell a bewail

ing my Misfortune: I ordered my People to

hal t,a nd we lighted on the top ofomeTrees,
where that Charitable Bird lamented. [took
o much 'Pleau-re in the weetnes ofher dole

plAirs, that tq-the end [might enjoy them,

F e lo"nge_r,and with more convenienc re

_ol.ved not to _undeceive her. Idevied upon.v

5, e pot a Story,wherein I told her theima'gi-.
nary-Misfortunes, that had made me fall into

the ranne! that Basle-il pissed it out wixh

. -

-W0rld-0fi the Sun;

89

o fiirpriing-Adventures, which o dexterouy

raied the Paions, and the Air was o well adap
ted to the Letter, that the Nightingale, was quite

beide her &if. ,We reciprocally warbled to one

another,theHio'ry of our mutualLove in Muick.
' I chanted in my Airs,that not only I was comfor.

ted, but even re]0yced in my diaer, (being it

had procured me the Glory, vto be lamented in

tich pretty songs; and that little dihonolate Bird
anwered me in hers, that he would 'oyfully ac
cept all the eeem, Iput upon herzif e thought,

that that could make her deerve, the Honour of .

dying in my place; but that Fortune, not having
'reixved o much Glory,er uch a Wretch as he,

he only accepted o that eeem, as much as might

hinder me, from being ahamed ofmy Friendhip.
I made anwer again, on mY part, with all the
tranports,tendernes,and oftnes of o touching a
Paon,that I perceiv'd her,three or four times,rea
dy todie oLove, upon the Branch. The Truth is,I
mingled o much Art, with the Sweetneis of my
_-V0ice, and urprized her Ear with uch quaint
Touches, and by ways o unuual to thoi: of her
wai

Kind,th at I raied in her pretty Soul,what Paon

oever I pleaied. In this Exercie, we pent four

and twenty Hours; and 1 believe, we had never
toil
loi
he:

lit
Po:
agi'
ini I

given over making of Love, had not our Throats

denied us any more Voice. That was the only

Obacle, that'hindred us from' proceeding: For
perceiving, that the Pains I took, began to 'tear
my Throat, and that I could hold out no log
ger, without falling into a Swoon, I made her a

ign to draw near to me. The danger he thought

me to be in, amid o many Eagles, 'perwaded
her, that I called her to my aid: She came iea

'g

,_';'

90

The Hiory of the

ing immediately, to my Aance, and rehlv

ing to give me a Glorious Inance, that he could
ib'r a Friend brave Death even upon his Throne,
he boldly lighted upon the great crooked Beak
of the Eagle, where I was perched. Really, o
rong a Courage, in o weak a Creature, affe
cted me, with ome Veneration; for, grant I
had implored her aid, as he fancied, and that it

be a Law, among Animals of the ame kind,

to a the unfortunate; yet, the Ininct of her
timorous Nature , ou bt- to have made her wa

ver; and nevertheles, e bo led not in the lea:

On the contrary, he made o much hae, that
I cannot tell which ew r, the Signal, or the

' Nightingale. Proud, to ee under her Feet, the

Head of her Tyrant, and ravihed, to think
- that for my ake, he was to be Sacriced, almo
' under my Wings, and that ome happy drops of
her Blood, might perh'aPs Jert upon my Feathers,
he gently turned her Eyes to me, and having
bid me adieu,as it were, by aGlance,which eem.

Qdto ask me leave to die; he ruck o brisle .

him' little Beak, into the Eyes of the Eagle, that

they heme'd to me to be out, before the peck

was, given. When my Bird perceived 'it rlf to
be-blind, it formed to it litlf'another ight of new. I gently rebuked the Nightingale, for her too

rah Action; and thinking it would bedanger

ous vto conceal our real Being, any longer from

her, I- told her, - who we were; but the poor lit

tle thing,prepoeed with an Opinion, that thee
Barbarians, whoe Prioner I was, forced me to
devie that Tale, gave no credit to all that I could

y when When I found that all the Reaons,

whereby I thought to convince her, prove? inef
-

'

ectual

vW'orld of the Sun;

i 9;

fectual, Igave*private,0rders, to ten or twelve

thouand of my' Subiecte, and, immediately, the

Nightingale, perceived under her Feet, a River,
running under a Beat, and- the Beat oating up
- * on it; the Beat was no bigger, than was uci

cut to hold me, and another of my Size. At

the r Signal given,'my Eagles ew away, and
Ithrew my elf into the Ski; from whence, I
called to the Nightingale, that if he could not

as yet, reolve to" leave me o oon, he hould

embark with me. So oon as he was come in,
Icommanded the River to take its coure, to
wards the Region, whither my People ew; but
the uidity Of the Water, being inferiour to
. that of the Air, and by conequence, the Rapi
dity of their ight greater than that of ours, We ,
were left a little behind. During the whole Voy
age, I made it my Buines, to undeceive my lit
tle Paenger ,- I' told her, that he ought not to
expect any fruit of herPaon,ince we were not
of the ame Kind, that he might very well have
perceived that, when the Eagle, whoe Eyes he
had ruck out, framed to it elf new ones, in
her preence, and when at my command, twelve

thouand of my Subjects, had Metamorphoed

themelves, into that River and Boat, which
carried us. .My Remonrances had not the lea
succes: She made me anwer, that as for the Ea
gle, who, Iwould have it believed, had formed

to it itlf Eyes, it had no need of them ; becaue

he had not ruck her Beak right into the Ball of
its Eye; and as to the River and Beat, which I
aid to' have been begat only of a Metamorpho
is of my People, they were in the Wood from
the Creation of the Worid,'though they hacicht '
-

11

92

The Hiory of the

been minded. Perceiving her o Ingcnious, in

deceiving her elf, I agreed with her, that my
Vaals, and I, hould Metamorphoe our hlves
to her view into what he pleaed; provided, that
after that, he would return to her own Country.

Sometime, he deired it hould be into a Tree ;

ometime, he wihed it might be into a Flower
ometime into Fruit, ometime into Metal, and
ometime into Stone. In ne, that I might at
once atise all her Deires, when we arrived at

my Court, where I ordered her to expect me,

we Metamorphoed our elves, to the Eyes o
the Nightingale,into that preciousTree,thou foun
de upon the Road, of which we have ju now
abandoned the form. Now after all, that [ee
that little Bird, reolved to return into her own

Country, my Subjects, and I, are about to reiime

our Figure, and the right way of our journey :

But it is but reaonable, that I hould r dico

ver to thee, that we are Natives, and Aborigehe:
of the Sun, in the bright part thereof; for there
is a very remarkable Dierence, betwixt the Peo
ple, Which the Luminous Region produces, and
the People of the obcure Country. We are they,
whom in the.World of the Earth, ye call Spi
rits, and your preumptuous upidity, hath gi
ven us that Name; becaue, imagining no Ani
mal, more perfect than Man, and perceiving that
ome Crcatures, perform things above Humane

Power, you have taken thee Animals for Spirits.

You are miaken though, we are Animals as well

as you: For although when'we pleae, we give

to our Matter, as you have ju now een, the e
ential Figure, and Form of the things, into
which we have a mind to transform out elves,
that

World of the Sun.

93

that does not infer that we are Spirits. But lien,

and I'll diover to thee, how all thee Transfor

mations, which eem to thee to be o many Mi.
racles,are no more but pure natural Eectshou

mu know, that being born Inhabitants of the

bright .part of this great World, where it is' the
Principle of Matter to be in Action; we ought
to have the Imagination, far more active, than
thoe of the obcure Regions, and the Subance

' of
Body, it
farmu
more
ubtil
Now
this being
uppoed,
vneeds
be,alo.
that our
Imagination
meeting with no Obacle, in the matter that
compoies'us, it dipoes the ame as it pleaes, and
becoming Mireis of all our Mais, makes it by
moving all its Particles, to pai into the order, ne
ceary for conituting that-great thing, which it
had formed in little. So that every one of us,
having imagined the place, and part of that pre-v
cious Tree, into which we had a mind to be chan

ged; and having by that eort of Imagination,

'excited our matter to the Motions, nece

for producing them, we trans'formed our elves

into the ame. Thus my Eagle, having his Eyes
peckt out, had no more to do, for reoring of

them again, but to imagine himisl a harp-ight.

ed Eagle; for all our Transformations, are per
formed by Motion; and therefore it is that, ,
when from Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit that we
were, we became tranmuted into Men, thou

awe us dance ill ometime after, becaue we

were not as yet recovered from the agitation,

which we ought to give to our matter, for

making of us Men : After the manner of

Bells; which though they be opt, yet Chime
for ome time after, and dully retain the ame
t

ibund

94

The Hiory of the

ound, which was cauiul by the riking of the

Clapper; and therefore thou awe us dance, be

fore we made that great Man, becaue for pro'

duction of him, it behoved us to take ali the ge
neral, and pa'rt'icular Motions',that Were neceary

to oonirute him ;t'o the end that that agitation by'

degrees compreng, andcompacting out everal
Bodies by it's motion, might create in 'ererypart
the pecick Motion, whiCh it ought to have. Ye
men ofthe Other world,Cann0t do the ame thing-s,
by reaon of the Heavin'efs ofyour Mas, and the
Coldne of year Imagination.

'

_ He Continued hisProbatit'm, a'nd'illurated it'

. by o familiar and palpable InanCes, that ar;
length I was unde'ceiv'd of a great 1112an ill prov'd
_ opinions, wherewith our obinateDoctorspoeb
the minds of the weak. At that tinual begarr to
conceive, that in reality, the-imagination ofthee

Solar people,which by reaon ofthe Ciim'ate '

ht

'to be hotter, their Bodies for the lathe rea on

lighter, and their" ' rjns more-active (there be

ing in that Worl , as there is in our's, 'no Acti
vity of the Center, which may diVert the matter

from the motionl which that Imaginatioh amp's

upon it '.)I conceived, I ay, that that Imagination

'might produce without a Miraele, all the Mira

_

cleswhieh it had performed; A thouand Exam

pies Ofalmo the like eects, armdd by peoPle

l of our Globezfull'y perWaded me of this. Cippm K.-_
of Italy,wh0 havingbeen preent ata ght or Bulis,
A and his imagination all the night After,v running
. upon Herns,found hislforehead hdl'nGd neat morn
ing. Gallus Vitim, who bent his mind andz Vi O'
rouy excited it, to conceive theNat'u're tide 17;

that having by an eort of hna'gimtionp given

.

to

World of the Sun.

'95

to his matter the ame motions, that that matter .

ought to have for conituting. Folly , be

came a Fool.

King Codrm- being Ptiical,

and xing his eyes and thoughts upon the freh

looks of a young Countenance, and that orid
Chearfulnes which darted upon him, from the
youthfulneis of the Boy, exciting in his Body the

. motion, whereby he fancied the healthfulnes of a

.,:>.

young man, recovered his Health. In hort, ma

(u

, ny Women have made their'Children, already

formed in the Womb, Moners ; becaue their
imaginatiOn, that was nOt rong eough, to give
to themelves the Figure of the Moners, which
they conceived, had force ucient to muer the
matter ofthe Fxtm, that was much hotter, and

II,
ia:
r::<;*

more moveable than their own,into an order prop

per for the production ofthee Moners. Nay I

was perwaded,that when that famous Hypochon

te;

driacal man of Antiquity,imagined himelf to be

35:sz

a Pitcher, if his two compact and heavy matter could have followed the emotion ofhis Fancy, it
wOuld have formedef his entire Body a perfect

Fa
'He
2e
"Y
Fast)
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52'?

Pitcher; and he would haveappeared to allemen

to be a real Pitcher, o as he aPpeared to beto
himelfalone.A great many mherlnances,where
with I atised my elf, o throughly convinced
me, that I made no doubt any more, ofthe won;
ders which the Man-pirit' told me. He asked me,

if I deired any thing ele of him 3 andI thanked'

him with all my Heart : After that, he had ill
, the goodnes to adviie me, that ince I was an In:

habitant of the Earth, I hould follow tthighta

. ingale into the obcure Regions ofthe Sun,'becauie"

they were more utable to the pleaures which'

Human Nature covets.- No ooer

he
cu .

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96 7 t

The Hiory of the

cluded this dicoure, but that openingv his

Mouth _very wide, I aw the King ofthee little
Animals come out of his Throat, in hape of a *
Nightingale. The great man inantly ell dowh
and at the ame time, all his Members by mor

cels ew away under the form of Ea'gles. That

Nightingale elf-Creator, perched upon the fair
e of them, from whence he warbled out a mo

excellent Air, whereby, I fancy, he gave me the

Farewel. The real Nightingale took ight alo,
but not the way as they did, nor did he oa-r
o high; o thatI did not lefe ight ofher.We tra-'
velled much about the ame rate; for eeing] was
* indierent what Country] went to r, I was'
ve willing to accompany her ; beides that the

f14>_ _-Ai_

thure regions of the Birds, being more con

form to my Conitution, I hoped alo to meet

with_Adventures there, more agreeable to my hu-:
mour. In that Expectation I travelled for the

pace of three weeks at lea, with all imaginable

content, had Ivhad nothing but my ears to atisz
e;er the Nightingale let me not be without Mtv

ick; when he was weary, he came and reed

upon my Shoulder ; and when I opt, he (laid
or me. At length I arrived 'in a Country, ofthe
Kingdom ofthat little Qiiricr; who then ca
r'ed no more for my Company, o thatI lo ight
of her. I ought her, and called to her; but at

FS'dEIT

length growing weary of running up and down'

'in vain after h_er,l reolved to take ome re: For

thatend l laid my elalOngupon a oft Carpet
of Gras, pread at the Root of. a lofty Rock,
that was covered with many trees, whoe blith,
and frehVerdure was a perfectEmblem onouth :_

\ liar whil oftencd by the. Charms othr place-a.

The

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World ofthe Sun.

i The Hiory

B I RD S.

Began to fall a aleep in the Shade, I

perceived in th'e Air a range Bird,
that hovered over my Head ; it upported

it elf by o light and imperceptibie amo

tion, that I was many times in doubt,
a
i?
ET'.

avAs
V?
FJ'R
--.aa,r*c_.-L'=.._'$*HL='*<-.

whether it might nor be alo a little

Univere, balanced by its own Center.
However by little and little it de
cended , and at len h Came o near,

that it lled my E es with _a deli ht

ful Propect.

The Tail of [it re

to

be green, its Brea Azure-enamel'd, its

Win s Incarnare, and its Head Purple,
whic toed a glittering Crown of Gold,

the Rayes whereof parkled from its

Eyes;
.
It kept a long time upon the Wing,

and I was b attentive to oberve what

became on't, that my Soul being con
tracted, and in a manner wrapt up in the
ole action of Seeing, it hardly reacth my
Ear, to let me hear that: the Bird poke as it:
ung.
However,being by little and little unbent

from my Extaie, I diinct-ly remarked the

'Syllables, Words, and Dicoure which it
uttered.

.
H_
I

To

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Tbein'ory

the.

* To the be ofmy Memory, then it pun

out its Song into thee terms, t. .
You'are a Stranger, While'd the Bird,
and has had your 'birth in a World, of

which originally/1 I am. NOW' that ecret

propenity to; mutual Love', 'that thoe of
the ame Country have one for another,
is the ininct,,_which
YouofmyLife.;;
* Inclines
[.i; 2.' me
Lct to inform
.

:,' I percech oilr mind puzled to conceive,

.

W
5 _ CLEQ

howitispo ible'that I houldiexpres my

--elfto you, in acoutinued Diizoure, eev
ing theughz-Birds- imitate zyour words, i

UHPZ
F'TU
22

they 'underand not the meaning ofthem ;

but, on the Other hand, When' you Coun

terfeit the: Bark-ing 'of a DVK, or the Note

_4-l-_.. .

e
a Nzgirripgale,
youundera-nd
little
What
the qug or N'gbtzihgdle
meansas there

LY. Conclude then frem.,tlience, .That

FCP

neither Birds nor Men are therefore the le-IB

SENT-V

rational.

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Nevertheles, in the. ame manner as

an' you, there: have been ome o
Jngenious,_-asto have underoodand lcr

ken our Language, as Apollonius', Thinne

m, detain-ender, zpp, and many. Othe'S,

whoe names I conceal, becaue they 'ne

zver
to zpur knowledge 3' o there are
thoe among us, .who . Lmderandrrand
zfeak youre Some indeed, , know Only'

the Language o one Nation : But ju o

c .. , '
as

rm-s

-' s

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. _, World ofthe Sun:

'as there are ome Birds that ay - nothing at

all, ome that chirp, and others that peak;
there are alo ome more perfect, Who c'an
make ue of all Idioms; as for my ielf, I
have the honour to be one of that mall
number.
7
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After all, you mu know, that in What
world 'oever it be, nature hath am
On Birds a ecret deire ofying 'up hither/3
and perhaps that Emorion of our Will is,
that which hath made our Wings to grows
as Women with Child imprine upon 'their

Children,the 'gure of the thingsthey

vhave longed for; or rather 'as thoe who
paonately would learn to Swim, have

been kenin their leep to jump'into Rivers,

_>and
with more;
skill than,
an experienced
Swifnmer
pas thoe
danger's,
that if the i
had been awake, they dur not have -

jmuch as beheld; or as the Son of that

'ame King Cum, whom a vehement deire
of "peaking, to ave' his Fatheris Life,
taught a Language all of a udden; or-in
hort,v asthat-Ancient who being purued

'by his Enemy , and urprikd without

Arms, had Bulls Horns grow out on his
Forehead, .throu h-the deire that a Rage,
_ not unlike to that f that Bea,- iniited in
to

'

When Birds then arrive in the Sun', they

go and aociate
themelves
to the Repub
i i '
H 2 e
lle

1 oo
The Hiory ofthe
lick of their kind. I well perceive, you
are big with expectation to learn what I
am, it is I who among you am called a
Phenix, in every world there is but one
at a time, which lives there for the pace
of an hundred Years; for at the end of an

Age, when upon ome Mountain of Ara

bia, it hath laid a reat Egg' amid the
Coals of its Funeraf Pile, which it hath
made ofthe Branches of Aloes, Cinnamon

1
r

and Frankincene, it takes its ight, and

diverts its coure towards the Sun, as the
Country to which its heart hath long all -

1
t
'e

pired. It hath indeed made many At

tempts before, for accomplihing that Voy
age,- but the weight of its Egg, which
hath o thick a hell, that it requires an
Age to be hatched in, ill retarded the

v
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Enterprie.

ol

I am enible, that you can hardly com

prehend that miraculous Production ,- and
therefore I'll explain it to you. The Pbe
nixis an Hermaprodite, buc among Her
maphrodites, it is likewie another Pbem'x

du
tl
r

altogether extraordinary; For------- '

he

_It c0ntinued half a quarter of an hour

without peakin , and then added: I per

gl

ceive you upe whatI have told you to

[i

be falle, but if * what I ny be nor true, '

the r' time I come into your Globe, may
- an Eagle devour me.
_
It

tl
di

Word of the Sun."

t or, i

It remained a little while longer hover

ing upon Wing, and then ew away, - w
The Admiration that its relation put: me

into, gave me the Curioty to follow. it 3;

and becaue it cut the Welkin with no

wift ight, I eaily kept within ight of;

lt'

'

At the end of Fifty

, or thereag
bouts, I found my (hi in a Country ib full
of Birds, that their numberequalled al

mo the number of the leaves that cove

red them. The thin that urpried me
mo was, that in ea of growing wilder
upon my coming, they flew about me,

one chirped into my Ears, another fetch

ed a compa about my head : In hort,
when their Gambols had for a long time
taken up my attention, all of a u den I
felt my Arms loaded with above a Million
of all orts and kinds, which reed them
down o heavily, that I coul not move
them.

They held me in this poure, until I irw

Four great Ea les come, of which Two
having with t eir Talons taken fa hold
on me by the Legs, and the other Two
b the Arms, they carried me up aloft in
t e Air.

'Amon the Wood I pied a Magpy,

that 'ma e a teat bule ying up and
down,- and I card her. call tomc, that I
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hould

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ThectHr'ory ofthe 7

hould not make reiance, becaue her ,

Companions were already conulting to'put

' (St-ii; my; Eyes. This admonition put a op
menwe Strugling that I could have made ;

'that theiEEagles carried me above aThou

andx Leag'ues 'from thence into a great
Wood, which was ( as, the Magpy told
rie )z' th'e ' City Where, their King held his

Renown-- .- .

* The r 'thing they did, was to throw

me into-Pnion, in the hollow Trunk of a

, largeOakz; ahd a 'great many of the rong

et
upon 'the Branches, where
they 'performed the duty of a Company' of

- Souldiers anding to their Arms.

e' About theend of Fourand twenty hours,
&net-her Comany mounted the Guard, and
relieved thee. In the mean time, whil I
lWaith withagreat deal of Melancholy, to

' ' know What lt would pleae Fortune to

determine o me ; amid 'my Misfortunes
my charitable Magpy informed me of all

hatPa-,

r '

- A-Amon'gi other things, I remember he

told ine, 'That the Mobile of the Birds,
had made' a'lieaizy Rout, lbecaui: they had

ket me ribl'on'g without devoun'ng me z

that they had alledged I would 'grow o,
- clean, that there Would ="be nothing of me

reft tuc'*Bva<-:s,to*ri>+
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2;

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World ofth Sun;

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123'- .

'5 The Clamor was like toibreak out into'

a Sedition 3 ' for my Magpy Thav-ing taken]

the boldnesto repreent, That'it was-'fa

barbarous Procedure to pnt to death
that manner withoutany Tryal, an Aniz

mal, Which in ome ort had Reaon a's weli

as they ;_ they had like to have torn her 'te ' * \

pieces, pretendingthat it would be Ye? ri-'

diculous, to think that' an Animal 'ark
naked, which' Nature her elf, When he
produced it, took no care to furnih' with

things neceary for its Preervation, 'hould

becapable of Reaon like them Nay more,
added .they, were it an' Animal that re'

embled our hape omewhat more, it were

hmewhat 'z but of all things the mo un'-"
like, and mo hideous. In a' word, a
bald Bea, a featherles Bird, aChimera

patched up ,of all orts of- Natures, 'and

terrible to all. - Man, I ay, i) vain and
fOOlih, that he perwades himelf, we
were only made for him.. Man, who

with his harp-ighted Soul, cannOt diin

uih Sugar from A-rbnick, and who'll
wallow down Hemlock, when his quaint

Judgment hath made him take it for Par

iey. Man, who maintaine that there is
no Reaoning, but with arefcrence to the
Scnes; and vYet h'as the weake, dulle _
and mo erring Senesof all &Creatures
living. Man, in ne, whom Nature hath '

't

H 4

. formed,

l 04.

The Hr'ory'oftl'e

formed as he doth Moners, to hew her.

yet hath lled
the Ambiz
tion ;ofand
dominee'riing
over, with
and extirpating
all other Animals.

'

. This was the dicoure that the wie-r.

ort held ; as for the Rabble they cried,

That it was a horrid thing, to believe
that a Bea, who had not a Face like theirs,

hould have Reaon. Now, chattered they

one to another, he 'hath neither Beak,
Feathers nor Claws, and can he have a

Spiritual Soul? Strange! what Impertiz

pence is that !
- Though the more generous pittyed me,

yet that hindered not, but that an Inditez

ment was brought in again me; all the

Writings were drawn upon the Bark of

a Cypres Tree : And then ome Days

after, "I was carried before, the Tribunal of

Birds; There were none choen for Advoz
cares, Counllors and udges of the Court,
but Magpys, Jays, an Starlings; becaue
theY would have nQne but thoe that under.

'ood
my Language.
Inead'of
trying
me
-attheBar,theiy
et me radling
upona
Stump

> ofa_ rotten Tree; . wherehe that was Preie

dent ofthe Court, haying chattered two or
three times with his Bark, and Majei
c'ally hrugged his Feathers,th me, From

whence I came, of whatnation and kind

was? My charitable Magpy'had given

i

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me

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Ice;v

lier'

me ome Inructions before, which were

imbi

very u6ul to me; and among other,

inn;

that I hould have a pecial care, not to

confes that I was a Man. I made an

rie:
cried

wer then, ThatI was of that little World.

which is called the Earth, that the Phe
nix, and ome others whom I law in Court,

her

might have told them of : That the Climat

Where I was born, lay under the tempe

lit

rate Zone of the Artick Pole, in the utmo

part of Europe, which was called Fra'ice';

are l

and that as to my kind, I was not a Man,

as they imagined, but an Ape : That ome

Men had carried me away very young out
m'i

ofthe Cradle, and brought me up among

them: That their bad Breeding had reny

dered my skin o delicate; that they made

me forget my Mother's Tongue, and
taught me theirs : That to comply with
thee Wild Animals, I had accuomed my
elf to walk Only on two Legs: And that,
in a word, ince it is more eaie to degenez

rate than to improve in kind, the Opi

nion , Cuom, and Food of thee un-_

w;

. _ clean Beas, had o much power up

_ on me, that hardly' my, Parents, who
are Apes of .uality, could themelves '

know me. I ad ed for 'my Juication,

that they might have me viewed by expert
Birds, and that in cae, they found me to
be a Man, I hould be willing to be

amillated as a Moner. r
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'Noe Hzory of ibe

Gentlemen, cried a Swallow of the

Court, o oon as I had made an end, I
hold him as convicted : You have not for
got thatju now he aid, That the Coun--v

try where he was born, was France; but

you know that the Apes in France do not
engender : Judge now after that, i he be
what he boas himielf to be.
' * I made anwer to my Accubr, That I

was carried-away o young -0ut of the

Bofbm of my Parents, and Tranported

into France, that I had reaon to call that
sly native Country which I remembred be.
i That reaon though pecious, was no:

icient; but the mo part being ravih

ed tollear, that I was not a Man, were

Very willing to believe it o ; For thoe who

had never een any, could nor be perwa-Z
ded, but that a Man was a far more hor
rid-Creature, than I appeared to be to them ;
and the dicreeter added, That aMan was '

o abominable a thing, that it were gOod

they hould believe him to be only an ima

ginary Being.
3
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All the Court clapt their Wings for- Joy,
and immediatly I Wascommited to the Al
,dermen-Birds-tobeexamined, on'conditiOn

they hould preimtme again next Morning,

and at the opening of the Court, make

report ofthe Verdict ofsvhe Fury.- They

undertookthe-iAair chew-and untied me
< llfO

World of the

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into a '.Bye-copice = Whilt'theyv kept me

there, they did nothing but play a hundred

Monkcy tricks about me 5 ometimes they
* knocked their Feet one again another,
by and by they duglit'tle' Heles, on] that

they might ll them up again; an then

all of a udden I was amazed that Icould

ce no Body at all.
'
_
' The Day and Night were ent in thee
tries, until next Morning, that the hour
appointed being Come, thiy brought me to

appear again beforemy Ju ges : Where my

Syndicks being deired to tell the truth, Anwered, That to dicharge their Con

ciences, they hengh't themelves obliged

to inform the Court, That for certain I
'was notan Ape, as Ibr ' g'd: For, aid
they, it was-us no pur'po? for us to leap,
skip, whirl round, andvinvent before him 'a
'hundred odd Tricks and Capers, whereby
'wethought 'to move him to 'do the like,

'according to the cuom of Apes, when all not do. Now though he hath been
bred among Men,e'eing an Ape is- always
'an Ape, we maintain that it could 'not
have been in his power, to refrain. from

'imitating our A'pih Tricks. . This, Gen

tlemen, is our Report. '
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*

The-Judges at that drew near to give

their Opinions ; but they perceived that-the

sky was overca and charged with

Clouds,

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The Hiory ofthe

Clouds, which made them break up the

Court,
Iimagined that the appearance of bad
Weather inclined them to do o.

When the Attorney-General by order of

Court came, and gave me intimation,
That they would n0t pas Sentence on
me that Day ; that they never determined
a criminal Proces, when the Sky was not
erene; becaue they were afraid, that the

bad temper of the Air, might work ome

alteration in the good Conitution of the

_minds of the Judges; that the peevih

temper the Birds are in, during Rain, mi ht
inuence the Caue : Or, in a word, t at
the Court might revenge their Sadnes up
on the Priibner ; and therefore it was, that

my Sentence was deferr'd' till fairer Wea

ther.

I was carried back to Pribn then,

and I remember that in the way my cha

. ritable Ma py never forook me; he kept
ying all ong by my ide, and I believe
he would never have left me, had not

her Companions drawn near to us.

, At length I arrived at the place of my
Prion, where,during, my Captivity, [had
no other Food but the King s Bread ;_ for

o they call half a hundred Worms, and as

. many MaggOts, that every kven hours they
brought me to eat,

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vI thought that I hould have appeared

again next day, and every Body thought
o too; but one of my Keepers told me, at
the end of ve or ix Days, that all that
time had been employed, in rendring Ju
ice to a Society ofGold-nches, who had
Complained of one of their number.

asked my Keeper, What crime that poor

Wretch had been accued of ? Of the mo

enormous, replied my Keeper, thata Bird

can be aperad with. They accueit---can you believe it? They accue it-----but good Gods! the very thoughts of it
makes my Feathers to and an end ! In
a word, they accue it, that 'during the .

ce of Six Years, it hath not as yet de

igved to have a Friend ,- and therefore it

hath been condemned .tobe a King, and a

King of a People that dier from it in
kin .

Had its Subjects been of its own na

ture, it might at lea have beguiled its
Eyes and Deire with their Pleaures : But
eeing the pleaures of one kind, have no

relation to thoe o another, it will up

port all the fatigues, and ta all the bitter
nels of Royalty, and never be able to relih
,the pleaures thereof in the lea.
They have liant it away this Morning,
accompanied with a great many Ph iti

ans, to take heed that it do not poi on it

blf by the way.
Though

I__ to

The Hiory of'he

, Though my Keeper was naturally a

great Talkcr, 'yet he dur nor entertain

me any longer in dicouriz, for fear of'

being upected of Intelligence with me..
About the end ofthe Week, I was again
brOught before my Judges.

They. reed me upon the breech of a lit<

tle Tree without Leaves.
_
. All the Birds of the Long-Robe, as well
Advocate's, Counellors, as Judges, and Prea
idents, rooed by Stories; 'every one acs
' cording to. his Dignity, on the Top of a
tallCedar : For. the rewho were only
preent out of Curioity, they placed them-'
elvespromizuouy till all the Seats were
11,- that'stolay, till the Branches of the
Cedar .were covered with Feet. .' a
'

\ 5 I The Magpy, in whom I oberved all

along o much Compaion for me,came and perched upon my Tree, where pretend-*
ing to divert her elf by Jpeekingxthe Mos 2
Really, aid hetome, you cannot believe
' how. much I am 'concerned at your Misfor
r-zune ; for though. I am nor ignorant that

among the Living, a) Man is .a Plague,

that ought to be-purged out of all wengo
'vern*d States ; yet when I call w mind, that

I was bred'among them from the Cradle,

that I have learned their Language o per
fectly, that I had almo forgot mine own;
and that I have eaten out of their
s

T'; '.- a.

World of the Sun;"

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ol

I1t

uch eXcellentl 'Green Cheee, I cannot,

think on't, bu: that it brings Water in
to my Eyes and Mouth ,* I have o great:

_- kindne; forqourthat, I cannot incline to

-'the right de. - She'had gone
on o
Ear; when
were
i * interrupted
by the
coming
of anweEagle,
that. lighted among the; Branches of a
Tree, pretty near to minei I was about
to-have rien and fallen upon my knees

before
Engle,
thinking
he Foot
'had been
King, the
if my
Magpy
with het
had the
no: i
held me fa in my Seat. Did you think;
crry,An-

u'd he, that that great Bag-le had been

our Sovereign ? That's an Imagination 'of
you Men, sxwho. becaue you . uer your
elves to ' be commanded :by 'the greate,

T'.'?-?-'ES_;-'a
F-l

the ronge , and the: mo cruel. of

Your Companions, have foolihly thoughtz

judging of all things according to your

own meaures, that s the 'Eagle taught: to
Commandus.
- are.-.*quire
.-L;. "dierent,
*
* I
But our,v Politicks
'X

'J

for we never chu: for our Kings, but the

.Weake, the Wilde, and moLPeace+

v _ able 2 . Nay; and we change them every Six
Months, and pitch upon the Weak, to the
end, that the v:meanei amongzusz awho
may have been wronged by him,'may
take his Reve .. we'chule the Mild,

to the endhesnei er hatez-Hr. be hated of

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The Hiory of the . .'

an Body ;' and we would have him to

be of a Peaceful Temper, for avoiding of
War, the Sink ofall Injuicei
Once every Week he holds a Parlia-L '
ment, where all are received to propoe
their Grievances again him. If there be
but three Birds only diatised with his
Government, out he goes, and they proa
ceed to a new Election.
All that Day the Parliament its, our

King is mounted on the to of a high Yew

Tree, upon the brink o a Lake, bound
Feet and Wings. All the Birds one after

anOther pas before him; and if any of *

them know him to be guilty of a Crime

that deerves death, he may throw him

into the Water; but. he mu upon the

t, iuie the fact by good Reaons, o

t erwie he is Condemned to the aid
Death.
I could not forbear to interru , and ask
her, what he meant b the aid Death?
And thisis the Anwer e made me: .
When the Crime ofa Malefactor is judged

to be o enormous, that an ordinary Death

is noc ucient to expiate it, they endeas
vour to chule one that contains the pain of
many; and inthis manner they proceed

tart:
, Thoe among us that have the mo
melancholick 'and doleful Tone, are' ent
to'

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to ithe 'Maleacton who is carried upon-a

dimal Cypres. There theizlad -Muieiz
ans gather about him; and rb riche-Ear ll
his Soul with uch tragica and doleful
Notes, that the bitternes of his Sorrow.

dicrdering
his aWay-to
Organs;
and preingthe
hisOeconom
. Heart, .eo
pints
- the ight, and dies choaked with: Sadnes. i
-' However uch a pectacle' never hap-3
pe s; for eeing our Kings are exceeding
de, they 'never force any Body to incur
o cruel a Death, upon the account ofRect

.
venge;

. .

._

., ,

He that at preent Reigns is a Dove,

'who is of O'peaceable a temper, that t'o:

i ther day, when twoSparrows were: tobjc
made Friends, it was the harde thing in
the World, to make him conceive what:
Enmity was.
* _'
-. .- .o
My Magpy could not continue o longa

dicoure, without being oberved by ome

of the B -anders ; and becaue he was

already ulected of ome Intelligence with

me, the chief of the Aembly made

one of the . Eagles ' of my guard, catch her.

by the Neck, and make u're of her Per- on.

Kingv Dove 'arrived in the mean

while ; all were ilent, and the r. thing

that .Was heard, -was "the complaint
of the great Center of the Birds, which he

made again'rhe. Mlagpy. .sThe' King _bc-;

.
*
ing

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The Hzory oft/1:

ing. fully informed of the Scandal he had

given, asked her her Name, and how (he
came to know me ? Sir, anwered he, all
in amaze, My name is Magget, there are
here a great many Birds oleity,that will
vouch for me. One day in the World of
the Earth, ofwhich I am a Native, I was
informed by Chirpper the Poy there, (who
having heard me cry in my Cage,came covi
t me at the Window where I hung,) t at

my Father was Bad-tail, and my Mot er

Crack-mar: I had not known o much but
for him 3 for I was carried away very
Young, from 'Under the Wings of my Pad

rents; my Mother inne time after died of

Grief; and my Father, being then pa the
Age of having any moreChild.ren,deairing
to ee himelfwithout Heirs,went to theWar

of the Jays, where he was killed by a peck

in the brain. They that carried me away
were certain wild Animals, whom they
call Hog-herds; who had me to be old at
a Cale, where I aw that Man who now

Hands upon his Tryal. I cannot tell, whes

ther he conceived any Kindnes for me, but

he took the pains to caue the Servants to cut

meatxfor me; he had ometimes the 'goods
nes to prepare it for me himhl. If I

catcht cold in the Winter, he carried me

to the Fire, lined' my Cage, or ordered

the Gardiner to warm me in his Bogagl.

e

World ofthe Sad;

I I;

The Servants dur not vex me in his pie-4

hence: and one day I remember, he aVed

'me from the Jaws of the Cat, who held
ine in her Paws, to which my Lady's
little Page had expoed me 3 but it will not
be impertinent,_to tell you the Caui: ofthat.
Barbarity. To comply with Veidelet (for
that was the Page's 'name,) I Was chatte
ring one day ome idle words that he had

taUght me.

Now it happened,\ as ill Luck

Would have it; though I always repeated

my'Leons in coure-5 that I came to ay .,

in
order, Be
juquiet,
as heyou
came
deliver'a
Meage,
Son in
o'f' to
a Whom,de

dye.- The Man there that ands Indielcedj

Who knowing the Regne to be naturally _
given to L'ying, imagined,-that I might ,

'very well have 'poken by Prophe'ey," f

' and ent to the Place to know,v if Verdelet
had'been therei [e-Male: was convinced of
his Knavery, Wide/et was Whipt, and Vei
delet in revenge, would have' had me de

voured by Maulkin. The King by a' Nod

of the head hew'd, that he Was &tised
with the Pity that he had conceived for

* my diaer: HoWever he dihharged her '

to peak any more to me in private. '
\_

Then he asked my Adveriiry's-Council,

RFQ
*W'='*

if his-Plea (was ready? He made a' ign'

with his Poor, that he was . goin to
peak,- and if I miake it not; the e age
-. a
I 2
t e

_,_'

116 * * A The Hiory ofthe,

' the Points whereon he' inied again
meZ

'

The Plea brought in the Parlian'zent of * *

Birds, Atmbled againff an Am'

mal, arm/ba! of being a Man.

Gentlemen, The Plainti is Guillemot
- the Flehy, a Partridge by exrraction, late
ly arrived from the World of the Earth,
his Brea ill gaping -by a hot that he
hath received from Men; Demandant a

gain all Mankind, and by conequence a

gain an Animal; whom I- pretend to be

a member of that great Body, - Itwonld
be no hard matter for us, to hinder, by: his
v_death, the Violence's that he Can commit _: ' Nevertheles," eeing the Prelervationzor

.-L_o_s of every thing that has breath, con

;cems the Common-Wealch of the Living, I

_,t_hink we houlddeerve to have been made

-Mt*<n,, that'is to lay, Degraded from Rea

L

and Immortality,which we enjoy above

them, had we reembled them in any , ,

* -unju;Actio_nilike theirs.
, _ - ; r _,
3; zLet usexamine then, Gentlemen, the

Diculties of this Caue, with all the Ap>

Xplicationzthat our divine mindsf are ca'pa'r
>;.ble of.

T', v

-_ r

_-

'

. a The res of the matter lies' here,_to

' .wit, Whether _or notlthisAnimal beg Man
'
'an
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the Sun;

r; I 7

and then in cae we make it out, that he

is, whether or not-he derves Death for

that?

' For my part, I make no doubt but that

he is; in the r place, Becaue he is o
impudent as to tell a Lye, in maintaini.
that he is not; in the zcond place, Becau e

he laughs likea Fool; thirdly, In that he

fill."

weeps like a Sot ; fourthly, In thatehe

lar

Lblows his Nole like a nay V'illain ; fthlyz

* In that he is Feathered but in part; ixth

ll

ly, In that he carries his Tail before; le;

_venthly, Inthat he hath always a great ma- .

. l

llfi'j _

ny little quare Bones in his Mouth, which

he has neither the wit to pit out, nor wala

low down; eighthly and laly, Becaue .
ever Morning hevlifts up his Eyes, his

No e, and large Snout,claps his open Hands

eloe together, which he points up to Hea
ven, joins" them into. one piece', as if it
troubled him to have two at liberty ; breaks

his
hort his
o by
the middle,
o that
he Legs
falls upon
Geegots
;_;,iand then
by
Magical words that he mutters, I have

oblech , That his broken vLegs are

knit again , and that. he r'ries, up as

gay as he was before. _' Now, you know,

Lpi

Gentlemen, that among all Animals,"

* none but Man haso black a! Soul, as to

be given to Magick, and

conequence I
conclude, That this is_'a_. Man; We. are

- a * 'I 3
I .

now

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The Hiory oftbe

now to enquire, whether or not, asMan,

he deerves to be ut to death.
I think, Gent emen, it never was yet

doubted, but thar all creatures are pro:

'duced
common
to that
live
togetherbyinour
'Sack-ty.v
NowMother,
if-I prove,

Man eems to be Born only to breakit;

, trary
hall Itonotthemake'it
that he going
con;
end ofout,
hisiCre'ation,
deerves
. that Nature hould repent her elf of bet
- 'Work ?-' '
'
' .
7 The r and; fundamentall Law, for

the maintenance of a Repuinck, is;Etp.1a-i

lity : But Man cannot endure it to Eter

nity z he falls upon us that he may eat us i

he
t _

rwades himlf 'that We were only'

e for his ue; he makes the Barbarity,

Wherewith he maacres us, and the mall

Reance he nds on our "ide, an Argu-Q

ment of his pretended 'superiority :_And

nevertheles wo'nt own Eaglcs, Condores,v
- and' Grins, who are too hard for the'
tronge Man, to be his Maer's. '
'
' But why hould
'that grettt
Size,theand
conrmation
of "Members,
vmake
div
verity of Kind, eeing there are Dwars
and Glands" robe found
among
Men
them;
'elvesr'
"i
" "
'
'
*

' Nay more, that Empire wherewith they

atter themlves, is but an 'imaginary

Bighuon the contrary, theyareo

nag
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World ofthe Sun;

nable to Servitude, that lea the

I' i 9
hould

not erve, they ell one another or Slavesi

ln this manner, the Youn ; are Slaves to the ,

Old, thePoor to the -Ric , the*Clowns to

the Gentlemen,the Princes to the Monarchs,
and the Monarchs themelves to the Laws'

which they haveE'iablihed; And be;

ides all that, the poor Drud'ges areo' a
fraid to be without Maers, that as if
they apprehended, that Libert might come

to them from ome unexpe ed lace ;

they frame to themelves. Gods in aii parts
in the Water, in the Air, in the Fire, an
under the Earth; they'll make them of

Wood, rather than want; nay, I fancy al

o that they tickle themlves With the
vain hopes of' Immortality, not o much
out of a Horrour; that they have of being
annihilated, asforear that they may have
none to command them' after their death.

Here's the ne eect of that fantaical

Monarchy, and of that natural Empire of
Man, asthey would have it, over the Ani
mals, nay and over us too ; for he has been
ib inolent, as even to pretend to that, In

the mean while, in conequence of that ri

diculous Principality, he fairl takes to
himelf the power of Life and
th over
us; he lays hares for us, chains us, Claps
us up in Prion, kills us, eats us; and
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makes the power of killing thoe which re

;

I 4

'main

A 9o

Hide/Hiory ofthe

main free, va mark of, Nobility; He thinks

'that the sun lighted on 'purpoe to let him

how to; make War again us; that Nav

'uie' hathxonl uiered us to take our turns
in
theluckypr
Airmziat
from our
ighti; and
he may
'draw
unlucky
Aupices
that
when
504ng
Entrails
our a,Bodies,
_hiis -'ntenti0n
only.
was, tointo
make
great
'B09l{,wherein
Man might learn -the - Sciiznce
of utureConitingencies.

.' Good,-t_hen,..is.
thisguilty
unupportable
'Pride
? Could anynot
that's
iof it, de

vae a les punilhment, than to be made a

i ', anP'HoWever, I don't ini upon this as a
reaon, why ye hould condemn this Man:
' iThe poor Bea Wanting the ue Reaon
that we have, I excue thoe errors of his,

, that roCeed'fromwant ofJudgment; but;

- for uch. as are 'only the Daughters of his
Willzlderpand1uicez For inance, in

thathe kills us, though we do not attack

him ,'- in that he eats us, when he may la
tise his him-'ler with more convenient

;_ and w at I eeem the baa Of

* _ 'hine-i
in thatof heourdebauches
theA as
good
0 ct Brethren,
of nature'
'Lanners,

_ faulcons and Villtures, by teaching them

'to murdzrthole of their hind, and to, eed
on theirlellowreatures alivej or to de-z
her? uspprnto his _clutches, ; *_ 7,

\ ,,>

.. ' :- z--,,J;,_
._ -

. the;

_AL-Qt

'World of zbeSzm.

Ww

' pra; 'i

*' That aloue is o prenga-Conideratie

*on, that 'I beg the Court e may be di-'

patched by- the lad Death. z
_
1
The whole. Bench hivered for horror at
o terrible a Pu'nihment ; and therefore'
that they might have ground to mOdqrate

it, the King made a Sign to the Coun

cil, that was aigned me, 'toanwen
_
This was a Starling,an_d a great Lawyer,

who having three times ampt with his

' Foot, upon_thc_Bra-nch he at on; pake to
. the Court in this manner: a
' It is true, Gentlemen, that moved with
Pity, -I undertook the defence of that un'
Bea- ; but ju
as I was about
to
- r fortunate
Plad, 'I'eltaremorie
of Concience,
and,
' _as it were, a_ ecret Voice, that hath for;

bidden me to full o deteable a Reoluv

tion :' So that, Gentlemen, I declare to '

you, and the whole Court, That for the

Salvation of my Soul, I'll not contribute
in any manner, to the preci'vation of uch

a Moner, as Man is.

The whole Mobile clacked with th?

feti

'Bea,k, in ign of Joy, and to congratu

late the Sincerity of i) Concientious a

cal

Bird,

dr

a My. Magpy oered to Plead for me in

lace of the other, for it was impoible for

r air

lier to be heard; becaue that being bred

among Men, and perhaps, infected Wit/li'th

'A

'

t err

The Hiory of 'be '

their Morality ; it was to be feared, that

he would manage the Caulia, with a pre

indicated Mind; for the Court of Birds,
'never uer a Lawyer,thatconoerns himelf
more for the one Client, than for the other,
to be heard', unles he make it appear,
That that Inclination proceeds from the .

Parties-being in the Right.

w When my Judges aw, that no Bod ape
peared in my de enoe, they retche out X
and hook their Wings, and immediately ew to Voting. '
24'
- The greate part, as I was informed

ince, ined hard, that I hould be dil

' tched by the ad Death; but nevertheq
s, when they perceived that the King
inclined to Clemency, all joined with hini
in Opinion. 'Thus my Judges moderated
themives, and inead of the ad "Death,

which they excued me from, they thought

. iteonvenient, that my Punihment might
quadrate with ome of my Crimes, and I
dero ed by a Death, which might erve
'to -u
ive me, of that pretended Em
pire of Man, over the Birds, which I

'ragg'd of, that I hould be abandoned

tothe weake of thoe 'that are carried by
Wings; my meaning is, That they Conu
demned me to be eaten up by Flies. ' '

- At the inne tirhe the Court broke up,

and I heard aWhiper, that they had not
.' - *
a
enlarged
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World of the she,

-': 53

enlarged in Specifyin the particular Cifr

cumances Of iny ra' edy, buaue of
an accident that happene to 'a Bird, who

'u as he was (about to peak to the Kin. ,

fallenbeen
intooecaoned,
'a woon; I; was
thougEt i
1 toadhave
FctheiHorrour

that had isiied him, in loo. ing too ed;

"faly upOna Man; And therefore I was
ordered to be tarried away;
But my sentence was, prenqunced r *
and as oon as phe Opray, which ocia a

'as Clerk to the Aes, had Lnade an end

k' reading it to me, I perceived all abou':
'PWJW._ .

Fhe
'sky
blackened
with Flies,
Drams,
Bees,i
Gnats
and Muskcttoes,
'which
humg
D-NUD
gr-

med hr impatience.
'
I expe'Eted that my Eagles hould have

come and carried me away aer the uual

manner; but in place of them a great

black Orid came, that ignominiouy

fet me had ing u on his back; for a.
. mong them, that s the mo digraceful
poure a Malefactor can be Put into '3 and

_ no Bird for what oence fbevcr, can be

Condemned to it.

' The Ocers that waitedon 'me to Edge'

<Q\_.__?
-

curion, were half a hundred Condores,

and as many Grins in the van- after

whom came ying lbzly, a proneon of
Ravens, that 'croaked I knOW not what

momeful Ditty; and I fancy that I heard '

'

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_Tbe Hiory 'ofthe

_as at a reatcr diance, a Chorus of Owls,

vthat an wered them.

As we parted from the place where I
had received Sentence, Two Birds of Pa

radicc, who had orders 'to a me at my

Death, came and lit on my Shoulders.

Though my Soul, at that time, was ve

.iilie heavy
and Condition
dicompoled,
by in
reaon
of
lamentable
I was
; yetI
remember,
'hade
ue vof'intoamanner,all
comfort me.the Reaons
' they

Death, [hid they to me, (putting their

to myeeing
Ear, Nature
) without
no
iBezik
teat Evil,
our doubt
good isMo
ier ubjects all her Children unto it ; and
it ought not to be a matter of great Con

equence,
it happens
all were
times,o and'
for
the leaince
things
: For if at
Liei
ex
cellent, ' it would not be in our power,
- not
give it; or if Death were atten
ded by conequences of ImPQltanCC, as

thou 'imaginel'g it would n0t beginour

power' to give it : There is a great deal of
appearance to the contrary, eeing the Anix
inal begins by play, and ends-at the ame

_ratei I peak to thee in this manner, beb

caue thy Soul 'not being immortalas ours
is,l thou maye very Well conclude, That

when thou die, 'all dies with thee, Let

it nottroule thee then, thatthou doe

Harder; What ome of * thyfel;" p

.
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-"*o*ws'.
.

r World ofile said

fellows will do .e're-it belong

t a5
Theircori

dition is more deplorable than, thine; for

if Death be an evil, it is only 'Evil to thoe
'who are to die .- And in repect' of thee, p '
who ha nor above an hour betwixt here

and there; they hall'b'e Fity or Sixry

&VB
i?
V'

.Years in a ate odying -; and beides, mind

me, he that is not born is net unhappy;
Now thou .ar't going to he like him-that
is not born; In .a twinkling of an
- when thou art out ofthis Life, rthou halt
be what thou 'wa a twinklingof an Eye
before;
thathalt
twinkling
ofran Eye.ash'e
bee
ing over,and
thou
be aslongzdead,

that died a Thenand Agris ago 1 But make

the .wor 'on't 5' 'uppoe Life bea Bleing',
the ame Accident, that in the
ite (barres
of. time. hath 7 made-thee to be ;.:iiiay it not
31'

TF=
A.
QH

ometime or other, make thee'an more

zto be again ? Matter, fwhigh'bybvhriorus
.mixtures, arrived atle
o that Number,
Dipoition and Order, neceary for 'the
.Conruction of thy Being; may it not, ' by
mixing again of new, attaih to aJDipoi

r'MT

tion requiite for bringing ' thee;- oncelmore

..again
into
Being?
Yes,it may',but,thou'lt
ay
to me,I
hall
nor remember
thiat'I have been.
;Ha l dear Brpther,.what>do_es that concern
thee, ._ provided thou nde thy e injBe

_ ing? And then may it not be, that toc'orn

for; thee for the los of thy Life, thou'lt.
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t 26

Hibrj ofthei

imagine the ame Reaons which I at prei

ntTzolkpggniderations
e to thee ? are weighty enoung '
to make thee patiently drink that bitter Po-'

tion ; yet I have Others more preing ill,

which will without doubt incline thee to
'wih for it; Thou mu be perwaded,
Brother, that as' thou and the re of BrUtes
are material, and that as Death, inead
of annihilating Matter, does only trouble
the Oeconomy thereof; ) thou oughte, I

ay, certainly to ibelieve, that ceaing to'

be what now thou art, thou'lt begin to be'

omething ele.

Grant then', that thou

only become aclod of Earth, .ora Pibble,

thou'lt ill be'omewhat le: wicked than

Man. ButI have a Secret to' dicover to'
thee, which I would nor any. ofmKdCOms'
panions hould heap from my
outh,
and that
Eaten,
as thou
an:
going
to is,be,That
by being
our little
Birds,
thou'iit
pasinto their-Subance; yes, thou'lt have'

'he honour to contribute, though blindly;

tothe' Intelle&ual o ations ofour Flyes,
o'

andhate of'this G ry, that if thourea,i

[ne not thy elf, thou'lt make them at'
lea to neaon. =*-

'l >:

v About this part of the Exhortation, we

arrived at the place appointed for my Exe
cutiem

1- -,

. t int"d I _...._.-_
.
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There

W-'orld

the &m.

tay' _

- There w _e Four Trees-very near, and

in a mannerihually diant one from amo
ther, on everyone of which at a paralel
Q-BIWYT

Z"._.F'-r-S_ZPI_

height, a grea? Heron perched.

They

took me dowh from the BlaCk Oridge,

vand a great/'many Corm'orants lifted me up'
to the plate where the Herons were. Thee
Birds being Oppoite to one another, and
rmly perched on their i:le Trees, with
their. prodi iouslong Necks, as with a *
Cord, tw' ed about me, theoneaboutmy

'ciEL-'TBR*

Arms,- the other about; my. Legs, and

bound me o fat, that thoiIghevery oneof
thee members was only tied. by ale
Neck, yet it was 'not in my power, terwag
or ir in the lea.

. .-=.>.'*

am;

They were to continue .a?

in thar poure; for Izheand imiers
Te
e.
F'EtP-L?

to thoe Cormorants that liedgme up, W

go and h for the Herons 'andhuxide

their Foot into their Beaks. _

-;.">'-'

The Flies were ill mc'p'ecazl, beczue

they could not y o fa as wehad done;
however it was not very imgefore then
"We-'s

were heard. rkf * '

3*:l l ::;_ 'ib

The r thing they maple-kid, Msim

diribute my Body among themv intoso'
'(U

.veral Provinces; andrhat Diribution was

o gnalieiouy- made, 'that nrz'r-Eye'swere

aigned to the Bees, to the end they

Sting
them
out as they
fed on themmY;
I.
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_TbeHiorj ofthe

_j'rust
*,'"**g
,

I, my Ears to the' Beetles and Drones, 'that

, they might um and devour them at the

I.,1vx.

ametime; my Shoulders to the Musket

toes,fto the end, they might make me itch
with their Bitings ;; and o of the re
No. oonerhad I heard; them ettletheir
Orders, but that immediately I iw them
approach. - All the Atoms and Motes in the

Sun, (hemedto be converted into Flies;

or' carcely was I. viited iwith two or three

faint; Beamsrxofz- Light, that eemed by
ealth to reach me, o cloe were thee
Battalions, and o-near my Fleh.
.

as every, onepf' them was greedily

chuingtheplace where he was to bite, I

rceived them to recoer briskly all. of a
udden 5- aridamid the confuion of- an
innite numberrof Shouts, that made the:

Clouds relbund. again; -I &veral. times

diinguihed the wdrd ' Pardon, Pardon,
Pardon. ' U
hes? -i
a After-ward' Two -Turt]e- Doves drew

near, to me; at their approach, all the

ghaly Preparatives for my Death were:
di ated: I felt my Herons let looe the
twi: of 'their long Necks, 'wherewith I

was' begirtzdandzm . Body eXtended

forme. a-St. Andrew f-cros, lidefrom the'
Topothe' FourtTrees, down to' their very.
4'-

i.

-,y_-a-

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1 29

. I' expected no les from my fall, than to

be bruied by ome Stone in the Ground;
but when myv fear was over,-, I was nota

little urpried, to nd 'my klf decentl

eatedupon a White Oridge, who fel

a galloping, o oon as he felt me upon

ack

They made me take another Way, than

the way ICame; for I remember that I cro+

ed a great Wood ofMyrtles, and anorher. of

Turpentine
adjoiningKing
to a' va
Fori
re
of OliveTrees,
Trees,zwhere
Doive
in'
the middle of his Court aid for me;" _
1 So oon as he perceived me, hev gave a

ign that they hould help me to ge't down:

Immediately Two Eagles of the Guard,

gave me their Talons, and carried me to

their Prince.
_
X
, I would in honour; have embraced and

kied his Majey's little Claws, but 'he

drew back 2 And I_ ask you the queion',
aid he r, If you know that Bird ?,_ . - __
r At thee words they hewed me a Parrot,
who Mgm to turn' round and , claphis
Wings, when he perceived that I conide

red him : Yes,, I fancy, cried I to the

King,_. that I have een him omewhere; '
but .Fear and Joy have o confounded my

Memory, that I' cannot as yet call diinctly

to mind, where it hasbeen.v

With

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The Hiory oftbe' X

i With that the Parrot Came,- and embraa

w'

cing my 'Face with its Wings, aid to me,

How! do'nt you' know Canr, then, your
r Couins Parrot, which hath o often given
'you the occaion, to maintain that Birds
ued Reaon? It-isI who ju now 'had a
mind, after your Tryal was over, to de
clare the obligationsl have to you; but

grief to' (te you in o great danger, made

me fall into a swoon. His dicoure ful;
ly opened my Eyes, and having known
him perfectly , I embraced and kied
him, andhe embraced and kied me. Is
it thee, thenaid I, my poor Ciear, whoe
'Cag'e I opened to give thee thy Liberty,
that the Tyrannical Cuom of our World deprived thee of ?
The King interrupted our Carees, and

poke 'to me in this manner : Man, with us

'a good' Action is never lo ,- and therefore
it is that, tho as beingv a Man," thou des
rve to die, Only becaue thou wa
Born, yer the-Senath gives thee thy Life;

lit's t we hould thus acknowledge thoe

Natives, wherewith Nature enlightened
thine Ininct, When it gave thee a Fore;

unde-H

'stiff-1
p.

ta of that Reaon in us, which thou wa

not capable of underandingi. Go then in

Peace, and live J0yfully.
_
He gave ome orders in private, and my

7White Qridge, conducted by the Two

'Turtle

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World of the Sun.

it 3 i
*n'-I'F 'ITWF

flihrtleDoves, carried me out of the' Aem?

b Zh/ly
. Bird having galloped With the a='
' bout twelve hOurs, left me ndar to a Fore,

into which I 'Went o oon as it'was gone,

There I began to ta the Pleaure of Lii

berty , and of feeding' on the' Honey',

which ditilledj down the Bark of the
Trees;

'

U.

[fancy that I hould never have made

an end, of my Walk, ( for the agreab'le'

Varieties of the place, preented always

ome new thing more delightful to my

Eyes,) had my Body beenv able to 'hold

out :" But ceingl o'und my el at length

wholly overcome with Weariotnnei, I

oftly laid my le down upon the Gras;_ 7
Lying thus retched out under the hall

doW of the Trees, I found my lhlfinvite'd.

to Sleep', by the freh' 'Air and Solitude

the Place ;T-_ when a humming noie of con-iv

fued Voices, which emed to lb'un'd about

my Ears, made me awake with aart." _ t
The ground appeared to be very' letter
and mooth, withoutthe lea, Buh that

might intercept the Sight,- and therefore

Lnfy 'Propect reached far among the Trees'
' the Fore. Neverthele," the' _MUr-_

murring' that I heard, Could' n'ot be bue

very near'm'e; lb that linin'g toit more
attentively; I very diinct'ly 'heard a par-'if
.

' 2,

be

f=TiWJ

13:
The Hzory ofthe
_cel Of Greek Words ;' and among everal
that dicour'ed together, one who pake to

this purpoe, -

'

, Doctor," one of my Allies, Elm with

Three Heads, hath ju now em me a

Chanch, to vauaint me that he is Sick of

an Hectick the'
Feaver,
and of from
a Scury
Mos,
_'Wherewith
iis covered
Head
to

FOOt;would
I begbeOf,pleaed
you for
all Love
that
you
toct order
him, ome
'what.

'

1 '*

" For ome time Iheard no more; but af

ter a little intermion, I thought I heard _

zoneinake this reply: Though Elm with

Three Heads, were none of your Allies ;

and though inead of you who are my

Friend, the greate Stranger of all our

bkind, hould deire the lame thing of me,

, zI would grant it; for my Profeon on

liges r'ne to a every Body. You hall

therefore acquaint Elm with Three Heads,

j'That forv the Cure of his Diemper, it is

neceary, that he Suck in as much humide,
A hand as little dry Nourihment,as poiny he
- can; that for that end he ought to di

rect the little 'Fibres of his Root, towards

the moie place of his Bed .- That he mu:

r vdaily
keep be
himelf
Merry
Chearful,
and
diverted
by aand
conlort
of Muick,

of ome excenent Nightingals.

You'll

hear from him aerWards, how he 1flinds

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I33

himelf, with that coure of' living; and

then according to the'Progres of his Di'
emper, when we have prepared his Hu'
mours, ome Stork of his Friends hall from

me give him a Glier, that will fully reco

ver him.

'

Thee words being ended, I heard not

the lea noie more ; till about a quarter

of an hour after, that a voice'which I fancy

I had not oberved before, came to my
Ears, and pake in this manner, Hold,

Gahr For/zed Trunk, what, do ye Sleep?

'F-YQVHA -W'i

I eard another voice that thus replied,

No, Freh-bark, why? Becaue, aid the

r that pake, I nd the ame Emotion
inv me, that commonly we do, when thee
Animals they .eall Men, come near us;

and I would ask you, if you feel the ame *

thing?
_ * '
*
'
It was hine time before the other made
Anwer; as if he intended to employ the
ma''T-'cv
t.-

mo exquiite of his Senes in that Dico

very; but at len th he cried out: Good
God, you are in t eright, and I wean to

you I nd my Organs o full of the Ideas of

a Man, that I am the mo miaken in the
Qema'
_H4\n

world, if there be notv one very near to

this place: At that time there was a mixt

ie of voices that aid, they melt out a

an.
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'134.

The Hihg 'afict

.- - It was in vain for/me to look about on

all hands; ', I- could not diover whence that

word could come :. At length being a little

recovered <from the Horror , whereinto
that accident had Ca me; I made anwer
to the voice, which I took to be-that which

Tth askde if there Was any Man there;

that there was one: But I beeech you,
sowinuch, whoever you be that peak to
ine, (vement/he you are. Within'a trice

after I heard thee' Words :

-WB and in thy Prence; thine Eyes

tis 5. and yet 'thou te us not: Look

upon 'thee Oaks, on which we perceive
thine Eyes are xt: They are we that peak
tothee ,-_ and if thou be urprized' that we

peak a Language, ued in the World from

&LardHHA-m_a*;_.-HA4

Whenoe thou come; know, that out r

Parentsv
; They lived
Epictrur," were
in theNatives
Fo're ofofit'Dodon4;
where

their natural, goodnes inclined them. to

tender Oracles to. the aicted, who con
ulted them. For that end they learnt the
Greek Tongue, which at that time was
' mo univerid; that o they mightbc' un',
derOod; And becaue we are decended

bf them," from Father to Son, the gift of

Prophecy hath been tranmitted even to
us." NDW 'thou mu know, That a. great'
, Eagle, to whom our Fathers of quom had
given retreat 5 being dilhbled from going
.,
,. ...; a
tq

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World ofthe Sun.

1 35!
to prey, becaue he had broken one'of her
Leggs, fed upon the Acorns, which their
branches furnihed her with: When
day, being impatient of living in aonrld
where he uered o much, he tOOk o.

ight to the Sun; and proecuth herYoy';

'age o happily, that at length he arrived
in the luminous Globe , where we are:
But upon her arrival,the heat ofthe Clihiate

put her into a teaching to Vomit, 'which

made her bring up a great quantity' 'of
Acorns, not as yet digeed ; thee Acorns

fpmuted, and produced 'the Oaks which

.Un= =0W*'

were our Progenitors.'

'
In this manner-we changed our Habita
tion: Neverthelei', though you hear us
peak a humane Language, you mu-not
therefore conclude, That' the other 'Trees

expres themelves o: No Trees, but we. '

.Oaks decended from the Fore of Dodom,
peak as you do. For as 'for the other Ve'
getables, they expres themelves after this
manner.

Have you not minded that oft

and gentle Brecze, that never fails to blow about the Skirts of a Wood? That's the
breath oftheir Words; and that eae Mur
-pt,r.-_ _U".\_,_._.

muring, or delicate Whiizer, whereby they '

break the acred ilence of their lblitude, is,

'to peak properly , theirLa-nguage. But

though the noie of Fores eem always to
be the' ithe; yet it is o dierent, 'that
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'
every

_L 36

- The Hiory ofthe

every kind of Vegetables have diinctly

their own ; o that the Birch peaks not
like the Maple, nor the Beach like the
Cherry Tree ; Had the 'Foolih People of

_your World,- heard me peak as I do, they

would have thought it had been a Devil,

encloed within my Bark; for they are o
far from believing that we can reaon, than .
they do not imagine we' have a Senitive

Scul ,*\thou_gh every day they ee, that at

'the r blow the Woodman gives the Tree,
'the Hatchet enters the Wood four times

deeper ,- than Y at the econd; and they

ought to conjecture, that the r blow
urpribd it, and took it unprovided; ince

thatasoon as it is warned by the pain, -it

ontracts within it zlf, vunites it Forces
'or reiing, and in a manner petried,

that it may withand the harpnes of its

Enemies Arms, But it is not m'y deign,
to make blind Men 'Judges of Colours; an
Individual is to methe whole kind, and
the whole kind, is no more to me than an

Ilndividual, when the Individual is not in

,ected with; the Errors of the kind; and

therefore be attentive, for in peaking to

- you, ith the ime thing to me, _asif I poke
to all 'Mankindi '

'

.' You areto underand then, in the r

lace, That almo all the' warbling Con'
ibrtsofthe Muigk of Birds, are compoed
,

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World of the Swin."

137"

in praie of Trees; but in recompence alo

of the pains
they ittake,
celebrating
famous
Actions,
is weinthat
take vcareour
to

hide their Amours; for don't you imagine

when it' cos you o much trouble', to .nd

'one of their Nes, that that's occaioned

rby the Sagacity wherewith they hide it?
No, it is the Tree it elf, that hath twied
its Bou hs about the ne, to ecure the Fa
mily-o his Lodger, from' the Cruelties of.
Man: And on 'the contrary, conider the

zAiriesi
of thoe, which
are their
hatched
either
for thederuction
ofBirds,
fellow
Ci
tizens, uch- as Sparrow-Hawks, HObbies,

Kites,
which
peak
ct'to' breedFaulcons,
(Dan-ds,&a.
as or
Jays
and only
Magpies;
or that delight to 'frighten us, as Owls and
Howlets : 'You hall oberve, that the Nes
of uchv are expoed to the ight of all
People; becaue the Tree removesits Bran
ches from them, that it may leave them

"for
a Prey.
"' ' But
there* is' no need of-pecifying o ma
ny things,- to prove that Trees exert your
Functions, as well in Mind as in Body.

Is there any one among you, who hath

,not'oberved, that in the Spring, when the
Sun hath-refrehed our Bark with a fertile
Sap, 'we thru out our Branches, and ex

tend them loaded ' with Fruit, upon the

Breas of theEarthg that we are in Love

' '

'

' withal?

1 38

The Hzory of 'be

withal? The Earth on 'her ide opens,

and is warmed with the like heat,- and

makes her approaches towards a Conjuncti

on, whil our Branches dicharge into her

Lap, that which he o ardently deires to

conceive. She is, however, Nine Months
in
formingbutithe
that Embrio,
be-.
forebreeding
he bringand
it forth;
Tree her
Husband, fearin

that the Winters cold

may be prejudicia to her Conception, rips

himelf of his green Garment to cover her,

and contents, himelf with an old Fuil-de

'wort Cloak, to hide part of his Nakednes.
_ Well then, O Men, you look eternally on
thee things, and never ee them: Nay,

more convincing Proofs have preehted

themelves to your Eyes; but none are o
Blind, as thoe that will not See.
. I liened mo attentively to the di;
coure, with which that Arboreal Voice

entertained me, and was expecting the ei- ,

quel; when all of a udden it broke o -

with a Tone like to the Whizzingof the

hortnes of Breath, that hinders one to

peak.
.
'
When I perceived it obinately reblved
tobe ilent, I adjured it by all, which I

thou ht might mo aect it, that it would

vouche to inruct one, who had run

the Risk of o 10ng and dangerous a Voy

age, upon the account only of learning.
.. i. \_
.
At

World of the sz.

' 1 39

At the ame time I heard Two or Three

Voices, which for my ake made the ame

reque to it, and one I diinguihed that

aid to it, as ifin anger,
_
' Well then, ince you complain o much

gf your Lungs, repp: your le; I'll tell

him the Story of the Amorous Trees.

Whoever you be, cried I, falling upon '

my Knees, 0 Wi of all the Oaks of
Dodomt, who condecende to take the
pains to inruct me, know this; That you

hall nor teach an ungrateful Peron; for

I'vow, that if ever I return to my native

Globe, I hall publih the Wonders, you
are pleaed to make-me a Witnes of. I
had no ooner made this Proteation, but
I heard the ame voice proceed in this
manner : Look, Little Man, and you hall

ice about Fourteen ora Fifteen eps to the

i Right Hand, Two Twin-Trees of a mid

.dle Statute , which confounding their *

Branches and Roots, rive by all poble
means to unite and become but one.

I turned my Eyes towards thee Plants of

Love, and oberved that the leaves of both

gently irred, as it were, by a voluntary

Motion, 'eXcited by their Agitation io deli
cate a murmur, that hardly it gra'zed upon
the Ear; and yet one would have aid, that

thered they mutually-asked, and anwered

one anot r.
' '
'
'
Having

1 40

The Hiory ofthe

Having pent as much time as was ne

ceary, to oberve that double Vegetable,
my good Friend the Oak went on in his
dicoure, after this manner : _
.
' You cannot have lived to this Age, and -

not have heard of the celebrated Friendhip

of leader and Orees.
. '
I would decribe to ou all the Joys of
a weet Paion, and tel you the Wonders
wherewith thee LoVers aonihed their

Age, did I not fear that o much Light

might oend the Eyes of- your Reaon;
and therefore I hall paint thoe two young
zSuns only in their Ecliple;
Let this then uce you to know, That

one day the brave Oree: being engaged

in a Battle, ought out for his dear lezz

des, that he might have the Pleaure of
overcoming or dying in his'Preence. When

he perceived him amid an hundred Arms i

Of Iron, lifted up over his Head : Alas! '
what became of him? In depair he threw
himelf through a Fore of Pikes : He cried,
roared and foamed: But how ill do I ex
pres the fearful Commotions of that In
conolable Man; he tore his hair, bit his

Hands, renthis Wounds; nay, and when

I have laid alltl can lay, I am obliged to confes, that the means of expremg his
grief, died with himelf. When he thought

to cut out a way with his Sword to get to

'

the

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14I

the aance of leades, a Mountain_ of

-Men withood his paage. Nevertheles

he broke through them; and having long
marched upon the Bloody Trophies of

his Victory , by little and little he ap

proached 'to leades ; but Pylades- eemed
to him already o near Death, that he dur _
hardly rei his Enemies any longer, for
fear he mightiirvive the thing for which
alone he lived.To ee his Eyes already full of
the hades of Death, one would have aid,
That he endeavouer by his Looks to poy
on the' Murderers of his Friend. At length
'Pylades ell. down dead ; and amorous

Ora/he: perceiving his own life, to - be upon

the brink of his Lips, ill retained it z till
withaWandring look, having ought and
found out leades among the Dead, he
6emed, by joining Mouth to Mouth, asif

he intended to infue his Soul into the Body

of his Friend.

The Younger of thoe two Heroes ex,

pired upon thedead Body of his Friend;
and you mu know, that from the: Cor'
ruption of their Trunk, which 'without
doubt, impregnated the Earth, two young

Shrubs were een 'to prout out from a

mong their dry bones; whoe Stem and
Branches mingling promicuouy together,
eemed to haen to grow only, that they

might be twied into a cloer Contexturf.

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i 42"

The Hiory ofthe

It was viible 'that they had changed their'

Being, without forgetting what they had
been; for their perfumed Buds leaned one
upon another,and interchanged the Warmth
of their Breathing, as it were to make them:

elves blow the ooner: But what hall I

fay of the loving Diribut'ion, that main
tained their Society? The Juyce, wherein
the nourihment reides, never oered it islf

to their Stock, but they ceremoniouiy 'divis

ded it : The one Was never ill fed, but the

Other decayed for want ,- they borh Suckt

inwardlythe
Breas of
their
Nure
as ye
Men
do outwardly
the
Tearsv
of3' yours:
At length thee happy Lovers brought
forth Apples,but uch miraculous Apples, as
Wrought greater Wonde'rs than their Sires

had done. All that eat of the Ap les ofthe

one, were inantly mitten wit a- Paio;
nate Love for every' one, that had taed

the Fruit of the other; and this hap ned

almo daily, becaue all the Boug s of '
lezdes environed, or were environed by
Orees; and their Fruit, that were almo
Twins, could not endure to be diant one

from the other.

Nature however o' cautiouly 'diinguihe'

ed their' double Ecacy, that ' when one
Man did eat the Fruit of one of thee Trees,
and another Man the Fruit of the other, it' *
produced Reciprocal Friendhip' 3 and'
*
when'

'World of the Sun.

14.;

when the ame happened to two Perons of

dierent SeXes, it begot Love; but uch a
Vigorous Love, as ill retained the Cha
racter of its Caue ; for-though that Fruit

proportioned its eect to the Capacity, oft

- ening its force in a Woman, yet it ill re
istved hmewhat that was mauline.
,.
It is alo to be remarked, That he of
the two who had eaten mo, was alo
mo beloved. The Fruit was nor only ve-*
ry lovely, but very weet alo; there being

nothing o lovely and pleaant as Friendhip.

And indeed, it was the two qualities of
Lovely and Good, which eldom meet in

one ubject, that put it into Vogue. How

often by its miraculous Virtue, hath it mule

tiply'd the Examples of leade: 'and Ore

es: Since that time there 'have been in
ances of uch as rcule: and Theeus, A;

'skilles and Patroclus, Nz'm and Bury-alas;

in hort, of an innite number of thoe,

who by more than humane friendhips,

' have concrated their Memory in the

Temple of Eternity. Cyens ofthee Trees

were carried to Peloyo'mear ; and the-place
of Exercie, where the Theban: trained

their Youth , was adorned with them:

They were planted there in a reight line;

'and in the eabn,when the Fruit bling upi

on the branches, the youth who daily went '

mto the place, being tempted eby the beau:
'
'
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-_ 144

The Hiory of the

ty thereof, rEfrained not from eating;

which according to cuom preently in

uenced their Courage. ' They forthwith

'interchanged their. Souls ;- every one be-_
coming the half of another, livin les in
himlf than in his Friend; andt e faintl

heartede became bold and rah, for the

lakeof him he loved. .

_
'
That leeleial Paon Warmed their
Blood with o noble an Heat, that by the
advice of the wihr, thee Lovers were

lied for the Wars into one Company

They
haveActions
been called
ince,they
becaue
of the
.Heroick
which
atchireyed;

The ure-&Bad. 'Theiz Exploits went a

great deal further,- than the Thehzmr had
promied themelves; _for in time of Filg'ht,

every one of thee Bravos,_ventured uch

incredible Eorts, for the afety of his Lo

Ver, or for meriting his Aection, _ that the

like hath not been eenin Antiquity: And
indeed, o long as that amorous Company
ubied, the Thebans, who before were
reckonEd the wor Souldiers of all the Gred

n'am, fought and ill overcame afterwards

the LactealEmoiziam themelves, the mo

War-like people upon the face of the Earth. =

'But among a va number of laudable

Actions caued by thee Apples ;\they alov

produced'(though innocently) ome very

ignotuiniougones.

.
*

'

_ ,_

Mjrmh,

World ofthe Sun,

by; .

M'rra, a y0ung Lad of u'alit - eat

b'f th}ern with Girler hei' Fatchledr; hhfor'i

tunately the one Was of Pylddes', and the

Other
Ora/fet. u'p,
LOVCand
immediatel
therei
iup'on of
Wallowcd
o c'o'n o'unded
.Nature, that Cihjm'x could Wear, I am
my own Senin-Law; and [Up-rim, I am'

my own Step-MOther; In hort, I think

it ucient to inform you of the nat'Ure of
that Crime, that at Nine Mo'nths end
the Father became' the Grandfather of thoe

he beget; and the Danghte'r was' broght

to bed of her Brochers. .
_ ' -

Nor was Chance yEt atised with this

Crime ; it o ordered matters,ithat a Bull
coming into the Gardeth of King Man,
vnluckily ound under al TfEe of Orejfek

orheples, Which he wallowed dawn;

I lay unluckily, becaue the ueen Paiphae daily eat of that Fruiti And o you have
them mad in Lo've' one with another; I.
. hall not, however, peak ofv the' enormous'

Enjoyment; it hall uce to ay, That.

Paiphae plunged her elf into a Crime, 'that
Was never matched beforei e
, ',
. Exactly about that time; the" ermons'

Carver Pigm'ali'on," Was' cutting a Ma'rbl'e

Statueloved
off/eme
in? the
palace." made
The him a"
who
good
WOrki-men,"

Preiznt of a' couple' of thee Appiesi

ea't th'e faire 5' and becaue akicidemallyi he;
L' '
wanted

'46

The, Hzory ofthe

wanted Water, which , as you know, is'

neceary, for' the cutting 'of Marble; he

moiened his Statue with the Juyce of the

other.

The Marble, inuenced by this

Juyce, by little and little grew. oft; and

the ecaeious virtue. of that Apple, acts

according to the deign of the Work

man, Adelineated within the Image, the

"draughts that it. had [net within the Super

oe ; for it dilated, heated, and coloured,
proportionably to the nature of .the Places
that-it found in, its Paages.

In ne, the

Marble becoming animate , and' being

,

--with .' thePaon of the Apple,

jetnbraeed ijgmalioy, with all her heart;

and rl-TigWQZZoW, tranported with a recier

Love, '.topk her for zWize.

* -

In theame Province the young Iplng'c

<had eaten, ofthat Fruit, with. the fair lim

ye, heg_v-Companion in all the Exerch
Ihapatglxequitev to caue. ' a reciprocal

Friendhipzslheir Bquuet was attended by

'uualeect FuBut becaue Ipi: had found

' .who be? my, agreeable-w her Palate, he

fed o heartily, that her. andhip encrea

'zeg witch. idle.- manner: of- chPples,,, where

h could not bQ'AUZiSd, uured

ll th? functions of Love 3' and that Love

growing. illend Bill tronger , became

Mrc Mculme and;- vigorous: For [Behig
her Wbblc' Body impregnated -Wihthet
7 - I'

.,

'

ruin

of the Saiz'ct;

i47

_ Fruit, rove to form' Motions that might

anwer theCaprices of her Will ;' it irred

Up o p'oWerfully its own matter, that it

made
to it with
elf much
ronger
t
to
comply
her Deire,
andOrgans,
to atisie'
her Love in its' mo manly EXtent: My,
meaning is, That Iphi: became what one:
oughtto be, that marries a Wife.
,
_ I hould term this range accident a

' Miracle, had I ill a' name to give to 'the

following Prodigy.

A mo accomplihed YOUth,Called Nar

tijus, had by his Love merited the Aecti-i
on of a very lovely Maid, whom the Poets"

have celebrated by*the _ Name of Echo',

But eeing Women," as you know, are on-4 '
der of being much made of, than tholezof
our Sex; he having heard. the virtue" of

the Apples of Oreer much talked Of," ued '

, means to procme a great many of them;
from veral parts; and becaue he-appre
hended, (Love being always fearful) That
thoe of the one 'Tree," might' have
force than the other, he would have him

to' tae of both: But o oon as hie-had- eatx

en them , the image of Et/ra'Was quite

bIOtted out of his memory; all his Love?

turned towards him Who had di'geed the;
Fruit
;v
he became both-- the LoVer' and;

the Beloved 5 for the ubance drawn front

the' APPIG Of' '.Pylades * embraced 'nigh-in',

2

un

'

148

The Hiory ofthe'

him the ubance of the Apple o O:

recs. That twin-fruit diuzd through
the whole mas of his blood, excited all
the parts of his body to cares one as
norher: His' Heart, where their 'double
Virtue boiled, darted its ames inwards;
all his Members animated with his Paon,
endeavouring to penetrate one into ano
ther: Nay, not o much as his Image.
ill burning in the cold Fountains, but at
tracted
his Body
ioin it: inInLove
a word,
poor Naricijm
fell to
deerately
with
himelf;

CE'H _A.A\

r -

I will not be' tedious in relating to you

his deplorable Catai'ophy; the Ages of

' Antiquity have poken enough of that:
And beides I have Two Adventures ill

to acquaint you With, which will take (up

the time far better.

You hall know then, that the fair Sa

maci: frequented the company of the S-hep4

herd Hermapbroditw, but with no Other

Privacies, than what the Neighbourhood of
their Houzscould allow of .-* When For
time, who delights to diurb. themo
quiet and harmlez-Lives, o ordered, that

in an Aembly oijlays, where the'rewards

Ofi

for Beauty and Running were two'of thee

Apples, Hermahroditw gained that of the
Race, and Sat/man's- the other O Beauty;

Though they had been 'gathered together,

yet '

World of the Sun.

1 4,9

yet it was from dierent Branches; be- ' '

caue thee amorous Fruits mingled toge

ther o cunningly, that one of leade: was .

never without anOther of Oree: ; and

that was the reaon, why appearing to be

Twins, they plucked always a Couple at
atime. The fair Salmachr eat her Apple,

and pretty Hermaphroditm lockt his up ina

Cupboard.

Sal-man's being inpired with '

the
of her'which
own Apple,
andgrow
ofthathoc
of the eects
Shcpherid,
began 'to

in his Cupboard, felt her elf.attra&ed

wards him, by the Sympathetick Flux and 1
Reux
_ Who
_ perceived
_ _
p The ofthetwo.
shepherds Parents,

the Amours of the Nymph, nding their

advantage in that Alliance, -_ endeavour-ed
to entertain and promote it- :, And therefore
'having heardmuch talking of the Twins

Apples, as _of aFruit whoe Juyce inclined

People to Love they diilled ome-of them ,;
and degree,
having zreiied
Spirit-z tomaketheir"
=the high
ie
found a' the
means'tq

Son and his Lover drink of- it. _ The virtue '
ofthe Juyce, being ublimed to zthe highe
degree it could be raied to, kindled in the

'Hearts ofthe Lovets , o vehement/a deire

ofCon,jun&ion,z that-at r ight Hkrma

haditm was wallowed up in Salmacia,

and Salmam melted awayjin. the Arms' of
liermaphroditw
he one pa into the
L 3 _
other,

150

The Hiory ofthe

other, and 'of two ofdierent Sexes, they

made up I know not what double Pe'roh,
that' was
neither Man
Woman:
When
HormaP/zrodimr
hadnor
a mind
to en?

joy Sdlhaciiz'he found himelf to be the

' Nymph ; and When' Salmm'r deired _to_ be,
embraced b Hem hodim, he percei- .
. 'ved her e 'to be t e She'pherd. 'r-lhThis'

beuple'
though 'ill retairieclfits
'Unitj'r it' . *
iBeVgatlandConceived,
* and Yet was neither". z
Man nal-'woman .- In hort', in it NatUre

'f in tl

hath
hewe-a
hathOne.
neveri
bGeHab'l'e
inceMiracle',w1'1ich
to hinder from being
"* Well' now, are not thee pretty urpri

lar; <
ctu

ing' Soried'? lReallY they are; for to [Be a

duce

Daughter couple with her Father_; a young

Princes lgl'u'z her le with the Amours of a'

Bull z- a Man apire to the Emjoj'ment 'of a
Stone. ' Andther to epoue himElf; a
Maid'to

aMarriagc, which The

conummated as 'a 'youth ;.to' ceae to be a'

' Man, Without beginning'tobe a Woman;
to ibeCOme' a Twin out of 'the MOthers
., Womb; and'thie TiWi'n ofanoth'er who had

'WRelaeiohtehim- - *

-r

'

3- Thee',
quitebut
zof- 'the coin
won
Readere-things.
fifNature'
jane 'neverthicte
You'll- he
urpried' 'at'i
I
'rowl-you.

Of

_-

1 t l

1'-. Arricth theutnptudus'vaetyofa orts

of-Frnit-s and' Trees; [Whidf Were brpgight

Love,
all aftc

World ofthe Sun.

15r
from diant Cli-mates, for the Marriage
Fea of Cambyes, there was preented to
him a Cien of Oreer, which he caud-td
be graed upon a PlaneTree ; and amon ;
the Dainties of the la courh,,' zme A!

es

of the ame Tree Were crved fupto him. '* *

The delicacy of the Dih invite'd him to

eat heartily of it ; and the ubance oft-had

Fruit, being after the three-Cnneoctiond

converted into a- pertea Seed*;<>_it- formed

in
the Son
Womb
of the Been,
of his
Artexeractrer;
for all the
the; Embr'yo
particuv _

lars of his Life, have made Phyioians con-3

Tx

o-xu-ai-Snzm cand

jeture, that he Mu needs have been' pre

duced after this manner. in: 5-

--

When the young Heart of that Prince',

was old enough to deerve the anger; 'of
Love, it was-net oberved, thathe-ighed'at
all after any 'ofhis own
5 he loved M

thing but Trees, GWUei-and Heads ;'

abOVe ail thoe that aeaedhhn, the 'lovely

' Plane Tree, Whereon his Father Cambje?

had formerly caued that hoot of Orees

_ to be 'graed'z 'Wun his greateaectioni

' His Conitutionnited' nicelywith the
progres ofthe Plane Tree', that vhe emed
to grow With the Branches of it ..- He daily'
Went and embraced ib;- in his Sleep-"he

dreamt &nothing-ele "; and Under vthe Ca

ne

of' its Green Hangings, .he=dipatched

all

is Aairs. ':It Was eaily permitted,

>

L 4

that

15: .
The Hory ofthe. *
that the, Plane Tree mitten' with a reciproz
vtal Flame, was ravihed with his Carees :
For; on all-occaions, without any. appa

rent reaon, its Leaves were een to hake,

_ and in a manner leap for Joy ; the Branches,
bend round about his Head, as it Were to

make a Crdwofqr him, and to reach down X

o near tohis Face, that it was eaie to be

known, z that-it-was ratherv to kis him,

than Out '_off any natural inCIinatiOn, of
bending downwards.

Nay, * it was alo,

obzrved, _ that out of Jealouie it ranked its

Leaves in order, joining one 'cloe to the
other, for-earz-lea the Sun-zBeams pierc
ingithrough, might kis him as well as
it; -._'I'_he King on his part, et no more
_ boundstohii Love; he had his Bed made
under. the Plane Tree, and the Tree not:
not knowing' how to repay
Friendhip,
beiowed upon him the mo precious thing
v thatzTrees have, which was its 'Honeyg

grew, that every Morning dropt upon his

Qe- =

* ;,. .

- Their Care'eswould haVe laed longer, _

hadnocheath, the'EriemY ofNoble Acti

ons, put- an; end tQ them :, Artaxerxes died
of Love in the embraces Of his dear Plane
Tree; ; and: the Perians extreamly aicted
- at the-death of' o good a Prince, reolved

that they might give him atisfaction even

foet" his _Dcathg that his Body hould be

in; --.

-f

* burnt

World of the Sun.

is;
burnt
withWood
the Branches
of that
Tree, and
no. other
employed
in Conum'ing

it."

-*

When the Funeral Pile was kindled, the

' Flame was een to twi it elf with that of

the Fat of the Body; and their burning

Locks which curled one "into the, other, to

tape'r into a Pyramide as far' as could be di;

cerned;

'

'

: That pure and ubtile Fire divided not;

but vwhen it arrived at the Sun, whither
you know all igneous matter tends , it

formed the prout of the Appl'e-Tree of Ore

es, cyvhich you ee there on vyour Right
H an . a , .
a
t.
.
- 'New the Breed ofthat Fruit is lo in your
World, and'ITll tell you how that michance
happened. . *
- . Fathers and Mothers, who as you know,
are only guided by intere, in the managev
ment of their Domeiek Aairs, being '
vext that their Children,\o oon as they had

' " eaten ofthee Apples, quandered away up

on their Friends all that they had, burnt all

the young Plants they could nd of that

Tree; o that the kind being lo, is the
reaon why no true Friend is now to be

found.
* _As fa then as thee Trees were conum

ed by the Fire, the Rain that fell, calcined

= their Ahes, o that the congealed Juyce

154.

The Hzory of the

was petried in the ame manner, as the lap,

of burnt Fern is changed into 'Glas.
Hence it is, that in all Climates ofthe Earth

two Metallick Stones are formed of the

ahes of thoe Twin-Trees, that now adays
are called the Iron and Load-one, which
becaue of the Sympathy of the Fruits

of leade: and Orecs, the Virtue Where

of they have ill retained, always apire
'to embrace one' another; and oberve

that if the piece of the Load-Pcone be the

bigger, it attracts the Iron; or if the piece
of Iron exceed in quantity, it attracts the

Load-one ,- as formerly it ha pened in the

miraculous Eects ofthe Ap Es of lede:
and Oreter, of the one' whHCh whoo
ever had eaten mo, wasthe mo beloved i
ofhim
eaten
the other.
- " Nowwho
Ironhad
feeds
o viibly
upon the Load

one, andrthe Load-one upon the Iron,

that the one rus, and the 'other loes its
' forte; unles they be put together for the '
reparation of what ubance they loe.

HaVe 'on never oberved a piece of Load

one, laid upontheFile-du of Iron, you'll

he the Load-one cover it e in a trice
with thee metallick Atoms ; and the amo

rous Heat wherewith they cling together,

iso udden and impatient, that when they

have embraced one another in all places,

you-would ay that there is not one grairtz
.
- o

* World of the Sin',

i 55

pf the Load-One, that would nor kis a

grain of the Iron, nor a grain of the Iron,

that would 'nor be united to a grain of the

Lead-one; for 'the IrOn or LOZdrOC be

ing patated; continually end out from

' . their Mas, ome mo agile little Bodies,

in qUe of that' which they' love

When 'they have found that, having got
their deire, every one uts an end to their

Progrei; and' the Lo -0ne 'takes its re

in
'the Iron, as the Iron wholly
tontents 'its eif ' in the enjoyment of 'the

Loadctonea From theSap then of thee

two Tretis, the humour which hath g'i
'ven Being 'to thoe two-Metals has been
derived.

. ' -'

'

" 'Before thaftfhey were unknOWn ; and if

you have a mind to know, of what matter
'Arms Were-'made for the War; Sampon
armed himfe a 'aijn the Philitier, with
'the Jaw-bone o an As; Jupiter King of
Crete', with Articial Fire-works, where"
=byhe
imitated*; the
in ubduing'
ofhis Enernies
and,Thunder,
in av Word,
-Hertules

With
a Cl'u'brovercame
Tyrants,
and cruh
Mo'neris."
But thee
two Metals,
have
another more pecick' relatidn to one

'

l'Trees; You mu know, that though that

' Couple of Life-les Lovers'inciine toWards

'the Pole, yet they never tendthitlher'butih

. jCOmpany; and I-'ll tell you. the-'Rea'ibn .'of A '

it,
l

156
The Hiory ofthe
it, after I have dicoured to you a little a
bout the Poles,

The Poles are the Mouths o Heaven,

by which it ucks up again the Light, Heat,
and Inuences that it hath hed upon the

Earth : Otherwie ifall the Treaures of the

Sun, remounted not to their ource, (all its

vBrightnes being only a du of inflamed

Atoms , which are detached from its
Globe ; ) it would have been long ago ex
tinguihed, and hone no more:I Or that
abundance _of little igneous Bodies, heap
ing together upon the Earth, when they
could not get out again, would have alrea
* dy conumed it. There mu then, asI

have told you, be breathing Holes in Hea

"ven, by which the Re letions of the Earth
are dicharged, and ot ers by which Hea

ven may repair its loes ; to the end the

eternal-imaCirculation
of thee
little bodies
of
Life,
uccevely
pas through
all the
ctGlobes'o this va Univere. Now the '
breathin'g- holes of Heaven are the Poles,
throu h which it _retakes the Souls of all
that die in the other Worlds without itl; and

' all the Stars are its Mouths, and the Pores

through' which again it exhales, its Spirits.

But
to hew you,
thatyour
this isAncientv
not o new
an
Imagination;
when
Poets,
to whom Phyloophy diovered the mO

hidden Itcrets of Nature, pakezofan Hero,

'1
'
whoe'

World ofthe Sz'zn'.

t 59

whoe Soul they would have aid was gone

to live with the Gods; they expreed it in this manner ': He is one up to the Pole,
he is tated on the Polee hath pa throu h
the Pole; becaue they knew that the Po es
- where the only Avenues, through which
Heaven receives again, all that is gone out

1 from thence.

If the Authority of thee

great Men be 'nor ucient to convince

you, the Experience of your modern Na-'

vigators , who have ailed towards thek

North, may, perhaps,- give you atisfaction.
They have foundzthat the'neare'r they drew
towards the Bear, during the Six Months
of Night,when it was thought that Climate *

lay under a black Darknes, a great Light

cleared the Horizon, which enuld not
proceed but from the Pole; becaue' the

more one drew near to it, and by cone-v

quence removed from the Sun, that Light '
became greater.

It' is very probablethen,

that it proceeds from the Bearns of day,

and a great heap of Souls, which as you
know, are only made o Luminous A
toms, that are returning toHeaven by their
wonted Doorss
'
> a
This being o, it is no dicult matter to
comprehend, Wherefore the Iron rubbed
with the Load-one, or the Load-one rub;
bed. with the Iron, turns toWards the Pole ,

for they being an Extract 'of the Body ony

'

dole:

1' 58
The Hiory ofthe'v
lade! and Oreffes, and having ill retained
. the Inclinations of the two Trees, as the'
'two Trees have thoe of the TWo Lovers;

they aught to a ire to be rejoined to their

Soul ; and there ore they skip towards the

Pole, through which they

reeive that it

hath mounted 5 but with t is Rerve ill;

that the Iron never turns that way," un!

_ les it; bettouched by the Loadctone, nor
- 'the Lead-one, unleiisitberubbed with the -

Iron 5 by reaon that the Iron will not quit

a. Worch leaving his Friend the Lead-one

behind, nor the- Lead-one leaving its'

Eriend the Iron, and that the one cannot
(e-blue to performthis Voyage without the
Qhl'p V .

-'

1, This voice, as I think," was about to go

. * of
en awith
Diourle;
the noie;
greatanother
Aleer thatv
happenedbut
hindred
it T '

All the

in an lk'PirOar, rehunded with

nothing but thee Words,_TbeP1-tgue, the

Bag-te," Emd WM yon' Heard, look allow!

je I adiured the Tree, that had' o .lon'g en?

remained
are in difcwihto tell me the Caue
of o great a Diorder.v Friend, laid he to
me, we attack in

quarters, lc

Early as yer; informed of all. the Particulars

of
the Evil:
I'll only-tell
you' in We
Tbrae;
i , Words,
that thel'lague
wherewith
ar?

'

lathe: whichMeei'eze' alike

.

World of the Sun.

1559'
we "may very well call it o, becaue a
mong us there is no uch contagious Di

renzpcr. The remedy we are about to ue

ain-it, is to force-our breath, and blow \
a together, =tbwards the place from whence
the Inamation comes, to the end we may
drive back that bad Air. I believe that
burning Feaver is occaioned us by a ery.

Bea, that for (ome days has been roaming

about our Woods ,'\ for eeing they never

.go without Fire, and cannot be Without it,

,; this, without doubt, is come tole'; ome of
V our Trees on Fire.
- ,
We lient' for the Animal From-ack, to ,.
come to our Aance; however is not as

yet arrived.- But, farewel, I have no time

to talk,lwe mu look to the publick Safety. ;

nay, do you look toyour lf allb, and y
for it, ele you'll be in danger of being in.
volved inourderuction. : *
_\ _'
.

I followed the. connlizl, but winken;

much raining, becaue I knew my Legs,

In the mean time I was oill acquainted '
with the Geopraphy ofth (Iouutryg chalk
at the end of Ei * teen hours,- I found my
ilfat the'backn the Fotc that Ithoughcl
ed from; and-to add tomy fear, a huge

dred dreadful Thlmdrlaps. &untied.an

Brains,whil.the ghaly and pale Glimpes
of a' Thouand ahes QfLighming put-mu
- :

'

_ v

'

'

Thee

I 60
The Hiory of the'
Thee Claps redoubled from time to time
with o much fury, that one would have
aid," The Foundations of the World Were
about to be over-turned 5 and neveri

theles the Heavens never appeared more

Rarene. Thou h I was at my wits end;
yet the deireo knowing the Caue of uch
an extraordinary ACCident, 'made me go

towards the place,- from whence the noie

eemed to proceed."
,
s
.

' I had advanced about four hundred Fur-Z

longs, whenI perceived in the middle oa
great Plain, as it were, two Bowls, which
having ruled and turned along time round
one another, approached and then reco'yi

led : And I oberved that when they

anCked one again the other, then were
thee great Claps heard ; but going a little
farther on, I found that What at a diance

I had taken for two Bowls, were two Ani

mals z one of which, tho round below,

formed a. Triangle about the middle,and his

lofty Head with ruddy Looks, which oated
upwards, pired into a Pyramide ;- his Bo
dy was bored like a Sieve, and through
thee little holes, that erved him for Pores',

thin, ames glided, Which eemed-to cover

'him with _a P-lume ofFires;
. >
- Walking-about there, I met With a' very
'venerable old Man, whoobiErved that fax

rlmous conict,- with no les curioity than

my

World ofthe

I6I i

my izlf. He made me a ign to draw nigh,

Iobeyed, and we [at doWn by one another
I had 'a deign to have asked him the' mo
tive," that had brought him into that Coun
try, but' he opt my Mouth With thee

words ; Well then, you hall know the

motive, that brought me into this Country.
And thereupon he gave me a full account of
all the particulars of his Voyage. I leaVe
it to YOU to judge, in what amazement I

was. In the mean while, to inCreae my

conernation, asI was boyling with deire
to ask him,what Spirit revealed my thoughts
to him: No, no, cryed he, it's no Spirit
that reveals your thoughts to vme-u-nv
' ' This new hit of Divination, made me
oberve him with greater attention than be<'
fore, and I perceived that he acted my A

Carriage, my Geures and Looks, that he

poured all his- Members, and haped all
the parts of his Countenance, according to
the p'attern of mine; in a word, my Sha
dow in relief could not have repreented
me better. I ee, aid he, you are in pain'
to know why Icounterfeit you, and Iam

willing to tell you. Know then, that to the

end I'might know your inide, I dipoed all
the parts ofmy, Body, into the ame Order I
aw yours in ,*\ for being in all parts hi
tuated like you, by that dipoition of mat

t'er,I excite in my elf the ame thought,tht

*
t e
l

162

'.'Ie Hiory ofthe _

the ame dipoition of matter raies in you;

1

You will Judge this to be a thing poible,

i heretofore you have oberved, that Twins '
'who are like, have commonly the like
Mind, Paions and Will: inomuch, that
"there were two Twins at Pari:,who always

had the ameSicknees,and the ame Health;

married without knowing one anothers

deign, the aine day and at the lame hour ;
wrote Letters mutually to one another in
the me Sene, Wor s and Stile; and in

hort, have upon the ame Subject compo

\ 7 had a Copy of the ame kind of Vere, with

'the imeStops, Words and Order- Now
.don't you ze, that it was impoible, but
that the Compoition of the Organs o their

vBodies,
all Circumltances
they mubeing
act ininalike
manner ; liEeingalike,
two
like Inruments
alike touched,
to
rendera
like Harmonyi?
And thatought
o] ha
ving conformed my Bodywholly to yours,
_ and become, if I may ay o, your Twin;

- it is impoible, but that the ame Agitation

Matter, muofMind.
caue in bath of us the
._ 1 of
ameiiAgitation

fell on
a _counterfeiting
*i meHaving
again, aid
and o,
thushewent
:
a
You are at preent in great pain to know,
, the Original of the Coniict, ofthee two
Moners'
,- but theTrees
I will inform
ofbe;
it. '
Know then,that
of theyou
Forell
o

un

'Woria ofthe

is,

hind u,being unable with their bloV'vin ,to

, their
repel recoure
the attempts
eryBea,have
to theofthe
Animial
Proem-Nofezad
' \ I never heard of thee Animals, aid I tri
him,
butinfrom
Oaktoo,
of becaue
this Country;
and that
reatan
hae
it waect'

ollicitous Far its QWn afety;- an'd there-7,

fore I Would beg of you, togive me ome
account ofthem.

He thereupon pake to me in this man:

ner : In this Globe Where we are,

hould ee the WOods very thin bw'n, by

reaon of the great number df the ery _
Beas that deroy them; were. it n'otiot

the Animals FrIizen-Naer, which at' the

deire of the Fotes their Friends', come

daily to cure the Sick Trees: I, ay cure,

for no ooner have they, from their Icy

Mouth,"bl_own upon the coals ofthat Plague;

butIn
they
it out.
' Earth, from whence i
theput
World
of the
both ou and I are come, the ery Bea is .
calle

the Solanude ; and the Animal

Frozen-iNoe, is knoWn by the name of R'e-z

Man. Now you mu know, that' the
Remom live toWards the extremity of the
Pole, at the bOttom of the More Glm'de' "j

endit'is the Cold Of thee Fihes, evaporated

through their Scales, which maked-the' sea

,Watelf in thoe quarters' to freeze, thougi

it be Salt."

' ; M'ei-

' Melt'.

i 64

The Hzory ofthe

Mo Navigators, who have Sailed for

the dicovery of Gum-land, have at length
experienced, that in certain Seaons they,
found none othe Ice, which at Other times
had opt them: Now thou h that 'Lea was
open at the time, when it is Eittere Winter
- there, yet they have attributed the caue o
rit, tohme liacret Heat that had thawed it;

but it is far 'more probable, that the Rema

' may, who only eed upon Ice, had at that
time devoured the whole ock. Beides you

'are to know, that ome Months after they

'have lled their Bellies, that range Food

of uneay digeion, o chills their Stomack,

rthat their very blowing of their Breath,
cfreezes again all the Sea under the Pole.
.;When they "come on Land (for they live in

both Elements ) they fill their Paunch on

xly with Hemlock, Wolf-bane, Opium and

Mandrakes,
.
It's wondred at in our World, whence
Proceed thoe piercing North- Winds, that
alWaYs bring7Fr0 with them ; bUt i our
Country-men' knew what We know, that

zthe. Ramras. live in that Climate, they

Would know as well as We, that they pro
zeed froma..pu of their Breath, whereby
they mdeavourlto blow back the heat of
xheSun that draWs near themi
That -Stygian-Water wherewith the

Great Alexanderwas poyoned, and whclge

-'> *

'

Co -

World.of the Sun. ,

I 65.

Coldnes petried his Bowels, wasthe Pils

of'one
of theeallAnimals.
Rd, _
man: contains
the princi ln ne,.the
ofCold in-o

eminent a degree, that pa ingunder a Shi

the Veel is eized with Cold, and ruc:

with uch aNumnes, that-it cannOt wag

out of the place. And that's. the reaon
that one half of thoe, who have cruihd
North-ward,
foragain
the-dicoveryfthe
never
came back
; becaue it is a Pole;
Mir-
racle'ifthe Remomr, who are b numerous '
ide:

in that Sea, op not their VeelS; And

o muCh for the Animals FrozEn-Nqer. But as to the Fiery Beas, _ they lodge on
Land under Mountains of burning Bitumen,
uch as zEtm, I/ewim and others. The

- Pimples which you iec upon the Brea

of this Bea, that proceed from the Ina

mation of his Liver, aree-_.-..r

Hear we put a op to our Talk, that we
might be more attentive tothat famousDuel.
' The Salamamder attacked with mu'Ch ar
dour z but the Remora defended impenetra
bly, Every dah they gave one another, be

got a clap of Thunder ; as it hap ens in the

Worlds there abouts, where the Clahing of
' a hot Cloud with. a cold, caues the lame
Report.

At every glance of Rage which the Sa

lamorzder darted ' againrits'Enemy, out of
'its Eyes ahed a reddih Light,that eemed
'

M 3

to

366

The' Hiory ofthe

tokindle the Air in ying 3 it weat bqctjiligg

Oyl' and pied Aqua-rm.

'

The Remara, on the Other hand, that - .

* gros, quare andheavy Animal, preented

a' Bed ialed 'all over With'Yicles.' Its
large IZ-YeS lookt like two CthaIzplates,

whole glances conveyed o chilling a light,

thath what member of my Bodyit ' ed
them, I felt a hivering Winter-cold. If '
I' thought tq put my Hand 'before ' me, my'
Fingers ends were nummed z nay, the very
Air about infected with its quality, conj
denfed into Snow, the Earth hardned un;
der his Steps; and I could reckon the Foot

ings of the Beat, by the number of the

Chilablanes,
that 'welcomed
me when '_I ,
"trode
upon them.
' i
4' In the beginning of the Fight, the Sala
. murder by the " Vigorous activity Of its firf

heat, had put the Remom into a Swear z

* but at len h that Swear Cooling again,

_ _ glazed all t Plain with o ippery an En

r up
namel,
thatRemiara
the Salammder
get
'to the
without could
falling,notThe
Philoopher and 'I knew very well, that ithe

troubleoffalling and riing' o many times,

had' made it vyeary; 'for thee Thunder-Yf
claps'hook
y dreadfu
before,that
proceeded'
the
he gave'
its' Enerny
ictwerefroni
nq"

more now butthe chill" Sound o' thoe little?

After-elaps, which denote the end .of a'
,'*.:,-..=j

*<,_-,\

,:.z;,-,

,-.

World ofthe Sim:

.
Storm 3 and' that dull Sound, deadned by del.
grees,
into a'Whizzin
like to
that of degenerated
a hot Iron plunged'iinto'
col ,'Wjatep
When
'that the;
Fight
wasthe
nearRemorzz
an en , rceived,
by 'the Weaknes

[ts 7
'

-ofthe hook which was . harrier

. .feit. by, in,
it raied it elf upon an Angle f'its Cube,"
andthewith
all its weight fell
uponixcceishat
the Brea
'. Of
Salammde/,with
oi gOOd
'the Heart of thesalemandef, wherein" the
vre ofits heat Was contracted,burin made
"ib fearful a Crack, that Iknow not 'ngin'
nature to compare it to. '
"
p

'ol'

irt

Thus died the Fiery Bea, under the

lazy reance ofthe Animal Ffoze'z-Noe.
Sometime after the Remom was gone,
we approached the lace
Battel; and
the old Man having aubed his Hands over
'with the Earth, on which it had walked;
as a Preervative again burning, laid hold
on the Dead Bod of the Salamnzder; Give
me but the Body .of this Animal, aid he,

and' I've noneed for Fire in my Kitchen ;

for provided it be hung upon the Pot-hook,
it will Boyl and Roa all that's laid upon
the Hearth. As for the E es, I'll carefully
keep them; if they werec eaned from the

Shades of Death, you'd take them for two

little Suns. TheAntients ofourWorld knew

- well what ue to make ofthem ,- they called

_ them burning-Lamps,and never hung them

up

168

The Hiory'ofte

up. but in the Pompous Monuments of

' Illurious
Perons.
v The Modern:
have found ome ofA them,
by digging into thee famous Tombs; but

their ignorant Curioity made them put

them out, thinking to find behind the bro

ken Membranes, the Fire which they ilW

hine there. \
_' 'The'old Man went on ill, and I fol
lowed him, lining very attentively to the
Wonders he told me. But ince I have

been peaking of the Eight, I mu not for

*et the Dicoure which we had,concerning
Proem-No
i heI Animal
don't think,
aid hee. to me, that you
havenever
ever een
a Remom
Fih;
that
rie to
ithie brim; for
of they
the are
Water

nay, elde or
never
'do theyidoubt
leave you
the
Northern'Sea
: But
iwithiout
have een a ort of Animals, 'Which in ome
manner' may be reckoned of their kind.

told yout0wardsthe
ju- now,Bole,
that isthat
reaches
fullSea
o which
Rema
Par, that pawn in the mud as other _Fihes
do., You mu know then, that that Seed,

' the EXtract of all their mals, o _eminently

contains all its Coldnes, thatifa Ship pas *
over it, the Ship contracts. one 'or more
' Woims, which become Birds 'z whoe Blood
is o 'deitute of heat, that 'though they
'l' have
i' Wings, yet they are'ctreckoned
" among
Fihes

[World of the Sun.

169

Fihes: zAnd o the Pope, who knows their

Original, forbids them not to be eaten in

Lent; and thee are the Fowls which in

France they call ,Maquereuer.

I marched on ill without any other de

ign than to follow him, but o glad that I
had found a Man, that I dur not take my

Eyes oof him ; o afraid was'I'to loe my

_ Man.

Mortal Yquthyaidhe'to me, (for

. I well perceive, that you have not as yet

paid the tribute, which we 'owe to Nature,
as I have done, ) z) oon as vI law you,-. I
dicovered in vyour Face, omewhat 'that
hews you to be curious and inquiitive. If
I benot miaken in the Shape and Confor
m'atiOn of your Body, yOu mu beat From/1- *
"man, and a Natiye of Paris. That City-is.

the place, wherewith I ended my Misfor

tunes, which I had carriedabout'with me

all over Europe. - '

*
. My name is Campanella, and I am a Ca
lalrian by Nation.

Since my coming into

the Sun, I have pent my time in viiting

the Climates of this great Globe, that I may
dicover the Wonders of-them: It is divr

ded as the Earth is, into Kingdoms, Re

publicks, States and Principalities; lb that

Four-footed Beas , Fowl, Plants and
Stones, every One have their, own ; and

though ome of thee allow no entrance a

, mong them, to Animals ofa range kind,

epecx

] 70
The Hiory-of'- the
epecially to Men, whom the Birds above
all others mortally hate, yet I can travel
over all without any danger; becaue the

Soul of a Philoopher, is made up of more

ubtile Parts, than the Inruments which

might be made ue of- to torment it. I was

by good luck in the Provinoe of the Trees,
when the diorders of the Salmpmler began
thoe great Thunder-Claps', that you mu
have heard as well as I," which guided nae
to their Field of Battel, whither- you came.
oon after; but I was upon myreturn to the

Province of Philobphers---,-- What, nd'

I-to him, are' there Philofhphers alo then-in

the Sun? Are there, replied the good Man,

ure ; and they are the chief Inhabi

tants ofthe Su'n, and the very ame, * Whom
Fame in your Worlddorh celebrate with o

full Mouth; You may hortly convere

with them, provided you have the Can-

rage to follow me ; for before Three Days

be over, I hope to be in their City. I don't
think ypu can poibly perceive the manner,
howt i: great Spirits are tranportedv hi
ther. No certainly, cried I, for could o
many Others been hitherto o blind, as not
to nd the way? Or that after our Death,

We fall into the Hands of an Examiner of

Spirits, who' according to our Capacity
grants or refues usour freedom in the -.
SUH P

* ' '

'

*.

No

World of the Sun,

171

' Nothing of that, replied the old Man;

It's bya Principle of Similitude, "that Souls

attain to this mas of Light; for this World

, is made up ofnothing eli:,but the Spirits of
Every thing that dies in the Circumambient
Orbs, uch as Mercury, ente, the Earth,
Mars, Jupiter and Suture, ' .
'1
'
'

Thus, o hon'as a Plant, a Bea or a

' Man expire, their Souls without extinttiz

on mount to its' Sphe're, jut as you ee the?

ame of a Candle points'u'p "thither, in

pight of the Tallow that holds it 'by the'

Feet,
'Now
all theeSoulsbeing
to
'the ourCe
ofDayzand
Purgeid'fromunited
thegr'os
inatter that peered them i'exert far more _
_ noble Functionsthan the e'of Growing, '

'Feeligand Reaonin z Or they are an;

ploy 'in making the lood, ahd Vital Spi
rits ofthe Sun, that great and perfect Auiz
mal : And therefore alo, on ought not *

to doubt, but that the Sun a by the Spirit,

'more perfectl far than you do; ince .it- is

by the heat o a Million of thee Souls rec

tied, whereof hisown is an Elixir, that

he knows the ctet of Life, that he' inui

ences the matterof your worlds, with the

power of Generation, and that he makes

Bodies enible that they have a Being 5 and,
in hort, that he renders' himelf', and all

things ele, viible.

' ' '

'

1 72
The Hiory oft/Je
Now it remains, that I hould clear to
you, why the Souls of Philolopers, do not

eentially join to the mas of the Sun, as

thoe of other Men.
There are three orders of Spirits in all the
Planets, that is to ay, in the little Worlds

which move about this.

-The groer erve only to repair the'
Plumpnes of the Sun, the ubtile ininuate _ *

into the place of his Beams ; but thoe of

Philoophers,having contracted no Impurity
in their exile, arrive entire, in the Sphere o

Day to become its Inhabitants. Now they

are not as others, a conituent part of its
Mas; becaue the matter that compoes
them, in the point of their Generation, vis
o exactly mixed, that nothing' can again

diolve it : Like to that which forms Gold,

Dia'monds, and the Stars, whereof all the

Parts are o cloely intervvoven and knit to

gether, that the ronge Diolvent cannot
itparate the Mixture.
'
' Now thee Souls 'of Philoophers, areo
much in regard of other Souls, what Gold,

DiamOnds, and, the Stars are, in repect of

other Bodies ; that'Epicurm in the Sun, is _

the ame Epicmu, who her'etofore livedin

the Earth.

' *

The pleaure which *I received in hear

ing that great Man, hortned my 'W'ay 5 and

I often arted curious" 'Weiong about.

'

which

World ofthe Sun.

1 73 A

which I importuned his opinion, that I

might be thereby inructed : And really I
never found o great goodnes in any Man,
as inhim; for though by reaon of the Agi
lity of his Subance, he might in a few
Days have arrived in the Kingdom of Phi

loophers; yet he choe rather to take the

trouble of Jogging on with me, than to
leave me amid va Solitudes.
Nevertheles he was in great hae; for I
remember that having asked him, why he
returned before he had urveyed all the Re

gions of that great world? He made anwer,

that his Impatience to ee one ofhis Friends,
who was newly arrived, obliged him to

break o his Travels. I found by the e

quel of his dicoure, that his Friend was

that famous Philoopher ofour time MOX

eur de: Certes, and that he made all hae to

meet him.
He made anwer alo,wh

I asked him,

What he thought of his na'tur Philoophy ?

that it ought to be read with the ame re_
pect, as Men lien to Oracles. Not, added he, but that the Science of natural
things 'hath need, as other Sciences have, to'
prepoes our Judgment with Axio'mf,
which it proves not : But the Principles of

his are imple and o natural, that being

once uppoed, there is norhing that more
necearily atisies all APPCZI'ZHCCSa
I

I 74;

- The Hiory ofthe ,

I could not forbearto interrupt him in

'this place .- But methinks, aid I to him,
thatthat Philoopher hath alWays impugnl

, ed the Vacuum: And nevertheles, though

he was an Epicurean, yet that he might have
the honour o giving a Beginning to the

Principles of Epimrm, that's to ay,- to As'

tone: ; he hath uppoed for the beginning
' of things, a Chaos of matter throughly o-s'
lid, which God divided into an innumeras' v
ble number oflittle Squares, to every One of
Which he gave oppoite Motions. Now he
will have thee Cubes, by rubbing one aa'

gain another,to have crumbled themelves

into pieces of all orts of Figures : But how
can he conceive,that thee quarePeices,co'uld
begin to turn eparately, withoiit granting
a Vacuity betwixt their Angles . Mu

there not be necearil, a Void m the paces,

which'the Angles o thee Squares were'
forced to leave, that they might move ?_
And then could thee SqUares, which only
poeled a eertainExtent before they turn-i
ed, move in a Circle, unlei in- their Cira'

.cumference they ha poeed as much

F more? Geome

tells us, That that cani

notbe; one hal then ofthat pace,he

necearily to have remained void ,. ce;
' _ 'ing there were as yet no AtOmes to ll it;

MY Philoopher made me anwer, That

Monieurdes Certes' himelf Wouid give us

'PVorld the Sun.

I 7;
a reaon for that; and that' being an ob
liging Gentleman, as well as a Philoopher,
he would certainly be overjoyed to nd a
mortal Man in this World, that he might
clear him of an Hundred Doubts, which
his unexpected Death had conrained him
to leave in the Earth, that now he had for
aken : That he did nOt think though, there

was any great diCUlty to anwer that ob*

jection, according to his Principles which I
had not examined, but as far as the weak
'nels of my Wit could permitme; becaue,
aid he, the Works of that great Man, are
full there
and o
ubtile,
thatattention
to underand
i o
them,
isneed
of the
of the p

Soul of a true and conummated Philoo

pher : Which is the reaon, that there is not
a Philoopher in the Sun, but has a Venera
tion from him, inomuch that they will ,

not di ute him the Precedency, if his mo

dey uer him to take it,
To eae the trouble that the length of
this Journey may ive you, we will di2
coure of his Philogphy according to his
Princi les; which undoubtedly are o clear,

and em o abundantly atisfactory,

through the admirable Wit of that great Ge
' nius, that one would lay, He had aed.
in the lovely and magnicent Structure of
this Univerle.
You

17'6

The Hiory of the

You remember, he hith, that our Una

deranding is Finite ; o Matter being divi-v

ible in innitum, it is not to be doubted,

but that is one of the things, that it can
neither imagine norconceive; and that it
is far above the reach of the Intellect, to,
give you a Reaon for it: But, aid he,
though that cannot fall under the Senes,
yet we Conceive that it is o, by the know
ledge we have of Matter; and We ought

nor, aid he, upend OUl' Judgments 'a

bout things that we conceive._ Can we
imagine the manner how the Soul acts up
on t e Body ? Nevertheles, that is atruth
not to be denied, nor doubted o 3 whereas

- it- is a far greater aburdity to attribute to a

Vamity, that quality of yeilding to a Body,
and that Space, which are the dependances
ofan Excent, which can only agree to a.
subance; eeing by o doing one would

confound the Notion of Nothing with that

of a Being, and give anlities to that, which
can produce nothing, and cannot be the
Author of any thing whatoever.
But,

rpoor Mortal, laid he, I, perceive that thee

_Speculations are tedious to thee ; becaue as
that Excellent Man aith, Thou ha never
taken pains enough, to purie thy Spirits

ifrom the mas of thy Body ; and becaue

' thou ha rendred it o lazy, that it will per-'
form no Functions now, without the aid of
Senizs.

m-4__._ A

*W_0rld ofthe" Sun.

l 77

Iwas abOUt to reply, when he pulled

me by the Arm,to hew me a Valleyof won'
derful Beauty; Do yourperceive, aid-'he
to me, that bottom we are going down ina

to ?v One would ay, that thetops ofthe

little Hills that bound it, were' purpozly
Crown'd with Trees, that by the =cool.of

their Shade, they would invite*Travellers

torepoe.
.
x_ "a
At the foot of one ofthee Hills,theLake Of

Sleep takes its ource ; it conits only ofthe

Liquor of ve Fountains, and if it mingled
not with Three Rivers, and by' its weight
dulled the ream of their Waters, no An?
mal 'of our World could leep.- I .cannut
expres how impatient I was to queioh
him, about thee Three Rivers, which I
had never heard of before ; but I was fetis- -

ed when he told me, that I hould ee

vall. -

'

'

s i'

Soon after 'we arrived in the Valley,

and much about the ame time, upon the
' Carpet that borders that great Lakea '
The truth is, aid Campanella to me, you
are happy, in that you ee before you
die, all the Wonders of this World; it's a
bleing for the Inhabitants of your Globe,
that it hath produced'a Man, who can in
form them of the marvels of the Sun ; eeing

without you, they were in danger of living

in gros Ignorauce,and of taing a thouiind
; ..
N
P ea

.
/

i 78

The Hiory ofthe'

Pleaurcs; without knowing whence they'

vcome ;, for it cannotbe imagined, how li-'

.b'eraily the Sun heows his Largees, upon

all your little Globes: and this Valley ab
loue, diues an innite nnmber of Lie1
ings,throughout the whole Univerie, with
'out which yOu could not live, nor i) much'
as hethe Day : Methinks that the ight of
this Countrv
enough
make you
"confes,
thactt alone,
the Sunis is
your to
Father,
and

that he is the Author of all things. *Thee

Five little Rivers, that come 'and dicharge
themklves in it, run not above Fifteen or

Si-Xteen hours ; 'and nevertheles they eem

- .to be o weary when they arrive, that hard

ly can they move; but they expres their

La'itude by very dierent eects, for that

o'fSight contracts its le'proportionably, as J

it approaches to the Lake of Sleep.

The

Hearing at its Mouth, confounds, wan

ders, and looes it slf in the Pool : The
Smelling raies a murmur,}ike that of a Man
who ilores .* The TaPte growing wallowih

* by the way, becomes altogether inipid :

.A-nd the Feeling, o powerfu a little before,
that he lodged all his Comrades, is fain to

conceal/hisown abode." 'On his part the

Nymph of Peace, who reides in the mid
vdie of the Lake, with open Arms receives

zrhis gues, lays them in her Bed, and dandles

them o gingerly, that to make them iege),
. ., '
e

L-zs

may-mon

_ 'World of the Snii.

'

i79

he' her list takes the pains to rock the'Cra-4

dle. After they have for' ome time been

thus confounded in this va Baon, the

again divide themiizlves at the further end:

into Five Rivulets, which reume the lame
namesthey
when
they iue
they
le;
.when
entered
i Butout,
thoi'ethat
Which
haeri

'mo to be gone, and tug their Companis'

ons to et out, are the Hearing and Peel
ing; for the other Three wait, till thee _
awaken them, and of all the re the Tae'

lags always hindmo?

The Lake of Sleep is Vaulted over, with
the black Arch o'f a Grand. A- ' eat ma? '
ny Tortoies march owly- about e Shore i
the Flowers of-a Thouand Poppies, by,
looking into the Water,- communicate to it
its drouzy Virtue; Not o much as D'ormice,

but come above Fifty Leagues to drink iri

it', and the purling of the Stream' is d - .
charming,it would
to ,break
upon' the that
P'ebblcs
with eem
Cadenoei
and

:p endeavour to' compoe Soporick Mu-L

ack.
'
,"- *" '
The Wih CampaneL/d Without doubt'
foreawz- that I was aboUt to feel the?
eects of it, and'therefore headvid-me
to mend my .pace:

I woold have obey"

'ed
but' themy
Charms'
of,thaf
that *Water;;,
had o enveji'gled
Realbn,
'hardly ,

could'l
ct'

N 2la Wb'rds': * Sleep

an;

xso-

Tbiw ofthe .

_dri,..then,z leep-on,- Iigive you leave,{id

he
theithatiyouillbe
Dreams thatglad
onehas
here;' and-indeed
aireb perfect,
one

day to' call tom'ind, that which you, are

'about to have, In the mean time, _Pllz _diq
Vert my zlf in viewing tliezRarities of

'the
place,
and then
comenoback
to you_a-_
gain,
I think
vhe talked
more,
or at
ea the Vapours of ee , 'hadialready put

me out of condition, o being able . to hear

'_him. .
* Iwas in the middle 'of the leahede and a
be c0nceived Dream that ever was, when

m Philoopher came to awake me.

I'll

tell it you, WhenI can without di reon ;

for
it isletvery
important
you hou
d know
it', to
you ice,
vWith what
freedom
the

Mind'of' the Inhabitantsvof . the Sun acts,

Whil' Sleep captivates theierSenes. For
my part', I * think, -.that thatevapoz
fitesvathAir;iJhatli__
the Lake;
v property
of
depuranng 'theJMind,ct entirely Lfrom, the

Hogs
of_'th'eLSene5szornqthingnot
is preented
to YOur
thoughtiswhich'doeis
eem to
And 'FI'YhiighIYZepef-tr
inruct you 5 athhat's
the
realm' 'w'h
thoe Philo
hichL' -_.t. Heats-ba edz
*' .Dreamcrs,
*
.- who

akeilaughttit Willis igdranti

- _. -_ gaps-at che-firm eyeszwicha artz: 51

I heardihii..1hiirez * -.il Mortal, How

1 nyK'Ic-Y'
heitaeemwshimoad
XSFHL.W9uld_-zee.
\

itn .

>

9 l",

'.World

the Sun. v

il 8-1

a-Rarity- that ean' n'eVer be' imaghiea in 'your

lWOrld." ' During the ace'of ian how', ? 'or

tliei-eaboms, nce I le you ;_,-_Ihave been

(walking by 'the (Five Fo'u'htains, -' 'WhiCh _
come ont- 0f the, Luke _o'f Sleep, -' You may
believe, 'thatI have conidered them? With a'

great. deal ofA'ttentionf ; they' bear the in'am'e

loftheEiveSEnes,
and'glide
very-heatto'bie
'one
to'
anOt-her :' 'That ofthe Sig'ht'l'eeins

. a forked Pipe, 'full of the Powder dema- "

inonds , and' little ' Looking-Gla'e's ,' - 'that
eal aWay 'and reore the Image'OF what"
evenpret'znts; in its coure' it incompaes
thKinchh of-Linx 1 Thatlof the 'Hear4

* 'ingiisinIiket'Manheroouble ,-" it turns by '

its
'Inuations like a DEddlllif,-&d
thect
'mo'1hollow:coneavity
of- it's Bed, from
one lna
bea'rYa'n Bothe'o'f- all the noie-thatoun s
fonndiab'om 3"- ram-much miaken, i 'they

'Were'not Foxes that I w pieking their

'thiare r ' That' of: Smelling eem; like
the former; to divide itelf into two Chan
nels, hid Under one and the ame Arch;

'outa'rofevery-thing- it meets, it extracts omewhat' inviible,> whereof' it dempos

a II-'houand - ort of 'Odours,- whieh and
_ fit in' ead ofTWAter'; on the brink I'of that
ourCe,-.thete'a*re-agreat many' Dogs, that
rub and cleane-their .NOIEs.

That of the

Tae-runs by purts, \ whichieornnionly

happen not above Three or Four? times a
z
N 3
Day,
Y

18;

The Hiory ofthe

Day, and-for that tooa large van of Co,

ralv muf be raied, and underneath that
agreat mittle ones of Ivory ; itsLi
' not reeinb Spittle ,-' Butast'o the Fifth',
1- w of Feeling, it is o large and deep,"
that it environs 'all its Siers, nay, and
lays it elf out at length in their Channe
and its thick Juyce, heds it (hi abr

UPQH the err-en Tur. covered with

t'inrel'zlan'e-.v

'* 1 '

Now'you mu know, that unn'ed

With VeneraiO, I. aderednthe myeri

us Turnings ofall tlme-'Eountains : When

after a great walk', I came to. the entry

Where" thQY; dichar ed. 'diamclves' into

Three' Rivers q'z But' allow me," yQuTll bet-i
ter conceive
dipotion 'ofthee things
'when

APromiB that-plea?

ed me

wells: throughly'eawoke' me z I

retch-ed"th my'- Arm to him,' and we

kept the ame, way he had follow, 'walk

ztl-Song th'e Dykes that
i v _

the Five; Bi

' inztheir'zvve'ralhaels." ""- .

When; we had gone. about-a Maughme

as glegr'as a'LakeL-'aietd iit elf-to

our Eyes," 'TNO ooner had the-Wie Cam
pznella perceived it, but "he told me: At
length, Son, zweaare zgot Bothe Plant, I
diinctly'elthethreekivem. -- -. e
-

Iz was ib briey Franiorted 'with xthat

QQWSJ'that" I thought! was
he. r,t

sue:-

a!

r?

'u .u

.-...=-*

.' Eagkc. I ew .rather thanw-aked ,'- send:

ran all about with. fh-gmedy;a-C11rioyz=
that in lefe. than an hour, my Guide aiid=
I oberved what new/you mlhear. v 2.' '
great
Rivers:Tlas
waxen'-Firhmd
the Fieldsof:
, thisThree
BurningWptld:
larg-Zz i

q is called Mmorzy thQSW'Qnd,na1-rowei<,

-_.-(_1-_._:-

but deepex, > Imagination zK andzth'e Thide

the la .ctih:1h6,' is called Judgment; r,
-. Upon theBanks .Qf Memory; one may:

T'd.
a
82

hear- contiuually .a groubldbmc ;chacceriggz

ijays,
Pmom, an' ofalloua'wf
Gum-lings,Bit'dsz
Lia-.
nets, Changhes,
'sh-ac chirp What allay have learnt. lathe"

Nighctime they are lent,' Ear xhen they)

axe taken upin feeding npomhauhi'ek 'Y
31?
03
b-d'z.
Lr-VFR

xexhales from-thee watcryj

plaqcssbuuheir-foul.,Stomackdlgnsitfbillz
that in the Mornin zwhmthey-think it chi:
Vemed.Beak
intoztlzcisehejr
again, ubance,
asclczr itsitdrops
itwaslin the 'i

River,
,,
The Watzof &harkizzerzemsxto be;
'P

' dammy, andryns wkhzmxmh none; -

'i
ECGhOS'FllatamzformedzinitsCaVems
, selle-Luke weed, &ventoahovc a Thouha
times',- Jt breeds akj'nd of Moners, th
hewe .a Faccmueh .likerxo .thax ofa Woman:

Lcjzagh others taqmvrefurious, who have

aquancand HelmedHeaB, not unlike to

thamfpur Pedants. .Txhc'gdlchumeiof ,

x
N 4
thee

Tbe Hiory ofthe

thee isto cry,- and nevertheles ay no more

but jwhat they have heard one anorher ay

[NFOFCL . .-

'.:;"i

, .= . a

The Riverso 'Imagination runs more

genle gr its. light _and- hining Liquor
parkle's,onlall*hands: :To look upon that
Water like z'aTorren't- of humide parkles ,
ficiWOuldthink, that it oberved no Or

er-zinits coure. ' ' 'After I had' conidered it

attentively; I oberved' Vthat - the hu:
IJIQBP
owed ' 'in its Channel, was
ofxpure-PotablefGold, and its froth of the
Oyl 'of Tale; iThe-Fih that it feeds are-Res

'ne'er-an Ham-fand; Sldihmder s; inead

Qravdtisifull 'of 'thoe little Stones' Pli

az

of, Twithwvhich Men become hea-i

vy,
theirthem
Wrong
ide,
and
i twheri'th'ey
thenztheytouch
'apply-'to
their
Right

.e-.* x I obervedthere alox thoe zother

Stones,zone of which Gige: had inia ring,
which render. things Inviible ;v but =above
all, there are a reat many Philoopher's
ones, < which: p'arkle- among its Sand.
There were: a teat manyi-'Fruit-Trees up

onthe banks 1o . it, 'epecially 'thoe which

Mahomet found. in Paradie 3' their Branches _
Wa-rmed with.EheniXes-, and -I 1- oberved
QLBbeStocks, of 'that * Tree', from which

Baard plucktthe Apple 'which he threw

'Wengthethreeodde'esj- gras of! the'

ofthe
-

*-

had
r '

'*

grat'cizld on
* . FFB!

World

the &m.-

18;

them, iEach Ofthei: Two 'great Rivers, is

divided, into an innite 'num-ner of Branches,
thatlare interlaeed ione withanether L; and

I toOk notice,- - that when aFP-ectat Rivulet of

Memory, drewnear. to a le s of Imaginati<

on,-'<it'-immediately
theother
z but
onj 'the contrary, 'i aborbed
the Rivulet
of Imagi-i
nation was the bigger, it dried up'th'e Bro'ok
of MenibrY.;"*-Now eeing fthee Three

Rivers, sboth in" their Channels 'And Brana'

ches, run al ways-by one anothe;'_ where:

oever-the'Memdry is' rong? the Imaginay'

tion 'diminihes ; Sand" thisxagaml wells, its

the'othe'ris'low.<">- -' 4;" 's- : ' A

(f-Near to thatfheiR-iver, dfjjiidgm'edt runs
With
'an inti'edible
HOWn'eB
hath a'
deep' Ch'anhe'lQ
itileiq'uor'v
Reins -'_It'
to-becoldfj
and when-it is hed, upon any thing, it dry-3"

inead of moiehin'g. In the. 0'er of- its,

Channel grow 'Hell'ebore-Plants *, = whoe
Roots' retching out in * long Filame ts, 'fe-'
ven" to the Mouthv'of it, purie its aters '
- there :ct Itbre'e'ds '4Serpents, and upon the

oft gras that *c0'ver its' banks, Thoula'nds

ofiElephants Lepoe- themelves -:- It is divi
bEr o'f little 'Branches i;" it encreaes as it ad

ded, as the othertwo, into an innite num

vances' in its 'cOure ; and though it ill

Sainsgroundyet'it continually ebbs and

vowsinitfel-Ngw _- > ~
k
\_
i

h,-

v
..

An

186

He'myof the?

_. All the

watered y the ' uyoeze

thee Three Rivers -;_ it i;er to eep the

burning

'great World

of thoe that die in that;

this deerves very well

tqbe handled 'are largely. 4. .

. , '

'The Life-of. 'the Animus of the

verylonez moltth expire am but bra-na:
tural Deadk. which; only .h
. ,. a:
sed of Swap W'Exehtolou . Years-a
whenmhszstmued Intaeipzz of nued:

' tQ-wahztlmr. ery.

me
them;
theoxdcrv
ifQN- r
yrfgzM-gszturepsmw Mars; z
' would e uire moretime torzpairteAnp-z

at, -B?.iqs_afzth;=n= &coram. e a Remove,

Eveaer to.
azo, that the Am?
mad-Pay &ee'n-delyw to
UP-SQ

\ Hall. ner-'0 &twies-hire Red Ahezl ,.

_:

' zzzsaxhwsr MPPeHs-wntws

1116. v AmIBa-l ->_<m being; CXPKFGdi en m
_ wem enun; _>xhe-Ju=_rlc iWUS-QK

eke: she wade. ue ill? ubwa ease, use

&hee-m is wend thiszurmng WOFJA,
NNW-IcePathtwatsrsd
wash the

lBQx ctdmjhree Rivers; ex then be:

gaming ameveale by their. Fluidlt-y,
thsymamuicklr. exte.zthe,z-Hacuchee

ybich that Water. hahzgivep

W-L"

giveKnpwlstxthezs ammrg
threads, and by a Flux of Luminougppis,

a harpen
then.
ZFf-Z. **' themelves
' " " ' 'into' Beams,
' - and
diperc

_ "

World of the Sun.

prey

dierle into the Neighbouring Spheres;

Where theyare no honerWafte , but they

themelves dil'oie the umtter, as much as

. they can, inth Form proper for the eXert;

ing all the fond-inns, whereof they have

room-'acted an Iniinct, inthe Wane; Of the

,Three Rivers, 'the Five Fountains, and the

Lake .; and therefore they ixer themelves,

to be attracted to Plants forv Vegetation s

the Plants uer themblves to be brouzed

Upon by Animals for Senation; and the
'uer themelves to be eaten by

, Men; that o being converted imo the"

ubance,- they may repair the Three Fa
cnlties of Memory, Imagination-and Judg

ment, of whoe power the Rivers of the

. Sun, had given them a Fm'cqtae.
_
.
'more
Newaceording
as
the
Atomes
have
been
or lelhaked, 'in the' Liquor .offtheli:
ThreeRivers ;ithey furnih Animals with
- more or les 'Memory ,' Imagination or
Judgment; had according as in the Three
Rivers, they'have inbibed more or-les, of
the' Liquor of the Five Fountains, and of
' the lake' they fort-nto them Senes more

Or les perfect, and produce Gauls-more: or

kdrowzyx "
' I ' ' '
3 This is in a manner 'What -we=oberved,

concerning the-newe of thee' Three Ria

irersv Little cattered VGiCS'Of themmay

be Mtjvith everywhere 5"- but as [for the

Do

out

....-_.-7

,,1

_,

I 88

The Hiory ofthe i

principal Branches, they run with' a reight

coure to the Province of Philoophers:
And therefore we returned to the high
way again, notz'leaving the Current wide

of us, farther 'than it was neceary to get

rupon the. Cauby; . We' 'aw the Three

great-Rivers. always running by. our ide;

but for the 'Five Fountains, we beheld them
vturning and winding below in the Mea

dows.olitary";ctithe.
That's a'veryAir
pleaant
though
there"Read,
'is pure
and
thin, which nourihes the Soul, 'and makes

'itritignzovetthe-Paons. ' tl

: A.

-as2 At
Sixight,
days - Journey,
wetheendzofFive
werefdiviertingorourwith the
variousand' rich Propects of the Country,
we heard a Janguihing Voice, like the

gmaining Of a ick Peron. We drew near

the place, from whente we judged it might
come, and found upon the brink of the
'River 'Imagination ,- an Old Man fallen
backWards ,.i who. Complained grievouly.
Tea'rs'of compaion came into 'my Eyes,
and Pity obligedLme toask the poor wretch
what he ailed. &That Man', anwered

Campamlla, turning towards me, is aPhi

loopher reduced to Extremity :_'For we die

Oftner than once ;vand eeing xwe' are but

Parts.- of this. Univere , .we* change our
form, thatwe may' o Live elewhere ;
which isnOt-'az Mis ortune,>.-mce it is a

l-- r'

'

way

"do-4

Worldofthe Su'ctzi.

1 89

way to Perfect ones Being, and to attain to

an infinite r number of Seiences : His, di

* emper is that, which makes all great Men

for the mo part to die.
His Dicourlizobliged me to conider the

' Patient more attentively, andat the r !

- -glance, I perceived that his Head was as
big as a Tun,'and open in many places."
Come, come, aid Campanella to me', pul
ling
by we
the could
Arm,allivethetoaance
that-we
may me
think
this dying
Man, i
would be unprotab e, and only trouble him

the more. Let's, Jog- on, for indeed his

Evil is Incurable : The Swelling of his

Head, proceeds from the Relenes of his X

Mind ; for though the Ideas, wherewith he
has lled the ThreeOr'gans, or the Three
Ventricles of his Brain, be but very mall
Ima es; yet they areCorporeal, and by
con equence capable of filling a great place,
r

when they are very numerous. Now you

. mu know, That that Philoopher hath o

dilated his brain,- by ung it with notion

upon notion, that being unable longer to
contain
hath to
bur;
way A
of
dyingjthem,-{it
is common
greatThat
Genies,
and it is called, , T_o crack with Wit.
;._ We marched-on ill dicouring; and
what preented r to our view, furnih
ed us withzmatter of Converlation. I

hould have beenvety willing though), to

'

ave

1' 90

TheHziioryofthe "

_ A

have left theobcure Regibns o the Stin;

and gone again into the Luminous ; for
the Reader mu know, That all the Counh '
tries are not Diaphanous, there are ome'of
them that are obcure, like thoe of our
World; and which, were it nor for the light '
of the Sun, that is perceived beyond them;
would be covered with D'arknes. Now

proportionably as one enters into the obi

mre Regions, he inenibly becomes i)

himelf ; and in the ame manner, when

one
ap roaches
the tranparent
, he per:
ceives
'miklf cript
of that orriber
Obe
Icurity, by the vigorous IrradiatiOn of the
Climate.
'
I remember, that upon occaion of this
earne deire Ihad, I asked Campanelz, if

the Province of Philoophers was replen-s

replendent,
anwered
heleor
as wethan
ill . i
dent
or darkih?
It is more
darkih
Sympathizect much with the Earth, our nas'
tive Country, which of its own nature
is Opaoous ;v o we could not t out halves *
in the clearer Regions of this Globe.- Ne;
vertheles by a vigorous 'bending of the

Will; we can render our elves Diaphanous;

when wchavera mind to it: a: Nay, and

mo part of the Philoophers, do not peak '

with the Tongue, but When they have a
mind to communicate their Thought-s,

they"qu tthHVIS by the Ejaculatiogz

l 'World of' the Sun;

i 9:

of their Fan'cy, ofa bmher Venom, under

which commonly 'theykeep their Concep
tions covered; and 'o- then as they have
remanded to 'its place, that obc'urity of the
. Spleen which darkened them, eeing their
Body is then Diaphanous, one may per
ceivethrough their Brain what they re

member, what 'they imagine, what they

judge ; and' in their Liver and Heart, what
they deire, and. what they refolve: For
'though thee little Pictures be more ima
perceptible, than any thing that we can
devik; yet in this World our Eyes are clear-a

'lighted enough, eaily to diinguih even

the malle Ideas.
r
*

Thus when any of us 'would dicover

'to his Friend, the'Aection he has for him ,

his Heart is perceived to "dartout Beams,

as far as his Memory, upon the Image of

him he Loves .- And when on the contra

ry, he would teie his Averion , his
Heart is een to Thunder again-the Image
'of him he bates, orms of burning Sparks ,

.\

and to retreat backward as far as it can;- In the ame manner when he peaks With
in himii'elf, the Ideas are clearly to he bly
erved, that'ls to thy, The Characters of
meditares upon, which by
ct every
vriing thinzhe
and
Sling, imprinting and eacing,
preRznt 'to the Eyes-ofthe Behold'cr, not

areicnlated Dicourcz huta Hiery of

My

' 'oil his thOUghts in Large-dom.

1 92

The', Hiory bf the

_was
_ My
Guide by
would
'have gone
on,like
bu'twas
he.
diverted
an Accident,
i the
never heard before :' And that was, that all
of a udden we perceived the Earth blacken
ed under our Feet, and the Heavens kindled

before with Beams, extingujhed over head,

as if a Canopy 'Four Leagues broad,- had

been pread betwixt us and the Sun.
z
_ It would be no eaie matteror me to

expres, what we imagined in that Jum

cture: All orts of TerrOrs, even that of

the Worlds end, eized us,-and none of thee

Apprehenions eemed to us to be impro

bable; for to lee night in the Sun, or
the Air overca with Clouds, is a Mi
racle that never happens there. And yet
this was not all; for immediately after a

harp and skreaking noiIE,like to that of the

winding up of a Jack, came to grate our
Ears; and at the very ame time a Cage _

fell at our Feet. , No ooner had it reed

upon the Sand, but it opened, and was

brought to bed of a Man and a Woman;

- they had an Anchor with them, which

they faened to the Roots of a Rock ; the

nexc thing they did, was to make towards
us.

The Woman led the Man, and- with

threats dragged him forward. - When he'

was come very near us, Gentlemen, aid he,
in ome little diorder,Is not this theProvince
of Philoophers ? I made anwer, No; but
. that
U

. '

'

World of the Sun.

I 9.'3

. that We hoped to be there within the-'pace

of Four and twenty hours; and that the
old Man , who allowed me his Company,"
.was one of the chief Miniers of that Mo
narchy. Seeing you are a Philoopher,repli
ed the Woman, addreing her [Half to Cam
jmnel/a, without going further, I mu dil
Charge my heart to' you.
To tell you then in a few Words, the ocw

caion of my coming hither, you mu

know, that I come to complain of a Mur
der committed on the peron or' the Young
e of my Children ; the Barbarian, Whom l
hold here, hath twice kill'd him, though he'
be the Father. We were extreamly puzled'
a't this Dicoure, and therefore I deired to
know, what he meant by a Child killed'
twice? Know, anwered the Woman, that
in our Country, among the other Statutes
OfLove, there is a Law regulates the num:

ber of-Kies, which a Husband is 0in ed

to give his Wife : And it's for that rea on,
that every evening a Phyician, within his
own precinct, viits all the Houes, where
' having' viewed the Husband andv Wife,

he'- taxes them for that night, accord

ing- to their . Health, rong or weak, in

more or les Embraces. Now my' Hus

band there was adf'udged 'to Seven: Never
theles, being net edlatome angry words

_ Fgave him,*as ge were'going to Bad," he

I 94

The Hiory ofthe

did nor i) much as touch me, all the while

* we were in bed: But God, who avenges

the caue of the aicted, permitted, That

that Wrctcll being tickled in adream, by
remembring the Kics, which he unjuly
detained' from me, let a Man be lo.

Itold you, that his Father hath killed him

twice, becaue by hindering him to be, he
is the caue that he is not, there is his r

Murder; and he is likewie the caue, why

he hath not been, there's his econd 2
Whereas an ordinary Murderer knows very
well, that he whom he deroys, is no

more in being; but he cannot hinder, but

that he hathhad a Being. Our Niagirates
would have rendred Juice in the matter ,
but the Crafty Man alledged for excue,
That he would have performedhis Conju
gal Duty, had he not been'apprehenive,

that kiing me in the rage that I had put

him into, he might have begot a Mad
man.
- oatxthat- Plea, ordem
'The Seate puzled
red us to go and Vappear before the Philo- '

- ophers, ' and plead our Caue there. _ _So

oon as we received the Order to be gone, we
put or elves into a Cage, hung rby the.
Neck of that great Fowl, which you ee
there ;* from whenCe by means of a 'Pully
which we fa'ned to it, we let our elves

down to the ground, and hoi our elves

\
_
a i
up ,

m th
be of

. " World of ibe Sun. .

19;

-up into'the Air. There are people in our

A ProvinCe,purpoi:ly appointed to tame them

'when they are young, and breed them uP to

the work we employ them in. That which
chiey makes them tractable, contrary to '
their erce nature, is, that to atisie their

unatiable Hunger, we give them the Bo

dies of all the Beas that die to feed on.
After all, when we have a mind tovlleep,

(for 'becaue ofthe conant excees ofLove,

which weaken us, we and in need of

Re :) We let looe into the open Fields, at _

convenient
or 'who
Thirtytakof
ithee
Fowls,diances,
ea'ch tied Twenty
to a rope,

ing ight with their great Wings, diplay

in the Sky- a Night larger than the Hori

ZOn. I was very attentive both to her

Dic0urz, and in great eXtaie, tov coni-'

der the prodi ious bulk of' that Giant-v

Bird .- But o oon as Campanella had lookt
a little upon it,

Ha! verily, cried he, it

is one of thoe Featheer Moners called

Candores, which are to be izen in the Ile

of Mandrdgam in our World, and all over

the Torrid Zone, 'they cover an Acre of

ground with their Wings .- But eeing thee

<-_\vx--mw:

Animals grow Huger, according as the

Sun, under which they are bred, is hotter _

in the World of the Sun, they mu needs'

be of a prodigious Greatnes.
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How

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. TheHi/iony of the .

However, added he turning to the Wo

man, you mu, of neceity accomplih
your Journey ; for it belongs to Socrates,
who hath the inpection of Manners, to
decide your Caue In the mean time,I ad
jure you to tell us,what Country you are of,
becaue eeing it is but three or four years,
ince I arrived in this World, I am but
_very little as yet acquainted witlrthe Map

of it?

We are, anWered he, of the Kingdom

of Loversr: That greatv State is on oneide

borderied by the Republick of Peace, and
' onthe other, bythat. of the Ju.
* In the Country I come from, at Sixteen

Patmo Age,Boys are put into the Novitiat

of Love: In is.a_.very; ately Palac-e, that

- takes up almo a quarter of the City. ' The

Maidszare put into it at Thirteen', andeoth
'accomplih: their yean oszrobation. there ;

dating Awhich; the Boysare ohly employed,

in meriting the, aaonof the:.Girls, and:
the Girls in rendringz themelves. worthy-oil

the Love Of: the Boys. Whenthewehe

Months, are up, the aculty of medicine

in Body, go and viiti this 'Seminary of: Lovers : They feel: them. Mover; one after

.another, even: to the mot ' Privy parts: of:

their Body; ; make: them oouple- behre

them ; and then. according as the; Male,

upon Tryal, is found to be vigorous and
._
w ell

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World ofthe'Snm

[97

Well-haped , they give him for "Wives,

Ten, Twenty, Thirty vor (Forty Maids,
uch
loved The
him ; Husband,
provided heneverthelesj:
recipromll
love as
them.
cannot lie but with Two at a time, and. it
is not lawful for him to Embrace any of p
them, o long as he is with Child. Such
as are found to be Barren, are only 'employ
ed inmade
Service
; andand
Men
who
are impotent
iare
Slaves,
may
carnally
mingle
with the Female-Drudges. Aftenall, when
a Family hath more Children than it car-1
bring up, the Republick takes care ofthem:
But that's a misfortune that very eldom

happens; becaue o oon as a Woman is

brought to Bed in the City, the publick
Treaury furnihes a yearly Penion for the

Education of the Child, according to its

Wality ;. which on certain days, the Trea
urers of" State themelves, carry to the

Houe of the Father : But if you have a

mind to know more, ep into our Pan-1
nier, it is big enough for Four. Seeing
we are going the tme way , we'll talk
and make our Journeythe horter.
Campanellc was Of the mind, that we
hould embrace the oer; and I was like

wie very glad of it, to avoid being tired :

But when I came to help them to weigh
their Anchor, I was much urprized to find,

that inead of a great Cable, which ought

*

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The Hio'y ofthe

to bear it upiit hung only by a Silken thread

as mall as a Hair. I asked Campanc/[a
how. it could be, that a Mas o heavy as
that Anchor was, did not by its weight

break o weak a thing ? And the good Man

made anwer, That that Line did not break,
becaueiw'as
being
all why
of anitequal
there
no pun
reaon
houldbignes,
ooner

break, at one place than anorher. We all

owed ourelves into the Pannier, and then
'hoied up our elves by the Pully, as high as
the Fowl's ThrOat, where we appeared no
bigger than a Bead hanging at its Neck.

When we were up as high as the Pully, we

faened the Cable bvahich our Cage hung,
to one ofits malle Down -feathers, which
nevertheles was as big as ones Thumb; '

and o oon as the Woman, had made a ign

to the Bird to be gone, we perceived it

cleave the Air with a violent Rapidity.

The Condore haned or ackened its ight,

oared
or ooped,
to its itfor
Mirei2a
es pleaure,
Whoeaccording
Voice erved
Bridle. We had nOt owzn Two hundred
Leagues. when we perceived on' the Earth,
to.
the our
leftliving
Hand,Umbrello
a nightmade
like under
to that,
which
iusi

We asked the ranger. Woman , 'what

he thought it might be ? It's another.
Maleactor, anwered he, who is going.

alo to receive Juice in the Ptovinc'e, Whi-i *

&her

World ofthe Sun,

_ I 99

ther we are going: His Fowl, without

doubt, is rOnger than ours, or otherwie
we have tried away a great deal of time
by the way, for he et notout till after
'I was gOne.

I asked her, what Crime that

poor Wretch was accued of? He is not

barely acculEd, anwered he; he is con
demned todye, becaui: he is already con?
' victed of not being afraid of Death. >How
_ then, aid CamPane/[zzzto her, do the Laws
of your Country enioyn Men to be afraid
of Death? Yes, replied the Woman, they
enioyn all, except thoe who are admitted
into the Colledge of the Wife; for-our
Magirates have found by ad Experience,
that he who fears not to'lole Life, may take
- it from any Body ele.
p - -

'

After ome other dicourlZIs that followed

thee, Campanelld had a mind to make a
'larger enquiry into the Manners of her
Country : He asked her then, what were
the Laws and Cuoms of the Kingdome

Lovers? But he beggedhis pardon, 'if he

did not anwer him ; becaue ince he (was '
not born there, and knew them but in part,

he Was
heinto
might
hy too muchcon
or
too
little.afraid,
Icame
that_Pr0vince,
tinued the Woman ; bu't-I and all my Pro
deceors, are-originally of the Kinadom of
Truth; my Mother wasdeliverech of me

there, and never'had another Child ; he

'
O4
_ _ brought.

aoo

'he Hiory ofthe ,

brought me up in the Country, till I 'was

Thirteen Years of Age, , when. the King by

the advice oPhyicians, commanded her to,

carry me to the Kingdom of Lovers, from

whenceI come; to the'end, that having
my Breeding in the Palace of Love, that
Education which is more chearful and oft,

than the Breeding of our Country, might

render me more Fruitful than he had
been. My Mother carried me thither,
and placed me out into that Houe of Plea

ure.
.
I had much ado to comply with their
Cuoms : 'At r they appeared to me to
be very rude; for, as you know, the OPi?
nions that we have uckt in with our MO:

thers Milk, eem always to us to be the

mo rational ; and then I was but ju come

from the Kingdom of Truth, my native

Country. '
_*
*
Not but thatI perceived very well, that

the Nation of Lovers,lived with more Conz

' deenion and Indulgence, that ours did ; *
for though' every one gave it out, That

my Sight wounded dangerouly, that my

Looks killed, and that my Eyes glanced.
out Flames, which conumed Hearts ,* yet
the Goodnes of "all, and epecially o the

Young Men, was o great, 'that they car-5

teed, kied and hugg'd me, inead Of'

revenging the Evil that I had done them;

WarIdoftheSa'L'

A not

ay, I Was even vexed with my ll', for

the diorders that I was the caue-phand that

was the reaon, that out of Pity Itold them
one day, That! Wras reolved to runa-way.
But alas! howean you ayeyour ielf, cry
ed 'they all, embracing my Neck , and '

kimg m- Hands : .Your 'Houe is on all

Hands be et with Water 3 and o great the
danger appears to be, that undoubtedly you."
and we both had been already drowned,

without a Miracle.
*
How, aid I to .our Hiorian, is the
Country of Lovers then ubject to Inunth

' tions? It may very well be aid to be, re

plied he; for one of my 'Gallant's (and
that Man would not have deceived me, be.
caue he vloved me) wrote to me, That

for grief of my departure, he had hed an

Ocean of Tears.

Iaw anOther who aua

red me, That within the pace of three X

days, his Eyes had diilled a Fountain Of
water: And as I was curing, for their
akes, the fatal Hour when r they lw
me, one who reckoned himelf ofthe num:

ber of- my Slaves, ent me word, that the

night before,an overowing of his' Eyes, had

Cauliad a Deluge.

I was about to have left

the World, that .I might no longer be

the caue of o many Evils, had not the

Meenger ubjoined, that his Maer had
charged him to aure me, That I had rro
cau e
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The Hiory of the

caue to fear any thing, eeing the Fur

-naoe of his Brea, had dried up that De

luge. In ne, you may Conjecture how

waterih the Kingdom of Lovers mu
needs be, 'mce with them it is to weep but

by halves z when from under their Eye-lids,

there prings no more but Rivulets, Foun
'tains and Torrents.
. I was in great pain,what Machine I could

nd, to ave my elf out of all thee Wa

ters, that were like to over-whelm me :
But one 'of my Lovers, who was called The
Jealous, advied me to pluck out my Heart,
and then embark in it; that I needed not

'

fear, , but that it would hold me, becaue it

" held o many others; nor that I hould ink,
beCauIe it was too light: That all I was
to be afraid of, was to be burnt, becaue

' the -Materials of uch a Veel, was much

ubject to Fire : That I hould be gone
then upon the Sea of his Tears ; that the

Fillet of his Love, would erve me for a

Sail ;_and that the favourable Gale of his _
Sighs, in pight of his Rivals Storm, would
carry me to Shoar.
I_wasa long while a muing with my
elf, how I could put that enterprie into
execution. The natural Fearfulnes of my

e>t, " hindred me from daring *, but at

length the opinion that I had, that i the

thing were not feaible, a Man would not

'

be

World ofthe Sun

203 -

'be uch a Fool as to advie it, and far les a

Lover to his Mires, gave me the Bold

nels.
I natched a knife, lit up my Brea ; '
nay, with both my hands I was already
earching in the wound, and with an un

daunted look, I felt for my Heart to pluck

it out, when a Young Man, who loved
me, came in. In pight of me he wreed

the Weapon from me, and then asked me

themotive of that deperate Action, as he
called it.

I gave him an account of it ;

but was much urprized, when within a

quarter of an hour after , I underood
that he had brought the Jealous before the
Juice. Nevertheles the Magirates, '
Who, perhaps, feared they might be biaed

by the example or novelty of the Acci

dent, referred that Caue to the Parliament

of the Ju.

There he was Condemned,

beides perpetual Banihment, to go end

his Days asa Slave, in the Land ofthe Re
public/e of Truth ,- with prohibition to all
that hould dezend of him, to the Fourth
Generation, ever to return into the Pro.

vince of Lovers; nay, moreover he was

enjoyned upon pain of Death, never more

to ue an Hyperbole.
Since that time I entertained a great

, aection for the Young Man that aved

ine ;' and Whether it Were for that good
Oce,

204.

The Hzory'aftbe

Oce, or becaue of. the Paon, where

with he erved me, when my Novitiat and
his were out, 'I did not refue him, when
he demanded me for one of his Wives.
_
We have always ince lived very well

together, and hould have continued to do

o ill, had he not, as I have told you,
killed one of my Children twice ,- for which
I am going to emplore Juice, in the King.
dom of Philoophers.

Campaxella and I were much aonih

ed at the ilence ofthat Man; and therefore

I endeavoured to comfort him, judging,

that uch a profound Taciturnity, was
the Daughter of a very deep Remorle :

But his Wife took me o of that. It is

nor, laid he, the exces of Sorrow that
ops his Mouth, but our Laws forbid
all Criminals, that and Indited, to peak
unlei; it be before their Judges.

. During that converition, the Fowl was

going on ill, but I was rangely amazed
when I heard Campanella, with a Coun
tenance full of tranports of Joy, cry out :
'Now welcome the deare of all our
Friends: r Let's go, Gentlemen, continu

ed the good Man, Let's go meet Moni

cur De: Cartes; come let us alight, he is
ju now arrived, and but Three Leagues

o. For my part , I was exceeding

ly urprized at this Eruption, for I could
not

' World of the sz;

20;
not comprehend , hOW' he could come
to know the arrival of a Man, of

whom -We had received no News.- Cer

tainly, ' laid I- to him, you have ju now
hen him in a Dream. lf you call a Dream,
aid
what your
Soul Eyes
can ee
ee thev
with
as
greathe,
a certaint
, as your
light
of
Day ; toI con
es that
it. But,
cried I,
is itCarteri,
not a _
Ravery
think,
Monieur
De:

Whom you have not iren,ince you left the

World ofo,thebecaue
Earth, you-have
is now- imaginedit
but' Three ,
Leagues
to be o?
'r
'
> *
I
had
ju
uttered
the
la
Syllable,
when
we aw De: Caries come. .Immediately
Campanelldr ran' to embrace" him: They
talked together along while ; but, I- could"
not mind all the obliging4-Gorn lements

they made to one another, I was o full of

deire to learn of Campanella his Secret of

Divination. That Philoopher, who read
my Paon in my looks, gave his Friend
an accOunt ofit," and prayed him not to
take ill if he atised me. Monieur De:

Caries anwered with a mile, and my learn

ed Preceptor
dicourbd
this that's
manner.
Out
of all Bodies
Speciesi's in
exhale,
to
ay, Corporeal Images, which dance in
the Air. Now thee Images ill retain,
notwithanding their Agitation, the Fi

. gure, Colour, and all the Other Proporti

r
ons

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The Hiory oft/Je

Ons o the Object, from which they pro

ceed : But eeing they are very pure and

ubtile, they pas through our Organs,

without cauing the lea Senation in
them : They penetrate into the Soul,
where becaue of the Delicatenes of, its
Subance, they imprintthemelves, and o
repreent to it Objects very remote, which

the Senes cannoc perceive. It's a thing

'that commonly happens here; where the
mind is not hut up in aBody, made of
grols Matter, as in thy World. We'll '
tell thee how that comes to pas, when
we have had the leiure, fully to atise
the mutual Deire, that each of us have, to
convere with the other; for certainly
thou well decrve to be 'ued with the

' greate Civility.

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