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to fh.nge "l'dJbift her 8ptenab(!, For;t i&

the E~,elk"" of.Ltrt, to repreJtIll N.ttlre,.
even ill her JJfollCf; am!. th. lJeil!K" Piete
Julie to the Life, h, one Ib"t h". 'the' .am..
t eo! the trtle Light, 'M well III lhe SiiP
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 The Tranfiator
~i~ht "AV!., B~ed f!;L11J~1JJ TeA~s ",oTe~
to "ave.:f!'1!.e~ the +ov~rs Of the Moo",., 4
figfit D/ tbeir Miffre/f, eve. in the urkejf
Night -. --zd wher I L ~ re~ ".. , .~ put c
A ele: :'lo.ck ii: lms h_ rtmelll
iftl(t:- - fir ~_ ~, 't ~mo
'Agell ~~fe'.r
He. , Re",- 1M hAVi- A feeD;
fiew -, A~r;, IIllder -7JeC~
",ith .tbe .)'11" ~QO, whieh U 'lJery rAre ;
{Uleet"ffllfe ~'w~;e, fJt'f,Ier: foeti . bifere:'i,.
~oniWian.t·· t Tet l' :",oJJ.. hAve nont, ,he
aj-Md, ~lhM- .Aeir '. EJes-. kiilg ~d with-
th~/oriOIl6 Light of the 811n, thg fo~lIld
liD! e.~i!~r :"'fi.or. F,,'l ~I,'U fUIPI) lhe Weillror:
~: ~ _. 'er~4IJ' -Jmllg;", ~ t·
h!1! ' ;M'fre. '!lnot J diJco'L
,he1lJ ~"fh01( Tnthia: :d Nnti
AfX?l l.lnjfJ~' e., '-rt muchJ
'{he,] 4rlei.
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~'1 to, 'pjjrf' /jelo.w, ,Jm.J~tl tb~ Old' And.
:New,; JhAt' ~j r~e 'MfJOn 'hAving. ken tlifoa:
"'~t'ed, ~h,! ~'HJp:trft8lJ, hJ ~the~s, bNt the.
$".n' owiflgiit{Dlforvery whoa, 19, ONT A4-:
ih()t,~: 1., ",,ike; ,. i!.O' ~ubt; ,lmt th~ '111genioll4
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aVOJAge thither, Mour .Allthorhll4 tltJlIe; he
will id ./e,,/I. he .,leAfed with. hit Relatiolll.

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It's pit,. [ome.[oAring Virtuo[o, illfteAIl of
r"Avellillg into France, JtJes IIOt take A flighl

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"p to the Sun; ~d h, TJew Oh{e"vatiqllslUl-
the defel1s of itl Hiflor,; «cafione" 1101
'" the'Negligellle of our Witt, French .A..
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Greenwich"()h{et"Vator, CAli fllrnifh him with
~ II1J1Tument ofCoIIVeyll1l&e ;.Iet him tT, hi.:
fJ"'n lwvent;oTJ; or mAke ufe. of ollr .Atlthtw I
MMhine: For ollr Lofs ii, illeieea, fo greAt,
thAt pile wQlIld thi"k, 1I0ne hilt the t1eclll"ed E-
mtfIJ of M-nlld, wtJ"ltl hIVe /'114 the Ma-
lice, to pur/OJ" And ftiJJle tho{e rAre Di{cO'lJt-
ries, which our .Author mAde ill the PrO'1lillce
PI the Spl~r fhi/ofophers; A~ which II"·
.' - A' 3" Josht~
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~tetll7 wu"lrJ. h~ g01lt for, M to the {et-
tieIng our SlIhltmArJ Philo!oph" ",hieh, ~s
weD M ReligiOll, is 14lfJentAbly rent ',Sells
. -fhim/eJI ; .. ":owvillcta IN
S, thAI ill OJ. Juhts A1Ifi Per
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the l'la[ bour Ul .L oil/on, wm:re
(thePafiengers ~eing i~mediate~
tY. puta{bore, .aml havmg thank-
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ed the Winds 'a.nd Stars,:', for' the Prorper~- .

tyof our Vo'yage, we mutually embrac'J,
.and look our. leave one'.af another•. For
mypa-· C,"'ing 'in .L~ dTorlcl c'" .L_ Moon
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whenc
:::ha't I uitefc ::he u~ ~ ·thi:
~oi1cft die er .,
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~ ,-The fJijlory of the
paid for my paffage, by the Honour he had
of carrying on Board a Man who had dropt
fromiieaven: So that nothing billdrcd 1JUl'

lIJy-Jelf, and,. took reft; I -felt hun~e1: ,,!lQd

~~jdt, and, ~rank 'and eatl~mi~ft a P~C:k,ff
twenty or thIrty Hounds, fba( beloD~d'·to
him. Though I ~as m~ch~isfigured, lean '
and Sun-burnt, -he -knew me for all that;
being tranfp'~ed ,with Jo,. he flew about

Fortune'hath tofted our Lite. Bu~, Good

.God I It, was a falfe report then, that you-
were burnt _-i~ Canada, -in that great ,Fire-
work, wb~reof you wetethe Inventor?
:And neverthelefs, two, or 'thteePeifOns "of'
Cred~, .amongtl: thore wh,o' brbb'p ~e' the
fad l)dmgs, fwore;to me'that tlleyhad' ~eil
and touched tnat Bird of WOtxJ~ wh:d~m
i.0u ~ere 'hutri~~away. rhty to~cr me,
,hat it 'was yourM!sf()rtude "to 'go into..: it
-" at
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, 4t .he '"e~,y .nilant ~~Y.iP~ f.~ .tp.jt_;
and tbat the rapidFQ~eJJf ~SqlliJJS, tbij
burnt ~Il r~und it. carried lfOJl fo hicrh. that

t4id ;DPtl~tbe, ~a h\Jr~. '~Fj;,e.w9.J~

..were f~n~·Pil ttle. _~" 'j~ .by F~
fefjuence1t.be.iJJ):c:at would ~~.~QcOmmQ4' .
.IDe... . ) 3-,. ~'i ' . .

·.N~t.otl mufi kBOW.,·.mtJa:f~n.is~

~It~ter l_a$/"'~mt)tbe:imJRetUo\1S.: fpjqi

to'yoP tbeCauiC of aneffc:tl,which y~q

Jtlay JQokllpon;asa Miracle.. . , ..
, .,The·Day,whcn tbat.Ac~dc;nt bap'pclJFd;
l'''ad, bccaufe of fome ,brqi{es, rrubb~9JBY
thdy .allovet. iWitb .M.Jrrow.:., Now. the'
.Moon -being then,ia the Wain, ,at~~icfi
i',ia:e (he. atU'aClS: Marrow,. {be Cuckt \lp fa
,.~ilY' tba~·whe~ew.itblihad ~lJoio~ed lIlY
:E1etb.·\ef~ially -when JD-y bQ~ '.was:go~, a':
llroyethemif1dl~~g'~w_c;~QCl.oud~j~
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4- The BijlorJ of the

leri>ofed to weaken hCI:.lnflutn~; tbatm y
BOdy followed the Attra flion; and I pro-
.eIl· {l)p ~ihtkd ·to luck me up fo long,
tl it '!'ftI'i~iJi'-1a -"} t/c-li: ..\i"} ':l
l' r· - '1 } c,,1 . h " 1 )( n .
~. r l~; . 0 i , Til U I .1 .f1- ;, at: .1. r
j'. 1 y( ) ' -~ e -E 1 ~ f"t It-l. ,e -;~ ~ t. U ~ a
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1" .!. r J it g !~ e
"ul.d r...f ;,t
t:> J r ti lL. I V)t
t ,el:. i J
ioVe' ·R,epofe, ~eclined it as long ·as I could ,
19,f"reafonof the vmts that fuch'a Publica-
)ion in all probability would· ptocureme ;
but being out o.f Countenance at the Re..
"'prbach,wherewith he conftantIy baited me,
~that I made fliJ!ht of his Entreaties; I relOl~
" 'c . t I. n ,,~( ~" i it 1 1: it f t~ .f .l if ~
'l»t~ctl~?r~e4aU C~~~lur
.. I 11 it. 1 I: t c ;.1 :( \ i h n Y f! C -:' :1 a J Ii
• :> v ] 1 -C~' f 1£:1 ] C~ ~r ~ [-1 ~ :
3~~_i~h~Ka~e~vd ~cl~*~fo
:te_e t J.;i 't i e, il J e n c 1: irg -r Ca
, Aifemblies. Seeing he had the Reput ation
of one of the wittieO: Men of the Age, my
. Prllifes, of which be was the indefatigable
Herald, made me know n of all Men. THe
: Engravers,without ever having feen me, had
alreadvcngraven my Pictur e; and the Haw..
!e 'S Co J' r:... ~. v .d~ Ci y:r-r: lr . t ~ :t
" ~. ~~~.; tIl' '} 1 r· t~. r ! ~ ~ .i i,
;J -0 1J l-:; I:- C L:t e 0_' h 4. t. 0 It -e
t, t~·1; --l f a. Ii e ~ 4' ~i ~ ... t ()-~. . A r~' f1
t~e
 WprU l' t~e~ufl';r 't;
tho~ who read my Book,. there. ~~e .~. ~
great many Ignorants tha~ lYcre l~ewife.'
medJin~. There that thev might act the.

(barp Teeth under a Fool's Coat,CO knaw·4:

the Heart of them, that they chafe rather.
to renounce 'the R.eputation of a Philofo-
pher, which, in4eed, was a Aabit that did
not at all become them, tban to anfwer for
it at the day of Tud2ment.

Children to Bed with; and fame who harcI;

Iy un4erftood the Grammar of it, c:oodem..
.ned the Author to Bedl"m.
This cJaihing of Opinions betwixt t~
Wife-men and Fools, encreafed its R.eputa-
tion. Shortly afterwards Manufcript.q>pies
of it were fold privately ; all the W.arid,
and what is out of the World alfo, thaes
to fay,· all from tbe Gentleman to the Monk,
brought up the piece: nay, and tbe WO:-
. B~ men
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8: r.J;t~Hi}lorJ Of thd
meneatne'iri~r,a1 {hare too; every Family'
was divideCf';' and the Itnere(b of that
n,,;'I''''': uNol'l" r.". f!lt" : th~t-' th,. whntp t:if'v'

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~a1 t&thi$.~tP9fe. "Sir, .'youkriowthat

cC ~htte' is riot one 'of us: here, who i~ not'
~'your Allie~ J,iihfman or Friend, and that
~ by confc:quenee no Difgtace can befal you~
~ but what inuLheft~tt upon us: Never-
~, thelefs we are hiformed from ao(')d hand~_

,~ -~e~able~ lrite~~~pt-ing hi-~ ~- i;-th;r~-~';'y

~~. Parliatnent more $killed in Wizards than
~; .ours ? Ip a word: . Dear Nephew, that
~, We *pay hold you rio longer in fufpence ,
I .~ the Sntcertr whom we accufe, IS the Au-
, -rl~ :~r of #J~ s~ aiel alia fl1lJpirti of tl:e
.~ .Moon : He ~atmot deny, having confeffid
~t ~ bat he, h~ ~ d~ne, bu t t hat he j~ t~e great~
~f~ etl Magrclan 111 Europe. How 15 It, poffi:-
-.. J~ ~le tg ~oU~t ur to ~he Moon,with()utt~
,. . '~help.
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"help of- "-? ~ Ida-Ie tiotinam~tbcJ3caft;
c~ for in ihort; tell;ril.e; wha't'wen~ liit}.-
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"brough~him~.ck ag~i~-.iri~~tbi~Woi:ll~
"But boweftr u bc,IOok' 'ye, To -manY'
~ Moons, fo many Progrc1fes and Voyagei
~ through the Air~ ate good for nQthingi'l
4;C fay-nothing at :all ; -anal betwixt yOil add
4;,",p I'~ ..hp(p UTnl'rfll hi:O nnt hill Mni1th -.li

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~omb,who had laid nothing as·yet,perceiv;.

·jng. "Look you, fays he,CoufitJ, we kDO"T
" where the matter pinches; the Magician
,~ is a perfon whom you love, b~t he. ~
" ~rtled, (or your fake favour (haH·be
" {hewn him; only deliver him wily.over
" to us, and in cx>ofideration of you we
"engage Our Honour, to have him buDlt
" withollt bndal. ".' ~

Colig~
8- T~'Hift0ry Of,tbe.
;.~Cblignllt, tttbe& words, tftough;beheld'
his fides, :coolc!h1ot \lold;' bu~ :burft out in- .
• I'\!l G~ nE" I,&'n ah f'pr.- ,. hirh,utl nnt ~ 11ft1~

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to.noiJoilfo.:Whfo;theywete:-gone, I drew
G.."lisnac Jnro~his Clo(et, w1u::rc fo foon as I
l!ad,Qlnt the; Door,:" Count, ..faid. I, to him,'
Th~·lang~bcar.dcd AmbafiadOur~ IdoD't
like, ,they feem. to me to :be: blazing Stars;
Tm;afraid th';' noift!,thev have 'lIHl'rfe_ mav

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&its;':.nll 't1\e, Arguments they: might ufe to

proVD m~ Irmociipce would not bring me
!OH:.fcig'ain:; ~ndmy.AJhes would be every
'.JoG :tlI..Cpld;jQ~u: Grave, ,as ih the open .Air ':
'Aln! :':therdil>Te~ ~with Bubmiffion to :your
~r, Jiidgoidnt;: I {bould joyftdly. confent
1:0 a Temptation wbich (uggefts· to me, nOt
;to .lea ve'; thom : any; t.hing In -this .province
J:>Ut my Picture: For it 'woutdmakc me
tt~r.!t.1t~ring mad, ~o die for a thing which
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ldont believe.: .,CQlign4c' -haQ rhardly, th~!
PatienCe to lrear,me-o.ut~ However, adirJq
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rm 3; Fool; continued he, to .cautionmf\

. kIf again{tthe thunder of Parchment: It~St
fom~times more to 'be feal'Cd"replifdJ~
than the Thunder of tlie,fecC)nd R.egion of
fhe Air. ' . " " '...... ," ..
,Frnni that timf!fnrw:arllwp t!llked nf nn..

~ -yi;:- Ma-;q~~G'of CuffAll, a Man who un~

derftands the World, was commonly with
us, and ,we with' him; and to render the
places of ou~ abode the, more agreeable by ,
·vicifiitude, we went from ColigllAC toCllffAlI, '
. . and returned from CtlffAn to Co/ignAc. ~ The
, .ioDJ)Cent PJ~;lfures which refrdh the Body,
.made but the lean part ,of ours~ We wan~·
cd :llone of thofe that the mind can find
.' in Stlld1 and Converfation; ,and our :tib~a­
IIes
 10- TIN Hiftory 4' t~
. ries,unitiDglike~urmiDds, brought'aU the .
Learned into our Society. W~ mingled,
-ea..l~~ .uith r-onv";rta~i'ln!. ConverG~ion
-¥it ~Ol C~ :r., .at ith {b~, .10 .
ng ~r a.U g: an n w,:::t, ~a
if, \ft 1JO d ( t f; eso: aOt vb ::vc
~a. 'e ~h od -eel"'\f c ~af ~ c
.if;;: ~n,- :fe. ~u' _ea :l C Yt im ou
CJeh,e6. Ad t:._, DA.••J i;~, __ th_ rre/_Jie-
of" m~ rel'ofe, my &eputation fpread it feJf
in the Neighbouring Villages, nay and in
the Towns and Cities of die Province; all
Men being invi~ed by' the current R.eport •
.mad~ a pretext of. coming to fee the Lord,
·lJat ·l)e~ "light" fel" the ~rc,.rer. When I
ser lbi !d, 'Oi nl W· ~en ::ld hiI
rei bL thE 1e ~lfc tar a~ je, s i
ha ::Xi th --ea E oCC ly, e r 10
f{ 'ig; "J Y =>, Jet roof ial ' 0
~~ ~n£ \- 3 ir:cr m ~re eft ·ne
.~Jy. Tt_.. ~._~ t __ ng ..J. a" ["lCa. _:1Ci; jm
,p~e, and of i lWV and plaio Spirit, which
made him very plcafant in a kind of natu ..
ral Bluntnefs, was in reality a very wicked
Fellow: He was revengeful even to Fury;
a Backbiter fomewhat more than a No,,,,,,n;
soil fo areat a Rarretter, that the love-of'
V ln~ ,g d ~ in~ ~ 'J '\\0 hi· rei[ ~
I'I: ate all n. -fa 19 en Ie ~ ti ~
a ay,.?if liS )rd wt: "'D h:d =
n: 'e,~ ha eh fo d~ lfiag nft 1
 -World of the S1tIt: I- .t
his Attatkis, _he'feared his ltefentment, and'
tNat'he might avoid it, hadotfered toO ex-
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.L r.Jrnnv''J~ ~"'''''l;lVUUU;' UT nll1"''''''' n. & U,..1II;i "

he told a 'Fhoufand ridiCulous frories of my

~[]chantments:; and theSuggefiions of that
malicious Man, concurring with the Voicc
of the fimplt! and igoorantPeopJe, mademy
Name accurted in that place: They talk-
.,, "n ~hp"'U7ir", 'lAf _ .h.. n ;J'... "A'U 4_

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Colignae and' the MarqUtfs. 'And ai-,

though the blockHh Humor of an entire
Countrey, was to us a Subjetl: of Amaze-
ment and Laughter; nevertheleG I was
(larded at it in private, when I more near-
ly confidfted, the troublefome Q>nfcquen-
ces that fuch an Error might produce. My
Jl,ood GmilH, without doubt, gave me the
AlarunH it ,enlightned my R.earoD with
thefe nQtice., to let me fee tbe Precipice in.
. to
 ~~, rhe;Hiftory Yf the'
to
~.\Yh1ch I ·.was Teady tumble; and not
thinking it enoug~ thus :tacitely to adviCe .
rne_ it: refBlv.ed., to declare more exoreflv

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V.~~dure" F~~wer$ and Fruits, Ar,t and Na-

~ltre, c;harnwd the Soul through the Eye~;
whena:t th~(a~ejn~ant I l'c;~ceived the Mar-
quefs, walklOg by h,unfelf, wlt.h a flow Pace,
andpenfive ~g\l~tenaQce, ~n a large Alley,
which divided the Garden into two. I was

.'Cufiom: ·he.Was'com~' fo early .to cure by

p~y,ao Evilh~ had contrafied in, the ~ight.
J confeffed ~o him,. tpat: a like Misfortune
\ . bad bi n,d red ,me fi:oD,l,fieeping, and was a~
bout, to tell hiD;1: the Particulars thtreof;
_but juil: as L~a~open~ng mylY.loutb, we
perce~v~d at t~e Cc?r~e! ~f a railed Walk,
which croffed into ours, CO/ig1l4& co~ing
:10 great hafte. So foon ,as he {iw us at a
diq,arice, GentleJIlen,. crie~. he, take her~
.. , one
 World of theSuli '~'3
one who hath juft efcaped -from the meft
d readfnl Vifions, that are able: to turn the '
Brains of a mortal Man. I could hardly take

Breath. So foon :as ,he bad, taken~' little .

Breath, -we 'entreatedhioi- to eafe ·bimfelf
a
of matter, which, though many times .ve:.
ry flight t nevertheJefswdghs lieavy. I d~
ftgn to do fa, replied he; -but :let's firft ;6t
.down~ ~n . A!bor of J:~a~ine~~ered '\IS

10 tbe mldC:lJC, oetWlXt'-tlle MatquelS a.Dd

me, and that we embriced ~irh frrajghtly~
when a black Moniter" 'confiftiDg wholly
'of Heads; came all of: a, fUdden to fnatch
him from us: Naf,I fancy'd':'bc~was~
. to throw him into a great Fire,' kindled
hard by; for already he hcld:bim [u(pend...
cd over the Flames: Buta_Vi~gin, :like one
, of. the' MureS, whom they. call EHterpe; fell
. upon her Knees before a Lady,.! whom ~
.
. . adj\)-
-
 J4 Th~,Hijiory if .the
adjured to ·fave him (that LAdy i:lad ~dtc!
Bn:fence.anrl·'Marks which Painters uk to
~i\f.e _in ~pt:fem:in~ 0I N1l'J,lf~.) ~~!~J y

cooar .tiU1Z1~!tnat me·made htrJl'mountup

'tr)!iHCaven, and proula:edhitll [rom the
€Pl1eJries Qfthe Monfter;wi~h an rbundrttJ
Heac1s.;1 fancy'd. that i cried a longJiltje
.ter. him,.:amd ;adj1lr"d: him not to· be'gorie .
without :me;
'I_! _ •.1 _ ..&
. when
• . _
;an irIfWtcitlUmbucd'
I . .1 I • _.4 ,.. ,

~eJl us, UJC:m-Dowcver. Ilmagmcom¥. Jell;

:eontipued Ihe, to be in the Son, and that
. 'theSun·wasa·World. :lhaCl been Rill·in
ltbefame Mittake, had notthc ocighiAgot.
• ,. Horfc: awakned me, and cooftne:cd -;iDe'
Jthat I W2S a -Bed. When ,thcJMarqueft
-perceived that C.lip" :haa made-iQn ::cad:
~Well, :then, Mid he" Mortfieur IJprfillll, .
tw~at was JOur Dream i: ,AI forDlttref '
_rwaed I,··tbouabkbe ,,:.wgat~UJt
./..~ 1"
• I
 ,Worlrl of the SIM. 'c'
yet I, lay no firers upon it. I am a bilious
I,
MeJancholick-, 'and tbat·s 'the t~afon that
all
- my'life'tlme
-- I... have -dreamtof'
--' - -
nothing
-

lome Wall 'aI\Vays WlthltdOd, me, 'tkougli,1 ,

had furlliounted'agreat many' 'otbers,at .
the Fc)ot wher~ tired out \Vit~Strugling
, and :Labour, rnever railed 'to' be~opt; m
. otherWi!e, ,if liLtlsgined tbat'·I; t~k is"iy
. light
Fflght ...
~ ....
upwarcfs, fhoughlfeemedfut
.. _.. ,

to oot. aDd pUH me to tbem. ,; 5Ince J Knelt

any thing, I'DeVer had iany bther Dteams
but [ucb IS ihis, bnlers laftnight; when
having, accdrding to my' Cbfrooi, :t1own a'
'long wbile,;arid often efcaped "frOltl my'
',PetfecutOrs, ;(ltliought 'at· length, that-'
'lo8:;Ii~hf()ft~ ~ and' that .jtJa~ open 'and
-.elearSky, ,my BOdy eared ofaU'Heavinfii,
lpilrfi'ied my Vtiyage-mto a rpalacc(where
~Itigbt-ind ·Heilt'arebatclicd. ' I;;bad, 'wltlJo,
QUC
:16, The :Hi.jfQrx~ot tP{ .
iQUt. dO\lbt,; ()bf~J'\'ed ai gr~~f. Q13fi1Y qt~(
Jhi()ga;bu~ thtlftny. Agl~a~iQ~l t~ fh,r;,breqg.h~
me fo' n$r Jh~L~ed$ ,ij~e,r tQ~t Jfell'~PQq
'.. hA J;'1~.,.on not" " .. leI.A R .. II" uri,.l;":""."

.. t·~··", . . . . ..
'" ~ ."
'~,.f~ .• . f .' ..
·.,....V·-It~I-;¥·,.
-f- ~ ":~" ~!"

Jlt~:!\JP'W '.lk~yeEl w~thQ!ltJJ'!lJiqgll~~~,

~.i~lrP~:'Arqrjb~ !Q'~ t\J:t~!f\t\on. ,t~ .lP.y
·l¥9qd;~ P.lla~~ by :~hepJ~fl1r~pf!ourI1(~:­
.~rd~~~~ Qi",rtioot:, wh~h )h~th difiipa~~d
..my:
M~~il~t,:~, ,and .Q&, bllPy';pg of ft.Ul\
CJ8!1l'8it'/1t ,f~nm th.at W~iahtllJ@li1. Ulhirh

~."!"".-' - '.~~.-,..-- .... -- ---"--~"'7£ . - - - - -, :- -~--

'the FaJl~Y;Jd~t: during$l~,e-ps· is not gui-

,~edby ~ ,~eltf9D; prcfenu. to us, without
,Order; O1:1t. of wJtich neverthelefs, we thi~~
-to (quecze the· trlle Me~ning" and· dr~w
from Dreams,: ~~ from 9r~cJes~ the; K,npWr
ledge of ~hillgi future; b\l~ l; y~w, I could
De\"er fin4 any Qther Cogforptity betiwix~
ithem; but th~t Dreams, lik, Oracles, can·
JJPtbe u~~erijpod~' aow~,c:r. '.j\1d8~ .#
w) , the
 W.orld of the Sun: . 17
~h~ worth of all the. reft, by mi~e ~hich is
not at all extraor.di~ary. ..1 dreamt that, r
was very fad. and that J met with DyrcfJ""

jfyou'l1 take my Advice, we'll go'andbavcr

better at C"1!a". ltet"s go, then" faid th~
COunt to me, -unee this Man is fo unea6Cf'
here. We relOlved to be gone the fame
d'ay; and· I p,rayed therV to fet.out before~ .
~ecaufe I was willing, feeing (as t'hey ha(J

L.ibrary' of C~lfan, putthem upon :1 Mule~

and about three in the Afternoon fet out
upon a verygo~dPa~., Hpwever~ I' \ycn.a
b!Jt ~ Foot-pace, ~hat 1 ,mIght ~ttend Illy
little Library, and at more leir~re eArich
my mind wjtl~ the ~ibe~alitit:5 of ~y figh~.
Sut lifteD to a~ Adventllre,that will certain•
. Iy' furprife yOQ~ '. " " " . , ..
,I.was gotf~~waJ'ds on ,my journey above
four L.eagues, when I, found ,my felf in,~
C €OUDtr7.
 ....

'18 The Hiftory of the

Country which I was certain I had (een
fomewhere elfe before: The ttuth is, I fo1-
licired mv Memory fo much to tell me~ how

a
I not been diverted by 'frrange Appariri.
On. A Spirit, (at leaft I'took it for. one)
tneeting me in the middle ofrhe way, took
hOld of my Borfe by the Bridle.,. This
P.hantotne was of a prodigious -Shape, and
what lcould guefs by the little Ifaw ofhb

wherein was written toe ill Principio. The

fif~Words that the Phantomeuttered, were
with great amazement, SattUllM Diabol-.,.l
conjllre thee bJ tlJe Gre.t and 'Living GflJ,
, --attheCe Words he fiuck, but ftiJhepeating
the Greal and Living God, and with a wild
and skared Look, cafiing about for his Pa- .
fior to blow into him the reft ; when' be
found, that to what fide [oever he looked,.
his Paftor was not to be f~n, he fell in,ttj
fileh a dreadful {baking -Fit, that by bis ex,,:
, " , ' tra-
 World f!f the Su~t~' if}
tTiordiilary chattering _and didderiri'g" bne
haU bf~isTeetb drapt ou~, and tWo Tbirds:
""" .1. .. 11~fic~-t,lotes!
... ~\....~ .. ···J..'~h ~helutkti
Jut like Tht He ~~m'e .
~wevei, to\t 'nd witb j
It feemetl ne r futty, bi
perceived }- oubt what
as Dtft for h Nhether to'
LI_ lVUt;n or mild; '"'. n\.u LlU;;O, fai4 pe~
8",inlH DiaboliH, bj the Blo,od I conjure 'hee
iii the Name of God, and 01 Mdfl-1ohii~., lei
';ie do tbJ B~(inefs: For if thou fli"efl eiihe;'
..
Hand or F (Jot; Devil "4~- thJ Guti tire"1it~
J had a la:Ch at mmwitlt tile Bridle Reths~' .
hli;' hpi'ng 'ahri0!l: c~o~If,l.~ h laughter,
U1 • • f
~ tt~e~th tQ g: Refide~
~ut 'balf 3' h tntry Ped·
eout from I:: ;ge, walk-
" their, Kne .rip'ff ihel~'
with KJrit Vhen they
.. _._ ,,~:: n'ear' enouf:!", ."'_" "'. the ftroIl-
geft of the Rout, having firn plunged ;t~e1r
Hands i*Ci ,a, Holy Wa:ter~pot,whicb y.r3S
ti~r#elr ,c~!rtied'. br,~, the;, Pried's ~a~,
cau~~th~ld, o~.;me ~r ;tre N.ec~~ ~o f<?o~.
cr w~s I aftefi:eui _ but ld ~tlmes Map John7.
\~hddethift"; hi,lfingdur his Sto'p' hhith{f
toe £an .~ pr~tenily af~
rif Worii jre,n, who'ir
all tbeIti ~btd make,
rtf'itta ~ w&erein I .
, .' G :i
 z.a. Tile Hifiory of the '
terQUOy fwadled, that nothing. was ~o be
feen of me but the Head. In this EqUipage
,they carried me to ThouloNfe; 'as If they
been carryir y"Grave: r
by cried on his been dOl
nould have ::nine, becau
nihey met enaiDly goi
;y a Spell u f n ; and thei
d another c· that the Sc
. did not begin amongft bis Sheep, 'till of a
SiI"Ja" when the People were coming from
YeJ£ers, I cfapthim on the Shoulder. But-
in fpight of a11my Difaners, I c!>wd bard-
ly forbear to laugh, when I heard a young
Country Girl, with a dreadful Tone, cry
- r her Sweet-- , -- the Phaoto.
~ had feiz'd i (For you IL
·w~ that the had got on
k of him, at m briskly, ~
had been h' !dy,) Wrei
led out his C Vhat art bl
then j Does n~t lee tbat the Magician"s '
HorCe is blacker than Coal,' and that it is
_.the Devil in Perron carrying thee away to
, a meetingof Witches? Our Amorous Clown
terrified at that, tumbled backwards over
,the 'Beafts Tail; to ~hat my Hone, WlJS fet at
Lib - ....., c:onfulted . ' ;. not
. the -e my Mule l,in
'the .but having· acK,
.aDC iog of the fi _ing
'- pon
 World of tbe Sun. \~i
Defta"efel PhyflCks, when tbey fawthe
Circles whereby that Philofopher diftingui-
(bes the Motions of the feveral Planet,s, all
~~, ... L ___ ~ ... I_ ______ '!~_ '__II

CxpJamea; • lay, D1 wncnance; DCqlUIe,

in the place'l fpeak of, there is a Cut of that
Metallick Stone, where the little Bodies,
that are Jet loofe from the wbole, to faften
to the Iron, are repreteoted like Arms. No
fooner 'had olle ot the Rafcals perceived ir,
L .... 'I' L ___ ..J 'L:_ r _____ _ ......... L_ .....L_ ... __... __

~""u W"II up"u L".UUI.U, . "lUI'" I.U", IJIVWU

take fpecial care not' to touch any thing;
that all there were Books of down;right
Conjuring, and the Mule a Sa'a". The
Rabble thus frightened, let the Mule depart '
in Pea~. Neverthelefs, .1, raw 10"" the
Parron's Maid drive -him towards her Ma-
fier'sStable-~for fear he might get into the
Church-yard, and there poll~te the Graft
()f the departed.' - .
. -c ~ .. Ie
•
 ~~ .:lh! ffiftory flf ,h,
It was ·f~ll Seyen-af th~ .Clock~t NitWi,.
~pen w.e arrived at a TowlJ, whef~ for my
/ ~efrefilment I \V~ pr~gg·d ·to Qqal: V~1!
.h",·R P'l..1pl' U11'\111..1 nn. hplipu,. fnP._ ,if r f'1i..1

'!""~.. ~~ '''' ... _.,.. ~"'u"-~" .. ·6&~-- .... - ••~~. - ~~r.

pin.g·Ola~. ,A.t ijrfr, }vben my QQ~ler tum:-

ed Ql.e iQto th~~~ve: If you gjv~ me, rai4
~ t.q hiIl}, .th.~StoJ1eGar~ent for aDoublet;
it jS·.tqp qig; Qut if i.t be for a Tqp!Q, it·,
too little. The days ijere ar!! o,n1y to b~
1'Pcknnprl hv Niaht~! nf mv HVf" Sf"ntPE. J

~T T .-!"-"':"":'~ -....-". ":''Tr.-- ~"'- ,,~--!""'"----:- - 1"'"!'"w ..... -- "1".-'

~Q l::IeJI. . ::. . .
. ~t tQa~ wQrq Innqcept,
th~GQalH qU1{t
Pllf il}~ La~ghtf!". ~~y, Vai~h,~i4 b~,
,pu ,r~Qn~ pf. 9\lr righ~Bil"qs ~~~n.. for. J
fl~yer y~t )iept pny upqer my l\ey,butfu~b
pf:J1~lem.en ~_ ~he(e. Af~e~ fp~ qt~q
'~.9q1pHme'Dt$ 'of ~h~t. ~;mue; ~h.ego~4
M~Q took the pa~n~ tp fe~H;p ~,J k119\V n~
gp wh~~ d~~gn; ~~t beqg~ of .~~e DiJi:- .
~,} ~ ./ gence
 World of the Sun~a J .
gcnce he ufed, I conjecture it was Cpr what
I had. The pains he took in fearching be:-
i~g ~H ~n_ vain,_ b~caufe dl,1r_mg the _~~ttel

1 knew he wa~ a· :)orcerer, he"s as· poor.

the D~vil. . ~o, g6, Comrade, continl)Oo
~d he, mind the Affairs ofyo~lr Con1Ci<!nc~
in time. He had no Cooner ·faid fo, but.
'that I hea,rd tbe 'koeJl of'a' bunch of Key.,
amongfi which, he lookt for thofe of ~1
_ ..... • • t i l .

Io.r 1 na:ve nQt ~at tnC:le eleven nours pan.

fie. t;QOk 'it very favorably, and protefred
he was trQllbled at my MisfQl'tune. When I
perceived he- was a litt1~ mollified; , co~,
here~s ~nqther, continued I, as an Acknow- _
ledgment of the Trouble,I am·ailiamed ·to
give you: At once he()p~ed his Ear, Heart,
and,Hand ; and I added,mflkiog them up
three; infieadof two, that by the third I
l;H:gg~d 9f 4,iIg t91et one'of his ~en CQlD
.' 'C..,. . _, '. . an d
 '4' ,The Hiftory of tile
8Ddke,ep me Company, becaufe the unfQr:"
~unate ought to dre~d Solitude. :
" Being' rnifhed at my Prodjg~lities, he

were over, to have my Cuffi wallit for me.

I thanked ,him very ferioufl y for hiS Cour~e~
fre, and my·dearFriend having hung about
-my Neck; till he had almpft firangled me,
.'Went his wflY', lJoIting and double bolting
'the Door. ' ",. ,

Grave--Stones". ~hat having Veath over,

..fj~
;mder and abootine, I might not quefti~
on my Ente'rrment. The cold SJime of
,Snails, arid' the roapy' Venom of T~ads,
,drape upoQ my ~ace ~ . ~he Fleas there had
Tee~h longer ,than their Bodie~; r found
iny felf·totmented. ~ith ~qe St-bl'Je,' w,hich
(wa~>'ndt the leiS painfui, beC~~ftit was E'~­
-ternaL' . In '~, word,! fahcy that" wanted
)krmore btl':'a W}fe, and 'aPot,{heard to
1riake me a real )flh-} I
L '
 , World of. the S~'71: ~S
, t had, however, overcome aU tbe Bard..
lhips of two veryirkrom :Hours, when the
noiCe of a' Grofs of Keys, with the ratlin~

Soop for ye; and were i t - but indeed~iJ:

is my Mi~refs's own Soop; and faith and '
lroth,asth~ faying is, there is not one drop
ofthe Fat taken ofTon't. Having'faid (0, he
, dives his iOYll Finge.n and Thu mb to the ve.
ry b!?!~o~ ~~~~e D..ifi}, f~ envit~ me !O do_

come here arid lce. Ay, ay, It IS 10; he goes

firft tbat lea"s the Dance. This blunt Sim-
plicity brought a fit of. L3\lghter two or
three times up to O)y rery Throat. Howe.
;Yer ~ was fo happy' a~ to check it: I percei-
ved, that Fortune, by m~ns. ofthis R.ogue,
feemed to offer me an oceaGon of Liberty ;
'~nd therefore it ~xtreamJy c;on~ed me to
gain his' Favor; for otherwilC: t~ efape, it
was impoffible. The Arehiteetor that built .
.. ' " . my
26 TheHiflory of the ~
myPrifoD~ having made my Entries into it,
did not bethink bimfelf ofmaking one Out-
let. There Confiderations were the Caule,
.1," ....n ("""n.:l1,'"" T ("" .. 1,. ....".hi°"" ..n.hi~ nnp_

tli; pifi6koiri~~'i~;h~ f~~i;'c~~idb; fu~~

i~. That begining kemed to me to be a lit-
tle omiqo1Js: However, I qqickly perceiv-
ed by the healitineG of his Thanks, that
he only trembled for Joy; and that made
wn,. nn nn.' Ronf' UlAI'f' • hnn "'!In th!lr wnn t,.t
!I
 ~,..'""'~ ~~ta"r~Ft&.. · ~ ......r',.~ ~ ~!f~ ....A... """ ~ t'1"''''~ U&

~h~ ~ipg·s9o.l~, ,1Npifh fuggefted t9 nie tb.~

wh.oJe S.~lit:s ,qf :~qi~ j\pparition. Ye~, ve-
rily tq~,: ~~4 q~,: 8P9d . ~. \r, l fil.,. all eve" .
dQ. whil~. ~~ Angel h~$ .~~aJlde<l 111~;
~»~ ~~ ml!~ b~ lJt .~j~ of ~f!. ~~~ in tile,
J\Anrnin~ h,.t'~nf,. ~t th!J." tim*" nil .. J\A~(}.....

,.,...... ~ •• r'~ '.'='~ ~ ~ ....-., -.. ""-"~.'.J ~ .. - ....... • ~

P9rtion, 3~migh~ .m~~e Up ~. ~~Dg'll\a~fo,~.

In OlQrt, ·Q1e ..i$ f'~ir aQd llicq; but fuch
WiQd.-fall~ ~ldQlD f~ll ~n tPt! way·of a pp()r
rPQ~g-Mao. ,.t\lafs J ~qAd Sir, --. wou'cl
~y~ ypu ~Qq'f-~-J f~il~d opt here ~
iDJerr~pt hjm; fo~ ,fp~f~w \Jy the begin~
j~ .Qf thisQigr~(liqo, tJ;l~t ~ ll\o:qld be b,ait-
. ~<i. b.y ~ lopg ~~~ of ~ Our Plot be'!' rilP.
i~g very callJiou(ly l,id betwixt us, tJJe
.. ~Jown
 1S The Hiftory of the,
Clown took leave of me; and failed not
next Morning to come at the prcfixt hour,
and untomb
ft_!r_.... __
me. I left
~
my Gloa~ in the
__ r_lC' :_ D ___ _ 6. __
~_...sr_~

allCY iI~ guuu UUJU emu VI lUll WClgUI,

. upon my Word, faid I to him. Ha, Sir,
l'eplied he,' that's oat the ~hing I mind; but
rm thinking tllat grea' Rar,lls HouCe is to
be Cold, with a Clofe and Vineyard. 'J cal)
have it for two bundred Francks, it will
-..__ ... :M.oiI2 A:IW.... ~ ...... • : ......... _ ... 1,_ .. ,._ .L._ D __

I.Ulll II'~V 11\0£''',. & ,",vu,u uv," U. UI. &IIU!;" on.

the fllD icity of the ~oave. In the ~a~
time,:, e ;ogg~d on ~owar4sth~ ~~urch,
~herCiat length we ariived. Shortly a(re~
high'Mats began; but fo foon 'as I faw my
Kee~er rife io his turn to g? to th.e offerin~
I skipped at three leaps out of the Churcli,
and at as many more whipt into a little Bye-
Street or Alley. Ihada great many thoughts'
'in my head at that inltant; but that whic&
, 1 ' .,
 Wo~kl of the'Sun~ '~9 .
I followed. was to get to Tho"IoIl(e, which
was but half a League diftant from the place.,
with Defign to take Poll: there~ I20t to

Clouts about me fo Odly, that with a Gate

that futed not at' all with my Habit; I feem~
cd to be one in DifguiCe, rather than a' BFg-
gar; befides that, I made great hatte, look-
ed down, and asked nothing. At length,
conlidering that this general ObfervatioD

flea a little, and wonder how mioy times

by ufsog too great Circumfpetlion. about
the Defigns wherein Fortune: will have
fome {bare, we' fpoil them by' FoyokiDi
that haughty OOddefs.1 make dlis Obfcr-
vation, u~n Occalion of the Accident that
befe! me; for perceiving a Man' in 'the D~&
of an ordinary Citizen, with his Back to-
wards'lDe, . Sir, faid I, puRinghim by the
Cloak, if there be. any Bow~' of fit1~·-
., ' I
:30 \ tbe Hiflory ~f ,t~; .
~ had not: ~r~ugqt.fo!t~,tll~·w,o~~ tii#\~'~,~.
to come next, when the MilP.turned ab.out
t Whit will ,.,'p>
h1Q j..JP!ltlt·' n~rf hntl
 , ' World or the Sud. ;,' r

~ I'
ever, at length; and the firftWords he ufed
to undeceive 'the Mobile, were, That they
fbould ba.ve a care tbe v did nilt "~"n"':~ ~
L r a .1; ta i f ' 7~3 , Q r t~ -h! C l ~n i
-t ~ 't t~ f~- . \}: J () lie 0 lit ::l' V 5 a J l ~
_( (. i :c l ~~ t. If'" ;, }- ~ ~ viii r~: E l ~ d J: e t
:> - - ;. C~; r!( n ~i:"~ " ... ~ == t ':: a 1~ (;1-;1 :- n 'I ,
~ .j J~ l e iris tl' e '\ ~ n' :c r 1 y f Il n "! ,
a:y t h s ,ry t }\I_L _·':JJ-•..:dL, oil.d ilJ':'s
mu<=h as they fancied,t hat theirReward (bould
be propor~ion~dtothe degree of'Itlfo1ence,
wherewith they infulted over the We~knefs
of the poor ftunn·d' Man, 'every one cam'~
running in to h.ave a toucn at bim,. eith:et
with Hand or Foot. lJ~r~·~ ~(lU" ~"r "1"
f J )e U ., -r e 1 t 11 i _= I l' f., a]r y t }- ~
C ltl, "C: C l!. r~. t:~,h C ) ' ; S,' . r;1
t .~ ·1. n l n a i, U: t ~ ~ '~'O: 13: t or 'I- ~
( r· an:> -i " . e t '\ ~~ t a·':'l • Tl a e ~ e r ~
j;1 1 ~ -·1 Y ~. ~ t S " va . {1 a il (" t~ .
C JI f. fs:t n eft. 1e t e 3.Lt; Ill ..':.. (..h.li ~t~
warde n; nay, he was af~a~d that by difca..; ,
veringbimfelf to be what lie was~ be might'
but encrene the ,numbet of hiS' Blows. For
my own part, wbitfi tbe(blftle was at the
~ength I tookr by flight .' I trufted my fafe ..
ty to myLegS'•. , whlch would ha"'~ f~n
e . ~ ; t -:.. l: ·r.lt • ~l t ~~ t It- I if i V it h .
1 v' t f
Ii ~ ~~ f e le:i It i~.· f r ~ I J
c t· r· t r f I fr u r, ': 1 . e f i: ;s l: if
~ ,bHI ~~; it ~5 a 1 fr ·~;:te fj [at
o
 ;z TIle Hiflory- of the
or an,hundredR.;ags, which like a ~~a~1 ~(
.little Be~rs danced' al;>out me, di(l,!-'xcite
the CurloRty of any gapingLouuofbre
__ . • ______ c,_:'.J .1.;_ .. L _ _ :_L •
~
at
:_ ...:::__
.I~_.J

L~~VU16IJ".~ ~u'"' &. . . y... ..,Q&~.uv~.I."''''L~ .. ~~~

to {hut me in. In a word" Fear. perverting

my l\.eafon, . every Man feem'd to me to
be an_OfIicer~. ev-=ry Word, Stop', and ev~:-.
iy nOIre, the lnrup~rtable ~ttlilig of th~
Bolts of my laft PriCon. BemS thus befet
with panick Fea r, I refolyedto play th~
13eggar a&ain,~hat fo I mightpafs the zell'
of the City, -nil I got t~the Poft-houfe ~
kt tear~D' l~lt pit Voic~ lDitbi betray m,e,
 --' -_... _-

,WUrld of the Sitlt. " 53

'J thought, belt t,o Counterfejt JbeDumb-
~an. 1 advanc'd then to~ards thole whom
lpeceived to Eye m~J, 'I pOinted -yvitb,my.
y-'t0 1 .1"'\1 .. _1 (L

ICU OJ Im~u, Dnv~ III pt m~o my r 11",; a,Il~

anon again I could hear the good V;I ome,l1

mutter, that perhaps I might have been il).
, ~hat ql~nn~r Mortifyed for the Faith in T1tr'-
~1. ,In {baft, 1 learnt that the ~eggio~
. Trade is a great
... L ________ _ C O Book,
___ t __ '"that Infiructs us in
__L _______ ... _ ... L __
 34 ' T h e Hiftory hf the
whofe,part is Alted under all Shapes? And
;'then granting this Trick had not been pro-
~aed ~!!h .all neceffary _CirC\1mf~io!l' I -

rable Goaler, and about ot a dozen or um-

cers of his Acquaintance, who had refcued
him out of the Hands of the R.abble, fet-
ting' out upon ~he Hunt, and fcowring all
the Town to find me, fell unluckily in my
way. . ....
. Sofoonas with Eagles Eyes they per-

lorwaras runnmg arrer me, arove me on

before them. At length kind Heavens or
Fear rather carried me four or five Lanes on
Head of ,hem. Then it was that m)' Hun-
ters loft the fcent, and I the view and Ibame-
ful Noire of that troublefome Chace. Cer-
tainly he, that hath not efcaped fuch like
Agonies, I {peak by Experience, can hard-
ly meafure the Joy wherewith I was tran-
fported, when I fOUnd my felf -out of 'their
, Clutches.
 World of the Sufi., :35
Clutches. However, feeing my Safetyrequi..
red all my skill, I reCoIved avaritiottflyto
Husband the time which. they [pent in ~-
- me. I befIT . - ~, rubbed
'w;thOufi, y Doublet,
m-yBreecb i y Hat in a
and then h i my Hand-
, upon the: four little'
'0 the Corn i do who are'
mfetted 'With the Plague, I laid my feU·
;dawo lIponmy 8elly over againfi it, and
.itha lametttable Tone feU a Groailing moft
languifuingly. Hardly \vasl'pl~cediodJis .
manner, when 1 heard the cry of the wbar.:
. 'zingRilbbie, long before I beard thelOund
- . . Feet, .; but _. . ~ ... Juclgemcmt
to'keep my , -ne poLlulle~'
,thad, [Bight -.wo; and I
mlftaken, fa me for one'
~ they paffec ~reat hafte,
. t'he,ir Noi .ftof them
tnrowmgaDouble upon my Handker.
, chief.
The-ftorm being thus 'over, Iflipt intd
anAlly, put on my Cloths again, .and once'
.'more truftcdmy Celf to~Fortune; .But I had
1'Un'fo loogthat the was wearyaffollow..;
-jog me. 'U 1 1 :ould -,think' ..'.. __ ·r.·
for haw over fa mal
;Plac:es Ii 0f tbe Tou
Ion~anc .jany :.Stteets~
D,
 '36 Tbe Hiftory of the
Gaddefs, unaccufiomed to march fa faft, to
put a (top to my Carriere, fuffered me blind-
ly
.
to_ . .the Hands of .
faU.into . .that
the Officers

one araggea me oy tne Half, anomer oy

the; Collar, whim tbe lcfs paffionate- rifted
me; and had better luck than my Goaler
at -the firft fearch, for they found the reft of
-my Gold. - -
. _Whilft thefe Charitable Phyficians
, __ , ________ ! ___ ~~ __r "
~I_
were
_""'_ r
...... __

'-Ilrara, wnu uao.a w~no (u taKC tncll' rrllU-

ner from them. But take heed, faid they
to me~tugging me-a1ong with greater Force, .
that you do not fall into their Hands, for
iffo, you'11 be condemned within four and
tw~nty Hours, and then the King cannot
fave you. At length,_ however, they them-
- felves being afraid of the R.out, that began
to come up with them, left me fo univer-
iaUy ~ that I remained all alone in tbe mid-
dle
 World of the Sun.' 37
die of the Street, whilfr t'heAggrefiors'
in the mean time, butchered all they met
with. I }eave _it to, y_~l!. to judge, \yhe,ther

being unable to retilt the Croud,I tollowed

it; and being vexed to run fo long, J gam-
ed at length a little dark Gate, into which
. I threw my telf pell-men with thotC tbat
.fled. We {but it upon our felves ; and then
,... . -.
when we had all taken Breath: Comrades,
- -" .... .

late, tnat mltead of lavmg my lelI, as I.

thought in a SanB:uary, Ihad caft my felf
into Priton; fa impofiible it is to avoid the
InfluenceofonesWatchfulStars.llookt upon
that Man more attentively, and knew him
to be Qne of the Officers, who had fa long
given me the Cha~e: 1 fell into a cold
Sweat, and lookt Pale as if 1 had been rea-
dy to faint away. They who faw m~ in fa
weak.a Condition,being mov-ed with COQ!-
P 3 f amOD,
 ~g Th, Hiftory of th,
}lamon, cilll'd for Water; everyone drew
nigh to affill: me; and by mifchance tP:,It
"...
accurfcd Officer was one of the firft: HO'
... . . .

remained to tne ,-,age uu Ntgnt, wnere

1
~very Turn Key one after another, ~y 3n
. ~aa: DiffeB:ion of the Parts of my Face,
~rew my Picture upon the Cloth of his
Memory~
_ n
At feven a Clock at Night the jingling
_~ _1 , . T7" . '-n
_ __ _
of
__,~ _ ~ _ , ~

~cn"DUOS : .t\no tw:rcrorc 1 prayf:Q mm, 10

cafe he cbuld not he fo Courteous,as to give
PJe Credil till next Morning, that he would
tell the Goaler from ine, he {bould'reO:ore
me the Money that had been taken from
me;, Yo, ~o f ffaith, anfwe red the Villain,
pur Maner- if; a :Man of Heart, be gives no-
~hing back .. Doe ye think then tbatfor the
~keof yoor pvettv Nofe.-...aJong, along, to
fh~ QUr:geon. ~aving.' faid fo, he ihew'd
t .. .. • ;.i :~ . .J. lIle
 World of the. Sun; 3!l
me the way by a Jufty Ttminp with hjs Bunch .
of Keys; the weight whereof IJl3de- Jll~
t,,!mbl~ ~nd qide from t~etop to t.he hotto"

Hang-man Guide held in his Hand. tour-

fcore fieps above me. At length th~t Ty-
ger of a,Man being come down Pi""Pi4ll(},
unlocked thirty great Locks, pull'd out as
many Bars.; and the Wicket being only
~alf .~p~ned! ,!ith _~ joul.t of ~is. ~~e be

craWled JD tbe veUel, made me wiln my

Celf Deaf; I felt' Asks creeping by. my
Thighs, Serl'ents i wifiing about my. Neck;
~nd one 1 efpied by ~he Comber light of
his. fparkling Eyes, fr~m a Mouth black
with Venom, darting a. forked Tongue,
whofe brisk Agitation made it look like a
.Thunder-bolt, Cet on Fire by its Eyes.
I cannot exprefs the refi; it paffea all be·
lie& and befides, I dare not refiea Up?D
'D4 the
 40 r.fhe Hiftory of tb8
the fame; fo afraid I am, that the Affurarice
I think my'ielf in, of b.eing freed from my
Prifon,fhould be no more but a, Dream, "

difcompofe that jufr Harmony wherdn COR-

fiGs Life, I heard a voice that bid me take
hold of the Pote that was pr~fented Unto
~e. Having a long time felt about in the
dark t() find it, at length I met with one
en~ t~e~e~f; with _extra~rd!nary lJlotion I

five' or tlX Perions ot Q9ahty waited in the

Court to fee me. Amongfl: ,he reft, not fo
,mucn as that wild Beafi who (h~t me up in
the Den, ~~ich I have defcribed to you,
but had the Impuc!ence 10 accofi me, with
ODe Knee 6n the Ground, having killed my
Hand, he beat .o~ .a great many Snails tha't '
, fluck to my Han With one of his Paws, and
with the other a gre~t clufter of Leeches,
wherewith mil race was.. Vizor-masked., '
I. .. J ~avjn~
 World of the Sun.' ft-
Having performed this rare piece of Ci~
vility; at leaft, Good Sir, faid he to me,
you'lI~ !hi~k _on t~e Care and Pains that

dreadful turnings, at length f came into the

Light, and afterwards into the Court, where
as foon as I entred it, two Men caught hold
on me, whom at firlU could not know; by
reafon they fafiened about my Neck at the
fa~e tin;e, and joined t~~~ ya~' c}ofe !~

t.xtalle. AlaS! laJa ne, we naa never IU'"

fpelted ruch a difaf.l:er,had it not been for
you r Horfe and Mule, who that Night came
to my Gate f Their Girths; Crupperg, and
aU were broken, and that made us prefage
fome Misfortu~e was befalJeQ yqu. We pre-
, fently got on' ~orfe-back,' and ,had not rid,
two or three Leagu5 towards CO!igfl4C,
when all the Countryalarm"d at that Acci-
dent, told us the particular Circumftances
- _ " there-
4'1.. The Hiftory of the
t\)eJ'eof. We prefentlyplIop'd to the
Town, where you were in Prif~n S but
being there info~med of yo~ efcape, .uP:

Jlnlon; but otbers allured us, tbat you bad

vanithed out ofthe Hands of the Serjeants : .
And as we LOll went on, the Towns people
were telling one another, how you were
becoine invifible. At length baving made
furtber and funher inquir}',
W 'I _ 1""_ 'I.
11
we• came• to
n

In~m to r lIgnt; OUt we COUIQ notlearn,e-

ve(J of the Wounded whoQ1 we took, what
was become of you;until this Morning word
was brought us, that you your felf had
blindly fecured your felf in Prifon. Cqlig..
"tlC is wounded in feveral places; but very
flight! y. After all, we have juft now taken
order, ~pat you be lodged in the faireft
Chamber that'i here: Seeing you love ao
o~n Air, we have caufed to be fumilbed
a
 World uf the Sun.' 4~
a litdeAppartment foryou'aloDe intM top
of the gr~at Tower, the TelTa1j wbePeof
will (erve you for a Balcony; your eyrs, .at
11 be at Liber :>f the Body
:; fattened te Dear DJT.
ycrd the Co ~ next; we
nrortunate '\ ake you a-
th us, when ~ JfDCo/igllllc:
rt by an una adne1S, that
I could give no rcafOn for, prefaged Come
terrible Difafter sbut it matters not, I have
Friends, thou art InnocelOt, and let the
worftoome to the worfi', I know what it is
to dye Glor,iouOy. One thing only puts
me in defpair. The Villain on whom I re-
- 0 try the firf - - - Iy Revenge,
ell conceive ~y Curate)
out of cone ing it ;' the
is dead, ane .1 the parti-
,fhis death: lnning with
to drive yo· :> his8table,
when the Nagg with a fidelity heightened
perhaps, by the fee ret notices of 'his In..
fiintt, falling into a fudden Fury, began to
winCe and kick; but with fo much rage and
fu~ceii, tbat with three kicks of his heels he
made Vacant the Begefice of that iutRe...
Ilaad. --_. - .:»ubt, you c-
ceive t: of that FOt'
but 1"11 m to you I .
that 1m ::Datter a little
 44-. The Hiftory of the
. tbat that Godly man, a Nor••" by Nation;
and a litigious Knave by Trade, who for
t..h~ M~~y o~ Pilgrims of!iciated in a for-

At tne end or tne bflt year, ne went to

Law with me aHo, pretending that I {bould
pay him Tythes: Ie was to DO purpofe to
tell him, that time out of mind my Lands
were free; he went on fiin with his Suit,
which
n _
he loft. But during the Praceli, he
11'_ ____ "'" ,, __ 1 _ ,.....__ _ _.

oenul wlln now mw;n lore-11gm De manag-

ed his R.age: I am lately affured, tbat hav-
inggot into his Head t~e accurfeddcfign of
your ImpritOnment, be had tCcretly exchasg-
cd his ~iving ofCol;g"ac~ for another Liv-
ing in his own Country, whither he in-
tended to retreat fofoon as you {bould be
taken: Nay his own Man hath Glid, that
feeing your Horfe near his Stable, he had
heard Qlm mutter~ That the BeaU would car-
rf
 World of the Sum 45
rv him into a place, where they could not
reach him.
After thi~ pi~01!rfe,_f.olignac _~~I!10n~{b.

fair for him in recompence of the Services,

which that good PrieO: had rend red hisSoD,
when he bore a fmall Office in the Colledge.
Now, continued Colignac, feeing it is very
hard to be at Law without R.ancor,and with.
~~t ~ tin~ure ~f~nm!ty, t~at re~ins in~eli.

, the l\.lDg to.lDterpole, hlS Autnonty In tDe

Affair. . '
When CougnAc had made an end, they
both endeavoured to Comfort me ;' but it
was by fucbtender Tefiimonies 01 Sorrow,
" that my own Grief was thereby encreafed.
In the mean while my GoaJer came back,
and told tis that the Chamber was ready.
Comelet'sgo fee it, anlwered CHjJan; and
with that he went 61ft, and we followed
him:
 46 ,The Hiftory'o/' the
bim: r- found it in very good grder: f
want nothing, faid I to them, unlefs It~
a few.Books. - -. ..
. COligtltfc prom;ted to. {end..

terprrte above humane reach; my l'nends

looking on one anotber, and then Catting
their Eyes-on me, fell a weeping, Bot asi£'
!all of a fudden 'OnT 'Orief had foflYBed tibe
Anger of Heaven, an urrexpelled Jeytook .
po[effi~nafmy Soul ; Joy br~ht Hopt',.
.... ~ ,. ...... II. ,. •

MarnematlcallDltrUmems WnereWItD I UIU-

,aUy work: . In iliort, you'l find in a large
~BOXt a grtatmany p-eiCC'Sof Chrifial cut
'into feveral Figures, be furenotto forget
- them; bowever, it will be lOoner done,if I-
ti:tdown what things 1 need in ,a Memo.
random. '
They took the Note [gave them, being_
unable '1;0 dive into my -de6go; and,thea
departed. '
frODJ
 World of the Suit. 47
From the time they were gone, 1 did no-
thing but ruminate upon the Execution of
the things 1 ~ad prem~ditatec!, an~ 1 wa~

I was not at all troubled at tbat Accident,

becaufe it pr~rentlycameint~ my mind that
poffibly he might be gone ~ Court to fol-
lieite my Uberty : And tberefore without
being furprifed at it', I put' hand to work ;
fo_r th~ i£ace ~f eig~t days!.1.. hew~d~ pl~in-

Jlkewile a fiole' In it, I placed a Vdtel ()t

Chriftal, boted throu~h in the fame man-
ner, made jn a GlobUTat Figure, but very
large, the Orifice. whereof joyned exa&Iy
to and was enchaced,in the bole I had made
in tbehead.
The Veffel was purpofely made with ma-
ny Angles, and in form -of an Icofaedron,
to'the;end that every Facet being' conve.x
and cOncave, my BollI might produce
. the effeCt o(a.Burning-Olars. The
 +8 The Hijloryof the
The Goaler, a.nd his Turn-keys. never'
· came up to my Chamber, but th~y found
me empl~yed in this work.; bu~ they were
nnt ..... l1li·... nr;(prl 'It it hpl"!lllCpnEf"hp."..,._

.... _ .... _ . . . . _ _ _ . . _ W'.-.y.- - _ _ .. _ , . ... _ _ {..... ,... .... &_ ....

· motion thin they have in the Hea~ens: ~

there things they were perfwilded,J:h~ .the
Machine I was a making, was a Curiofity
· of the like Nature; and befides th.e. Money
wherewith Colignac greafed their fias, made
them an f!lir and fnft_ Nnw it. wall ~hn'll'

-- --_0 ----- -.--. ------ --, .... ---("- -J ._--

o two Qpenings; and I had placed a little Vt:- .
ry light Board within for. my felf to fit
upon. .
, Things being ordered in this manner,. I
fhut my felf in, and waited there almoO: an
hour, expetlingwhat it might plea1i: for-
tune to do with me..
. When the Sun breaking out. from und~r _
·,he C1ouds~ began to lhine PJ?o~ my ~a-
• , ' l - ,;billff
 World of the $;ii{~ 49
chine, that tranfparent Icofae.dron, which
through its facets receiveq; the Treafu,es Qf
the Sun, diffufed by it's, Orjfi~ the 'light
ofthpm into rn tr C.. 1I F"d r.oint"·'latr-Ier
'-
or re\ au 'C, ca ~ 0 he eai. th;
at: n( rea m WI ~u ~lar R.. ~a:
lns _he err ·re· 'Ig r c ig: co °er
d 1 t.. e i :)'e ttl ~u e 'm; ~~
~na ~le wi G :l.
\ .• th _xt .... >"! I ..d~lIe~ .~he aieaULY 4'
fuch a mixture of ~Colouri.; when all of a
fudden I found my Bawds' to JIlove in tbe
fame manner,. as one finds thel1l that is t()f-
ted in a f wing. " . .~: :' ,,
I wasabout to openmyWicket,tQknow '
the rau fp of !h2~ emnt-jor· bu. ae T W'"'' '
lrt hh m :ny -Jill l ,t 01,;. I t hQ
Jf -'> ~ ~f Y J x, pi,- eh {IT
To ~r, ea Vi • Ie ' b ea mi- ar
-ny :tla ;al In e'1 "; F bit n: Fe-
~p rd in ti e 'w m Tf. /.01:
_In: ...·Jg .....0 •••.: E... th.T ....t .f.Jdif;] fUr
priCed me; not at all by reafan of fo Cud..
den a foaring, . hut beca~fe ofthat dreadful
tranfpon of Humane Reafon, at the Succefs
,ofa .ddigTJ,:which ev~ frigbtnedmein the
ProJeCt. The rell: dId not at all ~tar~le
me; for I ri)rer~tV upry ~X1ell: tl-jat the Va-
l ty Jat -ot:. h: Xl ::J t Ie .lee Ill,
I re ~n . t1 St: be IS" lit. b· he
L lC~ ~ C rre
101 1, - fil pt· {F :e~
., at Jl
.~O The Hiftory of the'
attralt a great abundance of Air, whereby
iny'Box would be carried up; and that pro-
:portionably as [mounted, the rufuingwind
thatfhnnld fnl"C'P it thrrmah the Hote.l'onltf

----- -----0-- -- ---J ------- - --- ("'--r----

round my Box a litde· Sail, eane to be
'turned, with a Line that ~lIed through
the Orifice of the Veffel; and which [held
by th~ end; .[had fancied to my felf, that
, . when. ]' {bould be in the Air, I might thus
m:lke nfe nf!l~ milch wind. a~ miaht GarVP

_._-- ---- --- 0- - J ____ A") ---- ----- -.----

perceived through one of the Glaffes, which

. I had put in the four fides of the Machine,
my Sail flying 1n the Air, andtoffed to aDd
fro by a Wbjrl-wind that had got with-
in it. '
I remember, that in lefs tban an hour I
was got above the Middle R.egion'; and I
foon perceived it, becaufe I faw it hail and
rain below me.= It may be asked, perhaps,
. , whenc:c
 World 0/ the Sum ~1
whence then came that wind (withQut
which my Sox could nor mount) in a fiory
j~ ~h~ ~ky e~empt ~rorh.Met:.~!s ; ~ut P~o.:

and that [0 t~' VeUel bemg VOid, Nature,.

which abhdrs Vacuity, made it fuck in,hy dIe
opening belQW, othel Air to. fiU ,it, ag~in :
Ifit lofi: rtluch, it regained as much; anCl
fo one is not to wonder, that ina R:.egion
~bove :the middle where the winds are;
..... .,.. .~

panea tn-at Middle tlegton or tne iYlr; ,lor

in reality tbecoldnefs of the Climate,made
me feeit:at a dHtance: I fay at a diftance"
becaufe a Bottle of Spirits w,hiCh 1 ~rried
always about me, whereof Inow and ,rh'en
took a dram, kept it from approaching me.
Outing the rellof my Voyage, lfelt not
the leaH touch of it; on the contrary the:'
more I advanced toWards that enfhm d
W MId, the fironger 1 fou'nd my:fdf. 1 felt'
, E l my
 "

5l .The Hiftory of the ,

my Face ,to be a littlehQuer and more gay
than ordinary; my Hands appeared to be
of an agr~aole
:I 1_
_____
Vermilion
_ "", r1
Colour, !..and
. _ 1_ 1 t_
I

l'1atUre,wmcnprompts nmm?l! to repau oy

Nourifhment, what they lofe of their Sub-
fiance: At preknt when {he finds, that the
'Sun by his pure, continual'and neighbour-
ing Irr~diation, frocks mel with m~re na·
tural
_L __
"""'_~__
I loft;____{be gives
Heat than,_,_, ,~ L ___
me no mQre
r_1_~ ...
~'-

Lamp: 'I ne lOle n.ays 01 mar Vital rife,

could not make Life; unlefs they encoun-
tered fome unauous Matter that {bouJd fix
them. But I prcfently overcame that dif-
ficulty, when I had obferved, th;t't in our
Bodies the radical Moifiure and natural
Heatare but on,t', and the felffame thing;
for that which is called Moifiure, whether
in Animals or in the Sun, ,that great Soul of
the World, is but a flux of Sparkles; more
, conti·
 ,. ,Worldo/theSun.' -53
continuous becaufe of their Mobility; and
that- which we name Heat, a Conco'urfe of
Atomes of Fire, which appear loofe'r be-
- ~f their inti' but though
:Hcal Moifim .11 Heat were
ftinCt: things :ertain, that
~ojfillre WOll lecefiary for
fo near t,he t ing that B.u-
in· living C rves only to
detain the heat, which would exhale too
faft, and could not be refiored fo foon ; I
was in no danger of warLtng it, in a Region
whereof there lit~le Bodies of Flame which
confiitute Life, more of it was united to my _
Being,then feparated from it.
-. - re's anothe -- - at- may be
red at; aoc hy the ap-
es of that b e confumed
, for I was a ~lmo!l: with..
ull ACl:ivitv '; but I have.
n at hand for ak properly,
It IS not the Fire· it leU that burns, but a
grotfer matter,toffed to and fro by thedart-
ings out of it's moveable Nature; and that
Powder of little Sparks, which I call Fire,
moveable ofit felf, owes, poffibly, aU it's
Action tothe Roundnefs of it's Atomes; for
they ti . - . or bur'n,a ..
the Fig oodies, whid-
along \ 30 Straw fen
fo burr c as Wood d

3
 54-. T,/Je Hiftory of th~
burnswith leG violen.::e than Iron; and the'
l\.eafon of this is, becaufe the Fire of Iron,
of Wpocl, and of Straw, thoug" in it [elf it
• ., ~fameFirt', ~ .0. n.. .. ·iouily.,-acco
~o the divi Bodys tha~
s: And the. raw,. ~he Fi~
fpirituaJ Du e,) being d
~d onl y wit 1- , i~ JeiS conl
In Wood, ·a~e. is mo·
~ompaa:, i! enters more naroly; and in ,-
. roo,. the Mafs whereof is~lmoft wh01e1y fo-
lid, and knit together by Angular Particles,
.it penetrates and conCumes in a trice whatfo-
ever i~ touches. Thefe ObfervatioDs Qeing . I
.lIfo ,familiar, no ~ody will wonder, that ~
~-acned the Sl·~ .~.~., ... ~ bein~ burnt'·

~ that Which : the Fire, b\

-natter to wh ned, and th
ire ofthe Su mingled wit
-natter. Dc n . fiop bye:
-,ce, that Jo= Fire, becau
11: om y moves an I\enal Q1ood, whofe' Cub-
lite Particles beat gently againfi: ,he MelIl-
bra.nes . of opr flelh·, tickles and pro-
duces I know not what blind PleaCurc;:;
;lnd that t hat Ple~fure, or rather that firft
Progrefs of Pain,' advances not fo rar as t~
threat~~ ~t. ~ .. -~··ral With pea~l.· L._~ __ ly

to mil bIe, that L ~

Mode ::J-ir.its, which y~
Notc lver, though ~e
1-
 World of the Sun. ;;
contrary Symptoms, is a Fire as well as Joy;
but it is-a Fire, wrapped up in a Body of'
Horned Particles, {uch as the ilJra bilk 91:

the moCt vulgar Experiments are fufficient

to convince the obfrinate. I have no time
, to lofe, I mufr look to my felf: I am like
Phaeton in the'middle of a Career, where
I cannot turn back again; and wherein jf
I make but one falre Rep, all Nature is not

Frllnce, the Foot of the Boot of ItlllJ, then

t he Mediterranean-Sea, then Greece, then
the BoJ£borlH, the ,EuxitJ.Se", Per(U, the
Indies, Chi"a, and at length 111pan, pafs fue-
ceffiveJy over againft the hole of my Lodg-
ing; and rome Hours after my Elevation,
all the South-Sea having turned, gave way
, to the Continent of Amer;c4.I clearly diftin-
guifuedall there Revo]uti~ns;nay,and I re-
member that a long time after, I faw Ellrope
, E -4 mOQnt
 5~ The Hilory of tbe
mount once more aglin upon the Scene;
but 1 could not now obferve the feparat~
- States theieof, becaufe 1 was exalted toO

furmounted- ·thePower of thefe Attra- . "i

CHons.
. 1 coafled by -the Mooo; which at that
_time was got betwiKttljeSun and the Earth,
and [left J'entH on my right.hand. But
now 1 am fpeaking of that Star, the old

(he turns, Jfaw her alwa)'s Crefcent; but

·finHhing her courfe, lobferved that as {be
paft graduaUy behind him, theHorns drew
nearer, and her Black, Belly Was guilt a-
gain. Now this viciffitude of Light and
.Dlrkne~, make!! it very evident, That the
, Planets are like the Moon and the Earth,
Globes without Ught, 'capable only tp re-
flect tLat ,"hich they borrow. "

Thr;
 World of the Sun. ,7
The Truth is, as 1 ftill mounted, I
m:Jde, the fame Ob(ervation of Mere",.!.
1 obrwrved befides~ that aU thefe Worlds

together, by that Principle of unaccountae

ble Love, !by which we fee by Experience
that every thing covets its like; Particles
formed after a certain Fafllion affembled to-
gether, and th:lt made Air: Others. again,
to which the 111ape gave a circular Motion.

the fame manner, as they evaporated-from

the M~fs, and kept a Parallel March in their
flight, make the IdlerOrbs, whi,ch they met
in the Sphere of their Aaivity,to turn: And
therefore Mereur}, VentR, the Earth, Mars,
1l1piter, and 8atHrn, have been conftrained
'10 whirlegig it, and move both at once a-
bout the Sun. Not but that one may ima-
gine, tbat heretofore all thofe other Globes
have been Suns,' !inee the Earth mil retai~s
. II'
. 5S The Hi}iory of the ,
- in fpight of its'prefent Extintl:ion,. heat e·
DOugh to make the Moon turn about it, by
the circular motion of the Bodies, )Vhich
detacb"d f - - 'lfs; and t:
'tr retains en ;.e four to tu
thefe Suns b lof time, 'h~
ined fo confi :s
of Light ~
. by the COr 110n of the
30dies, whit: -at and Lig-
that they remain no more but a cold, dark,
and almon: unactive CliP"' MortHHm. Nay,
we difcover tbat thefe ipots which are in tbe
Sun, and were not perceived by the Anci-
ents, dayly increafe: Now, who can tell
a
but tbat it is Cruft fOrmed in its Superfice,
- - -\1a& that el. - -- JrQportional -
e Lightleavi it become n
, all tbeferr :lies have ab;
d it, ~n obI ike the Eart
e are Yf;ry c beyond wh:
= appears. n ~f Man·kin
perhapsherewfQre, the l£arth was a Sun peo-
pled with Animals,propoftioned to the Clio
mate that produces them; and perhaps thefe
Animals, were the Delllons of whom Anti-
quity relates fo many Inftances. Why.not?
Is it not poffible, thatthefe Animals after
theE -~. ~ the Earth, . ~.- ... ed

there "!le, and tha ri-

on oi e, had not ~ -y-
ed al > Inefiect, ·n-
u..
 Wmdd uf the Sun. '59
tinued until the time of ANgllfllll, :accord-
~ng to the Tefiimony of PIII"'rcb. It would
eVf!1 feem, t~at thc:.l?r~p~etj~k ~Dd _fa~d

Angels inhabited the Earth betore usl And

that there proud Blades, who had lived in
our World, whilfr it was a Sun, difdaining,
perhaps, fince it was extinct, to abide any
longer in it, ~nd knowing tbatOod had pla-
ced ~ is Throne i~ the ~ll!1' _h~ the_bo!dn~fs

at Jealt---as near as one can reckon,wben

there is no Night to difiinguifu the Dily ; •
came upon the Coafr of one of tbofe little
Earths that wheel about the SUD, whi~1l
the Mathemati~ans call Spots; where by
reafon that Clouds interpofCd, my Glaffes.
I now not uniting fo much heats and by
confequence the Air IlQt pulliing my Shed
with k> much Force, what remained of
the Wind could do DO more, but bear up
my
 60 The Hiftory of the
. my fan, and let me down upon the top of
a very high Mountain,to which I gently de-
fcended. ,..

(.;rowned With the Drlgntnels or tnc Hea-

vens. However, I was not fo far tran(por-
ted yet with that Extafie, but that [thought
of getting out of my Box, and of covering
the Capital thereof with my Shirt before I
left it; becau(e I was apprehenfive, that if
. .&-. ....,.. _a.- n _.

tnat tatnea tne I!.utn, 1 naa mucn aao to

gO: However., havihg advanced a "little
way~ I arrived in a great Bottom, where I
rencounrred a little Man fiark·naked, fit-
o ling and refring himfeJf upon a Stone. I
cannot call to mind whether I fpoke to hi~
firfr, or if it was he that put theQgefiion
to' me: Sut it is as frefh .in my Memory, 3S
jf I heard him frill, that he difcourfed to
me three long Hours in a Langua-gc::, which 1 0

knew
 World of the Sun. 61
knew very well I had never heard before,
and which hath. not the Jeafi: refemblance
with ~~~ of.~he ~anguage~ in ~h!s _W?r~d;

an IdIom was dlltant trom tbls I,.1I1b,. tbe

more it came {bort of the Conccption, and
was lefs eafie to be underfrood. In· the fame
manner, continued he,: in Mufick onene-
ver finds this trlle; but tbat.the Soul-im.·
mediate! y rifes, and bligdly afpires' afte'r it•
...... ., ,.. • I'¥ ... _. ,.

Letters,vvords, ana uraer In exprentng

himfelf, can never fall below his thought,
hefpeaks al"ways with congruity to his Con-
ception; arid it is becaufe you are ignorant
ofthi5 perfefr Idiom, that you are at a frand,
. natknowingtheOrder,noaheWords,which
might explain what ypu imagine. J told
him,that the firfi Man of our World,ha.d un-
doubtedly made ufe of that Lallguag~, be-
(:aufe the (everal Names which he gave to
. fe-
. 6~ Th~ Hiflory 'II{ the
feveral thi~s, declared t~ir Effence. He
intc:rrupted me, and wem on. . It is not
abfolutelyneceffary, for'exprefiing all the
• I • I -_I •

\Ammumcate all Y0ur tnougntsm Dealts,

-and tbe ,Beafts theirs to you ';iJeeaufe it is
the .eryLanguage of Natute, whcrebf.
file makesberfelf -to be underftoodby all
Living Creature$. .
Be no more furpri:fed, then, at the faei-
I~a ____ 1 ___ ~ ____.~. I _d I _I. I" •

l'latUre wltn· ner [oat cannot rau to unaer.:

. frand it.
, 'Ha! without doubt, cried 1, it \98S by
the means of that Empb2tickO Idiom,tbat
ourfidt 'Faber beretoforeconverfedwith
Animals, and was by tbenl' underftood;,
for feeing 'the Dominion over all the kinds '
-of them, was gigen to him, they obeyed
him, becaufe he commanded in a Lagguage
that was known to chell) ;; and it is far
fba,
 .' World of the ~",n. 63
that Rea(on alfo, that (this Original Lan-
guage being loft) they come DOt at prefent,
when they ~r~ called, as heretofore they
.J:d, 'ee:~g -:>W' "h:-- dr ""]0- :In ~~rf n(W ~s.
T e di M J ec d 31 ~e ae 10
in to .nl er lie b r inr'g is f-
~u~, ,Y- S ~ ot: to 0 TI, I d ~t
'C 3g n te-- uF:d m I sk j 1: -n,
lei \\ at Ii: d w do. . '\ b at ,d
.IU, I i it Walt much .nhcsoitcd; aDa wn..t
kind of Governnleilt they lived under? I
am going, repl yed he, to difcover Secret$
to you, which are not known in your OJ.
mate.
Confidtr well the Ground whereon We
....:>; :t!· nc" lo-~, r.,Cf" !t ....~s -, i- {iE~~
:l C ~r '1'1 M ~,: ::h IS( co ul .1 ~ t-
r, . b ck Dl ~I. 'Y iJt \ ler ~f ::Ie
.JD at pi ge it ~lf m af -r a.t
y. e f 'ce 1ft e i' r8, 'h~ J.t - S J d t-
j ~a! 1 , e Jii le- F ~ff:, Id
''''0mpa[&.~d I.uofc numeruUs ~luud5 of A-
tomes: After, 'I fay, that by a long and
powel'ful Colnon, be feparated the more'
contrary, IPld reverted the more "milary
parts of this Bowl; the Mafs pierced through
with heat fweat fo, that it made a Deluge,
w":c~ ~...~ =t ~L.OT- F.-ty :13--- ;r-.r 1'"-
n: ~b V~ 2r ql ~e( n( ~ef til " f~
d ~ Itl he .0- di in g d w- a.
g- os f c r'f: ot
 6-+ The Hift.ory of the
The Liquorofthefe Torrents beingaf.
fc:mbled, formed the Sea, which by its Salt
makes it frill apparent,that it niufr needs b~
a conflux of Sweat; ~1l [weat beine: Salt.

that coClion frill reCl:ifying and perfecting it

by a ~ore exall:. mixture, it Cent forth a
Sprout; endowed then ~nly with Vegetati-
on, but capable of Senfe : But becaufe the
'Waters, which had fo longfrood upon the
{lime.. bad too much chilled it. the fwellin~ .

· .firfr ConcoClion, the' power of Growing;

· in the Heart, which is the feat of Activity,
and the place of fecond ConcoCtion, the
· vital Power; and in the Brain, which is the
feat of the Intellectual, and the place of the
third Concoction, thepo.wer of Reafoning: .
Otherwife, why fuould we be longer in
, the Womb of our Mothers, than the reft
of Agimals, unleG it be that our EmbrJp re-
'. ~eil'ej
 World of the Suh~ 65
ceiyes threedifrinCl Concoctions, for form.
,ing the three difiinCl Faculties of our Soul·;
and tae lkafis only two, for forming their
twn Pnw,.r!;) 'knnw th!lt th,. Hnrf,. ill nnt

. -- -- -- ----- -- ----7 .. ---- .. - -------- ---

the Womb beyond the natural Courfe; it
is no wonder, that Natureneedsanotherpe~
riod of time for delivering a Mare, than
that which brings a WOJDan to Bed. It i~
fo; but in fine, fome body may fay, The;
Horfe· rema.ins Ion O'er tha.n we in the Bellv

----- -~ - --I - -- ~--- .. - - - --cv --.- - -- ------ - # --

they prove, That all Matter being in motio~.

fame Beingsarecompleated in a certain R:~
, vol,utian of days; which are deftroyed in a-
nother; nor yen: to lay any great firefs, up"
on the Arguments they deduce, from the
, Caufe of all thefe motions, to prove that the
number Nine is the moft ~rfea:; I (ball
£oDtent my felfwith thu anfwer, That,the
Bud of man being hotter, the Sun interfere~
r an"
 ~6 The Hiftory af the ,
and -compleats more Organs in th~ fpace of
pine Months, than he hath rough-hew'n in
, a Colt during a whole year. Now it is dot
, to he clnnht'Prl .hnt th:n :I Hnr~ i~ :I o!~At

--- r---------- -...... - ------- - - ------ - --,

.yD~r World at prefent is ova-heated; for
fo foooas the Sun draws a iprfJUtout ofthc
Euth. finding nor.eof that cold Humidity~
or to fay. better, that ceJtam Period ofcom-
~atc:4 MQtion, which obliges it to~\Teral
CQf}ians.: it tlIl'A1sit oreter:ltlv into A V (!O'e.t2-

------ - -.- .. ----~ --------.-- - - --- -- ---.I ---

lOOn, that not a few Naturalifrs have rank-

edws in-the tame· Species; and the r~.lOn is,
thattheirSeed being ofa t~per, much like -
our~ hath duting chat tim,-, bad almol't
the leifUre to petfea thofe three Digefiions.
You"} undoubtedly ask me, of whom I
have the Story, that now I have told you ~
yo~·l tell me, that I could nOt have h~it
fromthofe that were not iJ:'J ~ing: It's t~,
- I
 ..
World of the Smi. 61
i am the only perfon'that h:nh hit upon it,
and by con~quen" Ic:ari give no Vouchers
for it, becaufe it's a thing that happened

Now feeing even in your World, there have .

been PropMts heretofore, whow minds,-
h¢ightened by a vigoI(N1 Infpiration, have •
had Fore-kmowledge offuture things; it is
notimpoffiblc, but that in this, which is fat
nearer tke&tn,& by contequcnce
- -
I110re Ius.

Thus he mch!d his. Philofopllical Dif-a

fCOUt!k; but .frer a more pa.rticular Conte·
,eoc~" that we had, about very deep Sf.·
er.e-rs, which· he revealed to' me; part where..
of 1'l,1 conceal, and' of which the reft has .
.:(Capcd me; he told me, That it was not at
y.et three Weeks:,. {inee a clod of Earth. im ot
ptegnated by me: SuOt "as brought to Bed
of hi1l!ll. Coofidtr that Tunwr attestively.
l'hen he llNlde me obferv.e, I lmow run
. ~. .F '1 wbac
1
 .6S -The Hiftoryof the
. what Swelling upon the Mud, not unlike
.to a Mole-Hill: That, fays he, is an -Apo-
nume, or to fay better, a· Matrix, which for
'Jefe Nine Ml' ..... ath containe=' •
mbryo of 0 ~rothers. I
:re, on defi~ ~e part of a
ife to it.
He would I- I, bad he not
'ived a Palpi ~ Earth,abou·
:;welling of Clay. I nat with t~ bignels
of the Tumor,. made him conclude, that
the Earth was in Labour,and that thatShake,
""3S alrea:dy the effort of the Pangs of Tra-
veL He thereupon immediately left me,
,' that he mlght run to it; and for my part,
T went to IOOE 6 ... .ige.
I therefore up again
iountain,Ioc In from, an~
~ry weary I: to the topI

ou may ima rouble I w

hen I did no ~ufe, where
left it. I began to lament the lofs 01 U,
when I perceived it,. skipping and vaulting
at a great difianc.e; I ran thither, as faft as
my Legs-could carry me, till I was out of
Breath again ; and really,it was an agree-
. able Diverfion, to behold that new way
of "' __ ._r. __ - for fometir-- ___L __ I had
alt Jd upon it, :; ~fe of
H· • the Glafs-E ~ttra-
t t i w i t b -more . ,hat
~ ~r
 World of the Sun. 6~
Air raiflog my Box up above my reacb~
made me leap afier it, as a Cat does to a '
Hook. where it fees a Hare hanging. Had
. Shirt been pital, to re-
force of thi would have
he Voyage me. .,
to wliat pur! call to mind
-ident that I ink on, but
e fame Griel at that time!
It's enou~h to know, that it bounded, row-
led, and flew Co long; and that I jumped,
run, and skipped fo much, that at lengtb,
I faw it fall down, at the ,Foot of a very
high Hill. It had perhaps led me a Dance,
a great deal farther ,had .Df;>t that lofiy Swel·
the! Earth, ! that black;.
! Sky, to a :e upon the
fpread ford- haIfa Lea-
ifcumference Ig into that
~, the Glaf :l fooner felt
~I; but that r uity was en-
gendred in it, ' no more Wind through the
Hole, and by confequence, no more I mpul-
fion to fupportit; fo that it tumbled down,
and would have broken into a Thoufand
ofhivers, bad not by good luck, a 'Pond of
Water, into which .it fe)), yielded .under
the wei w it out of
. repairel bruifed ; an
jng tak l of it in my
ried it i f 'a little Hi
F 3
 70 TIJe Hiftorx uf the'
There I took my Shirt off oo't ; but I could
not put it on, Lecaufe my Glafies beginning
lo work their tffeft, I perceived my Callie

grew lefs. and Jefi:, fiill proportionably as I

afcendcd, if\(omuch that it became a Star,
then a Spark, and then nothing at all ; for-
that luminous Point grew fo {harp, th~t it
might equaJ that, which terminates the Ian
Ray of my fight; that at length it wasfwal.

Stomach to the Bl:aln, or by a Nc:ce~ty

that Natlnc. finds of Jocking up our Soul~
~at during Report, {he may rec:oycr as m)J·
ny Spirits, as have been (pent in Eurcife; I
had no mind toSle~p1 fincfI f did not Eat;
and that tbeSunfupplied me,with more ra-
dical fIcat, than l confumed. In tbe mean
. while" my Elevation continued, and pro~
portionabh·!).3s it brought me ricar~r til that
, ~n~aPl~~ Wgrld, 1 fe.lt a. certain Joy diffufe
. it ~
 I World of theS~n. -'j'(
it fe1f through my Blood, which r~alfied,
it, and advAnced to my ..ery· Sout Ever
nnW ~nd then , lnnkfitt t1hWATd~_ : that, ,

-----------0 ,---- -I ' ----- - - - - ,-- - - - --- ----

parts of my 8ody. A whirling Cloud of
very ttrick, and_ in a manner, palpabl~
Smoak~hoaktd my Gldfs with Darknefs; and
when I ftOOd up to contemplate that 01>-
fcurity; which blinded ine, I faw no more,
neither VdTel. nor Bnrriit'UJ'.Glaffes. Gla.u-· ,

-- - - ---- -- -- - - -- - --- - c-
beyond tneafure, when I found, as if the
, Air had been pettified, 1 know not what
invifibJo Obftac1e, which forced back mt'
Arms, when I thought to ftretch them fortb_ .
It came then into my Imagination, that
mounting fa high, I had without doubt
got into the Firmament, which fome Philo-
fopher& and Afrrooomers have maintained
to be felid. I began to fear, I fltould remain
ftudded in there; but the Horrour'that the
. F 4 - odd·
1~ The Hiftory of the
pddneCi of that" Accident caft me into, Was
exceedingly encreafed by thofc; that fol~
lpwed: For mv fit!ht~ that rambled here and

I perceived tbat ~y Fle{b, being cleao"fed

frQJnits Opacity, tr~nsfen'd Objects to my
Eyes, and my Eyes Objelb through it.
At length, having above a Thoufand times
~nocltt againft the R.opf, Floor, and Walls
of my Chair-volant, without being able to

f~ncy that the Sun, in a Region fa near

himfelf, purges Bodies more perfeaIy from
chejr Opacity, bV' ranking more ftraightly
lhe imperceptible Pores.oftbe Matter, than
~D o.ur World;where'hisForce,wornout al-
moft by fo long a paffage, is hardly able to
tf"ns(ufe his Luftre into precious Stones ~
tJowever, by reafon of the interned Smooth-
JleCs Qf their Surfaces, he makes them
T~ftt~ t~tPpgh tqeir01aij'es,;ls througbJittle
. ". . • ~yes~
 World of tbe Sun. ' 73
iyes,either th~ Green of Emeralds, the
Scarlet of. Rubies; or the Violet of Ame-
thvLts. accordin2 as ~the· different Por~s of

I :nfwer, That without doubt the Sun aa.

other wife upon animate. than upot:J inani-
lJJate Bodies; becanfeno part neither of my
Fleth, Bones not Entrails, tho' tranfparent,
had loft its Natural Colour; on tbe contra-
r\, _ mv Lun2s under aD incarnate Red. frill

mv felf to be the' fame; :and nevertheIefs 1

was not fo.
Whilft I was confidering tbisMetamorpho-
fis, my Voyage grew {borter and {barter frill,
but with a great deal offlowneG tben, by
reafoo of the Serenity ofthe lEther, which
was rarified proportionably,as I drew nea rer:
the fource ofDay ; for feeing the matter in
that R.egion is very tbiri,becaufe of the great
VacuilY i{ is ful~ Qf,an4that bycoDfequ~nce
. . . that
 74 The Hiftory "( thb
- thatMatter if ,ver:Y Ia~y,by reafon oftbceVacu-
it, that hal noAO;,n,th,tAir paffing through
tbe bole of mlt Bmt. CduJd DOt Droduce but

-- -- --- -- ~ --0--

will hardly be inclined to belicye.

. BeingfhU1:upift a Boxasdeaus day, that
I bad jull: 10ft flghtof,and Ifty Bight Bagsing
(0, tho I bad mum ado not to fall; It] a
wotdt being in a condition, that all that·s
contained ir1lhe 2rfat Fabrick ofthe World.

That ardour ofWili, nOtoolyfupported my

Body,but alCo raired it up towards the .tbingt
,which it afpited toembra~. My Body pufh-
€d forwards my Box, and In that manner I
continued my Voyage. So foon as I pcrcei'Y-
cd this, fllOl'e intenOy than eYer, I pIyed aU
the faculties of my Soul, to raife my Imagi-
nation towards that. which ~ttraaed me ;
but ~y bead being loaded with my Shed, ae
gainlt the upper-part whereof, the Ei'ortt .
. of
 ~- WorldJ)f the ·Su#. l 7~
of my Win pttfi,t it,Whttber I would Qr (j()f,
that did fo inc()mmode me, that at length kJ
much wei.tht .. forced me to rrotJe fot the

take hold of fomewhat~' i hid 'no other

, Guide but Nature~ which nands not upon
Reafoning ~ and therefore Fortune;her Ene.
my,malicieJuOy furctd thy hand upon the Ca..
pital of ChryfiaI. Alas I what Thunder..
clap ro mv Ears, Was the found of the Ico-

wind eeafed tQ carry my Box on high; In

{bort, immediately after that wrack,l Caw it
long 8 falling through thofe vaft plains of
the World. 'It recontracted inJhe fame Rt-
gion,rhc: dark Opacity which it had exhaled,
in rcfpelhhat the energe.tick Vertue of the
Light;ceafing in that pla~e;it greedily\fdited
again to the obfcure Tbicknefs, which was
in a manner dfentialto it; in the fame
P.l~nn~r ~s Spiriu; long after their Separati..
" QQ
 76 The Hiflory of the
on, have been feen to come in fearch of their
Bodies, and that they might rejoyn them,
to wander for the faace oran hundred vears:

--- - --- ~ g - , ----

a Portllg.e{i Merchant bought it of the 10an-

der that found it, and that from hand to
hand, it fell into the poffe6ion ofthat Polifh
Engineer, who makes ure afit at prefcot to
fly with.
Thus.. then.. hansrin2 in the oDenfpace of

Jowed , to tranfport my Body to the I3m~

place!
That vigorous Launching out of my
Soul, will pot be incomprchen6ble to
any, that will .but confider, the 6mple
Efforts of our Will'; as, for Inftance, It is
very well known, that when I have a mind
to leap, my Will being excited by my F an~
. cy, raifes the whole Microcofm;and endea-
vours to tranfport it to ~be mark, that it
pro-
 World of the Sun. , 77
propored to it felf. If it attain not always
to it, it"s becaufe that the Univerfal Prin-
ciples of Nature prevail over the Particu-
1__ • _ .. ....I .~,.,... • ........ D".~'2'1 _ _ ".~ '11;11: ... _ L_

LUCIL '''It''J£\oU aL, ~UCl"i:I U\oCl& ~"'" A-U&l'~ LU

which it tends. "

I {ball wave what elfe happened to me,
during the reO: of my Voyage, left I {bould
be as long in relating,as I was in making it:
I"ll only tell you in general, that at the end
...,.1' ,..,.'" 'lA",n.h., T .... l ...n ..... h h .. nni1.., ......iv..A

"'&.1'-& & r' ""'..

&~&'VW& ..... " ... .... ~'-&,........ ~ .... - .. " ' ....... ,~

the Sun. I only remember, when I arriv~

there, that I walkt lightly; I toucht only /
the Ground in a poiot\ and I often rowled
like a Bowl, finding it alike commodious,
to walk either upon my Head 'or F~,
,Though fometimes my Feet were towards
Heaven, and my' Shoulders towards the
Earth; 'yet in that pollure, I found my
felf as natutally 6tllatcd, as if my Feet bad
been
 78 The HiftOlY 6f tbe
been towards the Earth, .nd Sly Shuulden
towards Hea:ven. Upon wh~ paft Coover
of my Bady I placed my [elf, whether UJh
on mv RMlv_ or &2L"k_ nil F.thnw 01' F.ar_ ,

......
--.-~-----.,---_. ....--.- . .,. --,_.- -- ... -
~ ~ ~- ......

rous, teting·Weight is noth,ng el{e" b\:lt ao

AttraCtion Of ths! Center1 within she Spbere
Qf its AClivity. _
_. The R.efpetl:; wherewith I ptiatett my
lteps upon t~f LuminousPlal~, C~nd.
. ed for CUL1I.e time. the ecw(!t' Ddin~ I has to

-. ., -01.' • a· ----. ~

Llecame Mafter Qf my thQughr" hurried it

into the AbyG of a bottt-ornl~& Light. My
Ileafon nevertheJefs, by degrt'fS W}dec~1
ved my Infiina:; I walked cQnfideQd}t, "ad
9lith-out trembling upon the l~in, araddi-
retted my fteps fo bol911. ,. tqat if. Men
cOuld have pet:ceived QIe fro,m. t-lWir W~kI,
they would have taken QJe fQrf~ PGW<!11
Ql~1Ullg Qp,oa tbeCl0u4s.ijll~~p·ltbit!t:li.
. tra-
__ World.of the Snn.'. 79
havened about fifteen days time, I came in-·
to a Country of the Suo, not fo refplendent
as thofe I had left. I·found myftlf tranfport-
e" 07.:.'1 Joy•• --1 'imagir-" ·;at uncl--- L -_
e lat Jo: ;!cded " feere
f whicl- eingft 3ined. \ 3.
( y. Ne 'let!, t~ -wledg: j
e madei:. de6ft lyEntf ;
f 'nJ wa to the 'py 01- ,
\.-uu Lao' tbtJ AUUW thaI. u~.~p is hU,uul ,0
them. and that they have ordered their Ser~
vants,to fnatch them out ot it~~ Clutches, are
ne~rthelefs very angr'y when they awaken
th~ •. - In like manner,. tho' my ~Ddy
growmgobfcure,as I reach~d thedarkerPr~
••;........... recoo· .... A"':!·the v·.... 1,.. .. ~ffe~,t}- .. • .L_t
_ ty of r brk :log. W ;
·as pIe lerewi irowir
p inva e; for t tterin.
wher the a ches e :>
sus, ( d fo 0: :>leafur :l
UJ] y "ins, thauu] Senfes un"u.ome tlu"~Lll'
foreed~y Spirit to congra~u)ate the J"yrant.
who chained its Servants; for Slc~ep.that An~
tient Tyrant of oDe halfof our. days, who
bec;aufe ofhis Old age, being unable to ru.p-
port the Light, or to look on it without
fainti~1Y sforce~· ... l''\rfake _ .. "~pn m~"
'U7 ..

entry he (bir ountri he Sui

was cc 'e~pe on th fiDes c
the du _egion k of; • havin!
.- caugb
80 The Hiftor) of the
caught me, he made me Prifoner,filUt up my
Eyes, his declared enemies, under the dark
vault of my Eye-lids; and for fear that my o-
ther Senfes betravine: him* as thev had be-

could reach, I did not difcover fo much as

one Bu(h;and neverthelefswhen Iawoke, I
found my felf under a Tree, in refpeCt of
which tbetal1el't Cedars would but ap~ar
as Grars. The Trunk of it was of MalIive
Gold .. it's Branches ofSilver.. and it'sLeaves

buncIe,- com pored one half of every-one of

them; and the other was in fufpence, whe-
ther it held it·, matter of a Chryfolite, or
ot a pi~e of gilt Amber; the-blown BloC.
{oms were large R.oCes of Diamonds, a~ o-
riental Pearls the Buds. .
A Nightingale,whofe fmooth Plume.ren.
dered it exceeding lovely, perching on the
bigbeR {prig, _cd Collicitous, with it's
. Me--
. ' World 0/ ihe $~,i. Sf
:Mdody, tolorcethe Eyes to confefs to the
Ears, that it well deCerved the Throne where-:
oh it fate. .
• n. i • ," .. ' _L_ ~_. • • ·Y~ • • .. _ ... ,., ,.. ... f_oi

lwarm Ol Jarge l'lUDleS m ClUuers, 1 law tnat

little CrmtD thAt ftands it inftead, of a Head
. move, which lengthened, it (elf, as mu'ch a9
was needful, to form a Neck; neJtt I Caw
fome~hat white bubble and' boil aVer' it;
which by mems ofCon den fad' on,Con"cretioIj
-:....1 •• ___ :._ ..... _..:....J __
...L ___ ..... __ :. ____ ... _:.""
"':"_11:~_

y~'~U~'~llI n. ~.AI"UU!l;U u. l~" Ul u ... ~".... ", <lU""

the tail Qfitbeing converted iota two Legs~

each, Leg divided it telf into five-Toes. Sd
foon as the Pomegranate wits humanized, it!
broke off from irs {talk, and with a gendt: '
ToCs fell jun: at my ~eet. I confefs. really,
when I Caw marching ftately befor,e me thae
rational Apple, thn little Butt-end of a
Dwarf, no bigger tHan my Thumb, ~n'cf )'et
.. powerfut ~to ~t""eMiife}f 51' waf fc:ized
, .' f:j , 'Witlf
 8l 1ht Hiftory 1'- the.
with Veneration. Human Animal (fa\d he
to me, in that Original Tongue I told you
of before,) after J had longco~fidered thee,
frOID the toO of the Branch where I hun~:.

JOU are ; for wbat I have now ken, is _fo

firangely furprifiDg. that I defpair of ever '
knowing the Caufe of it, unlefsyou difco-
ver it ta me. How I a great Tree all of pure
(loId, the Leaveswhereofare Emeralds, the
Fiowers Diamonds. the Bud. Pearls; and

being King of all the people that make up

this Tree, Ican them to follow me. Wheo
he had fo faid, I obferv.ed that he recoiled
within himfelf: I cannot tell, whether by
bending the internal fprillgsofhis Will, he
excited without him fome Motion, that pro-
_ duced what now you iball har.; Bllt fo it
is, That immediately aftert . all tbe Leaycs
and Branches, inlbort the whole Tree,broke.
. to
 tforld of th~ SiUii 8J ~
ttl piec~, and becati1e little Men, t1iat faw!t'
felt; and walked, who as if they intended·
to' cti~btlitt! theit Birth;'day; at the very in.

and atmJtt>\H an Air; tb<!t the whole AffemJ

bly, and the Prince him(Hf, niollified byt~
fwt!tt Latigtlifirlingg oftes dying Voice, could
iJdt forbear to thed fdnlf! Tears. A Curiolity ,
to f~art\ Whet1Ce that Bird 'cimie, kite4 m~
~~ tbat tiinE~l!'tth fucn_~!l ext!aotdi~ary Ite~

.tntetfed to·tHe With 10 m~h OVtftty, that If

fbew'd be had a great deal ofgoctd Nature,
and koowlh~ my Curioftty i The Ntgh'ti'n-
gaJ~; rt'p'l~ he,-hath not changed i~s form _
as l'Ie lItVeldone, bec'aufe it tbu\d ndt; W~ ,
a teal Bird;. and nothing elte thaft what it
appears-to be to you. Btl1~ I~t'~go toward$
.~. ~t1ft!f R.egWrl~;, aWJl. hy the way
~alteDtbtiwho 1am; aml'give' YoUtheSto-
7 0fttWMiltt~I!~e. Hardly aad linttaw-
, ,O~ fed
S+' The Hiftory of ~he
ted to bim,theSatisfafiion that (receiv'd from _
~is offer, when he (kipped nimbly up upon
Qne of my Shoulders. He Ll:ood upon his lit·
t~ Ti~ -oe -ha - 'Ie I ~ ~ht -~acL..,y --- w:"'l
b M( :h onC.lm me wi in~ (01,
t~ ~s F ler Ir y r if: n t th, id •
t U 1ft -n· :u( :m. "lat ~lr. 1y t
C br. h; ~ei ir ~ r co 81 y 1
~ :gs ec( tra :d, :l b 10r qu ce f
\' ulcelOfmau,th3t I am fOi~~d tu ..ak~ iI gl~lIt
dealof p~ins, to make my felfbe heard : Th~
Nightingale would do beft, to tell it's own
Hinory it felf;. let it fing, -t~en, if it think
fir, we {hall havcnhe Pleafure, at leaLl: to
~ear it·~ Story in Mufick. I replied ,that I was
r-" as ._cr, f:lffi-:-nt 1•• ac..."air·...d ..,:tb ·J.e
L 'g\ ~e :he trd th a c ~ai ~h
f he IDe -d, no I -I t ~ h, I .s
t: un Ig te Ie: ~, i :l g ~n .; f(.. e
~ lcr- ~ri ,pI for ,d~ tar ng eL .-
ige -Ba es ut at-y -re ·t f i-
c:,~,Jt,iv. th~ "n(i~~ lhuuin!; ....f a~ ••vo......; in 6~
neral, nor fol' being affected with all the De·
licaciesthat occ~r in an adventure, fuch a. -
tqat muO: nectds be. Well then, faid he, fince
thou'lt have it fo. thineEars {ball not only be
-dep~ive4: pC the fweet Songs ofthe Nightin-.
'-'al'" ~ b.... in manner of all its !lIrlvcnture
-']I

;lfc ,f\ ic~ cal ell ee • ~ re, :la.

"h IS ~ "TIe m kn- Jle- e. {o -ve
J

~.. ::]tc \\:l l t r -tc ; I; 4dt: ~

 'World of the SHn~ ;g~
(knew it fully, yet the fhortnefs ofourjour:.
ney into it's Country, whither'I am going
to earn it back allain. would not filffer me

people of the Earth, to what I don't- at all

oblige you to believe; feeing in thatWorld,
where your Miracles are but natural Effech,
this hath pan for a real Miracle. 'So foOn as
thefe little men were fallen a dancing; I
thoU2ht (felt their Agitation in mv felf;
I

on ; fo that I felt the fame Gayners flqili in'

my countenance, which a like Motion had
fpread upon theirs.Atthe Danceclofedmore
and more, the Dancers {humed together, by -
, a prompter arid more imperceptible way of
skipping. The defign of the Ball feemed to - I

be, to reprefent a huge Oiant ; for by ap-

proaching to one another, and redoubling-
the fwiftnefS of their'Motions, they ming- .
Jc;d (Q clofe together., ~hat I diftinguifbed no
G 3 more
 ~ The ijijlory Of the
more, but a gr~attranfparem C91sf{114 ; hQw•.
.cv~r II)Y eye$ Caw them ent~l' one imp al1Or-
there J\.bo\Jt that Jirp~, it Qf?g~n tQ lw PUt

• fp,.~e. ~:h<Jt it ("fqpe~ my e)'er~hr. NuT'

y,erthtJe(S I Q~l~t'(~, lhflt tb~ fafls (til! ap~
pr~3j:h~~ Qn~ 3nQl~r; fpr Chit hum3n.a
M~tj, ~r~tot9r~ fo hpgely gre'tt, was by
degr~s reducf!d jptQ til' ibJpc Qf " younO
lYta.n, pC~ mi~dlf: !l~p~r'l"" ~ ~Illbers

~af P~ltf~ Mu:ro~QJm, were llllKtd t~t.

~p~, in I\l..e twmkling ~ .aq ~ye; Jhe nimT'
~f!r fpnpf Qllr liul~ O~ncerscu~ a CaprioJ,
tq J~~h~igh' and.ll3 t \1TJl p.ottur~ of k)f.m~
ipg, Hf!~d. The h9t t~r, but Jefs agUe, forme<!
tne fJeart; ~n.d tl.\oie that were much. hea\li~
er, flJrnifus:4 p)11y the ~OIW$. ¥1~1h, apd
~~ufI1pnefs! . .' .
WhJ:~ that lQvf}Y big ypuPg' MRll, w~s
~p.ml'lt:Hly finiQ1ed, tllougq the fpeedy
Com-
 World of the SUIt. 87
Compotition· of him, had hardly aIIow~d .
me rime to obfcrve any interval in the Pro-
l'reffion ~ I faw the Kinl! of all thefe Peo~ .

little Kfng, it perceived it felf then, tob~

no more but one. For fame time he fiood
confiderrng of. me, and feeming. by. his
looks, now acquainted with me; he drew
near, carefftd lllc, and giving-me his Hanq:
Now it is, laid he, . that without wrong-

.he brighter R.egions of the Sun i the molt

ordinary, as well as the moft ufeiul of our
Employments, is to Travel Qver the vaR
Countries of this great W-orld.· .We cori-
ouO y obkrve the Manners of People~ the
Genius of Climates, and the Nature of all '
things, that deferve our Confideration; by
means whereof; we form to our felves;3; cer-
tain Science of every thing that hath a Be-
ing. Now thou muft know, that my Vaf..
G 4 . Cal~
as TbeHiftory"uf tht
[als travelled under m~ Condua; and t~ thtr >

~nd, we Qlight have tupe to ohferve thmg~

~ore,cQriouOy, we re~ain~d not that par-
. lar Conform - ; Bodies, wh- .'
lot fall unde- lnd whoCe S\
.. would hal' -'jake too mt
e; but we :>ur felvesiI
Is; all my Sl :::Py Qrden,
e Eagles; ar felf, Ie:tft t~
J,1:11ght grpw w~ary, lL\1etamorphofcd my 1
felfinto a Nigbtingal~,. to fweeteti their La-
bour, by tpe Charms of Mufick: Without I

a,ying, I fol10'Ye~ the rapid Hight of my I

People; for I perched UPQD the flead o f t
~pe of my Vaff~)s, and we were mil purfu~ 1
-. Qur Journe} • ~igbtingale,
abitant of~ of the obfc
.lnt~y, ~hat - ~ we 'travel
:>ugh, afioni ~in the Po'
nl Eagle (for e o~ for non"'
r, qut what j e) ft;lJ a bew
l~g my Misfo.rtune: I oraered my Pe~pJc (Q
ba!t,and ~e 1,ghted onthetopoffomeTrees,
\;Vhf;r~ that ~~a~i~able Bjrd lamented. I to,Ok
{Q much P.leafure ill the fweetnefs ofberdole,,:,
f\l~Air~" dpt' t~.t~e end Im1g~t ~~joy them,
~he ]~>,nger,and ~lth ~ore COflv~ntence,1 re-:-
f.ol'·~..l ~~ •• ~ "nd~cei1t' h~\r 'I .J ___ :r_.J -·pon,
tbe 1\f,hereinh9 3gi-,
~ar =s, th~t had L nto-
f~e a~ ~~gle~·l pi. v~tfc'h
- 0
 -World-or" the Sun: 89
fo turptifing -Adventures, which fo dexteroufly
taifed the Paffions, and the Air was fo well adap.
~ed to the Letter, that the< Nightingale, was quite
.. ,... 'Iro ..
,... 'I T7 • ...'I"'!II

cept all the ~fteem, I put upon her;if jhe thought,

~hat that could make her deferve, the Honour of.
<lying in my place; but that Fortune, not having
"r:eferv.ed fo muCh GJory,fQr fUGh a Wretch as fhe,
ilie only accepted or that efteem" as much as might
hitlder me" from being afhamed of my Friendfllip.
I made anfwer again" on my part" with all tlie

f.oeve~ I pleafed. In this Exercife" we fpent fo~~

and twenty Hours; and I believe, we had never
given over making of Love" had not our Throats
denied us any more Voice. That was the only
Obftacle" that 'hindred us from proceeding: For
perceiving" that the Pains I took, began to tear
my Throat, and that I could hold out no l~.
ger" without falling into a Swoon, I made her a
fjgn to draw n~ar to me. The danger fhe thought
~e to be in, amid!t fo many Eagles, perfwaded
her" that I ~al1cd her to my ai4: She ~e ~ie.>
mg
 90 T~ Hiflory of the
ing immediately, to my Aatftm<;e, and refolv-
ing to give me a Glorious Inftance, tlw: file could
tor
n
a• FMnd
.... ••~
brave Death even upon his Throne,
II 'II _ ~, n_ •
____ 1 __ 1

timorous Nature ,ougbtt() have madeher wa-

TCr; and nevenheleiS, llie bofutled not in the leaft:
Pn the contf4ry, filo made-fa much hafte" that
J cannot tell which flew firft,o the .signal, or the
Nightingale.- Proud" to fee under her Feet, the
!lead of her Tyrant, and ravifhed, to think
tha.t for my fake, file was to be Sacrificed,· almoft

. wa5. given. When my Bird perceived °it feif to

be-blind; it forrp.ed to itfelfanotber fight of new.
1 gondy rebuked the Nightingale, fur her too
Qfu Action; and thinking it would be _darlger-
ous to conceal our real Being, any longer from
her.) l told her, .who we w.erc; but the poor lit-
;Je thing,prepotfefied with anOpinion,thatthefC
BarbarianS) whofe Prifoner I WclS, forced me to.
deviiC that Tale, gave no credit to all that I.could-
fay roher. When I found that all- the ReaiOns,
whereby. 1 thought to convince her.) proved ioef-
o fed:ual
 •
World if tpe Sun~ 9J
feC};ual. . I gave' private Orders. . to ten (lr twelve •
thouiand of my" 5ub~al!. . _and imm.edi~aly j the
Nightingale,
___ ~~~ __
~-l
perceived under her
___ TI ____ ~-l..L_
Feet. . flltiver"
TI ___ .£1 ___ • ___ _

pmoarKWltll me. ~o lOOn as me w~s corne in,

I f;ommanded the River to take its courfe" to-
wards the Region, whither my People flew; but
the fluidity of the Water, being inferiOUF to
_ that afthe Air, and by confequence. . ,the Rapi-
dity of their: flight greater than that of OUI'S, Wb
were_left a_ little i:le!l~ puring t~e ,!hole Vey~·

d'lOufand of my Subje8:s" had MetamoIphofed

'themielves, into that River aad Eoat. . which
ca.rded LIS. -My RenlOn{tranc~i had not the leaft
$u.ccefS: She made me anfwe.... that as for the Ea-
gle. . w.ho, I wou41 have it believed, had farmed
to it felf Eyes, it had no. need of them; became
fue had not fhuck her Beak right into the Ball of
its Eye; and as ~o the River and Boat" which I
f~d to have been begot only of a MetamorphQo
Cis of my People, they were in the Wood from
~~le Creation of the World. .·thoogh they had not
been
 9~ The Hijfory of the
been minded. Perceiving her fo Ingenious" in
deceiving her felf, I agreed with her" that my '.
Va1fals, and I, fhould Metamorphofe our felves
__ L __ · ... _! ____ !_ .. _ ___1..._ .... JL _ _ 1 __ r_.l . . ____!.l_-' ...L_ .....

my \.A)urt, wnere J oroerea ner t.O expett me"

we Metamorphofed our telves, to the Eyes of
the Nightingale)nto that preciousTree,thoufoun-
deft upon the Road, of which we have juft now
abandoned the form. Now after all" that I fee
that little Bird" refolved to return ipto her own
CouE~ry" my SL!bj~,,- a.nd I, are ~bout t.? re1Ume

whom in the .World of the Earth, ye call SPi:

rits" and your prefumptuous ftupidity, hath gi-
ven us that Name; becaufe" imagining no Ani-
mal, more perfea: than Man" and perceiving that
fome Creatures, perform things above Humane
Power, you have taken thefeAnhnals for Spirits•.
You are miltaken though, weare Animals as well
as you: For although when'we pleafe" we give
to our Matter, as you have jult now feen, the ef.
fential Figure, and Form 'of the things" into
which we pave a min4 to transform our felves"
~hat
 World oftbe SUit. 93
that does not infer that we are Spiries. But liften,
and I'll difcover to thee, how all thefe Transfor-
mations, which feem to thee to be fo many Mi-
r"rl~sJar'" "0 Il'n..~ bu" n'lfe ........--lral ~R"~ 'T''lou
r : kl! , th xir JOrr Ihal: nts the
I: he. : ; of s gi W j, \" re i the
r cip f ~ er 1C i -air we ght
t ave . lIT nai . fa ~ore tiV(; 'an
t e ot : 01: re I iOll:- nd SuI: nee
( OO} ar I e 1i J at N thi: ing
iu,ppOfeu, It mUll neeUlt oe, tua~ OUr .lDlagination
meeting with no Obftac1e" in the matter that
c;ompofes'us, it difpofes the iame as it pleafes, and
becoming MiftrefS of all our Ma1S, makes it by .
moving all its' Particles, to pafs into the order,ne-
ceffary for conftituting that· great thing, which it
had formed in little. So that every one of us, I

1- 'fig. ~gin' the • ce, 1 pa f tt- :Jrc-

sT int hie" :he mil ob< lart-
~ . ar JavL by t et of lagL on,
.r ted 3" r :er :he otic ne My
t pre- ,ing em, "tr ·om- O\L Ives
i . th. '1le.,us Ea ~ h~ g h )e:i
1 ~t 0 h~ ~ rr ~ to "fc etto ~ ot
them agam, but to imagine rumfelt' a tnarp-fight..
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 tranfmuted into Men, thou
iaweit us dance frill fometime after, becaufe we'
were not as yet recovered from the agitation.
whi we 19ht J g to r rr er"
J.Ua~ r C .1S L "1: frer e '.I Iller
Bell \vh, tho th be ~t!: Ch-
for .lC t. ,aft
. aile ~llu
~.
~ ~ f~
101
 9+ The HiftorJ of fbi
(ouild. wruoh was. (;Clufed bY the firiking m th~
Clappef;a.ndtherefore thou faweft us dance, be-
fore we made that great Man, becaUfe tor prd-
dnAinn nf htm it hehnved u!; to take all the ge·

'!] I:"'G.rv.l& '1& "', .."" ................. .&.1. ...... ..., V " J_VUAo ..... .AoUo&.l, M • .a_ ..&.""
CqI~n8i5 of yoor Im:j,ginatiOh. .
He ContinUed llis ProbatiOn, ifld "j}}nfftateti it
, by fG familiar and palpable InftanCes; that at
lcmgdi I was·undcceiv'dof a gi"eat'fnahy iUpr04l'd
9pinions, wherewith our obLlinateDvfiorspaffefs
~he minds of the weak. At that time] beg«d' Cd
;O; _ _ ~I'110: ... A L_",! __ .... _1=.-. . .'\...."..!~~_._ ....:. __
... ~' ..L_i'"~

upon 1[~) 1 (;0JlCCIVeU, 1 lay, rnattnat Jmagmanon

, might produoe without a Miracle, all the .Mu'a:-
_ des. whieh it had performetlo A thouuridEx3nt-
PlesofilmQft tbe like eifea5,atfumdd bypeopie
/o~Ol1r GlobeJit~y pet{waded ,me of this. C;p~K.,
of lia[Y,whohavmgbetnprefetitata fightot Bulls,
. and his imagination all the night after¥ rtLtJning.
\ aponHOmsjound bis,forehead hOrned next rilOrfli-
iog. GIIIlII' VitilH, who bent his mind; and 19 vigo.
iOOfly ex~itet1 it" toCOlXl¢ivc,theNatureofFdIlji
_ baviJlj by ane1fort o£ I.tJmJiNrion;,. gl~
W
 World of the Sim. 9S
to his matter the fame motions, that that- matter .
ought to have fur conftituting. Fony, be-
came a FooL King Cotlrrn being Pti1ical"
and fixin2 his eves and thoUllhts uoon the fi-eflf

- -....... _ - -_ ..... - ... - .. - .. -~ _ .. _ - ...... _ _ .... , , - - - - -.. _ ........_ ... 110

imagination, that was not ftrong et'lough, to give

tothemrelves the Figure of the Monfters, which
they conceived, had furcefufficlent to mufter the
matter ofebe F4tll4, that was much hotter, and
more moveable than their own,intO an order prop":
~:!~~:.~~S!~.~??~!~::~~~~~~~~!}

'UIlU~U alUU~ • .n ~1 ~LUIa11)' \AU~l J.U~li:l.U""~:I, W Il~l·~·

with I fatisfted my felf" fo throughly convinced

me" that I made no doubt any more, of the won.:
ders which tho Man-fpirii told me. He asked me".
if I defR'ed any.thing elfe of him 1 and I thanlre-d'
him with all my Heart: Mter that, he held ftill:
the goodnefs to adviieme, that fince I was anfn~'
habitant of the Earth, I thould follow the Night.
• ihgale into theobfcure Regions ofthe Sun;becaufer
they were more futable to the pleafures which'·
.Human Nature covets.- No.:fooner had he ·coti~·
dud.
 96 The Hijlory of the
eluded this difcourfe" but that opening his
Mouth yery wide" I taw the King.of there little
Animals come out of his Throat" in fhape of a
Njgftt~gal~. Th~ great.. ~Jl i_n!tan~ly fc:" down;

10 high; fo thai I did not loie fight ofh~r. We tra· .

velled ll\uch about the fame rate; fer feeing I was'
. indifferent what Country I went to fir1t". I was
very willing to accompany her; befides that the
obfcure regions of the Birds" being more con-
form to my Conffitutioo" I hoped alfo to meet'
with Adventures there.. more a~recableto mv hu-

- -- ----- --- -- - 0 -- - I. - -- - -. ----./~ - - ----

Kingdom of that little ~in1ter j who then ca-
red no more for my Company" 10 that I lott fight-
of her. I fought her" and called to her; but at
length growing weary of running up and down'
.in vain after her,I refolved to take fome reit: For.
that end I laid my felf along. upon a foft Carpet
of GrafS" fpread at the Root ot: a lofty Rock"
¢at was cov<:red' with many trees, whofe blith; .
and frelli Verdure was a perfettEmblem. ofYo~th:.
. l!ut.~hilft foftened by the. GharnJP QfJhppl!1~t ..
. " . . Tb~
 WorM oftbe SHll, 97

The Hijlory of BIRD S. ' .

.n to fall of a . Shade, I
eived in th~ nge Bird,
ered over m fupported
fo flight an ible a 'rna-
~t I was m in doubt,
whether it might nOt be alfo a little
U niverfi:, balan~ by its own Center~
However by little and little it def,.
cended, and at length 0lIDe fo near,
that it filled my. Eyes with. a· delight..
ful Profpefr.The Tail of it feemecf to
J,its Breaft mel'd, its
Incarnate, . ~d Purple,
offed a glit"" n of Gold,
yes wherec from itS

pt a long the Wing,

and I was fo attentive to' obferve what
became on't, -that my Soul being con-
tra£ted, and in a manner wrapt up in the
fole aaion of Seeing, it hardly reiched my
Ear, to let me hear that the Bird fpoke as it
fungo
How- y little and Ii
frommt diftin~Hy ra
·Syllable md· Difcour
uttered.
H
 98" , TIM Riflorf,Oftbe.
" To the beftofmy Memory, then i~ [pun
out its Song int9 there terms, -' ~ .
~~u 'ar_e S: Str:ang~, ~~iftlcil__the. ~ird,-

:, I perceiYe your mind plJ.~la.d tQ conceive;

how it is poffiblethat I il)ould iexprefs my
, ~lfto you, in acolltinued Dilcourfe, fee..
ing though Birds ' imitate :your words,
they un4erfiartd not the meaning of them;
,bUtl ,00_ the c)t~er hru!d, whell' you coun-

:,~ Ne~rtbeIe[s, in the. fame manner as

~ngR: you", there: have been tOme [0
ltlgtm.iQm,::as 00 have underllOod and fpo-
,j{enauJ; Language, as Apottrmilli, Thj~"e..
~s, .AneXi""~Mr" .£fof, and many. others,
whofe names I conceal, becaufe theyne..
:VeftJaIBe to ,9ur kn'owledge;' fo there are
- .J:hofe among~ us, . who. Underftandr' and
Jpeak yours~ ., Some inqeed,., know rotr
the Language of one Nation: But jull fa
c~,' " , as
 . i
World of the Sufi.
-91 '
as there are fome; Birds that fay: noohing' at
all, fome that chn-p, and others that [peak ;
.J.,.a~Do "rA ,., lr" fn.rt"\a t'"nn;'D ~ .... ~t:)A- 'TTl,,... ~..,.

VlJ un \.I., Go .l ...",u.. l. U\>Ul ... V.l .11 J 1115 u t' l1.ll:tJ"'Jr-',

nnd perhaps that Emotion of our Will iSl,

that which hath made our Wings to grOV1;
'as \Vornen with C~iild imprinti upon ;their
Children,' .the 'figure .of the things: t'her
'hav~ longed for; or rather as~ thofe w~
....",If.;,.... ... ", ..""IT'. ,.~T,;.~' lA, I"'", ...... fO,.,. 4;:.nT;rh' h""~

.J.CltSJ.\ot .I.~a~.I6 ""-f' _,.tr.1, YY .l.JVI..l..l a. 'Y ~J:..l\otr.&.IVJ,""''" U9&"&.I{V

offpeaking, to fave hi$ Father;s ~ife,

-taught a Language all of' a fudden ; 'or in
lliort, as that Ancient who being purfued
. by his Enemy, and .furprifed without
Arms, had Bulls Horns grow out on his
Fore~head, .through ·the delire that a Rage,
not unliket{) that of that ~ft;- ititpiredin..
to him.' .... '-
When Birds then arrive in the Sun, thay
go and affociate ,theanfelve5 to ·the :Re~·
- H 2- ltck
 ,
J 00 tht HiflorJof the
lick of their kind. I well ~ceivef you
\_
are
_
big with expeaation to l~n ,.what
: .. :,. T ...-,J.._ .... ____ 11 ... _ ..... _
I
.... II.l"!1o.....l ....

~ VI II.:) ..... ",1I!Wl d,1 .L 11", W "'Y' IL Ud.Lll

made of the Branches of Aloes, Cinnamon

and Frankincenfe, it takes its flight, and
diverts its courfe towards the Sun, as the
Country to which its heart hath long af- .
pired. It hath indeed made many At-
~...........W" I......t',..,....a ,c,..,..... ,..".",....... _I:f1...:_1W ..1.. ..... '7,....••

· tJIW'-'''' "'IA" lllllA\'U'V~ .L lUUU\;.UUU j d,lIU

· therefore I'll explain it to you. The Phe-

.;$ is an ~e~~pr~ite, . but amongll Her-
· maphrocbtes, It 15 hkewife another Phelli&
altogether extraordinary; For------ .
It continued half a qQarter of an hour
without fpeaking, ",nd then added: I per-
ceiveyou f\lf~ what I have told you to .
be raue, but if' what I fay be not true,
· the firft' time I come intO your Globe, may
. . an Eagle devour me.
It
 World of tbe SUl1.· i Q-~
It remained a little while IQnger hover-
ing upon Wing, and then,H~w away! . _:
The i\dqlira~ion that its relarion pu~ Ole,

of Birds, th~t their number. equalled al.

mofi: the number of th~ leaves. dlat cove.r
red them. The th:Y that furprifed me
moft was, that in it of growing wilder
upon my coroing, th~y flew about me,
One chirped into my Ears, another fetch-

them.
They held me in this pofrure, until I faw
'Four great. Eagles come, of which Two
baving with their Talons taken faft hold
on me by the Legs, and the other Two .
by the~ Arms, they carried me up aloft in
. the AIr. . ,
'Amongft the Wood I fi>!ed a Magpy,
that 'made a great buftle Hying up and
down; and I heard her call to me, that I
H J fhould
 1*02'- The' Hiftory ofthe
fhould not make refiftance, becaufe her /
Companions were already confulting to'put
Gat it1v~ Eves. - This admonition put a flop

- -The :filit thing they did, was to throw

me iiltG,Prifon, in the hQllow Trunk of ~
JargeOalf~' ahi!l ~ great many of the {hong-
eft' 'perroea' upon 'the Btanches, where
they I;JCrfdt~,~ the duty: of a CQmpanf of
Souldier-s ftandmg to their Arms.

my charitable lYfugpy informed me 'Of aU

~~paLt. , . --,'
, ,'AmoHgll Other things, I re~ember fhe
to~ 'me;' That ~he Mobile of the Birds,
6:~ Ip~de':a Jhea Vy Rout, lbeccrufe th~y had
trePt me lID 4ongwithout devouring me,
tha~ they pad alledged I would -grow 10
~ean, thit ~here wou'ld ~be nOthing -of me
~ett ~~ '~~~ ~ J'iCk, '- : ~'-" ',
l
 World ofthe Sun. . I' 3'
'. The Clamor was like to break outinto-
a Sedition; for· my Magpy :hav:irig taketi-,
the bQldnefs to repreient, That' It was'-~·

l1aked, which Nature her. felf,wheI) file

produced it, took no care to fur.ni(h with
things neceffary for its Preiervation, fhould
be ca~ble of Reafon like them. Nay more,
a.dded .they, were it an Animal that re~
f~bled our iliape fomewhat more, it were

were on1y made -for him., . Man, - who

with bis iliarp-fightedSoul, cannot diftin-
guiIh Sugar from Arfenick, and who'll
[wallow down Hemlock, ,when his quaint
Judgmenf-hath made him take it for Par-
fiey. Man, who maintains that there is
no Reafoning, but with a reference to the
Senfes; and -yet has th.e weakeft, dullea ,
and molt erring Sen~s -of aU Creatur~s'
living. Maa, in fine,whOm Naturi: hath .,
~ '-, H 4 ' forme<!,
 104- The Hiftorfofthe.
fDrme4 as fhe dQth Monfters, tQ fbew her
skill; and yet hath fillcxl with the Ambi~,
~?n pf d?~~ring ov~, and extirp;tting

o~e to ~nother, he: 'hath ne~ther Beak,

f~~thers ~or Claws, and can he have. -.
Spiritual Soul?, Strange! what Impml-:
nern;e is tbat ! '
'; Though the ll1Qfe geneJ;Ous pjtty'ed me,
yet ~hat ,~dere~ n~t, bu~ t!,tat 'an I~d~

put Magpys, Jays, and Starlings; becaut~

,they would have IlOne but thofC that under:-
~ood my Language. Inftead' of trying m~
~ttheBar:IIthey it tne fu:~ling upopa ~tump
,d ~ rp~e~Tree;;, wher~.he that was Prefi..
de~t oft~e ~qUrt, haying cha~~ two Q~
~three times W~~11 h~ Beak, ancl Majefri-
,cally ~~ l)is ~eathet¥Sked m~ From
,~,hCnccI ~" of wjJat~n and kind
. J W~? l\1y~harita~le, M~y,ltad g\VCJl
} ',' . ' 'me
 World of the SIIII. I 04j~
me fome -InfiruEiions before" which were
. very u£eful to me; and am<;>ngll otbe.r,
that I fhould have a fpedal care, not to
- ; that I we. I made an-
hen, That I little World
is called tI- at the Phe-
nd· fome om. aw in Co.urt-
have told th _t the Climat
I was born the tempe-
rate Zone of the Arrick Pole, iri the U~~·
~ of ElWope, which was caned FrA1ict:
and that as to my kind, I was not a Man,
as they ~ined, but an Ape: That fome
Men had carried me away very young out
~f the Cradle, an~ bro.~t ~e upamOOgft
That t~ir ~ had ren
my skin [0 c ,t they mad.
xget my 'oogpc, ~
: me theirs ~inp.ly witt
HUd Anima :ufl:omed mj
wa1k o.nly C :. And that-
in a, word, fince it ~ more eafie to degcn~
rate than to improve in kind, the Opi-
nioo, Cuttom, and· Food of thefe un~
. , ~~ Beafts, had fo much power UPr
00 me.,· that hardly' my· Parents, who
. are Apes of Q!Lalit}", could t~e!DfClves'
know "ed for 'my ,
that t- ave me vie\\- t
Birds, 1. cafe they :>
. bea ,uJ,d ~ wi ..
~ lfonfter.
 106 The, Hiftory of the -
Gentlemen, aied a Swallow of the
Court, {Q foon as I, had made an end, I
hold -him as
- convitled
- - - :- ,You
--
have
-
not
-
for ..

'Was carried' aw.ay fi> yoUng ,out' of ,the

BotOm of my Parents, . and Tranfported .
into F,.UUf, that I had rea{OO to call that .
my,Da~iV'eCdllrtJ:ry which lremembred beft.
: 'That reafon though fpecious, was Dot
fbfficient; b~ the moll part being mvifh..

fOabomiMhle a thing, that.it were gOod

~.iboold belietre him tp be only an ima-
gftlary Being. . ..' , -
All the Court clap: their Wings for. Joy,
and irnmediady I was. commitea to .the AI..
,eermen-Birds- to be examined, on conditiOn
they iliould prefeRtme again next Morning,
and at the opening of· the Court, .make
re~ of -(he Verdict of; vhe, Jury. They
\:UlO,frtoQk 'theiAffair t~.aDd rearried me
.' .' "intG
 World of the-sUd.- t'o,
into a "Bye-c~pke : ,Whnft'they, kept me -
there, they. did nothing but. play ~ hlindred
Monkev trIcks about me; rometllnes they

trifles, undt next Morning, that die hour

appointed being come, they brought me to
appear aga~n before' my Judges : Where my
Syndicks, being eefired to, tell the truth, .
anf~red, 'ntat todifcharge their ,COB-
fciences.diev· rhclil!ht -thenlfelvts obliged

ilccording -to ~ cufrom. of Apes-, when aD .

-w.-eukJ not do. Now though he hath bee"
bred amongft Men,feeing an Ape is· always
'an Ape, we maintain that: it could ·not
-have been. in his power, to refrain. frolB
-imita~in~ 'our A;pHh Tri~ks. " This1 Gerl-
-demeo, IS our Report. .'
. The Judges at that dre,'" near to give
their Opinions; but theyperce1.ved tha~~he
~ky was ov~caft and charged. with
. Clouds,
 lei '(he Hijiory oftbe, ,
Clouds, whidt made ~hem break up the
Court.
__ I i.pag!n~ ~t. the appe~ce of bad

ferene; beCaule tIley were atraId, ttl,at the

bad,temper of the Air, might work fome
alteration in the good Conftitution of th~
minds of. the. JuClges.; that the peevifh
temper the Birds are in, during Rain, might
. . ..
~nfluence the Cauie: Or, in a word, that
- . .-. -

Hymg all along by my fIde, and 1 believe

file would never. have left, me, had not
her Companions drawn near to us. . . ,
" At length' I arrived at the place. of my
lriron, where,during, my Cartivity, I ~
.~o otller Food but the King s Bread;. for
fp they call half a hundred Worms" and ~
. ~y Maggots, that every ievenhoW"S they
~ro~ght ~e to ~~ -, '
I
 World of the Sun. 10,
.1 thought that I lhould have appeared
again next day, and every lb:ly thought
en t'nn· h11t' nnp of rnu Tl"ppnprc:! t-nlcl rnP !If'

.... ,. ",,..,.__ A& . . . .,.,. ..,WW'...a . .~ ....._ _ "'... "'~ ........., . . ." '. . .

. enormous, replied' my Keeper, that a Bird

can be afperfed with. They accufeit--
can you ilelieve it? They accufe it~­
but good Gods! the very thoughts of it
'makes my Feathers to frand an end! In
!I UTn1"f1. t-1v-l7 !lrrnlP it-_ t-h!lt- .,lnrina t-"*,,

. . _..-- --,-- - --. -- -.......

ture, it might at leaft have beguiled its
---- --
·Eyes and Defire with their Plea1ures: But
feein~ the pleafures of one kind, have no
relation to thofe ot another, it will fup-
port all the fatigues, and taft aU the bitter..
. :nefs of Royalty, and never be able to reli1h
,the pleafures thereof in the leafr. . .
. They have fent it away this Morning,
accompanied with a ~eat many:t:l!YfIt!-
aDS, to take heed that It do Dot ~ifon It
iClfby the ~y. Though
 , ,
1,1el Tbe" Hiftori of tbe 5

. Thopgh my' Keeper' was naturally a

gteat Talker, 'yet he ~urft not entertain
nlP ~nlr InnO'l"r in ~ifrnnrfP. fnr fp!lr nf

.- ... _ . . . . .. - . - a~&_ ... _A· .. ,.- - _....t) .... _ - - , -

~ ... _ ....

Adtocates, Counfellors, ~ Judges, and Pre..

fidettts1 roofted by Stories, 'every one ac·
cerdiog to" his Dignity, on the Top of a
tan· Cedar : For. the reft:who ,were only
ptefeht out of Curioftty, they placed theIl1l-
f'~tTPC . nrnmifrnnn{lv till ~ 11 thl!l qP!ltc;: UlP~

""--0 . " -_ ... - .. & . .- . .- . - I r-~"---o ,-_ ........ -~... •

Really., .£aid £he CD me,' you diPnot believe
-bow: mwh lam 'ooncet!ned atyt>lir Misfur-
<lane; for thOugh: I am not· ignorant that
~ngftdie Living, a; Man' is.a Plague,
~at ought to be-purged out of all well-gO-
.'1Tcrn"dfuates; yet when I ~U to mind, that
I was bredamongft them from the Cradle,
.dmt I hive learned their Language fo per..
.feaIy, tbat I hadalmoft furgotmine own;
abd thal I have eatcm Qut of ,their Ha~s
.. ,-:. ~.' fudJ,
 tForlJ of the Sutz~' . III
ruth excellent: 'Green Cheefe,. I cannot,
think on't,. but that it brings W,ater in-
to mv Eves and Mouth; I have fo greata

to· have rnen arid fallen upon my knees

before the Eagle, thinking he 'bad been tM
King, if my Magpy with bet Foot had nOt /
held me faft in my Seat•. Did you think;
laid ilie, that., that great Eigle had beea
our Sovereign ? That's. an Imaf{inatian·Of

command us.· " ., .... , . .

But our' Politicks are ,~oo. : dirrerent,
for we never chufe for. our· Kings,but,the
Weakeft, the Wildeft,.~and : moth Peace.
able: Nay:, mdwecbange:thetil every Six
Months,. a.nd:pitchupoQ. the W~ak, to;tb.e
end, that tlK: -:meanefi:,;allloogtblls; "who
?lay ~ave ~n ~rong~d .by him,mq
take blS B:ev.enge., We mwe ~tbe Mild,
toth~ mq ne..'neither· bate;.i>r~-bC baud -of
\.] , any
 112 The 'HijltJry of tbe .
any Body;' and we would have him to
he of a Peaceful Temper, for avoiding of
War. the Sink of an Iniullice.

All that Day the Parliament fitS; our

King is mounted on the top of a high Yew-
Tree, upon the brink of a Lake, bound
Feet and Wings. An the Birds one after
another paiS before him ;. and if any ,of
them know him to be Iruiltv of a Crime

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her, w~ fhe meant by the. laid Death ?
And this IS the Anfwer file made me : '
, When the Crime ofaMalefa8:or is jud~
to be foenonnous, that an ordinary Death
is not futHcient to expiate it, they endea&
vour to chufC one that contains the pain of
maay; and in this· manner they proceed
to it : ,
, . , ThofC amongft us thlt .have the moll
roeJaneholick'"and d~leful Tone, are' fent
to
 World·oftbe·.SHn. I J~
to the 'Malefillor, who is carried upon, n
difmal Cyprefs. There therefadMu(J¢i~
aos gather about l1im, ~d thV ,the· Ear fill
with fuch d doleful
hat the bitt i Sorrow
19 the Oecc i Orga~
log his . He: i away to
and dies eh Sadnefs. •
ler fuch a . ~ver hap~
peps; for feeing our Kings are exc~dillg
mild, they never force any Body to mcur.
fo cruel a Death; u}X>llthe account ?ERe.!
venge. . ~ .' '. r
. He that atprefent Reigns' is·a Dave,
'who is of fo' ~aceable a tem~r, that t'o.:
, when two ?ere: to be
3'nds, it was thing ih.
Id, to· make :ive what
vas. ~ ~.U

agpy could i fo long: a

wi~out b: _ :l by foIllC'
of the Bv-llanders ; and beeauK: ilie Wa9 /
already furpeaed .of fome Intelligence with
me, the chief of the AffeJ:nbly made
on~ .of the. Eagles' of my guard, catch her
by the Neck, and make Hire of her Per..;
fon. .King. Dove 'arrived in the mean
while; a t1 and the ,
that .wa was . the' :.
Qf the gr. i the Birds,
made ~ agpy•. :The
 ~ 14 TlJt,Hiftory iJftht
iPg, fully informed of the Scandal fhe had
given, asked her her Namc~ and how {be
tame to know me? Sir, anfwered fbe, all
- amaze, My . - -.gget~ there
te a great m~ ~lity ,that
:Jch for me. n the Wod
~ Earth, of, 3. Native, I
Ormed by Ci ~y there, (
ving heard n- Cage,came t-
~it me at the Window where I hung,) 't}lat
my Father was BobNAiJ, and my Motner
Cr4&~/: I had not bown fo mu~h but
for him; for I was calTied away very
Young, froni under the Wings of my fa. .
rents; my Mother fome time after died of
- icf;' and m} - - -!ng then paR- -
.c of having ~ iliren,defpai..
-ee himfClfw ,wcnttothe-
dIe Jays, w- killed by a l-
tilt brain. ~~ me a
-.re certain c --Js;. \Vhom .•
caIl·f!og-herds;. who had meta be fold at
a Caftki, where I Jaw that MaQ w.honow
£lands upon his TryaI. I cannot teD, wlJc.
tbcrhc rollcciv~ any KiadneiS for me, but
Ire took the paiD5 to caufe the Serv.ants to cut
mcat.for tne; he had fometim.es the. 'goad.;,
ne( e it for me -. - . - If i
.~ the Winter .me
to -Jled' my C; ~rtU
the J ~ JDIC ---1m.
The
 · ",. .
,... , '
World of th~ SHIi; ':* t S
1he Servants dUrft not v~x ~e in ~is pre~
fence: and one day I rememoer, he ra.ved
........ ~""l the Jaws 0" .1... r".. who held
er Paws, t Iy Lady's
?i- had expo! it will not
1:inent,fo ter ufe of that
{. To com rdelet (for
the Page's vas chatte-:
uU5 vu,", day fome iu~,", VVV1U~ t.'l~at he ha~
taught me. Now it h-appened, -as ill Luck
woued haveit~ though I always repeat~
mY'Leffons in c()urre; that t came ~o fay
in order, juIl as he came iii 'to deliver' a '
MeJfage, Be 'l"iet, ~II So~ oj. WhOf'e,}fHI
'1:".. 'r'1e Man ther .1. .... n." .. ~s Iqdiile<fj
o

,owing the ~ na.tffiially

) Lying" ir ~t I might I

TeU htl ve '1 PF9Ph,ecy ~

tto the plac< if Ye,JeJs
:1 there: 17ft- of -nvia~
moll .I.~.very, VeyJe,~. wa" W'J1Vt,and Ye;-
JeJet in revenge" would have had Die de..
voured by M.IIIH". The~by a Nod
" ()f the head {hew'd, that be Wi1$ ~tis6ed'
with the Pity, that fhe had oonceived for
tny difafter : ,However he difch~rged her .
-to fpe?~ "",,07 rlO'\t'e to me :.. .M.~n""A
Then· h J Adverfary
if hisP ~dy? ;lIe. It
with 1- iathe- was
fpeak, iHake it nc
I 2
 I I6 . . . The Hijlory ofthe.
tIle PointS ~hereon' he infifted againft
me:
';e leA
, O/~
-
t he .ttT me oj
B ~s, jJt Itt; 74t
~
It, At;
aI, &C/~ i OJ el', .1ft fIJ.
.
. !!ni me T ~ air f ~ G lew
tht; ilewy, d. Pal u"idnl. bY"'Atro'-Lioh, la .....
Iy artived from the World of the Earth,
his Breaft frill gaping ·by a {hot that- b~
llath.received from Men; Demandant a-
gainft all Mankind, and by confequence a-
gainfr an Animal,' whom 1 pretend to J:>e
a -~rr-t..~r ~C tI"' .. gr<>nt Fndy. . It "'Ol,Jrl
be {) 1 "Q {ttl for s, IL ler y: -
:df h, ~ - ole -es at . c: cc m
.N ert :lef ie,g he 'te "va JU'
·L ot :~'e tl;.g: It s .tatl cc
.ce s t C( ~m. •\l lId )f t L ng
tbmk W'Iil Lhl,luld u~fel v": t~ lla v... ueeu &1la...",
_M~n,. thaf~. to fa y, Degraded from Rea-
{on'and Immortality,which we enjoy above
,them, had we . refembled :tbem in any
.un;ufr. Aaiop '1ii{e theirs. ......
0, ~lft usexamine then, Gc~\emen, the
. niffi~"lti"<' ~f .1'itil'''"uiP v.,; ..~ a.!' "he -\p-
lea 1[1 : at .ir -VI p- dS i e[ Ja~
e c
T fi IS . tl1 m ~er les !et to
it, Th· lef nc hi~ m !It; a~ n?
rid
 ,World Of th~ SHl1~ ,1 17
, and t~n in cafe we make it out; that he
is, whether or wt .. he defcrves Death for
.
that?..- y " t • 'of 111

,blOWS rus l'iOle UKe a natty v IlJal1~; httijWt,

In that he is Featl:ered ~ut in.fart ; fixth..
ly, In that he carnes hlS Tal before; fe.;
yenthly, In that he hath always a great rna.. ,
ny little [quare Bones in his Mout;h., which
he has neither the
'I' .
wit to fpit out, nor fiyal..
I t I • t 1"1 I ..... ,.._

nls Legs mort on

oy tne mld,ale,. 10 tnat •
he falls ~pon his Geegot~;,. and tben by
Magica.l w..o.rds. t~at he mutters,. I have
ob~nled " T~lat his broken Legs are
,knit again, and t~t, he' rifes. up as
gay ashe ~asbefo~e. ' Now~ 'you know,
Gentlemen, that amongfl: all Animals,'
none but Man has,fa blac,k ·a· SoqI, as to
be given, to Magick,and· by confequence I
~ndQde,' .That ;tllis is ,"a., Man,:, We a~
., . 'I j now
 'i " Th~ Hiftory ~ftht .
noW" to enquite, whether Qr nOt, ~ Mat),
he deferves to be put to dea~h.
_
I U1ink; Gentlemen, i~ never was yet
_ .. _ ... ...J_

, ~t Nature flx>uld' repent- her ~elf of bet

. work?' '. .' . . .
'. The. firft a~d: (l.\Adarnental Law, fOt'
. . the tMinten,a.n<;e of ~ Rep~blick, isEqua~
ity ~ But Man cannOt endure it to Etcr~
nity
"". i he &:Us upon
-...... - - ..us
- that
...
lie may eat us.. ;.

• ~nd' Griftins,who are t()O h~rd fOr t~

flron~fr M~n,. to be his Ma{rers. .
I But why fiioutd that ~at Size, ~
tQl'lforma~o.b· of Members" make the di..;
'hrfity of Kind, feeing there ·are DwarftS
.Jftd (iiants t9 be fuu.p.d amongft Men ~hem":
, ftlvts f .' " -, ., ;: :., ~:, .: .
, . NaylU01e, ;ta.~ ~tnpire wher~with ~
~r t~~l~, i~ but 'an .imaginary
1\lght : .O~ tho CE)ntf~, tbeyare fo i~
-: ., ,.
~ , ,. . , ,.. nablQ
 World ifthe StUt~ . . t: i 9
nable to Servitude, that leaft they fhould
not ferve, t~y kll o~ another fOr Slaves:.
Tn ,.hi~ manner. the Yonn~ are Slave.c: f'n ,.,,~

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they apprehended, that Libertr might come
to them from fome unex~ed place ;
they frame to themfelves &xis in all ~
in the Water,. in the Air, in tie Fire, anJ
under the Earth; they'll make them ·of
Wnnd_ rnther than want: na.v_ T 6m.cv al.

Monarchy," and of that natural Bmpire of

Man, asmeywould have it, over die Ani..
~aIs, nay and over us too; lor he has· been
fa infolent, as even to ~nd to that.· In
the mean while, ia ~uencc o( that ri- '
diculous PriQCipality be fhlrlv· ~kes to
himfelf the power "/J ute arid beath· over
US; he lays limes for us, clWns us, cIa~
Us up in Prifon, kills us,- eats -us ;, anfJ
make5 the power of killing thofC which re-
I. 14 ,maio
 ~f9 rkeJ!ijlorJ Dfth~
fl'IAin free, 'a m.ark Qf Nobility; H~ tbiQk$
tI~~ the Sun. ~ lighted on purpqfe ~o l~t him
fee: ho~ t~P.1.~keWar ~ga:tnft US,.; ~hat Na~

of future C;oq~illgellc~es•
.- Good, .' tPen,. is. not this unfuPEOrtabIe
, Pr~dc:? CO,uld allY that's guilty' of it, de-
fetve a lefs punifl1ment, than tQ be made a
'Ma.n?'Ho:w~v~r, 'I dqn'tinfiftupqn this~a
r~fon" why JlC ihould condemn thjs ~an :

him; in that he eat.$ us, wh~ he; may fa-

ti~ hishu'nf?cr wIth qlOr~ roriv~nien~
~00d; a!1d wh~~ I ~eem thy bafeft of ~
H1 that ue .~bauches the good nature of .
io~e' of o~r . Brethren, ~'Of '~ers,
)?a~Icons auq Vultures, by teaching them
~o ~qt~.!r '~hore of tlidr .kincl,· aild to. fe~
l,}1l tl,lerr feHow, Creatures ali'le; or to ~"!
~ v~r us tip:wo bi~ clutches; '. .". .
.# '... r "!. _.. " ~.f -' f"" ~ . .
.. , ' ( . ., r-, "
j ''''"
 JY,tld fit rhe ;~n. ~, I
. That ~loJle is fo ~reffing a Conftdera~i.
on, thatJ 'b<tg the {.ourt he may ~ d.G
pat~hed pvthe tad l)cath. '

w40 havipg three tline$ ftampt withhiS

'. Foot, upon_th~.BriM1ch he fat on;' fpake to
the Court in this manner : . ,
. I~ is tl'ue, {4J.clerIlen, that moved with
Pity, .I und~rtQOk the defence, of that ~~ .
fortunate Beaft.; but luft as I wa~ about to

in any manper,# tQ tIx! pre~rvation offucJt

,~ Monlter, ~ Man i~. .
The whole Mobile clacked with the
'lJeqk, in figp of Joy, and io oongratu~
late. the Sinceri~ of fo CQnfqeQtious a
Bir~, .
. . My. Magpy offered t9. Plead for, me in
. place ofthe other, for it ~as impo!fible for
, lwr to be heard,; becaufe that be_mg bred
among(t Me~, .and ~~h~ps, infe~ w~~h
, their
t" ~: HiJfDrJ ~ tilt
their -MontIity; it was to he feared, that
Ibe would manage the Cauf.e, ,with a pre-
iudicated Mind; -for the -Court of Birds,
De ~ _ ffe a j w- cr, .at ~n in til eL
m.:f cl &C i!ii tI-,t 'f (). er
:& ;e -ea ; ~n fs ; .llk it ~p~ ar
.n t atlll na :>n ~ e..e- f m lli
PI... ief -e.ir ii he U; .t~ _

~ infrmJJn:. J.!ya~ ~~ .
, -d lhook tbeir'Wings,aild itntnwVately .'
flew to Voting. .' - - - - ,.:' -- "
~ . ::'Fhe greatea partf • I was il1form~
firite, inftfted hard, tbac I fbould be dif.
",tched by the- fad Death;, but nevetthe..
~ u.- -en -~ F -ce eci :h· t~ J.,g
l'lC ne to :It: .er r, ;lj nt w h rn
..ii -pi Or . ht: m, Ju se m· -er- 2d
-ht- lie es ar in -:a( of ,~ ic Jeh.
~I -:h Je! -KC k ne '01 t:y 1)\ ht
-tc "lV lie ,t 3.t 1y Jill 11 en m ht '
quadrate with fome of my :Crim~sl and I
d~ftroyed by a Death, whiCh l1l1ght ferve
to 'Undeceive~, of that pretended Em.. -
:;,ire of M'an~ over the Birds, which I
hragg'cJ of, that I lhould be abandotled
to-the weakeft ofthofe -that are carried by
~ ID1 ; Iy Iie lin is: n t -ey :0,
f -ni :l i ~ t :,e ~ u ~y !Ji.
, Ai he aF ,'.t ~te "le:o -t ok u-
~ :I! ~ j -v1 p- _t ~t Ie!:ta &
~a -:-g.
 Warl" of tlit $,$~ ,'. ~ ~
1!nlarg~ in Spet~ing the' particub.r Cir~
~umffances of my Tragedy, beca~ of
art a.ccident that haooened to a: Bird.. who

- - - - - " ,. "
But my Sentence w~ ~QiJriCcd' firft ..
and as foon as file O;Y' which offi~
'as Clerk to the Am had made an end
~f read~g it to me, ' percei!ed all aboUt
" I:s
,
Sky bJa?~ened with Fl~es,. Drones,
• GnatS and Muskcttocs. whtcb hum~

,mongft th~,"th~t1-the molt dif~

pofture ~ MalefaCtor C2Il be. put into '; and
no Bird for what offence fOevcr, can be
Condemned to it. -
"The Officers that waited,o~ 'meto E~e­
cution, were half' a hundrCd Condores,
~nd as many Griffins in the van i. after
whom caine Hying foftty, -a procenlOn of ..
Ravens, that -croaked I know not what
~our¢ul Ditty; and I fancy that I heard '
'" .. ,,'" a&

I
 /1 ~4- .T~ HiJlQrJ -u[tbe
_as at a greatcrclifiance;a Chorus of Owls,
.t!lat anfwered them.
... As we pirted
'L _ j ____ : ___ :1 __
from the
~
place where I
T ____ n:_..l _ _ I: D_
~___

.J"ClU\:I_uc;;J.-, Ul i:i lUiIlllllt;l-,iIlU uu;; n~,uuu:> LU~y

'made ufe of to comfort me. '

-. Peatb., faid they il. me; (putting their
leak tQ my Ear, ) without doubt is nQ
gr~t Evil, feeing Nature our good Mo.
):her_ ....fubjetls
~.... _1 ...... __
£.
alllier
'111._
Children unto it; and
L_ .... __ . . __ _ I: ___ .. r_ ... ~

t,rJU\.I lUJ.atjlUt;U, lL WUUIU !lU&; t..X; oUl . UU1-

power~o give it: There isa great deal Qf
.appearance to the contrary, feeing ~h<; Ani..
mafbegins by play, and ends·at the fame
!ate. . I fpeak to thee in this manner, be-
eaWe thy Sou] not being immortal as ours
~l thou maydi very ,veIl conclude, That
when thou dieit, .all dies with th~e,\ Let
i(Qot'trouble .thee then, that thou doeft
. .. - .. . .' .. -.. . . , , .-of-. . _. lows
. ;a." lit~le fqOpe,r;- what fom~ thy ,. fel~
'j, .•
 World oftl~t. SNit; t'lS
fd~ws wi11do,~'re'it be long:· Thcir.~
clition is more deplorable than :~hine; -fur
:.c ~~_*t.. L": _'___ .:1 :~: ___ I". ·n ..:1 __ ....t_ ... ~

J."'·UW u.auu ,i:U.!,. .!:;u,UI~ LV .LX; Jollie Uau .... U4

is not born ~ In a twinkliQg, of an E~,
- \vhen thou art oUt of this Litef:thau ilial'
be what thou' waft a twinkli~_of an Eye
-before; and that twinkling: ,of:an Eye be.;
jng over, thou fhalt be as' long·dead, .ashe
.. I~,..,_ ..l:_...1 .... 'l"' .... A ... r-.;..,J 4;..!-....,. __ .. D .... __ J..~

.UUALUIC~; au.lV~ ~~LU ~Ui:lL i.~U"IIUII;t.,

·Difpofttion ~, Order,' neeeifaty for' tIm

~Cop.ftruaion of thy Being, :marit not, 'bj
,mixing again of. new, attain. to.a· ~
·tion requiftte for Pringing: thee:; oilccl more
,:again intQ Being? Y.es,i~ may;.buttholilt faiy
to me,I Ihall not remember tbat! have been.
Ha!. dear Brpther" whatd~ that concern
·~hee, '. provided tho~}indeft: thy :felf in.:&-
109? And then rna y It not be, that to. COllt-
fOl'~ t,hee for the 101$ of thy Life, thou'lt
.. .una-
-.&~ ~L.uu, AU'" .." .......... ~U, A&'L"~.U

of annihilatiQ,g Matter,does only, trPUhk

theOeanioQlY tha-eof JW thou oughteft, I
tay, cert:a4Uyi ;tQ, bclicwt:; .that· oeafing to'
I

he, what noW" thou art, tboti'lt begin to be'

foinctbing: ,~fe. : Grant then, that thou
....... Iu 1--.,"'.......... toln..I "fIT-i"'" . " ... P:J..t...J ....

.. , r
• .'. 0.

J , ....' ,.. ... .. .; .t

There
 WorUI/tlie ~ ·f'J1
- There wC\e Four Trees'very near,··and
in a manner equally diftant one from ...
ther, on ~very one of which at a paaIeI

their ~ Prodigious.. long Necks; 'aswidt, a -

Cord, twifted about me,~ the ooea~utm1
Arms,. the other about my,Legs, !.and
bound me fofaft, thuthoitgh.every One.of
thdC· members. . was only ~ai, 1>y a 'Uagle
Neck,' yet it was :not nuny pb~, ~~

~e. E1ies were BilL expedUd,. hccallc

theycx)Uld JlO1r'ay fofd 3$we~ doiJe.
however it :w~· Dot very.1ong;befo~ ~
-
__ e UtAIL
l.. ......... r·.J··"
u;. ..: , . ..; ' . • t ..', .. _ .,','.'
" , ".:.~i ;,,':,
I ._

, The fir1t .thing they .lOip~ NlliSi to

dillr~ f!!J ihir ~ :t~~ ~o;:~
:m-al iTo'\tJt1lCes,; 211tI~fhat Dtfin8utlO8,1IId
f~' ~aliciGuar! mid~ thai:':JD#lB;cS~
affigned to the Bees, to the end they ru8fM
Sting them out as they fed on them ;
~ . my
 12' The, Hiftorj 'of I he
my: Ears to the' Beetles and Drones, that
mey might fiumand devou~ them at the
limc,t.ime; my Sbouldersro the Musket~

for' fearcely \Vis r. vifited.with tWQ or three

faiDt; Beams- of~: Light, .that feemed by
ftealtb to reach me, fo c10fc were there
Battalions, and fo:near my Fleili. '
:--BUt as ev.ery onepfthem was gre~ily
chufin&..tb.e .plqce where he was to bite, I

: -Afterward, Two ;Turtle- Doves drew

Gear. to 'me; at' -their approach, . aU -the-
ghatlly Prep:ll"ath~ for my' Death were:
d~pated:: I. felt my Herons let:' loo~e ~he
~ifts C?f, their ;long Nec~s, wherewith...!
was: ~lI't1: ~ and: mr BOd,.~xtended iIi
form.of a St. ,Andrew s:'crofs, flideJrom the I

Top'O£the F.ourTrees, down. to t~eir very .

.ll~ _. : .. ' _ _ ,. ;
.:' " ..
 Wotldoft~e SUH~ 129
. I' ~xpeaed no ~efs front my fall, than to
pe bruifed by fortie Stone in the Ground' J
but when my fear waS over.;. I waS not.a

.ed a great wood of Myrtles, and another. at

rurpencine Trees, ad;oiningto avaft For':
reft of Olive Trees; ,wher~ King Dove iIi
the middle of his Court !laid for me~ .
. So foon as h~ pe~ceived ttie, he. gave a
fign that they fhould help me to get dOWOJ

faidhe fu!l, If you know-that Bird-?, .. ' _~

. At thefe,words they iliewed me ~ Parrot,'
~ho began to turn rouD<J and, clap ,his
~ings, when he perceived that I ooldide-
red him : Yes,. I fancy; ~ied l to the
Ki~g,: th~t I h;lve f~n him fomewhere J
~ut . F~ar and Joy have fo confounded my
Memory, that I cannot as yet call diflinaly
to mind, W~eN it has been. -
13d, TIJe Hiftory ~fthe.
\ With that the Parrot Game; and embra~
'ing my Face with its Wings, faid to me;
How! do'nt von I<how CA!fttr. then. vimr

~~-f~li i~to' ~ fh;~~. o· His dir~~;f~-'fl~l~

Iy opened my Eyes, and having known
him perfeCtly, I embraced and kiffed
him, and he embraced and kiffed me. Is
it thee, thenfaid I; my poorC4{4r, whore
Caste I ooened. to ~ive thee thv Lihertv.

-- -- --"'--1 ---- ~-- - ~---D -- -------J ----- --

fervefl: to die; OhJy becaufe thou waft

~r~ yet the senate gives thee thy Life.
l't'sfit' we {booM thus acknowledge thofe
Notices,- wherewith Nature enlightened
thine Infiin8:, ,when it gave thee a Fore...
taft of that Reafon in us, which thou waft
iiot capable of nnderftanding.Go then in
Peace, and live JOyfully~ ,
He gave fome eroers in private, and my
White Oftridge, conduaed by the Two
, Turtle
 . . . Worid oftbeS~1t~.t3f
TUrtle· Doves, .carried" me OUt of the Affem~
w~ .
- irdhaving Ith rile a~
lye hours, Ie 1 aForeit,
ch I ,went ·was gotteT
began to tal Jreof Li:..
nd of feeL e· Honey,
:liftil1ed dOt rk of the
Trees; ..
l farley that I lliould neverhav<1 rhade
. an end of my Walk, ( for. the agreable
Varieties of the piace, preferited alway$
rome new .thing more delightful to .my;
Eyes,) had my Body been able to. hd1(1
. - t feeing I fm - - . at lengt1i
1

overcome ' tornnefs,I

d my [elf do e Grafs.
~ thus firetcl- :r the fha~
the Trees, [elf invited.
;, by the freJ ~litude of
the Place ;.; when a humming noife of con":
filled VoiCes, whieh feemed to found aboqt
my Ears, made me awake with a flatt; . .
The ground appeared to be very- revel'
and fmooth, without. the lea:ft Bulli that
might intercept the Sight; .and· therefm:e
. myPro-- _. -::l faramong-- - -
of the everthe1efs';
mutring -.:fd, eouldt
v-ery Of Jtar liftniog
attentivi diftinClly "h.
Kl,
 J ~ :1 . The Hiflory of the _
~el of Greek Words;' and amongft feveral
that difcourfed together, one who fpake to
..h;~ ",,, ..nnl... -

. . VVIo-. ~ U,""O '-''&'f 1 "'''"''' "VI. .......................... - , .. &.&. . . .

you would be pleafed to· order him fome-

·what. . , .-
For fom~ time t heard no more; but af-
'ter a little -inteniliffion, I thought I heard
,one make this reply: Though Elm with
Thrpp J.lP~rt!:_ 'ftTprp nnn~ nf"l1nnr A nip!: •

:·Th~~A_io~-~h;C~r;·~f hi;i)ift&Pe;~-it-i~
-neceffary, that he Suck in as much humide,
.,and as little dry Nourifhmeflt,as poffibly he
can; that fOr that end. he ought to di-
rea the little ,Fibres of his Root, t~wards·
the moifteft place of his Bed: That he muft
keep himfelf Merry and ChearfuI, and
--daily be diverted by a confort of Mufick,
. of ,fome e~cellent Nightingals. You'll
bear from him afterwards,how he finds
. '. w'·m-
 World of the 8ulI. 13 ~
himtelf, with that courfe of'living; and
then according to the' Progrefs of his Di;.
ftemper. when we have prepafeci his Hu-

I had not obferved before, carne to my

Ears, and fpake in this manner, Hoi., _
Gaffer Forked TrMlIk, what, do ye Sleep?
I fieard another voice that thus replied,
No, Fre/h-bart, why? Becaure, raia the
firll: that fpake, I firid the '. fame Emotion

moil exquiflte of his Senfes in thit nifCe>-

very; but at length he cried out: Good·
God, you are in the right, and I [wear, to .
you I find my Organs fa full of the Ideas of .
a Man, that I am the molt miftaken in the
world, if there _be not, one very near to
this place: At that time there was a mila:
noire of voices ~t £aid, they [melt out a
Mali.

KJ It
 ,.'

~;4 ,The HiflorJofthe

J' It W;~ in vain for,me to look about on
411 hands; 1 cQUId not dilCover whence that
word c~ld come:. At length being a little

me, ,~ll:we)wlloyou are. Within' a trice

,aft4r I Jwrdthefe wOrds: ,
'; . WI: ~aod in thy ,Prefence; thine Eyeti
,beh~ us ;.l1:.od yet thou [cell us not, Look
'Ul1<>h thew Oaks,.on wh,ich we ,percei:v~
~lf!C Byes a~ f.ixt: They~e we tha~ fpeak

tender Oracles to. the afHiCled, who' 00Il--

fulred them.' 'For th~ end they brut 'the
~reek, Tongue, :whicllat that: time WB6
, illofluniverfid; .that 10 they might,be' ~
,~aOod: And becaufe we are cIe,&ndaI .
be them." from ,Father to ~on, 1;he, #t of
~tophecy' hath, been tramfmitted aen to
\Is.' Now 't401i muft know, That a, grea~
~agle, to whom our Fathers of Dodon.hacl
givenxetreat ; being dir~bl~d from going .
I, ' , "~I , t~
 World oftbe 5"". '3'
to pr.ey, becaufe fhe had broken one·of.her
Leggs, fed upon the Acorns, which theif
branches furnifbed her· with: When:one

- - .. • I _ , .- -

put her into a reaching t.() Vomi~~ whiCh

made her bring up a great quantity 9f
Acorns, not as yet digefied; there Acorns
fprouted, and produced ·.the Oaks which
were our Progenitors. . .
In this manner, we chllle:4d our Habita.-

£' J •

getables, they exprefs. themfd. yes after this

manner. Hav.e you not minded thl,lt fo~
and gentle Breeze, that never fails to blow
about the Skins of a Wood'? That"s the
breath of their Words; and that ealje Mur-
mur,ing, or dd.icate Whif~r, whereby they .
break the facred Lilence of tllci.r folitude, is,
, to f~ properly, their' Languag~. But .
-though tlie noire of For.efis feem always to
be the fame ; yet it is to different, that
K 4 every
 .l36 Tbe Hiftory offl}1
~very kind of Vegetables have difiinal¥.
their own; fo that the BirFh fpeaks not
like the Mapl~, nor the Beach like the

SOul; . t401~gh ~iery d<\.y they fee, that at

.~he firft blow the Woodmap'gives the Tree,
the l:Ja~clie~ enters the Wood four times
qeepC(r, than'· at .the fecond; and they
ought to conjer.l:ure, that the firft blow
.furprued it, and took it unprovided; fIDee

l~diV~dual is to me' the whole k~nd,. and

l he whQle kind, is no more to me than ~
ndiv~4u¥, when the Individual ~s not in-
.eaed wtd1; th~ Errors of the kmd; and
wer~f9re be attentive, for in fpeak~ to
. you, it~s the £arne thing to me, as if I fpoke
to all .Mankind~' . .
, ¥oqare.to underHand then, in the firfi:
e1a,ce, That almoft all the' warbling .Con-
~?~t.~~ftq~_Mufi~k (>f Bird~~ .are compo~
. . . " , 11\
• •
 World of the SH.:" 131 .
in praife of Trees;' but in recompence alfo
of the pains they take, in celebrating our
~~o~ f1et~ons, it is ~e .th3:t take.'care. to

mily-othis Lodger, itom the- (.;~Qelties of-

Man: And on the contrary, confider the
,Aides of thofe, which are hatched either
for the-deftruetioIi of Birds, their fellow Ci.
tizeris, fuch as Sparrow-Hawks, Hobbies,
Xi~es, ~a~Cons,. &c. ~r which. 0!l!Y ~

lor a .frey. - . .. -
.' - But there is no n~ed of fpecifying fo ma-
ny things; to prove that Trees exert your
Funetions, as well in Mind as in Body.
Is there anyone amongft y01~, .who hath .
_ilot'obferved, that in the Spring, when the
Sun hath·refreilied our Bark with a fertile
Sap, we thruft OUU our Branches, and ex-
tend them loaded' with Fruit; upon the
lJreafts of· the. Earth,. that we are .i,n Love
'. . - , _ " witha1?
1 3S ·r/it Hiftory of .Ihe
withal? The Earth on' h~r fille .opens,
and .is warmed with the like heat; and
makes her approaches towards a Conjunai-
1-'11 ..... _I 1·r1 .• •

may De preJUQ1CJal w ner \..onceptlon, ItrJp$

himfelf of his gr~n Garment to cover h~r,
and conteQ~ himl<!lf with an old F"il-de-
.ortCloak, to hide part Qf hjs NakednefS.
. Well then, 0 Men, you look eternally Ol}.
there things,• _.and
__ __
never
n ____ r_
feet_ _them: ,'Nay,
..

que!; wnen all or a maoen It orOi{e -orr

with a Tone like to the ~Thi~z,ing of the
lliortnefs of Breath, that ·hinders QJ.l~ tQ
fpeak.
'Vhen I perceived it obfiinately refolved
to be filent, 1 adjured it by all, which I
thought might moLl affea it, that it WQIJ.1cl
-vouchfafe to infirua one, who h~d run
the Risk of fo .long and dangerous a Voy..
2ge, upon the account only of learning.
. . )\t
 Wor/a of the SHI1. 139
At the fame time I heard Two or Three
Voices, which for my fake made the fame
~C9~eft. to it, .~d one J dift~nguifhed that

POdoliA, whO, :conde1cendeit. to take the

pains to inftruct mc, kllCW this; That y6u
!hall .not ~h an ungrateful Penon; for
I'vow, that if ever I return to my native.
Globe, I {hall publifh the Wonders, you
~e. pleafed to m~e·~~ ~ Wi~ne~ ~f~_ I

-:lJranches and Roots,' itrive by ali poflible

means to unite and become but one.
. I turned my Eyes towards thefe Plants of
.Lo.ve, and Qbferved that the le3rves of both
gently ftirred·,· as it wer~ by a voluntary
Motion, 'excited by their Agitation fo deli-
·~tea murmur, that h~dly it graZed upon
the:gar; and yet one .would have faid, that
g:~ mutwny'asked~ and anfwered
.' . lIavini
!. ,',
 140 The Hijiory ofthe
Having fpent as much time as was ne-
celfary, to obferve that double Vegetable,
~~ g~ F~ien~ ~he Oak went on in his

. wherewith thele Loversattondhed their

. Age, did I not fear that fo~uoh Light
might offend the Eyes of your Reafon;
and therefore I {hall paint thofe twO young
;'Suns only in their Eclipfe~ .
; Le~ thi~ th~n (uffi~e y~u t? ~now,Tha~·

what became ot 111m r In delpau- he tnrew

himfelf through a Fordl: of Pikes : He cried,
roared and foamed: But how ill dQ I. ex- ..
prefs the fearful Commotions' of that In..
confolable Man; he tore his hair, bit his
Hands, rent.his· WouQ.ds; nay, and when
I havefaid alLI can fay, I am ·obligeclto
confefs, that the means of expreffing, his
grief, died wi~h himfelf. When he thot,lght
to cut out a way with his Sword to get to
, .' the
 ,World of the SufJ. 141
t~c affiftance of p,idu,a, Mountain, Qf
,Men withftood his paffage. N everthelefs
h~ hrhke t1lrOl]O'h thpm: ~nrl h~vinO' InnO'

---- --- ----0---, ---- ,-, - ---- ------0 --- "------

alone he lived.To fee his Eyes already full o~
the fhades of Death, one would have faid,
That he endeavoured by his Looks to poy-
fon the Murderers of his Friend. At len~h
Py/"rJes fell, down dead; ,and amorous
O,elles oerceivinQ" his own life. to be noon
0

rhe Younger of thoCe two Heroes ex,:"

pired upon the,dead BOdy of his Friend;
and you, mufr know, that from the. Cor~
ruption of their Trunk,' which 'widlOut
doubt, impregnated the Earth, two young
Shrubs were feen °to fprout out from a':"
mongft their dry bones; whofe Stem and
BraQches mingling promifcuoufly together,
feemed to haften to grow only, that they
might be' twifted· into a clo~r ConteXture.
It
 " ,

i 4! The Hiftory ()f tiJe

It was viftble 'that they had changed theil'
Being, without forgetting what they had
L __ • for their p~rL:.---1 'O._-1~ leaned one

lother,arid in .he Wamlth

Breathing, : make them;;
low the foo hat fhall I
~he loving I tllat main..;
heir Society :e, wherein
nIe lluLirifbment rehuc:), uever uffered it felf
t() their Stock, but they ceremonioul1y divi~
ded it.: The one was never ill fed, but the
other decayed for want; they both Suckti
inwardly the Breafis of their Nurfe;' :lS ye
Men do outwardly the. Te:lts of yoursJ
"..l~-oth tliefe 1---_
:;:)
9
T -'-rs
• btought
.
pples,but fuc 15 Apples, as
It 'greater \\ 1 their Sires
,e. All tha _ppl~ of the
ere inftantl· ith a Paffio~
we for ever; had tafted
"HC rLuit ?f the othc! , d.UU LUlS happened

almoft daIly, becaufe all the Boughs of

P,JiJu envirol'led, or were environed by
Oreftes; and their Fruit, that were ·almofli
Twins, could not endure to be diftant oncr
from the other.
Nattr"'" 1..___.... ~ fo cautioul1y'~ :Jl.!_.:ih>,
y ..

ed the~ ~cacy, that .

Man d~ ..lit of one of .
and anl ~he Fruit of t
produc ..cal Friend!
 "¥orld of the Suit. . I 4~
when the fame happened to two Perfoos of
different Se~es, it begot Love; but fuch a
vip'oraus Love. as {till retained the Cha.

---- _ .. - .- --- ----- ------- ------7 -. - - ----

mott beloved. The Fruit was not only ve-

ry lovely, but very fweet alfo; there being
nothing fo lovely and pleafantas Friendlhip.
And indeed, it was the two qualities of
. Lovely and Good, which feldom meet in
one [ubie8:. that out it into V mme. How

--- ------7 -- ---- ---... ---- --------- -- ------,

who by more than humane friend£hips;
have confecrated their Memory in the
Temple of Eternity. C~ns ofthefeTrees
wereC<lrried to Pelololllle[rli ; and the.place
of Exercife, .where the Thebtmj trained
their Youth, was adorned with them:
They wet"e planted there in a ftteight line;
and in the reafon,when the Fruit liung Up"
-on the branches,: the youth who daily went·
into the place, being tempted-1>ythe beaLl..l
ty
 .,
World 0/ tbe Suit, l4~
, MjrrhA,.a y(j~ng La~y of, <l!!a~tr.; ·ea~
bf them wIth CllljrM her Fath~r; unfor:.
a..... _ .....l't.l ........... _ "" .... _ .. 'Ii?", ... ,....C D •• I' .. J,.;;. ...,1...:-1 .LLk

II. lUUl\..lI;;UL LV lU1UllU yvu V~ LUI;; Ud.LUll;; V1

that Ctime; that as Nine· Months end

the·Father became the Grandfather of thofe
he begot; aDd the Daughter was btoilght
to bed of her Brothers. : . . '.
Nor W~ Chance yet fatisfitii witli thiS
r ..;"",a. : .. rri ,......;ld~ ...,. .........A~ ~ ..... ,.. .. ft D ... II

1.11"'111 ll1c&U lU LJV V _"" Vll'" VV LI.U AUVLll... '·, .I.

. {ball not; ho'WtWer; [peak of- t~eenonOO~

En;oym:eIit; it thall fuffice to iay;. Thai
PAJiplUe plunged her felf into a Crime, .tDat
was Ile\!er matched before, ,. ' ,
" E~aly about that titne!; tl1~' famous'
Carver PJgmAlioll; w~· cutting a. Mirb~e
Statue ofJ7eIiM in: the pa~aCe. The Q.~ri~
.who loved good Workmen, ftlade him a
·fiefem of a;, couple' of thew Apples':' He~
eat the faireift ;' and becaute aCcidenbill,. he;
L' . wanted
 J~' the Hi}iory Q{the
wanted Wat~r, which., as you know, is
neceffary, _for' the cuttmg ,of Marble; hC$
Jl1(>iftene9 his Statue with the Juyec of the:

fiee ;- for. it dilaJ;ed, .heated, and coloured,

proportionably to the nature of, the Places
~hat ,it foul}d in. its palTages. In fine, the
Marble becoming animate, and' being
, ~··with, the,Paffion of the Apple,
.ep.rd>raoodPig",~/ioll, ~ith all her be~rt;

Fr~ndRY.~,:jl'heir ~quet was attended by

.jtsllfu~J~ t"' .!Jut b¢RlWe Ipb" h~d found
jttp pe' v.e~. 3gr~bl~ tQ' her Palate, ~
fed Co heartily, th~t ,herJi'ci.mdfhipencr~"
jillg wi~'$:4e'dl'ij~r: of;ll"p~s, _where-
:_wimlh~ coWd .not Jx; :.f~, ufuqjed
.all ~~ funai(),BS of ~Q~ ; -,~ .that :Lo'9l!
:growing Iljll: ~d . Rill itfOJ)gtl:, became
jppr.e JBaf~lmeW1Q., v.igoroiis -; .PorfiJeing
per 'f~~:Body impr,~afe<j .with ;that
. Fruit
· Wq;-Jd ojtbeSuiL 147
.Fruit, ftrove to form Motions that might
~nfwer the.Caprices of her Will ;' it ftirred
-' __ r_ -, __ "___£'._11-_ ~~..; ________ ,~~ __ .1__ . " •.

, J. IUUlllU t;CUU Ullsnr.iillgc a\.:\.:lOGnE a

Miracle; had I frill ci name to give to the
following Prodigy. . ,.
A moft accomplHhed Youth, Called N4Y:'
,iffus, had by his L~ve merited the .Affeai~
on of a very lovelyL ____
L __ ... __ l_L __
Maid,
~_..J L_
whom the PQet~'
.... 1 ____ '£' c:'c.I. .!

II'UUI ICVCl-iiI pan;s, auu UCt;i:lU1C JUI; 41t'Pl~

hended, (Love being always fearful) That

thofe of -the one' Tree; might hf4v¢ !eQ'
force than th~ other, fhe wOldd have him
to tafte of both: But fd foon as he~bad eatl'
~n them, the image of Echo :was" "quite.
blotted Qut of his memQry; all his Love:
i1}r~ed, t9w~rq~ him who had dig~ed t~cl
FrUIt ;,~ ~ :bec~ both· we Lov~rand.
the Be1o~ed; f~J; the fubftance drawn from
~he Af~le off1latlest-.e~braced '!iith'~~~
2' 1m
 ,

1'+8 Tbe Hiftory of tbe

him the fubfiance of the A pple of 6"
rifles.. ~hat~wi~~~r?it _~iff~fed t?r~ug~

thel': Nay, not 10 much as hIs Imag(!,

frill burning ill the cold Fountains, but at-
traCted his Body to join it, In a wor.d;
p?<>r ftl~i&iJfIM fell defperateJy in Love w~th
himfelf. ..' ,
••
I will not be tedious in relating to you
" .. tit _ __ .. . . . ....

macil trequented the company ot tile ~'llep"

herd Hermaphroditm, but with no other
Privacies, tliaa whatthe Neighbourhood 01
their Houfescould allow of :' WJJefl For-
tune, who -delights t-o difturb the. molt
quiet and hannk~ Lives, fo ordered, that
in an AffemblyofPlays, where the'rewards
for 'Beauty and Running were two'.()f thefe
Apples, Hey~phroditlll gainediliat of the
Race,. and Salma&';s the other of Beauty.
Though they had been gathered together;
., - .' . ye~
 .World of the Sun. 149
yet it was from different Branches; be·
caufe thc;fe amorous Fruits mingled toge-
ther fo cunning1y, that oge of PJl4des was,
ithout anot· ~ - -es ; and
the reafon, ing to be
hey pluclf~~ :;ouple at
The fair Sa ~ A pple1
y Herm4phn lis· up in a
~. S a/ma&u ired with
the ettettsof her own i\pple, and ofthat of
the Shephera, which began'to grow hot
in his Cupboard, felt her felf .attr~aed ,to-
war~s him" ~y the Sympathetick Flux and
Reflux of tbe ~wo. ' .
The Shepherds Parents, whoper~jyed
. . urs of the N " ~ "ing their
e in that A 1eavoured
-1n' and prom therefore
;:ard much t he Twin-
as of a Frui :e ,inclined
Love' they eof them;
and hav~ng,reaified the ~ptnt to .the Jiigh-
'eft degree,' found a ~eans: tG make. ~heir '
Son and his Lover dnnk of It. . The VirtUe .
'of the Juyce, being fublimed ~ :the' higheft
degree it could be raife4 to, kindled in the
Hearts of the Lovel:S, fo v~hem.en{ a defire
pf Conju ",. . " . "'a~ lirft figI- - -
phroditll4 lwed up i~
and SAlt; aw~yin thf
flermApk h~ one pail
. L 3
 ,;0 The 'Hiftory oftht
other; and ()f two of different Sexes, th~~
, made up I know not what double Perion,
that- was neither Man' nor Woman:
t "leI fit zttp ,de 'r 1- i a" lin' to cfl-
c

j S Hla ,'I fo:d tnt t· be hE

1 'JIl , Id ,ei ~a! ~ci. eli It be
~ b~ :d { ~ l/rr -til Ih r~ et-
, ~ t J- fr 'te ~- e ep rd. '/' Ji~
-~ {pI th( ~b ill tai -d 'l ity it
'Bega~I~~dConceived,' and yet was neithet
Man nofWoman: III £hort, in it Natur¢
bath fuew& a Mirac:ie,which lhe hath nerer
~ able lince to binder from being One.'
! Vfell n~w, are not thefe pretty furprif-

.M.gSl'ories'? :!teally they are; for to -fee a

" uff €1t. JP· wi' he ~at' r.; yc,g
~nc ~ g - hi rei wit W. -\rr -Irs fa
n ~ d\< "1 a 're th 30- yn-""It a
ll'lt; ').:)tl t ef ufe ,ir:lf a
ak :}C eb: ~ ~ *- ia£ \\ ch be
i '1fL ftU d, tt utI t:c:ea to : a
~~ wit~,*beg~gto'bC a wo(rtan;
fO 'betotne- a.' Twin out cjf the Mothers
Womb.; and'l!~ Twin ofan9tlrer whohad
-no Relation t6 him •. , , ~-': ' - i , "
~" --The~' at~--tQmgs quite:out·of the 'com"
~on Road-bF Nature' ; ,atid'tieverthelefS.,
Yo. ·1 b- iiQ' fur ire-' It '~t .... ~ :'0'.-
fO~ Iy. ~j
'... ft t fu itt- ts\ 1# )f ~ tol'
101
of :uii 11k T-rt '---,~ lid- Wi : b !gl
, ., rOt
 1f'()1'ltJ ofthls"n. I ~I
from diftant Climates, for -tb4 Marriage-
Feaft of CIImhfes, there was prefent~d tG
~im a ~i~n o(Ortles, w1tich h(, ~uftd. t1

converted intO a' perteet ~ 1 lJt furmfkt

in tht Womb of the <l!!.tIEIlly the' Emhty9
ef his Son ArI4I1er.tl; fotall:,tlte\ ·pattic\ll-' .
lars; Gf his Life, have IUat:Ja PbyfitiaIlS ~
jethtte,' that be muft DOOds bavebeeli pro-
chtced aftet this manner. 0"../.." \ ., . #:.' - .
~ ...L... -" .. £.
f ~~ , 1..ht. Riftory ofthe '
ibat th~ Plane Tree fmitten: with a recipr<>.:
W- Flame, was raviIhed with his Carelfes :
Fer: pn all· occ;~ij(m~ w~thput any appa·
(eP :afc its ~ve Ter~ r--:en .. £h~or I -,

~c a r l,ne ap Jo~ th~ Cln( i

ber -ou ab- h --lee as ver :l
ljIla a ,C Nn hit an Jre J dc "1
fa 1 '-" ~ $ F , t it s e . ,tc ?
kp( 3,. at- i ,'V~ tt,hF:Q 5 1: ,
dt.3,~l out: af: q{ly natqrai Inclinatlon, of
bending downwards. N~y,' it was·alfo.
ob~rv«J, ' that Qut of J~()ufte jt ranked its
~:ves "in order, jruning oqe'c.lofe to the
o.ther, for . fear "leaft the Sun,,:~m~ pierc.;
ing'through, might ki£S 'him as well ~
It.. ........ht:; ~:i~ ·il}- . - par fet·- '} rr --~
bot s-tr s:I!. ~, hat ~ 1 rr ~
1W-( thi Ian Tre ~n( he -ee t
nQt lOY- ~·h -.to J~y ~ F ::ldf ,.
kr ved ~tl -n tl -nQ1 ree $~}- ~
th~ Treha' . w h t ~ it -=IOI ~
d.'e.w, ,dla~ t:ivery J..V19tmng orupt upan u~
Fa~., ,,', "
, The~ Care[es'WQlIld,mve la1:l:ed longer, .
JI.ro' ~o~~th, :tfte En.erny ofNQble Acli·
~nsj:put ~q. end tQ them :..Art~~:«S ~
~fJ-.ove ~~l1eembraces'af ~ dear P1an~
rr-ee;; -,d:
~L~ PF-"3.(lS --~~_'y~m:~ec1
;h~ ~th .fo od Pri. 7' p vee
_t tl 'm t, g. hit 'itk -lio :ve.i
er' _ D ~~ , t t B(X!ho b-
 \ World of tlJe SUtt. ~ 53
burnt with the Branches of that Tree, and
no. other Wood employed in' Confuming
it. . . I

..... -en the Fune t -n.' kjndled, ,thF

, was feen to with that 0
3.t of the Be 'leir burnine:
which curle lle other, tc
nto a Pyrarr .could be dil
1.' . ;
: 1 nat pure and fUDtlle rife divided not;
but when it arrived at the Sun,' whither
you know all jgneous matter tends, it
formed the fprout of the Appre~Tree of Ore-
les, which you fee there on 'your Right
Hand.' '
.. T.\V the Breed -
l". I or
. •. is loft in you'-

~; and rn te 'lat mifchanc

.ned...
hers and Me as you know
lly guided b} 1 the manage
of their D f f a i r s , h<!in;
vext that their ChlIarc::n,lo lOon as they haQ
eaten ofthefe Apples, fquandered away u~
on their Friends all thatthey had, burnt all
the young Plants they could find of that
Tree; fo that the kind being 10ft, ,~ the
reafon why 110 true Friend is nQW to be
found
As the~ Trees~
eclby Ie Rain that
their ha~ the co~
 t s+ The Hiftory uf tb~
was petrified in the tame lllanner,as the rap
of burnt Fern is changed into 'Glafs.
Hence it is, that in
___ ......~_n:_I_
~n Cliniates__
0 .._ ...____
ofthe
..l
~
Eanh _~ ~L_

W C;WU1CiU;;· Ull~ iUlUUICC; ano UlJlC:.rVC:

that if the piece of the Load-ftanc be the
bigger, it aitraas the Iron; or if the piece
of Iron exceed in quantity, it· attraB:S the
Load..ftone; as formerly it hap~ in the
~!:;ac~l.~~~~~~~~f~~~~!~f !!!!~I

IOI"(;C; URICI:; UIQY ~ ,tJUL LV!f,~LU~I: .lUI" 1l1e

reparation of what fubHanoe they Jo~.
Have you never obferved a piece of Load..
Hone) latd upon the File-duft of Iron, you'll
&e the LOad..:frone cover it .!elf in a trice
with thefe metallick Atoms;. and the arno..
rous Heat wherewith they cling together,
iSfo fuddenand impatient, that when they
Lave embraced one another in aU places,
you' wwldfay that there is not one grain
.' .' • of
 World i1f the $,,11, t ~5
of the Load-ROlle, that would nbt kifs a .
grm of the Iron, no~ a gr~in of t~ ,Itt>h,
~hat ~guld 110~ be . un~ted to ~ ~l!1 ot ~e

Pro~1s ; ,-and- theLOad-ftone takes its teft

in po~mg the Iton, as the Iron wholly
. ~ntS litS felf -in the enjoytrtent of t~
Load.Rone., Ftoni the-SaJ:i then of thete
two' Treis,' the· humour which hath gi~
~e~ Bc:ing to :iho£e two- Metals has )~tl

{.'rete, withi\rtificial Fift-work'S, where-

,by he imitated the Thurtder, in fubduing of
his Eneinies; -and, in award, .Hettll/es
with a Clu1!~vercame Tyrants, and cru01~
ed MonfrerS.· But thefe·tw'oMeta'ls, bave
-another more fpecifick: relatioh to our. rivb .
;Trees: You ·muft knoW,. that though that
Couple of Life-Iefs LOvers incline towards
t,he Pole, yetthey nevertertdthiihetbut ~
Company; and I'll tell yo~ tlIeR:eafOrt 6f.
. - . it,
 J S6 '!pe Hiftory ofthe ,
it, after I have difcourf~ to YP~ a little a-
bout the Poles.
, The Po~es 'are the Mouths of Hc;a ven,
Lo_L
'L _____ __ L ___
~~,C ~.1 __ T
_~_o._ rr __
O~L~ ~

,':'lODC ; ) It WOUlO nave oeen,'~ng agQ ex·

-tmgui£hed, and fhone no more; Or that
abund~~ of little ig~eousBQdies, heap-
.ing t<?gether upon the Earth" when they
,could po~ get Qut again, would have alrea-
4y~nfumed
'L ____ _____
~_LJ
it. There__mult
L_ L ___
then, as l
TT_J __ !_ TT __
~L!

UJ.UUQi UI 1.o.IlS ViiU Ulllveueo J.""iIIUW UllW

breathing holes of Heaven are the Poles,
,through which it retakes the Souls of all
f!!at'die in the other Worlels without it!; ,aqd
- all ~he Stars are its MoutI-.tS, and the Pores
through' which again it exhales, its ~pirits.
But to Jhewyou, that this is no~ fo new an
Imagination; when y<?ur Ancie~t' P,oets,
towhom Phy.1ofophydifcovered the molt
hidden recrets of ~a~u~e, fpake,of an Hero,
-. ". , . - ': ' "', whofe
 t ~9
World of ihe Sitn. ' '
whole Soul they would have [aid gone' was
!_
with ,'_the• u_
to live_____
~L~
Gods; they e~preffed
________
it
TI_I_ ~ ~_ ~L_

!:)n::al: lVJt:u ut; !lUL. JUW\,;JI;UL. L.U \,;UU V llJ\N

you, the Experience of your modern Na.;
vigators, who have failed towards the,
North, may, perhaps; giveyoufa~aion"
They have found;that tbe'nearer they drew
towards tbe Bear, during the Sbt Month$
,..C ltI..T!_............ t....f..ot.._ : .. .......... _ ..... "'... _ ........... ~ .. rl: ....... ~

lJ\;.\..d.l.u~ 01 \.4""'1. J.a;...., v ~1 y p1 VUC\.Ul~ "U~IJ,

that it proceeds from the Beams of day,
and a great heap of Souls, ~hich as you
know, are only made o[ Luminous A-
toms, that are returning to' Htaven by their
wonted Doors., '. - .
Tbis bCing fo, it is no diffi~lt matter t()
comprehend, wherefore the Iron rubbed
wit-h,t~e ~oad-ftone, ,or t¥ Load-ftone rub.:
bed :w1th tho IFon~ turns towards the Pole;
• for tJley being an ExtraCl of thiBody of P,~
, ,tilde!
 i 5S
.
.The Hiforyof the. \ ;
l44es ~d OreHeJ~ and having frill retained
the Inclina~ions of the two Trees, as th~
turo TrPEO\! h:1Vp. thofP. of tht! Ttiro T .oup.r,}

"""...... ~'!' ~..,.. ~--- •• """"!'- - ~ ---:.- - - - - • • - ..._ , "'''V''

. I th~ Load-frane; unlefs it be rubbed with the.
lrQIl; by rearon that the Iron will not quit
~ W()dq; 1.¢~vjJ;lg his Friend the LQad.;fione
~ind, nor the· LQa4-ftone leaving itR
Friend th~ 'Jron, and th~t the one cannot"
_folup. to nerfdrm this Vova~e wit-hout ,.hf\

. .y ...... ,.'t""~!) "t'!"~,... -:--,..-- '":~. - .... ~-.7 • -: .,.. .... ...,... --'"0-""'7 _..... -.

;P/~ue., iJ41ftl NPfNJ",1It GtI.,J, ltJqk ab~

~. .•....
t\le Tr~ mat had fo long en~
.

. I a4Nrett
tlerWnqQ.gw wdm:ow{e,tQ ~11 m~ the Yij~
of fo great a Diforder.: Ft:i~pd, fitiP ~ t,Q
me, .~ a~ .n~ iQ ~~ quarters, f~ffici-.
COdy ~ y«.iQ~.m aU the f~lall'
of tile ivil t I'll ~nly· ~ ~1l ·YQu in Threlf.
, WQrds, :~hat dlef~' wlwre\Yithw~ ,~cr
. tlI\'Clt~ .ii'that wbi~b M~n.:~ a: ;fir1'f •
. . w~
 World of tlJ8 SJin. 1; 9
we 'may very well call it fo; becaure a;.
roongft us there is no fuch contagious Di-
ftem~r. The remedy we are about to ufe

about our Woods; for feeing they never

I

,go without Fire, and cannot be without it;

,this, without doubt, is come tofet fOftle of
, our Tr~es on Fire.
We fent for the Animal Frow--no{e, tQ '
come to our Al1iftance; however is npt as

much ftrainmg,
becaufe I knew my L~g~
In the mean, time ,} Was fQ ill ac;quaint~ ,
~ith th~~~.Y ofthe.£o\1Qtry, .~.'
at the end.<;i m teen flQ~ I found illY
feJfat the' baCk, the F.oref}that I thQugbt; J '
·fiedfrOIIl; .and'to add to my fear, a hu.
dred dreadful ThWlder~ps, ih,ontd. Jt!f
lkains,whilft.the gbaftly aadp",le GJimpfCS'
.of i T~ouland &ill. QiLighGJing P1Bc~
:tDy·Bwt..t;nJ...,.
: . j l,~~" '.
. .. . -
-" . ', -.-
,,,,.". "
,~' . ..
.
- , ~. There
 J 60 The Rift"r) of the
Thefe Chips recIoubled from time to time
with fo much fury ~ that one would hav¢
fiirt~ The Fonnd2tion~ of thp Wnrltl ~",,,,..o

... - ... -- - - - - C---7 -- ---.. .. ....._ ...- - ....... w • • _aa...,

feemed to proceed. ' . . .

, I had advanced about four liUndred Fur';
longs, when I perceived in the middle of a
great Plain, as it were, two Bowls, which
having ruftled and turned along time round
nne ~nnth~..~ annroached and then rPrnt!..

--- 1 ---- -- .. ------1 ---- - ----- - - - - •• ~,

formed a· Triarigle about the middle~and his

loftY Head with ruddy Locks~ which floated
upwards; fpired into a. Pyramide;, his ~
dy. was. bored .like a Sieve; and. through
thefe little holes, that ferved him for Pores;
thin flames :glidtd, which feesned,to' ct()vet
tum' with a Plume ofFires~ ...., .
" Walking· about there,.1 met with a very
:venerable Old Mao; who obferved that fa:•
. mous co~a, with no lefs cux:i~fltY ~il:
.' • my
 . 1!"0rld of the Sun. . 16 I
my felf. He made me a fign to draw nigh,
Iobey€d, and we fat down by one another·
T h~rf a defign to h~v~ ~c;:kf'rf him the mo-
at had brou~ that Coun-
It' heftopt with thefe
Well then know the
that brough is Country.
~reupon he g account of
_.. ~ ..... r"13.rticulars of ---- . - J -t:>'::. I leave
it to you to judge, in what amazement"I
was. In the mecill 'Yhi1e, to increafe my
confternation, as I was boyling with defire
to ask him, what Spirit revealed my thoughts
to him: No, no, cryed he, it's no Spirit
th::1t re.veals your thonirhtc: tn me-:...i.-·-·
new hit of made me
him wilh gr; on than be..
,d I percei aCted my
e, my Gelh: .ks, that he
i all his, M : {baped all
__ ._ r--..s of his Cou~ __________ , _.::cording to
the pattern of mine ; in a word, my Sha..
dow in relief could not have repre{ented
me better. I fee, fai~ he, ydu are in pain'
. to know why I counterfeit you, and I am
willing to tell you. Know then, that to the
end I'mip"ht know vour infide; I rfifntlfPrl ~11
the paIt. T,' into the fr
fa'w yo~ being in al
tuated r .that difpofi
fer ,I ex{ 1f the fame d
Me
 16 2 :17~ Hiftory Ofthe ,
the fame difpofition of matter raifes in you.
· You will Judge this to be a thing poffible,
,if~eretofo~~you~ave obferved, _tha~ T~ins

wrote Letters mutually to ,one another in

the fame Seqfe, W.ords and Stile; and in
{hort, have upon the fame SubjeCt compo-
-fed a Copy of the fame kind of Verfe, with
the fame Stops, \Vords and Orqer. Now
don1t_yo~ fce, t~~t it ~_as i~poffibl~, _b~t

· ~d become, if I may fay 10, your Twin;

· it is itnpoffible, but that the fame Agitation
of Matter, mull caufe. in both of us the
. fame 'Agitation of Mind.
. J Having raid fo, he fell a counterfeiting
" me again, and thus ~erit on: .
You are at prefeilt in great pain to know,
". the Original of the Conffic.l:. of thefe two
Monll-ers' ; but I will inform you of it. "
Know then,that the'Trees of the Forefr be-
• hind
 ,- World of'tbe s,,;t. ' t 63 '
hind us,being unable with their btowing~to
, ' repel the attempts of the fiery Beaft,have had
..1,13; ... r~""I"\I''''~ .." ~"'o A ",:.......i" 1 f;'.,.",."a-.!. }\7A~_

Q'-Aoo\,;lUlH,. VI. ~'l""I..lJ. ...

He thereupOn fpake to me ill this mad.~

ner: In this Globe where we ar~, ~
ihould fee the ,Voods very thin fow'n, by
r~afon of the great ilUOlber Of t~ fiery
Beafis that defiroy them; w.ere. it 00t /for
4-hp 4n;,..""I" Ti'...iaWDM_AT"I'.., ..;"';"h.,tI ..h",

..............."'" ,. ... "" .. &\,.1. va ,,&.."" &..1I0I0& . . . . . , & ... ....,...... .,.... ........,.. &~

both you anq I a:re com~ the fiery Beaft is '

called the S .i1UfJ1IIiJet , and the Anin1al
Froze,,';'No{e; is known by the name of ~,
ihbrA. Now you mufi know,. that the
~~morAi live towards the e~ty of the
Pole, at the bottom of the M"re GI"dJt -;
and itis the told of thefe Filhesf eva:pO~
. through their Scales, which n'ilkes:me sea.
}Vat~ in thofequarters' (0 fr~zei thdiitji
a be ialt.' .' .
,. . . . M'i ~ Moa
 .i64 ·Tbt Hijl,ory of the
, Mofi: NaVIgators, who have Sailed 'for
, the difcovery of Green-land, have at length
.IIo . . . _ _ _ : _ _ _ ,....J ............. !_" __ ...... n.~_ c-• r""-_ro ... t,a ...
.lt.....

LlUL 'L UI 1<11 1!JUl ~ p1 UUClUn.. , LllClL L11'" ~ '~"#,U-

.. '~J, who only feed upon Ice, had at that

tune devour~d the whole fi:ock. Befides you
. are to know, that fome Months after they
'liave filled their Bellies, that fi:range Food
.·of uneafy digefi:ion, fo ehills their Stomack,
,+ho:>" 'f"h~;.. u ....., J....ln .. ,;.,,,. nf" foh .. :.. n.·.,,,,·.. '"

.. , .... ~ yy·v.a..u,,,,,,,, a ... .I.lJ VUl " U I .lU, VY I.J\o,.J.,a\... \.tt

_proceed thofepierdng North.; Winds, that

,always bring FroLl with them; but if our
.Coup.try.;.men.knew whatwe know, that
:the. Remoras live in that Climate, tIley
would know as well as we, that they pro-
~~ed from a puff of their Breath, whereby
~?~y endeav9ur:to blow back the heat of
.the Sun that draws near them; ,
,;:-- That' , Stygian-Water wherewith the
Great 4lexllfJde" was poyfoned, and whofe
Cold-
 1fl:orld·o{ the Sun.. ,165.
CoI~nefs petrified his Bow:els, wasthe Pirs
of one of thefe Animals. In fine,. the Re-.
mo,:" conta~ns all th~ princp!es of ~ol.d hi [a

never came back again; becauie it is a Mir~

racleifthe Remor"" who. are fo numerous
in that Sea, ftoP. not their V dfelS. And
fo much for the Animals FroZeIl-Nofe.t. '. .
But as to the Fiery Beafts, . they lOdge on
!-a~d und~r Mo~~~ ofb~rrii~g Bi/llme.-,

'I 'he S a'''1lI~nder attacked Wltll mnch ar~

dour; but the· R.em.or" defended impenetra..
bly, Ev~ry dalhthey gave Qne another, be..
got a clap of Thund~r; as it happens in the
Wor~ds there abouts2 where the CIa£hingof
a hot Cloud with a Gold, caufes the fame
R~port. .. .'
At every glance of Rage which· the S 4" '.
lA11J4nd.er darted· againft .its· EneI11Y, out of
its Eyes flafhed a red<;lifh Light,that feemed
. - M ~ to
 ,66
t ..
The, Hiftory ofthe
' .

to' kindle the Air in flying ; it fweat boyling

by}, and piffed AfJ,ua-fortis.· ',~
The Rem()rA on the other hand, that'
. gro~ -ire anc I Anir Jrefent
fl Be aled .< ~r Wit lese .
farge . lQOJn : ~q C d-p~atl
who lees CC d fei c~ a hgt
that 1at 111(; of my it fix
r,

th~n-, _:It a f. .ng W , 'Old. .

1 thought'tq put my Handbe~ore . m.e, my
l,lingersendS were n~mm¢~ nay, t~e very
.-t\ir about itlfeffed with i~ quality, COD;
dented inta'Snow, the Earth hardned un~
~er his Steps; and I could reckon the Foot-
in~ of the Beaft. bv the number of the.
Chi! :8, th, !cornel wben
-trod. 1 them .
.' Ir eginni the Fi he S"
, man, the - v .IS atE If its fi
heat, put d- mora i Swea
. but . .:gth t1 veat {, ,;:; aga.. ,
_glazed aU the Plain with fo flippery an En..
. p.~m~l, that the S al"11JAnder could not get
uP.:to theite1lJqra without falling. The
Phl{ofupher and I knew very weD, that thc=
tro~b1e Qf falling and riling' fa many times.
had' made it weary; .for them Thunder~
~ fo drt before.. )rocee( 1lI1
fbQck ~ve its -ny '\ DQ
~ n.ow
r~clap~
e dull:
ich .de
j
the e
ot th tId
.. ~
, . . .;.
 World ofthe Sun: t~i
St~nD ; and, that du!! Souud, ~~a.~ned ~y de;•.
grees, degenera~ed l~to a W~~~2fmg, hk~ to
that of a hot Iron plunged into . cold' Wat~r•.

the Heart of the 8 ~/4ma1J{Jer~ 'Yherein'~1f !he

,r~ft of its heat was contraa.ed,burfHng,~a~e
lli fearful a t;;ra.ck, that l know nothing m
Hature to compare it to. ' .
Thus died the Fiery Beall, under the
lazy refiftance of the Animal FrozelJ-No[e.

me but the Body of this Animal, !aid he,

and I've np!need for Fire in my Kitchen;"
for provided it be hung upon the Pot-hook,
it will Boyi and Roaft all that's laid upon
the Ht:arth. As for the Eyes, I'll carefully •
keep them; if they were deanfed from the
Shades of Death, you~d take them for two
lit~ Suns. Thei\ntients ofourWarid knew
wen what uk! totp.ake of them; they aIled
. them burning-Lamps,an~ never hung them
. . ~ 4 up
 168 The HijltJry-of t!Je
ilp but in the Pompous Monuments of
IDuftrious Perfons. .
. The Moderps have found fomco!" them,
L. ... ~:,...,..:_".
9 : .... +0'" .. hDID +"rnl"'\.n~ Tn........ "-.... 1........

J,~''t''''' 1J.4141, 'U~11'"5 V",lY eJ.LL"'lIUV'41 I.V u,.1IOi

Wonders he told me. But Lince I have
been fpeaking of the Fight, I mull: not for-
get the pifi.coui-fe which we had,concerlling
the Antmal Fro.un-No{e. .
. I don~t think, raid qe to me~ that you
~'" no ~ ... ~a':' ~~;.., n.' D ~_,"_.. 4-~.....l'U:~Y't'. no ..... '[;; (1...

LV1U yvu JULL I~UW, LUeJ.L L11<'" ~ W 111\,,11

l'eaches towards. the

]?ole, is full,of Remo-
;'as, that [pawn in tlie mud ~ other Fillies
Jo.. You muft know tllen, . that that Seed,
. th~ Extract of al1 their mafS,,· fo .eminent!y
cont~s all its C?ldnefs, thatlf ~ Ship pars
<;>ver ~tt the Ship contrafrs one or more
\Vorms,. which become Birds; whofe Blood
is [ooefHtute of heat, that . though they
/ Ii~ v~ \VWgs, ye~ clwy are reckoned '~m~ngft
. - . . .., , , ' FIllies
 Wor.ld of tbe SHn. 169
Fillies·: ;And fo the Pope, who knows their
Original, forbids them not to be eaten ill
Lent; and there ... -are the ,.Fowls which in
'-

, .l well~rcel ve, . that you have not as yet·

paid the tribute, which we owe to Nature,
as l have done, ):fO foon asI faw yOU,i I
qifcovered in your Face, fomewhat that
fhews you to be curious and i':lquifitive. If
I be not miLl~en in th~ Shape and Confor-
., I't _. . ..... • _ •

IAorta» by NatIon. :smce mycoml~g mto

the Sun, I have fpent ·my time in vifiting
the Climates of this great Globe, that I may
difcover the Wonders of-them: It is diVI"
ded as the Earth is, into Kingdoms, Re·
publicks, States and Principalities; fo that
Four-footed Beafrs, Fowl, Plants and
Stones, every One have their. own; and
~hough fome of there allow: no ~ntI:ance a-
mongft them, to Animals ofa firange kind,
'. - . . efpeci...
 J 70 The HiJllry.ofthe·
efpecially to Men, whom th~ Birds abov-e
all others mortally bate,. yet I can travel'
over ~ll without any daQger; becaufe the
301 • Jf ~hi- ~or-' r,-' rn'e of lOi
'tIt e I ·ts ha :hc nft ffi[ S =tic
-nl; t 1>- l~( u[. f. t tor ~ni. w;
ly 00 !Ck 1 t~ Pr 'm of Ie 'ee
..vt- itt jjJ 1er Jf t S: In:=- iff' ;ga
he g-.t ,~ er-ps- :ha IOt-nU
nave beard as well'as I; wh.iGh. guided me·
to. their Field 'of Battel, whither you (ame.
foon after; but: I was upon 1llf ~fn to the
Province of 'hil01Ophf!rs.;...;~... What, [aid'
i- to him, are there PhilofOpbers alfotben-in
the Sun? :Are there, replieel the goad Man,
~ fUr a.-' tl {a tf- ch" ~ I -.ab'
:at of e S I, d t ve fa ,,' 'lOt
fta t Jr ou !Ie :ld h ( eili e \ 11 i
iII Vf( :h~ Y( IT 7 I Jrt cc -er
wi th 1, OJ! ed :m av- tbt =0"
<t~ 10 _ 10, -ne fu ~ ,T -00 )al
be~O'ler, 1 hope ~Obe in their City. I don~t·
,think you (all poffi~ly perceive the manne~,
how tbefC great SpirltS are tranfport6d ht-
. mer. No certainly, cried I, for ~ld [0
many Others been hitherto [0 blind, as not
rofind the way? Or that. after our Death,
• : fa" int ..:ht -rar'o~ ,R -xa one )f
. - w,;: :0£. 19 J r ~ ~ y.
trtt
JJlt- o~ :fu U)U- re:- JIT..ll Ie
n?
 \ ~

. World ()f the SHII. I 'j 1

, Nothing pf that, replied the old Man;
It's by'a Principle ot~imilitude,'that Souls
attain to this mars of Light; for this WorId
lde up of not t the Spirits
y thing that :il'cumambie
;, fuch as.tl Us, the Eart
5,' Jupiter at .. .
'hus, fo £bar t, a Beaftor
. 1 expire, .t~ehotLt extinE .
on mount to its Sphere; }uft as you tee t~
flame of a Candle points' up thither, m
fplght of the :Tallow tha~ holds it by t~ .
Feet. Now 'all there Souls"bcing uQ.it~~ tq
the fourceofl)ay,andpurgedfrom ~h¢iro!i
matter that peftered ~m, 'eXert fat mQre
c Pl}nfrions " ()f '<;lr9wir
iog and Rca ' tbey are e-
redin makin and vital S
of the Sun, !d 'perfea A
: And ther yOLJ ought r
~)Ubt, but tha ts by the Spi
more perfeCtly far .t~n you do,; LJIlce it, is
by the heat of a Million of the~ Souls rec-
~ed, whereof his own is a~ Elixir, that
he knows the fecret of Life, that he iriflu':'
cnces 'clle manerOfyour Worlds, with the
power of Generation, and that' he makes
Boq hat tlleY hav nd,
in : he re.tld~r$ h all
pur leo
J 7'l The Hifior) if the
Now it remains, that I lliould clear to
you, why the Souls ofPhilofopers, do pot
effentially
. ,_ r r _.,
join,. •to the mafs of the Sun, as

mto tile pla(;C 01 illS ncams ;. OUt tnOI~ or

l>hiIofophers,having contrilled no Impurity
in their exile, arrive ~ntire. in the Sphere of
:pay to become its Inhabitants.· Now they
are not as others, a conftituent part of its
Mafs;
-1..__
becaufe
'. ~L
the matter that
_ _ ..:. __ • _ _ r
.L_~."
compofes
,.. _____
~~__ ~_

lCpara1;e tne IVJlXtUre.

- No:w thefe Souls 'of Philofophers, arefo
much in regard of other Souls, what Gold;
Diamonds, and the Stars are, in refpeet of
other Bodies; that Epicllrll4 in the Sun, is ,
the fame Epicurll4, who heretofore lived in
the Earth. "
Tile pleafure which I received in hear-
ingthatgreatMan, lliortn.ed my way; and
I often ftarted curious" '~eftions, about .
• _ . i' which
 .World of tbe S~II. I 1'3
w hic~ I importuned his opin~oI1, that I
might be tRereby inftruaed : .And really I
np'TPr fnnnrl rn O'rp~t' O'nMnpfi; in ~nu M~n_

N everthelefs he was in great hafte ; for I

remember that having asked him, why he
returned before he haa.furveyed all the Re-
gions of tha.t great world? He made anfwer,
that his Impatience to fee one of his Friends, .
whn w~~ newlv ~rrived_ nhlip'ed him tn·

----1 - ---- ----z

- - - - - - - - - ----"" -- ·----1.""

what he thought of his natural Philofophy r

that it ought to be read with the fame re-
.fpeEt, as Men IHlen to Oracles. Not, ad-·
.ded . he, but that the Science of aatural
things 'hath need, as other Sciences have, to·
prepof£efS our Judgment with AxiQm/,
~qich it proves not: But the Principles, of
hIS are fimple and fa natural, that beIng
once fuppofed, there is nothing that ··lI1ore
nece1faiily fatisfics all Appearances.
I
 t 74 - The Hiflory oftbt .
I could not fo.rbear' to. interrupt him in
this place: But methinks, fiii~ I to. him,
that- that Philo.fo.pher hath always impugn':

lid; which God divided into an iniiuri'tera~

hie numberoflittle Squares, to every One of
whicl1 he gave o.Ppofite Mo.tiDns. No.W h~
will have there {;ubes, py rubbing Dne a.i
'gainft anDther,tD have crumblea themfelves
into. pieces of all fDrts o.f Figures: ,But hDW

.And then (IDuld there Squares, which o.nly

~Itejfed a ~err.ain Extent .befDre they turn~
~d. move in a Circle. uwefs. in- their Cir.:i
.cumfercmce they lla.d polfelfed as much
m.ore? Geo..me~ tells us, That that can-i
nDt be; ORa half then Df that f~f ought
jlecdfatiIy co have remained void,. lee"
. jug there were as yet no. Atomes to fill it.. _
. My l'hilolOpher made me anfwer, Th#
Monjiellr.tIn ~rtei bimfelf would give- US'
- . i
 -JYorLJ of the Sfm. 17S
a reafon for that ~ and that·' being an 0b-
liging Gentleman, as well as a PhilofOpher,
he w~uld certai':lly be oy~r;oyed to find _a

jeClion, according to his Principles which I

had not examined, 'but as far as the weak-
nefs of my VtTit could permit. me ; becauLe,
,faid he, the Works of that great Man, are
fo full and fo fubtile, that to underftand
- ~h~, _there is ne~ of tl~e atten~n_~f. t!.le .

To eaie the trouble that the length Qf

this Journey may give you, we will dij:'
courfe of his' Philofopby according to his
Principles; which undoubtedly ar~ foc1ear,
and kem to abundantly Latisfa8ory,
throu~h the admirable Wit of that gre\it Ge-
nius; that one would fay, He bad alJifted
in the lovely· and magnificent Struaure gf
this Uaiverfe"
- You
 , 116 The Hiflory of the .
You remember, he faith, 'that our Un.
"derftanding is Finite; fo Matter being divi...
fthJe in tnGnitum. it i.. nOt to he clonhtecL

f -- .. - -------. - ------ -- -- --, - J -~-- ----- ..

leqge we have of ,Matter; and we ought

not, raid he, fufpend our, Judgments 'a...
, bout things that we conceive., Can ,we
imagine the man her how the Soul aas up-
on the Body? Nevetthelefs, that is a truth
not to be denied. nor doubted of: whereas

,-- ------.--- . 0 -- --

of a Being, and give Qgalities to that, which

can produce nothing, and cannot be the
Author of any thing whatfoever. . But,
,poor Mortal, biid he, I perceive that thefe
,Speculations are tedious to thee ; becaufe as .
-that Excellent Man faith, Thou haft never
taken pains enough, to purifie thy Spirits
from the mafS of thy Body ; and becaufe
, thou haft rendred it fo lazy, that it will per-
form no FuoCl:ions now, without the aid of
Senres. ' , I
 I'Worldoft~i Still. 17'
t ,was about to reply; when he puUed
me by the Arm;to 1hew mea ValIeY.Qfwou lo

rtprfl11 RP!llll"ll\ On unn 'nPrC'PilTP GM': h,.

.. v ...... 1 "' ... _· . .. ~ -

At the foot of one ofthefe Hi1Is;theLak~ of
Sleep takes its fource ; .it conGas anIy of the
Liquor of five Fountains, and if it mingled
not with Three Rivers, and by its weight
dulled the ftream of their Waters, no Am'";.
1n!llnf nnr W nrlrl C'nnlrl f1f"pn~ T C'.!t nn"'"

. "''''''..........v... • ..
w -r'
........... - - .............- ... - ....

and much about the fame rime, upon, the

, Carpet that borders that great Lake.
The truth is, faid Campanella to me, you I

. are happy 1 in that you fee before you

die, all the 'wonders of this World; it's a
ble£fmg for the Inhabitants of your Globe,
that ~t hath produced'a Man1 who can in-
form them of the marvels of the Sun; feeing
without you, they were in danger of living
in grofs Ignorance,and of~ing a thoufand
" ,N Plea-
 'ttl Tht, lijhrJ rJftbr
Pleaflires~ without knowing whence· ,they
QJ1lle ;, for it cannot be i~~ed, how Ii'"
hPr.lhr theStm hrflnw~ h~ t .aroelf~_ nonn

-_..- ------: ----.-~ .- -----0-- -- -._--- J--

.confefS, that the Sun is your Father, and
that he is the Author of all things. 'Thefe
Fiye little Rivers, that come and difcharge
themfeIves in it, run not above Fifteen or
·Sixteen hours ; 'and neverthelefs they feem
M ~ fnweM'u when thev :lrriue_ fh~t h~M _

_....... ..., -..- --_..-... .... ..-- .. _.- _---. _..""

,.~

Smelling raifes. a murmur,}ike that of a Man

who mores: The Taite growing wallowiih
" by the way, ~es altogether inflpid:
And the Peeling, £0 powerfuf a little before,
that he lodged all his Comrades, is fain to
c6nceal, his own abOde.' On his part the
Nymph ofPeac~ who re6des in the mid-
dle of the Lake, with open AMm receives
:~his gue£ts, lays them in her:Bed, and dandles
.them fb gingerly, that to'D8ke them fieep,
. ilie
 f ~ ~ ,

,World of the SJUt.

, • )0. .;

t 7fj
tht: bet !elf takes the pams to rock t~"Cra..
dIe. After th~ have fur fome time
.11 ,..~ • • • • . . "-_"
been
tI

Ons to let out, are, tne Hearmg and f4eel~

iIig; for the other Three wait, till there ,
a waken t~., and ot all the reLl: the Tafte
lags alway~ bmdmoft. ''
The Lake of Sleep is Vaulted oveT1 witI'(
the 2,lack :~rch df ~ prd!td. A' ~~ ma~ y

cnamung; toat It WOUlCl, leem to Dt:eaK

~~n the Pebbles with Cadeb~, al)d
to endeavour toeotnpo!e Sop>rifiek Mu~
f!ek. ", "
The Wife' Cimp4lJtU~ Widiotit doubt
fOrefaw,~ that: I was aboUt 'to feel the:
bffeas of it, and' therefore headvHed ,~'
to mend my, ,PlCeo' I would ba\'eQ1q-~'
~ hlm;'bUt' t4e Charms' of that :w~,
flQd • fo envei~etr triylleaJ.:"oft, ~,~tu.t '~ardl{
eoald·I Drideffiiaild~ Iaft WOrdS.. ' St#,.
N :z on;
 18~ !~, fliftorJ. 'of t~r
on~,then,: fl~epon; I give Y01;lleave,: faid
be ;- and ,indeed the Dreams that one,has
J.,"'!"e are fo perf":,q. . 'f"h<lf""nO:11be glad f'lnp
{to call to, t which you
Jutto have. n -time, 1'11
-t my [elf it the. Ra~itie
, place; an~ back to yc
n.. I 1hink '0 more, 0
fi the VapOhlJ u"'-X', had.already r~~
A", . . VA

ine out of condition, ot beiLig able, to heat'

him. ''T,. ,

, I was in the middle of the leatlledefr and '

heft conceived Dream that ever was, when
my Philofopher carpe to awake, me. I'll
"pflityou~.'wh.. j, T r!ln Ulir-h~ut digreffinn.~
it i~ very i IU ihould kr
to let you f. lac freedom
lid-of the I l f the Sun a
lilft' Sl<?ep c. :ir,: ,Senfes.
y'part; r thi at Lake ev.
A_"~S an 4ir~: \\ &A_~.' .'~.&A, th~., propcrt} ~A
d~P9rating 'the·,'Min4,' ;e~t~elY Jr~m_ the
~bgs of the Se~) fO~1;l8t~i~g is prefented
to your thoughts, whIch does not feeql to
P.Ct:fett" and :inftru8: you; aIld, that's the
re.afon why ;l]~ghly:,terpQa. thofe Philo-
~phpr~..:· t1;'~t. ~r~. calle$i : D~mp.r<:-'Vho.
af~ -~t~9 ign~r~ :' . "
,'-1 n~~y ¥.~e~. :: ,I
f~I¥ him lily.mg: you.
li'ai
'..1:;;'
jnJ.irrifr',:;r
5W" ~ ",i4
r
;fee
i
, a
 '-World oftbe SUlI. :18f
-a-Rarity that can never be imagined :jn y.ou~
W:0rl~. During the fpaceof'-anhour, :~r
"t~lereabouts, .fince I 1~ you ;, .J ~ve been
, . by 'the Fh 'which
JS~
t of the Lilk ¥"OU may
that I have t etn: with:i
J <>f Attentio -: the ;name
ve
~nfes, .ar o'neat one
~r : That' of ~ins' ,to-be
. a forked Pipe, full of the Powder of:- Dia-
monds, alid little' Looking-Glalfes, ,that
fteal a:way'and reftore ihe'Imageof what..
~\Ter:pretents; in its cOurfe it incompaffeS
lhlfKi'n crd6fu ofLinx t Thafofthe Hear..
ingtis; in1.tke;manber"doubie ;' it t~rns bY
- ~"- lations like a - - - :l trom the
low-coti~avii may
; one
Eccho' -of all h;ltfounds
.bilt :': r arnot en, if they
t Foxes that dng their
:re: ' That 0 feems 'like
the rormer, todiv:ide it1elt'into t\floChan-
nels, lUd under one and the fame Arch;
, ()ut':ofevety,thing it meets, it extra&"
f()iYl~what! invifi~lef whereof it '~mpofes
'8 .Thoufand, fOtt otOdours;· :whiCh {land
:itia: ftead of:Water'; on the brink~of that
- fouroe,. i· - -:reat many r -
rub and :-:.Nofes. T
Tafien ts,' which~;
happen
- -.
Three
, - or Fo
''''1;- 'J
,,~ ,rhe Hiflwy tftbe·
pay, an4 for that too ~ large van of ~
.fal mu.tt ~ lP-iied, and uqderneath that
tl great ~y .i~~~_~ncs~0r. ~v?I'Y} "~;H-

.,
 Jrqr/J. ofthc $fIII~ , I.~~
. ~. .Iftc;w rather than ,":lked ~ aoo~1
rw. aU abom: ,with fO·grec.dy ',a Curiofi'!Y;'
that in leiS than an hour,. my Guidearll£'
I .J..{Cr··"",J :whn .. ~•• r_~u t1..alH-".r.·' ,
'hrgr~ Ri s \\" .ri' t- fie ' of
t. Bt ing IOd-- : 'fFir ~li ~
~ ~qJ. { ~ 9r~} the. lOll ---art 4'~
1: dtr .f,· ~i ~ ari~ .e
~ ~
t- ~fr ~ :b~ lS C: -4 ~ 8l11~'.;-
, '. JWu ~he; ..Pk1i ,oqj ltJ.~'~,¥; ,(1)(;. may:
. _ qmciQuaUy.i itro~lcmline :~~i~:
ci Jays, fa.tlfQfli, MagpJeS, ,-starlings, LII1~
1l§t5, Cbaiinches, aUaC)fa11f~Of Birds,
_ ~hirp w.hattMy have. learnt. 'In'·m,
blighttinle ~y: 'ate fdctit,-for du ~}
i-.~tak.,.... "p:'" fee..J:'..,;gu-,.t~A40~hirJ-ya..~
. Jf; 4i.c.. JXh :;.fr-! ·tl e ~ :~
~ .u!- fQl t<W ieJl --1ts - ii,U
tin ~~ ,io Ik- ~ey ink ~
~~ tQ~ itf lan it ~ ~
ir: .k ~ ;.u, cle~ AS i ras tw
.f:'t~er. .~ , ,"
TlleW. . ·.<lf ithat .. Ri,ler :feems,totbc
cfflilllllY, ~r.uI)Jwith.m~ noife. " .-'
'. ','l:1¥ Ecdl9Sthat.an:iorPlediiu,itsC-a\fGrns
. fQ~;.·~o~~ ~v.to.aOOvea TilouGDd
ti~; .It br~ ~,kindQf Monfters, -whO
tw.,'t.- a F~ jtnt'~ lik"~.t~ ..• of~'vor-.. ,;
'(t: ~'l.c ~rs '~ ~ fur s,. .0 ~ ..
~·e -jQ: d t .DIli ....ck :lot J&. a
m :ff.t Bee 11$. IC\~ Jlec fme- ...)f
.. \

~ t e-
I~:. TheHiftoryoftlJe.
tb$ istociy,.i andneverthelefs fay n,o mqre
but :what they have heard one another fay
b:fore. : :.,'; :,: :
rT'O' e River.~ of - n runs mor·
T ;_. its. ligh ,~ -Liquo
esanall'han .k upon tha
"like i .Torr de .fparkles
'~uld ·;think;, !rved no O~
Its courre. . confidered 1
~QL1e anen~iVelr'1 ... 00lervect ;thatthe'hu~
~ilr . whicb 'flo~Cd .. in its· Channel, w~
ofpt1r~Potable~Gold, and its froth of the
Oyl'ofT~:The'Filh that itfecds are·R~
1lId~lI4tI ~Jl'CIJU::and; S~JII.AnJer S; inftead
~Gravel~ it jsJ4Uof drom little Stones pi;...
. r aks of; 'wD.cl- ,., .. ,; .. become Iiea
o!heri :tbby 'to -ring fide 1 anl
when'lhey'a 11 their Righ
I .obterved thofC othe
-s, r C?neof VI ad· in:: aring-
1 reooei thir . ; but tabov
all, tnere are a great many PhilofGphers
{iones, (which:. fparld~. amongft:· its .~anc!.
There. were. .a ~t m~y'Frui~T rees ';1P""
~'Lthe banks-of.it,-~efp~lftth.G!e- which
Mti/iQ.11Jff found 1ll Par.adifC ; ~ tIi(ur· Branches
{W~-rmed with ,. Bhe~ .ana -1 '., obfertr~ .
rrah/'"
~,,_ .. t·. "hat T rC6
.. ....
1 I" '-h
•
-
. [;),i.foo ~ Apple~' v
. WQn .GoddeifeS;~- Ie
~ irerj~~ had b- n
~~
 W,rld df the $H~~~ is,
~m~ TEach ofthefe Two gteat Rivers, is
divjded into an infipite number'of Branches~
~liat ate interlaced 'one with 'an~ther :; and
T , _ 1 ~ • , 1 __ , ___ n· ___ . 1_. _ t"
'L ___ - '___' _,

Alvers, -DOtIl J;H tnelr '-'nanrn:~s· ,-anp',.Qrap-

~hes,run always' by one another;', where;J
foe'Ver,the;Memdty i~ ~rong~: the I~agiila:~
fiOO ~iminilhes j' : and this, ag~m t fwells, is
theotherisIQw/'~ ~', : 1:_,; : ' ,f ',; ',.,r
.-.:_~.. I_
-to
~ ~': ~ear thatth~-~R-iyet of JUdgment, runs
,_._., ·~·_~~£.J·'_·I.l.. n...L.'-...J. ___ ~ .- 'T .....: 1.:..._1...1.:'':''''':

vcn IV 'He .1VI0U'~1· UI 1[', punne It:; waren

there: It breeds:: Serpeots,and upoo the
fo~ grafs th3;t ~cover ,itS banks, Thotifands
of~Elephants repofe' themfelves :. It is divi-
,dea, as the other two, intO an infinite own"
ber of liitleBrancbes '; it eocreafes as it ad-
va~ces in itscourfe : '~nd' thqugh i~ frill
g~,~~und,r'y~ I~t- (;gn~uallyebbs and
~W~~ltrel~" ", ',-.'-' I
, ~ ... ;
; ., . - \ ", . .

All
J 86 Tftt'fIijl9".d( Ih.' .
: All theS~; ~ ~tere(l py
t~ Juygepf·
there Thr~ alv~rs ,; it fi;rv~ to fleep the.
'IWrping Atom:es Qf thoU:. that die in th,at;
'-to.,." .. UTru-1~. hl1" ..h;" ~..r....,,~ ................n
 ·JYmU tf the 6".. '17
·d.ifperfe mto·. Neigbbouring Spheres;
wb.ereth~y"are,no fooMrwafu±cd, but they
~helll{cJves di~fe themaril:r~
;;..L___ ___ !_ .....;... _ "0 ___
.-...6._
a$ much JlS
£ __ ....L_
~_...;,..",.'
 J S8 .The Hiftory Q{the
principal BrancheS; they r~nwitb a ftreight
Cowfe to the P.rovince of Philofophers,:
And therefore
•
we returned
_._,
to the _high
• . 1_'-" .,

.aows. 1 nat'S a very pleal8.nt .Koaa, tnougn

~ be folitatj '; 'the Airtltere· is pure and
llii~ which nour.iihes the Soul, .and makei
.~itignfovectbe.Paffions. : I:. ' ; "Ii'
.', At thaendfofFiye or Six; days .Journey~
-as we
• '"
were:
~.
diverting our _ fight, with the
•. _., ..... _ r __ n
i" .• , _ '"' _ . _

DaCKwaros;.; wqa;cOmplallloognevouuy.
3"eoirs 'of compaffion came intO my Eyes,
and Pity.obligc:&me to ask the poor wretch
,what he ailed,,'·That Man, anfweroo
C'4mpAntU4, turning tc?wards me, is a Phi·
lofopher reducep to Extremity: : For, we die
.6ftner than once' ; ,and feeing :\ve' -are but
.parts: of this. UrLiveriC, ,we' change our
form, that, we may go _Live :eIfewaere ;
,which isn~t' ~ :MiSfo~~e;'fmce it is a
(. '.,,' way
 World of the SHn~ 189
way to perfea. ones Being, and to attain to
an infinite number of Sciences: His, di-

","",VI.J.J'-', \AJl.l.l'-" .lQ..l.u...., ""#r"'#~".~ LV 1.1.1"', ,lIU.I.-

ling me by the Arm,all the affiftance thatwe

may think we could give to. this dying Man, '
would be pnprofitable, and only trouble him'
the more. Let's Jog on, for indeed his
Evil is Incur~ble: The, Swelling of his
'J,.T",,,rf nrlV'",..rf" frnrn t-h .. n .. fl.JpffnpG, nfh:"

"''&'''''.1.''' ......."'1 ,'-W.,W "~1 & .......... w,av .....,. ...,,",y:., J.V'"
(IlUft know, That that Philofopher hath fo
dilated his brain; by ftuBing it with ,DOtion.
upon notion; th~t being unable longer. to
contail) ,them,· it hath burtl. That way
of dying i5 common to g~t Genies, ,
and it isqlUed,,:T.o crack with Wit. •
:. ,We marched· on Hill difcourflng; and
wijat prefep.ted full to OUf view, furniili-
~. us with" matte,r, ()f CO.Q~er~tion.. I
Ibould hay. been. VeJ.:y williog though, to
'" . " have
 190 The Hijfory ~f thd .
have left the.obfcure Regipnsof the" Stin~
and gone again into the Luminous; for
..1-.. D ..,.,ID'" .......... ,a. .,ftn.wY.P Tl . . ",. nll .. J,a C''''I'_~.

f"~WV'&Q.LnJ Alt Vl1~ "',,\."',., .lU\.V Id'~ vu-

fCure Regions, he infenfibly ~omes fa
hinifelf; and in the fame IBanner~. when .
one approaches the tranfparent, he per-
ceives himfelf flript of that fomber ()b.;.
fCurity, by the vigorous Irradiation· of the
rlO_n_ .

WJ"U.',t"'P41~ &~& 'W 01:\.&.& ....cv "'-'111<1,. V~ u.-

rive Country., .which of iJ:s own natuN
.is 0paxxJs ;fo we eouI~ IJ(Dt fit oar te1:ves
. in the dearer Regions of this Globe. .Ne.:
verthclefS by a vigorous binding of tht
W~ -we:can render our felv~sJl)iaphanotl!fj
when we hatt4:a mind ro" it: i· ,Nay, atd _
moll pare of the Phil0fophers" do not {peak
with the Toogue, btit .hen· they have 3:
ininloi . to-.. ~n.ial~ tbtir Tholighrs;
*er',pwge
-
th.afel.vo ~ ~1' the I?fK'ulatiort§
- . of
 , -WorM (If tI)e Strti. i 91
bfthetr Fa~, ()f~ rornber Vt:tpnur, under
;which COll'ltOOilly they keep their Conctp-
. "jJ:lhc:. l'nt)~~d ~ gnrl In. ~n ~c:t t'heu ha.tt~

'--0-' _..- ..... ~&.- .... - .... _. -.- .....__._, ".... _-

they deHre, and. what they refolve: For
though there' litt;le P,iEl:uies be more illl'"
~ptible, than any thing that we caA
devifc; yet in this World our Eyes are clear·
righted c:nough, eaHly to dillillguifh e~tt
t'h~. rrn:ll1P.1l TrlP.:I~_ . ,: .

~ ] , ..- .. ~-- .-.._.- .- --. _...--, .-

, Hoart is f~n to Thunder againft,the lmagt
()f him he hates, ftorms of burning Sparks ,
and to rttteat backward as far as it can: .
In the fame manner when hefpeaks w.ithM
-in hlmfi:1f, the Ideas are clearly to ~ Ob-
ferved, that's ro fay,' The CharaCkrs·of
~very thing he medimres upon~ which lbf
" ·r:i1ing "ilOO fulling, imprinting and etIacing,
preient to the Eyes·ofthe Beholder; not
·m arti~.uJated DliOOurfe, b19t·a Hiftery {)f
:atl bis thoughts in ~aille-tloN.x. ~ My
 1911. X!)l Rift"rj. bfthe
. . My Guide w-ould 'have .gone. on, blit he'
was diverted. by an Accident,' the like was
never he:lrd before: And that wa~_ that an.

-- .~ ---- - - --- ----,.-- ---,-.-"'-- ,--- ---- --

exprefs, w bat we imagined in that Jun"
aure: All forts of Terrors, ~ven that of
the Worlds end, feized us,· am~ none of there
Apprehenfions feemed to us to be impro--
bable; for to fee night in the Sun, or
the Air overcaft with Clouds. is aMi ..

upon. the Sand, but it ope~d, and was

brought to,bed of a .Man and a Woman;
. they l1ad an Anchor witb them, which
they faftened ~o the ~oots of a Rock; the
next thing they Qi~" was to. make towards
us. The Woman led the .Miln, and. with
threats dragged him forward •. Whenlhe'
was come very near us, Gentlemen, faid fhe,
in fome little diforder,Is not thii tpeProvince
of Philofophers? I ~e ~wer, No; but
. t~
--- ' - '- ..
 World of the SHIt. 193
, that we hoped to be there within the [pace
of Four and twenty hours; and that the
olel Map whr'l <:llloUTpd m 'lis rl)mr"n}"
p

,w: me . th' lief 1in rs ( hat 0"

na ,y. em ·ou cal 10k <;:r,' li-
ed ~ V nal 3.cd Iin~ T fi to 'n-
mn
L

P" til, the g?i fur r, it:

ch :e r Ile~ to .1.
~ .) teu ]-ou .... ~n i...... fe;. No ...."" t1.,- v'C-
calion of my coming hither, you mull:
know, that I come to complain of a M ur-
der cominitted on the perron of the Young-
eft of my Children; the Barbarian, whom I
hold here, hath twice kiU'd him, though he'
be the ,F<;ltl]er. WeUT~re pvtrearn IT] pp'7'l ed-
at is I ~ou at the :lre elir to
kr I, at m It 1 aCId = ed
tV ~ ? 10'\\ 3.nf ::,ed : W l311 at I ,

in r C .ntr am sft .od St~ es

of lve her- a T v rr lat[ he ll-'
be~ ...,f K&&...:s, n .lid~ ... Hu.,uCLnd ~., obut$ed
to give his Wife : And it's for tb.at realon, ,
that every evening a Phyfician, within his
own precinct, vifits all the Houies, where
. having viewed the H\lsbarid and Wife,
he ta,xes them for tI1at night, accord-
ing til the;!" He"l..,], ./l...'1ng ~.. "UA_ k, :....:
ore r liEI -aCf- 1'- v I Hl
md ere ts a dg. _0 S 'n: Tevi
ele be- ne jai me igr .vOi
ga\ Jim s \\ wet :Olr to' d'
C '
 194 The Hijlory of tbe
did nOt u) much as touch me, all the while
we were in bed: But God, who avenges
the caufe of the affiic.ted, permitted. That

Murder; and he is likewife the Qufe, why

he hath not been, there's his fecond ;
Whereas an ordinary Murderer knows very
well, that he whom he delhoys, is no
more in being; but he cannot hinder, ~ut
that he hath had a Beinl!. Our Maf.!iftrates

'" o~ ~

man. •
, The Senate puzled at that Plea, orde-
red us to go and -appear before the Philo-
,-fophers, and plead our Caufe there. "So
foon a~ we received the Order to be gone, we
put or felves into a Cage, hu~~g _by the
Neck of that great Fowl, whIch you fee
there ;" from whence by means of a -Pully
which we faftned to it, "we let our felves
down to the 'ground, and holli ourfelyes
- \ ' " up-
,,"
 ,World o(!/Je Sun. t9 5
·up into' the Air. There are/eople in our
ProvinCe, purpofely appointe to tame them
••• l.~~ .. l.~ •• ~_~ •• ~ •• ~~ ~~.J t.. __ ~J .. 1_~ ____ .. _

n.1L~1 ClU, wu~u W~ llClV~ d. U1IUU LV· J.J\::~p,

(forbecaufeoftheconLlant exceifes of Love,

which weaken us, w,e frand in need of
Refr : ) We let loofe into the open Fields, at .
, convenient diLlances, Twenty or Thirty of
thefe Fowls, each tied to a ,rope,who uk-
:_,.. a:,........... .• I': ...J... ... 1... .n:.. ,.....~ .. '1.1 :_rr... ,1:1'_1 ........

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is one of thofe Feathered MonLters called
Conaores, which are. to be feen in the Ine
of M41'J1lr~gor4 in o~r World, and all over
the TorrId Zone, they cover an Acre of
ground with their Wings: But feeing thefe
Animals grow Huger, aceordiJJg as the
Sun,. under which they are bred; is hotter
i.n the yvorId' of the Sun, they muLl needs'
Qe of a prodigious GreatndS.

o 2 How-
'196 1be, Hiftor.y of the
However, added he turning to the W()Io
man, you muLt. of . .neceffity
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accomplifh
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yery !lU1e as yt::t al:quamrt:o WltI1, rue !VJap

ofit? .
We are, anfwered £he, of the Kingdom
of Lovers.: That great· State is on one' fide
bortkted by the Republick ot Pea<:c, and
Qll the other, by' that of the Jufr.
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qunng 'WIIll:(.I. D~ Duys..are OnlY' empJOyea~

itt ~iting .the. affeaion of the: Girls, and:
dIe Girls' in .r~ndrintr thanfelves. worthy: of)
the Love ofth~ Boys. Wihen.the.Twelve'
Mpnths. are' up; _the faculty of medicine
in Body, go and v.illtIthis -Seminary of] L0-
vers: They fed· them. aU over,' pRe after·
a~other,. even: to the' . mod:'· Privy parts of
tbeir .Body:; make: tbeni oouple· before,
them; and then. a.c.col!ding· as' the; Male,.
upon Tryal, is found to be vigorous and
well
 World ,(jthe'Sul1. 197
well-fhaped, they give him for Wives,
Ten, Twenty, Thirty or Forty Maids,
fuch as loved him; provided- he reciprocally
1 - . l lem. The n neverthelefs.-
. 1 1

lie but wid time, and ~

lawful for 1 lrace any oi
fo long as f.l ~hild. Suclr
Duod to be £ mlyemploy
~ervice; and are impoteni
are made Slaves, ana may carnally mingle
with the Female-Drudges. After.all, when
a Family hath· more Children than it caR
bring up, the Republ[d{ takes care ofthem :
But that's a misfortune that v.ery feldom
happens; becaure fo foon as a Woman is
1 -lIt to Bed.iI
- tbepublict-
.1. ,.....

Iry furnifhes nfion for tho.

cion of the rding to it.
y; which c ys, the Trea
of' State rl .:arry to tho:
of the Fat you have <
mma to know more, Itep mto our Pan-.
mer, it is big enough for Four. . Seeing
we are going the £arne way, we'll talk
~nd make our Journey. the £horter. .
C.mpa1lell. was of the mind, that we
fhould embrace the offi:r; and I was like-
wife,,---' _r it, to avoid , . " :
1

But \V to help the ,

theiri- .AS much furp :,
that ii -:teat Cable" t
0.3 J
 198 The Hiftory of the -
tQ hear it up~ithung only by a Silken thread
(IS fmall as a Hair. I asked Cllmp41le!lll
~L_~ ~~_L_~~ ~ ~~-1 ~~_~
heavy as
how it• could __be~__ that a MafS fo_____
L~_ !~ :_'-~

HOWCO OUflClVCS In[U UJC canmer, anu [nen

'hoifted upour felves by the Pully,ashigh as
the Fowl"'s ThrOat, wher~ we appeared no
bigger than a Bead hanging at its Neck.
When we were up as high a5 the Pully, we
~
fafiened
____ _
the Cable
J:!~_
by which
r__ l1_1l. our Cage'
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hung,
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~t.

luar~u or nuopeo, acwrulllg 1U Its lVlUlrta"

fes pleafure, whofe Voire ferved it' for a
Bridle. We had nOt How~n Tw.o hundred
Leagues. when we perceived oJ)' the Earth,
to, the left Hand, a night like to that,
which our living Umbrella made under us: ~
We asked the ftrantw.Woman, what
UJe ~ thought it might be? It's another,
Malefactor, anfwered llie, who is 'gding,
~lfo t() tec;eiveJuftice in the P.covince, whio\'
, .. " ,',' ~,,, ~~r,
, .. ~"1
 "~~rld ~f tbe SU1t~' ~ 199
ther we are going: His Fowl, without
doubt, is fironger than ours, or otherwife
:we have trifle<! aw~y ~, great deal of time

th~lJ, faid Camp4l1elltl:to her, do the Laws

of your Country enjoyn Men to be afraid
of Death? Yes, replied the \Voman, they
enjoyn all, except thofe ,who are admitted
into the Colledge of the Vlife; for. our
lVlagi1trates !1tlVe found ,by fad ,Experience,

the Laws and Cufioms of the Kingdom, of

Lovers? But file begged,his pardon, if fbe
did not anfwer him; becaufe {ince {he' was
not born there, and knew them but in part,
fhe was afraid, the migh~ fay too much or
too little. I .came into that, Province, con-
tinued the Woman; but·I and all my Pro-
deceffors, ate, originally of the Kinpdom of
Truth; my Mother was delivered of me
there~ and never had another, Child ; !he
. 04 brought
~ 00 The Hiftory ofthe f
brought me up in the Country, till [ was
Thirteen Years of Age, . when. the King by
the ';l~vice ofPhyficia.ns, commanded her
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Deen. .lVlY .lVI0tner carrlea me tmtner,

and placed me out into that Houfe of Plea·
fure. '
I had much .ado to comply with their
Cuftoms: At firff they appeared to me to
be._veryLL_,,-____
rude; 1_____
for, r as you know,
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the opi,,:,11. .. _

tile p~ anon or Lovers,l1vea Wim more \..on~

d~fccnnon and Indulgence, that ours did;
for though every 0Ile gave it out, That
my Sight wounded dangerouIly, that my
LOC1ks killed, ind that' my Eyes glanced
out Flames, which cQnfumed Hearts; yet
the Goodnds of, an, and efpecial1y of the
Young Men, was fo great, that they car",:
reffed, kiffed and hugg'd me, inftead of
;-evelging
,... '
th~.I:4:ril
'
that" 'I had done tfJem "
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- 'Nay
; ~
 .. ' 1I'0;rld 9f the S"'n. . ~o,
Nay, I·was even vexed .w:ith 'OW ~lf, for
the diforders that l was t.h~ ~ufe·of;~that:
was the reafQ.q, that oot_f:!f p~W l ~old theoa

~d we ~ bad been already drown~'

without a Mira.ck. .
How, raid I to our Hiftorian, is the
~ountry of Lovers then fubje8: to .Inund,·
. tions? It Jnay very well be raid to be, re~
plied £he; for one of my Gallants (and

Water: And as I was curfmg, for their

fakes, the fatal Hour when fuit they fin,.
me, one who reckoned himfelf ofth~ nw..,.
her of my Slaves, fent me word, that rl1.e
~ight ~efor~,an overflowing of his Eyes, h~d
caufed a Deluge. I was Qboutto have left
the World, that I might ~o longer. be
~he caufe of fo many Evils, had not the
Meifenger fubjoined, that his Mafter had
t::barged him to a[urc me, .That I had no'
. ..... caufe
 ~o ~ .The Hifltlry0/ thi
caute to fear any thing, feeing the Fur-
nace of his Breaft, had dried Ull that De-
.Iuge. In fine,. you mav ConjeCl:ure how
.rifh the K Lovers ml
5 be, .[mee' \11 is to weep b
lives; when their Eye-lil
~ fprings rio iVCllets,Fou
and Torre!
~as in great..., lachine I COL
find, to fave my felf out of an thefe Wa~
ters, that were like to over-whelm me :
But one .of my 'Lovers, who was called The
JeA/olls, advifed me to pluck out' my Heart,
·and then embark in it; that I needed not
. fear ~ . but that it would hold me, becaufe it
fo many otr t I fhould fin
..lfe it was to hat all I w
~ a'fraid of, -")urnt, becae
Materials of -eI, was mu
a to Fire : 10uld be go
upon the Si ears; that t
Fillet of his Love, would ferve me for' a
Sail ;: and that the favourable Gale of his
Sighs, !n fpight of his Ri vals-Storm, . would
carry me ,to Shoar•
. I,was a long while a roufing with my'
felf, how' I could put that enterprife into
execl. natural Fea; ly
fex, -: ~ from dar at
lengt )n that I hac ne
thing ~afible, a' M ot
be
 . World of tbe SUIl" ., 03
be fuch a Fool as to ad vife it, and far l~fs a
Lover to his Miftrefs, gave me the Bold-
~G. . .
natched a k . - ) my Breaft'
with both _ was alread
ling in the ~ with Cln UL
ed look, I f Ieart to plue
, when a , who love
3.me in. .In e he wrelte
the Weapon from me, and then asked me
the motive of that defperate .Afrion, as he
called it. I gave him an ace04nt of it ,
but was much furprized, when within 'a
quarter of an hour after, I underftood
that he had brought the 1ell/oll! before the
. -. e. N evert . - - Magiftratef
perhaps, fee sht be biaffel
e example of the Aeci
referred tha ,e Parliamen
e Juft. Th Condemned
s perpetual :, to go enl
his Days as a Slave, in the Land of the Re-
pub/kit of Truth ; with prohibition to all
that' fhould defcend 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 ufe --' . ·le.
Sin e I entertai t
" afFefri Y~ung Ma :l '
ine; • r it were f. :l
-,
 ~ 0+ Tbe Hiftory of the
.office, or .bccawc of the Palfwn, where..
with he ferved me, when my Novitiat and
~is ~ere o~t~ J di~ not re~~e. h!~, when

dom ot flulolophers •.
CAmpAMlill and I were much aftonilh-
cd at tlie filence of that Man; and therefore
. J endeavoured to comfort him, judging,
dlat fuch a profound Taciturnity, was
~e p.a~~~r of .a very ~eee ~emor[e . :

going on itill, but I was ttrangely amazed

whep I heard C""',tlnellA, with a Coun-
~nance full of tranfports of Joy, cry out :
'Now welcome the deareft of all our
Friends: . Let's go, Gentlemen,· continu-
ed the good Man, Let's go meet Monj-
e", Des Cartes; come let us alight, he is
;uft now arrived, and but Three Leagues
off. For my part, I was exceeding-
~y furprized at this Eruption, for I could
not
 World oftbe Sml~', ~O~
not comprehend, how' he could come
to know' the arrival of a Man·, of
---1--'11 ,we had r---"----"-- News., Ce
" "faid I: to ave jult, no'
Jim in a Dre: call a Drearr
ie, what yc -'l fee with "
a certainty, ~ fee the ligl
y; I confefs d I, is it not
navc;ry to think, mar JJ'Jo1Jpeup Des Cartes, •
whom you have not feen,fince you left the
WarId of the Earth, is now but Three .
Leagues off, becaufe you have imagined it
to be fa? ' .
I. had juG: uttered the laft Syllable, whe~
---- raw [j)es CM-~-- ---- Tmmediatel~-
amlliz- ran t him : The-
:It-oge-ther a ; but I coul
-nind all th, :;:omPlemen
-nade to one: ns fa full (
to learn of his Secret l
J,Jlvmacion. That cIlllOlopner, who reaa
my Paffion in my looks, gave his Friend
an account arit; and" prayea film' not -to
take ill if he fatisfied me.. Monfteur Des
Carles anfwered with a fmile, and my learn-
ed Preceptor difcaurfed in this manner~
Out c e _11 TL.J~ -- Specitls exh -L . I . ' .~
fay, mageS', ~wlt ...n
the 1 thefC Jrnagt :'
natw their Agita 1-
gure, Id all the at 1-
15
 2 06 The Hiftory Of the
ons of the Objefr, from which they pro-
aed: But feeing they are very pure and
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. that commonly happens here," where the

mind is not illUt up in a Body, made of
grofs Matter, as in thy World. We'll'
tell thee how that comes to pafs, when
we have. had the Ieifure, fully to fatisfie
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