courteous
reader
aristotle
in
his
metaphysicks
writing
of
the
nature
of
man
hit
the
nail
on
the
head
when
he
said
that
man
is
naturally
enclined
to
and
desirous
of
knowledg
and
indeed
it
is
palpable
and
apparent
that
as
pride
is
the
first
visible
sin
in
a
child
whereby
we
may
gather
that
it
was
the
first
sin
of
adam
so
knowledg
being
the
first
vertue
a
child
minds
as
is
apparent
to
them
that
do
but
with
the
eye
of
reason
heed
their
actions
even
whilst
they
are
very
yong
even
before
they
are
a
yeer
old
even
by
natural
instinct
whereby
a
man
may
more
than
guess
that
knowledg
was
the
greatest
loss
or
at
least
one
of
the
greatest
we
lost
by
the
fall
of
adam
knowledg
saith
aristotle
is
in
prosperity
an
ornament
in
adversity
a
refuge
and
truly
there
is
almost
no
greater
enemy
to
knowledg
in
the
world
that
pride
and
covetousness
excellently
said
juvenal
sat
and
again
some
men
are
so
damnable
proud
and
envious
withal
that
they
would
have
no
body
know
any
thing
but
themselves
the
one
i
hope
will
shortly
learn
better
manners
and
the
other
be
a
burden
too
heavy
for
the
earth
long
to
bear
the
subject
which
i
here
fixed
my
thoughts
upon
is
not
only
the
description
and
nature
of
herbs
which
had
it
been
all
i
had
authority
sufficient
to
bear
me
out
in
it
for
solomon
employed
part
of
that
wisdom
he
asked
and
received
of
god
in
searching
after
them
which
he
wrote
in
books
even
of
all
herbs
plants
and
trees
some
say
those
writings
were
carried
to
babylon
by
nebuchadnezzar
being
kept
in
the
temple
at
jerusalem
for
the
publick
view
of
the
people
but
being
transported
to
babylon
in
the
captivity
alexander
the
great
tyrant
at
the
taking
of
babylon
gave
them
to
his
master
aristotle
who
committed
them
to
the
mercy
of
the
fire
but
since
the
daies
of
solomon
many
have
those
famous
men
been
that
have
written
of
this
subject
and
great
encouragements
have
been
given
them
by
princes
of
which
i
shall
quote
an
example
or
two
mathiolus
his
greediness
was
such
to
finish
his
comment
upon
dioscorides
which
book
is
yet
in
use
in
the
famous
universities
in
leyden
in
holland
mountpilier
in
france
that
he
forgot
to
count
what
the
charges
of
it
might
amount
to
although
i
rather
comend
him
for
his
dilligence
in
studie
and
care
of
the
worlds
good
than
harbor
the
least
ill
thought
of
him
for
not
counting
the
middle
and
both
ends
before
he
began
the
work
i
say
when
he
came
to
count
the
charges
of
printing
and
cutting
the
cuts
it
far
surmounted
his
estate
in
this
he
was
abundantly
furnished
by
ferdinand
the
emperor
and
diverse
other
princes
of
germany
as
himself
confessed
furnished
him
with
great
sums
of
money
for
perfecting
that
so
great
so
good
a
work
the
prince
elector
of
saxony
sent
him
much
money
towards
his
charge
as
also
joachim
marquess
of
brandenburg
who
as
he
was
neighbor
to
saxony
in
place
so
was
he
in
affection
to
so
good
a
work
frederick
count
palatine
of
the
rhine
the
cardinal
prince
of
trent
the
arch
bishop
of
saltzberg
the
dukes
of
bavaria
and
cleveland
and
the
free
state
of
norimberg
together
with
many
others
so
that
he
had
the
help
of
the
emperor
of
arch
dukes
dukes
electors
cardinals
princes
happie
is
that
nation
whose
magistrates
countenance
such
as
mind
and
study
their
good
i
might
instance
in
many
more
and
thereby
give
you
a
glimps
how
magistrates
formerly
favored
this
art
and
which
is
more
how
studious
they
were
in
it
bellonius
a
man
that
soared
high
in
the
nature
of
herbs
also
professed
he
had
the
helping
hand
of
kings
and
cardinals
to
maintain
him
in
his
studies
and
more
than
this
kings
themselves
were
studious
in
it
amongst
which
solomon
excepted
mithridates
that
renowned
king
of
pontus
seems
to
bear
away
the
bell
his
writings
after
his
death
were
found
in
his
country
mannor
by
pompey
the
great
but
never
a
roman
of
them
all
had
the
honesty
to
print
them
with
his
name
in
the
frontispiece
so
that
we
have
nothing
of
them
but
what
is
quoted
by
some
honest
authors
especially
by
plutarch
mesue
king
of
damascus
avicenna
and
evax
king
of
arabia
labored
much
in
this
study
and
i
could
well
have
afforded
to
have
mentioned
dioclesian
the
roman
emperor
had
he
not
washed
out
his
vertues
and
defiled
them
with
a
purple
stain
in
a
most
bloody
persecution
of
christians
it
is
quoted
in
virgil
that
when
a
famous
prince
was
proffered
by
apollo
to
be
taught
his
arts
viz
physick
musick
augury
and
the
art
of
shooting
in
the
bow
he
made
choice
of
physick
and
to
know
the
nature
of
herbs
so
precious
hath
the
knowledg
of
the
vertues
of
herbs
been
in
former
times
to
men
of
quality
and
indeed
happy
is
that
nation
whose
rulers
mind
knowledg
as
solomon
saith
on
the
contrary
wo
to
that
nation
whose
king
is
a
child
and
indeed
in
ancient
times
people
need
little
other
physick
than
such
herbs
as
grew
neer
them
some
footsteps
of
which
and
but
a
few
only
are
now
in
use
with
us
to
this
day
as
people
usually
boyl
fennel
with
fish
and
know
not
why
they
do
it
but
only
for
custom
when
indeed
the
original
of
it
was
founded
upon
reason
because
fennel
consumes
that
flegmatick
quality
of
fish
which
is
obnoxious
to
the
body
of
man
fennel
being
an
herb
of
mercury
and
he
so
great
an
enemie
to
the
sign
pisces
in
this
art
the
worthies
of
our
own
nation
gerard
johnson
and
parkinson
are
not
to
be
forgotten
who
did
much
good
in
the
studie
of
this
art
yet
they
and
all
others
that
wrote
of
the
nature
of
herbs
gave
not
a
bit
of
a
reason
why
such
an
herb
was
apropriated
to
such
a
part
of
the
body
nor
why
it
cured
such
a
disease
truly
my
own
body
being
sickly
brought
me
easily
into
a
capacitie
to
know
that
health
was
the
greatest
of
all
earthly
blessings
and
truly
he
was
never
sick
that
doth
not
beleeve
it
then
i
considered
that
all
medicines
were
compounded
of
herbs
roots
flowers
seeds
and
this
first
set
me
awork
in
studying
the
nature
of
simples
most
of
which
i
knew
by
sight
before
and
indeed
all
the
authors
i
could
reade
gave
me
but
little
satisfaction
in
this
particular
or
none
at
all
i
cannot
build
my
faith
upon
authors
words
nor
beleeve
a
thing
because
they
say
it
and
could
wish
every
bodie
were
of
my
mind
in
this
to
labor
to
be
able
to
give
a
reason
for
every
thing
they
say
or
do
they
say
reason
makes
a
man
differ
from
a
beast
if
that
be
true
pray
what
are
they
that
instead
of
reason
for
their
judgment
quote
old
authors
perhaps
their
authors
knew
a
reason
for
what
they
wrote
perhaps
they
did
not
what
is
that
to
us
do
we
know
it
truly
in
writing
this
work
first
to
satisfie
my
self
i
drew
out
all
the
vertues
of
vulgar
herbs
plants
and
trees
out
of
the
best
and
most
approved
authors
i
had
or
could
get
and
having
done
so
i
set
my
self
to
studie
the
reason
of
them
i
knew
well
enough
the
whol
world
and
every
thing
in
it
was
formed
of
a
composition
of
contrary
elements
and
in
such
a
harmony
as
must
needs
shew
the
wisdom
and
power
of
a
great
god
i
knew
as
well
this
creation
though
thus
composed
of
contraries
was
one
united
body
and
man
an
epitome
of
it
i
knew
those
various
affections
in
man
in
respect
of
sickness
and
health
were
caused
naturally
though
god
may
have
other
ends
best
known
to
himself
by
the
various
operations
of
the
macrocosm
and
i
could
not
be
ignorant
that
as
the
cause
is
so
must
the
cure
be
and
therefore
he
that
would
know
the
reason
of
the
operation
of
herbs
must
look
up
as
high
as
the
stars
i
alwaies
found
the
disease
vary
according
to
the
various
motion
of
the
stars
and
this
is
enough
one
would
think
to
teach
a
man
by
the
effect
where
the
cause
lay
then
to
find
out
the
reason
of
the
operation
of
herbs
plants
by
the
stars
went
i
and
herein
i
could
find
but
few
authors
but
those
as
full
of
nonsense
and
contradictions
as
an
egg
is
full
of
meat
this
being
little
pleasing
and
less
profitable
to
me
i
consulted
with
my
two
brothers
dr
reason
and
dr
experience
by
whose
advice
together
with
the
help
of
dr
dilligence
i
at
last
obtained
my
desires
and
being
warned
by
mr
honesty
a
stranger
in
our
daies
to
publish
it
to
the
world
i
have
done
it
but
you
will
say
what
need
i
have
written
of
this
subject
seing
so
many
famous
and
learned
men
have
written
so
much
of
it
in
the
english
tongue
nay
much
more
than
i
have
done
to
this
i
answer
all
that
have
written
of
herbs
either
in
the
english
or
not
in
the
english
tongue
have
no
waies
answered
my
intents
in
this
book
for
they
have
intermixed
many
nay
very
many
outlandish
herbs
and
very
many
which
are
hard
nay
not
at
all
to
be
gotten
and
what
harm
this
may
do
i
am
very
sensible
of
once
a
student
in
physick
in
sussex
sent
up
to
london
to
me
to
buy
for
him
such
and
such
medicines
and
send
them
down
which
when
i
viewed
they
were
medicines
quoted
by
authors
living
in
another
nation
and
not
to
be
had
in
london
for
love
nor
money
so
the
poor
man
had
spent
much
pains
and
brains
in
studying
medicines
for
a
disease
that
were
not
to
be
had
so
a
man
reading
gerards
or
parkinsons
herbal
for
the
cure
of
a
disease
so
may
as
like
as
not
light
on
an
herb
that
is
not
here
to
be
had
or
not
without
great
diffuculty
if
possible
but
in
mine
all
grow
neer
him
my
last
though
not
the
least
of
my
reasons
is
neither
gerard
nor
parkinson
nor
any
that
ever
wrote
in
the
like
nature
ever
gave
one
wise
reason
for
what
they
wrote
and
so
did
nothing
els
but
train
up
yong
novices
in
physick
in
the
school
of
tradition
and
teach
them
just
as
a
parrot
is
taught
to
speak
an
author
saith
so
therefore
'tis
true
and
if
all
that
authors
say
be
true
why
do
they
contradict
one
another
but
in
mine
if
you
view
it
with
the
eye
of
reason
you
shall
see
a
reason
for
every
thing
that
is
written
whereby
you
may
find
the
very
ground
and
foundation
of
physick
you
may
know
what
you
do
and
wherefore
you
do
it
and
this
shall
call
me
father
it
being
that
i
know
of
never
done
in
the
world
before
i
have
now
but
two
things
more
to
write
and
then
i
have
done
the
profit
and
benefits
arising
from
it
or
that
may
acrue
to
a
wise
man
from
it
are
many
so
many
that
should
i
sum
up
all
the
particulars
the
epistle
would
be
as
big
as
the
book
i
shall
only
quote
some
few
general
heads
first
the
admirable
harmony
of
the
creation
is
herein
seen
in
the
influence
of
stars
upon
herbs
and
the
body
of
man
how
one
part
of
the
creation
is
subservient
to
another
and
all
for
the
use
of
man
whereby
the
infinite
power
and
wisdom
of
god
in
the
creation
appears
and
if
i
do
not
admire
at
the
simplicity
of
the
ranters
never
trust
me
who
but
viewing
the
creation
can
hold
such
a
sottish
opinion
as
that
it
was
from
eternity
when
the
mysteries
of
it
are
so
cleer
to
everie
eye
but
that
scripture
shall
be
verified
to
them
rom
i
the
invisible
things
of
him
from
the
creation
of
the
world
are
cleerly
seen
being
understood
by
the
things
that
are
made
even
his
eternal
power
and
godhead
so
that
they
are
without
excuse
and
a
poet
could
teach
them
a
better
lesson
this
indeed
is
true
god
hath
stamped
his
image
upon
every
creature
and
therefore
the
abuse
of
the
creature
is
a
great
sin
but
how
much
more
doth
the
wisdom
and
excellencie
of
god
appear
if
we
consider
the
harmony
of
the
creation
in
the
vertue
and
operation
of
every
herb
this
is
the
first
secondly
hereby
thou
maist
know
what
infinite
knowledg
adam
had
in
his
innocencie
that
by
looking
upon
a
creature
he
was
able
to
give
it
a
name
according
to
his
nature
and
by
knowing
that
thou
maist
know
how
great
thy
fall
was
and
be
humbled
for
it
even
in
this
respect
because
hereby
thou
are
so
ignorant
thirdly
here
is
the
right
way
for
thee
to
begin
the
study
of
physick
if
thou
art
minded
to
begin
at
the
right
end
for
here
thou
hast
the
reason
of
the
whol
art
i
wrote
before
in
certain
astrological
lectures
which
i
read
and
printed
intituled
semeiotica
uranica
what
planet
caused
as
a
second
cause
every
disease
and
how
it
might
be
found
out
what
planet
caused
it
here
thou
hast
what
planet
cures
it
by
sympathy
and
antipathy
and
this
brings
me
to
my
last
premise
viz
and
herein
let
me
promise
a
word
or
two
many
herbs
plants
are
not
in
the
book
apropriated
to
their
propper
planets
the
reason
was
want
of
time
or
some
other
thing
else
which
many
that
know
me
will
easily
guess
at
at
last
the
book
hanging
longer
in
the
press
that
i
imagine
it
would
i
took
the
time
and
pains
though
i
could
ill
have
spared
either
to
apropriate
them
all
and
have
for
thy
benefit
courteous
reader
inserted
them
in
order
after
the
epistle
now
then
for
thy
instruction
first
consider
what
planet
causeth
the
disease
that
thou
maist
find
in
my
semeiotia
secondly
consider
what
part
of
the
body
is
afflicted
by
the
disease
and
whether
it
lie
in
the
flesh
or
blood
or
bones
or
ventricles
thirdly
consider
by
what
planet
the
afflictd
part
of
the
bodie
is
governed
that
my
semeiotica
will
inform
you
in
also
fourthly
you
have
in
this
book
the
herbs
for
cure
apropriated
to
the
several
diseases
and
the
diseases
for
your
ease
set
down
in
the
margin
whereby
you
may
strengthen
the
part
of
the
bodie
by
its
like
as
the
brain
by
herbs
of
mercury
the
breast
and
liver
by
herbs
of
jupiter
the
heart
and
vitals
by
herbs
of
the
sun
fifthly
you
may
oppose
diseases
by
herbs
of
the
planet
opposite
to
the
planet
that
causeth
them
as
diseases
of
jupiter
by
herbs
of
mercury
and
the
contrary
diseases
of
the
luminaries
by
herbs
of
saturn
and
the
contrary
diseases
of
mars
by
herbs
of
venus
and
the
contrary
sixthly
there
is
a
way
to
cure
diseases
somtimes
by
sympathy
and
so
every
planet
cures
his
own
diseases
as
the
sun
and
moon
by
their
herbs
cure
the
eyes
saturn
the
spleen
jupiter
the
liver
mars
the
gall
and
diseases
of
choller
and
venus
diseases
in
the
instruments
of
generation
seventhly
there
was
a
small
treatise
of
mine
of
humane
vertues
printed
at
the
latter
end
of
my
ephemeris
for
the
yeer
i
suppose
it
would
do
much
good
to
yong
students
to
peruse
that
with
this
book
eighthly
yong
students
would
do
themselves
much
good
and
benefit
themselves
exceedingly
in
the
study
of
physick
if
they
would
tak
the
pains
to
view
the
vertues
of
the
herbs
in
the
book
and
compare
them
to
these
rules
they
shall
to
their
exceeding
great
content
find
them
all
agreeable
to
them
and
shall
thereby
see
the
reason
why
such
an
herb
conduceth
to
the
cure
of
such
a
disease
ninthly
i
gave
you
the
key
of
al
in
the
herb
wormwood
which
if
because
of
the
volubility
of
the
language
any
think
it
would
not
fit
the
lock
i
will
here
give
it
you
again
in
another
herb
of
the
same
planet
which
in
the
book
either
through
my
own
forgetfulness
or
my
amanuensis
was
omitted
and
here
i
shal
give
it
you
plainly
without
any
circumstances
it
is
called
carduus
benedictus
or
blessed
thistle
or
holy
thistle
i
suppose
the
name
was
put
uppon
it
by
some
that
had
little
holiness
in
themselves
it
is
an
herb
of
mars
and
under
the
sign
aries
now
in
handling
this
herb
i
shall
give
you
a
rational
pattern
of
all
the
rest
and
if
you
please
to
view
them
throughout
the
book
you
shall
to
your
content
find
it
true
it
helps
swimming
and
giiddiness
of
the
head
or
the
disease
called
vertigo
because
aries
is
the
house
of
mars
it
is
an
excellent
remedy
against
the
yellow
jaundice
and
other
infirmities
of
the
gall
because
mars
governs
choller
it
strengthens
the
attractive
faculty
in
man
and
clarifies
the
blood
because
the
one
is
ruled
by
mars
the
continual
drinking
the
decoction
of
it
helps
red
faces
tetters
and
ringworms
because
mars
causeth
them
it
helps
plague
sores
boils
and
itch
the
biting
of
mad
dogs
and
venemous
beasts
all
which
infirmities
are
under
mars
thus
you
see
what
it
doth
by
sympathy
it
cures
the
french
pox
by
antypathy
to
venus
who
governs
it
it
strengthens
the
memory
and
cures
deafness
by
antipathy
to
saturn
who
hath
his
fall
in
aries
which
rules
the
head
it
cures
quartan
agues
and
other
diseases
of
melancholly
and
adult
choller
by
sympathy
to
saturn
mars
being
exalted
in
capricorn
also
it
provokes
urine
the
stopping
of
which
is
usually
caused
by
mars
or
the
moon
if
you
please
to
make
use
of
these
rules
you
shall
find
them
true
throughout
the
book
and
by
heeding
them
you
may
be
able
to
give
a
reason
of
your
judgment
to
him
that
asketh
you
i
assure
you
it
gave
much
content
to
me
and
for
your
goods
did
i
pen
it
but
i
must
conclude
my
epistle
having
exceeded
its
bounds
alreadie
hereby
you
see
what
reason
may
be
given
for
medicines
and
what
necessity
there
is
for
every
physitian
to
be
an
astrologer
you
have
heard
it
before
i
suppose
but
now
you
know
it
what
remains
but
that
you
labor
to
glorifie
god
in
your
several
places
and
do
good
to
your
selves
first
by
encreasing
your
knowledg
and
to
your
neighbors
afterwards
by
helping
their
infirmities
some
such
i
hope
this
nation
is
worthy
of
and
to
such
shall
i
remain
a
friend
during
life
readie
to
my
poor
power
to
help
nich
culpeper
spittle
fields
next
door
to
the
red
lyon
novemb