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Tears, nth
the Moon peared orieally on,
the Enin
range ,' thatHarizon : Antlet'
he hould it not'
hathe retainedv
eem
Light and Brightne'o long here, without 'Re
'va-vation ; m en wend hj'Experiente, that'
in the I-Iea-uens, he never its once a Month
to change and her Splen For it i:
the Excellency of Art, to repre ent Nature,
e-ven in her ahente; and their heing a Piece
done to the Life, h] one that had the advan
tageqf' the true Light, a: well a: the Skill
ofDrawing, in this hind, to Perection; he
le; good an Ortginal, which wax o well'
Capied h] another Hand, that the Pictnre
A 2 -nti'ght*' a
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mlght
to 'hat-ver'have fer-vedLo'zief:
vzjeitthe for may) Tears
*0f the 'xorez4
Illoo't,._v
ight oft eir Mire/f, even in the &lathe/I
Nights ; two! when [he nyu retired to put on
p aiifthcj
clean Smach qcxtriom,
Phoebushehis
to Apartment;
have emozti
'ragedt Bxp'qen. v -
Home-per," Reader, you have 'tow a taml
Went qf her, And that made' theme Cava?
with the Sun too, which. very rare ;
mcezg were.I (iC'UC'f
ICZ'MjZ-TZEMJHTG een hezemhe
would. have are' 'in
tzrdd,lthd- their Eye:- heiect'g dqzled with
thy/orient Light of' the Sat', the] hould
no! echcri- or Few Wi urely the Wed/r:
'te' qf the; Organ, and Imagination, h] the
help Mib'rottr, will notfail to dicover.
'them &QFhiZJiThWZIZ Cyn'thia' tye bid under
Ap'od'sz hiningMdzttle,
'F?>iL*?Z>Zii>W?F-"Z'.' ._ - . o muchfozt.
, Maria-'che Worlds,
v fox-gar;" hdectzw, [me]which,
tall thewith
Old'Am;
and
&gw ;,fcth4t' the ' Moon havingieer' dicaz?
pened; 'the itt'DztQ-verj'
Sqn ming imPetfectZj, by others,
'wholly but Aft:
itq our the,

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

in holt/15 m well
piped fptizihg' iquritieg, extraordinaer
Natural,
Men/i: civil; the? . if he be not yet?
ciedtdteed
AV -_ > i -- with'v thii
< (one' (which
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to the Reader;
(which I nmfnre ome are) to'think ofmaking
a Voyage thither, ne our Author he: done; he
will nt lea he plead with. his Relations.
Neverthele, ince this Age' produces agree:
man] hold-Win', that hoot' even'hejond the
Moon, and cannot endure,- (no more than
onr Author) to heinted hj Magierial Au
thorit] , and to helie-ve nothing hnt what
Grey-headed Antiquity gives them len-ye :
It's pit] ome onring Virtuob, inead of
Travelling into France, does not ta/ee night
up to the Sun ,* and hy new Oher-vntionsjnp
ply the defects ofits I-Izor] 3 occaioned not
h] the Neglzgence of onr Wittj French An
thor, hnt h] the accured Plnginr] of ome
rude Hand, that in his Sicknei, ried his
Trunks, and tole his Papers, M he himelf
complains. '
Let ome ventnrons Undertnher anici
on] attempt it then; and neither of the
two 'Univerities , Greham-Colledge , nor
Greenwich-Oherwtory cnnfurnih him with
an Inrmnent ofCon-uejnnce *,.let him tr] his
own Invention,- or make ne of our Author's
Machine: For our Los is, indeed, o great,
that one would think, none hat the declared E
ne'n] of Mankind, would have had the Mu
lice, toanlg'n andie thoe rare Diho-oe
ries, w ich our Author made in the Province
gf' the Solnr Philotphers; and which uns
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doubtedly would have gone r, a to the et
tlelng our Sullumry Philohpbj, which, a:
Wed 46' Religion, is lamentall) rent by Sect:
and ' Wbim/ejs ; and [mue convinced m,
per/MPJ, that in our preent Doubt: and Per
plexities, 4 little more, or a little les of' ei
ther, would better-erve our Turns, and more
content our Minds. v
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Comical _Hi0_riy
' OF THE

' STATESandEMPIRES-_
OFgTHE

WORLD OF THE

MOON.
Written in French by era'ta Bergerac.

And now Englijhed by A. Loyall. A. M.

L O N D O N,
Printed for Henry Rhoder, next door to the
Swan-Tmevzn, near Bride-Lane in Fleet
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rnard; a Houe ne'er 'Per'o'sz and"n_1agi_
et'r nicently Entcrtain'd' there'when
by Man:
1 de Gnigy, the Lord 'of it"; uponv
* 7 B ' our
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our return home , about Nine of the
Clock at Night, the Air erene, and the
Moon in' the Full , the Contemplation of
that. bright Luminary, furnihed us with
Reem variety
uch horter of Thou
than, 'hts, aswas;
indzecd,iit madeOur
the Eyes
way
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being xed Upon that ately Planet, every *

' one poke what heo thought of it: One
would needs have it be a Garret Window of
Heaven ; another preently armed That
it was the Pan whereupon Diana lhwothi
ed Apollo's Bands ;. whil another Was of
Opinion, That it might very well be the'
Sun himelf, who putting his Locks up
under his Cap at Night, peeped through a.
hole, to oberve what was doing in the
World, during his abiznce: And for my
part, Gentlemen, aid I, that I may put
in for a hare, and gUes with the re; not
to amue my elf with thoe curious Notions,
wherewith you tikle and purjon ow-
paced Tilne; I'believe, that the' Moon is
a World like oule, 'to which this of' ours
erves likewie for a Moon. This wasl re
ceived With die-"general 'LaughteZof the _
Cdm'pany. 'And perhaps, aid I, (Cera
' tlemen )' ju' o they laugh now in the
Moon, at om? whvz maintaJM>_thhat this
Globe, wherewF are, is. a World.z But Pd
as gbod'ha've aid'nothngzj "as-have alledg
cdxo tha' That: a great;me Learned
iMen _
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that only madethem lau faef. 4
However, this thought, wieh beteiuzof
its boldneuted my Humdti;=being con
rmed by Contradiction, urjkdeefp'd- _
to my mind, that during te o ' the
Way, I was big With Denitinns Of' the'
Moon, which-I could not be delivered Of:
Inomuch that 'by riving t'dv Perie ths
Comical Fancy, Reaons' of apgeari *
Weight, I had do ' rW'adbdx" ' e',
already of therth on ; w 'a' Izraii _
. cle ,' Accidentj,-- Ptovidence;" brenne;"
what, perhaps, lowe may 'le viion; o;"
- , thers'Fiction-*thniey orjif (sqwillj
Folly, 'me W' _ anoqca xon, Hth
engaged 'me into Diconreg 'Bei'
Come hornezl' ZWent up into My 'Gloe-t',
where I fondde Book open the Tas
ble, which I hadznOt pur them? I; Was a
piece of Carddttw; and thoughllghad _
degn to read in it, yet I fell at r
as by force, exactly u'pon afa'agq a;
Philobpher, wherehetellsm, That ude
ing one evening by Candlecghgfhe _.
ceived Two tall old Men, 'enter inthrop if
the door that was mWho after any clue!
ions that he put-m them, ma e hlmlan
Ever, and thereuWere
Moon, Inhkieantzctkhe
n imrriediaitely' dih -'
peared. I wasb urpried, not only to
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Book: get. mtkingofct
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elf,- bur oalo
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patly,
LNZFLS'TLW
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poked Page',t112t
he Cochcenation
Which-ile open, -tha_t
of Accn
_'dents ', "as 'a Rcvelatiqn, clicovcring to ,
Nrtals, that the Moon
j'udzI tQctyi-'Rl havingis;zju
World,
now, How-4
talked
jot: a [thingyban a_ Book, "which, perhaps,
i's'. Lhe', Qly in' the World, than treats
fOthh'aLmack
-_'fr<$n_1 me Shelf o particularly,
upontz'pyr zTablc,ybecome
down
capable'OfReabnj it; ppigg ocxactly at _
I'the Plafce Of'd iaxigsan adventure z force
Y-EYCSM
Zthen '-td afsrimp?r...tosloqknupon tits" 'And
i &'tomy Fggcy the. Keqxions,
Tand'fdle-x .ill'<&D=gxzs..wiziczz.I lzacch-c. -
Without dolzbtz-Cdwesi 17, xthWO-old
'Mc'nz whd pbarpd to tgz famous Phioh,
pher,"f'are'chggl very; mc- 'Wim have L (tak-en
down;
FQ VFctfinit Book, and. The;
de? omuc. itaacnhaquge;
JQQW Of' mak.ng
t9' Ffz-T -. akapguer whls-zk-I shewmadc . tQ
fthe-5 %--addln1,a!09t be re-_
TQI-V? L szihi's
khic'h'x .-""_ And' OUleJni-F-x
sct'hjr pon? I.I;Jnclourxt'upv
inam: -f
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to, HLYCH ,' aholgz ye zfrpm: thengez;
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ings- oa'violent Feavei, - E begnIt'o Bonc'rel
ome hopes Of* ucceeding in "lb" d'VbY-'f
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try-bouk '; - whetc ha'V-'ing vflatterec'l"iinY'
With ome 'medns'ipmportiondtedmlmy'tdesi
ign, at length I: etioutfot Hinner'Lj-Tnl'this2
manner_ i, Fy, . . ' LL'IzJ it O;_!.'..'

I planted myidfin the middle'ofalgi'eat'

many Glaes full of' Dew, tied-*a'about*
me ; 'upon which the Sun o violently'dktl '.
ed his Rays, that the Heat'zihichitfract; -
them,measupit odoes
'ried hi the neckeej-iquds;
h, that cata j
at lie-112th I5fouctnd
my elf above t e middle Regionol"v the
Air. But zcing that Attraction hurried me
up with o much rapidity, that inead of
drawing near the Moon, as I intended, he
kem'd to me to 'be'- more diant, thatr'at
my r tting Out ;* Izbroke' Riveral of my
Vials, until I ound my weight exceed the
force of the Attrection," and that I began to
decend again towards the Earth. I was
not
aftermia kentoin the-ground
I fell my opinion, a for
ainome time
; and to *_i
reckon from the hour that I- et out at, it -
mu then have been-about midnight. - Ne
verthele I found the Sun Fto beinf'the *
Meridian, and that it" was Noon. I leave'
'_ B3 - - it \
 6 leOe'Hiory the
i,th you tovjud e, in What Amazementl %*
was trut 15, I, was lb rangely fur-3 ',**Z;-
5
P
priEd, knowing what to think Jzdx
P

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

When thatin favour of'my Boldnes,

_' had-zo'nqemore nailed the Sun to the '
Parliament, to light lb generous an Enter
prie; , 3 That which encreaed my Aonihn ' 2?zz;' _
ment was, That I knew not the-Country &FS'*
, where I was; it eemed to me, that ha
ving mounted raight up, I'hould have fig'
fallen down again in the ame place I
parted Erom, z However, in the Equipage
I was in, _I 'directed my coure towards a
kind of Cortage, where I perceived ome . 352
as?be:
moke; and I was not above a Piol
hot from it, when I aw my elf envi-'
NC
'rened by a great number of People, ark' SH'QZ
naked: They eemed to be exceedingly
urpried
iwas the at
r,the (as
ight of me;
I think) that for I
had ever een clad in Bottles. Nay, and *_ST
'__=
-z-a_:1ung

to bathe all the Int cuations, that they

could put upon that qUiPYLz they Per'
'ceivedz' that; I hardly touched the ground
as I. walked; for, "indeed, they undern. r
ood not, that. upon the leat agitation I
gave my Body, the Heatofthe beams of.
the Name-Sde m: upwdth my Dew; _ -_, _

And: 'that in; hadrhad Vials 'anon p)-_ _

me, itiogld pobly hawmrrie up

ZWUF:* H'vvu Fl*'u 01 aa'--1{3-Lnui
r --\"
isu
 ' World'ofthe Moon. _ 7'
into the Air in 'their view_., I had a man
to have poken to them; but as ifFear had
changed them into Birds, immediately I loi
ight of'them, in an adjoynin'g Fereh How:
\
ever, I catched hoid of one, whole-'ings
had, without doubt, betrayed his Heare. - Iv
asked him', but With ' at, *reat'dea10f " A
(for [was
reckoned quite
kam- Chok'
thence ) - how
to Paris J'ai' they
?' Howloing
Men had ne naked in France ?' and wh i
they ed om me in o great Conernan- 3
Of! .' The'Man I' poke to was' an oId_taw-
ny Fellow, whopreerjtl'y felT at my Feet,
and with Mad-up Hands," joyned behind.
his Head, opened his Mouth and'zm
his Eyes : He mumbled a long _whiIe be?
then his Teeth, buck I could not diin
gnih
his an articulate
Languagc Word
for the ; o tharI
maing noie took
ofa i
Dumb-man. - .
-' Some kithe after, I tw aCompany of
Sonldiers marching, with Drums beatin ';
and I perceived Two detached from ' e'
re , to Come and take peech of me._ *
When they Were come Within hearingtl *
asked
Frame,them, Whem!
anizwered they was?
: But You
'what are m
Devil
hath put you into that Dres? And how -
comes it that we know you not ?, Is _t*he
. Fleet then arrZVEd? Are you going to car;
ry the News of if i) the Governor?
B 4 And
 8.. " Terz'ijry'afte,,
And
into oWhy have
many you divided
Bottles? To all your
thisiIandY
made
anwer, That the Devil had not put me
into that Dres: 'That they knew me not;
becaue they could not know all Men a
That knew nothing, of the Seine': car-.
'tying 'Ships to Partit: That I had 'no
news for the' Marhal ale l'Hoital; and
that' I was not loaded with Brandy. Ho,
. Lo, Bid they to me, takin me by the
' Arm, you' are'a 'merry Fe ow, indeed;
c'omc, th'eiovernor will make a hiftlto
know you, no doubt on't. 'They led line,
tp their Company, where] learnt tha I
was in realityin France, but that it was in
,NeW-Frm_ce; So 'that ome time 1after, I
eas rented before the GOvernor, who
asked meyny Country, my Name and Ala
lity ;* and afterv that I had ltised him in
all Po'iritSfahd
- "eeis ofmy Voyage 'cold him: the hebelieved
whether pleaant SuG-_
it, '__,.

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

goodhes to'o'rder-N'mie' 'a Chamber in his
. Aparunem; lYWISeerYhaPPY, imperin -.\-

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

. lliirrlctzthatthe gamth ineedelhave .*

q durmg my Elevatjoh
begun 'tdglout aho'lilctt; Two,
eeing.Ijeaghesct'from.
that havmg *
Paris, -Iwa$-Faen,' as it were, byg Here r .

Pendieular Line His-wax,"

' ' , Thee
&ix.
 World of the Moon. 9
When I was going to Bed 'at night, he
c-ame into my _,Chamber, and poke to me
to this purpoe : I houldnot have come to -
diurb your - Re , had vI_ not thought /
that one who hath found out the ecret, of-
Travelling o far in Twelve hours pace,
had likewie a charm again Latudc.
But ou know not, adc-ed he, What a
plea ant (Daniel I have ju now had with
our Fathers, upon your account? They'll,
have you 'abblutely to bea Magician; and
the-greate favour you can expect from
them, is tobereCkoned-only, anlmpoor : .
The truth is, thatMoi-ziOn which you, attri
bute to the Earth, - isa pretty nice Paradox ;
and for my- part I'll frankly tell'you, That
that which hinders mefrom being of your
Opinion, is, That though you parted yeer
day from Paris, yet you mi ht have arrived
today in this Country, wit out the Earth's
t turning: For the Sun' having drawn you
up, by the means of your Bottles, ought he.
not to have brought you hither; ince ac;
cording to Ptolemy, and the Modern Phi- .
loophers, he marches obliquely, as 'you \
make the Earth to move ?, And beides,
what great Probability have" you' to ima
'ne,' that the Sun is immoveable, when we
He it o? Andwwhat appearance is there,
* _ that _ e Earth turns. with o great Rapidity,
When we feel it rmundcr car Pect? Sir, .
\, * repied
 10 The Hiory the
replied I tohim, Thee are', in a manner,
the Rea-ibns that oblige us to think o : In
the r place, it is cononant to common
Sene, to think that the Sun is placed in the
Center of the Univere; eeing all Bodies
in nature, anding in need of that radical
Heat, it is t he hould reide in the heart of
the Kingdom, that he may be in a condi
tion, readily to upply the Necetie$ of eve
Part ; and that the Caue of Generations,
hould be placed in the middle ofali Bodies,
that it may act there with greater Equality
and Fale: After the ame manner, as Wife
. Nature hath placed the Genitals in Man,
the Seeds' in the Center of Apples, the ' i M-_-____-*_ _

\Kernels in the middle of their Fruits", and -

in the ame mannegas the Onion, under
the cover of ib many Coats that eneom Is.
it, preerves that precious Bud, fromw ich
Millicins of Others are to have their bein ,
the' Seed,hotter
for an Apple-is than
in itthe:
elfOther parts
a little thereof, r
Univerg;
is its Sun, which diues about it elf that
natural Heat, which prefErves-its Globe:
And in the Union, the Germ is the little
Sun of that little World, which vivies and w
nourihes 'the vegetative Sat: of that little
mas. Having laiddown this, then, for
a ground, I ay, That the Earth anding in \
need ofthe Light, Heat,'and Inuence of
this great Fire, it turns romd it, that it
L
 'z Writ! (thei' _ n
may receive in all' parts alike, that Vhtue"
Which he'epsit in Being. ' For it w0uld be
as ridiculous to think, that that va lumi
nous Body, turned about' a "point, that it has
* no: the lea need of ; as to imagine, that
When we fee a' roaed Lark,that t'heKitchin
re mu' have turned round it. Egg-were it
the Part of the Sun to do that drudgery,
itwould eem. that the Phyician ood in
'need of the Patient ; that the Strong hould
yield to the Weak ; the Superior forve the
Inferior; and that the" Ship did not ll auz
bout the' Land, but the Land about the
Ship. Now if you cannor eaily conCeive,
how o ponderous a Body can move ;' Pra ,
tell me, ' are theStats and HeaVens, whi ,
in your-Opinion, are o olid, any way
lighter? Beides, it is not o dicult for-ne,
'who are aored of 'the Roundnes of the
Earth, 'toinferits mation from its Figure : '
But why dqye uppoe the Heaven to be
round, fecting you cannoc know it, and
dmyet, ifit hath not this Pi ure, it is imo
POblC it can move? Iobje _noe to you
your Extentrith: nor Ezteydu, which you
cannot explain hue very' confuedly, and
'which are out of doors in my Syeme.
Let"s reect only on the natural Caus of
that Motion. To make' good your Hy
_.
pOtheis, y0u are forced to have recoure to
__\ Spirits or Inn/tigmet, that move and go
. i, ,_,, 5.', - ,
 _,._.
r
' 12 4, . TbeHiDrydethd
vern' your Sphere's, sBut for: m'y.part, with-v
0ut diurbing 'the _rep0\e of the upreme
Being, -_wl_10, without doubt, hath made
Nature entirely perfect,and whoe Widom.
v ought O'to have compleated her, that ben
ing perfect in one- thing, hehould not
u have been and
theBearins defective in anocher: Sun,
Inuenccsofthe I i ,_thatr '

' greularly, upon-the 'Earth-la; makeit to

' turn, as withzazturn of the Hand, 'we .
make aGlobe
the L'ame, to move;
thatthe or,which
Steams whichis much
continu-v
ally evaporate from that ide of it, which.
the; Sun hines upon , being reverbera
'ged by; the Cold of the middle Region,
* rebound upon it, and riking obliquely,
do necety make it whirle about in that
- manner, A
'The Explication of the Other Motions is
les perplexed ill -; for pray, conider a lit
tle-"47 At thee words the Vice-Roy inter
rupted me: zI; had; rather, aidth you.
would excue(yqulfp elf from _ tha'ti trouble ;v
for i have'rea ome Bjooksok Grade on
that' ubject: And -zh.ear.- whatonezof our
Father-s, who maintained your-10 inion one'
day,_,anwered LZIIQ- Really, z aid; he," I
fancy that. the Earth does'.moye,. not for
the Reaons alledged by "Capemitw 3. but;
' becaue Hell-re, being hut up in=the Cen
' ter oFthe Earth, the damned rwhbinake a,
. . " ' great _
 'lVord ofthe Moon, -* i;
great' bue to avoidi 'its Names', cratctnble
up toibthe
and Vault,as
make far as .to
ithe Earth they can from
turn, them,
as a Turn'
pit 'makes the 'Wheel ' go round, when he -
.n-'ms about in it. -
. We applauded that Thought, as being -
a pure 'eect of the Zeal of that good Fa
ther : And then the ViceeRoy 'told fme,
That he much wondered, how the Syeme ,
of Ptolemy, being o improbable , hould
have been o univerally received. I' Sir, ' 'laid
I to him, mo part of who judge of '
all things
* elves byperwaded
to be the Senes,by
have uered
their Eyes th'ent
z'andct
as he who Sails along:a.Shoar, thinks: lthe
Ship immoweable, 'and Land in mation;
even. o. Mentuming. with the! Earth round
the Sun, haveahought thatit was'zthe'Sun
that moVed_-about-them,: ' Knu- this 'may be'
added,the unupportablePride of"Mankind,
who .perw'ade made
hath onlybeenl themelves , that
fonthem Nature .
;'as ifaware
likely: 'that vthe Sun, a ' va 'Body, .Four
hundred and thirty fourtinieszbigger'than '
the Earthc had only been kindled to ripen
theirMedlars, and plumpen 'their Cabbage.
Form' part, I'arn o far- from complying
with-t' ir;Inolence, that] believe the Pla
nets - are fWorldsI about dheun, and that
the-xed-Starsf are alo which have' -
Planets. about them, think-to lay, Wogldis,
-:'v . ' w rc .
 14. The Hiory ofthe
whiCh becaue of their mallne, and that
their borrowed light: cannot reach us, are
no: dicern-able by Men in this World : For
ingood earne, how can it be imagined,
that uch pacious Globes are no more but
va Dems; and that ours, becaue we
live in it, hath been framed for the habita
tion 'of a dozmof proud Dandyprats ?
HOW, mu it be aid, becaue the Sun
' meaures our Days and Years, that it 'h-axh
oulybeen made, to keep us from running
our Heads again the Walls? No, no, if
that viible Deity hine upon Man, is by
accident, as the King's Flamboy by acciz'
dent lightens a Pocter than walks along the
Street: But, aid-be to me, if, as you
arm, the xind Scars be o many Suns,
it Will follow, that the World is innite;
&cinth is probable, that the People of that
World, which moves abouc that xed Star; ms-ry
tas-e
you take for. a e Sun, dicover above them
. Lives odmrxed Stars, which, we cannot
perceive from hence, ando onhers in that
Wininiom. 3' ' _-_-0_ -.4
Never qucion, mpliod I, but as God
could create the Soul Immortal, He could
zli) make the World Innirc; if o it be,
that Etern'nzy is nothing ele, but'an illimi-i cp-u-yz-z?

- ted Duration, and an i'tfyua boundlee

Extenon : And then God himelf would
thinire, hppong tb Warld me. page
. r 1 *
 * Work! of the Moon. . I5
innite, eeing he cannot be where nothing r
is, and that he could not encreae the
reames of the World, without' adding
&men-hat to his own Being, by beginning
to exi, where he did no: exi before. We
mu believe then, that as from hence we
ee Saturn and Jupiter ; if we were in e
ther of the Two , we hould' dicover a
great many Worlds which We perceive not,
and that the Univere extends o' in inie
1 vein-ny. . '
_ I' faith, replied he , when you have
aid all you can, I cannot at all camp: ex
hend that: Innitude. Good now, replied
I whim, do you comprehend the Nothing
thatis beyond it Fx Not at all. \ For when
you think of that Notth you imagine it
atleato be like Windor Air, and that isz; '
Being: But if yQ'u? conceive no; an Innite
in general, Yon 'comprehend at it;
- particulars; it imo: diicultto famy
to our elves beyond the Earth, - Air, and
Fire which we ee, When. Airyand other
Eart, Mother Him, Now. Wtude-is
nothmgeer, _ butxa boundlsSzSeues a 'all
thee. 'But If yqu ask me, Howtheie
Worlds have made,- eezng Hgly Scrip
ture peaks._qnly a. one xbat ed unde?
Myanwu 15, That I leve no more to hy-z
-F9r moblige ple togivea Regqq for; every
dung, that comensmzommmwwzom a
. - ,. ' to
 '16 The Hiory of the
to op my Mouth, 'and make me confe', i
that in things of that nature, my Reaon
hall always oop to Faith; He ingeni
ouly acknowledged to me, that his Wei
on was to be cenured,but bid me purue my
notion : So that I went on, and told him ,
Tha't all the other Worlds, which are not
ken, or-bUt imperfectly believed, are no
_ more, but the Scum that' purges" out of the
Suns. 'For how could thee- great Fire'sx
ubi withOut ome matter, that erved
them forF'ewel? Now as the Fire drives
from it-'the' Aihes that would ie it, or
the Gold-in 'a Crucible, Parates from the
Marcaite and DroS, and is rened to the r
hi he-Standard 3' nay, and as ourAStomacle
d' charges it Helf'by Vomit', of the Crudil
ties 'that oppres it ; even o thee Suns dai-' _
ly evacuate, and reject the Remains Ofmatz
ter, that ' might incommode 'their Fire :
But when they have wholly iconumed'tha't
matter, which entertains' 'them 5' ou are 'not
'to doubt, but they pread thenne ves abroad
on all ides, to leekv for-ehlFeWel', and'
faen - upon the Worlds ,P _which here
tofor'e'they have made, 'and ipartieularl p
uponv thoe 'that are neare :'Then the e
great Fires, 1- reconeocting' alli the Bodies,
Will as fonnetly force them'out'again, 'Fell-e -
well from allparts; and being iby little and -
* . little purid,--th y'll begin 'f'to [lee for
'k-'_- . -$uns
 World ofthe Moon. _ I7
Suns, to Other little Wotlds, which they
procreate by driving them out of their >
Spheresi And that withour doubt, made,
the Pythagoream foretel ' the univeral
agration. * ' _ Con
' '
- This is nolridiCuIOuS Imagination, for
New-'France Where *we are, ivcs us a very
eonvincing inance' of it. - he va Con-j
' tinentlof America', is one '1211de the Earth;
which in pight of our Prcdeceors, Who a
Thouland times had crulied the. Ocean,
was not at that' 'time dicovered : "Nor, in) -
deed, -was it then in being, no more than a"
great many Iands, Peninules, andeOUns
tains'that
when thehave
Sun ince
purgedarted
out up, inourGlobe;
itsExcrementsi
to a convenient'di'ance, and' lcient
Gravity, to be attractEd by the' Center- of
out World, either in mall Particles, per
haps, or, it may be alo, altogether in one
lump. That is 'not lo unreaon'able, but
that St. Autin would have applauded to
it, , if that Country had been dicovered
in his Age. Seeing that teat Man, who
had avery clear Wit, a ures us, That in
his time, the Earth was at ike the oor
of an Oven, and that it oated 'upon the
Water, like the half of an Grange : But if
ever I have the honour to (be youv in France,
l'll make you*0befve',by means of a mo
excellent Celeicope; that ome Obimrities;
- C which
 _'I_

LZ T/Je'Hi/Xory ofthe
which from hence appear to be Spots, are
. Worldsa forming. . \ i
My Eyes that hut with this Dicoure,
obliged the Vice-Roy to withdraw. Next 3
&L'va
5?
IITQ
-._..

- Day, and the Days following, we had

ome Dicoures to the ame purpoe .- But
ome time after, incethe hurry of Aairs -_'\-'_ _ _
upended our Philoophy, I_ fell afreh
uponvthe deign 'of mounting up to the *
Moon. __ ,
So bonz as he
ct . ifnuing in the Woods,was up,
howI Walked
I might.about:
may +w

nage. andvucce'ed in my Enterprie; and at F'S LE'.E*

len th on St. Jalm's-Eve, when they were
at ouncil in the Fort,whether they hould
ua the Wild Natives of the Countrya
a ain the Imguem; I went all alone to
t e top o alittle Hill, at the back 'of our
Habitation, where I putlin' Practice What;
ou hall hearJ had made a Machine,which
i fancied might carry me up as highzasj
pleaIEdJo-that nothing eeming to be Want; A
ing to it, I laced my elf within, and fran
the Topo a Rock, threw my iZzlf in the
Air : But becaue I had not taken 'my mea;
ures aright, 'I fell with a oh in the Valley
below. HBruied as I was, however, .I re-.
turned to my Chamber, without loong
. courage, and with Beef-Marrow v-I anoint
ed my Bedy, for I wasall over mortified
from Head to Foot : Then having raisen-a
, . * _. ram
 .vq.-
I

World the Moon. '1'9

dram of Cordial Waters to rengthcn
Heart, I went back to look for my Ma
chine; but I could not nd it, for ome Sol
diers, that had been ent into the Fore, to
cut wood for a Bonere, meeting with it
by chance, had carried it' With them to the
Fort: Where after' a great'deal of gueing
what it might be, When they haddee."
vered the invention of the SPring, Me
nd, that a good many Fire-W'Orks hould
be faened to it, becaue their Force carrY
in'g them up on high, and the Mechine play
ingfz its large Wings, no Body-But' wold
take it for' a Fiery Dragon. 'In the 'mean
time I was Long in earch of, - it, 'butolmd
it at length in the middle of'the Marei
place of Keeck, ju as they' were ttinbr
Fire to it; 1 Was tis tranpoma with
to nd the Work of my Hands in o gr'edt
Peril, that I ran to the Sduldiemhat was gh
ving Fire to it, Caught hold of hisv _
pluckt the Match
great' rage threwour
myofhis'
le Hand,
, into myand'Mz-
in
thine', that I might unde the FireeWorBs',
'that they had uck abour it; but I came'
too late, for hardly' were both my Feet with
* in, When whip, away went I up in aClovd :
The Horror and Conerncion Iwas in,
did nor o confound the faculties of my
Soul, butI haVe ince terncmbred all that
happenedto me at that inant. For o [bon "
.C2 as
cap He? Hiory." oftbe
thejFlamei had devoured one tire of
_$guibs,- Which-Were ranked by ix and ix,
_by means of; ianorher
half-dozen a; - Train,tire
thatwent
reached
o, every
and
then another ;_-__0,that the Salt-Peter taking
,__EIX'C, put o the danger by encreaing it.
HoWever, all the combuible matterbeing
'_pent,__there was a period put to the Fire
lfl'l
,w0rk; and;.-whill*c I thought of nothing
its, than to knock my Head again the
cop of ome Mountaiu, I felt, without
the lea irring, my elevation continuing;
and adieulMachine, forI aw it fall down
'ain towards Lthe Earth. That extraor
Z Adventure pued up my Heart '
Wah. ituxzcbxamcma Gladnels s that, ravih
,edzd-to ee my, half delivered from certain
Hanger, I. . had'zithe impudence: to 'philoo
YPU, zjekupop it,,-._;'Whil: then; with Eyes
an 'Thou ht, Lca about, to nd what
ha ,t.-,'be.zt szeazlc of in] perceived my.
blow-manam ._.i.11_ greay. with the
Marrow, that 'Yhadzdaubed my elf; over
WT'F', 'RNQBWRS of my- fall = I knew
iklhtrthe Moon being then in theWain, and
that'it
to 'uckibemg for, her ofrAnimals
up the Marrow' in that.Q1-_1_arter,
;_ Ahe r .
drank up ctthatvivherewithlil was anointed,
With o much the more. forgeth that her
Globe was nearerto me, and that no interz
Poti0n0f91duidansaksnsd hawtxractionz
When

o
 World ofthMaon. 21.
When'I had, according-to the, computa
tion I made ince, advancedaw good dealL
more, than three quarters of the paqe, that
divided the-Earth from the Moon; all Ofv
a udden I. fell With my'He'elS' Up, and
' Head down, though I hadma'de'nonTi-ipj
and indeed, I hadknot been enible 0f-'it,}'
had notI felt my Head loaded under the'
weight of my Body : The*truih'is,*'-I knew
very well, that I was not falling again' ton'
wards our World ; for though I found-my
lie'l to be betwixt two MOOns, and eaily
obisrved, that the nearer I drewto the
one, the farther I removed dm the other;
yet I was certain, thatours was the bigs
ger Globe of the two: Becaue after one
or two days Journey, the remOte Refracti
ous of the Sun, confounding 'the diverity
of Bodies and Climates, it' ap red-to
me only
made me as alargethat
imagine, PlateI byaedv
of God: That
toWards
the Moon; and I was-conrmed in that
Opinion, when I began to eall to mind, -
that I did notfall, till I was 'pa three'
uarters of' the way. For, aid I to 'my
izl, that,Mas being les than ours, the
Sphere of its Activity mu be of les Ex
tent alo 5' and by conequence, it was la;
ter before I felt the force of its Center. A
In' ne', 'after 1 had been a 'very long
while in falling, as I' judged, for the -vvi
i _ . . C 3 olence
32 The' Hiory ofthe
olenee of my Precipitation' hindered me
from Obrvmg it more exactly ; The
la thing I can remember is, That l found
my elf. under aTreo, entangled with three
or four pretty large Branches, which I had
broken o by my' fall; and my Face be:
meardwith an Apple, that had dahed
i p m.
i B good luck that place was, as you
hallyknow by and by ----e--. So that you
mayvery well conclude, that had it not
been for that Chance , if I had had a
/ thouimd lives, they had been all lo. I
haVe many times ince reected upon the
vulgar Opinion, That if one precipitate
himelf from a very high place, his breath
is out before he reach the ground; and
from my adventure I conclude it to be
fale, or ele that the ecacious Juyce of
that Fruit, Which quirted into my mouth,
mut' needs have recalled my Soul, that
was not far, from m Carcas, which was
ill, hot, and in a ipotion of exerting
the Fumtiormv of Life. The truth is, o
oon as I was upon the ground, my pain
was gone, before I could think what it
was ; and the Hu er, which l felt during
my Voyage, was ully atised with the
ene that I had lo it. '
- Whenl Wasgot up,aI had hardly- taz
. ken notice of ,. e brae- of Four gnat
. - Lives.
 World' ofthe Moon. - _ is
Rivers ,- which by their 'conuximctake a
Lake; when the Spirit, or' inviible Soul
of Plants, that breath Upon that Country,
refrehed my Brain with a delightful mell:
And I fonnd that the Stones there, were /
neither hard nor rough 5 but that they
Carefully oftened themelves, when one
trode upon them. I preently lighted u n
a Walk with ve Avenues, in gure ike
to a Star; the Trees whereof eemed to
reach up to the Skie,a green plor of lofty
Boughs : Ca'ing up my Eyes from the
roor to the top, and then making the ame
Survey downwards, I was' in doubt whe
therthe Earth carried them, or they the
Earth , hanging bytheir Roots : Their
high and ately Forehead eemed alo to
bend, as it were by force , under the
weight of the Celeial Globes; and One
would ay, that their Sighs-and out-retch
ed Arms, wherewith they embraced the
Firmament, demanded of the Stars the
bounty of their' purer Inuences, beOre
they had lo any thing of their Innocence,
in the contagious Bed of the Elements.
The Flowers there on all hands, without'
the aid of any other Gardiner but 'Na
ture, end out o weet I(though wild)
a Perfume , that *-it rouzes and delights
the
uponSmell
the :Buh,
Thereand
thethe-lively
incarnateAinreiof
of a Roeai A

C 4 Violet _
24. The'Hi/Zory'ofthe.
Violet under- the Ruhes, captivating the
Choice, make each of themelves to be
judged the Faire: There the whole Year
is a Spring; there no poylonous Plant
prouts forth, but is as oon deroyed;
vthere the Brooks by an agreeable murmure .
ing, relate their Travels to the Pebbles ;
there ThouZLnds of Wriers make the
Woods,reound with their melodious NOtes ;
and the quavering Clubs ofthei: divine Muv
cians are o univeral, that every Leaf of
the Forei', eems to have borrowed the.
Tongue and hape of a Nightingale ; nay,
and the Nym h Eeeha is o delightul'with
their Airs, t at to hear her repeat, one
would ay, She 'were ollicitous to learn
them. 'On theides of that Wood, are
Two Meadows, whoe continued Verdure
eems an Emerauld, reaching out of ight.
The various Colours, which the Spring bee
ows upon the numerous little Flowers that
grow there, o delightfully confounds. and
mingles
be knoWn, theirvwhether
Shadows 3 that'it
thee is, hard;
Flowers, to
haken,
with 'a entle ctBreeze, purue themieLves, '
or' y rat erJctfriom the Carees of the,Wan,
ton Zephzira z one would likewiejake that
MeadOw
it' preentsfOrnoctShoar
an ocean,tpbecauie as the ino;
the, view; Sea,"

much, that mine r Eye fearing zit might

[oh Itzl -h'a.-ving'.r<2a\aes1 o long, and
 World of the Mooiz. ' ' i
diovered no Coa, lient my Thoughts prctea
a andy thither; 'and my Thoughts, imagin,
ing it to be the end. of the World, were
willing to beperwaded, that uch' charm.
ing places, had, perhaps, forced the Heaz
vens to decend, and join the Earth there.
In the mid of that va and pleaant Cat,
pet, a ruick Fountain bubbles up in SiL
ver Purles, crowning its enamelled Banks
with Sets of Violets, and m'ultitudes of o
ther little Flowers, that cern to rive,
which hall r behold it tlf in: that Chry
al Myrroir': It is as 'yet in the Cradle,.
being butnewly Born, and its Young and
mooth Face. hews not the lea Wrinkle.
The large Compaes it fetches, in circling
within it. lf, demonrate its unwilling.
nes to leave its native Soyl : Andas if it
had 'been ahamed to be careed in pre
ence of its Mother, with a Murmuring it
thru back my hand, that would have
touched it : The Beas that came to drink
-
there , more rational than thoe of our
-
World, eemed urpried to he it day upon
the Horizon, whil the Sun was with the
Antipade: ;' and dur not bend downwards
upon the Brink, for fear of falling into the
Firmament.
I mu confes to you, That at the ight
of o many Fine things, I found my zlf
tickled. with thee agreeable. Twitches,
i which,
36 The Hiory of. the
which, they ay, the Embrjo feels upon the
infuion of its Soul: My old Hair fell o,
and gave place for thicker and ofter Locks :
D'r-s-Ka_T-_
I perceived my Youth revived, my Face
grow ruddy, my natural Heat mingle
gently again, with my radical Moiure :
And in a word, I grew younger again, by
at lea Fourteen Years.
I had advanced half a League, through a
a Fore of Jeamines and Myrtles, when I_
perceived omething that irred, l ing in ___->4)>i_

the Shade: It was a Youth, who e Maje

.ick Beauty forced me almo to Adorati
on. He arted up to hinder me ; crying,
It isnot to me, but to God that you owe
thee Humilities. You ee one, anwered
I, unned with i) many 'Wonders, that I
knew not what to admire mo 3 for corn.
ing from a World,whic_h without doubt you
take fora Moon here, I thought I had ar,
rived in another, which our Worldlings
call a. Moon alo; and behold I am in Pa.
radice at the Feet of 'a God, who will not '
be Adored. Except the quality of a God,
replied he, whoe Creature Ionly am, the * *
re you lay is true : This Land is the
Moon, which you he from your Globe,
and this place where you are is Now
at that time Man's Imagination was o
rong, as nor I'being as yet corrupted,
neither by Dew.th the Crudity ofAli-
r ments,
 World aftbe Moon, a7
ments, nor the alterations of Dieaes, that
being excited by a violent deire of coming
to this Sanctuary, and his Body becoming -
light, through the heat ofthis Inpiration;
he was carried thither in the ame manner,
as ome Philoophers, who having xed
their Imagination, upon the contemplation
of a certain Object, have prung up in the
Air by Ravihments, which you call Exta
es. The Woman, who through the in
rmity of her Sex, was weaker and les
hoc, could not, without doubt, have the
Imagination rong enough, to make the
Intenion' of her Will, prevail over the Pon
derouneh of her Matter ; but becaue there
were very few
The Sympathy which ill united that
half to its whole, drew her towards him
as he mounted up , as the Amber. attract;
the Straw ; the Load-one turns to
wards the North, from whence it hath been
taken, and drew to him that part of him
elf, as the Sea draws the Rivers which
proceed from it. When they arrived inv
'your Earth, they dwelt betwixt Me 4
ym'a and Arabia : Some People knew them
by the name of -----, and others under
thatof Promtbem, whom the Poets feign
ed to have olen Fire from Heaven, by
reaim of his Off-pring, who were endowed
with a Soul as perfect as his own : So that
i , to
 '28 - The Hzory aft/Je
to inhabit your World, that Man let this
deitute; but the All-wie, would nor have
o bleed an Habitation, to remain without
Inhabitants: He uered a few ages after
that ------ cloyed with the company of
Men, whoe Innocence was corrupted ,
had adere to forake them. This peron,
however, thought no retreat coure enough
from the Ambition of 'Men, who already
Murdered one another,about the diributi
* on of your Worldzexcept that bleed Land,
which his Grand-Father had o often . mew
tioned unto him, and to which no Body.
had as yet fonnd out the Way : But his
Imagination upplied that; for eeinc he
had oberved
Veiels 'whichthat
he-------
Healed he lled' Two arge
Hermetically, and
faened them under his Arm-pits :' So oon
as the; Smoak began to rie Upwards, and
could not pierce through the Mettal, it for
\ zed up the Veels on high, and with them
alo 'that -, Great Man. .When he was got
as j-high as the-Moon, and had ca his
Eyes upon that lovely Garden, a t of al
mo lipernatural Joy convinced him ,
that that was the place,- Where his Grand
father had heretoforelived. He quickly
- untied the Veels, which he had girt like
Wings about his Shoulders, _'and did- it i)
luckily, that he was carcely 'Four Fathom
in the' Air above t the' Moon, when he' lyt
\ us
 .
a
*'

W'o'rld ofthe Moon. a9

his Fins a going; lyet he was high enough
ill, to have been hurt by the fall, had it
not been for the large skirts of his Gown,
which being welled by the Wind, gently
*-upheld him, till he et F00t on ground,
As for the two Velels, they mounted up
to a certain place, where they have conti
nued : And thoe are they, which now a
days you call "the Balam'e. .
I . mu .now tell you, the manner how
-I came hither :l I-believe you have not far
got my name, eeing it i's not long ince I
told it you; -You$ hall know then, that I
lived on the agreeable Banks of one of the
mo renowned Rivers of yoquorldzwhere
among my Books, I lead a ._Li.fe pleaant
enough, nor to be lamented; ' though it (lipt
away fa eno h.'- In the mean-While, the'
,m;ore.-I encre ed in Knowledgegthe more
.I; knew my Ignorance. our Learned 'Men
never put me in' mind of the impus Mad',
butzthe thoughts ofhis-perfect Philob hy
made' me to Sigh. i I was deihiting o bect
ing ableto attain to: it, when Fone day, af
ter 'along and profbund I took -.
_a piece of Lead-[one about. two Face
' quare', which-[put mtO a Fumace; and'
then after .it was well, putged,-.Lprctip'ita4
tedand diolvedl drew the dalcined f-Ati '
- tractive of it, Land'reduced it into'zthe ize
of.ab0ut'an
I ';J;; -
ordinary
. *
Bowl. . i * A
"a
30 * The Hiory ofthe
After thee Preparations, I got a ver
light Machine of Iron made, into whic
I went ------ and when 'Iwas well eated
in my place, I threw this Magnetick Bowl,
as high as I could, up into the Air. Now"
the Iron Machine, which I had purpohly
made more mave in the middle-than at
the ends, was preently elevated, and in a
ju Poie; becaue the middle received
the greate force of Attraction. So then,
as I arrived at the place, whither my Load
one had attractcd me, I. preentlythrew
up my Bowl in the Air over me. But,
itid I, interrupting him, How came you
to heave up your. Bowlio reight over
yoiir Cha'ri'ot, that it never happened to be
on One ide of it? That eems to me to be
no wonder at all, (Said he; for the Loada
one being ones thrown up in the Air,
drew the Iron raight towards it r; and _ lb
it was impoible, that ever I hould mount ,
ide-Ways. _NaY.more,,-I can tell you, that
when I held the Bow inmy hand, I was
ill mOunting upwards; becaue the Cha- >
riot ew always to the Leadctone, which
I held over it. But the eort of the Iron',
to be united to my Bowl, was i) violent,
that it made my Body bend double ;\ o
shet I dur but once eay that new Ex
periment. The truth is,":it*was a very
urprizing Spectacle to behold; Lfor the .
Steel
_

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

World of the Moon. . 3I

Steel of that ying Houe, which I had
very carefully Polihed , reected on all
ides the light of the Sun, with o great
life and lure, that I thought my lblf to
bealland
ing onfollowing
re. In of
ne,
my after
Ca,often Bowl
I came,ctalz
y0u did, to an Elevation, from which I
decended . toWards this World; and be
caue at that inant, I heldmy Bow] ve
ry fa between my hands,- my Machine,
whereof. the Seat preed' me hard, that it
'might approach its Atractive, did not for
ake me,- all that now I feared was,_that
I hould break. my Neck.:*-.But to lime
me from that, ever 'now zand then, I
rolled up my Bowl; that by its attactive
Virtue, it might prevent the' violent De-v
cent= of my. Machine,- and. render my
fall morezeaie, as indeed it happened;
for when I aw m elf, Two-or
three hundred fat m of the Earth, I
threw out my Bowl on all hands, level with
_ ,the Chariot, ometimes on. this ide, and
ometimeson that, until I came to a ten
tain Diance; and immediately then , 'I
toed it up above me; H that m Ma
chine following it, I lefe "it, t..my
Half Lall on the other de, as gently 'as I
could, upon the Sand; inomuchithatmy
fall was no greater, than ifvit had beenrbnt
my ownv height. I hall. not decribe-to
you
 I 32- - The Hiory of the
you the'amazemcnt I 'was in at vthe'ight:
of the wonders of this place, eeing it was
o like the ame, wherewith I ju now '
rew you eized -----'-- .
_ Scarcely had I taed it, When a thick
Cloud overaca. my Soul: 'IIAW no body
now near me', and in the whole Hemict'
phere, my Eyes could not dicern the leat
Tract ofthe-zway I had made; yet, never-a
theles I fully. remembred every thing that
befel me. \When, I reectedzinCe Upon"
that Miracle,.l fanced that the skin of'the'
Fruitzwhiclrl Tbit', had not rendered the"
altogether brutih ; 'becaLLe- my Teeth
' piercing through it were, azlittle moie'nli
' ed by the Juyce within, the ecacy wThereu'
ofhad dipated the Malignities of the'
Rind. I was not a little urpnihd to ee;
my elf
r * not; . It all
wasalone, in a Country
'to no-pupoe for me,-I toknew.
are' "
and-look about me; for no :--Creature ap
peared to Comfort Tme : At length, I reolved
to march forwards , till Fortune hould
aford' me the company of 'ome Beas,
or atleathe means ODyingrq-J- -
.z:She favourably granted (rays-deire; for
within halfa qUarrer Ofa League,lsmet two
huge Anirmls, one 'of-which optbefb're
me, and the other edzwiftly tajts'Den ;
for lb I thought at leaz.beca1_1iE:*-tliat - ome
time after, I 'per'Ceilved it come baekagain,
.'r
s
in
 World qftbe Moon. 33 \

in company of above Seven or Eight hun

dred of the lame kind, who beliet me."
When I could dicern them at a near dio
ance, I perceived that they were propor
tioned and haped like us. This adven
ture brought into m mind, the old Wives
Tales of my Nur e concerning Sjrenes,
74
Faunes and Satyrs : Ever now and then
they raied uch furious Shouts, occaioned -
undoubtedly by their Admiration, at the
ight of me, that I thought I was e'en
turned aMoner. At length one of thee
Bea-like men, catching hold of me by the
Neck, ju as Wolves do when they carry
'away Sheep, toed me upon his baCk, and
brought me into their Town ; where I was
more amazed than before, when I knew
they were Men, that. I could meet with
none of them, but who marched upon all
four.
When thee People aw that I was i) little,
( for mo of them areTwelve Cubits long,)
and that I walked only upon Two Le s,
they could not believe me to be a Man : or '
they were of opinion, that Nature havin
given to men as well as BeasTwo Legs an?
. Two Arms, the ' hould both make ue of
them alike. An , indeed, reecting upon
that ince, that cituation of Body did not -
em to me altogether extravagant ; when I
called to mind, thatDwhil Children are
ill A .
 ' '51 4 *' (flieHiibrybf'tbe
' ctiHFUndeir'the nurtur'e of,Nat_ure, they go -
"upon an. fouir, and that they r'ie inot on Ha-urqa

- theirtWO Legs, but by the care of their

_ Nures; Who et them in little running
dChairs, and faen rapsto them, to hin
"der them from falling on all four, as the
only poure that the hape of our Body
' naturally inclines to re in. _\ Bj-S

They aid then, (as I had it interpre

* 'ted to me ince ) That I was infallibly the an
. "therefore
Female ofasthe Worms
uch, little Animal. I'wctas
or omewhatcteliz, And' the
carried reight to the ToWn-Houh, Where 1 fm
-dth
I 'oberved
Of 'thebyPeople
the muttering and geures,
and Magirates, 'that
thliey
_;it_hing.- I'were
couldconulting
be. Whenwhat
they ort
had Of
cona
l vferred, together a lont ie While,
'Bii'fgheg 'Who ihad keePinga of
certain
the
range Beats,
3-i___lderi1}en beought
to 'commit me the Ma or and,
to ihileuOd
itillijthe'V Wit;"an end-for; me to Jcmip e
Tfie 'tom _ , i, ale' i_ pigs-(as granted, vvith
jbuzzu'iyhisiHoUe
. greate _icu1ty,; 'wherehe
'and that Juggler'carrich
taughtiirhie-ito
LTu'mch, JVTaiilt,
'iaTI'uridred make Mouths,
odd- Triclrs,if6r andin' tihe
'Which
, * L.(After_n06_ns'h'e
- 'ffo-thb Wit(modied
'caxefieMen?
it? s?arette
me:"doat,
Bat >
_ '_HeaVenzp1_ty1_ng itssorrows, and vein: 'to
Wheiriprofaned, ctlb p
' Bothe Temple
. ordered
 'W'orld the Moon. _ i

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

Rope, wherewith the _Mountebank made
me Leap' and vShip to divert the People;
I heard a Man's voice, who asked me what
I was, in Greek. I was moch'hrpried
to hear One peak in that country, as they
'do in our World. He put-ome (Lueions
to me, which I anwered, and-then gave
him a full acc0unt of my w'hole deign,
J'OW-I-'ku' =and the ucces-of my Travels: He vt'ddk
the pains recomfort me, and, T'as 'I taik'e-it,
aid to me : well, "Son, atkhgthyoudct ..
for 'the frailties o'Pyohr Wrld : There is 2a e',
-Mobi_le here, as well as there;that'can-away ' -_ _Agnus
':LA'_:*_.

DF' Iwith nothing ', but What they eare-accoh

* "med to .- for
erved; Bet-know, that-youare'bdtjly
Jhad-any one of't'hilearth, had
'\U \UP*I(D*'L -G:Z" the fboldnes 'to imount u'p 'ty-yours, i'sth
call himhlf/'a Man, Your sages'wouldxh'aye
derOYedihim'as a Mone'r. ' FHethhnltold
me, That he Would' ac'duaint theConti '
with 'my dilaer z adding', 'that Ffboon. as
'he had 'hea'rd'the news t'ha't'Went dfme, 'he
"came toee me, and Was latidedthatl Was
v'a man ofthe World, -'0fwhich LITaid 'I ;
becaue he had TraVelled Fthjere'formerly,
'and 0j0urne'd linct'Greeci'eL-'hkrb "he" was called
ith'eDen-M &son-ate: i That:Eter'thexDeath
'othhat 1'Philoepher, he Fhad governed and i
'V'

'taught Epamiandt-Thebes :,Ater Which

Being 'gone-carer to the Romans, juice
- '- - ' D 2 had
A-
13.'7!

' ._'_1'z Hthfthe

\

hadoblig'ed him to 'epoue the party of

' the YoungerkCato, : ' That after. his Death, he
had addi ed himelf to Brutm- : That all
thee great Men, having le'ft in that World
no more, but the hadow of their Virtues, -
.- he with his Companions, had retreated to
' Temples and Solitudes. In a word, ad-"
_ ded he,the People of your World became ib
dull and upid, that my Companiohs and _
_I lo all the Pleaure, that formerly we had
had in inructing them : Not but that you
a have heard Men talk of us 3 for they called
us Oracles', Nymhs, Grniuer, Fairies,
,H0uhold-Gods, Lemmes, Lawes, Lamiers,
t abgoI/Zim, , Nayader, Imabujfes, " Shades,
' .M4ne.r., I/iiamand Apparitiom: We aban
* igum,
doned your World,
not long afterin I the
had'Reign of Auto
appeared
Drum the Son of Livid, who waged
War in Germa'zjl, who m I forbid to proceed
any farther. It is not long ince I came *
'from thence a econd time 3 within thee
Hundred Yearsl
*Yiel thither: had a Commion
I roamed a. great deal toinTra
Ea- -
Rope, and convered with ome, whom po
'bly you may have known. One Day,
vamongt Others, I appeared to Gardzm, as
he was at his Study; I taught him a great
many things, and he in acknowledg
ment promihd me , 'to inform Poeri
ty, of - Whom he had thoe FWonders,
e * \ , ' which
 \'va."
_:.A-n5-*c7.-_
an'

World of the Moon. 3'7.

which he intended to leave in writing
There I lw Agrippa, the Abbot Tritbemz'
m, Doctor Lu/ar, La Broje, Caear, and
acertain Cabal of Y0ung Men, who are
commonly called Raacrmiam or Knights of
the Red-Gras,wh0m I taught a great many
Knacks and Secrets of Nature, which, with
out doubt, have made them pas for great
Magicians : I knew Campamlld alo ; it was
I that advied him, Whil he was in the In
quiiti'on at Rome, to put his Face and Body
into the uual Poures ofthole, whoe in
ide he needed to know, that by the ame
frame of Body, he might excite in himelf,
the thoughts which the ame cituation had
raied in his Adverlaries; becaue by) do- ' -
ing, he might bettermanage their Soul,
when he came to know it ; and at my de
ire he began a Book, which we Entitu
led, De 'Senu Remm. I likewie haunted
in France, La Motbe [e Vdje andGaen
aim ;' this la hath written as much like a'
Philoopher, as the 'other lived : I have
known a great many more there, whom
your Age call Divines, but all that I could
ind in them, was a great'deal of Babble,
and a great deal of Pride. In ne, ince
I pa overfrom your Conntry into _Eni
gland, to acquaint my ielf, with the man
ners of its Inhabitants, .I lm'et with a Man, _ _
the hame of his (2013er ; for-'certainly
L' . . 3 13
 38 v A The Hiory. oftha
is a; great hame for the' Grand'ees of yqur
States, to know the virtue which in '
has its Throne, and not to adore him z
ThatI may give, you an Arbridgement- of
'his Pancgyrick, he, is al] Wit, all Heart,
'and pae-Its all the Qualities, of which one;
alone- wa-s herotqfore ucient to make an
Hence-2 It Was, Trian the Hermite. The
Truth is, I tell you,- when I per,
\ zceived. o: exalted' a. Virtue, I miruedit
would not, be. taken notice of, and there: .
fore I endeavoured, to, make him accept
Three Viala, the r lled with the Oyl .
a-p.__r.,-_
(If Talk, the Other with the, Powder' of lll
- Projection, and the third with Pea
uiks but he: tefufhd them witha more
genqbug Didain, than Diogene; did the
,"o,mplem_ents &Alexander. In ne, I can
add nothing, '50 thq EIOgY of that Great He"
'Maz but 'that he is the only Poet, thq
only Blilohpher, and the; only Fre'ezman
KVOBZW zOJ-lL Thee are the coniderale
Paron:- I- convered with; all the
'fz at lean that I know, areb far bv
IQW Men, that: have een Beas ibme:
Whataovethm. ., .
_1.1.;ft6.31]z-_I am not as-Nhtiwexneithcn of
tth COUHFW not yoursz- -.I was born in
WSW i but-bequ thinnth our- won,
is, QYQFMOLle-With Me,- by. realbn-..o
&YQIHWWZQL the _ . himan andhat
va * 1.: F. t tsrg
k
 World oft/je Moon.
there is hardly any Wars, or, Dieaes a:
mong them : our Magirates; time'
t'o time, end Colonies into the neigourin
Worlds. 'For my own part, [Was dom;
manded to go to yours; being declare,
Chief of the Colony that accompanyed me,
I came ince into this World, for the, cal
hnscontinue
I told you,
here, and that' which
is, becaue it__l'_e,Meni are'
great lovers of T-ruth ," have hLPedan
among them; that the Philolbphers ar,
nie'v'ef peruadsd bin by Reaqu 'and the
the Authotiry
number, is notOfpreferred
a Doctor,.,'ox. brain-gree
before'ithe Opiz
hide f a Threher in al Bath, When. he.
has right on
reckoned his fide. in In
Madim'en hort,.npii_e are
this'Cquctltl'Y,
Spiphiers and Orators. I 212de hi'mhow
they'thouand
four lived Po he madeandanwer',
Years,- three 'or
thus' wenten: i' *
Though ithe Inhabitants of the Sun,
not o numerous'as' thoe of this World;
Yet the Sun is many timesover ecked, be;
caue the People 'being of a hot conitu7
tion, are irring and attribitious, and diget
much. . I 'i *
' You ought not to beurprihd at whatl '
andzzzors'irde;
tsll 'ti'QAir'h_ Globe
Y0u ; for thdflh deic"beparriefoxe
vel e;
the ed'orrourpdxopcx Years; and You-at -
ths' suof'Fifxxz.
,'l When;.,_,..
.M..._ it 5204.; charmed
apake .

./\
_-C 40 ' The Hiory oftbe
are not o many Stones as clods of Earth,
nor o many Animals as Plants, nor o ma-.
'ny Men as Beas; ju o there ought not
to beo many Spirits as Men, by reaon of
the dicu'lties that occur in the Generation
ofa perfect Creature.
* I asked him, if they were Bodiesas we
are? He made anwer, That they were
Bodies, but not like us, nor any thing
ele which we judged uch; becaue we
call nothing a 'Body commonly, but what Q

we can-touch : That, in hort, there .Ari-m

-_'mzn
*r:->'!_=$'"c*2<

was. nothing in Nature, but What was

material; andthey
were o, yet thatwere
though they when
forced, themelves
they i
had a mind to appear to us, to take Bo-.
dies proportionated- to what our Senes are
able to know; and that, without doubt,
that was the reaon, wh many have taken
the Stories that are, to d' of them, for the SF:*O

Deluions of a weak Fancy, ecaule they

only appeared in the nigh: time : He
told me withal, That eeing they were
necetated to piece together' 'the Bodies,
- they were to make ue of in great hae,
many times they had not leiure enough, to _ .*-'
2
render them the Objects of more Sens -r?_ __,_ =
than one at a time, ometimes of the. Hear
ing, as the Voices of Oratler, ometimes of
the Sight,, as the, Fire; and Vijiam, omee
Piers Of Fhs Fselinga. as the hawk-i 5
. -_-. - . and
 World of the Moon. 4t

and that thee Bodies being but Air con

' _ dened, in luch or uch a manner, the Light
dipered them by its heat, in the ame
manner, as it catters a Mi. .
So many ne things as he told me, gave
me the curioity to queion him about his
Birth and Death,- if in the Country of the
' Sun, the individual was procreated by the -
wa s of Generation, and if it died by the,
di olution of its Conitution, or the dill
compoure of its Organs? Your enes, re!
plied he, bear but too little proportion to
the Explication of thee Myeries : Ye
Gentlemen * imagine, that whatoever
you cannot comprehend is, piritual, or that
it is not at all ; but that Conequence is ab
urd, and it is an argument, that there are
a Million ofthings,perhaps,in the Univerle,"
that would require a Million of dierent
Organs in you, to underand them. For
inance, I by my Senes know the caue of
the Sympathy, that is betwixt the Load-i \
one and the Pole , of the ebbing and
owing of the Sea, and what becomes of
the Animal after Death; you cannot 'reach
thee high Conceptions but by Faith, be
caue they are Secrets above the POWer of
your Intellccts; no more than a Blind-man
gan judge of the beauties of a Land-skip -
the Colours of a Picture, or the reaks of
a Rainzbow ; or at be he will fancy them
* tO
 46 The Hiwx af- the) '
\

tg beomewhat palpablez to he like Eating>

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

yonwoulld repreiZnt it to your alf, as ome'

, what that may be Heard , Seen, Felt,
Smelt or Taed, , and yet it is no 'uch'
thing. *
He was gone. 'on o far in hisyDihourij,
' * when my juggler perceived," th'atthecchng,
pzny began to be weary of my Gibberih,
. that
top; they
to undertood not, and
an inarticqlatEd which 'they
Gruinting: He. Nor-52)

r therefore fell to pulling WYWPLZ-iafreL;

t' make me leagandski
am
tl the' Spectah
r * gar; having had their"
armed't'that Belly-ulls'deah" * h-. '
T had'ialfribi'asct'inamh
USz
HSFT'

We', as, ttht-afsof.that CQTHXYLI audi?

bxoke uP-. .
_Thus,,ofall
thihry 'mythe
hardepqurtx had during
Uage, were the
the viits E_
": *.42.n>-*"a'-w_
O

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

Khateqhvetion I_ could' have, With the e \
' Hatucazme tp theme, ncebeides that they _
qnly: cept me. ir. 'anAnzrx'iaxz 'in'rhchi'ghe
dale of the' *Ca{e'g6r1' 'of wB'lruits, I* neitheri
aderopd
z For their Languege'z
you mupknw, 'notare
'that there they'think'
but twci 2

t d
Isiioms in. u? in 'that 69? tial," (me TT 'the
" " Gran dees, apd. EHQFF . . 'I PQP-le illa'
general: 'r
. y ....\
.-' a' '1
I _
_
- That"
 u____j4-
'World of'tbe MHQ'I. 43
That of the great ones is no, more, buiq
' various inarticulatez TQnCSJ much Like
to our Muick, when the words are not:
added: to the, Aip: and in. teal-ity iztip; an
Invention, very, ue-ful and pleaant i
for when they, are Weary of talking, or; di?
dain to proitute their Throats t0_ that O
ce, they take either a'Lute, or tbmeothet
_Intumcnt, WhCECb they eommunieaw
their Thoughts,,as we. 1 as by- their Tongue:
So that ometimes Fifteen or- Twenty in a
Company, will handle a point of Divinity,
ordiious the dicultizes, ofaLaw-uit, in
the mo hatmonious Conxrt, that eve; t
tickledtheEat. _
The cCOnthich is ued by' the Vulgar.
is performed by a hiVering of the Mem:
bers,- but not, perhaps, as you may imaz
gine, for ome parts Of the BOdY g:
nie An entire Dicour-E; for example, th', *
agitation of a Finger, a Hand, an Ear,
aLip, an Arm, an Eye, a Cheek, every
' one &veray will'make up. an Oration, or a
Period with all the parts Of it. ; Othots
srve only. inead of Wopds, as the knits
ting of the Brows, the eyeml'- quiverings
ofthe Mucles, the turning of the Hands,
the amping of the. Feet, the Contorion
of- the Arm; ht-hat When they peak, as
their Cuom is, ark naked, their. Memr J '
hers being uijed togeiiottlatc their_ Concepr
'
 44, The Hiory ofthe'
tions, move o quick, that one would not
think it to be a Man that poke, but a Body
that trembled. '
. Everyday almo the Spirit' came to ce
me, and his rare Converation made me
patiently bear with the rigour of my Cap
tivity. At length, one morning I aw a
'Man enter my Cabbin, whom I knew nor,
who havinga long while licked me gently,.
took me up ll his Teeth by the Shoulder,
and with one of his Paws, wherewith he
held me up, for fear I might hurt my elf,
threw me u on his Back; where I found
'my le o o tly ated, and o much at my
ea, that being aicted to be ued like a
Bea, I had not the lea deire of making
my ecape ; and beides, thee Men that go
upon all four, are much witer than we,
eeing the heavie ofthem,make nothing of
running down a Stagg.
- In the.that
troubled, mean time
I had no Inews
wasofextreamly
my cour* ' i
teous Spirit; and the r night we came
'to our Inn, as I was walking in 'the Court,
expecting till Supper hould be ready, a
pretty handome young Man came mil
ing in my Face, and ca his Two
Fore-Legs about my Neck. After I had
a little conidered him : How! aid he
in French, do not you know your Friend
then ?.. I leave you to judge in whirt
.z . ca e
 World ofthe Moon. ' 45
ca: I was at that time; really, my ur
prie was o great, that I began to imagine,
that all the Globe ofthe Moon, all that had
befallen me, and all that I had een, had on
ly been Enchantment : And that Bea-man,
who was the ame that had carried me all
day, continued to peak to me in this
manner; You promied me, that the good.
OcesIdid you, hould never be for ot
ten, and yet it eems you have never een
me before; but perceiving me ill in amaze :
In ine, aid he, I am that ame Demon
of Socrates, who diverted you during your
Imprionment, and who, that I may ill
oblige you, took to my elf a Body, on
which I carried you to day -:' But, aid I
interrupting him, how can that' be, lee
ing that all Day you were of a very
long Stature, and now you are very hort;
vthat all day long you hada Weak and
broken Voice, and now you have aclear
and vigorous one; that, in hort, all day
long you were a Grey-headed: old Man,
and are now a brisk young Blade yzplsv it
then that whereas in my Country, the
Progres is from Life to Death; Animals
here go Retrograde from Death to Life,
and by growing old become young a
galn- *', ' ' ,. '.
So oon as-I had poken to the Prince, A
aid he, and received orders to bring yqu
. . * to
 349 i H'zory'ofzihe

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

were, and 'have brought 'you hither;
burthe Body fl-acted in, was i) 'tired (hit
With 'the Journey, that all lits 'Organs re-v
failed-metheir ordinary/Functions, o that
Ienquir'ed't'he Wayito t'heHoital 5 Whefe'
Being cofn'e ih iI fou'nd the Body oa young
- Made, ju then expired by a 'very odd
'Medidetz lbut 'yet very common in this
' I(th'iiuritry ' " ' " I drew near . him, pre
l iteridilh'g to Fnd 'mOtio'n in jhim "ill, and
'Efo'tei-n'g toitho'le Who We're-preet, that
' e 'vir-as 1n0t dead, and 'that what (they
thohght 'to be the 'caue o'f his Death,
'Was nobbre-But-a ba're- Lethargy;
Withbuit-b'eihgeteeiVEd, 'o that
-ct<I putm-y Mouth
'toihi's, by Which I*e'ntted"aS'-Witlia breath : '
TTh'en 3d6Wh 'dropt 'thy vold 'Garcas, Sa'n'd
ea's Lif '1 had been thatiyou'tig Many [I '
Arc'ie toobk- rfoi' "yea, lear/3ng
YEeQMdtbfs "crying Fa- Mimde. With,
&hiethey 'dame eto dallnsfto Bupper, and
<Ilfollowediy=6uide into'a Far-lour -l?iC-i"1*
11 lrhea; 'But Whereq found-nothng
- ' r to &leaden-1 No V-'itua-ls hparing,
Wlieh -I'1re'adyt'0->di'e 'of-4 Huge!"' ' '
r'iiiahe 'ime leek him WHEPEQEHFCIoathwas
kid 2'z 3But -I Wld inthhhaY'Mihatlhe an
wered , for at that inant 'Three Her
Mr'iydungJBbys, 'Children 'd the Houe,
kwine'ar, and With-inth CNili'ey hee: r
: A i i I me
/
4,
 "Warld oft/Je Mo'on. *'47
This new iCei'etOny r
. me t'o the Shirt. X
o aonihed me , that 'I dur not _(b
'much as ask my Pretty Valets de Chamb -\

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

my Guide, WhOvZLSde 'men/"hat I would
begin with , Acould
tWo Words, drawbutfrom'
Patage; me had
hafdly 't'heiz'
lI
'pronounced them, When I melt 'the 0
dour ofth'e'mo agreable soop, thatFeVer
'eamed in the rich Gluttons' Noe : [was _
about
trace to 'riedelicious
that from'inyvScent
place, tothatitsI'ourCe,
might
but my Cairrier hind'eired 'ifie' ': Whither
X are You
'w'alk bygoing,
and byid He,"now,
; ibut' 'we ithall 'fetc'l'a'
is time tip
- Bat , 'make an end: &your. Pata e, 'and
'then wan
"behete 'haveiisithe
the Devil omething
Pa'hig'e '?culi: 'And
_'ar1wefe'd
I halggn'gr'y ; K Haeeyou laide' wage-Men
.eer 'me all'this Day? 1' bght, 'renied ,
he , *th'at"ait_
iyoukhad, 'een the
TyotirToWn'FWe
Mict" Io'i''came thd,
otiie,'Bo
ie'le et '7tneal, Jaind *teit'si,.t'he -lfea*_b*n,,
itdl'd yau not,
COuntry. howthen'
Seeing Pealei'feea
Wide "in"
ll'This
g. 3
noranth you imu' Hide', jit tiefe
ging an Steams. The eir'ti. GECOerr'yj-ls
_to_hut iup_=inI iigfeat veels; "G'n
Purpoe , the . EXhaIaItidns 'thag-zezecfefe'd
, tgnz gaze "them, Whilijt i1'_s*'a*dren";'
and when they have iovfded fedbug '
' . _ . .- everal
 48 ' The Hiory of the
veral orts, and &veral taes,' according
'to the Appetite of thoe they treat;
they Open one Veel where that Steam
is kept , and after that anOther ; and
o on till all the COmpan'y be atised.
Unles you have already lived after this
manner', you would never think, that
the Noe without' Teeth and Gullet, can
perform the oce of the Mouth, in feed
w.'.L,-<'4
ing >a Man; but I'll make you experi
ence it your ielf. He had no ooner aid
4.,-
'ty
L:*7>-.:
o, but I found o many agreable and nou
rihing Vapours enter the Parlour, one
after another, that in les than half a
quarter of an Hour I was fully atisi- \ rE-'L-Z'E
' ed. When we were got up ; This is nor
a matter, aid he, much to be admired
at, nor
i and eeing youoberved,
have cannot have
thatlived o long,
all orts of ;:,*

ited
hy"
Cooks, who eat les than People of another
Calling , are nevertheles much Fatter.
Whence proceeds that Plumpnes , d'ye
think, unles it be from the Steams that Ell
Jh
continually environ them, which pene
trate into their Bodies, and atten them? -
_Hence, it is, 'that'the'People of this World
' enjoy a" more 'eady and vigOrous Health, I?
''557.
i-_
by reabn that their Food 'hardly engen l-U
tI-A'-Tic-qi.'
'ders any Excrements, which are in a
manner. the original of all Dieaes: You
"were, perhaps< urpritd, that before up
' ' per
 World ofthe- Moon. v 4.'9
per you Were ript, in'ceit is sounen;
not practied in y'Our Country;- bu't it is
the
that fahion of this,may.
thei Animal andbeforthethisenduEd,
mere trani
pirable to the Fumes: Sir , Janwered
I, there r is -a great deal of 'probability in
What you ay, and I 'have found ome'
what of it my E:lf by experienCe; but
>I mu franle tell you ,_ ThatZ notjbe
ing able to Unbrute my lf o'hoh , I
hould be glad to feel omething, that
my Teeth might x upon; 'Hepromil
ed I hould, but n0t before neXt Day;
becaue, aid he, to Eat o oon after your
meal, would breed Crudities'.v 'After we
hadct- to_
Up diant-lied allit'tletolonger,
a Chamber "Were
takejour' went
zxa
Man met, Us onthe =top offzthe_ Stairs,
Who-havin attentively Eyed' _u_s',', led me
into a Cloth
ed 'with , where the'Thf'eeoot
Grange-Flowers oor was row
'*hickct,
and my " p Spirit into another', *l]_ed' with
Gilly-Flowers and Jeamine: Perc'eivin'g
me amazed at 'that 'Ma' niieehce, he
'told me, they were th'e Ber ofthe'COunL
try; -. In ne', we laid our 'iizlvesi down', 'to .
re, ' in Our everal Cells, __and_'_,Q.:oon "as -' I
had 'retched 'my-le: out Uponniy Flov'fv'? "
ers, .by 'the fight-of many llarjgeQLOW- s
worms hiitzn them; ( being'
'thei only'Cdndles'fbhronlusg) "I per-'i .
i' - -'- 'E i > ceived '
 59 - The. &hovfe
'eeived thev Three or Four Boys , who
'riPt me before Supper, One tick
ling 'my Feet, another'niy Thighs, the
Third my Flanks, and the Fourth my
Arms, and all o delicately and daintily,
that in les than in' a-Minute I was fa '
aleep. -
Next Morning by Sun-riin , my Spi
rit came into my Room, and 'aid tome,
Now I'll be as good as my Word, you 5
3'
hall breakfa this Morning, more lblidly
than you Supped 'la Night. With that
Rch?
25
_I get up, and he led me by the Hand
jjto a plate, at'the back of the Gardeh,
where one of the Children of the Houe: ger-erse
' ayed for Us, with a Piece in his Hand,
_r_nueli like' to one of our, FireLoeke.
He" 'asked my Guide, if I would have a
dozen of Larks, becaue Bishop: (one-of
52"
'* which betook the to be,) loved to, feed
them? * I_ had hardly anwered, Yes,
When the Fow1er dichar ed a Shot. am!
Twenty or Tiu'rt Lar fell at our Feet
' ready Roacd.elf, veries
ly Withtmy ' , thought in,
I preent;"
the' Proverbi
53
l our World, of a where Lark;
falljready'Roaed s without doubt,- it has
been made'by. ome Body that from
' hence. Fall too, falltoo, aid my > He:er
' don't parejor'they haven knack of W
'ling a . with- 'dzgs- - _E'i.5_*
'Pow er
 -1q*
N-

World of' 'be Moon. 5I

._;,.T_ ,_
Powder and Shot, which Kills, Plucks,
'Roas, and Seaons the Fowl all at 0 ce.
I took up ome of them, and eat t em
upon his word; and to lay the Truth, In
all my Life time, I never eat any thing o -
delicious. Having thus Breakaed, we
prepared to be gone, and with a Thou
, (and odd Faces, which they ue when they
would hew their Love; our Landlord
received a Paper from my Spirit, I asks
ed him, if it was a Note for the Reckon-i
ing? He replied, No, that all was paid,
and that it was a Copy of Verbs. vHow i A.--.-. -.<*.-; A.-

Veres, aid I, are your Inn-Keepers here

curious of Rhime then? It's, aid he , *
the Money of the Country, and the
charge we have been at here, hath
been computed to amount to Three Conpi
lets, or Six VerEs, which I have given
him. I did not fear we hould out-run
the Conable ; for though we hould
Pamper our elves for a whole Week;
we could not pend a Some', and I have
Four about me, beides Two Epigrmr,
Two Odes, and an Eclogue. . Would to
God, aid I, it were o in our World;
for I know a good many hone Poets
there, who are ready to Starve, and who
might live plentifully , if that Money
would pas in Payment. I Farther asked
him, If thee Veris would-always erve,
Ea if
 I 5; _-_-\The_Hz;/ierj,bfthe i
* * ifaone Tranribejd' them? He made an'
Wer,zNo,z Landyou'entany;
Autlloraszompoled, on. he
When an
carries w

them the
ptisdf togthezMint,
Kingdom wherethe wern
it_,in Ceurt. Po
There'
thee verifyingKJCers eay the pieces;
and if they bee-judged Sterling, theyare
rated not according to their Coyn ;-that'*s
may, That _a Sweet is nor always as good
as a Samet 5.v but according to the intrinick
value
Starve, ofhe the
mupiece 3 o that if
be a Blockhead any Men
: For one

of Wit make always. good Chear.,. With

Extaie, Iwas admiring, the judicious Po;
licy of that Country,"when he 'proceeded
inthis manner : There are others who
keep Bublick-houe, after a' far dierent '
manner :.. When oneis about to be gone,
they demand proportionably to, the Char
ges, an Acquittance for the other- World-5
' and whenthat _-is given them, they write
'dogw'nl- in a great Regier',- 'Which they
call Doomdzzatgaok, imich. after i this
manner. delivered\ucl1_
i' Yeesh J Legg, Ihe ._valuesof- o.uch
a Day,,ato many;
'a
Perong 'which xhe ;is_ to zpay upon the re
Ceitpf.
die this_;_Acqhittance,-
Cah out _0f.,
;\,.Angl;_when-{they findhisthem
'rea-L.
elves 'in danger of Death, theyzcalue-thelei =
R'egiers
low. to begClioptbecaue
theriiLi'idowng in pieees,.'and.wal--
they, believe, *
<,4
vLA
" - s
-
'-
that
 P'
,Q

World alake. ma. , (5 3' '

that ' ifthey . were;notTthfnsCdigeed,r -a-i-"g-w_
:-:

.wouldbe good fonnothingpzzi tie; i'le

- This Cenyeration'wa's no hinderance to
our Journey ;.. for. my . Four-leggedl Por'ter
jogged, onzunder'. me, auntred iradlin'g
on his Back." I hall nottbepartieular in' re;
lating 'to y0Lv,: "all." the . .Adventures 12,1' that'
happened- to: us 'on ourlwa'yl tillrwej 'arri-z
-ved at length-at' the T0W1,*T\where' the
King holds. his - Reidehceg' =IT wasu'n'o
ooner:- come, ; b'utr they carryed" me toilie'
Yalace, Where-'theGrandeesfreceiv-sd me A-hcv7.WA-n-
With more:_.-Moderatibh, zethan he People
'had done, Ias'T I paed. the'Streets :- - But
both great and: mall concluded, =That,**
Without doubt; I'fwasV the Femaleof the may:_ _-MA

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

my. Interpteterlnandlyet he himelf u'n*'-'
derood not' the Riddle," and knew n'ot
What to make '._0f;_.that.little'\ Animal of
the v()_Lieen*__._s*'; "but we.-W'ere-_oon 'atis
ied as to that; for vthe Kihghavingome
time conidered, me, ordered-'it ito be
brought , and 'about half ran'fhour after;
I aw,acompanyj_of .Apes, wearing Rus
and .Breeches,'<;0me in,'and among them a
little Man; almo ofmy own Built," for the'
went on Two-Legs; ciobn; as' he Per: *
ceived*
do de- me,'he Accoed- sme'
wrenaitmerc'ed; with a _ Crim
I- ianWered his:
Greeting, much the ame' Terms: But
.- ' 3 , alas!
54. The Hiory cthe
alas ! no ooner had they een us talk to
gether, but they believed their Conjecture
EWiVl
to be true ; and o, indeed, it eemed;
for he of all the By-anders, that pa
the mo favourable Judgment upon Us,
proteed , that our Converation , was - WZ
a Chattering we kept for Joy at our meet
ing again. That little Man told me, that
he wasan European, a Native of old Ca-'1
of'
le .-Birds,
That to-mount up toa means
he had found the World
by theofthe
help .i ilsl

Moon, where then we were: That falling

into the Queen's Hands, hehad taken
him for a Monkey , becaue Fare would
have it o : That in that Country they
cloath Apes in a Spamh Dree; and that
upon his arrival, being found in that he?
bit, he had made no doubt, but he was
of the ime kind. It could not other;
wie be, replied I, but having tried all
Fahions of Apparel upon them, none were
found lb Ridieulous, and by conequence
more becoming a kind of Animals, which
are only entertained for Pleaure and Di
veron. That hewe you little under.v
and the Dignity of our Nation, anwered
he, for whom-i the Unive're breeds Men,
only tobe odrSlaves, and Nature pi'oduces
nothing but objects of Mirth" and' Langh
ter. ' He then. intreatedtnetocell' him, how
dW bae bold, as to- Scale' the Moo'g
 World oftbe Mart, 5;
with the Machine I! told: him', Of _? Ian-e'
we'rcd, That it was beeautehe had
away the Birds, whichv- I intended to have'
made ue of. miled at thisRaillei-y ;_
and about a quarter' of an hour' after, the;
King corhmanded the Keeper o the Monk'
keys to carry us back, 'with expres Order-3 -
to make the szzhiardand me lie' t other; *
that wemight procreate a breed ' A"
in Kingdom. The King's Plea
wasv punctually obeyed; at which I was
HWmuw _
very glad, for the atisfaction I had, (if had'
ving-a Mate to oonVerle with, during the
olitude of my' Brutiication.- One Da '
my Male (for I was taken for the Female
teid me, That the true reaon, which had
obliged him to travel all over the Earth,
m
'<
r-Z
i
and at length to abandon i tir the Moon,
Was,- that hewntd not nd lb much as
one Country, where even Imagination
was at libertjh Look ye, aid he, how
I'.n
i'-l
ache Wittie' t, Bigg-(You can ay, unlei you
wear a.Come' " ap, if it thwart the
Principles of the DoctOrs of the Robe ,
you are an Ideot, a Foo'l, and omething
' wore, per-haps. I Was about to have been
put into the Inq'uiition at home , for
maintaining to the Pedants Teeth, That
there was a Van-m',- and that I knew no
one matter- inv the World, mere Ponderous
than another. 'I asked-him,- whatprobable
E4 Argu
 56 a The Hiory ofthe s. .
_ Arguments he had, to conrm o new an 'O-r' p
pinion ? _ To evince that,- ->anWered he,
you mu uppoe that there is butone. Elez .
ment; for though We ee Water, Earthz_
Air and _Fire diinct, yet are they never:
found to be o perfectly pure ,, but that
'there ill remains ome Mixture. For ex-'
afnle, When you behold- Fire, it ,is not.
Ere but-Air, much eXtended; theAir. is
bin: Wagerzmuch dilated; Water is but
liqui'e'd LEalrt, -_. and
sondendWater> the..Eart'h
z and' it elf,
Jt'hus, -1f_ you but .'
weigh
Matter eriouly', ,you*ll nd_ it is but one,@
, Which likeanexcellent
low acts. 5Bartg,_. =in_ Comedian here .-be-.
_al],-9ir-ts;QfDrees :
Othchie ws mu admit-as. many Ele-,<
niesz a_s thezjc, are kinds; o. Bodies : And
if . Yet; ask-zznezwhy- Fire. burns, and Wav
. ter cools,* ince it is but; oneand. the &me
matter, LarLWer, That-[than matter acts .
by Sympathy,; apcording _ to ,the Dipoitiq
on it is in,_ at the time when it acts. ' Firev
Which riothirrgw bpt Birth alo , -m0re
dilated. that;toisghange
Aiir, rives zt 'fOrzthezQOnitutiOn of
into-itelf, by Sym
' pathyzUWhateverjt meetsthemo
the. heatct 'of Coals, bein with ; ubtile
,Thus,- *
Fire, (and mo, proper o; penetrate a Bo-
c'! , at r idqs through the= Pores of our,
_ S (inv ,j god ecar; it.i,s z-atnew'; matter: then,
lls Yfz. zr WkFS. us, exhale in Swear:
- FhZY
 IVorld of the Moon._ 37;
that Sweatdilated by the Fire is c'onver-z
t'ed to a- Steam, and becomes Air ; that Air
being farther rariied by the heat of the
AntzPeria/is, 0r*ofthe Neighbouring Stars,
is called Fire, and the Eaith abandoned
by the Cold and Humidity, which were
Ligaments to the whole,falls to the ground :
Water , on the other hand, though it no
ways dier from the matter of Fire, but.
in that it is cloer, burns' us not 3 becaue
that being dene by Sympathy, 'it cloes
up the Bodies itlmeets with, and the Cold
we feel is no' more, but the eect of our
Fleh contracting it elf,-. becaue of the
Vicinity 'Of Earth .or: Water, which con
rains it toa- Remblance. -\ Hence'it is,
that thoe who are troubled vwith a Drop
ie, convert all their nourihment
Water ; and. the Cholerick 'conVert all the
Blood, that=is: formedin their Liver, into
Choler. .z-It . being then uppoed , that
there is butr'one Element'; it is mo cer
tain, that all Bodies, according to their e
veral qualities, . incline equally towards the.
Center of the Earth. . . .,
- But , you'll ask me , Why then
does Iron, Meta-l, Earth and-Wood, de;
cend more wiftly to the Center than .a
Sponge, if it' be not that it is',full of Air,"
which .naturally 'tends upwards ? That
is not. at all the Ream ,_ and thuskl
i , ' ma e
 58 He Hiory the
make it out : Though a Rock fall with S
greater Rapidity than a Feather, bozh of Old
them 'have the ame inclination for the 0Pe
Journey; but a Cannon Bullet , for in hoc
ance, where the Earth pierced through, all l
would precipitate with greater hae to the!
the Center thereof, thana Bladder full of EBHZ'Y'HEA

Wind *, and the reaim is, becaue that malis

of Metal, is a great deal of Earth contract
ed into a. little pace, and that Wind a
very little Earth ina' large pace :* For all
the parts of Matter, being o cloely joined
together in the Iron, enereae their far-ce
by their Union; becaue being thus corn. &BE-
pacted, they are many that Fight again
a few, eeing aparoel of Air equal to the
Bullet in Bigne s, is not equal in. Quin
mv- >
: Not to ini on a long Deduction a
Arguments to prove this, tell me in oed
earne, How a Pike, a Sword or a ag- 8
g.o*
3
' ger wound us? If it be nor, becaue the
Steel, being. a-matter, wherein the parts are
more continuous, and more cloely knit co-" WIFE!
s:
gether, than your Fleh is, whoe Pores
and Softneh hew, that it contains but very
little Matter-within a great extent of Place ;
and that the point of the Steel that pricks'us,
being almo an innumerable' number of
Particles of nutter, again a. very little
Fleh, itforoes it? to' yeild to the ronger,
\ m
 Worldpf th' Man. '33
in the ame manner as at adronia cloe
order, will eaily break _e magh a more
ripen Ram-Him; for why docsa- Bie of red '
do; Iron, burn more than-s Log- of- Wood
all on Pipe' ?* Unlet' be, that-in the; Iron,
thered more Fire in ama c
ing is adheres, to all the 'parts he Ma
tal, than] in- the Wood which being very
. Spongy, by conequence contains a great
deal of Fmizy; and Wax),- being
but a Prive'ztion of Being, cannot receive
the forme Frm But', you," object,- you .
l ea mew, asiftzou hadppovedit
an that's begging of ' e'queon-z WUE
then I'll' prove it, and tho:sz that di- \
_ culty bathe Si-er OfthevGor' &nium-yet
my Arms are rong enough to- - become is
Alexander. > '
- Let that-vulgar- Ra, then, 'who
not think it thi a Man, Had- it net been mid
o, anwer me if it car-2 Suppo-HOW
therebe but one Mater, ay I think! have .
uciently peoved; whence come-sit', that'
according to itsv A ppetite, it enlargesor eo'n
tracts its elf; whence is it', than a piece of
Earth, by being Cond'e'nzd becomw a
Stone? Is it that the' W- O- that Stone'
are placed one with anorher, in uch a
manner, that' wherever that ain- of Sand
is'ettled, even there, or-int e hmepoint,
Ianocher grain of Sand is Lodged? That.
' " ' - cannot
 6o _- The Hiory bf'tbe
cannot be, no, not accordingto their own 4 di
Principles, eeing there is no Penetracionof vlirz
Bodies .- _ But that mattermu have crowd- ' _ Gn
ed to etherLand r if you will, abridged it Wi
elf, Othat ithath lled' ome place which A zha
was empty before; To ily,that_itzisincom_ ir
prehenb'le, that there hould be a Nothing , reif
in the World, that we are in part made m
;,up_of Nothing; Why nor, pray?_Is not _ h
the whold-World wrapt up in Nothi 3 n:
Since you yield rne this point,_ then con a; ' . mri
ihgeniouy, zthat it's as rational, that the ' reo
Werdhcmld. have &Nothing-within it, as . in
thing'azboucie z , . '_ nd
.,;;zI>wsz11perceivc-you'll put the queionm red
_ W.hy.=Waterzcompreed in a veelby am
REEVE l'hquld break. it, if it be not, to m
hinder a Vacuity? But I anwer, That lsz
by; only.- happens, &caueth-s Air over- - as
sad, which its well. asEarth and Water, -' 'Ac
tenels to the;(;?ex_1ter, meeting with anetnp+ _ ' Wz
27..Tun_b'.,'tl1wa}<>. takesup his Lodging an
there; zI ignd the. poreszoftha; Vee-I; _ m
that's to aYz-zzhe ways that.sz to that; jm
void. placezztoo parroWz,t0,0 long,"- and tOQ . c
groplzed, with impatience it breaks through' 7 - p,
end-.%rr:_ives%t>it.s,Tunz - , . _ ' " . .; 7
But not totriea'yvay time,in_anwering
_a_l_lth_eir objections, I darebesbold to ay,- .,
That if' there-Were no i[fact-try,'there could F
1 'Exf- me Motion-5. 9: ell? afsrzexration- of Bo,-. 0
'A
42."- . " ,
' dies
 T?- . r

Wokldoftbe Moon. * ar
_ dies mu be' admitted ; for it would be 'a
little too ridiculous to think', that when a'
Gnat puhes back a parcel of Air with-its \
Wings, that-parcel drives anOther before it,
that Other another ill', and that o t-he
irring of the little Toe ofa Flea, hould
. raie a bunch upon .the Back of the Uni
vere. When they are at a and, they
have recourleto Rarefaction : But in good
earne, How can it be when a Body is
raried," that one Particle of the Mas does . - '
recede from another Particle, without leav
ing an empty Space betWiXt them; mu,
not the
ted, twobeen
have Bodies, which
at ithe 'lameare ju 'in
time' eparad
the
ame place of this ,* * and that-o the mu
have all three penetrated 'each ot er .P I
'aexpect you'll
Syringe or ask me, why
a Pump, thrOugh
'Water' a Reed,
is forced to
acend contrary to its inclination ?_ To
which I anwer, _ That that's'z by Violence,
and that it is not the fear ofa urety, that
turnslinked
inctg it out to
of_the
the Air
rightby'way
an ',-*iinperCept-ible
bot' that b'e- -
Chain, it ries when the-"Air, to. which it vis -
vjOil1k3_d,is raiiad; ' .- /_ , , ,A\.._- .
That's' no uch knotty Diculty,- when
one knoWs 'the perfect Circle; - and-the deli-,
' eate' Concatenation of the Elements:l For'
. if'you attentiver conider the-Sliez-Whicli
joines the Earth and Water' regeier'in Mer
' 3 *. , ' nage,
62 The Hiory aftbe
ringe, you'll nd that it is neither Earth
nor Water ; but the Mediator- betwixt
thee Two Enemies. In the inne manner,
the Water and Air reciprocally end a Mi,
that dives into the Humours o both, to ned [ll
xgotiate a Peace betwixt them ; and the Air E'S'P.

is reconciled to the Fire , by means of

an interpoing Exhalation which Unites
so
them. ._,
B
F'PZ
D==zzE-I
I believe he would have proceeded in his
Dilbourle, had they n0t brought us our
Victuals 5 and (being we were a hungry, I
Rope my Ears to his dicouz'e, and opened
my Stomach to the FOOd they gave us.
I remember another time, when we
were upon our Philooph , for neither of
us took pleaure to Di coude of mean
things: I am vexnd, lind he, to ee a Wit nQ

of your amp, infected with the Errors of

the Vulgar- You mu knOWtben, inpight
oftbe Pedantryofdri atte,with which out
School: in France il. ring,That eVery ' ig
is m eYery thng ; that's th y,f0r inance, B

That am Water there: is Fire, in the Fire ES-ZLFHS-EYSK

Water, m the Air Earth, and in the Earth
Air: Though that Opinion makes Scho
l? GPRM Eyes as big as Sawcers, yet
1: 18 caier to prove it, than p'erwade it.
Forlrek them, in the r lace, if Wa
' breed Fih: I, theydeny it,
DE itll'milg a "Fit, ll-it with meer Elez
,_* A. . ment,
 'World of. the Moon. 63
ment, and toprevent all blind Objections,
let them if they pleae, rain it through a
Strainer, and I'll oblige nryielf, in call: \
they nd no Fih therein, within a certain . 4<'-p._._.=-.,=._

time, to drink-up all the Water the have

poured into it: But if they nd Fi , as 'I
make no doubt on't; it is a convincth
Argument, that there is both Salt and Fire
there, Conhquentially now, to nd Wa
ter in Fire 5' I take it to be no dicult
Task. Far let them chuie Fire, even that
Which is mo abracted from Matter, as
Comets are, there is a great deal in them
ill; Being if that Unctuous Humour,
whereof they are engendred, being redu>
to a Sulphur, by the heat of the Anti
periais which kindles them, did not nd
a curb of its Violence in the humid Cold,
that qualies and reis it, it would pend
it elf in a trine like Lightm'ng. * Now that
- there is Air in the Earth, they will not de
ny it ; or orherwie they have never heard of
terrible Earth-quakes, that have lb of
tea haken the Mountains of Sicily: Be
idcs, the Earth is full ofPores, even to the
lea grainsof Sand that compas it. Nes
verthele, no Man hath as yet aid, that
thee Hallows were lled with Van-city: It
Will no: be taken amii then, I hope,
the Air takm up its qua rters them I'
ranaimrohc proved, thatdtercisan'hil:
t
 64. The Hiory of 'be
'the Air; but Ithink it carcely worth my
pains, eeing you are convinced of it, as o- -
ten as you ee, uch 'numberles Legions of
Atomes fall upon your heads, as even ie
Arithmetick. '
But let us pas fr0m imple to compound
Bodies, they'll furnih me with much more
frequent subjects; and to demonratc that
all things are in all things, n0t that they
change into one another, as your Peripate
tie/e: Juggle, ( for I_ will maintain to their
Teeth, that the Principles mingle, hparate,
and mingle again in uch a manner,that that
hath been made Water by the Wiiz Creator
of the -World, will always be Water : ) I
hall uppoe no Maxime, as they do, but
what I prove. ' ' - Lll
And therefore take a Bil-let, or any other is?
combuible u, and et Fire to it, they'll (low
ay_when it is in aFlame, That what was Box'
Wood is now ibecome Fire;" butI main- ' a J

tain the contrary, and that there is nomore wa

Fire inv it, Whemit israll in Flamethan
5m
before it was kindled -; but that 'which be Me;
fore was hid in the Billet,': and by the Hu lien
midity and vCold hinderedfromf 'acting z
an
being now aed by the * Stronger, hath
rallied its forces again..the,-Phlegm that &VE
choaked it,and command-ing theField of Bats '
tle,that was eedby its Enemy5triumphs in
'all
over, his Jay- or, and apch; without 'Fet-L .
_ , ters.
 MMu-u

World ofthe Moon. 5

kers. DOn't you he how the Water Hees
O'ut at the two ends of the Billetz hot and
moaking 'from the thht it was engaged
in. That ame which you ee riiz on high,
is the purer Fire, unpeered from the Mat
ter;
turn and
homebytoconequence the readie
it izlf : Nevertheles to re i
it Unites
it elf, by tapering into-a Piramide, till it
rie to a certain height, that it-may pierce
through the thick Humidity of the Air,
which reis it ; but'as in mounting it di
engages it elf by little and little, from the
violent company of its Landlords; o it
diues it islf, becaue then it meets with
nothing that thwarts its paage, which
negligence , though, is many times the
caue of a econd Captivity : For natching
ragglingly, it wandersibmetimes into a
Cloud, and if'it meet there with a Party of
its own, ucient to make head again a
Vapour ; they Engage, Grumble, Thun
der and Roar, and the Death of Innocents
is many times the eect of the animated
Rage, of thoe inanimated Things. If
when it nds it lklf peered, among thoe
Crudities of the middle Region, it is not
rong enough to make a defence; it yields
to its Enemy upon dicretion, which by its
weight,: And
Earth conrains it to inclo
this Wretch, fall aegdain
in atodrop
the

of Rain, may, perhaps, fall at the Foot of an

F Oak,
66 - 'The Hzory yf the
Oak, whoe Animal Fire will invite the
poor Straggler, to take a Lodging with
him', and thus you have it in the (ame
'condition again, as it was a few Days be
fore.
But let us trace the Fortune of the Other
Elcments, that compoed that Billet. The
Air retreats to its own Quarters alo ,
though blended with Vapours; becauethe
Fire all in a rage, drove them briskly out
Fell-mal! together. Now you have it crv*
ing the Winds for a Tennis-ball, furnihing
Breath to Animals, lling up the Vacuities
that Nature hath let ; and, it may be, alo
wrapt up in a drop ofDeW,uckling the thir
y Leaves of that Tree.whither our Fire re
treated : The Water driven from its Throne
by the Flame, being by the heat elevated to
the Nurizry of the Meteors, will diil a
gain in Rain upon our Oak, as oon as up
on another ; and the Earth being turned to
Ahes, and then cured of its-Sterility, eii
ther by the nourihing. Heat of a Dunghill,
on which it hath been thrown, or by the
vegetative Salt of ome neighbouring Plants,
or by the teeming Waters of ome Rivers, p
may happen alo to be near this Oak,
which by the heat of its Germ, will at
tract it, and convert it into a part ofits
bulk.

In
 an,
__p=__A__,._

World of the Moon. 67

In this manner, thee Four Elements un
dergo the ame Deiny, and return to hl"c" F_..
a-"F'v

the ame State, which they quitted but a

few days before : So that it may be laid,
that all that's neceary for the compoition
Ofa Tree, is in aMan ; and in a Tree, all
that's neceary for making of a Man. In
ne, according to this way, all things will
be ound in all things ; but We want a PO-e
met/yem,to pluck us out of the Boom of Na
ture, and render us enible, which I am
willing to call the Fir Matter. _
. which
Thee were the things, I think, with
we pa the time ; for that little spi
m'ard had aquaintWit. OUr converation,
however, was only in the Night time; be
caue from Six a clock in the morning une
til night, Crowds of the People thers
came to are at us in our Lodging, woul
have diurbed us : For ome 'threw u's
Stones, others Nuts , and Others Gras;
there was no talk, but of the Kings Beas;
we had our Victuals daily at et hours, and
the King and (Deen took the pains often to
feel my Belly, to e if I did not begin to
well, for they had an extraordinary deire
to have a Race of thee little Animals.
I cannot tell, whether it was that I minded
their Geures- andTOnes, more than my
Male did: But I learnt ooner than he, to
underand their Latiqguage, and to matter
' 2 \ a,
 68 _. The-Hiory ofthe
a little in it, which made us to belookt
upon,in another 'gues manner than former
'ly ; and the news thereupon ew preently
all over the Kingdom , that two Wild
Men had been found, who were les than
other'Men, by Delarts
had had in the reaon of the whoctthrough
; and bad Food wea

defect of their Parents Seed, had not the

fore Legs rong enough to upport their Bo
dies.
This belief would have taken rooting,
by being pread, had it not been ,for the
Learned Men of the Country, who oppo
ed it, aying, That it was horrid Impiety
to believe, not only Beas, but Moners to
be of theirkind. It would be far more
probable, ( added the calmer Sort ) that
our Domeick Beas, hould participate of
_ the priviledge of Humanity, and by conis
guence oflmmortality,as being bred in our
ountry, than a Monrous Bea, that
talks of being born I know not where,in the
" Moon 3, and then oberve the dierence be
tWiXt us
Feet, and them.
becaue We walk
God would uponoFour
not tru pre-
cious a thing , upon weaker Supporters,
and he was afraid lea marching other
wie, ibme ' Michance might befall
Man ; and therefore he took the pains, to
re him upon four Pillars, that he might
not
' fall, but didaining . to havea
handthe
in
 World of the Moon. A 69

the Fabrick of thee two Brutes, he left

them to the Caprice of Nature, who not
concerning her Half with the los 'of o mall
a matter, upported them onlyby Two
Feet. "
' Birds themelves, aid they, ' have not
had o. hard i'meaure as they; 'for they
have got Feathers,*at leatovupplyvthe
weaknes of their Legs, and to_'-ca them-4'
elves in the Air, when We purue them;l
whereas Nature, depriving =' thee'Moriers
'h'
(O
T
rt-t
*'<
of Two Legs, hath diabled them from'
lcaping our Juice. - - r, - '
Beides, conider a'little how they have
thev Head raied toward Heat/en, it is bed
caues Godwould punih them with carci- >
ty of all things, that he 'hath o placed
them ; for that upplicant Poure, hews
that they complain to Heaven 'of him that
x'n-z
' Created them, and' that they beg Permi-.
on to make their be of our Leavings. But
we, on the contrary, have the Head bend
ing downwards, to behold the Blengs,
whereof we are the Maers, and as if there
were nothing in Heaven, that our happy
condition
I heard needed Envy. or the like,daily
uchDilEourZzs,
t at my Lodge; and at length they o curb
ed the 'minds ofthe people, as to that point,
that it was decreed, That at beh l hould
only- pas for a Parrot without Feathers;
' F 3 for
 7q The Hiory' ofthe
for they conrmed thoe, who were already
perwaded, in that I had but two Le s no
more than a Bird, which was the cau e that
1 was put into a Cage, by expres orders
from the Privy Council.
theThere
pains the
dailyQgeen's
to teachBird-keeper, taking
me to While, asi
the do Stares or Singing-Birds here, I was.
real happy in that I wanted not Food z
In t e mean while, with the Sonnes the
$pe8cators upned me, I- learnt to peak
Fethey
muchdid 5 o of
Maer that
thewhen I was
Idiom, as togetexpres.
to be r
o
mo ofmy thoughts, I told them the e
ne of-my Conceits. The Waintnes ofmy.
sayings, was already the entertainment of
all Soeieties,
eeemed , that;and
themy Wit was
ctCouncil wasi),obliged
much

to Publih an Edict, forbidding all People

to believe, that I was." endowed with Rea
on; with expres Commands to all Per-,
ons, of what anlity or Condition oever,
pot to imagine," but that whatever I did,
though never o wittily, proceeded only
' fer Iniqft- z '
_' Nevertheleis, the deciion-of what I was2
'divided the. Town. into Two zEactions. The
party that ood; for me, enereaed, daily;
apdat
xthFCbYlength. in. pighr of.
they ndcaYQUirethocaxeAmzezm,"t
the mule
was; Ihzy who hew-me demands
'
'E .
\
 Warld ofthe Moon. , 7 if
ed a Convention of the States, for determind
ing that Controverie. I't was long-befOYe -
they could agree,in_the Choice'of-thoe who
hould have a Vote ; but- the Arbit'rators pa
cied the heat, by making the number of?
.y')"la-r' bath parties equal, who ordered that 'j-II
hould be brought unto the Aembly, as I
was : But I was-treated'there gwith all &ma-T
ginable Severity. My Examiners,-' arriongl
Wed-.
man other things, put queions' of Philooi
. phy to me; I ingenuoully-told-them, all: .
that my Tutor had heretofore taught me,v
but they eaily refuted me by more cona
vincing Argum'ents: tSo that having.- non'
thing to anwer for my sl, my la refuge'
'.
=n\.<=
pan-T
v.to
was to the Principles of Arz'otle, which:
Ood me in as little ead, as his Sophims
did; for in two-Words, they let me ee the
fality ofthem. That ame Ariotle, aid'
they, whoe Learning you brag o much
of, didtoWithout
ciple's doubt accommodate
his Philoophy 'Sex inead- of'Prin
ac-ct
commodating his Philoophy to Princi les;
and beides he ought to have proved t em,
at lea to be more rational, than thoe of
the other you' mentioned 'to us :
Wherefore the good Man will not take it
ill, We: hope', if' we bid- him God b'w'.
In ne, When they perceived that I did
norhing but bawl, that they were not more
knowing than a Ariotle, and that' I was
F 4 . forbid
 73; _ The Hiciry 'ofthe
forbid to dipute again thoe who denied
his Principles; They all unanimouy conz'
eluded, That I was not a' Man, but, per-. m
haps, akind ofEffridge, eeing I Carried. Hc
my Head upright like them, that I walked ., ,
llii'.

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

a little Down, Iv was every' way like one of' lar
them, o' that the Bird-keeper was ordered
to have me back-to my Cage. . I pent my
time pretty pleaantly
had correctly there,Language,
learned their for becauetheI \

whole Court took pleaure to make me

prattle, z The Ween's Maids, among the
re- , ipt alvvays ome Boon into my
Basket ; andthe gentile of them all, hav-.
ing Conceived ome kindnes for me, was o
tranporced with Joy, when private I
entertained her, with' the manners and di
vertihments ofthe" People of our World,and
r epecially out Bells, and'Other Inruments
of Muiek, that he prOteed to me, with
Tears in' her EYes, That if ever I found my -
,_el'in a condition to fly back again to our
World, he would
Heart' i _
follow me with
r
'all . her.
' '

- One Morning early, having arted out

Ofmy Sleep, I found her Taboring upon'
the grates "ofm'y Cage: Takev good-heart;
hld he to" "me, yeerday in- Couincil,"
a War' was' reolv'pd upoln , Zgain' she
' '_'Iloe'tat
. p urin e
' ghurry
 - World of the Moon. - 7;
hurry of Preparations, whi' our Mo
narch and his Subjects are abent, I may
nd an, occaion to make your ecape.
How, a War, aid Iinterruping her, have'
the Princes of this World, then, any quar
rels among themelves, as thoe of ours
have? Good now, let me know their way
ofFighting.
When the Arbitrators, replied he, who
are freely chom by the two Parties, have
appointed the time for raiing Forces for
their March, the number of Combatants,
the day and place of Battle, 'and all with
o great equality, that there is not one
Man more in one Army, than in the other :
All the maimed Soldiers on the one ide,
are lied in one Company 3 and when they
come to engage, the Marehalls de Camp,
take care to expoe them to the maimed
of the other ide: The Giants are matched
with Coloes, the Fencers with tho
that can handle their'Weapons, the Val
ant with the Stout, the Weak with the
Inrm, the Sick with the Indipozd, the
a Sturdy with the Strong; and if any un
dertake to rike at another, than the E
nemy he is matched with," unles he can
make it out, that it was by miake, he
is Condernned' for a Coward. When the
Battle is over, they take an account of
the Wounded, the Dead and the Prio
' ' * ners,
 74, ' The Hiory ofthe
ners, for Run-aways they have none ; and
if the los be equal on bOth ides, they draw
Cuts, who hall be Proclaimed Victori
ous. chi
But though a Kingdom hath defeated
the Enemy in open War, yet there is
hardly any thing gOt by it 3 or there are
Other maller Armies of Learned and Wit
ty Men, on whoe Diputations the Tri- .
umph or Servitude of Statcs wholly de
pends. "
One Learned Man grapples with ano
ther, one Wit with another, and one Ju
dicious Man with another Judicious Man:
' Now the Triurnph whicha State gains in
this manner, is reckoned as good as three
Victories by open force. After the Pro
clamation of Victory, the Aembly is bro
ken up, and the Victorious People, either
chae the Enemies King to be theirs, or con
rmtheir own. - a
. I could not forbear tO-Laugh, at this
crupulous way ofgiving Battle; and for
an Exarn leo much ronger Politicks, I
alledged t eCuorns of our Europe, where
the Monarch would be ure, not to let ip
any favourable occaion of gaining the
day; but mind what he aid asf'to that. *
Tell me, pray, if your Princes ue not
a preteXt of Right , when they levy
Arms; No doubt, anwered I, and [of
. - ' t e
 World of the Moon. 7;
the Juice of their Caue too. Why then'
replied he, do they not chue Impartial
and Unupected ArbitratOrs to compoe
their Dierences ? And if it be found, that
the one has as much Right as the other,
let/things continue as they were', or let
them play a game at Picket, for the Town
or Province tnat's in dipute.
But Why all thee Circumances , re
plied I, in your way 'of Fighting ? Is it
nor enough, that b0th Armies are equal in
' the number of Men? Your Judgment is
Weak, anwered he. Would you think
in Concience, that if you had the bet'
ter of your Enemy, Hand to Hand, in
an open Field, you had fairly overcome
him, if you had had on a Coat of Mail,
and he
and younone; if heand
a Tuck; hadinhada but a Daifghe
Word, er,

had had but one Arm , and you both

yours? Nevertheles, what Equalityx oc
ver you may recommend to your Gladiaz
tors, they never ght on even terms;
i'br the one will be a tall Man, and the.
other Short; the one skilfulv at his Wear
pon , and the other a Man that never
andled a Sword 5 thenne will be rong,
and the other Weak: And though thee '
Diproportions were not ,_ but that the
one were as skillful and rong as the o-.
ther; yet. ill they, might- not be rightly
' . - ' mate ed;
76 The Hiory ofthe
marched ;_ for one, perhaps, may vhave all
'more Courage than the Other, who being * on
rah and hOt-headed, inconcerned in dan xgo
ger, as not foreeing it, of a bilious Tem * do
per, a more cpntracted Heart, with all the bll
qualities that conitute Courage, ( as if
that," s Well as a Sword, were nOt a
Weapdn Which his Adverlary hath not: ) hl
He makes nothing of falling deperately, l'll

, ,n
upon terriinng and killing this poor Tr
Man, who forees the danger; has his
ll
Heat choked in Phlegme, and a Heart
w<
too wide to cloe in the Spirits in uch
a poure , as is neceary for thawing
that Ice, which is called Cowardie. And
now you praie that Man, for having kill
ed his Enemy at odds, and praiing him
for his Boldnes, you praie him for a Sin
again nature; zeing uchBoldnes tends
to its deruction. And this puts me in
mind to tell ye, that ome Years ago, ap
plication was made to the Council of War,
for amore circumpect and concientious
Rule to be made, as to the way of Fighta
ing. The, Philoopher who gave the ad;
vice,if I miake it not,pake in this manner.
You imagine, Gentlemen," that you have
very equally balaneed the advantages of
two Enemies, when you have choen both
Tail Men, bOth skillful, and both couragi-r.
ous; But that's not enough, eeing aftelri
, - a
 Worlcoffhe Moon. 77 '
all, the Conquerour mu have the better
on't, eitherthrough his Skill, Strength, or
good Fortune. If it be by Skill, without
doubt he hath taken his Adveriary on the
blind ide, which he did not expect; or
ruck him ooner than was likely, -0r
faining tO'make his Pas on one ide, he
hath attacked him on the other: Never
theleis all this is Gunning, Cheating, and
'Treachery, and none ofthee make a brave
Man : If he hath triumphed by Force,
would you judge his Enem'y over-come, be
caue he hath been over-powered? No;
doubtles, no more than you'll lay, that a
Man hath lo the Victory, when over
whelm'd bya Mountain, it was not in his
power to gain it: Even o, the other 'was
not overcome, becaue he was not in a
uitable Dipoition, at that nick of time,
to rei the violences of his Adverary. If
Chance hath given him the better of his E
nemy, Fortune ought then to be Crowned,
ince he hath contributed nOthing to it;
and, in ne, the vanquihed is no more to
be blamed, than he who at Dice having
thrown Seventeen, is beat by another that
throws three Sixes. ' -
They confeed he was in the right 5 but
that it was impoible, according to humane
Appearances, to remedy it 3 and that it was
better, to ubmit to a mall inconvenierce,
- ' t an
i 78 The Hiory of'be

than to open a door to a hundred of greater

Importance.
She entertained me no longer at that
time, becaue he was afraid to be found
alone with me o early; not that Impu
dicity is a Crime in that Country : On
. the contrary , except Malefactors Con
victed, all Men have power over all Wo
men; and in the ame manner, a Wo
man may bring her Action again a Man
for refuing her: But he dur not keep
me company publickly, becaue the Mem
bers of Council, at their la meeting,
'had aid, That it was chiey the Women
who gave it out that I was a Man, that
under that pretext they might cover the
violent deire they had of enjoying Beas, r
and of committing
i Nature, with me
without a bluh; ins was
which again
the
reaon, that for a long time, I neither
aw her, nor any other of her Sex.
In the mean time , ome mu needs
r have revived the Diputes, about the De
nition. of my Bemg; for whil I was
thinking of nothing ele, but of dying
in my Cage, I was once more brought 5'

out to have another Audience. I was _ THAIPE

thenuqueioned, in preence of a great

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

Anweris gave ome kind! of Satisfactie

* on;
 World of the Moon. 79
on ,* for the Predent declared to me at
large, his thoughts concerning the ru
cture of the World. They eemed to me
very ingenious ,' and had he not traced
it to its Ori inal , which he maintained
to be Eterna , I hould have thought
his Philoophy more rational than our
own : But as loon as 'I heard him
maintain a Foppery , o contrary to our
Faith , I broke with him; at which he
did but laugh; and that obliged me to
tell him , That ince they were therea
bouts with it, I began again to think,
that their World was but a Moon. But
then all cried, Don't you Ice here Earth,
Rivers, Seas? what's all that then? No
matter, aid I, Ariotle aures us it is
but a Moon; and if you had laid the
contrary in the Schools, where I'have been
bred , you would have ' been hied at.
At this they all bur out in laughter ; you
need not ask, if it was their Ignoranoe, that'
made them do o; for in the mean time
I was carried back to my Cage.
But ome more paonate Doctors, bee
in informed, that I had the boldneis to
a rm, That the Moon, from whence'I
came, was a World z and that their World
was no. more but a Moon , thought it
might give' them a very ju pretexr, to
have me condemned- to the Water for
, - ' ' t at's
IT'TZ
:
iil

80 .The Hiory of the

that's their way of r00ting out Hereticksa
'For that end, they went in a Body, and corn-
plained to the Kin , who promied them
Juice ; and order d me once more to be
brought to the Bar.
Now wasI the third time Unscaged;
and then the mo Ancient poke, and
\ pleaded again me. I do nor well re+
member his Speech; becaue I was too
much frighted,l to receive the tones of his
Voice withou-t dibrder; and becaue alo
in declaiming, he made ue of an Inru
ment, which unn'd me with its noie:
It was a Speaking-iTrumpet, which he
had choen on pu-rpo, that by its Mar-L
\ tial Sound he might roue them to my
death; and by that Emotion of 'their Spi
rits , hinder' Reaon from performing its
Oce : As it happens in our Armies, where *
the noie of Drums and Trumpets, hinders
the Souldiers from minding the importance _
of their Lives. When he had done, I roe
' up to defend my Caue ,* but I was excud
ed from it, by an Accident that will ur'- _
prize you. ju as I had opened my
Mouth, a Man, who with much ado had
preed through the Crowd, fell .at the
King's Feet, and a long while rouled him-s
elf upon his Back in his preence.- -.This -
practice did not at al] urprize me, becaue 3
I knew it to be thepoure they vput
' them
 IVorld of 'be Moon. 8I
themEIves into, when they have a mind
to be heard in publick: I only opt my
own Harangue, and gave Ear to his.
Ju Judges, aid he, lien to me ; you
cannot Condemn that Man, that Monkey
or Parrot, for aying, That 'the Moon,
frOm whence he comes, is a World ; for if
he bethe
from a Man,
MOon,though he were
ince all Men not
are come
free,
is not he free al), to'imagine what he
Plealers i' How, can you conrain him not
to have Viions, as well as you? You 'may
Very Well force him to ay, 'That the Moon
is nOt a World, but he will 'not believe it
for all that 5 for to believe a thing, ome'
poibilities enclining more to the Yea,than
to the Nay,mu oer to ones Imagination :
And unles you furnih him with that Pro- '
- bability, or his own mind hit upon "it, he
may very well tell you, that he believes,
but ill remain an Infidel.
I am now to prove, that he ought not to
be condemned, if you li him in the Cata
logue ofBeas.v
For u poe him to be an Animal with?
out Reagn, would it be rational in you to
Condemn him, for Oending again it ?
He hath aid, that the Moon is a World.
NOW- Beas act only by the ininct of i
Nature : it is-Nature then that ays o, and
not he: To think thatwie Nature, who
* G hath
 82. The Hiory oftbe \
hath made the World,and the Moon knows
not her elf what itlis; and that ye who have
no more Knowledge, but what ye derive
from her, hould more certainly know it,
would be
hould very Ridiculous.
mak'eiyou But Principles,
renounce your if Paon '

and you hould uppoe, that Nature does

nOt guide Beas; bluh, at lea, to think
on't, that the Caprices of a Bea hould o
dicompoe you. Really , Gentlemen ,
hould you meet with a Man come to the
[Years o Dicretion, who made it his bu
ines to inpect the Government of Pi
mirer, giving a blow to one that had over
thrown its Companion,imprioning another
that had robb'd its Neighbour of a grain
. of Corn, and inditing a third, for leavmg
its Eggs z would you not think him a mad '
a Man, to beemployed in things o far be- ,
low him, and to pretend to give Laws to '
Animals, that never had Reaon? How
will ou then, mo Venerable Aembly,
jui; e your elves, for being o concerned at
the Caprices of that little Animal? Ju
' Judges, I have no more to ay.
When he had made an end, all the Hall
"ung again with a kind of MucalApplauEI;
and after all the Opinions had been can-va- * *
ed, during the pace of a large quarter. of
an-hour, the King gave Sentence :
That '
 World oftbe Moon. a;
That for thectfuture, I hould be repur
edto be a Man, accordingly "at at liberty,
and that the Punihment of being Drown
ed, hould be converted into a publick
Digrace ( the mo honourable way of la
tisfying the Law in that Country) where
a'u-_nv.'
..3T
by I hould be obliged to retract openly, _ ,
what I had maintained, in aying, That
the Moon was a World, becaue of the Scan'
dal,that the novelty of that opinion, might
give to weak Brethren.
This Sentence being pronounced, I was
taken away out'ofthe Palace, richly Cloath
ed; but in deriion, carried in a magni
-*
i-F'
L':
mon
l2' cent ChariOt, as on a Tribunal; which
four Princes in Harnes drew, and in all
the publick places of the Town, I was
forced to make this Declaration:
Good People, I declare to you, That
. this Moon here is not a Moon, but 'a
World; and that that World below is not
a World, but a Moon: This the Couneil
thinks t you hould believe. After I had
Proclaimed this, in the ve great places of
the Town ; m Advocate came and reach
ed me his Han to help me down. I Was
in great amaze," when after I had Eyed
him, I found him to be my Spirit; we
were an hour in embracing one another:
Come lodge with me, aid he, for if 'you
return to Court, 'after a Public-k Digrace,
G 2 7 you
 84 The Hiory of' the.
-s*
you will not be well lookt upon 1 Nay
more, I mu tellyou, that you would have
been ill among the Apes yonder, as well ,
as the Spmiard your Companion z if I had
not in all Companies publihed the vi our
and
yourforce of your
Enemies, Wit, and gained
the proteCtionv rom
of the great
_Men, in your favours, Iceaed not to
thank him all the way, till we came to his
Lodgings ; there he entertained me till
Supper-time, with all the Engines he had
list a work to prevail with my Enemies.
Notwithanding, the mo pecious pre Lcn
teth they had ued for riding the Mobile,
to dei from o unju a Prolecution : But
as they came to ac uaint us, that Supper
_was upon the Tab e, he told me, that to
bear me company that evening, he had in
vited Two Profeors of the Univerity of
the ToWn to Sup with him : I'll make
them, aid he, fall upon the Philolophy,
which they teach _in this World, and by that
meansasyouWitty
Hect's hall aeeYouth
my Landlord's
as ever ISon
met:
If"le
w)
E"
i
'with ; he WOUld prove another Socrates,
if he could ue his Parts aright, and not
bury in ViCe the Graces wherewith
God continually viits him, by aecting
_aLibertinim, as he does, out of a Chi
_._
merical Oentation and Aectation of . .'
,,_;J
the name of a Wit. I have taken Lodg
ings
 World oftbe Moon. 85"
ings here ', that I may lay hold on all
Opportunities of Inructing him: He'
aid no *more, that he might give me'
the Liberty to peak, if I had a mind
to it -; and then made a ign, that they
hould rip me- of my digraceful Orna
ments, in which I ill gliered.
The Two Profeors, whom- we' ex
pected, entered, ju as I wasundre, and
we went to it down to Table, where
the Cloth' was laid, and where we ound
the Youth, he had mentioned to, me, fal
len to already. They made him a low
Reverence, and treated him with as much
repect, as a Slave does his Lord. I
asked my Spirit the reaon of that, who
made me an'Wer, that it was becaue of
his Age; leeing in that World, the Aged
' rendered 'all kind of Repect and Die
rence to the Young ,- and which is far
more, that the Parents obeyed their Chil
dren, o oon as by the Judgment of the
Senate ofPhiloophers, they had attained
to the Years o Diretion," You are ama- '
zed, continued'he, at a Cuom. o con
trary to that of your Country; but it
is n0t all repugnant to Reaon : For lily,
in your Concience, when a brisk young
Man is at his Prime in Imagining, Judg
ing, and Acting, is not he tter to go
vern a Family, ct than
G 3 a Dccrepit piece
Threeof .
 86 The Hiory ofthe
Threecore Years , dul] and doting ,
whoe Imagination is frozen under the
Snow of SiXty Winters, who follows no
other Guide, but what you call, the Ex
perience of happy Succees; and yet are
no more, but the bare eects of Chance,
again all the Rules and Oeconomy of
humane Prudence ? And as for Judge.
ment, he hath but little of= that neither,
though the people of your World make -
it the Portion of Old Age: But to undeH.
ceivethem, they mu know, That that
which is called Prudence in an Old Man,
is no more. 'but a panick AppteheniOn,
and a mad Fear of acting any thing,
where there is danger : So that when
he does not run a Risk, whereina Young
Man hath lo himelf z it is not that he'
foreaw the Catarophe , but becaue
he had net Fire enough to kindle thoe
noble Flahes, which make us dare ;
Whereas the Boldnes of that Young
a lt*
Man, was as, a pledge of the good Sucu
ees of his deign z becaue the ame Ar
dour. thatpeeds and facilitates the execu*
tion, thru him upon the undertaking.
As for Execution, I hould wrong your
Judgment;
itv by pro0fsif3- I Youctknow
endeavouredthat
td Youth
convince
a
dle,
w:
a lone is-propet for Action
Putctfxctly..pkkwaded ;_ and;
-of-_this,'_ werepray',
tell me, you -
 World oftbect Moon. 877

when you repect a Man of Courage, * is

it not becaue he can revenge you on
your Enemies or Oppreors. And does
any thing, but meet Habit, make you con-i
ider him, when a Battalion of Seventy
January: hath frozen his Blood ,- andv
chilled all the noble Heats that youth is
warmed with? 'When you eild to the?
Stronger, is it nor that he Ould beob
liged to you for a Victory, which you'
can Dipute him? Why then hould you'
ubmit to him, when Lazines hath
oftened his Mucles, weakened his Ar
teries , evaporated his Spirits , and
iickt the Marrow out of his Bones?
If You adore a Woman, is it not becaue
of her Beauty ? Why hould you* then
continue your Cringes, when Old Age
hath made her a Gho, which only re
' preents a hideous Picture of Death ? In
hort, When you loved a Witt Man,
it was becaue by the inckne s of his
Agprehenion, he unravelled an intricate
A a ir, eaoned the choice Companies'
'with his quaint Sayings, and ounded the
depth of Sciences with a ingle Thought ;
and do you 'ill honour him, when-his
worn Organs' dihppoint his weak Nod
' dle, when he is'become dull and uneay
in Company, and when he looks like an
aged Fairy. rather than-'a rational Man ?
G4 Con
88 The Hiory ofthe
Conclude then rom thence, Son, that it
is tter Young Men hould govern Fami-.
lies, than Qld ; and the rather, that accord
ing 'to your own Principles , Hercules,
'_zlqhilles, Epaminondm, Alexander , and
Caear, of whom mo part died under
Fourty Years of Age, could have merited
no Honours, as being too Young in your
account, though their Youth was the only la
caue of 'their Famous Actions; which
a more advanced Age would have render:
ed ineectual, as wanting that Heat and ll
Promptitude, that rendered them o highe
ly ucceful. But you'll tell me, that all>
the Laws of your World, do carefully en-.
join the Repect that is due to Old Men .
That's true 3 but it is as true alo, that all Dill
who made Laws, have been Old Men,
who feared that Young Men might july
have dipoeed them of the Anthority they
had uurped .- __
* .
_ You owe 'norhing to your mortal Ar
chitector, but your Body only -; your Soul
comes from Heaven, and Chance might
have made your Father your Son, as now
you are his. Nay, are you ure he hath
not hindered you from Inheriting a
Crown P . Your Spirit left Heaven, per
. haps 'with a deign t'o animate the King o
the Ramlarzr, in the Womb ofthe Emperes ;
it caually encountered the Emb'rjo, of
' You.
 World of the Moon. , 89
you by the way, and it may be to horten
its journey, went and lodged there: No,
no, God would never have razed your
name out of the Li of Mankind, though
your Father had died aChild. But who
knows, whether you might not have
been at this day the work of ome va
liant Captain, that would have aocia
ted y0u to his Glory , as well as to his
Eate. So that, perhaps , you are no
more indebted to your .Father, for the
life he hath given you, than you would
be 'to a Pirate who had put you in Chains,
becaue he feeds you: Nay, grant he had
begot you a Prince, or King; a Preent
lo es its merit, when it is made with
out the Option of him who receives it.
Caear was killed, and o was Cam too:
In the mean time Cam was obliged to
the Slave, from whom he begg'd his
Death, but o was not Ccfar to his Mur
derers , who. forced it upon him. Did
your Father conult your Will and Plea
ure, he
Did when
ask he
you,Embraced your Mother?
if vyou thought t'to
ee that Age, or to wait for another;
_if you would be atisfied to be the Son *
of a Sot , or if you had the Ambition
to pring from a Brave Man ? Alas, you
whom alone the buines concerned, wee
t C
 _ 90 The Hiory of the
- the only Peron not conulted in the [0
cae; May be then, had you been hut r lit
up any where ele, than in the Womb
of Nature's Ideas, and had your Birth
been in your own Opinion, you would [he
have aid to the Parm, my dear Lady, ter
take another Spindle in your Hand: I
all
have lain very long in the Bed of No
thing, and I had rather continue an Hun
dred years ill without a Being , than ll'C
to Be to day, that I*may repent of it
WC
to morrow: However,Be you mu, it was
to no purpoe for you to whimper and
huall, to be back again, at the long and'
darkbme HOue they drew ou out of, bt
l
they made as if they believe you cryed
Fn
for the Teat.
Thee are the Reaons, at lea ome of ri
them, my Son, why Parents bear o much an
repect to their Children: I know ver
well, that I have inclined to the. Chiii
drens fide, more than in juice I ought;
and that in.avour of them, I have poken
* a little again my Conience. But ince I -
was willin to repres the Pride of ome
Parents, r o inult over the weaknes of
their little Ones ; I have been forced to do
as they do, who to make a crooked Tree
* reight, bend it to the contrary ide,
that betwixt two Converions it may be
come
 World of the Moon. 9!
come even : Thus I have made Fathers re- "
ore to their Children what they have
taken from them, by takin from them
a great deal that belong to them ,
that o anbther time they' may be con
tent with their own. I know very well
alo, that by this Apology I have oend,
ed all Old men: But let them remem- ',
ber, that they were Children before they
were Fathers, and Young before they'
were Old ; and that _Ij mu needs have
lpoken a great deal to their advantage,
ee ing they were nor found in a Parlley-,
bed .* But, in ne , fall back , fall edge,
though my Enemies draw u'p againm .
Friends, it will go well 'enough ill
with me; for I have obliged all men',
and only diobliged but one half. ' '
With that he held his tongue, and'our
Landlord's Son pake in this manner;
Give me leave, aid he to him, ince b
your care I am informed of the Ori i-f
nal, Hiory, Cuoms, and Philoop y
of the
' add World , toofwhat
omething this little Man;aidto '; '
you haVe
and to prove that Children are not ob
liged to' Parents for their Generation ,
becaue their Parents were obliged in
. The ricte
- ConIcience Philoc-Phy
to procreat'e of that World
them. i
' ' ac;
 92 The Hzory the
acknowledges that , it is better to dye,
ince to dye, one mu have lived, than
not to have had a Being. Now eeing,
by not giving a Being to that Norhin ,
I leave it in a ate wore than Deat 1,
I am more guilty in not producing,
than in killing it. In the mean time,
my little Man, thou would think thou
had committed an unpardonable Parra
cide, hould thou have cut thy Sons
throat: It would indeed be an enor
I.
mous Crime, but it isfar more execrable, ' ill'
not to give a Being to that which is
capable of receiving it: For that Child
Whom thou deprive of life for ever,
hath had the atisfaction of having en
joyed it for ome time. Beides , we
know
hine that
ages;it is but thee
_but depriVed of poor
forty it, but for
vlittle
Nothings , which thou mighte have
made forty good Souldiers for the King,
thou art o malicious as to deny them
Life; and lette them corrupt in thy
Reins, to the danger of an Apoplexy,
which will ie thee.
This Philobphy did not at all pleae
me, which made me three or four times
hake' my Head; but our Preceptor held
. his tongue, becaue Supper was mad to
be gone- =
We
 lVorld of the Moon. ' 93
I.
We laid our elves along, then, upon _,
very oft Wlts, covered with large Car
pets ; and a young man that waited on
us, taking the olde of our Philoophers,
led him into a little arlour apart, where
my Spirit called tO him, to come back
to us, aoon as he had upped.
This humour of eating eparately, gave
me the curioity' of asking the Caue of
it: He'll not relih , aid he, the eam
of Meat, nor yet of Herbs, unles they'
'die of themelves, becaue he thinks they
are enible of Pain. I wonder 'not o
much, replied I , that he abains from
Fleh, and all things that have had a
enitive Life : For inour WOrld the Py
thagoream', and even ome holy Amborites,
'have followed that Rule; but not to
dare, for inance, cut a Cabbage, for fear
of hurting it; that eems to me altoge
ther ridiculousr And 'for my part, an
wered my Spirit, I nd a great deal of
probability in his Opinion; -
For tell me, Is not that Cabbage you
peak of, a Being exient in Nature, as
well as you? Is nor he, the common
Morher of you
eem that he borh? Nay itmorev
hath taken would even
care of ,
the Vegetable , than of the Rational,
ince he hath referred the-"Generation of
aMan
 94.- * The Hiory oftbe _
a Man to the Caprices of his "Father, B-G
Pus-o
na

whoit, may,
to beget according as he
him, or not has him:
beget a mind
A_
rigour wherewith he hath not treated
the Cabbage; for inead of remitting it
to the dicretion of the Father, to gene
rate the Son , as if he had 'been more gilt-1
fearful, lea the Race of Cabbage hould
perih , than that of Man; he or
' ces them , whether they will or no , to
give a Being to anorher, and nor o as
Men, who engender not , but according
to their Whimhys; and who, during
their whole life, cannot procreate above
a Score; whereas Cabbages 'can produce
many Thouands aHead. Yet the Opi QEES'S'
nion that Nature is kinder to Mankind,
than to Cabbage-kind, tickles and makes
us laugh: But eeing he is incapable of
Paon , he can neither love, nor hate
any thing; and were he uceptible of Fte:
8
-nag
Pa
-'EL-Es?
Love, he would rather beow her af
fection upon this Cabbage , which you
grant cann0t oend her, than upon that'
Man who would deroy her, if it lay
in his power. And moreover, Man can
not be born Innocent , being a Part of
the r Oendor: But we know, very
well, that the r Cabbage did nor of
fend its Creator. fo it be aid, that we
are
 World ofthe Moon- 95
are made after the Image of the Su
preme Being, and o is [not the Cabbage;
grant that to be true; yet by polluting
our Soul, wherein we reembled Him, ,
we have effaced that Likenes, eeing no
thing is more' contrary to God than Sin.
If then our Soul be no longerhis Image,
we reemble him no more in our Feet,
Hands, Mouth, 'Forehead and Ears, than
a Cabbage in its Leaves, Flowers, Stalk,
Pith, and Head : Do nor you really think,
that if this poor Plant could peak," when .
one cuts it, it would nor ay, Dear Bro
ther Man , what have I done to thee
that deerves Death? I never grow buc *
in Gardens, and am never to be 'found
in dert places, where I might live in
Security: I didain all Other'company but
thine; 'and carcely am I owed in thy
Garden, when to hew thee my Good
will, I blow , retch out my Arms to
thee *, oer thee my Children in Grain;
'and as a requital for my civilit , thou
cau vmy Head to be chopt 0 . Thus
would a Cabbage dicoure , if it, could
peak; Well, and becaue it cannot corn
plain, may we therefore july do it all
the Wrong which it cann0t hinder? If I
find a Wretch bound Hand and Foot,
may 11antu kill him, becaue he can
\ not
_-.
95 The' Hiory oftbe'
not defend himelf; o far from that,
that his Weaknes would aggravate my
Cruelty? And thoughthis wretched Crea=
ture be poor, and deitute of all the ad
vantages which we haVe, yet it deerves
not Death; and when of all the Benets
of aBeing, it hath only that of Ene'reae,
we ought not cruelly to natch that away '
fr0m it. To maacre a Man, is not o
great Sin, as to cut and kill a Cabbage,
becaue one day the Man will rii: again,
but the Cabbage has no Other Life to -
hope for: By putting to death a Cab- *
bage, you annihilate it '3 but in killinga
Man, you make him only change his
HabitatiOn: Nay , I'll go farther with
you _ill, ince God dOth equally cherih
all his Works, and hath equally divided
his Benets betwixt Us, and Plants, it is
but ju we hould have an equal Eeem
. for Them, as for our Selves. It is true,
we were born__r, but in' the Family
of God there is no Birth-right, If then'
the Cabbage hare not with us in the in
heritance of Immortality, without doubt,
that Want was made up 1by ome other
Advantage , that may make amends for
the hort nes of its Being; may be by an
'univerl_Intellect, or adperfect Know
ledge of all things in _their _ Caues ;
. . ' 'and
 World oftlje Moon; '97
and it's for that Reaon; that the wii: Mov '**-**
'*_-Z_

er of all things, hath not haped for it Or

gans like ours, which are proper only for a
imple Reaoning, not only*weak, but ma
ny times fallacious tooz but Others,- more
'*'*_F"*
Al
ingeniouy framed, tronge-r , and more
numerous, which erVe to manage its Spe
culative Exercies. You'll ask me, per
haps, when ever any Cabbage, imparted
thoe lofty Conceptions to us P But tell
me, again, who ever dicovered to us c6r+r
tain Beings, which we allow to be above
us; to whom, we bear no Analogy, nor
Proportion, and whoe Eriience, it is as
hard for us to comprehend, as the Under
anding and Ways, whereby a Cabbage
exprees its irlf to its like, though not to
us, becaue ourSenes are too dull to pene
trate o far. '
Maer, the greate of Philoophers, whn '
drew the Knowledge of Nature, from (the
Fountain-Hcad, Nature her elf, hinted
this truth to' us, when he poke of the
Tree of Knowledge 5 and without doubt, .
_ he intended to intimateto us, under that'
Figure, that Plants, in Excluion-ro Man
kind, poes perfect Philoophy. Remem
ber, then, O thou Proude of Animals! .
that though a Cabbage which thou cutrc,
iyh not a Word, yet it pays it at Think
ing 5 but the poor Vegetable, has no it.
H Ora
 98 r ' The Hzory of the
Organs to howl as you do, nor yet to
frisk it about, and weep: Yet, it hath thoe
that are proper to complain of the Wrong
you do it, and to draw "a Judgement from
Heaven upon you for the lnjuice. But i
you ill demand of me, how I come to
know, that Cabbage and Coleworts con
ceive uch pretty Thoughts? Then willI
ask you, how comeyou to know that
they do not? And that ome among
them, when 'they hut up at Night, may
not Compliment one another, as you do,
aying : Good Night, Maer Cole-Curled
Parts your mo humble Servant, good
- Maer Cabbage-Round-Hedd. i
' So at was he gone on in his Dicoure,
when the young Lad, who had led out
, our Philoopher, led him in again-3, What,
Supped already P cryed my Spirit to him.
He anwered, yes, almo: The Phyiogno
mi having permitted him to take a little
more with us. Our young Landldrd ay
ed not, till I. hould ask him the meaning
of that Myery z lperceive, aid he, you
vwonder at this way o Livingz know
then, that in your World, the Govern
ment o Health is too much neglected,
and that out Method is not to be de
' '

pid.
t
 World of the Moon; * 95
In all HouEs, therev is'a 'Phyiogbmi
entertained by the Publick,_ who in hine."
manner, reembles your Ph' 'miling _' ave
that heonlyofprecribes
and'judges tb't'he
the different Healthfuh.
manner, ho'wi',
we areto be' Treated,q'on'ly' according to'
the
our Proportio'n,
Membersz by'Figure __ 'and SS'ym'erry
the' literatureslof of
the hoe;
the Complexion,
the Agility o the the Sloitnes
Body, of theof
the 'Sound Skin,"
itth
Voice, "and, the COlour, Strength; and;
Hardnes
now mind othe
a Man, Hair: JDidlnot
of a pra-gy: you;
lowsngunz;
whythe'ey'd
of you, Aure
Houe: he warre; hyidgnomij
ye'utctjelf, ther-'Leg
cordingjas he obewed
he hathdiveried yourQConifurion;
the'iExhalation ofi'ydur:
SUPPCL': ,Mrkithe Quuszg which ydglug ._ _ _
, how diant it
Ql'lt' doub'xz; "liefis from our-YQr;
judged; Copchcs 5 wig ,
CQHWiQFi
to be ardifierent
' eated, from' 'ou'r'szevaporatectst
that' t e" Odou'riwliicllctf inkelfid

fromNoes,
'our thoe 'might
attempting'gratied
reachyou, o'r that under'
Yours' t
might team" ratus 5 at" Night, yo'u'll' ee'ct
him ehuiz.theT.F10wers for' your Bed, 'W'i'th
the lame LCircumi>ectiOn. iDuring all' this,
li)i\i*;ou'r'ie,lv I made Signs to" my Landlord,>_
that heWOul'd try', if he could obligethe
Phileophers,_ tho'- f'all' upon ome mea or
Ille' Much' they profeedc He Was
* ' . H a' 'led
 lOO The Hiory of the '
too much my Friend, not to art an Oc
caion upon the Spot: But not to trou
ble the Reader, with the Dicoure, and
Entreaties, that were previous to the
Treaty, wherein Je and Eame were
o wittily interwoven, that it can hardly
be imitated z l'll' only tell you, that the
Doctor, who came la, after many things,
pake as follows.
It remains to be proved, that there are
innite Worlds, in an innite World:
Fancy to your (El then the Univere,__as
a great Animal, and that the Stars, which
are Worlds, are in this great Animal, as
Other great Animals, that (Erve recipro
cally for Worlds to other People. Such
HOl
as we, our Hores, &a. That we in our
turns, are likewie Worlds to certainrother
Animals, incomparably les than our elves,
uch as Nits, Lice, Hand-worms, do. And
that thee are on Earth, to others more
imperceptible ones; in the ame manner,
as' every tothee
World, one of us, appears
little to bePerEaps,
People. a teat
21'

our Fleh, Blood, and Spirits, are nothing

are, but a Contexture of little Animals if!

that correpond , lend us Motion from

theirs, and blindly uer themelves to be 'le
guided by our Will, which is their Coach Ille
man; tor otherwie conduct us, and all the
Conpiring together, produce that Action of
r , ' which
 World ofthe Moon, 'I o t
which we call Life. For tell me, pray, is
it a bard thing to be believed, that a Loui:
takes your Body for a. World; and that
when any one o them, travels from one
. o your Ears to the other, his Companions
ay, that he hath travelled the Earth, from
end to end, Or that he hath run from one
Pole to the other.> Yes, without dbubt,
thoe little People, take your Hair for the
Fores of their Countryz the Pores full
ofLiquor, for Fountainsz Buboes and Pim
pies, for Lakes and Pondsz Boils, for Seas; '
and Deuxions, for Deluges: And when
you Comb your le, forwards, and back
unm'us-n*h:*nime
wards, they take that Agitation, for the
Flowing and Ebbing of the Ocean. Doth
not Itching make good what Iiiy .> What
is the little Worm that cauies it, but one
of thee little Animals, which hath broken
o from civil Society, that it may Fat up
. for a Tyrant in its Country ,.> If you ask
me, why are they bigger than Other im
perceptible Creatures? lask you, why
are Elephanrs bigger than we.> And the
Irzh-men, than Spaniard: P As to the Bli
ers, and Scur, which you know not the
Caue of'z they mu either happen by
the Corruption of their Enemies, which
thee little Blades have killed, or which
the Plague has caued by the carcity
of Food, for which the- Seditious wor
H g tied
 LIOQ Iliac'HiOryio the
tied. one anpthegztjand letMountains o
LDeiidLarcaes rotting in the'Fieldz or
becaue the Tyrant, havingzzdriyen away
onallHands hisCompanions, who by their
Bodies, opt up the Pores-of ours, hath
.made way out for the waterih Matter,
whiqh beingextravaated, and out o the
_Sphere of the-Circulation of our Blood, is
orrupted. Altgmay beasked, perhaps, why
a Nit, or: Handzwmm, produces o many
diprders P Bntfthat's eaily conceived 5, for
as one Revolt begets another, o thee little
People, egg'd_xon,-by the bad Example of
' their'SeditiousCompanions, apire veraL
lv to Sovereign Command; and occaion .
every where, War, Slaughter, and Famine.
_ But you'll ay, ome are at les ubject to
Itching, than othersz and, nevertheles, all
are equally inhabited by thee little ABir
mals,_in_ce you ay', they are the Caue of -
our Life. That's truez for we oberve,"
that Phlegmatick People, are not vo much
. given to cratchlng-as the Cholerick r, be7
caue the Peoplg ympathizing with the
Climate,they inh'abit, are (lowerinza cold
Body, than thoe others that are heated
by the temper of their Region, Who risk
and ir, and cannot 're in aplaee: Thus
.'--T'_L_ a Cholerick Man,
zi' Phlegmatick is more
z becaue delicate
being than a
animated
many more Partszand the Soul, being the
. - - . Act'
, \
 _* World of the Moon. _ 103
'Action of thei: littleBeais, he is capable
of Feeling, in all places where thoe Cat
tle tir. Whereas, the Phlegmatick Man,
wanting ucient Heat to put that ir
ring Mobile in Action, is enible but '
in aJew places-3 and to prove more plain
ly "that univeral Vbrmiculariy, you need
but conider, when- you are wounded,
how the Blood runs to the Sore: Your
Doctors lay, that it is guided by provi
dent _Nature', who would uccour the
parts debilitatedz which might make us
conclude, that, beides the Soul and Mind,
there .Were a third intellectual Subance,
that had diinct Organs and Functions:
And therefore, it eems to me far more
Rational, to ay, That thee little Animals,
nding themelves attacked," end to de
mand Aance from their Neighbours,
and thatR'ecruits Hocking in from all Parts,
and the Country being too little to' contain
o many, they either die of Hunger, or are
ied in the Pres. That Mortality hap
pens when the Boil is ripe 5 or as an Ar
gument, that thee Animals at that time
are iied, the Fleh becomes inEnible :
Now, if Blood-letting,- which is many times
ordered to divert the Fluxion, do any
good, it is becaue, much being lo by
the Orice, which thee little Animals
laboured
ct to lop, theyHteue
4. their_ Allies
A
 I 04. The Hzory of the l
Aance, having no more Forces, than
is enough to defend themelves at home.
Thus he concluded, and when the e
cond Philoopher, perceived by all our
' Looks, that we longed to hear him peak
in his turn:
' . Men, aid he, eeing you are curious to
inruct this' little Animal, (our like) in
omewhat of the Science which we pro
es, I am now dictating a Treatie, which
Iwih he might ee, becaui: o the Light
it gives to the Underanding of our Na
tural Philoophyz it is an Explication of
the Original of the World: But eeingl
am in hae to ct my Bellows at work,
(for to Morrow, without delay, the Town
departsz ) lihope you'll excue my want '
of time, and l promie to atise you, a-.
oon as the Town is arrived, at the place
whither it is to go.
At thee words, _the Landlord's Son cal
led his Father, to know what it was a
Clock? who having anwered him, that-it
was pa Eigthe asked him in a great Rage,
Why he did 'not give him norice at Seven,- i1
according as he had commanded him, that i,
he knew well enough, the Houes were to
'be'gone to Morrowz and that the City
Walls were already upon their'Journey?
Son, replyed the good Man, ince you ate
down to Table, there is an Order publih
. ed,
 World of the Moon. I 05
ed, That no Houe hall budg before next
day : That's all one, anwered the young
Man z you ought blindly to obey, n'ot to
examine my Orders, and only remember
what I commanded you. Qgick, go fetch
me your Egies :So oon as it was brought,
he took hold on't by the Arm, and Whipt
it a whole quarter ofan Hour r Away you
ne'er be good, continued he, as a Punih
ment o: your diobedience z it's my Will
and Pleaure, that this day you erve for a
Laughinglock to all Peopler and there
fore l command you, not to walk butupon
two Legs, till Night. The Poor Man went
out in a very mournulCondition, and the
Young Man exc'uizd to us his Paon.
I had much ado, though I bit my Lip,
to orbear Langhing at o pleaant a Pu
nihment z and therefore to take me oo
this odd piece o Pedantick Dicipline,
which, without doubt,would have made me
bur out atla z l prayed my Philoopher
to tell me, what he'meant by that Journey
o the Town, he talked of, and i the
Houes and Walls Travelled .> Dear Stran
ger, anwered he, we have ome Ambula
tory Towns, and ome Sedentary zthe Am
. bulatory, as for inance, this wherein now
we are, are Built in this manner: The
Architector, as you ee, builds every Pa
lace of a very light ort o Timberz up- '
port
 -1 06 The Hiory of the
ported by four Wheelsunderneathz in the
thicknes of one othe Walls, he places ten
;.Z!=''t
large pair of Bellows, whole Snouts pas
in a Horizontal Line, through the upper
z, _. _.- Story, from one Pinacle to the other; o
that when Towns are to be removed, from
one place to another, (for according to
the Seaons they change the Air) every one
preads a great many large Sails, upon one
'ide o the HouEI, before the Noes o the
-*Bellowsz then having wound up a Spring,
to make them play, in les then Eight days
'i time,
whichtheir
theeHoues
Windyby Moniers
the continual
blow,Pus,
are
driven, if one Pleaes, an Hundred Leagues
and more.vthey
dentary, For are
thoealmo
whichliketo
we call your
Sen

Towersz aVC that they are oTimber, _

and that they have a Great and Strong
Skre-w, or Vice in the Middle, teaching
from the Top to the Bottom 5 whereby
they may be hoied up, or let down as
People pleae. Now the Ground under-,
neath, is dugg a's deep as the Houe is
high sand it is o ordered, that o oon as
the Frosbegin to chill the Air, they
* may link their Houes down under Ground,
where they keep themelves ecure from the
'Severity 'o the Weather .- But aoon as
the gentle Breathings of the Spring, begin
..to oten and qualie' the Airz they raie
> them
 _ Forld of he Moon. 197
them above Ground again, bygmeans of
theme-at Skxewl. tid, you'o. [prayed
him, ince-he'hadvhew'dme o machgood- .
nels, and that the Town Was not to part
tillznext, day, that hewould tell me ome
what othat Original of theIWorld, which
hehadzmentioned. not longbeorez and
-I promie you, taidI, that in requital,
) oon as I'am got back to the Moon,
from whence my Governour (painting to
my Spirit) will tell you that Iam come, 'i
I'll pread vyour Renown there, by relat
ing the rare things you hall tell me: I
perceive you Laugh at that promie, be
caue you do not' believe, that the Moon, v
I vIeako, is a _World, and that iam an -
Inhabitant of it 5 but I can aure you al
o, that the People of that World, who
take this only or a Moon, will' Laugh
at me, when I tell them that your Moon
is a .World, and that there are Fields, and '
Inhabitants in it: He anwered only with a
mile, and pake in this manner-5
Since in Acending to*the Original, o
this great ALL, we are forced to run in
to three or our Aburditiesz it is but rea
onable we hould. follow the way, where
in we may be lea apt to umble I (by
then, that the'r Obacle that ops us
horn-is thej'Eternity o the World; and
- the minds omen, not being able enough to
* ' con
 I 08 The Hiory of the
conceive it, and being no more able to ima
gine, that this great Univere, o lovely
and o well ordered, could have made it
ieli; they have had their recoure to Creati-y
on .- But like to him that would leap into
a River, for ear of being wet with Rain,
they ave themelves out of the Clutches
o a Dwar, by running into the Arms of
a Giant z and yet they are not afe for all
that : For that Eternity which they deny
the World, becaue they cannot compre
hend it, they attribute it to God, as i he
ood in need of that Preent, and as if it
were eaier to imagine it, in the one than
in the other, for tell me, pray, was it e
ver yet conceived in Nature, how Some
thing can be made of Nothing ?' Alas!
betwixt Nothing and an Atome only, there
are uch innite Diroportions, that the
harpe Wit could never dive into themz
therefore to get out of this inextricable La
byrinth, you mu admit of a. Matter Eter
nal with God : But you'l ity to me, grant
I hould allow you that Eternal Matter z
how could that Chaos dipoe and order
'it elf .> That's the thing [lam about to ex
plain to you.
My little Animal, after you have men
tally divided every little Viible Body, in.
to an innite many little inviible Bodies 5
you mu imagine, That the innite Univcrl'e
- con
 World oft/re Moon. I 09
conis only of thee Atomes, which are
mo olid, 'mo incorruptible, and mo
implez whoe Figures are partly Cubical,
partly Parallelograms, partly Angular, part
ly Round, partly Sharp-pointed, partly
Pyramidal, partly Six-cornered, and part
ly Oval z which act all everally, accord
ing to their Various Figures; And to
hew that itis o, put a very round [vary
Bowl u on a very mooth place, and with
the lea touch you give, it will be halfa
uarter of an hour before it .re : Now I
ay, that ifit were perfectly round, as ome
of the Atomes [peak ofare, and the Sur
face on which it is put perfectly mooth, it
would never re. ifArt then be capable,
of inclining a Body to a perpetual Motion,
why may we not believe that Nature can
do it.> It's the lame with the other Fi
gures, of which the Square require a per
petual Re, others an oblique Motion, o
thers a halMorion, as Trepidation zand the
Round,whoe Nature is to move, joyning a
Pyramidal, makes that, perhaps, which we
call Firez becaue not only Fire is in conti
nual Agitation, but 'alo becaue it eaily
penetrates : Beides, the Fire hath die
rent eects, according to the opening andv
quality of the An les, when the round Fi
gure is joyned; or Example, The'Fire of
Pepper
i is another ithing,
4 than thei oFirelof,
sugf-"a
 1 1 10' The, Hiory of? the' *
Sugar, the Fire of Sugar diers ro'm'that':
of Cinnamouz
o that ofCinnamon,
the Clove'z'cta'nd'this from the from thata
Fire'oif
Faggot. Now the Fire, which is the Ar-'
chitect o the parts and! whole of the Uni
vere, into
gated harh-andriven
Oak, together,
the quantityand'ofCbngre
Fi dread
' which are neceary for 'the Comp'oiti nTiof
that Oak : But 'you'f thy, how couldzct'Ha-z
z'ardl congregate intoone place, all the 'Fii'
gures that 'are neceary for the production'
o that Oak P" I'" anwer," That'.it'*'i5*ntf
Wonder" that ' 'Matter l expoed, Tttttld' *
form an Oak'5__'butthcl wonder Would-have;
been greater, vif'thelVLatter heit' o' di or?
ed, the Oak had not' been'progueed; 'ad
, 'there
wouldbeena "EW-'lesi
have Been an Elm;o ome Figures," it' \
a'Pop'lar,'a.'Wiil*zi
low 5 and erveroflkm ill,; it wouldave'
been the,
Worm, sanidve-
a Fliect, PlantSa'r'row,
a Fr'og,a ,* an Oyer, _ a':
an*Ape,
a Man. * If three Dice being ungupon a'"
aTable,
"three,there' happen a
a nur,;alnd< Rae otwo,
a*ilve','or two orfixes,"
all',

and a third in'tl'le bottom', would Ydlldyz':

O rangel that each Died hould 'turn
uch a chance, 'wheni there'werd oitnany-i
othersr A'Sizciuence offthrbe'hath' hzttppett'-_i
ed, O range . Two:lifti,ru,rncd'-ut>;'add* '
z 4 ure
the bottom-of the third; -'O<'_range Frawz
that being a. . youuaekvr,
c b 'make -
 _ .g'4_;._
Warld of the Moonl III I

make uch Exclamations z for ince there is

but a certain quantity of Numbers upon
the Dice, it's impoible but ome of them
mu turn up z and you wonder, after that,
how matter hued together Pell-Mell, as
Chance pleaes, hould make a Man, eeing
o many things were neceary for the Con
tuction of his Being. You know not then,
that this Matter tending to the Fabrick oa.
Man, hath been a Million of times iopt in'
it's Progres, for ormingometimesa Stone,
ometimes Lead, ometimes Coral, ome
times a Flower, ometimes a Comet 5, and
all becaue of more or lets Figures,that were
required for the raming o a Man :So that
it is no greater wonder, i among innite
Matters, which inceantly change andir,
ome have hit upon the conruction o the
few Animals, Vegetables, and ' Minerals
which we ee, than i ina Hundred Cats -
o the Dice, one hould throw a Rae .
Nay, indeed, it is impoible, that in this
hurlingzand
duced o things,
yet thisnothing hould admired
willibe always be pro

by a Block-head, who little knOWs how mall

a matter, would have made it to have been o
therwie, When the great River o
makes a Mill toGrind, guides the Wheels:

o a Clock,'and theBrook of
only
r 12 The Hzory the
only runs, and ometimes abconds, you
will not hy', that that River hath a great znr
deal of Wit, becaue you know that it hath
met with things,dipoed for producing uch
rare Featsz for had not the Millood in the
way, it would not have ground the Corn;
had it not met the Clock, it would not i
have marked the Hours: and i the little
Rivulet I peak of, had met with the ame
Opportunities, it would have wrought the
very ame Miracles. Ju o it is with the
Fire that movesof it elfz for nding Or
gans lit 'for the Act of Reaoning, it Rea
onsz when it nds only uch, as are pro'
per for Senation, it Senatesz and when
uch as are it for Vegetati-on, it Vegetares.
And to prove it is o, put out but the Eyes
of a Man, the Fire of whoe Soul makes
him to ee, and he will ceae to eez ju
as our great Clock will leave o to make
the Hours, if the= Movements o it be
broken. \ ,
In ne, thee Primary and indiviible.
Atomes, make aCircle, whereon without
diculty move the mo perplexed Dicul
ties of Natural Philoophyz not o much
as even the vesy Operation 'o the Senes,
which no Body hitherto hath been able to
conCeive, but]Liet
little Bodies. willuseaily
beginexplain by thee
with the'Sight.
It deirives, as being the mo incnmprebeni
ble, out r Eay. - It
 World (tbe Mo'd'i. t ' i i;
. it is peiormed then, as I-imag'ine, When'
the Tun-icl'es of> the Eye,- whole Pores re'
mble th'o'i! of Glas, tranmitting._tha*>*
-ery-Du,=-which is called'*Viual Rays,"
the- ame__'is opt b'y ome'opacous Mat
ter, which' mak'es'it recbilz and then, meet-
ingin-itsreireat' the' Image of 'the Objcct,
that fOrCed'it '.bbc'k, 1 and that Image, bei
ing bur'an innite number of little: Bo
di'ed, exhaled'in -a-n_eqt'1al Superce; from
the Objet beheld-5 it" purues it to out
Eye.- You'll sum 'ail to" Objecti, 1- know;
that Gla- is an' Opacous Body, and very
Compact z- and that-nevertheles, intead
of reecting' ether Bodies, it' lets them' pai-_
through :' But I'anwer, that the Pores' of
.Gl'as', are haped
thoe Atoines in the ame Figure,-
are which'pas'through as 7
it z and'
as a Wheat-Sieve is n0t\'pr0per for Sifting
of Oats, nor' an Oat-Sieve to Sift Wheat 51
o a Box ofDeal-Board, though it be thin;"
and lets a ound'go through it, is 'impend
tra'b'lc to the Sight; and' a piece of Chry-"
at, though tranparent, and pervious tdl
the Eye, is'no't penet'rable to the Touch.
I cauld not" heirev forbear tolinte'rnipthim':
A great Poet and Philoopher of out:
World, aid l, hath,- after Epicurm and
Demdc-tw, poken of thee little BO<.ilES,i
in' the-ame' manner almo'- as you'doz attrthv
therefhrez-'you dun'tK ait Fli'urprie m'c',
_ . - . i ' i
 '14 The Hiory 'of the
that Diouternly, tell me, Ipray, as
you proceed, ow, according to your Prin
ciples, you'll - xplain to me, the manner onymhun_u

o drawing ybur Picture in a Looking

Glas. That'slvery eaie, replied he, for
imagine with Your , that thoe Fires of'
our Eyes, having paied through the Glai,
and meeting behind it an Opacous Body,
that reverberates them, they come back the
A.
_*--v
-..-. way they wentz and nding thoe lit
tle Bodies, marching in equal Superces
Upon the Glas, they repel them to our a_\a.-_. H-r_
Eyes, and our Imagination, hotter than
the other Faculties o our Soul, attracts
the more ubtile, wherewith it draws our -
Picture in little.
It is as eaie to conceive the Act o
Hearing, and for Bre-az'tier ake, let us only
conider it in the Harmony of a Lute,
touched by the Hand o aMaer. You'll Sr'4
ask me, How can itbe, that l perceive at
o greata diance, a thing which Ido not
ee P Does there aSponge go out o my
Ears, that drinks Up that Muick, and
_ brings it back with it again ..? Or does the
Player, beget in my Head anorher little
Muician, with another little Lute, who has
Orders like an Eccho, to ing over to me
the ame Aits? Noz But that Miracle
proceeds rom this, that the String touched,
triking thoe little Bodies, o whicbthe
:. ' t;
 World of the" Moon;- I'- I gy
Air is compoed, drives it gently into my
Brain,- with thoe little Corporeal Nothings;
that Weetly pierce into it z 'and accordingas
the String is retChed, the' Sound is high,be-=
-J-'*-d'-I caue it more vigorouy drives the Atomes 3
'and the Organ being thus penetrated,
urniheth the Fancy, wherewith to make
a Repreentationz i too little,- then out'
n_.*
" Memory, not having as yet nihed its I-'
mage, 'we are forced to repeat the ame
ound to it again z to the end it may take
enou o Materials, which, or inance,
thehgeaures of a Sardbdd, furnih it with,
for nihing the Picture o that Sdrabdnd z
but thatOperation, is norhing near o won-t
derul, as thoe Others, which by the help
o the ame Organ, excite us otnetimes to
Joy, ometimes to Anger.-_'- a _
And this happens, when in that motion,
thee littleBodieszmtetwith Other littleBodies
within us, moving in the ame manner, or
whoe Figure,renders them uceptib'le o the
ame AgitatiOnz for then thee New>comers,
ir up their LandIOtdsto move asthey do; St?
thus,
o ourwhen
Blood,a violent Air 'meets
it' inclines withame'
it to the the Mo-'
Fire

tion, and animates it to a Sally, which is

the thing we call Heat o Courage; it'
theSound be oter, and have only ore:
enough to raie a lei Flame, in greater AA
gitation', by' leading it along the Nerveszi
. 1 a Meni
 17 16 ' The Hiory of the
Membranes, and through the interices of
out Fleh, it excites that Tickling which
is called joy : And o it happens, in the
Ebullition o the other Paons, according ,
as thee little Bodies, are more or les vio
lently toed upon us, according to the
Motion they receive, by the rencounter of
other Agitations, and according as they
nd Dipoitions in us or motion. So much _'m >_- _
for Hearing.
Now, I think the Demonration o
Touching, will be ever whit as eaiez i
we'conceive, that out ooall palpable Mat
ter, there is a perpetual Emion o little
Bodies, and that the more we touch them,
the more'evaporatez becaue, we prei them
out o, the Subject it izl, as Water out of
a Sponge, when we queez it. The Hard,
make a' report to the Organ, o their
Hardnesz the. Soft, of their Softnes 5 the
Rough, &e. And that this is o, we are
not o quaint in Feeling with Hands ued
to Labour, becaue o the Thicknes of
theSkin, which being neither porous, nor
animated , with diculty tranmits the
_ Evaporations o Matter. Some, perhaps,
may deirehas
Touching to its
know, where the
Reidenccte. ForOrgan o
my part,
I think it is pread over all the Surface o
the Body, eeing in all parts it feels :, Yet I
imagine, that the nearer the,Member,whe_rel; Y
. Wit
 World ofthe Moon. 11'7,
with we touch, be to the Head, the oon
er we diinguihz which Eaperience con'- _
vinces us of, when with hut Eyes we
handle any thing, for then we'll more ea'
ily gues'what it isz andvif on the contra
ry, we feel it with our hinder Feet, it will -
be harder for us to know it: And the
Reaon is, becaue our Skin beingall over
perforated, our Nerves, which are of nd
compacter Matter, loe by the way a great
many of thoe little Atomes, through the
little Holes of their Contexture, before
they reach the Brain, which is their Jour
neys end: It remains, that I peak of the -
Smelling and Taing. , 4
Pray tell me, when Itae a Fruit, is
it not becaue the Heat of my'M'outh meltsi
it .> Confes to me then, that there being
Salts in a .Piear, and that they being epa
rated by Diolution,into little Bodies ofa
dierent Figure, from thoe "which make
the Tae of an 'Applez they mu needs' .
pierce our Pallate, in avery dierent man;
ner : Ju 'o as the' thru 'Ofiay Pike, that
paes through ime, is' n'or' like the Wound
which a Piol-Bullet makes the feel, Witli
a- udden artz and as that'Piol-Bullet, '
makes me uer another ort of Pain, than
' that of a Slug of Steel. * ' * a

13.' 4, _l
 t 18' The Hzory of the
i [have nothing to lay, as to the Smel-i
ling ,. eeing the Philoophcrs themelves
confes, that it is performed by a continu
l _al Emiion of little Bodies,
Now, upon the ame Principle,wi_ll I
explain to you, the Creation, Harmony,
and Inuence of the Celeial Globes,
with the immutable variety of Meta
ors.He wasabout toiproceedz but the Old

Landlord coming in, made our Philoopher

think of withdrawing; He brought in Chri
tals ull of Glew-worms, to light the Par
lourz but eeing thoe little ery lnects, '
loe much o their Light, When they are
not freh athered, che; which were ten
daysold, -ad hardly any at all, My Spi
rit-tayed not, till the Company hould _= .->n,- ._.=-*H_->a

'ct complain
er, 'andofcame
lit, but went up toback
immediately his Chamz
again,
with two-Bowlsxof Fire oSparkling, that
all wondred he burnt not his Fingers.
Thee incomuihle Tapers, aid he,
WilliErve tis-better
Worms. Theyizare than
Rays o your Week
the Sun, of
which
Ihave purged from their Heat, otherwie,
the corroive qualities of their Fire, would
have
actve dazzled, and oended
xed their Light, andyourincloed
Eyes z it[

within thee tranparent Bowi's. That ought

Pot tg aord you any great Caue o Ad?
nllr
 World ofthe Moon. t 19 -
mirationz for it is not harder or me, who
am a Native of the Sun, to condene his
Beams, which are the Du o that World,
than it is for you, to gather the. Atom'es 'o
the pulveriz'd Earth of this World. There
upon our Landlord ent a Servant, to wait
upon the Philoophers home, it being then
Night, with a dozen Globes of Glow
worms hanging at his our Legs. As for
my Preceptor,
re, by order and myPhiiognorini.
o the elf, we went He
to

laid me that Night in a Chamber o Vio

lets'and Lillies, ordered me to be tick
led 'ater the uual manner 5 and next Morn
Thqu-WJ ing about Nine a Clock, my Spirit came
in, and told me, that he was come from
Court, where 3 One o the deens
Maids of Honour 'had tent for him, and
'
that he had enquired after me, proteing,
that he ill peried in her Deign, to be
an_-*'v-'v.r.-_.=*_-
as good as her Word z that is, that with all
'her Heart he would follow me, i I would
take her along with me to the other Worldz
which exceedingly plearZ-d me, (aid he,when_
Iunderood, that the chief Motive, which
inclined her to the Voyage, was to become
Chriian : And therefore, I have promiv
ed to forward her Deign, what lies in
mez and or that end, to invent a Machine,
that
i may hold three* or
I 4our, wherein may
you
 120 The Hlery of ths,
may mount. tb ddy, both together, i you
think t. 'l'll go eriouy (Et'pbom the
performahce of my Undertaking 5 and 'm
the mean time," to entertain ypu,'d_urin%1my \
Abence,'1 leave you here; Book, w ''oh
heretofore l brought 'with me rpqimy Na:
me. Countreyz the'Title of'ik'is, The
' lditiod
State: qnd Empire:
of the of the
Hiory Sun,szctzrk
of the With an[alo
Ad

give you this, which I eeem milch more,

1t is the great
_compoed Work
by one of_the
othe Philoophers,
greate Wit? go _
the Sun. He 'proves in it,_'t>hat_au thing?
are true, and _hews the "ward-uniting
Ph'yically, the Truthso every "ContradiQ
idn 5 as, for
gn'd 'Black Examplez
White zi thatThatWhite
one' mayv is
be,Black
anct
not be at the fame tiigeiz there may be
ais-omething,"
MOuntzzin withouta
and 'thatVaHey ztha;_that
alllthin'g's nothirzg
are;
dre'notz butqberve, 'that he'pxqv'es all
t'hefdunheardwa Parado'xcs,
Cawis or' Sophiical' without
Agumenx, any
Wh_en_v
' you hie' weary of Reading', you' may Walk,
r SECOnvervvnh'our Landlordk Son, he \
\ ' hasa'ivery Charihi'z'n'g Wit'szth that Which
I-diuke in him is," that he. 15 a'ule Athcte; .
ial. ' If ehaheeto Scandaiizyou, Ox;
byhny Argumdn! hake yQui: F-ciixhs ail-dais'
rmeoiarely
gydL I'll cle-4!iqitlhe
eome and prop'ggjc
Djcuhjies pfigit' ,t_o the,
z_ any;
- " ' - * ' " 1' Other'
 FHIS;"
l2
ral-m-Ifi!
World of the Moon. * l2I
other, but l, would you to break
Company with himz but ince he is ex
.treamly proud and conceited, I am certian,
he would take your ight for a Defeat,
and would believe your Faith to be groun
ded on no Reaon, if you refued to hear
his. Having aid o, he left mez and no g!
=m_'
-..L
ooner was his back turned, but I fell to .

conider attentively my Books and their

Boxes, that's to ay, their'Covers, which
eemed to me to be wonderfully Rich z the
one was cut of a ingle Diamond, incom
parably more replendent than ours; the
cond looked like a prodigious great Pearl,
cloven in two, My Spirit had tranlated
thoe Bookszinto the Language of that
World z_.-but becaue I have none of thei
Brim, I'll now, explain to you the Fahion
of thee two Volumes. ' , '
. As l/ opened the'Box, I found within
hmewhat of Metal, almo like to out
' .Clocks, full of ' I- know not what little
Springs, and imperceptible Engines : lt was
a Book, indeed; but a Stra'ngerand Won
_ derful Book, that had neither Leaves nor
Letter-s _;* In ne, it was a Book, made
whollyv for therEars, and not the Eyes. So
that'when any. Body has a mind to read in
ir,hewinds up that Machine, with a great
many little Strings-3 then he turns the Hand
tothea Chapter which he deires to hes:
. an _
 122 The Hiory of the
and raight, as from the Mouth o a Man,
or a Mulical Inrument, proceed all the
diinct and dierent Sounds, which the
Lunar Grandees make ue o, for expre
ing their Thoughts , inead of Lan
gnage. o-oIrl-HE"F\

' When [ince reected on this Miracu

lous Invention, I no longer wondred, that
the Young-Men of that Country, were
more knowing .at Sixteen, or Eighteen
years Old, than the Gray-Beards o our
Climatez or knowing how to Read as
oon as Speak, they are never without
Lectures, in their Chambers, their Walks, _. _. _.

the Town, or Travellingz they may have

in their Packets, or at their Girdles, Thir
tyof thee Books, where they need but
wind up a Spring, to hear a whole Chap.
ter,and o more, it they have a mind to hear A_.___-A_

the Book quite throughz o that you ne'

ver want the Company o all the great
Men, Living and Dead, who entertain you
with Living' Voices. This Prezn' employ
ed metoabout
them an hour'z
my Ears, like aand thenPendants,
pairof hanging .
Iwent a Walking 5 but l was hardly ati
End o the Street, when I met axMuli
titude
Fouro
oPeople very Melancholy."
them 'carried uipon their Shoule
_ -. -. _
ders, a kind o a Here, covered with
Black : I asked-a Spectator, what that PrO-F
Ceion
 World of the Mobn'. * 1 23
ceon, like to a Funeral in tny'COuntry,
meant? He mede me anwer, that that.
naughty called o by the Peo
ple, becaue ot a knock he had received up- '
on the Right Knees who being convicted
o Envy and lngratitude, died the day
beforez and that Twenty Years ago, the ,
Parliament had Condemned him to die in
his Bed, and then to be inerted after his
Death. l ell a Langhing at that Anwer.
And he asking me, why.e You amaze me,
aid I, that that which is counted a Bleing
in our World, as a long Liez a peaceable
Death, and an Honourable Burial, hould
pas here for an exemplary Punihment.
What, do you takea Burial, for a preci
ous thing then, replyed that Man? And, ,
in good earne, can you conceive any
'thing more Horrid, than a Corpscrawling
'With Worms, at the dicretion of Toads,
'which feed on his Cheeks; the Plague it
el Clothed with the Body o a Man?
Good God! The very thought o having,
even when l am Dead, my Face wrapt up
in'a Shroud, and'a Pikeedepth of Earth
upon my Mouth, makes me l can hardly
fetch breath. The Wretch whom you ce
carried here, beides the digrace o being
[thrownginto-a Pit, hath been Condemned,
to _b_e attended by an Hundred and Fiftyf'
. Q
 \

i 1 2'4 i The Hiory of the

o his Friends z_ who are rictly charged,

as a Punihment for theirhaging loved an
envious and ungrateul zPerhn,_. to appear
with a ad- Countenance at his" Funeral z
and had it not been that the Judges took
ome compaon of him , imputing his
Crimes partly to his want of Wit, they
would have been commanded to Weep there
alo. All are Burnt here, except Male
:afictors: And,- indeed, it is a mo ratio
nal and deoent Cuom : For we believe,
that the Fire having eparated the pure
from the impure, the Heat by Sympathy
Teaembies the natural Heat-5 which made
the Soul, and-givesvit force to mount up,
till'it arrive at ome Star, the Country of
certain tha'dusz
lectuali people, becaue
more immaterial and ought
their Temper intel

'to uit-with, and participate of' the Globe

whichtheyinliabit. . ' v
. , hHowever, this is not our neatei way of
' Burying neither-3, for when any one of
our'Philotbphers- comes to an Age, Wherein
he'nds 'his*:>Wit begin to decay, and the
Ice ofhis years, xto numm 'the Mations o
_ histzhul, xhq-invitesall his Eriends to a
* lrmptiuone Ba ' 'net z= then having declared
bolthem r-thd-Keaons, that move himvto
_ bidrrtwel togctNature, and _t-he little hopes
hahas, ti-Paddin'g any thing-more to" his
Worthy Actiohsyxthey [hew him Favotpr'g
. _t at's,
 t World ofthe Moonifi' 1 25
that's to lily, they uer him to Dye, or
otherwie are vere to him, and command
-wmru -H '
him to Live. When then, by plurality of
Voices, they have put hisLife into his own
Hands, he acquaints his deare Friends
with the day and place. Thee purge,
and for Four and Twenty hours abain
from Eating zthen being come to the Houe
of the Sage, and having Sacriced to the
Sun, they enter the Chamber, where the.
generous Philoopher waits for them on a
Bed of State z every one embraces him,- and
whenit comes to his turn,whom he loves be,
having kied him
oin his Boom, andaectionately,
joyning Mouthleaning up.
toMouth,
with his right hand he heaths. aDagger in
his Heart. The Loving Friend parts not
\ his Lips from his Friends Lips, till he nd
him expiredz and then pulling out the
Steel, and putting his Mouth. cloe to the
Wound, he ucks down his Blood, till a
Second ucceed him, then a Third, Fourth,
and o all the Company: Four or Five
Hours after, .every one has a Young
Wench, of Sixreen or Seventeen Years of
Age, brought to him 5 and during Three or .
Four days, whil they are taing the Plea-.
ures of Love, they feed on nothing but
the Fleh of the Deqead, which they eat
rawz to the end that if tom an Hun
dred Embracements anyv vthing Sprihng, ..
, t ey
 1'26 The Hiory of the'
they may be aured it is their old Friend bi
Revived.
I interrupted this Dicoure, aying to
him that told me all, That this Manner of all
Acting much rembled the ways o omev rhi
People oour World z and o purued my it
Walk, which was o long, that when I' de
came back, Dinner had been ready TWO * no
Hours. They asked me, why I came o -' Cu
late? It is not my Fault, (aid l to the Cook,
who complained :. [asked what it was a en)
Clock everal times in the Street, but they we
made me no anwer, but by 'opening their rit
Mouths, hutting their Teeth, and turning v is
their Faces awry.
How, cried all the Company, did not lit
you know by that, that they hewed
you what it was a Clock a? Faith, aid
I, they might have held their great Nohs
in the Sun long enough, beore I had un
derood what they meant. Ic's a Com
modity, aid they, that aves them the Trou
ble of a Watch z for with their Teeth they *
make o true aDial, that whenthey would
tell anyBody the Hour o the day,they'do no
more but open their Lips, and the hadow
o that Noe, falling upon their Teeth,
like the Gnomon o a SunDial, makes the
precie time. Now that, you may know the
reaon, why all People in thi; Country
have great Noes z, aoon as a Woman is -
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 World ofthe Moon, , I 27
brought to Bed, the Midwife carries the
Child to the Maer afthe Semina'y z and
exactly at the years end, the Skillul being
aembled, i his Noe prove horter than
the anding Meaure, which an Alderman
keeps, he is judged to be a Flat Noe, and
delivered over to be gelt. You'l ask me,
no doubt, the Reaon o that Bararous
Cuom, and how it cornes to pas, that we,
among whom Virginity isa Crime, hould
enjoyn Continence by force zbut know,that
we do o, becaue after Thirty Ages expe
rience 'we have oberved, that a great Noe
is the mark oa Witty, Courteous, Aable,'
Generous and 'Liberal Man z and that a
little" Noe is a Sign o the contrary :
ma Wherefore ofF/at Nozr we make Eunuchs,
becaue the Republick had rather have no .
Children
wasiill aatpeaking,
all,than Children
when, Ilike
awthem. He
a man
comein ark Naked zl preently (Fit down
and put on my Hat to hew him Honour,
for thee are the greate Marks oRepect,
that can be hew'd to any in that Coun
try. The Kingdom, aid he, deires you
would give the Magirates notice, before
you return to your own World z becaue a
Mathematician hath ju now undertaken
before the Council, that provided when
you are returned home, you would make a
certain Machine, that he'l teach you how
* to
 123\ The Hzt'ory of the
to doz he'l attract your Globe, and jctoyrrit
to this. Good
lord,when now,was
the other (aid I totellmymeLand
gone) whyi
that Meenger carried at his Girdle, Privy
\ *Members of Brasz a thing I have often
een, whilt I was in my Cage, but dur
K not ask the Reaon, becaue I was always'
environed by the Qgeens Maids of Ho
nour, who'm I eated to oend, if in their
preEnce I had talked of uch a oul Subject P
He made me 'this anwer: The Females
here, no more than the Males, are not o
ungrateul, asto bluh at the ight of that
whichv Forged them-'5 and Virgins are'not
ahamed to love upon us, in Memory o
Mother Nature, the only thin 'that repre
mts her be. Know then, 'that the Scar
wherewith that Man is Honoured, and
which for a' Medal has the Bauble of a
Man hanging at it, is the Badg oa Genn
tleman, and the Mark \to diiinguih the'
Cavalier from the Clown. This, emed'
to me, to be o extravagant a' Paradox,
_ that I could not forbear Laughing." Iloole _
upon that, replyed I, to be a-veryextra-
ordinary Cuom, for in.:our Warld, to"
wear a Sword is the Badgof a Gentleman. _
But, my 'dear little "Man, cried" my- Hot
without artlingz What, are-the great Men?
'DE-your World-Mad them; to' make often;"
J wide?
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tation of an lnrument, that's the marle 4-wa._chx4__4 ._A-

of a Hang m'an, made only to deroy usz'

and in a word, the worn Enemy of allv
that has Life? And On the contrary, to
hide a Member, without which, We had
been ranked among the things' 'that are not; -
the Prometbem of every ' Animal, and the' '
indefatigable Repairet of the Frailties-of
Nature?
Marks Unhappy Country!
of Generation where the' '
are lgnominiou's,*andt
thoe of Deruction Honourable : In' the'
mean time, you call that Member thehamed
ful Privy-Parts, as if any thing were more'
Glorious, than to give Life, or any thing.
more digraceful, than to take it away.
_ During all this Dicoure, we went on with
our Dinnerz and as oon as we roe from'
Table, we went 'to take the Air in the'
Garden, where tak-ing Occaion to peak
of the Generation, and Conception of
things, he aid
the Earth, to me, You
converting mu
it lf know,
into that _
va Tree,
from a Tree into a Hog, an'd from a Hog>
into a Man, is an Argument, that all things
in Nature, apire to be Menz ince that is
the mo perfect Being, as being a Qgintel'
ence, and the be devied Mixture
the WOrldz which alone unites the Animal
and Rational Life into one. None bur a
Pedant will deny me this, when we' he'
that a Plumb-Tree, by the Heat of its Germ;
K a?
 I 30 The Hiory of the
as by a Mouth, ucks in and. digeis the
Earth that's about it z that a Hog devours
the Fruit of' this Tree, and convert: it into
the Subance of it elf z and that a Man
feeding on that Hog, reconcocts that dead
Fleh, unites it to himelf, and makes that
Animal to revive under' a more Noble Spe
cies: So the Man whom you ee, perhaps
threecore years ago, was no more buta
Tut o Gras in my Garden z which is the
more probablez-that the Opinion o the
Py'hagorean--Metamorpho_ir, which o many
Great Men maintain, in all likelyhoodhas
only reached us, to engage us into an En
quiry after theztruth of itz as, in reality,
we have ound that Matter, and all that
has a Vegetative or Seni'tive Life, when
once ithath attained to the period of its
Perection, wheels about again, and de
cends into its Inanity, that, it may return,
upon the Stage, and Act 'the ame Parts
over and over. ,.I went down extreamly
ittisfyed to the Garden,'and was beginning
to reheare
Maer to myme
had taught Campanian,
z when thiewhat out
Phyiog
nomi.:came to. conduct us to Suppr, and'
afterwards to Re. " ' K
Next Morning, o oon as Iawoke,l Went'
'to call up my Antagoni. It is, aid- I,
accoingzhim, as great a Miracle to nd
a great Wit, like yours, buried in Sleep, as?
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'to ike Fire, without Heat and Action .- He
bore 'with this ugly Complirnent 5. but,
(erYed he, with a Cholerick kind o Love)
wili you never leave thee Fabulous Terras?
- Know, that thee Names defame the Name
of a Philoibpherz and that eeing' the wie
Man ees nothing in the World, but what'
he conceives, and judges may be conceii
ved, heought to abhor all thoe Expre4
ons o Prodigiesz and eitradrdinary EVents
o Nature, which Block-heads haire invent-
ed, to excue the Weakne's o their Unders
anding. _ _ _
I thought my elf then obliged in' 'Cods
cience, to endeavour to undeceive him;
andthereore, aid I, though you be 'very
i and obinate in your Opinions, yet!
have plainly een uPernatural Things hap
pen .- Say you b, continued he z you lite'
tle know,- th'at the'orce of Imagination',- is
ll able to cure all the Diais, which you' at:
tribute toirpematu'ral Caues, by reaon o
a certain natural Balam, that 'can tains Quae
lities zuite contrary to the qualities of 'me
Dia s that attack Usz which happens,
when' our Imagination informed by Pain;
earches in that place for, the pecifick Red
Nedy, which fit applies to the Poion;
_That's thereabn, Why an able Phyic'ra-z o
Your-World, advles the Patient to make
IZ (ialghdratit BoilorJv'vhomhe eeem: .
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 I 32 ' The Hzory of the"
to be very knowing, rather than o a very
Skilful Phyician, Whom he may imagine
to be lgnorantz becaue he ancies, that
our Imagination labouring to recover our
Health, provided it be aed by Remedies,
is able to cure us z but that the ronge
Medicines are too weak, when not applied
by Imagination. Do you think it range,
va'
inns.
that the r Men of your World lived o
many Ages, without the lea Knowledge
Of Phyick .? No. And what mi ht have
- been the Caue ofthar, in your iu , ementz r
unleigheir Nature was as yet in its force,and
that natural Balam in vigour, before they
were poilt- by the Drugs , wherewith
Phyicians conume you; it being enough 5
then for the recovery of ones Health, ear-_
nely to wih for it, and to imagine him,
- elf cured .> So that their vigorous Fancies,
lunging into that vital Oy_l,, extracted; the
lixir o it, andapplyin Activesto Pai
ves, in almo the twin ling of an Eye,
they ound themelves as ound as before :
Which, notwithanding the Depravation of
Nature, happens even at this day, though
lbmewhat rarelyz and is by the Multitude
icalled a Miracle .- For my part, I believe not
r a ioc on't, and have this to ay (bra my elf;
that it is eaier for all thee Doctor's 'to
miaken, than that the other may notea
ly come to pai :. For I put the Queiog to
 World ofthe-Moon. , i 133

them-3 A Patient recovered out o a Feaver,

'me
heartily deired, during his icknes, as it is
in like, that he might be eured, and, may be,v
our
made Vows for that eects o that o nece
its, ity he mu eithervhave dyed, continued
zdl ick, or recovered : Had he died, then
il
would it have been aid, kind Heaven hath
lgt, put an end to his Pains z Nay, and that ac
llu cordin to his Prayers, he was now cured
of all ieaes, praid be the Lord : Had
.llt his Sicknes continued, one would have *
. aid, he wanted Faithz but becaue he is
and cured, it's a Miracle forooth. Is it not far
more likely,that his Fancy being excited by
violent Deires, hath done its Duty, and
wrought the Cure.> Forgrant he hath
ecaped, what then.> mu it needs be a Mi
' racle.> How many havewe een, pray, and a
tet many olemn VoWs and Proteations,
go to pot with all vtheir fair Promies and
Reolutions. -
' But, at lea, replied I, to him, i what * '
you ay of that Balam be true, it is a mark
othe Rationality of our Soul; eeing with
out the help ofour Reaon, or the Concur- \
rence o .our Will, he Acts o her el z as
i being without us, he applied the Active
'to the Pave. Now, if' being eparated
romus heis RationaLit necearily follows,
that he is Spiritualz and i you acknow
ledge her to be Spiritual, I conclude he is
' K 3 im
 34 The Hzory of 'the
immortal; ceing Death happens to Anie
mals, only by the changing of Fortns, of ,
which Matter alone is capable. The Young
Man at that, decently'tting down u
his Bed, and making me ali) to it, dicour
ed, as I remember, in this manner : As 'or
the Soul o Beas, which is Corporeal, I
do not wonder they Die z eeing the be
Harmony o the four (Atalities may be di
[olved,' the greate fbrce o Blood quelled,
* and the lovelie Proportion o Organs di
concerted z but I wonder very much, that
our intellectual, incorporeal, and immortal
- Soul, hould be conrained to diodge,
and leave us by the (ame Caue, that makes
an 03 to perih. Hath he covenanted with
gur Body, that as hon as he hould 're red-NA

ceive a prick with a Sward in the Heart, a

Bullet in the Brain, or a Musket- hot through
the Che, he hould pack up. and be gone,
_->-_--and i that Soul were Spiritual, 'and 5.

' of her-elf oRational, that being Sepa Basasg-mloct

rated
Well asfrom
when'our Mas, with
Clothed he underood as
ai Body', why
ucannot Blind Men,\born withal] the fair ad
vantages ofthat intellectual Soul, imagine
what it is to ee P Is it, becaue they are
-no_t as yet deprived oSight, by the Death
v(fall-their Senes? How! cannot then
make ue jomy Right Hand, becaue l have
.A_nd in ne," to' make a ju 6'
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 World of the Moon. ir'35':

ma. comparion, which will overthrow all that

d you have aid 5 I hall only alledge to you a
me Painter,who cannot work without his Pen
cil: And I'll tell you, that it is ju o
xcur with the Soul, when he wants the ue o
slcr the Sens. O yes, but added he In
5le the mean time, they'l have this Soul, which
bel canonly act imperfectly, becaue of the ,
My: los of one of her 'Tools, in the coure-of
A), Life, to be able then t0_. work toLPerfecti
me on, When after out death, he hath 'lo
th, them all. - Ifthey tell me, over and over a
m, gain, that he needeth not thee Iriru
nag, . ments, for performing. her Functions, I'll
nag, tell them e'en o, That them all the Blind
my about. the Streets, ought to be Whipt at a
dlz Carts-Are, for playing the Counterfeits, in
m', pretending not to See a bit. He would
on, have gone on in uch impertinent Argu
gog ments, had not I opt his Mouth, by deir
m ing him to forbear, as' he did for fear of a
If, quarrel 5 for he perceived [began to be in
dy a heat : So 'that he departed, and left me
* admiring the People, of that World', a
, mong whom even the meane have Na
g-I, turally o much Wit; whereas thoe of
7, oursvhave ovlittle, and yet o dearly bought.
MF At length my Love forl'my Country, took
lb, me o ofthe deire and thoughts I had of
h; aying there, I minded nothing now but
to be gone; z but I aw h much impori- -
wi - . K4 , htY
 I 36 The Hiory of the
lity in the matter, that it made me quite
peevih and' melancholick. My Spirit ob_
erved it 3 and having asked me, What was
the reaon, that my Humor was o much al
tercel? Itrankly
Melancholy, buttold
hehim the me
made Caue of fair
uch my , i

Promies concerning' my Return, that l re

lied (wholly upon him. I acquainted the
Council with my deign; who ent for me,
and made me rake an'Oath, that I hould
relate in our world, all that I had een in
than-t My- Pas-ports 'then - were expeded,
and my Spirit having made neceary Proviz
fionsforo long a Voyage, asked me, What
porto-'my Country I deired to light in? I
told him, that ince mo of the RichYouths
of Elixir,- once in their life time,_ made a
JOurneysF to Rome-5 imagining arrer that',
that'there remained no mare worth the do
ing orjeing, I 'prayed him to be.0 good
as to let'me imitate them: But withal, aid.
I,in What Machine hall we perform theVoy
age,- an'd what-Orderszdo yOu 'think the
Mathematician, 'Who talked t'othe-r day of *
joyningthis Globe to' ours, will give me P
'As to. the Ma-themarician, aid he; let that
be'nor. hinderance to; you z. for he. is a Man
who promies much,'and periorms little or
nothing. : And as to the Machine, that-'s to
carry you back, it hall be the ame which
broughtyou to Courtfi How, aid l, will '
the
 World oftheMoom is?
the Air/become aslblid as the Earth, to '
bear your eps .>_ [cannot believe that:
And it is range, replied he, that you
_ hould believe, and not believe. Pray
why hould the Witches of your World,
who march in the Air', and conduct whole
Armies of Hail, Sndw, Rain, and other
Meteors, from one Province into another,
have more Power than we ?* Pray have a
little better opinion of me, than to think
I would impoe upon you. The'truth is,
aid- l, l have received o man gnod
Oees from you, ' as well as 'Shot-ate',
and the re, for'whomyouhaveo great
kindnes, thatJ-'dare tru my' lf in
* your hands, 'as now I do, reigning my
elf heartily up? to' you. I had no hon
er id the word," but he 'roe like a .
-v iiif
T
:1kuzfn
-H;-.> Whirl-wind, and' holding me 'i between 7
- his Arms, with'Out the lea-Uneaines,
he made me pas-'that- va pace, 'which
Aronomers reckon betwixt the Moon -
and us, in-a day and- all-halfs-time 5
which convinced _ me, that they tell a
Lye, who ay 'that a Mill-one would'
be Three Hundred Threecore, and I
know not how many years more,"-in falling
from Heaven, ineel was o hort a while,
in dropping down from the Globe of the
Moon upon this. At length, about the
beginning ofthe Second day, I perceived I
* was
 138 TheHz'ory. of the
was drawmg nearzour World -z ince I could
alread di'm ih Europe from A'ica, and
both tom when. I, melt Brimone,
which _I Dweaming out of a very high
Mqumim. that incotntnOded me o much
- than-fainted away upon it. I cannot tell
aghateel me afterwards; but coming to
myeu pin, I-ound-I was among Briers
anthe'e -_ o>;a Hill, Lamid ome - Shep
,,wha';pake Italian. I, knew not
whaewasxbocome ofmyzzslairit, and I ask
theShepherds i they: had not een him.
At that ,-,word they made the ign of the
Qdilwkd upon me, as ifI had been
- a Devil my, elf s But when I 'told them
that I wasaphriian, and that I begg'd
the iitynf them, that they would lead
mezuo; ome zplaee, whereI might take a little *
, te, they-conducted me intoa Village, a
- boutra.Mie zpz where, no ooner wasl
Wbutall the Dogs o the place, fiom
the-"lea Cut, to the bigge Mai, ew
uponme, and had torn me to pieces, if I
had, nothhund a Houe,'_wherein l aved my
elf;
tinue Butxzthat hindgred
their-Barking and them notto
Bawlingi, (6 con
that
the Maer o. the; Houe began to look up.
on me With an Evil "Eye, and really I
think, as. ,;people are very apprehenive,
when Accidents which they look upon to
i be ominous" happen, that
i man could have
- de
tell
 Warer eft the Mix-52 egg
delivered :ureupa'o a Prey totbte accured
Beas, had med harbought niyz-'f ,-'> that"
that which wedded i'heni 1672th lar-ing'
was the -Wot'ld he; 'Whem-[1 more 'it-Bet
'crude barngnqceomed tobatk make'ng
they melct il from-thence, by *' the'
cent oimyicloaths; Whibh to
as a Seaaindllcharrgs NNW; Who have
been long-'till SliipzbOar-d, iafl
ter they come ahote.' AirmYfien,
1 lay three or four hours in the Sun, upon
a Terras-walkz and beingafterwardscome
down , the Dogs, who nlelt no more that
inuence which had made me their Enemy,
let "barking," and peaceably went to their
everal hornes. Next day I parted for x
Rome, where Iaw the ruins ofthe Triumphs
of ome great Men, asv well as ofAges : I ad
mired thoeil'ovdy Relicle and the Repairs
of (bme of them made by the Modern. A:
length, havin ayed there a fortnight in
Company of" onieur de Cyram my Coun,
who advanced me Money-for my Return,
I went to Cz'az'ta oecchia, and embarked ina
Galley that carried me to Ma'iller. Du
ring all this Voyage,my mind run upon no- _
thing, but the Wonder: of the la I made.
" At that time'l began the "Memoires of it z
_ and after myzrerum,-p\rtit*hemintoas good
order, as same, WhidhctCOnnes me to'Bed,
would permit. foreeing, that it will
* - Put
 [40 The Hzory Of the
ut an end to all my Studies, and Travelsz
that I may beas good as m word to the
Council o that World z [gave begg'd o
Monjieur le Bret, my deare and mo con
ant Friend, that he would publih them,
with the Hiory o the Republick of'be Sun,
that of the Spark, and ome other Pieces of
my Compoing, i thoe who have Stolen
them from us; reore them to him, 'as I ear
nely adjure themto do. *

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from Heaven: So that nothing hindred our
Progre to -a Friends Houe o mine near
Thou/oue. I was impatient o 'ceing him,
in hopes that-I might fill him with joy by
the Relation of my Adventures, _l__1liall
not trouble you with an account of all that
happened to me upon the Roadz Itired
my elf, and took rez I felt h'un er and
thir,
tiwentyand drankHounds,
or thirty and eati'mid a ak,
that belong'ectho .- _

him. Though] yvas

and Sun-burnt, much dis
'he knew ured,
me For lean
all thatz ' m
=-*

'__

being tranported with Joy, he ew about Tam

my Neck, and having in a'n Extaie oCon
tent kiied me above an hundred times, he L._.L_L_-. _
pulled me into his Houe, where o oon as
Tears had given way to Words :' We live E'_
' now,_at length, cried he, and hall live, arb-qkd

in pightjo all the Accidents, wherewith

Fortune'hath' toed our Life. But, Good "Big
God! Itwas a nut- report then, that you
were burnt 'in Canada, 'in that great Fire
n
work,nevertheles,
LAnd whereof you twowere the: Peons
or ctthtee Inventor?
'o * iRUL:_

Credit, among thoe who' rue-the A?

ad Tidings, worekt'o mejthat they had' (ben
and touched
Ly'ou that Bird of o ded;
'Were 'hurried_away,' wasteth _
'They'toldi-'inq
vthat
'* it 'Was your Misfortune
- i fro'go into 'it
at
 World-vngrEaSaa; ' 3'
- at the 'very inant ahsy_--ipu& Fire IPi-ixz
and that the rapid-Foment thesquibs, that
burnt all round it, carried. Mnohigb-'tbet
the Spectatoralo igbU-ifryphv': charge
they proteed,you were-armharzdegree conr
umed,rhac rhchachina fall'mgAlmot-gain;
i'ery little'ofgourAveszr-tzere ,to_ 'e
vh r-._ Ihee Ahes, Sir,,then, anwered _.I,--we_re_the' r
Ahes oftheMaehine itzldfz (for thejirp'
e'tlzi'd;\1r>tiuaert-h*= lea hunta NNW-WHAT
were faenedpn she. matick-r, and by FQ-D?
equencerrheireat would WFJHCOWQW -
me' I'.- '*' '. * 3 I) "Sm- l'---3

-.Now.you r'nu knowrrhatzaoonasie'

Saltvpcfr-Maspcm; rtbe-&mhemousx fared
of, the Fireaworks being no' longer gablep
bear up the Machine, it fell tOKhchrQWil
blaW-it fall-5 _ andrwhenzlsthonght to have
rtum'bled damaged-longwirh fatal; was-re
- fry- mueh urpriaed to _-nd,that [mounted
up towards the Moon. But [mu eigle
tofyou the Caue of aneect, which you
they, lookuponzasa Miraclea, r , _-' .
_ i, 'e,'-Day.-when thatAzccident happened,
I had, becaueof ome bruisvrubbedvngy
:Body, 'all over with Marrowapl Now the"
-Maon being thenin the Wain, at which'
itiur'e
agreedily attractsMarrow,__ he anointed
thatiwherewithd had uckt upmy
[o
zFrlehz-epeeially When my box awas _.;go_t _ as
&OR-heWUQKCZIYWMCBQCLOud-Pai
, i a' ,' KH
 a. The Hiory of the
ter'poed to Weaken her Inuence," that my
Body followed the Attractionz and I pro
te? (he cODtiiiued "to luck _me up o long,
' 'that at lengtiari'riVed at that World,which
here they call-the _MOOn; - ' _R'WP

cZ'ZThen I tol'd him' in-full allxthe particulars

of' my Voyage,- and Moneur de Colignac, ra n-'jo
"P=z_A.

'V'ihed to hear things o extraordinary, ad

tjured me t'o Put-'themin Writing. I, who
dove Repoe, declined it as long asl could,
W'reaon 'of 'the Viits that uch' a Publica
'tion in all probability would procure vme z '
_ _'D

but being out of Countenance at the Re

'rbachmhereWith he conantly baited me,
v"that I made ight of his Entreatiesz I reol
ved at length 'to give him that atisfaction.
'I put Pen to Paper then, and he being more
'impatiently tickled with my glory, than his
'ownz no ooner had l made'an end o- 'a
Sheet, but he haened with to Tbaulau,
there to giva it vent in the mo ingenious
Aemblies. Seeing he had' the Reputation
of one of the Wittie Men of the Age, my
Praies, of which he was the indeatigable
Herald, made me known of all Men. The
' Engravers,without ever having een me, had
already engraven my Picturez and theHaw
kers unned the whole City, crying abodt
the Streets till they were hoare again,
Who'll [my the Pictnre of the Author of the
State: and Empire: of 'be Moon. Among
* - thoe
 World of the Supra; ' * 51:
Y thoe who read my Book,_there. Were a;
D- great many lgnorants that were likewile,
8, medling. Thee that they might act the, .
Ch Wits of the - highe ight , applauded, '
as others did, clapt at every Word, for
its fear of being miaken, and ravihed with
n- delight, cry'd, It's good! evenwhere they;
ld- underood not a tittle :_. But SuperitiOnv
'hollll, diguized into
harp Teeth RemOre,
under a Fool's which hath
Coat, lb very
knaw'di
u- . the Heart of them, that they choe rather
nez- to renounce the Reputation of a Philoo
it pher, which, indeed, was a Habit that did
me, not at all become them, than to anwer for
zo': it at the day of Judgment. U
&on. Here, then, is the Ptevere of the Medal,
rot he's the be Man now that can retract r.
ihi The work they had o much eeemed, is
oz
szt no moreTales,
culous now abut a Hodge-podge
heap of incoherent of ridi
Shreds,
in; a Fardel of idle ories, to wheadle young
tion Children to Bed with5 and ome who hard
m) ly underood the Grammar of it, condem
ablt .ned the Author to Bedlam
The This' clahing of Opinions betwixt the
had . Wife-men and Fools, encreaed its Reputa
sz- tion. Shortly afterwards Manucript-copies
Nur of it were old privately 5 all the World,
tain, and what is out of the World alo, that's
'zlc * to ay, all from the Gentleman tothe Monk,
zg: brought Up the piece: nay, and the Wo
ot , p B 3 men
 53 ' TZEeFHibry Athe
mgncam-'hrai hare t'ooz every Faas'xly- _ *
-_ Was divid'," And the lme'reis of that '*
quhrr'ewem ad-"far, 5thatche Whole City" q
koke intq two; the Lhmctrimd Ailhmf Fae 4'
tions. *'.' ' ' -- ' '
3- 'Thus t-heWZai' carried-on by Skirmi'h- *<
ihgp, When-lpne' Morning I perceIVed nine ' V
'r ten Beirzisbf the lo'ng'llobe enter Ca- <<
igh'de Chamb'gfh who' preently poketd _ U
- him td'thi's'rpoc. V Sir, vydu know that z
'*nyfour
there"Aliei,
is' tibiibman
oheo- ushe're, whoandis that
or Friend, no'S * **V
e QbyconqueneenoDigz-'acecan befalyou', a
e but what' mu'reect upon us: Never- ' a
A." theles we'areihormed'frpm' good hands, a
it that you-'Enfenain a Sorcerek iyour ., V
F'Houi: : AQSorcerer, cried Coligmtc i * a]
'GGOQd
9? ddli'VeFGod ! Name
himru into him
yourto "Hands
me,>\_agd- l'll
z\'b__ut V[e
St'ybu WET-have deare it be not a Calum- it]
'How-5
T? nexable, "Sit, (Said dne
it'ikerrupting him ofthe moany
5 is there ve- ' in,et
' E'F'Pa'tliainent there skilkcd in Wizards than
Hours? In "a wb'-dI Dear Nephew, that 'u
Yf may bold You do longer in upence ,
Hihe Sbrcerer whOm we accue, is the Au- la
f'hdr
'Moonof: He eabxwt
Smtes deny,
and Empire: of the
having confeed a:a:
'ifE'vhat he hngdnnem thatHow
eR M'ag'rcian_inBur0pP, he isisthe
it greakz
po- <<u
* Kf je '. tg ghoupg.
' up'T- tb the
' MbonzWithoutthe
When),
 _ __,_-v* -_-*_v**_<w

led of thefctthli,
a help Of-- - a; IJdare tibtfnametbe Bea; '
" for in hort, telle'me, what' went kid-222.'
V bout to do in the Moone!" A pretty.r
U queion, (aidanother-interruptingzz..hr 7
' '-' went to be preizntat a meeting 'that pa-3;
*' ibly waslrept there'that day: - - And-am,
" deed, you rke he' was'acquainted' with'
a the Demott of'Spcmrer'. = 'Ate you urpti-o"
5" zed then," that' the Devil, 'at he "aith,- a
" brought hirrrback again iii'tbtbisWotld-h
" But hovvever'it be, look-ye, o mahyr
V Moons, o many Progrees and Voyages A
"F through the Air', are good for nothinng
*' [ay nothing at-'all zand betwixt you and
" me, (at thee words he put his Mouth't'd '
"the others Ear) l never knew a'orcetei
" but had Commerce with the Moon. Af
ter thee good Counc'ds they held their
peace z and Coligmc ood o amazed at
their' Common Extravagance, that he could
not peak one word .- Which a grave Corn
comb,who had aid nothing asy'et,perceiv
ing. '* Look you, ays he,Couin, weknow
** where the matter pinches 3 the Magician
V is a peron whom you love, but be not L 1 _ -' -
" artled, for your ake avour hall be
5' hewn him, only deliver him fairly over
*' rous, and in conideration of you we
** engage Our Honour, to have him burnt
'4 without Scandal. ' 7
B 4' Colrg-Z
 8 TheHz'ory of the.
r?"- Colignac, atthefe words, thoughhe held
his ides,- could-not hold, bUt 'bur otu in
' to;a_t of. Laitughter; which did not a little
oered the Gentle/en his 4Kinmen z inn;
omuch. thatrhe _had'no 'power to make an
wer toany point of?their Harangue, * but by
la'a-daa's or ' hoooo's,5*.whi'ch_. 'o zcandalized
hiscyvorthy Relations, that they-departed
Withihame enough to carrybackwith them
tow'ilaae; .When;they.
Galig'zaccti'mrqhis Gloet, wetegone, l drew
Where o oon as I
_ had-hut'theFDOor,-*Count,. aid. I, to him,
Theie-long-bearded Ambaadours I don't
iike,=.rhey eem.to me to be: bl'a'zing Starsz
'lr'mtaraid thenoiethey have, made, may
bathe clap of-ithe Thunder- bolt that's. rea
dytto fall. ,.Though'their Accuation be ri
, diculohs,=and,*
Stuctpidity: yet Iperhaps, an les
hall beno "eect of Man,
a dead their
'bhoughza dozeni-McnzctzSdrie,who may ee
meloaed, rh'ouldctay' that myjudges are
&Stag-rallthe Arguments they: might ue to
prove' my renomee would not bring me
toizagainz- and myAhes would be every
jot'- asxoldlinfarave, as in the'iopenAir':
ndrheresre; zWith-Submion to your
better 'J ignidnt; I hould joyfully conant
to a'Temptationanything-eih-this
Ioleaveigthemf which ugges tozProvi-nee
me, no:

_but my Picture: For it 'would-make me

A Bath-tarting mad, to die _for a thing which
'agn ' *' zzti * * I
 World .itljeszif , i rg

I-z'donit believe; K'Colignac, -hmd7har'dly, the,

BD-Di-MT I'T
Patience to hearmeom; v However, atz r!
he 'did but railly me; but'_wzhen,.-he1 aw,
that! was in earne .- Hal- sideath, cried.
he, before
Iimy they
elf; my touch ahaixzoijourHead
Friends, Vaalsand all than i
repect me, hall-zPerih rt; zMy Houe'
cannot be-Fired-withOUtCannonz it and ,.
advantagioulyzz and. is well flAnkgd .* But
I'm a-'againzctthe
'lf Fool, continued
thunderhe, to caution myt
of Parchment: ltsx _ '
hmetimes more to 'be feared, replied-1,
than the Thunder Of the-econd Region ..of
he.All'-v .' ,.' T, r Z-
t From that time forwardvye talked oftno-z
thing but diverting our zelves, One day
.we hunted, another.
Airzlometitnes We walkt. and
,we-.re,ceived took
jViits, the
i_ and
ometimes Weirendted them; .ln a word we
alwayschan ed ourecreationsefore they
became tire ome._, , ,_ _ - _
- . The Marque of Cuav, a Man who un
derands
ct us, and .Wethe World, was
with<him5 andcommonly
to renderwith
the
places of out abode the more agreeable by
' vicitude, we went from Coligmc toCuan,
'and returned from Cran to Coligmc. The
, innocent Pleaures which refreh the Body,
>-s='*'($
'ef made but the lea part ofours. We want
ed none of thoe that the mind can nd
in Study and Converationz "and out Libra
- ' * ' ries
' Lo, , The Hiory of the
' riesxuniting like our minds, broughall the
Learned into our Society. We mingled
reading
with with
good Converationz
Cheer, Converation
that with Fihing, Hunt- _ .i
ing, or Walkingz and in a word, I may
ay, we in'oyed out elves, and whatever
Fature hat produced for the Pleaure of
ife, and ued our Reaon only to limit our
Deires. In the mean time, to the prejudice
o' my rep'oe, my Reputation pread it el
in the Neighbouring Villages, nay and in
the Towns and Cities o the Provincez all
Men being invited by the current Report,
made a pretext o. coming to ee the Lord,
that they might ee the Sorcerer. When I
went abroad, not only Women and Chil
dren, but the Men alo ated at me, as i _ '\
I had been the Bea. Epecially, the Paor
of Coligmrc, who, whether out of Malice or
Ignqrance, was in (ceret my greate Ene- r
my. That Man being in-ap'pearance im
ple, and of a lowand plain Spirit, which
made him very pleaant in a kind of natu
ral B-luntnes,' was in reality a very wicked
Fellow : He was revengeul even to Furyz
a Backbiter omewhat more than a Normanz
and o great a Barretter, that the love of
Wrangling and going tolaw was his predo
minate Paton. Having been a long time _
atLaw with 'his Lord, whom he hated the
more,as that he had ound him rm again-all
' ' _ his
 ____J_-._. *

'World the Sun: r-t

hisAttaek-s, _ lie-feared his Reentment, and'
that he might aVOid it, had'oered to ex- >
change his Living: But; whether he had
changed his Deign, or had only deferred
itto be revenged on Coligmcin my Peron,
during the time that he continued in his
place, he rove to perwade the contrary;
thOUgh the frequentdlourneys he made to
Thou/arie gavegroun s to-uect it. There >
he told a Thouand ridiculous ories of my
Enchantmentsz and the Suggeions of that
malicious Man, concurring with the Voice
of the imple and ignorant People, made 'my
Name accured in that place : They talk
ed no otherwie vof me thario a new A
grippaz and we hadtlnformation, that'a'
ProcesWas even commen'ced again me,
at the [hit of the Cutate, who had been
* Tutor to his Children. This we had
Notice of from everal Perons, who
concerned themelves in the Aairs of
- Coligmrc and the Marques. And al
though the blockih Humor of an entire
Countrey, was to us a Subject of Amaze
ment and Langhterz neverthele I was
tartled at it in private, when [more near
ly conidered,the troubleome Conrquen
ces that uch an Error might produce. My
good Geniw, without' doubt, gave me the
Alarumz it enlightned my Reaon with
thee notices, to let me ee the Precipice in
' , to
 'a - The-'Hiory rf the
to-which I YWZS ready to tumblez and nOt
thinking it enough thustacitely to advie -
me, it; reolved- to vdeclare more ex'prely.
in.,.my Favors. AA' mo troubleome Night
having ucceeded one o the pleaante,
Days that we, had pent at Coligme, I aroe .
by Break of Day 5._and to diell the Clouds
and_Ca;res,t-hat ill dulled and dicornpoed
myMind, _l went into the Garden, where
Verdure Flowers
Fiure, charmed theand
SoulFruits, Artthe
through andEyesz
Na

whenat the ame'inantl erceived the Mar

ques,walking by him-Zl ,wit_h a (low Face,
and penive Countenance, in a large Alley,
which dividedthe Garden into two. I was
much. urprieditgzz ee him, contrary to
Cuom, o earlyz, that made me haen up
}Q_him, that' _I-might ask him the 'reaon o
it, He made me anwer, that ome trouble
ome Dreams, wherewith he had been di
ordered,fwa_s_ vthe Caue, that contrary to
' Cuom, hevwas come o early _to cure by
Day,an Evilhe had contracted in' the Night.
1 confeed _to him,_t_hatza like Misfortune
. had hidCdeC tern leeping, and was a.
bout to tellhim; the Particulars thereoz
_but ju as I._..w2_ts_,.opening my Mouth, we
perceived at the Cornel- _o a railed Walk,
.__which croied into ours, Coligmc coming
7in great hae. So oon ,_as he aw us at a -
, diance_,Ge_ntlemen, cried he, take here
. * ' one
l
 World of the Su'rz'; v 13

one who hath ju ecaped'rorn the mo

dreadfulViions, that are ableito turn the'
Brains ofa mortal Man. I could hardly take
time to put on my Doublet, ibeore I came
down to give you an account-o my Adi
venturez but nd-ing neitherco; you in
your Chambers,'-
uppoing I haenedzto
youimig'ht be there." the
'TheGarden;
Truth
is, the poor Gentleman was. almo out of
Breath. So oon ias he hadtakend little '
Breath, we 'entreated 'hint to eae himelf
oa matter, which, though many, times .v'e
ry ight, neverthele 'Weighs heavy. I de'
ign to do o, replied he; biltzlet's r ;it
down. An Arbor ofJeami>netoered us
very [Sat both Seats and Shade:,We enter'
ed it, and every one being placed, *Cdlzgnhc
thus continued :- You mu know, that af
ter two or three diurbed-Sleep-s, [fellaw
bout Day-break intofa Slumber, wherein
I dream'd, that m'y dear Gdei there, Was
in the middle, betwiirt-the Matqes and
me, and that we embraced him raightly,
when a black Moner, 'coniing wholly
'of Heads, came all of? a, tidden' to natch
him from us: Nay, I fancy'd,z- he Was'abom
'to throw him into a great Firc,< kindled
hard byz for already he helddritn upend
ed over the Flamest But aVirgin, like one
of the' Mues, whom they call Euierpe, ell
' upon her Knees before a_ Lady; Whom
adju
 34 Tin-&Hiory. - the"
adjnred to ve him (that Lady had the
Brence,and-\Marzks which Painters uisio
give in repreenting of. Nature) Hardly *
had he heard out the'Prayerszof her Wait
ing-amid, when rall amazedz Alas! cried
he, he is one of our Friends. Jumediarted
'ly thereuponzzhe put to her 'Month a kind
d a long Pipe, like a Saclibut; and blew
o ongthroughxit, undervthe-E'eet of, my
dear 'Guehzthnt he made him/mount up
to'ZxHeaven, and. protected him from the
Gmelties o. the Moner with an 'hundred
Heads. rIzzincdeihat I. cried a longctime
tet bing. 'and Ladji'ar'd; him not tO-bezgmie_
without' me z - when 'an innite mnmbenw
Jiwie roundA els, whocalledzthemelves B-_n _

the Child-ten' o the iMorningzicarried me

to the ame Countrey whither heeamed
to y, and hewed me -things*Whi0h-=_lrhall
not relate, becaue lloolr.v n them' as riz
>diculous. Webehught'bim, th the would l-'-'_-2.5MA":d=*:r.-n m
tell usihemhowever. limang my elf,
continuedhe, to be in the Sun, and that'
'the Sun'was a World. zl had been ill in'
the ame Miake, had not the neighingo.
any Hore awakned me, and convinced
Athat I was a Bed. When .thev_:Marques
perceived that Coligmc had made an end:
:.Well, then, aid he, Monieur 'Pyram- *
zwhat was your Dream 3 As for miner'
ariwered I, though it. be nowulgarDmgm,
-=_ yet
 'V
World of-tb 1' . \1_5

yerl- lay no (hes upOn it. I am a bilious

Melancholick; 'and 'tha't's the reaon' that
all y'Hfdt'fme I have dreamt o nuthing
but bf Caves and Fire. 'In thev ime of my
Y'O'uth, -I fancied in mySleeprat *l was be; x
dom'e light; iand mak-'a ight up to the
Clouds, 'that 'I might avoid a the Rage of'a
TCompany of Mardemrs that purued me';
but that after a lo'ng Pand vigorous-Att'empt,
ame Wall'alvvay's 'withtood niethough'ri _
had 'urmounte'd a great many -0tbe'rsz *
the Foot
and whergo,
'La bour, tired
I i"ma-ver out10"
failed with
b'e Sttuging
opt 3 qr
otherv'viiz,
Fligbt rightifupwa'r
I- imihgined that-I
s, though' Wook my
Iieimed hi
a long timeio have wumjin-the -Skies,y'et
I llfound my-lncalf the' Earth-3, and coa
trary to all reaon, though I "thought my
(Elfneitherweajy nor heavy, yet I was ill
'Within reachlof- my'Enemies, who tretch
ed forth 'their Hands 'to catch me by the
Foot; and pull me to 'them- Since I knew
'any thing', [never had 'any Other Dream's
. but nch as "this, Unles la-'nightz when
havi ng, according to'mY'Cdm', iown a '
long while,-- and ot'eh 'kaed "from my
'Perecut'ors,* 'Piou'ght
-lo>ight'*bf'the,m m:3 it'
s' and? that length', that-1
an open 'and "
&eat-Sky, * gh'yl-Bb'dy eaed dl-Hea'viM,
[puried my Vdj/a'g'ehto 'a iParac'ae'where
1-Light-ande'5t-arehatched; v tabula-with'
on'
 z16, a Theliefy the.
' murdoubtr oberved-as greatzmaey other
Fhiugzzbut tharmy. 'Agitation to! yzbrought
me o - near the Beds ide: that 21; fell-uan
the Floor-en, my naked Belly, with Eyes
Full-open; This, Gentleman is thczhgtt
and long _oE mYLDreamtz zwhiph .l= Onlynlk
ripen-as Sun-Eef-t-nf thoe two .' anlitiea
ghat PteSPredominant-
Iforthroughctthjsibe iti-zmy.dierent-'fng
a little' Ganhtusiona
'thoe which; I commle have a? in What 'I
ex'wzup-to &clear-m withoutzfelling bashz
yerzlzpuiyfaoribn that; Alteration-m: my t
Blood;
erdactyz'sdilated byrthe-Rlcauresoourer
Diuerohs, whichzhathdiipated *
MYTMCKWLMHPM by buoyipg- o ituupf,
Fleatcdz-zit..:ftom._-that Weightineie- which
helde memmble: dawn;- a-gaitl t. But after
all, thatisa-fveryv'conjectural sciencezliFazith,
rantiznutd Law-mon artzin-zbeltightzoe
it'saquger'ppdgef ofall. the-things we have
thought opjxjhen awake, :a_ monrous Chi
zmeraf, a Maer o conueqlzlldea's, which
- the Pancygthat during Sleep," is not gui
dded bszzeaon, preentsto us, without
erderz
to outo
queeze thewhich
true nevertheles,
Meaning,-,andvwe think
draw
from Dreams, as from Qracles, . the KHOWF 'ii
fledge of things futurez. but 31; yow, [could
never nd any other Conformity betwixt By
zthem; but that Dreams, like Oracles, can
.npt be underande HOWFYW 'judge
35) .> , I e
o
 World of the Sun.- * 17
he worth o all the re, by mine which is .
not at all extraordinary. I dreamt that
was very ad, vand that] met with) Djrcozizt
<Prpim_'
in all places, who called for our Aanceo
But without beating m Brains any more,
about the Explicati'op o thee 'dark Riddlesz
I'll tell y'e their Myical sene in two'
Wordsz
Dreams atand that's,
Caligaac are invery'
troth,
bad, that. our
and that-i
i you'll take rny Advice, we'll go'andhave
._.='-_
H-g; better at Cuan. Let's go, then, .aid the
Count tqme, -mce this Man is o uneaiq
here. We reolved
dayz and-i to 'be
prayed them to etonepthe tame _
,out,beore,
.nd.
-.._F
1? becaue l was willing, eeing (as they
agreed upon it) we were to be there a '
Month, to have ome 'Books carried alongv
-F with me .j They condecended, and imme:
diately after Breath-fa 'got on [Fork-back,
In the mead time; l. packed UP ome V.0
lumes, Which limgined not to be in the"
Library
and of three
about Cyan,in put
the' them upon aet,Male;
Afternoon outct
upon a very good Pad. _ However, lwcne
but a Foobpace, that Imight attend my
little Library, and at more leiure enrich
my mind with the Liberalities of my ight,
Butuctrprii:
" ly lien to an_Adventtire,that will certain?
Yon.
>_ [was
four gotqrwards
Leagctues, when oh
Ifoundjourney
my elfabove
ina;
C Country'
 'I 8 The Hiory of the
Country which I was certain l had een
omewhere ele before: The truth is, lol
licit'ed my Memory o much to tell me, how
I came to know that Landskip, that the pre
ence o the Objects, reviving pa lmages,
Iremembred that that was exactly the place,
which the Night before [had een in a
Dream. That odd rencounter Would have zFJ-A-'_4H_.LA_
d
buied my thoughts longer than it did, had
I not been diverted by a range Appariti
On. A Spirit, ( at lea I'took it for one )
meeting me in the middle o the way, took
hold of my Hore by the Bridle. . ,This 'd
d
2:-
77.;
L-cn-c

, Ehantome was of a prodigious 'Shape, and

what Icould gues by the little I aw of his v
. Eyes, had a urly and ern Look; [can
not tell, though, whether he was handome
or ugly; or along Gown made of the
Leaves of a Church plain Song-Book, co
r:
\ vered him to the Fingers-ends, and hisFace dhn gn(7*mHL-J

was hid under a thing like a Horn-Book,

wherein was written the in Principio. The
r Words that the Phantome uttered, were
with great amazementltS'aiam-r Diaholaer, I
conjure thee [a] the Greet and Living God,
---at thee Words he uck, but ill rep'eatin
'I the Great and Living God, and with a wilg
and skared Look, caing about for his Pa'u ,
or to blow into him the re z when he
ound, that to what ide oever he looked,
his Paor was not to be een, he ell into'
ich.* a dreadful
\ haking "Fit,
' _ that
' '* by hisitra
ex-z
 Wo'rld qf the sz'i
tfaordinary thattering and didderin'g'hbne
halfthe
d bMbic
is'Te'etb' drbptunenwhich
i-'nO't'es*, out', and tWo Thirdvs
helurkt;
ew
back',-db'Of n 'e Thie;
hoWiever', tc'Mards.Down.
me, AndHe'With
game,
if
Look that eemed neither7 o n'b_r urly, by'
Which I perceived he? Was in" dou'bt Wha'f ,
co'ur'i: Was b'c o'k him. tb' take, whether td
be roughDiabaliu,
Safdn'w'r or mild:by"o!-
'be wenchen, aid hee'
Blaod I cojctui-e he,
in i/Je Nailie of God, died of Mu-Jobr'z',, let'
'He do my Bit'm : For f/an' irre/I efz'F'Zn-nV
Hand or Fo'o'tz Devil talqu-thy Guh" afe',
1 hadbei'ng*alni'
but a lah at himebb-siked
withxhe Bridle'
_wifh [Veins i'*'-
langhte'ir; -

had little' rbngfh t doj any thing: Beidejs'

that, Cam'ei-dut
ple, ab"on ha'l a 'hunafed
from' Cbuntry walk;
behi'ind aHedge, Ped

ing uponWith
Throatis their,Kjrie
Knees, and tearing't'hei'
Eleibnf. ' When' they"
Wake' get n'af'enough, ow' o the' ron
g'e of the KUUt, having r plunged lt'eifr'
&Nd Hands' inxd' (a'l Holy Wa'tgrzpjo't, 7 Which Way"
pu-rpvely carried? bijhe Pried's Man',
ca'ug'tichold
c'r _<'>'_}_me by
was 1 a-tc'ettea;_ B'II'ctt_t_h*e Neck,- Map-
it! come? No qd'
Job-2a
-'v-'n
n-rgon

Wva dqufnlfjnng'ddr his'krol'e; bound'

me (hit Wl"an'dctChildfen,
o'f'wou'ieki 't'z and, p'rnily
thinsike-3p'ighjt
aotk or .
'all'tthad 'r chhid- wake', Mexd
bi a" 'g'i'Eat' Sneet' 'zv Wigarejn I Was ib dkztf
2 -
 20. The Hiory of the -
teroully wadled, that nothing was to be
een o me but the Head. ln this Equipage
they carried me to Thaulouez as i they
had been carrying me to myrGrave: By
' and by cried one, Had not this been done,
We hould have had a Famine, becaue,
when they met me, [was certainly going
to lay a Spell upon the Cornz and then I
heard another complaining, that the-Scab
' did not begin among his Sheep, till of a
Shdday, when the People were coming from
Vejm, [clapt him on the Shoulder. But'
in pighto all my Diaers, I could hard
ly orbea'r to laugh, when] heard a young -
Country Girl, with a dreadful Tone, cry
after her Sweet-heart, did: the Phantome,
who had eiz'd my Hore. ( For you mu
know, that the Younger had got on the
Back o him, and purr'd him briskly, as if
. he had been his own already,) Wretch, '
bauled out his Duckling, What art blind
then .? Does n't ee that the Magician's
Hore is blacker than Coal, and that it is
the Devil in Peron carrying thee away to
t ameetingo Witches? Our AmOrousClown
terried at that, rumbled backwards o'ver
the Beas Tail 5 b that m Hore was tt 'at X
Liberty. They conulte whether or not
they hould eize my Mule, and agreed in
the Armativez but having unrit the Pack,
' and at the opening of the rBook hitting
I, A . p upon
 World of the Sun. i iai

Decartee: Phyicks, when they 'aw the \

Circles whereby that Philoopher diingui
hes the Motions o the everal Planets, all
o them with. one voice roared out,- that
they were the Conjuring Lines,l ued to draw
- for raiing of Beelzelmb. He that held it in his
Hands, eized with a panick fear, let it fall;
and by michance, it opened at a Page,
where the Virtues of the Load-one a're
explained : lay, by michance z becauib,
in the place 'I peak of, there is a Cut o that
Metallick Stone, where the little Bodies,
that are let looe from the whole, to faen
to the Iron, are repreented like Arms. No
ooner 'had one of the Racals perceived it,
but I heard him crea-rn out, that that was,
the TOad which was ound in the Manger
of his Couin Dick's Stable, when his Hores
died. At that Word, they Who eemed to *
be in the greate heat,clapt their Hands in
to their Booms or Packets. Ma Je'ng
cried with open Mouth, that they hould
take pecial care not to touch any things
that all thee were Books of down-'right
Conjuring, and the Mule a Satan. The
Rabble thus rightened, let the Mule depart
in Peace. Nevertheles, -I_ aw Joan the
Paron's Maid drive him towards her Ma
er'sStable, for fear he might get into the
Church-yard, and there pollute the Gra'
of the departed. ' * -
. C3 ' It
O
 a: The Hiory of th' .
_ It was-fullseveno theClock at Night,
vWhen we arrived at a Town, where for 'my
" Reiehmsnr I was dragg'd 'to nal: Far
rhtReader would not believe me, 'if l aid aw-eI:-A._._-_

that they Buried me alive in a Hole .- And

nevertheles it is true, that with One'tutn
I urveycd the whole extan a it.- In a
p Word, there was nopBody that aw me in -'l-H

that-Place, but would have taken me for a

. bit of Wax-Candle, lighted under a CUP?
ping-Glas. At- r, when my Qoachr turn,- _ EL

ed me into thatpave; I you give me, aid Firm

m-f'n
H--*-r1
'Ya-'-
r'
-'q-u_4n_>-.'x_m4

1 to him, thisStoneGarment for aDoubler,

it is;th bigz but if it be or a Tomb, it's .
too little. The days here are only to be
recknnsd by Nightsz of my ve Stns, I
retain only theiuc of rwg, Smelling and
*Fecli.ngz the One, to make In? enbl; of -
the ink of my'Prion 5 and ths: other, In
render it Palp'ableto mc- In reality, 1.- prn
teth you, I hOuld think Iwcrc damned,
if [knew-,not
rollen.v zf- that
.. no Innocent Peron gates
_
At that ward longer-nt, tthQalrr bur --n.

PLUF into. Langhtrr- Nay,.Faixh, aid he,

- you
neverareyrtonekept
of any
onr under
right. Birds then,
my Hey, for I
bmuzirh. _
thlemsn as thee After our: either * .

Complimnts aof. that, Nature z * zhs goad

Man, took the pains to. rith Irn, lknpu nar ._ ._-, -
.
'en what deignz but becage of the Dill; - -_

ba' _ k
_, ' gence
 World of the Sun. _ 93
gtnce he ued, l conjecture it was for what -
. I had. The pains he took in earching be
ing all in vain, becaue during, the Battel
of- Diabolw, Ihad conveyed my Gold into
. my-Stockingsz when after a mo-exact A
natomy, he ound his hands as empty asbe
orez both o us- were within an Ace Of
Death, I for eat, and he or grief. S'ounds,
' cried he, foaming at the Mouth, at r ight
I knew he was a- Sorcerer, he's ass-poor as
the Devil. Go, gO, Comrade, continu
' v ed he, mind the Aairs oyour Concience
in time. He had no ooner-laid i), but
that l heard the'knell of-a'bunch of Keys,
among which, he lookt for thoe of my
Dungeon. 'His back was turnedz and
therefore for fear he might take his revenge ,
for the misfortune of his Viit, I cunningly
pull'd three Pioles out o their Ne, ay.
ing to him, Maer Houeokeeper, there's
a Piole, pray end me a bit o omewhat,
for I have not eat thee eleVen hours pa.
He tookit very avorably, and protecd
he was troubled at my Misfortune. When I
perceived he- was a little molliedz come,
here's another, continued l, as an Acknow- .
ledgtnent o the Trouble, I am ahamed to
give you-At once he opened hisEar, Heart,
andHand z and I added, making them up
three; ineado two, that: by the third I
' begg'd of him to let one of his Men came
_ , and

\
\
 24 . The Hiory of the
and keep me Company, becaue the unforz'
tunate ought to dread
i Being'ravihed Solitude.
at' my '
Prodigalities, '
he
prOmiEd me all things,"embraced my Le'gs,
railed again the Juice; 'to'ld me, that he
dwell erceived] had Enemies, but-that!
houl come o 'with Honour; that I h0ul_d
take good Heart; and that in the mean
time, he engaged himielf before three days
Were over, to have my Cus Wait for me.
I thanked Xhim very eriouly for his Courtei
e; Neck,v
lr'ny and mytill
dear
heFriend havingrangled
had almo hung about
me,
-'went his way, _bolting and double bolting
the Door. ' * '* ' '
' * [remained alone, and very Melancholick,
lying round u'pon a little old Straw, redu
"ced 'almot into Du. However, it was
_not yet
'dred o mall,
Rats _bu't athat
were ill aboveof
grinding hala
it. ' hun'
The
2Vault,' Walls', andv Floor, were made up of
"x Grave-Stones,__that having Death over,
* zmder and about r'ne, [might not quei
on my Enterrment. The cold Slime of
, -Snail's, and 'the
'drOpt upon '_rdapy the
my Fctacez" Venom
Fleas of Toads,
'there had
Teeth longer ethan their Bodies z' l found B-q-_=-._-_

my elf tormented with the Stbne, which

'Was'hot the lefe ainul, becaue it 'was Eit
- ernall' _In a Word, vfl'a'ncfy thath wanted
Lridrnorc bur'a Wife, and 'a' 'Put-(heard 'to
make me a real Jaw I
 World of the Sun. a;
v I had, however, overcome all the Hard.
hips of two very irkom Hours, when the
noie o a' Gros of Keys, with the ratling
othe Bolts o my Door, diverted me from
mindin my Pains. After the jingling noie,
'bya litt e Lamp-light, I perceived a urdy
Clown. He unloaded an earthen Dih be
tween my Legs: And there, there, aid he,
be not diurbed, there's a good Cabage
Sopp for ye; and were it but indeed it
is my Mires's own Soopz and faith and
troth,as the aying is, there is not one drop
of the Fat taken oon't. Havin 'aid o, he
dives his four Fin ers and Thum to the ve
ry bottom Of the Eih, to envite me to do
. the like. 'I followed my Copy , for fear o
'dicouraging himzand he with a jdyful glance
.toan Eye, S' diggers, cried he, you are an
hone Brother. Theyzay you've got Ill
willers: S'lid they are Traytorsz yes Dad,
they are very Traytors : Well,wou'd they'd
come hete and ee. Ay, ay, it is oz he goes
'fir that leads the Dance. This blunt sim
'plicity brought a t of. Laughter two or
'three times up to my very Throat. Howe
verI was o happy" as to check it: I percei
ved, that
eemed toFortune,
oectr meby
an means ofthis
occaion Regne,z
oLiberty
'and therefore it extreamly concerned me to
'gain his Favorz or otherWie to ecape, it
was impoible. The Architector that built.
. my
 26 The of the
my Prion, having made my Entries into it,
did not bethink himelfof making one Our NeV--_.t._
Jw'
hc'm

let. Thee Coniderations were the Caue,

. that to ound him, I pake tohim to this pur
poe,My good Friend, thou art a poor man,
is n't that true? Alas! Sir, anwered the
Clown, had you been with the cunning
Man, you could not have hit righter. Here
then, aid I, take that Piole.
_ I ound his hand'to hake o, When I put tim

the PiPtOIe into igthat carCeIY could he hut

it. That begining (cerned to me to be a lit c-m_ -_ .n_-'

_ tle ominou$= However, I quickly perceiv

ed 'by the heartines of his Thanks, that
he only trembled for Joyz and that made
_ me. go on:- But wert thou a man, that Would
be concerned in the accomplihment of a
Vow which l have made, beides the Salva L

tion of thy Soul, , thou

t-wentyiPioles, might'
as thou bethine
art o as ure
ownof Ld
l'UD-ml

Hair: For thou mu know, that it is not as

yet a full quarterofan Hour, in a Word, a
moment before thou came, that an Angel
appeared to me, and promied to make the Nr

Ju ice ofmy Caue appear, provided] went

_ to morrow- to our Lady's; Church o this
- Town, and had, aMas and at the high Altar E'E'Ei
=-ra

there. I pretended toexcue my eupon the

account of my 'cloeflmPridnmentz but the
Angel made Anwer, That' a man hould
._ come, ent from the Goaler, to keep me
r . , com
_l .A
 '+T
World of the 27
.. raw, WPBI Lhqulslzatmmmandia
WPWF m Few me to Church, and bring
me had; again to Prioqz that! hodch.
i'n hiW'SFFTFif Quilld 19' Without
gainayiqgr ripen P.a.in9.f\dyiag<witbin the
Years and if he gus-inted the Truth of
what iaid, 13191414 give-him this 'token
thack? had betatpuchrd far- te Evil,
Nowthrough
Ran the Reader-
hPlF of hisknew-s
shirt,that I had.
a picce ov
FhF King'sqld. - WiFh uggeed tQ-mc the
Whole Sczits at. this. Apparition- Yea; ve
rily then, t thi, 1353ngqu Sir, l hall even _
do. what. the. ngcl has gmmanded mea
but it nant? ba at Pins- of the Block in- the,
Mpxnirzg, bacaae at that-time QUrMacx
will * be at The-dw- abqut the makng up
a a Match betwixt hisSpn, and the. Maer
of 'be la? War/tis Daughi-z D'Y-c mind
me. Sir, the Haogman. has aName, as. well
as. a Cra-lquc = , They talk as if he hould '
have' rpu! her Father, as plan-i' vCrowns in -
Portion, asmighx make UP a King's Ranhm
In hort, he is. Fair and: Richz but uch
Windl-fallseldomfall in the way-o a PQQI' ' '
Ypung-Man- . Alasl Sir, wou'd
have you how-wi failed not here to.
interrupt himz for I. (on-aw
qf lhliDQh by, thebebegin-e
that lhpuld haire
. 9 by a long tal; or a Tu- Our Plor bee
ing gery cautiouy laid betwixt us, the - '
Clown
 28 The Hiory of the
Clown took leave of me; and itiled not
next Morning to come at the preixt hour, lete-_
and untomb me. I left my Cloaths in the
Prion, and dreed my elf in Ragsz for
iea I might be known, we had i) ordered A

it the Night before. So oon as we were FZ-a

hkj

abroad in the open Air, I forgot not to

tell him down his twenty Pioles. He'
looked and ared upon them very wiilly.
They are good Gold and of full weight, S-n
*upon my Word, aid I to him. Ha, Sir,
replied he,- that's not the _thing lmindz but '_d

I'm thinking that great Ralpb's Houe is to

XWDG'DQ?
be old, with a Gloe and Vineyard. 'I can
have it for two hundred Francks, it will
require eight days time to make up the Bar
gainz and I would beg of you, good Sir,
if it be your Will and Pleaure, o to or
der the matter,* that till great Ralph have ,_.,z_.
told and received your Pioles, and lockt
them itte up in his Che, they may not
turn into ells. Icould not but laugh at E-
Lcti'
S-Lg-ZD
2..

the lm icity of the Knave. ln the mean

_ ' time, 'we jogg-'d on towards the Church,
where-'at length we arrived. Short] after
high, Mas began z but o oon as I Zw my
Keeper rie in his turn to go to the oering, * va'
I skipped at three leaps ou't of the Church,
it
and at as many more whipt into a little Bye ol
Street or Alley. I had a great many thou ghts
' ' 'in myhead at that inant'z but that 'which C)
I . '*.
 l.
World of the'Sunz' 29 i
X lfoiloWed was to get to ThJulau-Z, which
was but half a League diant from the place,
with Deign to take Po there.- I got to
the Suburbs in very good time z but I was
o ahamed to be ated at by all the Peo-_
-*n>u . _-.> ple that aw me, that [was quite Out of
Countenance
was my Dres.* zior
That Iwhich
beingmade
butathemlare,
Novice in
the begging Trade, had marhall'd my
>P;-=ea-V
o'T Clouts about me o odly, that with a Gate
that uted not at all with my Habitz I them.
ed to be one in Diguit'e, rather than a Breg
garz beides that, I made great hae, look
ed down, and asked nothing. At length,
conidering
ofthe Peoplethat this eneral
threatne me withObervation
ome d-an- i
gerous lue, I overcame my Bafhfulnes.
So oon as I perceived any one 'that lookt
.a -Fs'v-r' at me, I retched him out my, Hand : Nay,
- I even importuned the Charity of thoe
that did not in the lea mind me. _ But re
ect a little, and wonder how many times
by uing too great Circumpection, about
the Deigns wherein Fortune will have
'v'' ome hare, we poil them by- Provoking
that haughty Goddes. I make this Ober
vation, upon Occaion of the Accident that
befel mez fOr perceiving a Manirrrhe Dreis
of an ordinary Citizen, with his Back to
wardsme, Sir, aid I, pulling "him by the
Cloak, i there be any Bowels of pity-r;
 goV '- The' Hz-jzoz-y d ye?
1; had not; orththeword fha't'JWidsl.
to come next, when the' Man_t'u'rne'd about
his Headz 2 (good God! What' was He I'
Nay; was
Man Goddod!
m .Goctalei*What'tiyi'asl? That' sau
z We odd both' very
zed with Aximiration to' ee; one dniz'tr in
the lacezwe.didi
xe Hisnothing
on meand [had 'EyEs Were Who'ly"
in z'zieit'ai" but
him, _I
Yery digerent, ajcomtn'on [rite-e. the'
recvered-iui'out'of thou'h'
. ir
t'ie wherein both or us re' plui' ed, Ha!
erqc that _I_ mew; t e:on e?"
(14 then, be-catch-t?
meaningzp Thatrctniictnd
into my wardthe_St'r"2ifa*gei-ini
or a Johns
you, hall; Sto'p Thick', Gentle-'men
lop Th'nek; criedle as loud around-haw;
Immoqu
Countes of. izf
a th. (retains Jewe's 'or
v12_]'Z.-4grigt.ictz\-*IJsz'rcttfe'lie'eril the'
it' yea:
jpzanch of him, Fnii]
I, all-in a_'__'_i_t,';a sailed-si), ddn'n'ued
redPiHOleis t'hitfr
i that xhallga A [chid]
thee,sz No'fooner.
bura'l'roo' 'o'tixehad He: fl '
Rabble'fei'
upon poptzamctpizifetch. _ The Sdi-i'
rize- that, myzimpude ceihad ca himi into,
' einghexiglrtgnedzbyd]I
gkiinzginandnhehsa,
a xavwithozlt &Ye-dy, .
1. A
en tb' that arche
.$aints.ingclprv,,wh" 'ii it' p5@.6hk7e'
through
not tm Walls'ormyreotz',
havezmadc my e, 'i ,. t'r'ahileisure
'hired
_,him,' tha_th'e_was rock a, ohii and arras
Witne.- 'He came rd'h'ixhraii Agnng' Hurr
ever,
 - ' World of the Smi. ' 31
ever, at lengthz and the r Words he ued
to undeceive'the Mobile, were, That they
hould baye acar'e they did nor commit;
miake; that he was a- man' of Honour and
toegicwer
R utation.theWithout'donbthe
Whole Myery: But
wasa' dozen
about

oCoer-mongers,_Lackeys and Chair-men,

being deirous to erve me 'For my Money,
opt his Mouth With Fifty-'cusz- and in as -
much as they fanciedgha't theirReward hciuld
be proportioned vto the degree o lnl'lence,
Wherewith they inulted over the weaknes
o the' poor 'unn'd'Ma'n, 'every One' vcame *
running in to havea touch' at him, either
\ with' Hand Ory Foot. Here's your Man of
Honour, cried the Ri-raz and yet he'
could not forbear to fay,o oonas he knew
the Gentleman," that he ' was catcht. The
Cream o the Je' was,thati my Goaler being'
in his tly-'days CloathsziWas ahamed to a
confes himelf to be the' Hang-it'nan's Church-'3
:HY
Wardenz nay, he Was afraid that by dilZoF '
'ell A vering' himelf to be what he Was, he might'
but encreae the number 'of his Blows. For
1t0,
my own part, whil the cule Was at the
lad'
length I took my' ight. ' I trued my are.
the
ty to my Legg, which would have oon
ire
et me at Liberty; But as the Devil Woold _ .
ild
K have it, the: Pdop'le"
A beginningpf new all
to are at me, ' I ound"niy_le in asbad
drs ' . apickle again aslat n
W- U " 'the Spectacle:
er, , o
.\'
 42 The Hiory of' the
o anyhund-red
vlittle Rags, about
Be garsct danced' which me,
like adid-excite
ran of
the zctCurloity
me o- any
I was afraid thatgaping Loutfead
he might to ate _at
in _my
Fore-head', that [Was one that had broken
Prion. l any one pan by me, put his
Hand
to be outnrider
a S'erjieant, his
whoClan, I'fancy'd
retched out him
his'
Arm to lay hold on the. , lfct l oberved iano- \
ther campigictng along the Streets', without
Cang an ye on me, l perWadEd thy elf
thathe' ej ned nOt to ice nzct ,, to the end
hap me
a Shop-lZeeper behind;
enter'hiis shop', now,
I perceived
aid I
he is gone to fetch out his Conabl'es Sta:
If I came intda' place wher there was any
'extraordinary ConCOnre o - People, o ma;
n'y Men, thought' I, could not be got toge r)--_

t'her there Without onie Deign, 1 I anoz

X ther place was empty, here they] e'in wait EMZTOP-'lid

for me. I;_Did

thought they[meet with; a op,
havebaroc-adio'd now,
the Streets
to hut me in. In aword, Fear perverting
thy Reaon, every Man eem'd to the to
be noilE,
r'y an Ocer,_ every _Word,Raittlin
the inupportable Sto , andofeve
the
F
5)
-=-*_*
Bolts of' my la' Prion. Beingt Us beet'
With paniclt Fear, I reolved vto play the
Begga'r a ai'n, that o [might Pas the re' --=

of the -ity,'t'ill l or tqtbe Fat-houe .j

But faring' le _ni'y' oice might betray mei
 ' World of the sz. ' - .z: 33
'Iman.
thought, be tothen
I advanc'd _ Counterfeit the Dumb
towards thoe wh'octtn
ne
I pereived to Eye met; I pointed withnyt
"i Finger under my Chin, then over my
.C Month,and gaping made an unartieulate Cry,
his to give them to underand hy this'Actionz.
lim that a poor Dumb-man' begg'd their Chari
hu ty. Sotnetimesl had a compa onate Shruzg'
of the Shoulders ot- an Almsz by and by! o
m: felt a mall ,Bribe*ipt into my Fi 5' and
ell anon again I could hear the good Women
mutter, that perhaps I might have been
that manner Mortiyed for the Faith in Tur
key. .In hort, I learnt that the eggingi
' Trade is a great Book, that lnh'ucts us in
, the manners of People at a_cheaper rate,than
all the long VoyageS' of Colnmbw and qu.
gellan can. o i , _ _ A
_, That stratagem however, could not as
yet prevail over the. Head-rongnes of' my
Deiny, nor overcome the ill nature there
of: But whatother Invention could I be
take my elf nnto 3? For to croi o great
a City as Thoulouje is, where my Garb had
made me known eyen to the [letting-wives,
having more haggy Bags dandling abont'
me, than the errante Tatterdemallion in_
the World, was it not very likely 'that Iv
hould immediately he taken notice o and
known i' _An_d that the only charm again'
that danger was to peronate the-Beggar,
'qu,.< .f ' D ' '- whoe'
34. The Hiory of the
whoepart is Acted under all Shapes P And
then ranting this Trick had not been pro
j'ectef with all neceary Circumpection, I "
fancy ill that among o many fatal Jun
ctures, it was a ign of a very good Judg
ment, not to run ark mad. '
l was etting forWard on my journey
th n, when all of a udden i ound my elf
vob iged to turn back againz For my vene
rable Goaler, and about o a dozen of O
cers of his Acquaintance, who had recued
him out o the Hands of the Rabble, [Et
ting out upon the Hunt, and cowring all
the Town to nd me, ell unluckily in my
way. So oon as with Eagles Eyes they per
ceived me, you may imagine, that they run,
and l run, with all the Speed we could. I '
was o nimbly purued, that ometimes my
Liberty ell upon its Neck, the Breath of
the Tyrants who ought to opprels it: But
it eemed that the Air, which they puhed
forwards running after me, drove me on
before them. At length kind Heavens or
Fear rather carried me four or ve Lanes on
Head o them. Then it was that my Hun
ters lo the cent, and I the view and hame
ful Noie o that troubleome Chace. Cer
tainly he, that hath not ecaped uch like
Agonies, [peak by Experience, can hard
ly meaure the )oy wherewith [was tran
ported, when Ifound my elf our of their
Clutches.
 iWor'ld of the Sun. '
Clutc'hes. However, eeing my Safetyirequi
Id
red all my skill, I reolved avaritiouy to
l, 1 Husband the time which they pent in dog'
lil' ging of me. I bemeared my Face, rabbed
my Hair withDu, ript o my Doublet,
let fall my Breeches, threw my Hat in a
na' Cellar z and then having pread my Hand
it' 'kerchief upon. the Street', with four little'
anc Stones on the Corners, as they dowho are'
infected with the Plague, I laid my elf '
uel doWn upon my Belly over again it, and
et. with-a lamentableTone fell a Groaning mo'
lah _ languihingly. Hardly Was I pla_ced in this p
m: manner, when I heard the cry ofthe where'
zing Rabble, long before I heard the ound
'uL a their Feet-5 but I had ill Judgement
enough-"to'keop my elf in the ame paure,
wi. in hopesthat [might not beknownz and I
1 0' was not miaken,or all taking me for one'
But lneted, they paed by me in great hae,
hid opping their Noes, and mo of them
Of throwing a Double upon my Handkere'
. chief.
The-orm being thus over, l-lipt intd
ur an Ally, put on my Clothsagain, (and once'
DE' more trued elf totFortu'nez But I had
Ter run o long that 'he was Weary of follow
ke 'ing me. No body could think 'otherwie-53
rd _ for having imddled over o many publick
Places and anrterso the Town, tripta- .
ill longand turned' o many Streets, thatlofty
, , - _ De' God-i
-*
36 v iT/zeHz'ory of the

Goddes, unaccuomed to march o fa, to

put a op to my Carriere, uered me blind
ly to all into theHands of the Ocers that
purued me. At our meeting they thun
dred out o loud an Hue and Cry, that!
was quite unn'd with the Noie. They
thought they wanted Arms enough to hold
me, and Aherefore employed their Teeth,
not believin they had me ure enoughz
one dragge whil
the Collar, me bythethe
lesHair, another by
paonateiried
mez and had better luck than my Goaler
at the r earch, for they ound the re of
my Gold.
_Whil thee Charitable Phyicians were
'taken up in curing the Dropie of my Pure,
a great Hubbub aroez all the place reoun
ed with thee Words, kill, killz and at the
inne time litw drawn Swords. The Gen
tlemen who dragg'd me along, cried that
they were the Ocers o the City Magi
rates, who had a mind to take their Prio 2-4\_-_-_-_

ner from them. But take heed, aid they

to me,tugging mealong with greater Force, '
that you do not fall into their Hands, or
if o, you'll be condemned within four and
twenty Hours, and then the King cannot
ave you. At length, however, they them
elves being afraid of the Rout, that began
to come up With them, let me o univer
illy , that I remained all alone in the mild
. , le
 Worldoftbe-Sun: ' , '
dle o the Street, whil the Aggreors
in the mean time, butchered all they met
with. I leave it to you to judge, whether
or not I betook my elf to my Heels, hav
ing caue to be equally afraid o both. In
a trice I was got at a diance from the Hur
ry*I but ju as l was asking the way to
the Po-Houe, a torrent o People that
ed from the Scue broke into my Street z
being unable to rei the Croud,I followed
itz and being vexed to run o long, I gain
ed at length a little dark Gate, into which
I threw my elf pell-mell with thoe that
ed. We hut it upon our elves z and then
When we had all taken Breath : Comrades,
laid one o the Gang, i you'll take my ad
vice, let us pas the two Wickets, and *
make for the Court. Thee dreadful Words
ruck me with o urpriing a Grief, that I
thought to have fallen dead upon the place.
Alas! I perceived immediately, but too
late, that inead o iving my elf; as I
thought in a Sanctuary, 1 had ca my Half
- into Prionz i) impoble it is to avoid the
InuenceoonesWatehkulStarsJlookt upon '
that Man more attentively, and knew him
to be one of the Ocers, who had o long
given me the Chace: 1 ell into a cold
Sweat, and lookt Pale as i 1 had been rea
dy to aint away. They who law me in o
weak .a Conditioneing moved with Com
' D3 - Paion
 39 The Hzory of the
Wr-roZOTE=ao-on
mtm
paon, call'd for Water; eVery one drew
nigh to a me 5 and by michance that
accured Ocer Was one of the r .* He
had noooner beheld me, but that he knew
me. He madea Sign to his Campanions, '
and at the ame time I was aluted with an
I Art-e you Prioner in Name of the King.
They needed not go far ,to enrol my.
Name.
I remained in the Cage till Night, where
Every Turn Key one after another, by an
' Exact Dicction of the Parts of my Face, pre_qr-_-P.m_

drew my Picture upon the Cloth of his

Memory.
At even a Clock at Night the jingling of
a Bunch of Keys'gave the ignal oRetreat.
They asked me i I would 'be carried to
a Chamber of a Pitolez I anwered with a
nod of the Head. Money then, replied Frm
_J'rFi'\mn

the Guide. I knew very well I was in a

place where I mu pocket' a great many
uch-Snubs : And therefore Iprayed him, in
cae he ebuld not be o Courteous,as to give
me Credit till next Morning, that he 'would
tell the Goaler from me, he houldreore
me the Money that had been taken from
me. He, hola-iMa-n
put' Mater-is I'faith,ofanwered
Heart, hetheVillain,
gives no _
ds;

thing bacl<._ Doe ye think then that for the

ake of yohr pretty Noe.--.-along, along, to
the' Dungeon, Having! aid "o, he hew'd :;<
t_..,. Al a; 4 i
 World of the Sun; '39
me the way by a luy Thump with his Bunch .
of Keysz the weight whereof made' me
tumble and ide from the top to the bottom
of a dark Acent, till I knocked again a
Door that opt me: Nor, indeed, had 1
known it to be a Door, but for the tap, 1
gave again it .- For I had not-nowmy
Eyes, they remained at the Stairs-Head
under the Figure of a Candle, whichrny _
Hang-man Guide held in his Handfour
core eps above me. At length that Ty
ger of axMan being come down Pian Piana,
unlocked thirty great Locks, pull'd out as
many Barsz and the Wicket being only
half opened, with a joult of his Knee he
ingulfkd me in that Pit, whereof I had not
time to oberve the Horrour, o uddenly
he pulled the Door after him. I ood in
mire up to the Knees. I I had a mind to
get to the ide, I ell in up to the middle.
The terrible clucking of the Toads that
crawled
elf Deanin the Veel,
I elt Asksmade me wih
creeping my
bytny
Thighs, Serpents twiing about myNeckz
and one 1 epied by the omber light of
his parkling Eyes, from a Mouth black
with Venom, dart'mg a forked Tongue,
whoe brisk Agitation made it look like a
Thunder-bolt, et on Fire by itsEyes.
I cannot expre the rez it paes all be
lief, and beides, I dare not reect upon
D 4' the
 40 The Hiory of the
the ame; o afraid I am, that the Auran'ce
I think my El in, o being reed from my
Prion, hould be no more but aDreani, p
out of 'Which Iam ready to awake. The
Cnomon had marked Ten o the Clock up
on the Dial o the great Tower, before any
_Body came to knock 'at my Tomb : But
, about that time, when bitterGrie and Sor
' 'row began already to pres my Heart, and
dicompoe that ju Harmony wherein con
is Lie, I heard a voice that bid me take
hold 'of the Pole that was preented unto
me. Having a long time elt about in the
dark to find it, at length l met with one
end thereofz with extraordinary motion I
took hold on't, and my Goaler pulling the
Other end towards himz angled me out of
the
thatmiddle of that Mire.o[began
the Countenance to upect.
vmy Aair's was
changed, for he hewTd me great Civility,
poke to me hare-headed, and told me that
ve'or ix Perons o Quality waited in the
Court to i=e me. Among the re, not o
' much' as that wild Bea who hut me up in
'the Den, which I have decribed to you,
but had the lmpudence to acco "me, vwith
one Knee on the Ground, having kied my
Hand, he beat o a teat manYSnails that '
. uck to my Hair'with one o his Paws, and
'With the other a great cluer of Leeches,
Wherewith my Face Was. Vizor-masked., '
> ' ' Having
 World of the Sun, 41
Having performed this rare piece of Ci
ny. vility z at lea, Good Sir, aid he to me,
you'll- think on the Care and Pains that
if great Nzcolm has taken about you: S'death,
[F d'ye mind me, when it .was 'done for the
nr King, it is not for yOU to upbraid him for
lui it, I trow. Being madded at the Impu
dence of theRacal, l made him a Sign that
nd I hould think on'tz Througha Thouand
bli dreadful turnings, at length I came into the
Light, and afterwards into the Court, where
ll0 as oon as I entred it, two Men caught. hold
on me, whom at r I could not know,- by
reaon they faened about my Neck at the
ame time, and joined their Faces cloe to
mine. It was a pretty while before I could >
gues who they werez but the Tranports '
of their Friendhip intermitting a little, I
knew my' dearCoIignac, and the brave Mar
ques. Coligmc had his Arm in aScarf; and
Cuan was the r that came out of his
Extaie. Alas! aid he, we had never u
pected uch a diaer, had it not been for
yourHore and Mule, who that Night came
to my Gate,- Their Girths, Cruppers, and
all were broken, and that made us prefage
ome Misfortune was befallen you. We pre
ently got on' Hore-back, and had not rid
two or three League's towards Coligmrc,
when all the Country alarm'd'at that Acci
dent, told us the particular Circumznees
, t ere
 42 The Hiory of the
thereof. We preently gallop'd to the
Town, where you were in Prionz but
being there informed of your ecape, up
on the rurnor that went, that you had
taken your coure towards Thouloue, with
what menwe had, we poed thither in all
hae. The r man we asked news ofyouz
told us that you were retaken, at the ame
time we purred our Hores towards this
Prion z but others aured us, that you had
vanihed OUt ofthe Hands of the Serjeants :
And as we ill went on, the Towns people
were' telling one another, how you were
become inviible. At length having made
further and further inquiry, we came to
know that after you had been taken, lo,
and retaken, I know not how many times,
youwere carried to Prihn, in the great
Tower. We way-laid your Ocers, and
by good Fortune, through more apparent
>than real, met,] attacked, beat and put
' them to Flightz but we could not 'learn,e
veu of the Wounded whom we took, what
was become of youzuntil this Morning word
was brought us, that you your elf had
blindly ecured your elf in Prion. Colig
me is wounded in everal places, but very z=2-\_
lightly. After all, we have ju now taken !-D___
order, that you be lodged in the faire
Chamber that's here : Seeing you love an
open Air, we have caued to be furnihed
v
..'
r a
 World of the Sun. 43
a littleAppartment for you alone in the top
l4=:=--I-T
&E-R:
'r''-:TI'I of the great Tower, the Terras whereof
will erve you or a Balconyz your eyes, at
lea willbe at Liberty, in pight othe Body
they are faened to. Hal my Dear Dy.
com, cryed the Count peaking nextz we
were unfortunate we did not take you a
long With us,when we parted from Coligmc:
My Heart by an unaccountablcSadnes, that
Icould give no reaon for, preaged ome
terrible Diaerz but it matters not, I have
Friends, thou art Innocent, and let the
&g-a wor come to the wor, I know what it is
to dye Gloriouy. One thing only puts
me in depair. The Villain on whom I re
BWE=LBMP
olved to try the r roke o myRevenge,
(you well conceive! peako my Curate)
is now out of condition ofeeling it z the
wretch is dead, and I'll tell you the parti
culars o his death: He was running with
his Man to drive your Hore into hisStable,
when the Nagg with a delity hei-ghtened
perhaps, by the ecret notices of his In
D<L
WHV'Z'
"A inct, falling into a udden Fury, began to
wini: and kick 5 but with o much rage and
ucces, that with three kicks o his heels he
made Vacant the Benece of that Bue
head. Without doubt you cannot con
ceive the Rea'ons' of that Fools barred,
but l'll dicoVer them to you .- Know then
that lmay trace the matteralittle backwagd,
t at
 44 The Hiory of the
that that Godly man, a Norman by Nation,
'and a litigious Knave by Trade, who for
the Money o Pilgrims ociated in a or
aken Chappel, commenced an Action ofDe
volution again the Curate o Colz'gnac z and
maugre all my endeavours to maintainthe ' _
Poieor in. his right, o wheadled the
Judges, that at length in ight ofus, he was
made our Paor. _
At the end of the r year, he went to
Law with me alo, pretending that I hould _-'.-__-I
pay him Tythes : It was to no purpoe to
tell him, that time out omind my Lands
were free; he went on ill with his Suit,
which he lo. But during the Procei, he
arted o many Caes, that Twenty other '
Suits have prung from them, which now
are at a andz thanks to the good HorZ:
o s
whoe Foot Was harder than Mar-jo/mr --an

Head. This is all that I can conjecture

otheVertigo of out Paor. But it's won
' derul with how much fore-ight he manag
ed his Rage : I am lately aured, that hav
ing' got into his Head the accured deign of
yourImprionment, he had Ecretly exchang
ed his Living oColignac, for another Liv
ing in his own Country, whither he in
tended to retreat o oon as you hould be '
taken : Nay his 'own Man hath aid, that
eeing your Hore near his Stable, he had
heard him mutter, That the Bea would car
rY
 World of the Sun. i 4.;

ry him into a place, where they could not

reach him. r '
After this Ditoure, Colignac admonih
ed me to miru the Oers and Viit, that *
_ perhaps might be rendred me by a very
powerful Peron, whom he named zthat it
was by his Credit, that Mu-John had gain
ed the Caue ofDevolution z and that that
Peron of anlity, had ollicited the Af
fair for him in recompence of the Services,
which that good Prie had rendred hisSon,
when he bore a mall Oce in the Colledge.
Now, continued Coligmc, reing it is very
hard to be at Law without Rancor,and with
out a cincture ofEnmity,that remainsindeli
ble in the mind 5 though we have been
made Friends, hevha th ever ince ought oc
caions Ecretly to cros me : But it mat
ters not, I have more Relations of the long
Robe than he has, and a great many Friends,
or if it come to the wor, we can procure
, the King to interpole. his Authority in the
Aair.
When Coligmc had made an end, they
both endeavoured to Comfort me z* but it
was by uch tender Teimonies ol Sorrow,
. that my own Grief was thereby encreaed.
In the mean while my Goaler came back,
and told us that the Chamber was ready.
Come let'sgo (lie it, anwered Curm z and
- with, that he went r, and we followed
him :
 46 , The Hiory of the
him: Pound it in very good Order: I
'i -iti- want nothing, itidl to them, unles it'be
a tw Books. Coligmc promied to end
* Wi'i
Zi-i me n'ext day, as many as I hould give him
a 'CatalOgue'o When we had well coni
dered and found b the' height ofmy Tow- '
er, the largenei' 0 the Ditches that 'envi
7 roned it, and by all the Circumancesof
-HWVT-"v'
wcrzw my Apartment, that to ecape was an en
terprie above humane reach-5 my Friends
looking
. their 'on one
Eye-son me,another, and thenBut
fell aweepinga caing
asict m-1_I'_.__..n-_._.

all of a udden out Grief had oftened the

A'nlger of Heaven, an unexpect ed Joy 'their
po eon 'ofmy Soul z Joy brought Hope,
and Hope ecret 'Illuminations, wherewith
my Reaon 'was o dazlethhat with an 'un
voluntary' Tranfport, which eemed ridicu; 1
inns to my el: Go, aid] to them, go
ttrltpetfirtne at Coligmcz [hall be therewith
in thee three daysz and'end me all the'
Mathematical Inruments wherewith I uu
ally work: 'In hort, you'l nd in alarge
Box, a great many peices 'of Chrial cut
'into everal Figures, be ure 'not vto forget
' them; however, it will be [bonerdon'ejfli
at down what things I need in la Memoo
' randum.
They took the Note I gave them, being.
unable todive into my 'deignz andthcn
departed. ,,a , I

From
 World of the Sun. A 47

From the time they were gone, I did no

thing but ruminate upon the Execution of
'f'L-i
T
52.-P-
i$
(i-'a: the things I had premeditated, and I was
thinkin on them next day, when all that I
had (Et down in my Catalogne was brought
me from told
Chamber them me,ithat
: One ofColz'gnac's Valennot
his Maer had de
been een ince the day ,beorectz' and that 1
they could not tell,what was become ofhim.
Iwas not at all troubled at that Accident,
gz-g
'Ft-
X;
EZLTR
becaue it prehntlycameinto my mind that
pobly he might be gone to Court to ol
licite my Liberty : And therefore without
being urpried at it, I put hand to work z
for the pace of eight days,l hewed, plain
ed and glewed, at length I framed the Ma
chine, that Iam about to decribe to you.
lt was a large very light Box, that hut
tight and cloe z ofabout ix Foot high, and
three Foot Squa're. This Box hada holei'n
it below z and over the Cover, which had
'c-'.>
'Flozi
"a,
likewie a hole' in it, I placed a Veel 'Of
Chrial, bored through in the lame man
ner, made in a Globular Figure, but very
large, the Oricetwhereof joyned exactly
5.
1:
to and was enchaced,in the hole I had made
in the head.
The Veel was purpoly made with ma
ny Angles, and in form ofan Icoaedron,
to the-end that every Facet being' convex
and concave, my Boul might produce
e:
' the eect Oa_Burning-Glas. The
 48 The Hiory of the -
The Goaler, and his Turn-keys never'
- came up to my Chamber, but they found
me employed in this' workz but they were
not at all urpried at it, becaue othe ma
ny Mechanick Kn'acks which they met with
in my'Chamber,
ithe whereoothers
Inventor .- Among I told there
them was
I wasa -

Wind-Clock, an ArticialEye, wherewith

one might ee by night; \and a Sphere
wherein all the Scars followed (the regular
motion that they have in the Heayens .- By
thee things they were perwaded,._tha_t the
MachineI wasa making, was a Cu'rioit-y
of the like Naturez and beides the Money -
wherewith Colignacfgreaed their s, made
them go air and o t. Now it- was about'
I-_.-'
_
nine in the Morningz my-Keeper was gone'
down, and the Skie was hazy, when I'
placed this Machine on the top omy Tow
er, that's to lay, on the opene place omy
Terras walk: lt hut o cloe, that a grain
of Air could not, enter it, _except by the
two openingsz andl had placedalittle ve- _
ry light Board within for my elf to (it
upon.
\ Things being ordered in this manner, I
"hut my elf in, and waited there almo an
hour, expecting what it might pleae For
tune to do with me. ' i
theWhen the began
Cloudsi, Sun breaking
to hineoutrom
upon myunder
'Ma
6' I
* Bblcj
\
 World of the Mr; 49
chine, that tranparent Icoaedzron, which
through its Facets received the Treaures of
the Sun, diued by it's,0rice the'light
ofthem into my Cell zand ceingthatplen
dor grew fainter, becaue of the Beamsthat
could not reach me, without many Refract'
dons, that tempered vigour oflight convert
ed my Cae intola little Purple WFirmament,
enameled with Gold. - p
With extae I admired the Beauty' of
uch a mixture of 2*(_Iolt_)urs.z when all ofa'
udden I found my Bowels to mOVe in the
ame manner, as one nds them that is to
izd inawing. '- - . U
I Wasabout to open, my Wicket,to_ know'
the caue of that emotionz but asI was'
retching out my Hand, through thehole
of the, Floor of my Box, I perceived my.
Tower already very low' beneath me 5 A and _
my little Cale in the Air, puhing my Feet
upwards, in a trice- hew'd me Thouloufe
inking into the Earth. ,That Prodigy ure
pried mez nor at all by reaon of o udd
den a oaring, but becaue ofthat dreadful
tranlort of Hamane Reaon, at the Succes
. ofa deign, which even fri htned mein the'
Project. The re did not at all Startle'
me; for I foreaw very well, that the Va
cuity that would happen in the Icoaedron, '
by reaon of the Sun-beamsz united by thev
concave Glaes,would,
' ' to ll up theattract
pace, ,
_ '5'0 The' Hiory of the
attract a great abundance of Air, whereby
my Box would be carried upz and that pro
?pOrtionably as Imounted, the ruhing Wind
that hould force it through the Hole, could
'not rie to the rOof, but that furiouy pene
trating the Machine,it mu needs force it up
ron high. Though my deign was very
cautiouly projected, yet I was miaken in
one circumancez becaue I was nor coni
dent enough ofmy Glaes. I had prepared
round my Box a little" Sail , eaie to be
"turned, with a Line that paied through
the Orice of the Veelz and which I held
by the endz I had fancied to my elf, that
When-I'hould be in the Air, I might thus
_ make ue of as much wind,as might Cl'VC
to convey me, to Coligmc: But in thetwin
* kling of an Eye, the Sun which beat perpen
dicularly,
Glaies and Icoaedron,
ofthe obliquely upon the me
hoied Burning
up o '
high, that] lo ight o Thouloujk. That .
made me let go my heet, and oon after I
perceived through one of the Glaes,which
> I had put in the four ides of the Machine, r '
my Sail ying in the Air, andtoed to and
fro by a Whirl-wind that had got With
till
rn It. '
I remember, that in les than an hour 1
was gOt above the Middle Region z and I
oon perceived it, becaui: I aw it hail and
rain below me: It may be asked, perhaps,
' whence
 World the Sun:
Whence th'ein came that wind (Without
which my Box Could not mount) in a ory
in the Sky
I'vided exempta from
I' may'have Meteors
hearing, zbut pro
I'll anwer thati
Objection. I' have told you, that the Sun
which beat vigoroully upon my Concave,
:ry Glaes, uniting his Rayes in the middle OF
the Veel, Iby his heal: drove out the Air it: *
was ullo through the upper anduitz
and that o theVeel being void, Nature, '
which abbot-s Vacuity,tnade it uck in,by th'e'
opening below, other Air to'll it again 5
Iit lo much, it regained as muchz and
o out: is not to Wonder, that in a Region'
above 'the middle Where the winds are,
-Icontinued to motrnt upz becauevthe
abcr became Wind, by the Urious Rapidity
wherewith it'fo'rced in to hinder a Vacui
_ t'y, and 'by conequence ought inceantly
puh upmy Machine.
1 eltlittle orno' Hung'er, except. when
Paed that Middle Regibn o the Air 5 for"
in reality the coldnes of the Climate,made'
tne een-it-at a diance: I ay at a diance,
becaui: a Bottle of Spirits which I carried
always about me, whereof Inow and then'
took a dram, kept it toniv approaching me.
During the re o my Voyage, Ifelt' not
the lea touch of i'tz on the contrary 'thef'
more I advanced tOWards that enam. d
World, the ronger I ound my el. I elt'
E a my'
&I'LJLS-LJ.Z
i'i':

52 _The Hiory of the

my Face _to be a littlerhotter and more gay
than ordinary 5 my Hands appeared to be
o an agreable Vermilion Colour, and I
r:
-_
* know not what Gladnes mingled with my
Blood, which put me beyond my el.
L'E-.
I remember, that-reiecting once on this
Adventure, lreaoned thus with my elf.
Hunger without doubt cannot reach me, ._ .
becaue that pain being but an Ininct of
Nature,which prompts Animals to repair by
_Nourihment, what they loe oftheir Sub- -
ance:
vSun At pure,
by his preentcontinual'and
when he nds, that the
neighbour
ing Irradiarion , ocks me with more na
tural Heat than l lot-5 he gives me no more
that Deire, which would be uieles. Ne
vertheleil objected again thoe Reaons, '
that eeing the Temperament Which maketh
Life, conied no't only inznatural Heat,
but alo in radical Moiure, on which that
heat is to eed, as the Flame in the Oyl o a
Lamp: The ole Rays o that vital Fire,
could not make Liez unles they encoun
tered ome unctuous Matter that hould x
them. But I preently overcame that di
culty, when I had oberved, that in our
Bodies the radical' Moiure and natural
Heat'are
for bur one,
that which and the
is called elf amewhether
Moiure, thing z

in Animals or in the Sun, that great Soul of'

the World, is but a ux o Sparklesz more
_ r conti
 _ , Worldo the Sunf '53 ,
lay continuous becaue of their Mobility z and
be that which we name Heat, a Conco'ure of
il Atomes of Fire, which appear looer be
my" caue o their interruption z but though
the radical Moiure and natural Heat were
[lllz two diinct things, yet it is certain, that p
ell the Moiure Would not be neceiary for
living o near the Sunz for (ceiug that Hu
lol midity in'living Creatures, erves only to '
lbY detain the heat, which would exhale too
lulr , fa, and could not be reored o oon 5 I
dle . was in no danger of wanting it,in a Region
Oll' whereof thee little Bodies of Flame which
conitute Life, more of it was united to my ,
nor Being,then eparated from it. -
Ne There's another thing that may be
'or wondered atz and that is, why the ap
tal proaches of that burning Globe conumed
[a , me nor, for IWas already gor almo with
lhr in the full Activity of it's pherez but l have
a reaon at hand for that.To peak properly,
.'llf v it is not the Fire- it elf that burns, but a
lllll' groler matter,toed to and fro by thedart
ings out of it's mbveable Nature; and that
dil Powder of little Sparks, which I call Fire,
ot moveable of it elf, owes, poiibly, all it's
In, Action tothe Roundne of it's Atomes; for
lg1 they tickle,of warm,
the Figure or burn,
ithe Bodies, according
which to
they draw
r along with them. So Straw ends not forth
are i o burning a Flame as Wood doesz -Wood
m" E 3 > 'burns
5+J The Hiory f the
burns with les violence than Iron; and the '
Reaon of this is, becaue the Fire of iron,
of Wood, and of Straw, though init elf it
be the ame Fire, yet it acts variouly,acco_r%
ding to the diverity ofthe Bodys that it
moves : And therefore in Straw, the Fire
(that piritual Du, as it were,) being en
tangled only with a oft Body, is le corro
-,ve: In Wood, whoe ubance is mOre
compact, it enters more hardly 5 and in I
ton, the Mai whereof isalmo wholely o
lid, and knit together by Angular Particles,
it penetrates and conumes in a trice whato
ever it touches. Thee Obervations being
alo-familiar, no Body will wonder, that l
approached the Sun without being burnt '5
eeing that which burns is not the Fire, but
the matter to which it is joyned, and that
the Fire ofthe Sun,cannot hemingled with
any matter. Don't we even, nd by ex
perience, that Joy which is a Fire, becaue
itonly moves an Ae'rial Blood, whoe' ub
tile Particles beat gently again the Mem
branes of our Fleh', tickles and pro
duces I know not what blind Pleaure '5
and that that Pleaure, or rather that r
_ .z_>:- n._
rogres OF Pain,'advances not o Far as to
threaten the Animal. with Deathz but only
tomake
Motion inhimourenible,
Spirits, that'
whichDeire cauesa
wie call Joy,
Not but that a Feaver, though it have quite
con
 World of the Sun. 55
contrary Symptoms, is a Fire as well as joyz
but it isa Fire, wrapped up in a Body of'
Horned Particles, uch as the Atm bilis or
Q'MFEYv'Ql
V'lg
Melancholy, which darting out his hook
ed Points, in all parts Where its movable
Nature carries it, pierces, cuts, excoriates, . '
and by that violent Agitation, produces
that which is called the Heat of a Feaverz
but this Concatenation of Proos is uelesz
the mot vulgar Experiments are ucient
to convince the obinate. I have no time
, to loe, lmu look to my elf: I am like
Phaeton in the middle of a Career, where
wed-5' I cannor turn back again z and wherein if
I make but one fale tep, all Nature is nor
able to ave me.
I perceived mo diinctly, what hereto
LYa)
T
W'NFB'M ore I upected , when I went up to, the
Moonz that, indeed, it is the Earth that
moves from Ea to We about the Sun, and
_ nor the Sun about it: For I aw next to
France, the Foor of the Bootof Italy, then
the Mediterranean-Sea, then Greece, then
the Boborw, the Euxin-Sea, Per/la, the
India, China, and at length japen, pas uc
':P'.._.
cevely over again the hole of my Lodg
-*'*-*<o ing z and ome Hours after my Elevation,
all the South-Sea having turned, gave way
to the Continent ofAmericaJ clearly diin
guihed all thee Revolutionsznay,and l re
member that a long time after, I aw Europe
' \ E 4 mount
56 The Hiory of the
mount once more again upon the Scenez
but I could not now oberve the eparate
States thereof', becaue I was exalted too
high. I let by the way, ometimes on the
tight, and ometimes on the let, everal
Earths like ours , _where i ] touched'the
lea'upon the Spheres of their Activity, I
ound my el incline ide-ways: Howe
ver, _the rapid force o my oaring Flight,
urmounted the 'Power o thee Attra
ctions. ' -
1 coaed by the Moon, which at that
'time was got betwixtthe Sun and the Earth,
and I let Fem- on my right-hand. Bur
now I am peaking of that Sta'r, the old
Aronomy hath o long preached, that the
Planets are Stars which turn round the
Earth, that' the Modern dares not make a
doubt o it: And nevertheles, Ioberved, .
that during the whole time, that Ileum ap
peared On this ide the Sun, about which
he turns, Iaw her always Crecent z but
nihing her coure, I oberved that as he
pa gradually behind him, theHorns drew
nearer, and her Black Belly Was guilt a
gain. Now this viciiitude o Light and
Darknes, makes it very evident, That the
\Planets are like the Moon and the Earth,
Globes without Light, capable only to re
flect that which they borrow.

The
 World of 'the Sun. 5' 7
The Truth is, as I ill mounted, I
made. the ame Obervation of Mercury.
I oberved beides, that all thee Worlds
have other' little Worlds alo which
move about them. Muing afterwards on
the Caulias of the Conruction of this great
Univere, I imagined that at the clearing of
the Chaor; after that God had created the
Matter, Bodies of the-like Nature joined
together, by that Principle of unaccounta
ble Love, by which we ee by Experience
that every thing covcts its like; Particles
formed after a certain Fahion aembled to
gether, and that made Air: Others again,
to which the hape gave a circular Motion,
by clinging fa together, compoed the
Globes that are called Stars,which not only,
beCaue of that Inclination of whirling a
bout upon their Poles, to which their Figure
determines them, ought to trui together
into a Round as we ee them; but ought in
the ame manner, as they evaporated from
the Mas, and kept a Parallel March in their
_ flight, make the leer Orbs, which they met
in theSphere of their Activity, to turn: And
therefore Mercury, Fame, the Earth, Mart,
Jupiter, and Saturn, have been conrained
'to whirlegig it, and move both at once a
bout the Sun. Not but that one may ima
gine, that heretofore all thoe other Globes
have been Suns, ince the Earth till retains
.lP.
' 58 The Hiory of the
> in pight o its'preent Extinction, heat e
nough to make the Moon turn about it, by
the circular morion of the Bodies, which
are detach'd from its Mas , and that
Jupiter retains enough to make four to turn;
But thee Suns by the length of time, have
uained o coniderable a los of Light and
Fire, by the continual Emion of the lit
tle Bodies, which make Heat and Lightz
that they remain no more but a cold, dark,
and almo unactive Caput Martium. Nay,
we dicover that thee lpots which are in the
Sun, and were not perceived by the Anci
ents, dayly increae: Now, who can tell
but that it is a Cru ormed in its Superce,
it's Maiz that extinguihes proportionably
as the Light leaves it z and if'it become nor,
when all thee moveable Bodies have aban
doned it, an obcure Body like the Earth P
There are very diant Ages, beyond which
there appears no Veige of Man-kind :
perhaps heretoore, the Earth was aSun peo
pled with Animals,proportioned to the Cli
mate that produces themz and perhaps thee
Animals, were the Demom of whom Anti
quity relates o many Inances. Why not?
Is it not poible, that thee Animals after
the Extinction of the Earth, have ill lived
there for ome time, and that the Alterati
on o their Globe, had not as yet deroy
ed all their Race? In eect, their life- con
- tinu
 World of the Sun. 59
tinued until the time of Auguw, accord
ing to the Teimony of Pln'areb. [t would
even eem, that the prophetick and acred
Tearnent of our Primitive Patriarchs, de
igned to lead us by the Hand to that truth.
For we read in it of the Revolt of Angels,
before mention is made of Man. ls not
that Sequel of time, which the Scripture ob
erves, half o a Proof in a manner, that
Angels inhabited the Earth before us? And
that thee proud Blades, who had lived in
our World, whil it was aSun, didaining,
perhaps, ince it was extinct, to abide any
longer in it, and knowing that God had pla
ced his Throne in the Sun, had the boldnes
to adventure to invade it P But God who
lOl, reolved to punih their Audacity, banih'd
them-even from the Earth, and created Man
'ln
les perfect, but by conequence les proud,
th?
to poies their'vacant Habitations.
llCll
About the end of four Months Voyage,
id :
at lea-"as near as one can reckon, When
to
there is no Night to diinguih the Day 5 I
Cli
isle
came upon the Coa of one of thoe little
Earths that wheel about the Sun, which
ill
the Mathematicians call Spots; where by
at?
- reaon that Clouds interpoed, my Glaes
Per
now not uniting o much heat, and by
ed
conequence the Air not puhing my Shed
ti
with i) much Force, what remained of
ny
the Wind could do no more, but bear up
'l'
mX
 60 * The Hiory of the
my fall, and let me down upon the top of
a very high Mountain,to which I gently de
cended.
' l leave it to You to conider what Joy I
felt, whenl aw my Feet upon rm Ground,
after I had o long acted the part o a Fowl.
Words, indeed, are too weak to expres
the Extaie of Gladnes'; Iound my El inz
When, at length, I perceived my Head
Crowned with the Brightnes of the Hea
vens. However, I was not o far tranpor
ted yet with that Extaie, but that Ithought
o getting out of my Box, and of covering
the Capital thereof with my Shirt beore I
let itz becaue l was appreh'enive, that if
the Air becoming Serene, the Sun hould
again kindle my Glaes, as it was likely.
enough, l might ndtny "Houe no more.
By Gullies which eemed hollowed by
the fall o Water, I decended into the
Plain, where becaue o the thick Mud,
that atned the Earth, l had much ado to
go: However, having advanced a little
way, I arrived in a great Bottom, where I
rencountred a little Man ark-naked, it
' ting and teing himelf upon a Stone. I
cannot call to mind whether I poke to him,
r,
to me:or But
if ititWas
is ashefreh
that put thteeion
in my Memory, as
i Ihcard him ill, that he dicoured to
me three long Hours in a Language,which I
knew
 World of tloe Sun. 61
knew very well I-had never heard before,
and which hathnor the lea reemblance
with any of the Languages in this World z
notwithanding I comprehended it faer,
and more intelligibly than my Morher
Tongue. - He told me, when I made enqui
rtl's ry about o wonderful 'a thing, that in 'Sci
ences there was a true, without which one
ral was always far from the eaiez' that the more
lea an Idiom was diant from this truth, the _
u more it came hort of the Conception, and
lgti was lei eaie to be underood. Invthe ame
ring manner, continued he, in Muick one ne
'it ver nds this true z but that the Soul .im-
at l mediately ries, and blindl'y apires'after it. '
)ul We [be it not, but we feel thaLNature ees
rely it; and without being able to conce'ive,.in
what manner we are wallowed up by it, it'
ill ravihes us, tho we- cannot oberve
where it is. It's the very ame with Lan
guagesz he who hits upon that verity of
Letters, Words, and Order in expreng
himelf, can never fall below his thought,
he peaks always with congruity to his Can'
ception; and it is becaue you are ignorant
othis perfect Idiom, that you are at a and,
net knowing the Order,nor theWords,which *
in
ior might explain what you imagine. I told
v as him,that'the r Man of our World,had un
lm
doubtedly made ue of that Language, be
Tlll caue the everal Names which he gave to
_ e
Cl'l'
 62 The Hiory 'of the
everal things, declared their Eence. He
interrupted me, and went on. r-It is nor
abolutely neceary, orexpreng all the
mind conceives, but without it We cannot
be underood o all. Seeing this ldiom is
the lninct or Voice of Nature z it ought:
.. to be intelligible to all that live under the
Juridiction of NaturezAnd therefore i you
underood it, you might Dicoure and
Communicate all your thoughts to Beas,
and the Beas theirs to you z becaue it is
the very Language o Nature, Whereby
he makes her elf to be underood by all
Living Creatures. * _ _
Be no more urpried, then, at the faci
lity wherewith you underand themeaning
of a Language, which newer ounded be
fore in our Ear. When l peak, your
Soul nd; in every Word o mine, that
Truth which it grapes after z and though
her Reaon underand it not, yet he has
Nature withher that cannot ail to under?
and it.
vthe(Hal without
means doubt,
o that cried I,ldiom,
Emphatick' it wasthat'
by
Wn g rmn_

attr r 'Father heretofore convered With

Animals, and was' by them underood z: -
for eeing the Dominion over all 'the kinds
o them, was given to- him, they obeyed
him, becaue he commanded in a Language
that was known to them zz and it is for
- that
V thatReahnWorld
alo, of
thatthe Sun.
(thiis 63
Original Lan

guage being lo) they come not at preent,

when they are called, as heretoore they
did, eeing now theydo not underand us.
The little Man eemed as if he. had no
mind to anwer me z but reiming his dil
coure, he was about to go on, if] had not
once again interrupted him. I asked him,
then, what World it was that we breathed
in, ifit was much inhabited z and what
kind of Government they lived under? I
arn going, replyed he, to dicover Secrets
to you, which are not known in your Cli
mate.
Conider well the Ground Whereon we
goz it is not long, ince it was anv indige
ed diorderly Ma s, a Chaos ofconfued Mat- -
ter, a' black and glewy Filth, whereof the
Sun had purged it lid: Now after that' .
'by the force ofthe rays, which the Sun dart
ed again thoe
compacted it, henumerous
mingled,Clouds
preed,o'fand
A
tomes .- After, iI ay, that by a long and
powerful Coction, he eparated the more'
contrary, and reverted the more imilary
parts of this Bowlz the Mas pierced through
with heat weat o, that it made a Deluge,
which covered it above Forty daysz for o
muchWater required no les time, to fall
down into the more declining and lower Re
gions of ourGlobe.
The
 64 The Hiory 'of the
The Liquor of thee Torrents being a*
imbled, formed the Sea, which by its Salt
makes it ill apparent,that it mut needs be
a conux of Sweatz all weat being Salt.
When the Waters were retired, a fat and
fertile Mud remained upon theEarth: Now
when thy Sun hone out, there aroe a- kind
of a' vT'umor or Wheal, which could not,
becaue of the Cold, thru out its bud: lt
therefore received another coction-3 and
that coction ill rectifying and perfecting it
bya more exact mixture, it ent forth a
SProutz endowed then only with Vegetati
on, but capable of Sene : But becaue the
Waters,which had o long ood upon the
lime, had too much chilled it,the welling ,
broke'notz
once more z o'andthat thea- Sun
after thirdrecocted it ct
Digeion,
that Matrix being o thoroughly heated,
that the Cold brought forth a Man z who
hath retained inthe Liver, which isvthe eat
of the vegetative Soul, and the place of the
r Concoction, the power of Growing;
' . in the Heart, which is the (cat of Activity,
and the place of econd Concoction, the
vital Power; and in the Brain, which is the
eat ofthe Intellectual, and theplace of the
third Concoction, the power of Reaoning: *
\ Otherwiiz, why hould we be longer in
the Womb of our Mothers, than the re
lo Animals, unles it be that our Emhrjo re
* . ceiVea
 World of the Sui'z. 63
ceives threediinct Concoctions, for forms
ing the three diinct Faculties of our Soul;
and the 'Beas only two, for forming their:
two Powers? l know that the Hore is not
compleatedin the Belly of the Mare, before
the tenth, twelfth, or fourteenth Month:
But eeing he is of a Conitution, o contrai
ry to that which makes us men, that he ne-z
ver has Life but in Months,which are oberi
ved to be fatal to ours, when we remain in
the Womb beyond the natural Coure; it
is no wonder, that Nature needs another pe-=
riod of time for delivering a Mare, than
that which brings a Woman to Bed. It is
o; but in ne, ome body may ay, The
Hore remains longer than we in the Belly
of his Mother 5 and by conequence he red'
ceives there, either more perfect, or more *
numerous Coctions r Ianwer, that it fol
lows not; for, not to rely ttpon the Ob
ervations, that o many Learned men have'
made upon the, Euergy of numbers, when
they prove, That all Matter being in motion;
ome Beingsare compleated in a certain RC'
. volution ofdays, which are deroyed in aJ
nother z nor yet to lay any great res, ups
on the Arguments they deduee, from the
ing? Caue ofall thee morions, to prove that the
r ll number Nitre is the mo perfect; I hall
tell content my (Elf with this anwer, Thatthe
r: Bud- Of man being hg'tter, the Suninteerere;
li an
 66 The Hiory of the
and compleats more Organs in the pace o
'pine Months, than he hath rough-hew'n in
a Colt during a whole year. Now it is riot
'to bedouhted, but that a Hore is a great . -\
deal colder than a Man z hein that Bea
never dies, but of a Swelling o the Spleen,
or other Dieaes that proceed from Melan
choly. Nevertheles, you'l tell me, there
is no man in out World engendred o'Mud,
and produced in that manner : I believe it,
your World at preent is over-heated; for
i) oon as the Sun draws a rout out othe
Earth, finding none o that cold Humidity,
o'r to ay better, that certain Period ocorn
pleated Motion, which obliges it to &veral
Qoctions, it tur-ns it preently into a Vegeta
ble z or it it maketWo Coctions, eeing the
&cond has. not time enough to receive per
ection in, it only engenders an lnect. And
it isv a Remark that I have madealof'hat the
A-pe, which, as we,carrysit's young almo
nine Months, reembles us in o many Hu
mors, that not a ew Naturalis have rank
Cdus in 'the lame. Species-3, and the reaon is,
that-'their Seed 'being oa- temper, much like -
ours, hath during that time, had almo
the leiure to per e thoe three Digeions.
You'l undoubtedly askme, o whom I
haue 'the Story, that now I have told you z
- you'l tell me, that I could nOt have hadit
fromthoe that were not in being: It's true,
 World of the' Sun; 6
Iand
am by
theconequence
only perlbn[can
'that give
hath noVouchers
'hit upon it,

for it, becaue it's a thing that happened

before I was hornz that's likewie true: But _A4._u,_.,_. ,_._

take this along with you ali), That in alle

gion bordering upon the Sun,as ours does,
the Souls full of Fire are more illuminated,
more' ubtile, and more penetrant, than
'hoe ofothcr Animals in remorer Spheres.
Now ireing even in your World,there have .
been Prophets heretofore, whoe minds,
heightened by a vigorous Inpiration, have
had Fore-knowledge of future things zr it is
notimpoble, but that in this, which is fat'
nearer theSun,8c by conequence morelumi
nous than yours, a rong Gem'w may have'
ome melling ofw-hat is pa z that his ac
tive Reaon may move as well backwards,
as forwards, and'tha-t it may be able to at
, tain to the Caue by theEects, eeing it
can reach the Eects'by the Caue.
Thus he ended his, Philoophical Dif=
courfe; but after a more particular Confe-i
rence, that we had, about very deep Se
erets, which he revealed to me 5 part where
of I-'lxl conceal, and" of which the re has'
ecaped mez he told me, That it was not as '
yet three Weeks, ince a clod of Earth, im-r
pregnated by the Sun,- was brought toBed
of him. Conider that Tumor attentively.
Then i he made ate oberve,
F a L know.-whas
not
7 68 - The Hiory of the
what Swelling upon the Mud, not unlike
to a Mole-Hill: That, ays he, is anApo
ume, or to ay better, aMatrix, which for
thee Nine Months pa, hath contained the I-__f_)-_ .A-_ _ _
Embryo of one of my Brothers. I wait
here, on deign to play the part of a Mid
wife to it.
He would have gone on, had he not per
ceived a Palpitation of the Earth,about that
Swelling of Clay. That with the bignes
of the Tumor, made him conclude, that
the Earth was in Labour,and that thatShake,
was already the eort of the Pangs of Tra
vel. He thereupon' immediately left me,
that he might run. to it z and for my part,
I went to look for my Lodge.
I therefore clambered up again the
Mountain, I had come down from, and was LL-u_4'_.-._4 ._

very weary before Igot to the top of it.

'You may imagine what trouble I was in, _

when I did not nd my Houe, where I had

left it. I began to lament the los of it,
when! perceived
at a great dianceit,z wIskipping and vaulting
ran thither, as fa as
my Legs-could carry me, till I was out of
Breath again, and really, it was an agree
able Diverion, to behold that new way
of Couringz for ometimes, when I had
almo my Hand upon it, a new encreae of
Heat, got into the Glas-Ball, which attra
cting the Air with 'more force, and that
 World of the sun. 69
ke
Air raiing my Box up above my reach,"
made me leap after it, as a Cat does to a *
for
Hook, where it ees a Hare hanging. Had
tlr;
not my Shirt been upon the Capital, to re
tal:
i the force of the Glaes, it would have
.lll made the Voyage by it ll alone.
But to what purpoe is it, to call to mind
at an Accident that I cannot think on, but
th: with the ame Grief; that I felt at that time!
If It's enough to know, that it bounded, row
ll'
led; and ew l'o long; and that I jumped,
llll: run, and skipped i) much, that at length,
h I aw it fall down, at the Foot of a very
high Hill. It had perhaps led me a Dance,
r? a great deal farther,had not that lofty Swel
lin of the Earth, by its hade, that black
ne the Sky, to a large diance upon the
Plain, pread forth a Night of half a Lea
gues Circumnence: For falling into that
Darknei, the Glas thereof no boner felt
the Cool, but that no more Vacuity was en
gendred in it, no more Wind through the
Hole, and by conequence, no more Impul
ion to upport it; o that it rumbled down,
and would have broken into a Thouand
'hivers, had not by good luck, a'Pond of
Water, into which it fell, yielded under
the weight. I drew it out of 'the Water,
repaired' what was bruied 5 and then hav
ing taken fa hold of it in my Arms, car
ried it to the top of a little Hill, hard by.
' _ F 3 'There
 70 The Hiory of the
There I took my Shirt o on't z but I could
not put it on, becaue my Glaies beginning
to work their eect, l perceived my Cale
already wagging to be gone. I had no
more time let, bur uddenly to get in, where
' I hut my elf up as at r. _
The Sphere of our World, appeared to
me as a Planer, much about the bignes o
the
grewMoon,
les andas le,
he appears to us: Nay,asl
ill proportionablyi it

acended, inomuch that it became a Star, ..

then a Spark, and then nothing at all z for -

-_-_-_
that luminous Point grew o harp, that it -
'
might equal that, which terminates the la
Ray o my ightz. that at length it wasvval
lowed up in the common colour of the
Heavens, some perhaps may wonder, that
during o long a Voyage, I was/not over. =-\'u-u-'cn-gd

taken with Sleepz. but eeing Sleep is

only produced by the gentle Exhalation of
the 'Victuals, which evaporate from the
Stomach to the Brain, or by a Neceity .4- .- _.-

r that Nature nds o looking up our Soul,

that during Repoe, he may recover as ma;
ny Spirits, as have been pent in Exercie: l ._.* *'3>

had no mind to Sleep, ince l did not Ear;

and that the Sunupplied me,with more ra LJ

dical Heat,than I conumed, ln the mean

while, my Elevation continued, and pros ' <
portionablv,as it brought rne nearer to that l(
/ enampd World, lelt a certain Joy diue
!F\
 World of the Sun. _ f
it elf through my Blood, which rdctilitd,
it, and advanced to my very-Soul. Ever
ii: now and then l looked upwards, ithat-l
might admire the Vivacity of the Lure,
that rayed into my little Chryal-Houq and
it is freh in my Memory ill,- tha't at' the
a time i put my Eye to the Orice of' the'
Veiel, behold, with a' udden art', Iel':v
omething heavy, that ed from all tas'
parts of my Body. A whirling Cloud of
very thick, and, in a manner, palpablq
Smoakphoaked my Glai with Darknesz and
when l Ood up to conter'nplate that Ob
curity, which blinded "me, law no more,- -
neither Vtel, nor Burning-Glaes, Glas- .
Window, not Covering to my Shed .- I
looked down, then, with Dei nto ee'
What made my Maer-piece thus all to rub
ine'zbut in place of it, and o the four
Sides and Floor, I found nothing but the
Heavens round about me. I was rightned
beyond meaure, when Iotmd, as i the'
' Air had been pettied, Iknow not what
inviible Obiacle, which forced back my'
Arms, when] thought to retch them forth'
It came then into my imagination, that
mounting o high, I had without doubt'
got into the Firmament, which ome Phiios
ophers and Aronomers have maintained
to be oiid. I began to Fear, I hould remain
udded in therez but the Horrour'that the
' F 4 odd
72 The Hiory of the
oddnels of that Accident ca me into, Was
exceedingly encreaed by thoe that fol
lowethor my ight, that rambled here and
there, falling by chance upon my Brea,
inead of opping at the Surface of my
Body, went quite through, then a mo
ment after, [thought aw behind me, and
almo Without any interval, as ifmy Body
had been no more but an Organ of ight:
I perceived that _my Fleh, being cleaned
from-its Opacity, transferr'd Objects to my
Eyes, and my Eyes Objects through it.
At length, having above a Thouand times
hnockt again the Roof; Floor, and Walls
of my Chair-volant, without being able to
[he it, I found, that through a eCret Nece
ty ofthe Light in its ource, my Shed and
I were both become tranparent. Nor but
that lought to have-perceiv-'d it,thoughDia
pharme, eeing we very well perceive Glas,
Chryal, and Diamonds that are o z but I
fancy that the Sun, in a Region o near
himelf, purgesby'ranking
their Opacity, Bodies moremore
perfectly from
riaightly
the imperceptible Pores-ofthe Matter, than
in our World 5, wherevhis Force,worn out al
mo by o long a paage, is hardly able to
transfue his Lure into precious Stones;
However, by reaon ofthe internal Smooth
nels of their Surfaces, he makes them
reect through theirGlates, as through little
. . . ' Eyes,
 World ofthe Sun; 73
Eyes, either the Green of Emeralds, the
Scarlet of Rubies, or the Violet of Ame
thys, according as the dierent Pores of
the Stone, either more raight or more
winding, extinguih or rekindle that weak
Light, by agreat many Reexions. One
diculty may puzzle theReader,to wit,How
I could ee my elf, and not my Houe, (e'e
ing l was become Diaphanous, as Well as it.>
I anwer, That without doubt the Sun acts
otherwie upon animate, than upon inani
mate Bodies; becaue no part neither of my
Fleh, Bones nor Entrails, tho' tranparent,
had lo its Natural Colour; on the contra
ry, my Lungs under an incarnate Red, ill
retained their delicate Softnes' t My Heart
ill Vermilion, gently movedwith its SjOIt,
and Diaole .- My Liver cemed to burn in
a Purple Red, and boyling the Air which]
breathed, continued the Circulation ofthe
Blood: In hort,
my elf to I aw, and
be theiame, touched, and feltl
nevertheles
Was not o. -
Whil I was conidering thisMetamorpho
is, my Voyage grew hortet and horter ill,
but with a great deal of lownes then, by
reaon of the Serenity ofthe Bher, which
was raried proportionably,as I drew nearer
the ource ofDay ; for eeing the matter in
'Ell
that Region is very thin,becaue ofthe great
Vacuity it is full oand that by coniequetlilce
- t at
 74; .\- The Hiory the
- thatMattzer is very lazy,by' reaon oftheVaeu
ity that has noAction,thatAir pang through
the hole orny'Box, could not produce but
a little Wind, hardly able to upport it.
l never reected upon the Malicious Ca
prieiounes o Fortune, which always o ob
inatl oppoed the Succes of my under-tas
king, utl wonder my brains did nOt turn.
But lien to a Miracle, which future Ages
will hardly be inclined to believe.
_ Beinghut up in a Box asclear as day, that
l had ju lo ightoand my ight agging
o, that] had mach ado not to allz m a
word, being in a condition, that all that's
contained in the great Fabrick othe World,
Was unableito a mez l ound my klf re
" duced to the Period of extream Misfortune:
Nevertheles, as when We are expiring, we
nd an internal Impule in us, to embrace -
thoe who have given us a Being 51 lited up
'ny Eyes to the Sun, our common Father.
That ardour oWill, n'Ot only upported my
Body,but alo raied it up towards thetthing,
which it a ith to embrace. My Body puh
ed orWardE my Box, and in' that manner I
continued my Voyage. So oon as [perceiv
ed this', more inteny than ever,I plyed all'
the aculties of my Soul, to raie my Imagi
nation towards that which attracted me z
but my head being loaded with my Shed, a-'
gaintt the upper-part whereof, the Eorts
fo
 ' Worldof the SunH ' 75
of my Will pan: it,whether I would or nor,
that did o incommode me, that at length ib
much weight, forced me to grope for the *
place nfits inviible Doct'. By' good fortune -
l ound it, and having opened it, threw
' my ef out .* Butthatnathtal Apprehenion
o ailing, Which all Animals have, when
i they nd nothing'to
me briskiy retch forthupport them, 'mi
myArm,thatl made
ht
take hold o hmewhat: I had 'no ot er
t Guide but Nature, Which'iands not upon
Reaoningz and therefore Fortuneher Ene
my,maliciouly forced my 'hand upon the Cen
* pital o Chryial. Alas! what Thunder-'
clap to my Ears, Was the ound ofthe Ico
iedron, whiCh tomy hearing broke in pie
ees I Such a Dihrder, Misfortune, and
vFright are beyond all expreions! The Glal
&sattracted no more Air, at no more-Va
euity was made; the Air became no more
wind, by its haening to ll it , and the
wind ceaed to carry my Box on high : In
hort, immediately after that wrack,I aw it
long a falling through thoe yat plains of
the World. 'It recontracted inzhe lame Re
gion,the dark Opacity which it had exhaledz '
in repect that the emerge-tick Vertue of the
Light,"ceaing in that place,it 'greedily 'vnited
again to the obcure Thicknes, which was
in a manner eential to it; in the ame
manner as Spirits, long after their Separatiz -
Ql]
 76 The Hiory of the
on,have been een to come in earch of their
Bodies, and that theymight rejoyn them,
to wander for the pace ofan hundred years
about their Graves., l fancy it lo in this
manner its Tranparency,for I have een it
ince in Poland, in theame conditionIt was
in, when r I entered it. Now l have
been informed, that it ell under the Equi
noctial Line, in the Kingdom of Borneo zthat
' a Portugue' Merchant bought it of the [lan
der that found it, and that from hand to
hand, it fell into the poeiion ofthat Polz'b
Engineer, who makes ue ofitat preent to _Lnn-
-'

y with.
Thus, then, hanging in the open pace o
the Heavens, and terried already by the
Death, which myfall threatned me with, I
turned, asI told you, my ad eyes toWards
the Sun: My Sightcarried my thought thi
ther, and my Looks being xed upon his
Globe,marked out a way which my Will fol
lowed , to tranport my Body to the ame
place, '
That vigorous Launching out of my
i
Soul, will not be incomprehenible to
any, that will but conider, the imple
Eorts of our Will', as, for Inance, It is
very well known, that when l havea mind
' to leap, my Will being excited by my Fanq
' cy, raiEs the whole Microcom,and endea
vours to tranport it to the mark, that it
pro
 World of the Sun. r 77

propoed to it izl. If it attain not always

it to it, it's becaue that the Univeral Prin
ciplos o Nature prevail over the Particu
an larz and that the Power o Willing be
his ing particular to enitive Beingsz and that '
i ll
ofalling to the Center, proper to all things,
was mater'ial in general-3 my Leap is orced to
at: ceae, o oon as-the Mas of my Body,
qui having overcome the Inolence of the Will,
chi ' that urprized it, draws near the Point to
lm which it tends. .
l to I hall wave what ele happened to me,
during the re omy Voyage, let l hould
1! r: be as long in relating,as Iwas in making it :
I'll only tell you in general, that at th'e end
of 22. Months, I at length happily arrived
at the great plains of Day.
That Land looks like akes o burning
Snow, o luminous it is z nevertheles itis a
thing pretty incredible, that I could never
comprehend, after that my Box ell, whe- -
ther I mounted up, or decended towards
far the Sun. I only remember, when I arrived
there, that I walkt lightlyz I toucht only,
l the Ground in a point, and loten rowled
to like a Bowl, nding it alike commodious,
uplf to walk either upon my Head 'or Feet.
I: 15 Though ometimes my Feet were towards
'ind Heaven, and my Shoulders towards the
'an Earthz yet in that poure, I ound my
lea elf as naturally ituated, as imy Feetbhad
lt it . - een
ro
 78 The Hiory of the
been towards the Earth, and my Shoulders
towards Heaven. Upon what part oevet
of my Body I placed my elf, whether no
on my Belly, or Back, on Elbow or Ear, l
found my elf anding. By that l knew,
that the5' and
Center Sun that
is a asWorld, which
l was at tulaiom
enougv no

the active Sphere of ours, and Of all the o

thers w-hichl met; o by conqaence, "it *
was 'un oble, that lhould ill be ponde
rous, eeing Weight is nothing ele, but an
Attraction o the Center, within 'he Sphere 7
of its Activity.
ct The _ _, [printed my'
Repect, wherewith
eps upon that Lum'mous Plain, upend
' ed for ome time, the eager Deire] had to
advance on my Journey. l was all ahered
to walk upon Ihethy : Nay, and my alto
nihed Body, deiring to telle upon mine
Eyes; and that tranparent Ground, vlphich
they pierced, not being able to upport
them 5 my lninct in pight of me, now
. become Maer of my thought, burried it,
Into the Aby of' a bottomles Light. My'
Reaon nevertheles, by degrees lind-wet
Ved my. Ininctz lWalked condently, and
without tremblinguponthe Plain, and dt
rected my perceived
coctuld have eps o boldly, that' World,
me from their iMen \

they would have taken me or'ome Powee

watching upontheClmdsstmM-I.think, -
"R
 World of the Sun; '
travelled about teen days time, I Came in
to a Country of the Sun, not o replendent
as thoe l had let. [ound my (Elf tranport
ed with Joy, and I imagined, that undoubt
edly that Joy proceeded from a ecret Syml
pathy, which my Being ill retained, with its '
Opacity. Neverthelei, the knowledge [had
othis,made me not dei rom myEnterpriz;
or then] was like' to thoe leepy old men,
who tho' they know that leep is hurtful to
them, and that they have ordered their Ser
vants,to natch them out ot it*s, Clutches, are
_ nevertheles very angry when they awaken
them. . In like manner, tho' my Body
growing obcure,as I reached the darkerProi
vinces, recontracted the weaknees,that that:
inrmity o matter brings along. with, itz _
yet I was pleaed therewith : Growing wea'
ry,eep invaded mez for that attering Hea
vines, wherewith the apProaches o eep
charms us, diilled o much pleaure into'
my Veins, that my Senes overcome thereby,
forced my Spirit to congratulate the Tyrant,
who chained its Servants z for Sleep,that Anv
tient Tyrant of one halfof our days, who
becaue ohisOld age, being unable to _i1p
port the Light, or to, look on it without
fainting, was forced to forake me, upon my
entry into the hining Countries or the Sun,
Was come to expect mean the Connes of
the duskyx-Region fpeakofz where having)
,, ' caught
80 The Hitory of the
caught me, he made me Prioner,hut up my
Eyes, his declared enemies, underthe dark
vault of my Eye-lids, and for fear that my o
ther Senes betraying him, as they had be
trayed me, might diurb him in the peace sz-H-z-z=aA

- able poeon ofhis Conque, he tied them

fa to their Everal Beds. The meanhg of
all this is in two words, thatl lay down up
on the Sand, and fell aleep. lt was a plain I-il

Country, and o open that as far as my ight

could reach, I did not dicover o much as
one Bulh zand nevertheles when Iawoke, I p
A)$
=1

found my elf under a Tree, in repect of

which the talle Cedars would but appear
as Gras. The Trunk of it was of Mave .R'D'UE:7S
Gold, it'sBranches ofSilver, and it's Leaves
ofEmeralds,which upon the replendentVer
dure of their precious SurfaCe, repreimted,
.as in a Looking-Glas, the Images of the
Fruit that hang about them. But judge ye 'I
20.?
whether theFruit owed any thing to the
Leaves zthe enamed Scarlet ofa large Car _AW'QE
EZZVFP'Z
FZ-S'
buncle, compoed one half of every one of
them, and the other was in upence, whe
ther it held it's matter of a Chryolite, or
ol' a piece of gilt Amber z the-blown Blo
oms were large Ros of Diamonds, and 0*
riental Pearls the Buds.
ANightingale,whoe mooth Plume. ren
dered it exceeding lovely, perching on the
highe prig, eemed ollicitous, with _it's
Me
 ' World of the Sun. 8i
Melodyct, to force the Eyes to canfeiz to thev
Ears', that it Well deisrved the ThrOne where;
on it ate. ' v ,
.l ood a lo'ng While amaZed at the ght
ofthat rich Spectacle, and 'I could not have
my un of beholding it : But whil my"
thoughts were wholly taken u'pin' contemplaJ
ting, among the Other_Fruit,'an exceeding
lovely Pomegranate, whoe Fleh was a'
_;-L"L, Warm of large Rubies in cluers,l aw that
little CroWn tht ands itinead ofa Head
move, which lengthened it elf, as much ad
was needful, to form a Neck; neXt I aw
omewhat white bubble and' boil' over it;
which by means ofCondenlation,C0n'cretiori
advancing and rePelling thematter in certain,
places, appeared a't len'gth to' be the face of
a' little bulk ofFieh. That little b'u'lk hap'
ed it (Elf into a round Figure towards the"
girdle, that's to ay, that in the lower part
o it,it ill retained the hape oanAppleNe
Verthel'es it eXtended it elfby degrees, and -
the tail of it being converted into two Legs;
each Leg divided it iel into veToes. So"
than a's the Pomegra'nate was humanized,it
broke orom its alk, and with a gentle"v
Tos ell ju at my Feet. I confes, really;
when I aw marching ately beore me that
rational Apple, that little Butr-en-d o a
Dwar, no bigger than my Thumb, al YCE
o powerful as to ctgjtehitkiel a' I' was eiz'eck
t .' G , With
82 The Hiory of the
with Veneration. Human Animal (aid he
to me, in that Original Tongue I told you
obeore,) after]
from the top hadBranch
of the longconidered thee, ,l
where l hungz
I thought I read in thy countenance, that
thou wa no Native othis World,and that's
the reaon why I am come down tobein
formed othe truth. When I had atised _ _n.\-_ _

his Curioity, as to all the queions he put to

me But pray, aid Ito him, tell me who
you are z for whatl have now en, is o
rangely urpriing, that I depair of ever
knowing the Caue o it, unles you dico
ver it to me. How! a great Tree allof pure
Gold, the Leaves whereofare Emeralds, the
Fiowers Diamonds, the Buds Pearls z and
beides all that, Fruit that make themelves
men in the twinkling o an Eye .> For my
part, I confes it paies my Capacity, to corn
prehend uch a Miracle. Having uttered this
Exclamation, whil [expected his anwer:
You will not take it amis, aid he to me, if .
being King oall the people that make up
this Tree, I call them to follow me. When
he had o aid, I oberved that he recoiled
within himelf: Icannot tell, whether by
bending the internal pringso his Will, he
excited without him ome Motion, that pro
duced what now you hall hear: But o it:
is, That immediately after, all the Leaves
and Branches, in hort the whole Tree,broke.
(0
 World of the Sun: s;- .
at'
w piec'ee, And became little Men,- that' aW,'
felt, and Walked 9 Who as if the " intd'ded
ta'cezlebme their' Birthiddy, zit t eVety he
&725er ank' 'ofthe'ir production, fen a dancing a
bout me t Of all,- liu'v none but the Night:
ingale retained it'sy farme? hdpe, and was"
not' at a11= Wfakndrphdied z it came and
perched iide the' Shbhldct of viii little'
Monarc'h, wrie'r'e it" Sang o' melanchbl'ick
and amuto'us an Air; that the whole A-'eu'
bly, and the P'rihe'e' him, mollied by'the't'
weethuguihigsotsdying Voicezccmlci
not fOrb'edr to hed ame' Tears. A Curioicyv
'giz-z. td learn 'Whem-3' that Bird came, eiz'ed me
ar that msz' uch z'n extraordinary ItcH
oTotrgbe, that' I could notomy heart ted
[dis n it. sit,-
Kingdid Ib'dtaid
fed?l, to
addrengry
trouble your&quotth
Majyi'z
T
I Would ask you the' que'dn, why among?
th o many Transormationsghe Nightingale a'd
l 'one haret'aiine'd itskind- P'Tha 't tle-Prin'ee *
Ie'ned tame With o' intmh Civirity, that ii '
kez _ heW'd he hada great dea'l ofgood Nature;
M: and knowing my Curioity: The Nightiw
gale, repi'red he,-hath n'ot changed its Form'
EIV. as We dVeVdone', bec'due it tduld no'tlz- it? -
ilk? a real Bill-ax Arid nethng e'l that' What it
t PN appeamdbe to you. But lqt'gotowar'ds
t ol obuune KEng; by the way
a'6 man You- th t am', ana'gWe YW'thdeo'f
no? 17 ofhegkngs kindly had [intiran
ar - . - a td
 84. The Hiory of the
ted to him,theSatisfaction that l receiv'd from ,
his oer, when he kipped nimbly up upon
one of my Shoulders. He ood upon his lit
tle Tip-toes, that he might reach my ear with
his Mouth z and ometimes winging, ome
times peered in my Hair: In troth, aid he,
thou mu e'en excue one that's already out
of breath, eeing in a narrow Body my
Lm'tgs are contracted,and by conequence my
Voice o mall,that l am forced to take a great _ -_ -_-._
dealof pains, t'o make my alfbe heard :The_
Nightingale would do be, to tell it's own
Hiory it elf, let it ing, then, if it think th_- H _F 'nx_ -_A4_

t, we hall have'the Pleaure, at lea to

hear it's Story in Muick. l replied,that I was
nor as yet, uciently acquainted with the
Language ofthe Bird, that a certain Philo
S opher, indeed, whom l met with, as l was
mounting up to the Sun,had given me ome
generalPrinciples,for underanding theLan
guage ofBr'tes zbut that they were not u
cient,or the underanding ofall words in ge
neral, nor for being aected with all the De
licacies that occur in an adventure, uch as.
that mu needs be. Well then, aid he, ince -_J
Tno
=_"U
i-T-li"

thou'lt have it o, thineEars hall nor only be

deprived, o the weet Songs ofthe Nightins
ale z but in a manner of all its adventure
alo, ofwhich Ican tell thee no more, than
what is come to my knowledge a However
be content with that Pattern zbeides the', I-TF'

'7-1
 World of the-Sun: -
' I knew it ully, yetthe hortnes oourjour'
ney into' it's Country, whither' l am going
to carry it back again, would nor iler me
to enlarge in my Relation. Having aid o, -
he jumpt down from my Shoulder upon the '
,' ground z then he gave the-hand to all hislit
tle People, and fella dancingwith them ina
kind o Figure, that I cannot repreent, the
like having never een. But hearken, O ye
people of the Earth, to what I don't at all
oblige you to believez ieeingin thatWorld,
where your Miracles are but natural Eects,
this hath pa for a real Miracle. So bo'n as
thee little men were fallen a dancing,- I
thought [ elt their, Agitation in my elf,
and my Agitation in them. I could not be
hold that Dance, but that I Was enibly'
drawn out o my place, as by a Vortex that
moved by it's own whirling, and by the
particularAgitation of every one othem, all
the parts of my Body were put intoAgitatid
on z i) that l felt the ame Gaynes uh in
my countenance, which a like Motion had
pread upon theirs.As the Dance cloed more
and more, the Dancers hued together, by
t a prompter and more imperceptibie way of,
skipping. The deign of the Ball eemed to
be, to repreEnt a huge Giant z for by ap
proaching to one another, and redoubling
the witneis of' their Motions, they ming
led h cloe together, that [diinguihed no
G 3 more
p 86 The Hiory' Of the
more, buta great tranparentolawz how;
ever my eyes aw them enter one into ano
ther. About that time, it'began to be out
ofmy powerzany more to dicern the Diver
ty of their aven-al Motions, by reaon of
their extream Volubility z and. alo becaue
thatVolubility, comract'mg more and more,
according as it approached to the Center,
each vqrtical Tripatlength,tool<; upo little
- _.-_
[pace that it ecaped my eye-gh- Nee
' vertheleil believe,'that the parts ill ape
marched one anotherz for" that human?
as, hostelere o huge-ly great, Was by
degrees reduced. into the hape of a young
Man, oa middle ature, whoi: Members
were proportioned with o exact-a Symetry,
that 'he highet Idea of, perfection could ne-.
Ytrtcachit: He was heauriful, beyond all
that the &ncy pk Painters couldeverimaginz
but that Which emed to me very range
was, that all the parts which compleated
that perfect Microcolin, were link'cd tOng.
ther in the twinkling of an eye; the him, mOAF-'A_. _. _
blf-r ort. "o our little Dancers cut a Capriol,
to She-heightandnatural paure a hun:
ipg a Head. The better. but les agile, formed
the Hearts and thee that were much heavi
er, furnihed Only-the Bones, Fleh, and "iz
a'
f?

Plumpneliz ,- *
' When that lQVClY big young Man, Was
sampkady nihed , though the &got-dy ._.
. v m
 World of the Sun, ' i

Compotion of him, had hardly allowed

me time to oberve any interval in the Ptoz
greiion
ple, z Iaw
of whom he the
wasKing of all thee Peo-j
an Abridgement, end *
ter in at the Mouth: Nay, it eemed to me, t
that he was drawn into that Body, by'the
Repiration of the Body i't ilk? This Pile
o little Men, had not as yet given any ign
of Life; but o oon as it had ucked in its
little King, it perceived it elf then, robe
no more but one. For ome time he ood.
conidering o- me, and eeming. by his -
looks, now acquainted with me,- he drew
near, careed me, and giving me his Hand:
Now it is, aid he, . that without wrong
ing the delicatenes omy Lungs, I can en
tertain thee with the things,that thou pa- _
onately deired to know I- But r of all,
lel it's but reaonable, that I hould dicover
to thee, the hidden' Secrets of our Original.
Know then, that we are native Animals o
the brighter Regions of the Sun - the mo
Ul ' ordinary, as well as, the mo uul of our
Employments, is to Travel Over the va
Countries of this great World. 'We curi
ouly oberve the Manners 'o People, the
Genius of Climates, and the Nature of all
things, that deerve our Coniderationz by
means whereof, we form to our izlves,a cer
tain Science o every thing that hath a Be
ing. Now thou mu know, that my Va
G 4. (als
. 83 - _The Hztory'of the
als travelled under my Conduct, and to the
end, we might have time to oberve things '
* morecuriouy, we retained not that par
ticular Conformation of our Bodies, which
cannot fall under thy Senes,and whoe Sub
tilty would have made us make too much
hae, but we converted our elves into
Birds, all my Subjects, by my Qrders, be
came Eagles, and as for my irlf, lea they.
might grow weary, I Metamorphod my
- elf into a Nightingale, to weeten their La
bour, by the Charms of Muck: Without
ying, l followed the rapid ight of my
People, forl perched upon the Head of
one of my Vaals, and we were ill puru
ing our Journey, when a Nightingale, an
Inhabitant of-a Province' o the obcur'e
Country, that at that time we Travelled
- through, aonihed to ee me in the Power
of an Eagle for it could take us for none o
ther, but what it aw usto be) fell a bewail
ing my Misfortune: I ordered my People to
hal t,a nd we lighted on the top ofomeTrees,
where that Charitable Bird lamented. [took
o much 'Pleau-re in the weetnes ofher dole
plAirs, that tq-the end [might enjoy them,
F e lo"nge_r,and with more convenienc re
_ol.ved not to _undeceive her. Idevied upon.v
5, e pot a Story,wherein I told her theima'gi-.
nary-Misfortunes, that had made me fall into
the ranne! that Basle-il pissed it out wixh
. - o
 -W0rld-0fi the Sun; 89
o fiirpriing-Adventures, which o dexterouy
raied the Paions, and the Air was o well adap
ted to the Letter, that the Nightingale, was quite
beide her &if. ,We reciprocally warbled to one
another,theHio'ry of our mutualLove in Muick.
' I chanted in my Airs,that not only I was comfor.
ted, but even re]0yced in my diaer, (being it
had procured me the Glory, vto be lamented in
tich pretty songs; and that little dihonolate Bird
anwered me in hers, that he would 'oyfully ac
cept all the eeem, Iput upon herzif e thought,
that that could make her deerve, the Honour of .
dying in my place; but that Fortune, not having
'reixved o much Glory,er uch a Wretch as he,
he only accepted o that eeem, as much as might
hinder me, from being ahamed ofmy Friendhip.
I made anwer again, on mY part, with all the
tranports,tendernes,and oftnes of o touching a
Paon,that I perceiv'd her,three or four times,rea
dy todie oLove, upon the Branch. The Truth is,I
mingled o much Art, with the Sweetneis of my
_-V0ice, and urprized her Ear with uch quaint
Touches, and by ways o unuual to thoi: of her
wai Kind,th at I raied in her pretty Soul,what Paon
oever I pleaied. In this Exercie, we pent four
and twenty Hours; and 1 believe, we had never
toil given over making of Love, had not our Throats
loi denied us any more Voice. That was the only
Obacle, that'hindred us from' proceeding: For
he:
perceiving, that the Pains I took, began to 'tear
lit my Throat, and that I could hold out no log
Po: ger, without falling into a Swoon, I made her a
agi' ign to draw near to me. The danger he thought
ini I me to be in, amid o many Eagles, 'perwaded
her, that I called her to my aid: She came iea
r 'g
 ,_';'

90 The Hiory of the

ing immediately, to my Aance, and rehlv
ing to give me a Glorious Inance, that he could
ib'r a Friend brave Death even upon his Throne,
he boldly lighted upon the great crooked Beak
of the Eagle, where I was perched. Really, o
rong a Courage, in o weak a Creature, affe
cted me, with ome Veneration; for, grant I
had implored her aid, as he fancied, and that it
be a Law, among Animals of the ame kind,
to a the unfortunate; yet, the Ininct of her
timorous Nature , ou bt- to have made her wa
ver; and nevertheles, e bo led not in the lea:
On the contrary, he made o much hae, that
I cannot tell which ew r, the Signal, or the
' Nightingale. Proud, to ee under her Feet, the
Head of her Tyrant, and ravihed, to think
- that for my ake, he was to be Sacriced, almo
' under my Wings, and that ome happy drops of
her Blood, might perh'aPs Jert upon my Feathers,
he gently turned her Eyes to me, and having
bid me adieu,as it were, by aGlance,which eem.
Qdto ask me leave to die; he ruck o brisle .
him' little Beak, into the Eyes of the Eagle, that
they heme'd to me to be out, before the peck
was, given. When my Bird perceived 'it rlf to
be-blind, it formed to it litlf'another ight of new. -
I gently rebuked the Nightingale, for her too
rah Action; and thinking it would bedanger
ous vto conceal our real Being, any longer from
her, I- told her, - who we were; but the poor lit
tle thing,prepoeed with an Opinion, that thee
Barbarians, whoe Prioner I was, forced me to
devie that Tale, gave no credit to all that I could
y when When I found that all the Reaons,
whereby I thought to convince her, prove? inef
- r ' ectual
 vW'orld of the Sun; i 9;

fectual, Igave*private,0rders, to ten or twelve

thouand of my' Subiecte, and, immediately, the
Nightingale, perceived under her Feet, a River,
running under a Beat, and- the Beat oating up
- * on it; the Beat was no bigger, than was uci
cut to hold me, and another of my Size. At
the r Signal given,'my Eagles ew away, and
Ithrew my elf into the Ski; from whence, I
called to the Nightingale, that if he could not
as yet, reolve to" leave me o oon, he hould
embark with me. So oon as he was come in,
Icommanded the River to take its coure, to
wards the Region, whither my People ew; but
the uidity Of the Water, being inferiour to
. that of the Air, and by conequence, the Rapi
dity of their ight greater than that of ours, We ,
were left a little behind. During the whole Voy
age, I made it my Buines, to undeceive my lit
tle Paenger ,- I' told her, that he ought not to
expect any fruit of herPaon,ince we were not
of the ame Kind, that he might very well have
perceived that, when the Eagle, whoe Eyes he
had ruck out, framed to it elf new ones, in
her preence, and when at my command, twelve
thouand of my Subjects, had Metamorphoed
themelves, into that River and Boat, which
carried us. .My Remonrances had not the lea
succes: She made me anwer, that as for the Ea
gle, who, Iwould have it believed, had formed
to it itlf Eyes, it had no need of them ; becaue
he had not ruck her Beak right into the Ball of
its Eye; and as to the River and Beat, which I
aid to' have been begat only of a Metamorpho
is of my People, they were in the Wood from
the Creation of the Worid,'though they hacicht '
- 11
 92 The Hiory of the
been minded. Perceiving her o Ingcnious, in
deceiving her elf, I agreed with her, that my
Vaals, and I, hould Metamorphoe our hlves
to her view into what he pleaed; provided, that
after that, he would return to her own Country.
Sometime, he deired it hould be into a Tree ;
ometime, he wihed it might be into a Flower
ometime into Fruit, ometime into Metal, and
ometime into Stone. In ne, that I might at
once atise all her Deires, when we arrived at
my Court, where I ordered her to expect me,
we Metamorphoed our elves, to the Eyes o
the Nightingale,into that preciousTree,thou foun
de upon the Road, of which we have ju now
abandoned the form. Now after all, that [ee
that little Bird, reolved to return into her own
Country, my Subjects, and I, are about to reiime
our Figure, and the right way of our journey :
But it is but reaonable, that I hould r dico
ver to thee, that we are Natives, and Aborigehe:
of the Sun, in the bright part thereof; for there
is a very remarkable Dierence, betwixt the Peo
ple, Which the Luminous Region produces, and
the People of the obcure Country. We are they,
whom in the.World of the Earth, ye call Spi
rits, and your preumptuous upidity, hath gi
ven us that Name; becaue, imagining no Ani
mal, more perfect than Man, and perceiving that
ome Crcatures, perform things above Humane
Power, you have taken thee Animals for Spirits.
You are miaken though, we are Animals as well
as you: For although when'we pleae, we give
to our Matter, as you have ju now een, the e
ential Figure, and Form of the things, into
which we have a mind to transform out elves,
that
 World of the Sun. i 93

that does not infer that we are Spirits. But lien,

and I'll diover to thee, how all thee Transfor
mations, which eem to thee to be o many Mi.
racles,are no more but pure natural Eectshou
mu know, that being born Inhabitants of the
bright .part of this great World, where it is' the
Principle of Matter to be in Action; we ought
to have the Imagination, far more active, than
thoe of the obcure Regions, and the Subance
' of Body, it
uppoed, farmu
more ubtil
vneeds be,alo. Now
that our this being
Imagination
meeting with no Obacle, in the matter that
compoies'us, it dipoes the ame as it pleaes, and
becoming Mireis of all our Mais, makes it by
moving all its Particles, to pai into the order, ne
ceary for conituting that-great thing, which it
had formed in little. So that every one of us,
having imagined the place, and part of that pre-v
cious Tree, into which we had a mind to be chan
ged; and having by that eort of Imagination,
'excited our matter to the Motions, nece
for producing them, we trans'formed our elves
into the ame. Thus my Eagle, having his Eyes
peckt out, had no more to do, for reoring of
them again, but to imagine himisl a harp-ight.
ed Eagle; for all our Transformations, are per
formed by Motion; and therefore it is that, ,
when from Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit that we
were, we became tranmuted into Men, thou
awe us dance ill ometime after, becaue we
were not as yet recovered from the agitation,
which we ought to give to our matter, for
making of us Men : After the manner of
Bells; which though they be opt, yet Chime
for ome time after, and dully retain the ame
t ibund
 94 The Hiory of the
ound, which was cauiul by the riking of the
Clapper; and therefore thou awe us dance, be
fore we made that great Man, becaue for pro'
duction of him, it behoved us to take ali the ge
neral, and pa'rt'icular Motions',that Were neceary
to oonirute him ;t'o the end that that agitation by'
degrees compreng, andcompacting out everal
Bodies by it's motion, might create in 'ererypart
the pecick Motion, whiCh it ought to have. Ye
men ofthe Other world,Cann0t do the ame thing-s,
by reaon of the Heavin'efs ofyour Mas, and the
Coldne of year Imagination. '
_ He Continued hisProbatit'm, a'nd'illurated it'
. by o familiar and palpable InanCes, that ar;
length I was unde'ceiv'd of a great 1112an ill prov'd
_ opinions, wherewith our obinateDoctorspoeb
the minds of the weak. At that tinual begarr to
conceive, that in reality, the-imagination ofthee
Solar people,which by reaon ofthe Ciim'ate ' ht
'to be hotter, their Bodies for the lathe rea on
lighter, and their" ' rjns more-active (there be
ing in that Worl , as there is in our's, 'no Acti
vity of the Center, which may diVert the matter
from the motionl which that Imaginatioh amp's
upon it '.)I conceived, I ay, that that Imagination
'might produce without a Miraele, all the Mira
_ cleswhieh it had performed; A thouand Exam
pies Ofalmo the like eects, armdd by peoPle
l of our Globezfull'y perWaded me of this. Cippm K.-_
of Italy,wh0 havingbeen preent ata ght or Bulis,
A and his imagination all the night After,v running
. upon Herns,found hislforehead hdl'nGd neat morn
ing. Gallus Vitim, who bent his mind andz Vi O'
rouy excited it, to conceive theNat'u're tide 17;
that having by an eort of hna'gimtionp given
. , . to
 World of the Sun. '95
to his matter the ame motions, that that matter .
ought to have for conituting. Folly , be
came a Fool. King Codrm- being Ptiical,
and xing his eyes and thoughts upon the freh
looks of a young Countenance, and that orid
Chearfulnes which darted upon him, from the
youthfulneis of the Boy, exciting in his Body the
.,:>.
. motion, whereby he fancied the healthfulnes of a
(u young man, recovered his Health. In hort, ma
, ny Women have made their'Children, already
formed in the Womb, Moners ; becaue their
imaginatiOn, that was nOt rong eough, to give
to themelves the Figure of the Moners, which
II,
ia:
r::<;*
they conceived, had force ucient to muer the
matter ofthe Fxtm, that was much hotter, and
more moveable than their own,into an order prop
per for the production ofthee Moners. Nay I
te; was perwaded,that when that famous Hypochon
driacal man of Antiquity,imagined himelf to be
35:sz
a Pitcher, if his two compact and heavy matter -
could have followed the emotion ofhis Fancy, it
Fa
'He
2e
"Y
Fast)
$-*"3<
52'?
wOuld have formedef his entire Body a perfect
Pitcher; and he would haveappeared to allemen
to be a real Pitcher, o as he aPpeared to beto
himelfalone.A great many mherlnances,where
with I atised my elf, o throughly convinced
me, that I made no doubt any more, ofthe won;
ders which the Man-pirit' told me. He asked me,
if I deired any thing ele of him 3 andI thanked'
him with all my Heart : After that, he had ill
, the goodnes to adviie me, that ince I was an In:
habitant of the Earth, I hould follow tthighta
. ingale into the obcure Regions ofthe Sun,'becauie"
they were more utable to the pleaures which'
Human Nature covets.- No ooer he
cu .
[0

\.
 96 7 t The Hiory of the
cluded this dicoure, but that openingv his
Mouth _very wide, I aw the King ofthee little
Animals come out of his Throat, in hape of a *
Nightingale. The great man inantly ell dowh
and at the ame time, all his Members by mor
cels ew away under the form of Ea'gles. That
Nightingale elf-Creator, perched upon the fair
e of them, from whence he warbled out a mo
excellent Air, whereby, I fancy, he gave me the
Farewel. The real Nightingale took ight alo,
but not the way as they did, nor did he oa-r
o high; o thatI did not lefe ight ofher.We tra-'
velled much about the ame rate; for eeing] was
* indierent what Country] went to r, I was'
f14>_ _-Ai_
ve willing to accompany her ; beides that the
thure regions of the Birds, being more con
form to my Conitution, I hoped alo to meet
with_Adventures there, more agreeable to my hu-:
mour. In that Expectation I travelled for the
pace of three weeks at lea, with all imaginable
content, had Ivhad nothing but my ears to atisz
e;er the Nightingale let me not be without Mtv
ick; when he was weary, he came and reed
upon my Shoulder ; and when I opt, he (laid
or me. At length I arrived 'in a Country, ofthe
Kingdom ofthat little Qiiricr; who then ca FS'dEIT

r'ed no more for my Company, o thatI lo ight

of her. I ought her, and called to her; but at
length growing weary of running up and down'
'in vain after h_er,l reolved to take ome re: For
thatend l laid my elalOngupon a oft Carpet !_ : h '.-1

of Gras, pread at the Root of. a lofty Rock,

that was covered with many trees, whoe blith,
and frehVerdure was a perfectEmblem onouth :_ q dcjg

\ liar whil oftencd by the. Charms othr place-a.

The
 World ofthe Sun. 7
i The Hiory B I RD S.

Began to fall a aleep in the Shade, I

perceived in th'e Air a range Bird,
that hovered over my Head ; it upported
it elf by o light and imperceptibie amo
tion, that I was many times in doubt,
whether it might nor be alo a little
a
i?
ET'. Univere, balanced by its own Center.
However by little and little it de
cended , and at len h Came o near,
avAs
V?
FJ'R
--.aa,r*c_.-L'=.._'$*HL='*<-.
that it lled my E es with _a deli ht
ful Propect. The Tail of [it re to
be green, its Brea Azure-enamel'd, its
Win s Incarnare, and its Head Purple,
whic toed a glittering Crown of Gold,
the Rayes whereof parkled from its
Eyes; .
It kept a long time upon the Wing,
and I was b attentive to oberve what
became on't, that my Soul being con
tracted, and in a manner wrapt up in the
ole action of Seeing, it hardly reacth my
Ear, to let me hear that: the Bird poke as it:
ung.
However,being by little and little unbent
from my Extaie, I diinct-ly remarked the
'Syllables, Words, and Dicoure which it
uttered. .
H_ To
I
 98 Tbein'ory the.
* To the be ofmy Memory, then it pun
out its Song into thee terms, t. - .
You'are a Stranger, While'd the Bird,
and has had your 'birth in a World, of
which originally/1 I am. NOW' that ecret
propenity to; mutual Love', 'that thoe of
the ame Country have one for another,
is the ininct,,_which
YouofmyLife.;; * Inclines
[.i; 2.' me
Lct to inform
. W
5 _ CLEQ
:,' I percech oilr mind puzled to conceive,
. howitispo ible'that I houldiexpres my
--elfto you, in acoutinued Diizoure, eev UHPZ
F'TU
22
ing theughz-Birds- imitate zyour words, i
they 'underand not the meaning ofthem ;
but, on the Other hand, When' you Coun
terfeit the: Bark-ing 'of a DVK, or the Note _4-l-_.. .

e a Nzgirripgale, youundera-nd
What the qug or N'gbtzihgdle meansas there
little
LY. Conclude then frem.,tlience, .That FCP

neither Birds nor Men are therefore the le-IB SENT-V

rational. , > .- - '
Nevertheles, in the. ame manner as
an' you, there: have been ome o
Jngenious,_-asto have underoodand lcr
ken our Language, as Apollonius', Thinne
m, detain-ender, zpp, and many. Othe'S,
whoe names I conceal, becaue they 'ne
zver to zpur knowledge 3' o there are rm-s
thoe among us, .who . Lmderandrrand
zfeak youre Some indeed, , know Only'
the Language o one Nation : But ju o
c .- . , ' as
 - -' s
. _, World ofthe Sun: i99\
'as there are ome Birds that ay - nothing at
all, ome that chirp, and others that peak;
there are alo ome more perfect, Who c'an
make ue of all Idioms; as for my ielf, I
have the honour to be one of that mall
number. 7 ' ' . >
After all, you mu know, that in What
world 'oever it be, nature hath am
On Birds a ecret deire ofying 'up hither/3
and perhaps that Emorion of our Will is,
that which hath made our Wings to grows
as Women with Child imprine upon 'their
Children,the 'gure of the thingsthey
vhave longed for; or rather 'as thoe who
paonately would learn to Swim, have
been kenin their leep to jump'into Rivers,
_>and with more;
Swifnmer skill than,
pas thoe an experienced
danger's, that if the i
had been awake, they dur not have -
jmuch as beheld; or as the Son of that
'ame King Cum, whom a vehement deire
of "peaking, to ave' his Fatheris Life,
taught a Language all of a udden; or-in
hort,v asthat-Ancient who being purued
'by his Enemy , and urprikd without
Arms, had Bulls Horns grow out on his
Forehead, .throu h-the deire that a Rage,
_ not unlike to that f that Bea,- iniited in
to _ _ ' 7 I 1 v v
When Birds then arrive in the Sun', they
go and aociate themelves
i i ' H 2 e
to the Repub
lle
 1 oo The Hiory ofthe
lick of their kind. I well perceive, you
are big with expectation to learn what I
am, it is I who among you am called a
Phenix, in every world there is but one
at a time, which lives there for the pace
of an hundred Years; for at the end of an
Age, when upon ome Mountain of Ara
bia, it hath laid a reat Egg' amid the
Coals of its Funeraf Pile, which it hath I
made ofthe Branches of Aloes, Cinnamon
1
and Frankincene, it takes its ight, and
diverts its coure towards the Sun, as the r
l
Country to which its heart hath long all -
pired. It hath indeed made many At 1
tempts before, for accomplihing that Voy t
age,- but the weight of its Egg, which 'e
hath o thick a hell, that it requires an v
Age to be hatched in, ill retarded the I?
Enterprie. e
I am enible, that you can hardly com ol
prehend that miraculous Production ,- and du
therefore I'll explain it to you. The Pbe tl
nixis an Hermaprodite, buc among Her
maphrodites, it is likewie another Pbem'x r F
altogether extraordinary; For------- ' he
_It c0ntinued half a quarter of an hour gl
without peakin , and then added: I per
ceive you upe whatI have told you to [i
be falle, but if * what I ny be nor true, '
the r' time I come into your Globe, may tl
- an Eagle devour me. _ di
It
 Word of the Sun." t or, i

It remained a little while longer hover

ing upon Wing, and then ew away, - w
The Admiration that its relation put: me
into, gave me the Curioty to follow. it 3;
and becaue it cut the Welkin with no
wift ight, I eaily kept within ight of;
lt' ' 4 * .

At the end of Fifty , or thereag

bouts, I found my (hi in a Country ib full
of Birds, that their numberequalled al
mo the number of the leaves that cove
red them. The thin that urpried me
mo was, that in ea of growing wilder
upon my coming, they flew about me,
one chirped into my Ears, another fetch
ed a compa about my head : In hort,
when their Gambols had for a long time
taken up my attention, all of a u den I
felt my Arms loaded with above a Million
of all orts and kinds, which reed them
down o heavily, that I coul not move
them.
They held me in this poure, until I irw
Four great Ea les come, of which Two
having with t eir Talons taken fa hold
on me by the Legs, and the other Two
b the Arms, they carried me up aloft in
t e Air.
'Amon the Wood I pied a Magpy,
that 'ma e a teat bule ying up and
down,- and I card her. call tomc, that I
H 3 hould
 116'2 * ThectHr'ory ofthe 7
hould not make reiance, becaue her ,
Companions were already conulting to'put
' (St-ii; my; Eyes. This admonition put a op
menwe Strugling that I could have made ;
'that theiEEagles carried me above aThou
andx Leag'ues 'from thence into a great
Wood, which was ( as, the Magpy told
rie )z' th'e ' City Where, their King held his
Renown-- .- .
* The r 'thing they did, was to throw
me into-Pnion, in the hollow Trunk of a
, largeOakz; ahd a 'great many of the rong
et upon 'the Branches, where
they 'performed the duty of a Company' of
- Souldiers anding to their Arms.
e' About theend of Fourand twenty hours,
&net-her Comany mounted the Guard, and
relieved thee. In the mean time, whil I
lWaith withagreat deal of Melancholy, to
' ' know What lt would pleae Fortune to
determine o me ; amid 'my Misfortunes
my charitable Magpy informed me of all
hatPa-, . r '
- A-Amon'gi other things, I remember he
told ine, 'That the Mobile of the Birds,
had made' a'lieaizy Rout, lbecaui: they had
ket me ribl'on'g without devoun'ng me z
that they had alledged I would 'grow o,
- clean, that there Would ="be nothing of me
reft tuc'*Bva<-:s,to*ri>+
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 World ofth Sun; 123'- .
:E: '5 The Clamor was like toibreak out into'
a Sedition 3 ' for my Magpy Thav-ing taken]
the boldnesto repreent, That'it was-'fa
barbarous Procedure to pnt to death
that manner withoutany Tryal, an Aniz
mal, Which in ome ort had Reaon a's weli
as they ;_ they had like to have torn her 'te ' * \
pieces, pretendingthat it would be Ye? ri-'
diculous, to think that' an Animal 'ark
naked, which' Nature her elf, When he
produced it, took no care to furnih' with
things neceary for its Preervation, 'hould
becapable of Reaon like them Nay more,
added .they, were it an' Animal that re'
embled our hape omewhat more, it were
hmewhat 'z but of all things the mo un'-"
like, and mo hideous. In a' word, a
bald Bea, a featherles Bird, aChimera
patched up ,of all orts of- Natures, 'and
terrible to all. - Man, I ay, i) vain and
fOOlih, that he perwades himelf, we
were only made for him.. Man, who
with his harp-ighted Soul, cannOt diin
uih Sugar from A-rbnick, and who'll
wallow down Hemlock, when his quaint
Judgment hath made him take it for Par
iey. Man, who maintaine that there is
no Reaoning, but with arefcrence to the
Scnes; and vYet h'as the weake, dulle _
and mo erring Senesof all &Creatures
living. Man, in ne, whom Nature hath '
't _ H 4 . formed,
 l 04. The Hr'ory'oftl'e
formed as he doth Moners, to hew her.
tion ;ofand yet hath lled
dominee'riing over, with the Ambiz
and extirpating
all other Animals. '
. This was the dicoure that the wie-r.
ort held ; as for the Rabble they cried,
That it was a horrid thing, to believe
that a Bea, who had not a Face like theirs,
hould have Reaon. Now, chattered they
one to another, he 'hath neither Beak,
Feathers nor Claws, and can he have a
Spiritual Soul? Strange! what Impertiz
pence is that !
- Though the more generous pittyed me,
yet that hindered not, but that an Inditez
ment was brought in again me; all the
Writings were drawn upon the Bark of
a Cypres Tree : And then ome Days
after, "I was carried before, the Tribunal of
Birds; There were none choen for Advoz
cares, Counllors and udges of the Court,
but Magpys, Jays, an Starlings; becaue
theY would have nQne but thoe that under.
'ood my Language.
-attheBar,theiy Inead'of
et me radling trying
upona me
Stump
> ofa_ rotten Tree; . wherehe that was Preie
dent ofthe Court, haying chattered two or
three times with his Bark, and Majei
c'ally hrugged his Feathers,th me, From
whence I came, of whatnation and kind
* was? My charitable Magpy'had given
i '; ' ' me
 World of the Sun. Ice;v
lier' me ome Inructions before, which were
imbi very u6ul to me; and among other,
inn; that I hould have a pecial care, not to
confes that I was a Man. I made an
rie: wer then, ThatI was of that little World.
cried which is called the Earth, that the Phe
nix, and ome others whom I law in Court,
her might have told them of : That the Climat
lit Where I was born, lay under the tempe
rate Zone of the Artick Pole, in the utmo
are l part of Europe, which was called Fra'ice';
and that as to my kind, I was not a Man,
as they imagined, but an Ape : That ome
Men had carried me away very young out
m'i * ofthe Cradle, and brought me up among
them: That their bad Breeding had reny
dered my skin o delicate; that they made
me forget my Mother's Tongue, and
taught me theirs : That to comply with
thee Wild Animals, I had accuomed my
elf to walk Only on two Legs: And that,
in a word, ince it is more eaie to degenez
rate than to improve in kind, the Opi
nion , Cuom, and Food of thee un-_
. _ clean Beas, had o much power up
_ on me, that hardly' my, Parents, who
w; are Apes of .uality, could themelves '
know me. I ad ed for 'my Juication,
that they might have me viewed by expert
Birds, and that in cae, they found me to
be a Man, I hould be willing to be
amillated as a Moner. r Genz
\
 106 'Noe Hzory of ibe
Gentlemen, cried a Swallow of the
Court, o oon as I had made an end, I
hold him as convicted : You have not for
got thatju now he aid, That the Coun--v
try where he was born, was France; but
you know that the Apes in France do not
engender : Judge now after that, i he be
what he boas himielf to be. -
' * I made anwer to my Accubr, That I
was carried-away o young -0ut of the
Bofbm of my Parents, and Tranported
into France, that I had reaon to call that
sly native Country which I remembred be.
i That reaon though pecious, was no:
icient; but the mo part being ravih
ed tollear, that I was not a Man, were
Very willing to believe it o ; For thoe who
had never een any, could nor be perwa-Z
ded, but that a Man was a far more hor
rid-Creature, than I appeared to be to them ;
and the dicreeter added, That aMan was '
o abominable a thing, that it were gOod
they hould believe him to be only an ima
ginary Being. - 3 -_
All the Court clapt their Wings for- Joy,
and immediatly I Wascommited to the Al
,dermen-Birds-tobeexamined, on'conditiOn
they hould preimtme again next Morning,
and at the opening of the Court, make
report ofthe Verdict ofsvhe Fury.- They
undertookthe-iAair chew-and untied me
< llfO
 World of the &07 -_
into a '.Bye-copice = Whilt'theyv kept me
there, they did nothing but play a hundred
Monkcy tricks about me 5 ometimes they
* knocked their Feet one again another,
by and by they duglit'tle' Heles, on] that
they might ll them up again; an then
all of a udden I was amazed that Icould
ce no Body at all. ' _
' The Day and Night were ent in thee
tries, until next Morning, that the hour
appointed being Come, thiy brought me to
appear again beforemy Ju ges : Where my
Syndicks being deired to tell the truth, -
Anwered, That to dicharge their Con
ciences, they hengh't themelves obliged
to inform the Court, That for certain I
'was notan Ape, as Ibr ' g'd: For, aid
they, it was-us no pur'po? for us to leap,
skip, whirl round, andvinvent before him 'a
'hundred odd Tricks and Capers, whereby
'wethought 'to move him to 'do the like,
'according to the cuom of Apes, when all -
not do. Now though he hath been
bred among Men,e'eing an Ape is- always
'an Ape, we maintain that it could 'not
have been in his power, to refrain. from
'imitating our A'pih Tricks. . This, Gen
tlemen, is our Report. ' >'
* The-Judges at that drew near to give
their Opinions ; but they perceived that-the
sky was overca and charged with
Clouds,
r I 08 The Hiory ofthe
Clouds, which made them break up the
Court,
Iimagined that the appearance of bad
Weather inclined them to do o.
When the Attorney-General by order of
Court came, and gave me intimation,
That they would n0t pas Sentence on
me that Day ; that they never determined
a criminal Proces, when the Sky was not
erene; becaue they were afraid, that the
bad temper of the Air, might work ome
alteration in the good Conitution of the
_minds of the Judges; that the peevih
temper the Birds are in, during Rain, mi ht
inuence the Caue : Or, in a word, t at
the Court might revenge their Sadnes up
on the Priibner ; and therefore it was, that
my Sentence was deferr'd' till fairer Wea
ther. I was carried back to Pribn then,
and I remember that in the way my cha
. ritable Ma py never forook me; he kept
ying all ong by my ide, and I believe
he would never have left me, had not
her Companions drawn near to us. -
, At length I arrived at the place of my
Prion, where,during, my Captivity, [had
no other Food but the King s Bread ;_ for
o they call half a hundred Worms, and as
. many MaggOts, that every kven hours they
brought me to eat, * _ '
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 World ofthe Sun. t o9
vI thought that I hould have appeared
again next day, and every Body thought
o too; but one of my Keepers told me, at
the end of ve or ix Days, that all that
time had been employed, in rendring Ju
ice to a Society ofGold-nches, who had
Complained of one of their number. I
asked my Keeper, What crime that poor
Wretch had been accued of ? Of the mo
enormous, replied my Keeper, thata Bird
can be aperad with. They accueit----
can you believe it? They accue it------
but good Gods! the very thoughts of it
makes my Feathers to and an end ! In
a word, they accue it, that 'during the .
ce of Six Years, it hath not as yet de
igved to have a Friend ,- and therefore it
hath been condemned .tobe a King, and a
King of a People that dier from it in
kin .
Had its Subjects been of its own na
ture, it might at lea have beguiled its
Eyes and Deire with their Pleaures : But
eeing the pleaures of one kind, have no
relation to thoe o another, it will up
port all the fatigues, and ta all the bitter
nels of Royalty, and never be able to relih
,the pleaures thereof in the lea.
They have liant it away this Morning,
accompanied with a great many Ph iti
ans, to take heed that it do not poi on it
blf by the way. Though
 I__ to The Hiory of'he r
, Though my Keeper was naturally a
great Talkcr, 'yet he dur nor entertain
me any longer in dicouriz, for fear of'
being upected of Intelligence with me..
About the end ofthe Week, I was again
brOught before my Judges.
They. reed me upon the breech of a lit<
tle Tree without Leaves. _
. All the Birds of the Long-Robe, as well
Advocate's, Counellors, as Judges, and Prea
idents, rooed by Stories; 'every one acs
' cording to. his Dignity, on the Top of a
tallCedar : For. the rewho were only
preent out of Curioity, they placed them-'
elvespromizuouy till all the Seats were
11,- that'stolay, till the Branches of the
Cedar .were covered with Feet. .' a '
\ 5 I The Magpy, in whom I oberved all
along o much Compaion for me,came and -
perched upon my Tree, where pretend-*
ing to divert her elf by Jpeekingxthe Mos 2
Really, aid hetome, you cannot believe
' how. much I am 'concerned at your Misfor
r-zune ; for though. I am nor ignorant that
among the Living, a) Man is .a Plague,
that ought to be-purged out of all wengo
'vern*d States ; yet when I call w mind, that
I was bred'among them from the Cradle,
that I have learned their Language o per
fectly, that I had almo forgot mine own;
and that I have eaten out of their
s T'; '.- a. u
 World of the Sun;" I1t
ll uch eXcellentl 'Green Cheee, I cannot,
think on't, bu: that it brings Water in
ol to my Eyes and Mouth ,* I have o great:
_- kindne; forqourthat, I cannot incline to
-'the right de. -
- She'had gone
i * interrupted on o
by the Ear; when
coming of anweEagle,
were

that. lighted among the; Branches of a

Tree, pretty near to minei I was about
to-have rien and fallen upon my knees
before
King, the Engle,
if my Magpythinking he Foot
with het 'had been
had the
no: i
held me fa in my Seat. Did you think;
u'd he, that that great Bag-le had been
crry,An-
our Sovereign ? That's an Imagination 'of
you Men, sxwho. becaue you . uer your
elves to ' be commanded :by 'the greate,
T'.'?-?-'ES_;-'a
F-l the ronge , and the: mo cruel. of
Your Companions, have foolihly thoughtz
judging of all things according to your
own meaures, that s the 'Eagle taught: to
Commandus. -
But our,v Politicks - are.-.*quire
.-L;. "dierent,
* * I
'X
for we never chu: for our Kings, but the
.Weake, the Wilde, and moLPeace+
'J v _ able 2 . Nay; and we change them every Six
Months, and pitch upon the Weak, to the
end, that the v:meanei amongzusz awho
may have been wronged by him,'may
take his Reve .. we'chule the Mild,
to the endhesnei er hatez-Hr. be hated of
e) t i anY
1 12 The Hiory of the . .'
an Body ;' and we would have him to
be of a Peaceful Temper, for avoiding of
War, the Sink ofall Injuicei
Once every Week he holds a Parlia-L '
ment, where all are received to propoe
their Grievances again him. If there be
but three Birds only diatised with his
Government, out he goes, and they proa
ceed to a new Election.
All that Day the Parliament its, our
King is mounted on the to of a high Yew
Tree, upon the brink o a Lake, bound
Feet and Wings. All the Birds one after
anOther pas before him; and if any of *
them know him to be guilty of a Crime
that deerves death, he may throw him
into the Water; but. he mu upon the
t, iuie the fact by good Reaons, o
t erwie he is Condemned to the aid
Death. -
I could not forbear to interru , and ask
her, what he meant b the aid Death?
And thisis the Anwer e made me: .
When the Crime ofa Malefactor is judged
to be o enormous, that an ordinary Death
is noc ucient to expiate it, they endeas
vour to chule one that contains the pain of
many; and inthis manner they proceed
tart:
, Thoe among us that have the mo
melancholick 'and doleful Tone, are' ent
to'
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WorldoflbezSzZn. _ I 13
to ithe 'Maleacton who is carried upon-a
dimal Cypres. There theizlad -Muieiz
ans gather about him; and rb riche-Ear ll
his Soul with uch tragica and doleful
Notes, that the bitternes of his Sorrow.
dicrdering
and preingthe
hisOeconom
. Heart, .eo his aWay-to
pints Organs;
- the ight, and dies choaked with: Sadnes. i
-' However uch a pectacle' never hap-3
pe s; for eeing our Kings are exceeding
de, they 'never force any Body to incur
o cruel a Death, upon the account ofRect
venge;
. . . ._ ., ,
He that at preent Reigns is a Dove,
'who is of O'peaceable a temper, that t'o:
i ther day, when twoSparrows were: tobjc
made Friends, it was the harde thing in
the World, to make him conceive what:
Enmity was. - * _' -. .- .o
My Magpy could not continue o longa
dicoure, without being oberved by ome
of the B -anders ; and becaue he was
already ulected of ome Intelligence with
me, the chief of the Aembly made
one of the . Eagles ' of my guard, catch her.
by the Neck, and make u're of her Per- -
on. Kingv Dove 'arrived in the mean
while ; all were ilent, and the r. thing
that .Was heard, -was "the complaint
of the great Center of the Birds, which he
made again'rhe. Mlagpy. .sThe' King _bc-;
. * ing
 g 14. The Hzory oft/1:
ing. fully informed of the Scandal he had
given, asked her her Name, and how (he
came to know me ? Sir, anwered he, all
in amaze, My name is Magget, there are
here a great many Birds oleity,that will
vouch for me. One day in the World of
the Earth, ofwhich I am a Native, I was
informed by Chirpper the Poy there, (who
having heard me cry in my Cage,came covi
t me at the Window where I hung,) t at
my Father was Bad-tail, and my Mot er
Crack-mar: I had not known o much but
for him 3 for I was carried away very
Young, from 'Under the Wings of my Pad
rents; my Mother inne time after died of
Grief; and my Father, being then pa the
Age of having any moreChild.ren,deairing
to ee himelfwithout Heirs,went to theWar
of the Jays, where he was killed by a peck
in the brain. They that carried me away
were certain wild Animals, whom they
call Hog-herds; who had me to be old at
a Cale, where I aw that Man who now
Hands upon his Tryal. I cannot tell, whes
ther he conceived any Kindnes for me, but
he took the pains to caue the Servants to cut
meatxfor me; he had ometimes the 'goods
nes to prepare it for me himhl. If I
catcht cold in the Winter, he carried me
to the Fire, lined' my Cage, or ordered
the Gardiner to warm me in his Bogagl.
e
 A World ofthe Sad; I I;
The Servants dur not vex me in his pie-4
hence: and one day I remember, he aVed
'me from the Jaws of the Cat, who held
ine in her Paws, to which my Lady's
little Page had expoed me 3 but it will not
be impertinent,_to tell you the Caui: ofthat.
Barbarity. To comply with Veidelet (for
that was the Page's 'name,) I Was chatte
ring one day ome idle words that he had
taUght me. Now it happened,\ as ill Luck
Would have it; though I always repeated
my'Leons in coure-5 that I came to ay .,
in order, Be
Meage, juquiet,
as heyou
came
Son in
o'f' to deliver'a
a Whom,de
dye.- The Man there that ands Indielcedj
Who knowing the Regne to be naturally _
given to L'ying, imagined,-that I might ,
'very well have 'poken by Prophe'ey," f
' and ent to the Place to know,v if Verdelet
had'been therei [e-Male: was convinced of
his Knavery, Wide/et was Whipt, and Vei
delet in revenge, would have' had me de
voured by Maulkin. The King by a' Nod
of the head hew'd, that he Was &tised
with the Pity that he had conceived for
* my diaer: HoWever he dihharged her '
to peak any more to me in private. '
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*W'='*
Then he asked my Adveriiry's-Council,
if his-Plea (was ready? He made a' ign'
with his Poor, that he was . goin to
peak,- and if I miake it not; the e age
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116 * * A The Hiory ofthe,

' the Points whereon he' inied again
meZ '
The Plea brought in the Parlian'zent of * *
Birds, Atmbled againff an Am'
mal, arm/ba! of being a Man.
Gentlemen, The Plainti is Guillemot
- the Flehy, a Partridge by exrraction, late
ly arrived from the World of the Earth,
his Brea ill gaping -by a hot that he
hath received from Men; Demandant a
gain all Mankind, and by conequence a
gain an Animal; whom I- pretend to be
a member of that great Body, - Itwonld
be no hard matter for us, to hinder, by: his
v_death, the Violence's that he Can commit _: -
' Nevertheles," eeing the Prelervationzor
.-L_o_s of every thing that has breath, con
;cems the Common-Wealch of the Living, I
_,t_hink we houlddeerve to have been made
-Mt*<n,, that'is to lay, Degraded from Rea
L and Immortality,which we enjoy above
them, had we reembled them in any , ,
* -unju;Actio_nilike theirs. , _ - ; r _,
3; zLet usexamine then, Gentlemen, the
Diculties of this Caue, with all the Ap>
Xplicationzthat our divine mindsf are ca'pa'r
>;.ble of. T', v -_ r _- ' -
. a The res of the matter lies' here,_to
' .wit, Whether _or notlthisAnimal beg Man
' 'an
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 .World the Sun; r; I 7
and then in cae we make it out, that he
is, whether or not-he derves Death for
that?
' For my part, I make no doubt but that
he is; in the r place, Becaue he is o
impudent as to tell a Lye, in maintaini.
that he is not; in the zcond place, Becau e
he laughs likea Fool; thirdly, In that he
fill." weeps like a Sot ; fourthly, In thatehe
lar Lblows his Nole like a nay V'illain ; fthlyz
* In that he is Feathered but in part; ixth
ll ly, In that he carries his Tail before; le;
. l
_venthly, Inthat he hath always a great ma- .
llfi'j _ ny little quare Bones in his Mouth, which
he has neither the wit to pit out, nor wala
low down; eighthly and laly, Becaue .
ever Morning hevlifts up his Eyes, his
No e, and large Snout,claps his open Hands
eloe together, which he points up to Hea
ven, joins" them into. one piece', as if it
troubled him to have two at liberty ; breaks
his
he Legs hort his
falls upon o by the middle,
Geegots o that
;_;,iand then by
Magical words that he mutters, I have
oblech , That his broken vLegs are
knit again , and that. he r'ries, up as
gay as he was before. _' Now, you know,
Gentlemen, that among all Animals,"
Lpi * none but Man haso black a! Soul, as to
be given to Magick, and conequence I
conclude, That this is_'a_. Man; We. are
I .
- a * 'I 3 now
 '1 18 The Hiory oftbe
now to enquire, whether or not, asMan,
he deerves to be ut to death.
I think, Gent emen, it never was yet
doubted, but thar all creatures are pro:
'duced
togetherbyinour common
'Sack-ty.v NowMother, to that
if-I prove, live

Man eems to be Born only to breakit;

, trary
hall Itonotthemake'it
end ofout, that he going
hisiCre'ation, con;
deerves
. that Nature hould repent her elf of bet
- 'Work ?-' ' ' ' .
7 The r and; fundamentall Law, for
the maintenance of a Repuinck, is;Etp.1a-i
lity : But Man cannot endure it to Eter
nity z he falls upon us that he may eat us i
he rwades himlf 'that We were only'
t _ e for his ue; he makes the Barbarity,
Wherewith he maacres us, and the mall
Reance he nds on our "ide, an Argu-Q
ment of his pretended 'superiority :_And
nevertheles wo'nt own Eaglcs, Condores,v
- and' Grins, who are too hard for the'
tronge Man, to be his Maer's. ' '
' But why hould
conrmation 'that grettt
of "Members, vmake Size,theand
div
verity of Kind, eeing there are Dwars
and Glands" robe found
'elvesr' "i among
" " Men
' them;
' *
' Nay more, that Empire wherewith they
atter themlves, is but an 'imaginary
Bighuon the contrary, theyareo
nag
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 World ofthe Sun; I' i 9
nable to Servitude, that lea the hould
not erve, they ell one another or Slavesi
ln this manner, the Youn ; are Slaves to the ,
Old, thePoor to the -Ric , the*Clowns to
the Gentlemen,the Princes to the Monarchs,
and the Monarchs themelves to the Laws'
which they haveE'iablihed; And be;
ides all that, the poor Drud'ges areo' a
fraid to be without Maers, that as if
they apprehended, that Libert might come
to them from ome unexpe ed lace ;
they frame to themelves. Gods in aii parts
in the Water, in the Air, in the Fire, an
under the Earth; they'll make them of
Wood, rather than want; nay, I fancy al
o that they tickle themlves With the
vain hopes of' Immortality, not o much
out of a Horrour; that they have of being
annihilated, asforear that they may have
none to command them' after their death.
Here's the ne eect of that fantaical
Monarchy, and of that natural Empire of
Man, asthey would have it, over the Ani
mals, nay and over us too ; for he has been
ib inolent, as even to pretend to that, In
the mean while, in conequence of that ri
diculous Principality, he fairl takes to
himelf the power of Life and th over
us; he lays hares for us, chains us, Claps
us up in Prion, kills us, eats us; and
'ex-235. makes the power of killing thoe which re
; I 4 'main
 A 9o Hide/Hiory ofthe
main free, va mark of, Nobility; He thinks _AL-Qt

'that the sun lighted on 'purpoe to let him

how to; make War again us; that Nav
'uie' hathxonl uiered us to take our turns
in theluckypr
'draw Airmziat from our
unlucky ighti; and
Aupices he may
that
when 504ng
_hiis -'ntenti0n Entrails
only. was, tointo our a,Bodies,
make great
'B09l{,wherein Man might learn -the - Sciiznce
of utureConitingencies.
.' Good,-t_hen,..is.
'Pride ? Could anynot thisguilty
that's unupportable
iof it, de
vae a les punilhment, than to be made a
i ', anP'HoWever, I don't ini upon this as a
reaon, why ye hould condemn this Man:
' iThe poor Bea Wanting the ue Reaon
that we have, I excue thoe errors of his,
, that roCeed'fromwant ofJudgment; but;
- for uch. as are 'only the Daughters of his
Willzlderpand1uicez For inance, in
thathe kills us, though we do not attack
him ,'- in that he eats us, when he may la
tise his him-'ler with more convenient
;_ and w at I eeem the baa Of
* _ 'hine-i
in thatof heourdebauches theA as
ct Brethren, good
of nature' 0 -
'Lanners,
_ faulcons and Villtures, by teaching them
'to murdzrthole of their hind, and to, eed
on theirlellowreatures alivej or to de-z
her? uspprnto his _clutches, ; *_ 7,
\ ,,> .. ' :- z--,,J;,_
._ - - . the;
 , Ww

'World of zbeSzm. ' pra; 'i

*' That aloue is o prenga-Conideratie
*on, that 'I beg the Court e may be di-'
patched by- the lad Death. z _ 1
The whole. Bench hivered for horror at
o terrible a Pu'nihment ; and therefore'
that they might have ground to mOdqrate
it, the King made a Sign to the Coun
cil, that was aigned me, 'toanwen _
This was a Starling,an_d a great Lawyer,
who having three times ampt with his
' Foot, upon_thc_Bra-nch he at on; pake to
. the Court in this manner: - a
' It is true, Gentlemen, that moved with
Pity, -I undertook the defence of that un'
- r fortunate Bea- ; but ju
Plad, 'I'eltaremorie as I was about
of Concience, to
and,
' _as it were, a_ ecret Voice, that hath for;
bidden me to full o deteable a Reoluv
tion :' So that, Gentlemen, I declare to '
you, and the whole Court, That for the
Salvation of my Soul, I'll not contribute
in any manner, to the preci'vation of uch
a Moner, as Man is.
The whole Mobile clacked with th?
r air 'Bea,k, in ign of Joy, and to congratu
feti late the Sincerity of i) Concientious a
cal Bird, e
a My. Magpy oered to Plead for me in
dr lace of the other, for it was impoible for
lier to be heard; becaue that being bred
among Men, and perhaps, infected Wit/li'th
'A , ' t err
 m The Hiory of 'be '
their Morality ; it was to be feared, that
he would manage the Caulia, with a pre
indicated Mind; for the Court of Birds,
'never uer a Lawyer,thatconoerns himelf
more for the one Client, than for the other,
to be heard', unles he make it appear,
That that Inclination proceeds from the .
Parties-being in the Right. -
w When my Judges aw, that no Bod ape
peared in my de enoe, they retche out X
and hook their Wings, and immediately -
ew to Voting. - ' 24- '
- The greate part, as I was informed
ince, ined hard, that I hould be dil
' tched by the ad Death; but nevertheq
s, when they perceived that the King
inclined to Clemency, all joined with hini
in Opinion. 'Thus my Judges moderated
themives, and inead of the ad "Death,
which they excued me from, they thought
. iteonvenient, that my Punihment might
quadrate with ome of my Crimes, and I
dero ed by a Death, which might erve
'to -u ive me, of that pretended Em
pire of Man, over the Birds, which I
'ragg'd of, that I hould be abandoned
tothe weake of thoe 'that are carried by
Wings; my meaning is, That they Conu
demned me to be eaten up by Flies. ' '
- At the inne tirhe the Court broke up,
and I heard aWhiper, that they had not
.' - - * a enlarged
\
.\
 World of the she, -': 53
enlarged in Specifyin the particular Cifr
cumances Of iny ra' edy, buaue of
an accident that happene to 'a Bird, who
'u as he was (about to peak to the Kin. ,
1 toadhave
fallenbeen
intooecaoned,
'a woon; I; was thougEt i
FctheiHorrour
that had isiied him, in loo. ing too ed;
"faly upOna Man; And therefore I was
ordered to be tarried away;
But my sentence was, prenqunced r *
and as oon as phe Opray, which ocia a
'as Clerk to the Aes, had Lnade an end
'PWJW._ .
k' reading it to me, I perceived all abou':
Fhe 'sky
Bees,i blackened
Gnats with Flies,
and Muskcttoes, Drams,
'which humg
D-NUD
gr-
med hr impatience. '
I expe'Eted that my Eagles hould have
come and carried me away aer the uual
manner; but in place of them a great
black Orid came, that ignominiouy
fet me had ing u on his back; for a.
. mong them, that s the mo digraceful
poure a Malefactor can be Put into '3 and
_ no Bird for what oence fbevcr, can be
Condemned to it.
' The Ocers that waitedon 'me to Edge'
<Q\_.__?
-
curion, were half a hundred Condores,
and as many Grins in the van- after
whom came ying lbzly, a proneon of '

Ravens, that 'croaked I knOW not what

momeful Ditty; and I fancy that I heard '
 ,_' 24. _Tbe Hiory 'ofthe
_as at a reatcr diance, a Chorus of Owls,
vthat an wered them.
As we parted from the place where I
had received Sentence, Two Birds of Pa
radicc, who had orders 'to a me at my
Death, came and lit on my Shoulders.
Though my Soul, at that time, was ve
.iilie heavy and Condition
lamentable dicompoled, by in
I was reaon of
; yetI
remember,
'hade ue vof'intoamanner,all
comfort me.the Reaons
' they
Death, [hid they to me, (putting their
iBezik to myeeing
teat Evil, Ear, Nature
) without
our doubt
good isMo
no

ier ubjects all her Children unto it ; and

it ought not to be a matter of great Con
equence,
for the leaince it happens
things : For if at all were
Liei times,o and'
ex
cellent, ' it would not be in our power,
- not give it; or if Death were atten
ded by conequences of ImPQltanCC, as
thou 'imaginel'g it would n0t beginour
power' to give it : There is a great deal of
appearance to the contrary, eeing the Anix
inal begins by play, and ends-at the ame
_ratei I peak to thee in this manner, beb
caue thy Soul 'not being immortalas ours
is,l thou maye very Well conclude, That
when thou die, 'all dies with thee, Let
it nottroule thee then, thatthou doe
i Harder; What ome of * thyfel;" p
. - . -"*o*ws'.
\ .
 l
r World ofile said t a5
fellows will do .e're-it belong Theircori
dition is more deplorable than, thine; for
if Death be an evil, it is only 'Evil to thoe
'who are to die .- And in repect' of thee, p '
who ha nor above an hour betwixt here
and there; they hall'b'e Fity or Sixry
.Years in a ate odying -; and beides, mind
me, he that is not born is net unhappy;
Now thou .ar't going to he like him-that
is not born; In .a twinkling of an
- when thou art out ofthis Life, rthou halt
be what thou 'wa a twinklingof an Eye
&VB
i?
V'
before;
ing over,and thathalt
thou twinkling ofran Eye.ash'e
be aslongzdead, bee

that died a Thenand Agris ago 1 But make

the .wor 'on't 5' 'uppoe Life bea Bleing',
the ame Accident, that in the ite (barres
31'
of. time. hath 7 made-thee to be ;.:iiiay it not
ometime or other, make thee'an more
zto be again ? Matter, fwhigh'bybvhriorus
.mixtures, arrived atle o that Number,
TF=
A.
QH Dipoition and Order, neceary for 'the
.Conruction of thy Being; may it not, ' by
mixing again of new, attaih to aJDipoi
tion requiite for bringing ' thee;- oncelmore
r'MT
..again
to me,Iinto Being?
hall Yes,it may',but,thou'lt
nor remember ay
thiat'I have been.
;Ha l dear Brpther,.what>do_es that concern
thee, ._ provided thou nde thy e injBe
_ ing? And then may it not be, that toc'orn
for; thee for the los of thy Life, thou'lt.
- 1 .ima
 t 26 Hibrj ofthei
imagine the ame Reaons which I at prei
ntTzolkpggniderations
e to thee ? are weighty enoung '
to make thee patiently drink that bitter Po-'
tion ; yet I have Others more preing ill,
which will without doubt incline thee to
'wih for it; Thou mu be perwaded,
Brother, that as' thou and the re of BrUtes
are material, and that as Death, inead
of annihilating Matter, does only trouble
the Oeconomy thereof; ) thou oughte, I
ay, certainly to ibelieve, that ceaing to'
be what now thou art, thou'lt begin to be'
omething ele. Grant then', that thou
only become aclod of Earth, .ora Pibble,
thou'lt ill be'omewhat le: wicked than
Man. ButI have a Secret to' dicover to'
thee, which I would nor any. ofmKdCOms'
panions hould heap from my outh,
and that
going to is,be,That
by being Eaten,
our little as thou
Birds, an:
thou'iit
pasinto their-Subance; yes, thou'lt have'
'he honour to contribute, though blindly;
tothe' Intelle&ual o ations ofour Flyes, o'
andhate of'this G ry, that if thourea,i
[ne not thy elf, thou'lt make them at'
lea to neaon. =*- 'l >: -
v About this part of the Exhortation, we
arrived at the place appointed for my Exe
cutiem 1- -, i . -
. t int"d I _...._.-_
. "13 "... i There
 7 W-'orld the &m. tay' _
- There w _e Four Trees-very near, and
in a mannerihually diant one from amo
ther, on everyone of which at a paralel
Q-BIWYT
height, a grea? Heron perched. They
took me dowh from the BlaCk Oridge,
vand a great/'many Corm'orants lifted me up'
to the plate where the Herons were. Thee
Z"._.F'-r-S_ZPI_
Birds being Oppoite to one another, and
rmly perched on their i:le Trees, with
their. prodi iouslong Necks, as with a *
Cord, tw' ed about me, theoneaboutmy
Arms,- the other about; my. Legs, and
bound me o fat, that thoiIghevery oneof
'ciEL-'TBR*
thee members was only tied. by ale
Neck, yet it was 'not in my power, terwag
or ir in the lea. * . .-=.>.'* . am;
They were to continue .a?
in thar poure; for Izheand imiers
Te
e.
F'EtP-L? to thoe Cormorants that liedgme up, W
go and h for the Herons 'andhuxide
their Foot into their Beaks. _ -;.">'-'
The Flies were ill mc'p'ecazl, beczue
they could not y o fa as wehad done;
however it was not very imgefore then
"We-'s were heard. rkf * ' 3*:l l ::;_ 'ib
The r thing they maple-kid, Msim
diribute my Body among themv intoso'
.veral Provinces; andrhat Diribution was
'(U
o gnalieiouy- made, 'that nrz'r-Eye'swere
aigned to the Bees, to the end they
Sting
I.
them
*
out as they i
fed on themmY;
'
_j-
'rust
*,'"-
**g,
128 i _TbeHiorj ofthe
I, my Ears to the' Beetles and Drones, 'that
, they might um and devour them at the
ametime; my Shoulders to the Musket
toes,fto the end, they might make me itch
I.,1vx. with their Bitings ;; and o of the re
No. oonerhad I heard; them ettletheir
Orders, but that immediately I iw them
approach. - All the Atoms and Motes in the
Sun, (hemedto be converted into Flies;
or' carcely was I. viited iwith two or three
faint; Beamsrxofz- Light, that eemed by
ealth to reach me, o cloe were thee
Battalions, and o-near my Fleh. .
r as every, onepf' them was greedily
chuingtheplace where he was to bite, I
rceived them to recoer briskly all. of a
udden 5- aridamid the confuion of- an
innite numberrof Shouts, that made the:
Clouds relbund. again; -I &veral. times
diinguihed the wdrd ' Pardon, Pardon,
Pardon. ' U hes? -i l

a After-ward' Two -Turt]e- Doves drew

near, to me; at their approach, all the
ghaly Preparatives for my Death were:
di ated: I felt my Herons let looe the
twi: of 'their long Necks, 'wherewith I
was' begirtzdandzm . Body eXtended
forme. a-St. Andrew f-cros, lidefrom the'
Topothe' FourtTrees, down to' their very.
4'- i. , . - - . .
-,y_-a- --- . . I'1--\) ..'. .
 i World qftbe Sun 1 29

. I' expected no les from my fall, than to

be bruied by ome Stone in the Ground;
but when myv fear was over,-, I was nota
little urpried, to nd 'my klf decentl
eatedupon a White Oridge, who fel
a galloping, o oon as he felt me upon
ack
They made me take another Way, than
the way ICame; for I remember that I cro+
ed a great Wood ofMyrtles, and anorher. of
Turpentine
re of OliveTrees, adjoiningKing
Trees,zwhere to a' va Fori
Doive in'
the middle of his Court aid for me;" _
1 So oon as he perceived me, hev gave a
ign that they hould help me to ge't down:
Immediately Two Eagles of the Guard,
gave me their Talons, and carried me to
their Prince. _ X
, I would in honour; have embraced and
kied his Majey's little Claws, but 'he
drew back 2 And I_ ask you the queion',
aid he r, If you know that Bird ?,_ . - __
r At thee words they hewed me a Parrot,
who Mgm to turn' round and , claphis
Wings, when he perceived that I conide
red him : Yes,, I fancy, cried I to the
King,_. that I have een him omewhere; '
but .Fear and Joy have o confounded my
Memory, that I' cannot as yet call diinctly
to mind, where it hasbeen.v *

K With
 1 30 The Hiory oftbe' X
i With that the Parrot Came,- and embraa
cing my 'Face with its Wings, aid to me,
w' How! do'nt you' know Canr, then, your
r Couins Parrot, which hath o often given
'you the occaion, to maintain that Birds
ued Reaon? It-isI who ju now 'had a
mind, after your Tryal was over, to de
clare the obligationsl have to you; but
grief to' (te you in o great danger, made
me fall into a swoon. His dicoure ful;
ly opened my Eyes, and having known
him perfectly , I embraced and kied
him, andhe embraced and kied me. Is
it thee, thenaid I, my poor Ciear, whoe
'Cag'e I opened to give thee thy Liberty,
that the Tyrannical Cuom of our World -
deprived thee of ?
The King interrupted our Carees, and
poke 'to me in this manner : Man, with us
'a good' Action is never lo ,- and therefore
it is that, tho as beingv a Man," thou des unde-H

rve to die, Only becaue thou wa

Born, yer the-Senath gives thee thy Life;
lit's t we hould thus acknowledge thoe
Natives, wherewith Nature enlightened
thine Ininct, When it gave thee a Fore; 'stiff-1
p.

ta of that Reaon in us, which thou wa

not capable of underandingi. Go then in
Peace, and live J0yfully. _
He gave ome orders in private, and my
3423.?
7White Qridge, conducted by the Two
'Turtle
 World of the Sun. it 3 i
*n'-I'F 'ITWF
flihrtleDoves, carried me out of the' Aem?
b Zh/ly
. Bird having galloped With the a='
' bout twelve hOurs, left me ndar to a Fore,
into which I 'Went o oon as it'was gone,
There I began to ta the Pleaure of Lii
berty , and of feeding' on the' Honey',
f=TiWJ
which ditilledj down the Bark of the
Trees; _ v ' U. .
, [fancy that I hould never have made
an end, of my Walk, ( for the agreab'le'
Varieties of the place, preented always
ome new thing more delightful to my
Eyes,) had my Body beenv able to 'hold
out :" But ceingl o'und my el at length
wholly overcome with Weariotnnei, I
oftly laid my le down upon the Gras;_ 7
Lying thus retched out under the hall
doW of the Trees, I found my lhlfinvite'd.
to Sleep', by the freh' 'Air and Solitude
the Place ;T-_ when a humming noie of con-iv
fued Voices, which emed to lb'un'd about
my Ears, made me awake with aart." _ t
The ground appeared to be very' letter
and mooth, withoutthe lea, Buh that
might intercept the Sight,- and therefore
Lnfy 'Propect reached far among the Trees'
' the Fore. Neverthele," the' _MUr-_
murring' that I heard, Could' n'ot be bue
very near'm'e; lb that linin'g toit more
attentively; I very diinct'ly 'heard a par-'if
. ' 2, be
 \

13: The Hzory ofthe

_cel Of Greek Words ;' and among everal
that dicour'ed together, one who pake to
this purpoe, - ' . - ,
, Doctor," one of my Allies, Elm with
Three Heads, hath ju now em me a
Chanch, to vauaint me that he is Sick of
an Hectick the'
_'Wherewith Feaver, and of from
iis covered a Scury Mos,
Head to
FOOt;would
you I begbeOf,pleaed
you for all Love
toct order him, ome
that
'what. ' 1 '*
" For ome time Iheard no more; but af
ter a little intermion, I thought I heard _
zoneinake this reply: Though Elm with
Three Heads, were none of your Allies ;
and though inead of you who are my
Friend, the greate Stranger of all our
bkind, hould deire the lame thing of me,
, zI would grant it; for my Profeon on
liges r'ne to a every Body. You hall
therefore acquaint Elm with Three Heads, Zg5'*_dr\<>k

j'That forv the Cure of his Diemper, it is

neceary, that he Suck in as much humide,
A hand as little dry Nourihment,as poiny he
- can; that for that end he ought to di
rect the little 'Fibres of his Root, towards
the moie place of his Bed .- That he mu:
r vdaily
keep be
himelf Merry
diverted by aand Chearful,
conlort and
of Muick,
of ome excenent Nightingals. You'll
hear from him aerWards, how he 1flinds
** im
 i World of the Sun. I33

himelf, with that coure of' living; and

then according to the'Progres of his Di'
emper, when we have prepared his Hu'
mours, ome Stork of his Friends hall from
me give him a Glier, that will fully reco
ver him. '
Thee words being ended, I heard not
the lea noie more ; till about a quarter
of an hour after, that a voice'which I fancy
I had not oberved before, came to my
Ears, and pake in this manner, Hold,
'F-YQVHA -W'i
Gahr For/zed Trunk, what, do ye Sleep?
I eard another voice that thus replied,
No, Freh-bark, why? Becaue, aid the
r that pake, I nd the ame Emotion
inv me, that commonly we do, when thee
Animals they .eall Men, come near us;
and I would ask you, if you feel the ame *
thing? _ * ' * '
It was hine time before the other made
Anwer; as if he intended to employ the
ma''T-'cv
t.- mo exquiite of his Senes in that Dico
very; but at len th he cried out: Good
God, you are in t eright, and I wean to
you I nd my Organs o full of the Ideas of
a Man, that I am the mo miaken in the
Qema'
_H4\n
world, if there be notv one very near to
this place: At that time there was a mixt
ie of voices that aid, they melt out a
an. s -
75
K 3 [t
 '134. The Hihg 'afict
.- - It was in vain for/me to look about on
all hands; ', I- could not diover whence that
word could come :. At length being a little
recovered <from the Horror , whereinto
that accident had Ca me; I made anwer
to the voice, which I took to be-that which
Tth askde if there Was any Man there;
that there was one: But I beeech you,
sowinuch, whoever you be that peak to
ine, (vement/he you are. Within'a trice
after I heard thee' Words : A
-WB and in thy Prence; thine Eyes
tis 5. and yet 'thou te us not: Look
upon 'thee Oaks, on which we perceive
thine Eyes are xt: They are we that peak
tothee ,-_ and if thou be urprized' that we
peak a Language, ued in the World from &LardHHA-m_a*;_.-HA4

Whenoe thou come; know, that out r

Parentsv
Epictrur," were
in theNatives
Fo're ofofit'Dodon4;
; They lived
where
their natural, goodnes inclined them. to
tender Oracles to. the aicted, who con
ulted them. For that end they learnt the
Greek Tongue, which at that time was
' mo univerid; that o they mightbc' un',
derOod; And becaue we are decended
bf them," from Father to Son, the gift of
Prophecy hath been tranmitted even to
us." NDW 'thou mu know, That a. great'
, Eagle, to whom our Fathers of quom had c-r-er

given retreat 5 being dilhbled from going

., ,. ...; a tq
 _'_ _L_ _A_J_

World ofthe Sun. 1 35!

to prey, becaue he had broken one'of her
Leggs, fed upon the Acorns, which their
branches furnihed her with: When
day, being impatient of living in aonrld
where he uered o much, he tOOk o.
ight to the Sun; and proecuth herYoy';
'age o happily, that at length he arrived
in the luminous Globe , where we are:
But upon her arrival,the heat ofthe Clihiate
put her into a teaching to Vomit, 'which
made her bring up a great quantity' 'of
Acorns, not as yet digeed ; thee Acorns
fpmuted, and produced 'the Oaks which
were our Progenitors.- ' '
.Un= =0W*' In this manner-we changed our Habita
tion: Neverthelei', though you hear us
peak a humane Language, you mu-not
therefore conclude, That' the other 'Trees
expres themelves o: No Trees, but we. '
.Oaks decended from the Fore of Dodom,
peak as you do. For as 'for the other Ve'
getables, they expres themelves after this
manner. Have you not minded that oft
and gentle Brecze, that never fails to blow -
about the Skirts of a Wood? That's the
breath oftheir Words; and that eae Mur
-pt,r.-_ _U".\_,_._.
muring, or delicate Whiizer, whereby they '
break the acred ilence of their lblitude, is,
'to peak properly , theirLa-nguage. But
though the noie of Fores eem always to
be the' ithe; yet it is o dierent, 'that
K 4 ' every
 _L 36 - The Hiory ofthe
every kind of Vegetables have diinctly
their own ; o that the Birch peaks not
like the Maple, nor the Beach like the
Cherry Tree ; Had the 'Foolih People of
_your World,- heard me peak as I do, they
would have thought it had been a Devil,
encloed within my Bark; for they are o
far from believing that we can reaon, than .
they do not imagine we' have a Senitive
Scul ,*\thou_gh every day they ee, that at
'the r blow the Woodman gives the Tree,
'the Hatchet enters the Wood four times
deeper ,- than Y at the econd; and they
ought to conjecture, that the r blow
urpribd it, and took it unprovided; ince
thatasoon as it is warned by the pain, -it
ontracts within it zlf, vunites it Forces
'or reiing, and in a manner petried,
that it may withand the harpnes of its
Enemies Arms, But it is not m'y deign,
to make blind Men 'Judges of Colours; an
Individual is to methe whole kind, and
the whole kind, is no more to me than an
Ilndividual, when the Individual is not in
,ected with; the Errors of the kind; and
therefore be attentive, for in peaking to
- you, ith the ime thing to me, _asif I poke
to all 'Mankindi ' '
.' You areto underand then, in the r
lace, That almo all the' warbling Con'
ibrtsofthe Muigk of Birds, are compoed
, *- . .b _ . ., _\ in
.- t
 V." ,

World of the Swin." 137"

in praie of Trees; but in recompence alo
of the pains
famous they ittake,
Actions, is weinthat
celebrating
take vcareour
to
hide their Amours; for don't you imagine
when it' cos you o much trouble', to .nd
'one of their Nes, that that's occaioned
rby the Sagacity wherewith they hide it?
No, it is the Tree it elf, that hath twied
its Bou hs about the ne, to ecure the Fa
mily-o his Lodger, from' the Cruelties of.
Man: And on 'the contrary, conider the
zAiriesi of thoe, which
for thederuction are their
ofBirds, hatched either
fellow Ci
tizens, uch- as Sparrow-Hawks, HObbies,
Kites,
ct'to' breedFaulcons,
(Dan-ds,&a.
as or which
Jays and only peak
Magpies;
or that delight to 'frighten us, as Owls and
Howlets : 'You hall oberve, that the Nes
of uchv are expoed to the ight of all
People; becaue the Tree removesits Bran
ches from them, that it may leave them
"for a Prey.
"' ' But there* is' no need of-pecifying o ma
ny things,- to prove that Trees exert your
Functions, as well in Mind as in Body.
Is there any one among you, who hath
,not'oberved, that in the Spring, when the
Sun hath-refrehed our Bark with a fertile
Sap, 'we thru out our Branches, and ex
tend them loaded ' with Fruit, upon the
Breas of theEarthg that we are in Love
' ' ' * * ' withal?
1 38 The Hzory of 'be
withal? The Earth on 'her ide opens,
and is warmed with the like heat,- and
makes her approaches towards a Conjuncti
on, whil our Branches dicharge into her
Lap, that which he o ardently deires to
conceive. She is, however, Nine Months
in
forebreeding
he bringand formingbutithe
it forth; that Embrio, be-.
Tree her
Husband, fearin that the Winters cold
may be prejudicia to her Conception, rips
himelf of his green Garment to cover her,
and contents, himelf with an old Fuil-de
'wort Cloak, to hide part of his Nakednes.
_ Well then, O Men, you look eternally on
thee things, and never ee them: Nay,
more convincing Proofs have preehted
themelves to your Eyes; but none are o
Blind, as thoe that will not See.
. I liened mo attentively to the di;
coure, with which that Arboreal Voice
entertained me, and was expecting the ei- ,
quel; when all of a udden it broke o -
with a Tone like to the Whizzingof the
hortnes of Breath, that hinders one to
peak. . '
When I perceived it obinately reblved
tobe ilent, I adjured it by all, which I
thou ht might mo aect it, that it would
vouche to inruct one, who had run
the Risk of o 10ng and dangerous a Voy
age, upon the account only of learning.
.. i. \_ . At
 World of the sz. ' 1 39
At the ame time I heard Two or Three
Voices, which for my ake made the ame
reque to it, and one I diinguihed that
aid to it, as ifin anger, _
' Well then, ince you complain o much
gf your Lungs, repp: your le; I'll tell
him the Story of the Amorous Trees. ,
Whoever you be, cried I, falling upon '
my Knees, 0 Wi of all the Oaks of
Dodomt, who condecende to take the
pains to inruct me, know this; That you
hall nor teach an ungrateful Peron; for
I'vow, that if ever I return to my native
Globe, I hall publih the Wonders, you
are pleaed to make-me a Witnes of. I
had no ooner made this Proteation, but
I heard the ame voice proceed in this
manner : Look, Little Man, and you hall
ice about Fourteen ora Fifteen eps to the
i Right Hand, Two Twin-Trees of a mid
.dle Statute , which confounding their *
Branches and Roots, rive by all poble
means to unite and become but one.
I turned my Eyes towards thee Plants of
Love, and oberved that the leaves of both
gently irred, as it were, by a voluntary
Motion, 'eXcited by their Agitation io deli
cate a murmur, that hardly it gra'zed upon
the Ear; and yet one would have aid, that
thered they mutually-asked, and anwered
one anot r. ' - '
' ' Having
 1 40 The Hiory ofthe
Having pent as much time as was ne
ceary, to oberve that double Vegetable,
my good Friend the Oak went on in his
dicoure, after this manner : _ .
' You cannot have lived to this Age, and -
not have heard of the celebrated Friendhip
of leader and Orees. . - '
I would decribe to ou all the Joys of
a weet Paion, and tel you the Wonders
wherewith thee LoVers aonihed their
Age, did I not fear that o much Light
might oend the Eyes of- your Reaon;
and therefore I hall paint thoe two young
zSuns only in their Ecliple;
Let this then uce you to know, That
one day the brave Oree: being engaged
in a Battle, ought out for his dear lezz
des, that he might have the Pleaure of
overcoming or dying in his'Preence. When
he perceived him amid an hundred Arms i
Of Iron, lifted up over his Head : Alas! '
what became of him? In depair he threw
himelf through a Fore of Pikes : He cried,
roared and foamed: But how ill do I ex
pres the fearful Commotions of that In
conolable Man; he tore his hair, bit his
Hands, renthis Wounds; nay, and when
I have laid alltl can lay, I am obliged to -
confes, that the means of expremg his
grief, died with himelf. When he thought
to cut out a way with his Sword to get to
' the
 - lVorld ofthe Sim. 14I
the aance of leades, a Mountain_ of
-Men withood his paage. Nevertheles
he broke through them; and having long
marched upon the Bloody Trophies of
his Victory , by little and little he ap
proached 'to leades ; but Pylades- eemed
to him already o near Death, that he dur _
hardly rei his Enemies any longer, for
fear he mightiirvive the thing for which
alone he lived.To ee his Eyes already full of
the hades of Death, one would have aid,
That he endeavouer by his Looks to poy
on the' Murderers of his Friend. At length
'Pylades ell. down dead ; and amorous
Ora/he: perceiving his own life, to - be upon
the brink of his Lips, ill retained it z till
withaWandring look, having ought and
found out leades among the Dead, he
6emed, by joining Mouth to Mouth, asif
he intended to infue his Soul into the Body
of his Friend. i 1
The Younger of thoe two Heroes ex,
pired upon thedead Body of his Friend;
and you mu know, that from the: Cor'
ruption of their Trunk, which 'without
doubt, impregnated the Earth, two young
Shrubs were een 'to prout out from a
mong their dry bones; whoe Stem and
Branches mingling promicuouy together,
eemed to haen to grow only, that they _
might be twied into a cloer Contexturf.
\ t
 i 42" The Hiory ofthe
It was viible 'that they had changed their'
Being, without forgetting what they had
been; for their perfumed Buds leaned one
upon another,and interchanged the Warmth
of their Breathing, as it were to make them:
elves blow the ooner: But what hall I
fay of the loving Diribut'ion, that main
tained their Society? The Juyce, wherein
the nourihment reides, never oered it islf
to their Stock, but they ceremoniouiy 'divis
ded it : The one Was never ill fed, but the
Other decayed for want ,- they borh Suckt
inwardlythe Breas of their Nure
of3' yours:
as ye
Men do outwardly the Tearsv
At length thee happy Lovers brought
forth Apples,but uch miraculous Apples, as
Wrought greater Wonde'rs than their Sires
had done. All that eat of the Ap les ofthe
one, were inantly mitten wit a- Paio;
nate Love for every' one, that had taed
the Fruit of the other; and this hap ned
almo daily, becaue all the Boug s of '
lezdes environed, or were environed by
Orees; and their Fruit, that were almo
Twins, could not endure to be diant one
from the other.
Nature however o' cautiouly 'diinguihe'
ed their' double Ecacy, that ' when one
Man did eat the Fruit of one of thee Trees,
and another Man the Fruit of the other, it' *
produced Reciprocal Friendhip' 3 and'
* when'
 'World of the Sun. 14.;
when the ame happened to two Perons of
dierent SeXes, it begot Love; but uch a
Vigorous Love, as ill retained the Cha
racter of its Caue ; for-though that Fruit
proportioned its eect to the Capacity, oft
- ening its force in a Woman, yet it ill re
istved hmewhat that was mauline. ,.
It is alo to be remarked, That he of
the two who had eaten mo, was alo
mo beloved. The Fruit was nor only ve-*
ry lovely, but very weet alo; there being
nothing o lovely and pleaant as Friendhip.
And indeed, it was the two qualities of
Lovely and Good, which eldom meet in
one ubject, that put it into Vogue. How
often by its miraculous Virtue, hath it mule
tiply'd the Examples of leade: 'and Ore
es: Since that time there 'have been in
ances of uch as rcule: and Theeus, A;
'skilles and Patroclus, Nz'm and Bury-alas;
in hort, of an innite number of thoe,
who by more than humane friendhips,
' have concrated their Memory in the
Temple of Eternity. Cyens ofthee Trees
were carried to Peloyo'mear ; and the-place
of Exercie, where the Theban: trained
their Youth , was adorned with them:
They were planted there in a reight line;
'and in the eabn,when the Fruit bling upi
on the branches, the youth who daily went '
mto the place, being tempted eby the beau:
' ' tY
-_ 144 The Hiory of the
ty thereof, rEfrained not from eating;
which according to cuom preently in
uenced their Courage. ' They forthwith
'interchanged their. Souls ;- every one be-_
coming the half of another, livin les in
himlf than in his Friend; andt e faintl
heartede became bold and rah, for the
lakeof him he loved. . _ '
That leeleial Paon Warmed their
Blood with o noble an Heat, that by the
advice of the wihr, thee Lovers were
lied for the Wars into one Company
They haveActions
.Heroick been called ince,they
which becaue of the
atchireyed;
The ure-&Bad. 'Theiz Exploits went a
great deal further,- than the Thehzmr had
promied themelves; _for in time of Filg'ht,
every one of thee Bravos,_ventured uch
incredible Eorts, for the afety of his Lo
Ver, or for meriting his Aection, _ that the
like hath not been eenin Antiquity: And
indeed, o long as that amorous Company
ubied, the Thebans, who before were
reckonEd the wor Souldiers of all the Gred
n'am, fought and ill overcame afterwards
the LactealEmoiziam themelves, the mo
War-like people upon the face of the Earth. =
'But among a va number of laudable
Actions caued by thee Apples ;\they alov
produced'(though innocently) ome very
ignotuiniougones. . _ _ ,_
* ' Mjrmh,
 World ofthe Sun, by; .
M'rra, a y0ung Lad of u'alit - eat
b'f th}ern with Girler hei' Fatchledr; hhfor'i

tunately the one Was of Pylddes', and the

iup'on of
Other Ora/fet. u'p,
Wallowcd LOVCand
immediatel therei
o c'o'n o'unded
.Nature, that Cihjm'x could Wear, I am
my own Senin-Law; and [Up-rim, I am'
my own Step-MOther; In hort, I think
it ucient to inform you of the nat'Ure of
that Crime, that at Nine Mo'nths end
the Father became' the Grandfather of thoe
he beget; and the Danghte'r was' broght
to bed of her Brochers. . _ - ' -
Nor was Chance yEt atised with this
Crime ; it o ordered matters,ithat a Bull
coming into the Gardeth of King Man,
vnluckily ound under al TfEe of Orejfek
orheples, Which he wallowed dawn;
I lay unluckily, becaue the ueen Paiphae -
daily eat of that Fruiti And o you have
them mad in Lo've' one with another; I.
. hall not, however, peak ofv the' enormous'
Enjoyment; it hall uce to ay, That.
Paiphae plunged her elf into a Crime, 'that
Was never matched beforei e , '- ,
. Exactly about that time; the" ermons'
Carver Pigm'ali'on," Was' cutting a Ma'rbl'e
Statueloved
who off/eme in? the
good palace." made
WOrki-men," The him a"
Preiznt of a' couple' of thee Appiesi
ea't th'e faire 5' and becaue akicidemallyi he;
L' ' wanted
 '46 The, Hzory ofthe
wanted Water, which , as you know, is'
neceary, for' the cutting 'of Marble; he
moiened his Statue with the Juyce of the
other. The Marble, inuenced by this
Juyce, by little and little grew. oft; and
the ecaeious virtue. of that Apple, acts
according to the deign of the Work
man, Adelineated within the Image, the
"draughts that it. had [net within the Super
oe ; for it dilated, heated, and coloured,
proportionably to the nature of .the Places
that-it found in, its Paages. In ne, the
Marble becoming animate , and' being
, --with .' thePaon of the Apple,
jetnbraeed ijgmalioy, with all her heart;
and rl-TigWQZZoW, tranported with a recier
Love, '.topk her for zWize.
* - In theame Province the young Iplng'c
<had eaten, ofthat Fruit, with. the fair lim
ye, heg_v-Companion in all the Exerch
Ihapatglxequitev to caue. ' a reciprocal
Friendhipzslheir Bquuet was attended by
'uualeect FuBut becaue Ipi: had found
' .who be? my, agreeable-w her Palate, he
fed o heartily, that her. andhip encrea
'zeg witch. idle.- manner: of- chPples,,, where
h could not bQ'AUZiSd, uured
ll th? functions of Love 3' and that Love
growing. illend Bill tronger , became
Mrc Mculme and;- vigorous: For [Behig
her Wbblc' Body impregnated -Wihthet
7 - I' ., ' ruin
 of the Saiz'ct; i47
_ Fruit, rove to form' Motions that might
anwer theCaprices of her Will ;' it irred
Up o p'oWerfully its own matter, that it
made
to to it with
comply elf much ronger
her Deire, andOrgans, t
to atisie'
her Love in its' mo manly EXtent: My,
meaning is, That Iphi: became what one:
oughtto be, that marries a Wife. ,
_ I hould term this range accident a
' Miracle, had I ill a' name to give to 'the
following Prodigy. , , _ _ a
A mo accomplihed YOUth,Called Nar
tijus, had by his Love merited the Aecti-i
on of a very lovely Maid, whom the Poets"
have celebrated by*the _ Name of Echo',
But eeing Women," as you know, are on-4 '
der of being much made of, than tholezof
our Sex; he having heard. the virtue" of
the Apples of Oreer much talked Of," ued '
, means to procme a great many of them;
from veral parts; and becaue he-appre
hended, (Love being always fearful) That
thoe of the one 'Tree," might' have
force than the other, he would have him
to' tae of both: But o oon as hie-had- eatx
en them , the image of Et/ra'Was quite
bIOtted out of his memory; all his Love?
turned towards him Who had di'geed the;
Fruit ;v he became both-- the LoVer' and;
the Beloved 5 for the ubance drawn front
the' APPIG Of' '.Pylades * embraced 'nigh-in',
2 - un
 '

148 The Hiory ofthe'

him the ubance of the Apple o O:
recs. That twin-fruit diuzd through
the whole mas of his blood, excited all
the parts of his body to cares one as
norher: His' Heart, where their 'double
Virtue boiled, darted its ames inwards; CE'H _A.A\

all his Members animated with his Paon,

endeavouring to penetrate one into ano
ther: Nay, not o much as his Image.
ill burning in the cold Fountains, but at
tracted his Body
poor Naricijm fell to ioin it: inInLove
deerately a word,
with
himelf; _ - r -
I will not be' tedious in relating to you
his deplorable Catai'ophy; the Ages of
' Antiquity have poken enough of that:
And beides I have Two Adventures ill
to acquaint you With, which will take (up
the time far better.
You hall know then, that the fair Sa
maci: frequented the company of the S-hep4
herd Hermapbroditw, but with no Other
Privacies, than what the Neighbourhood of
their Houzscould allow of .-* When For
time, who delights to diurb. themo
quiet and harmlez-Lives, o ordered, that
in an Aembly oijlays, where the'rewards Ofi
for Beauty and Running were two'of thee
Apples, Hermahroditw gained that of the
Race, and Sat/man's- the other O Beauty;
Though they had been 'gathered together,
yet '
 World of the Sun. 1 4,9
yet it was from dierent Branches; be- ' '
caue thee amorous Fruits mingled toge
ther o cunningly, that one of leade: was .
never without anOther of Oree: ; and
that was the reaon, why appearing to be
Twins, they plucked always a Couple at
atime. The fair Salmachr eat her Apple,
and pretty Hermaphroditm lockt his up ina
Cupboard. Sal-man's being inpired with '
the
the eects of her'which
Shcpherid, own Apple, andgrow
began 'to ofthathoc
of -

in his Cupboard, felt her elf.attra&ed

wards him, by the Sympathetick Flux and 1
Reux
p The ofthetwo. _ Who
shepherds Parents, _ perceived
_ _

the Amours of the Nymph, nding their

advantage in that Alliance, -_ endeavour-ed
to entertain and promote it- :, And therefore
'having heardmuch talking of the Twins
Apples, as _of aFruit whoe Juyce inclined
People to Love they diilled ome-of them ,;
and degree,
ie having zreiied
found a' the Spirit-z tomaketheir"
means'tq =the high

Son and his Lover drink of- it. _ The virtue '
ofthe Juyce, being ublimed to zthe highe
degree it could be raied to, kindled in the
'Hearts ofthe Lovets , o vehement/a deire
ofCon,jun&ion,z that-at r ight Hkrma
haditm was wallowed up in Salmacia,
and Salmam melted awayjin. the Arms' of
liermaphroditw he one pa into the
L 3 _ other,
 150 The Hiory ofthe

other, and 'of two ofdierent Sexes, they

made up I know not what double Pe'roh,
that' was
When neither Man
HormaP/zrodimr hadnor Woman:
a mind to en?
joy Sdlhaciiz'he found himelf to be the
' Nymph ; and When' Salmm'r deired _to_ be,
embraced b Hem hodim, he percei- .
. 'ved her e 'to be t e She'pherd. 'r-lhThis'
beuple' though 'ill retairieclfits
iBeVgatlandConceived, 'Unitj'r it' . *
* and Yet was neither". z
Man nal-'woman .- In hort', in it NatUre 'f in tl
hath hewe-a
bGeHab'l'e inceMiracle',w1'1ich hathOne.
to hinder from being neveri
lar; <
"* Well' now, are not thee pretty urpri ctu
ing' Soried'? lReallY they are; for to [Be a duce
Daughter couple with her Father_; a young
Princes lgl'u'z her le with the Amours of a'
Bull z- a Man apire to the Emjoj'ment 'of a Love,
Stone. ' Andther to epoue himElf; a all aftc
Maid'to aMarriagc, which The
conummated as 'a 'youth ;.to' ceae to be a'
' Man, Without beginning'tobe a Woman;
to ibeCOme' a Twin out of 'the MOthers
., Womb; and'thie TiWi'n ofanoth'er who had
'WRelaeiohtehim- - * -r '
3- Thee',
won Readere-things. quitebut
fifNature' zof- 'the coin
jane 'neverthicte
You'll- he urpried' 'at'i I
'rowl-you. Of - _- 1 t l .
1'-. Arricth theutnptudus'vaetyofa orts
of-Frnit-s and' Trees; [Whidf Were brpgight
 World ofthe Sun. 15r
from diant Cli-mates, for the Marriage
Fea of Cambyes, there was preented to
him a Cien of Oreer, which he caud-td
be graed upon a PlaneTree ; and amon ;
the Dainties of the la courh,,' zme A! es
of the ame Tree Were crved fupto him. '* *
The delicacy of the Dih invite'd him to
eat heartily of it ; and the ubance oft-had
Fruit, being after the three-Cnneoctiond
converted into a- pertea Seed*;<>_it- formed
in the Son
of his Womb of the Been,
Artexeractrer; for all the
the; Embr'yo
particuv _
lars of his Life, have made Phyioians con-3
Tx
jeture, that he Mu needs have been' pre
o-xu-ai-Snzm cand duced after this manner. in: 5- -- :
When the young Heart of that Prince',
was old enough to deerve the anger; 'of
Love, it was-net oberved, thathe-ighed'at
all after any 'ofhis own 5 he loved M
thing but Trees, GWUei-and Heads ;'
abOVe ail thoe that aeaedhhn, the 'lovely
' Plane Tree, Whereon his Father Cambje?
had formerly caued that hoot of Orees
_ to be 'graed'z 'Wun his greateaectioni
' His Conitutionnited' nicelywith the
progres ofthe Plane Tree', that vhe emed
to grow With the Branches of it ..- He daily'
Went and embraced ib;- in his Sleep-"he
dreamt &nothing-ele "; and Under vthe Ca
ne of' its Green Hangings, .he=dipatched
all is Aairs. ':It Was eaily permitted,
> L 4 that
 15: . The Hory ofthe. *
that the, Plane Tree mitten' with a reciproz
vtal Flame, was ravihed with his Carees :
For; on all-occaions, without any. appa
rent reaon, its Leaves were een to hake,
_ and in a manner leap for Joy ; the Branches,
bend round about his Head, as it Were to
make a Crdwofqr him, and to reach down X
o near tohis Face, that it was eaie to be
known, z that-it-was ratherv to kis him,
than Out '_off any natural inCIinatiOn, of
bending downwards. Nay, * it was alo,
obzrved, _ that out of Jealouie it ranked its
Leaves in order, joining one 'cloe to the
other, for-earz-lea the Sun-zBeams pierc
ingithrough, might kis him as well as
it; -._'I'_he King on his part, et no more
_ boundstohii Love; he had his Bed made
under. the Plane Tree, and the Tree not:
not knowing' how to repay Friendhip,
beiowed upon him the mo precious thing
v thatzTrees have, which was its 'Honeyg
grew, that every Morning dropt upon his
Qe- = * ;,. . *
- Their Care'eswould haVe laed longer, _
hadnocheath, the'EriemY ofNoble Acti
ons, put- an; end tQ them :, Artaxerxes died
of Love in the embraces Of his dear Plane
Tree; ; and: the Perians extreamly aicted
- at the-death of' o good a Prince, reolved
that they might give him atisfaction even
foet" his _Dcathg that his Body hould be
in; --. -f . = * burnt
 World of the Sun. is;
burnt withWood
no. other the Branches of that
employed Tree, and
in Conum'ing
it." v , -*
When the Funeral Pile was kindled, the
' Flame was een to twi it elf with that of
the Fat of the Body; and their burning
Locks which curled one "into the, other, to
tape'r into a Pyramide as far' as could be di;
cerned; , ; ' '
: That pure and ubtile Fire divided not;
but vwhen it arrived at the Sun, whither
you know all igneous matter tends , it
formed the prout of the Appl'e-Tree of Ore
es, cyvhich you ee there on vyour Right
H an . a , - a t. . .
- 'New the Breed ofthat Fruit is lo in your
World, and'ITll tell you how that michance
happened. . *
- . Fathers and Mothers, who as you know,
are only guided by intere, in the managev
ment of their Domeiek Aairs, being '
vext that their Children,\o oon as they had
' " eaten ofthee Apples, quandered away up
on their Friends all that they had, burnt all
the young Plants they could nd of that
Tree; o that the kind being lo, is the
reaon why no true Friend is now to be
found.
* _As fa then as thee Trees were conum
ed by the Fire, the Rain that fell, calcined
= their Ahes, o that the congealed Juyce
 154. The Hzory of the
was petried in the ame manner, as the lap,
of burnt Fern is changed into 'Glas.
Hence it is, that in all Climates ofthe Earth
two Metallick Stones are formed of the
ahes of thoe Twin-Trees, that now adays
are called the Iron and Load-one, which
becaue of the Sympathy of the Fruits
of leade: and Orecs, the Virtue Where
of they have ill retained, always apire
'to embrace one' another; and oberve
that if the piece of the Load-Pcone be the
bigger, it attracts the Iron; or if the piece
of Iron exceed in quantity, it attracts the
Load-one ,- as formerly it ha pened in the
miraculous Eects ofthe Ap Es of lede:
and Oreter, of the one' whHCh whoo
ever had eaten mo, wasthe mo beloved i
ofhim
- " Nowwho
Ironhad eaten
feeds the other.
o viibly upon the Load
one, andrthe Load-one upon the Iron,
that the one rus, and the 'other loes its
' forte; unles they be put together for the '
reparation of what ubance they loe.
HaVe 'on never oberved a piece of Load
one, laid upontheFile-du of Iron, you'll
he the Load-one cover it e in a trice
with thee metallick Atoms ; and the amo
rous Heat wherewith they cling together,
iso udden and impatient, that when they
have embraced one another in all places,
you-would ay that there is not one grairtz
- . - o
 * World of the Sin', i 55
pf the Load-One, that would nor kis a
grain of the Iron, nor a grain of the Iron,
that would 'nor be united to a grain of the
Lead-one; for 'the IrOn or LOZdrOC be
ing patated; continually end out from
' . their Mas, ome mo agile little Bodies,
in qUe of that' which they' love
When 'they have found that, having got
their deire, every one uts an end to their
Progrei; and' the Lo -0ne 'takes its re
in 'the Iron, as the Iron wholly
tontents 'its eif ' in the enjoyment of 'the
Loadctonea From theSap then of thee
two Tretis, the humour which hath g'i
'ven Being 'to thoe two-Metals has been
derived. . ' -' ' ,
" 'Before thaftfhey were unknOWn ; and if
you have a mind to know, of what matter
'Arms Were-'made for the War; Sampon
armed himfe a 'aijn the Philitier, with
'the Jaw-bone o an As; Jupiter King of
Crete', with Articial Fire-works, where"
=byhe imitated*; the
his Enernies and,Thunder, in ubduing'
in av Word, of-
-Hertules
With a Cl'u'brovercame
Mo'neris." Tyrants,
But thee and cruh
two Metals, have
another more pecick' relatidn to one '
l'Trees; You mu know, that though that
' Couple of Life-les Lovers'inciine toWards
'the Pole, yet they never tendthitlher'butih
. jCOmpany; and I-'ll tell you. the-'Rea'ibn .'of A '
l
it,
 156 The Hiory ofthe
it, after I have dicoured to you a little a
bout the Poles,
The Poles are the Mouths o Heaven,
by which it ucks up again the Light, Heat,
and Inuences that it hath hed upon the
Earth : Otherwie ifall the Treaures of the
Sun, remounted not to their ource, (all its
vBrightnes being only a du of inflamed
Atoms , which are detached from its
Globe ; ) it would have been long ago ex
tinguihed, and hone no more:I Or that
abundance _of little igneous Bodies, heap
ing together upon the Earth, when they
could not get out again, would have alrea
* dy conumed it. There mu then, asI
have told you, be breathing Holes in Hea
"ven, by which the Re letions of the Earth
are dicharged, and ot ers by which Hea
ven may repair its loes ; to the end the
eternal-imaCirculation
Life, of thee
uccevely little bodies
pas through of
all the
ctGlobes'o this va Univere. Now the '
breathin'g- holes of Heaven are the Poles,
throu h which it _retakes the Souls of all
that die in the other Worlds without itl; and
' all the Stars are its Mouths, and the Pores
through' which again it exhales, its Spirits.
But to hew you,
Imagination; thatyour
when this isAncientv
not o new an
Poets,
to whom Phyloophy diovered the mO
hidden Itcrets of Nature, pakezofan Hero,
'1 ' whoe'
 World ofthe Sz'zn'. t 59
whoe Soul they would have aid was gone
to live with the Gods; they expreed it -
in this manner ': He is one up to the Pole,
he is tated on the Polee hath pa throu h
the Pole; becaue they knew that the Po es
- where the only Avenues, through which
Heaven receives again, all that is gone out
1 from thence. If the Authority of thee
great Men be 'nor ucient to convince
you, the Experience of your modern Na-'
vigators , who have ailed towards thek
North, may, perhaps,- give you atisfaction.
They have foundzthat the'neare'r they drew
towards the Bear, during the Six Months
of Night,when it was thought that Climate *
lay under a black Darknes, a great Light
cleared the Horizon, which enuld not
proceed but from the Pole; becaue' the
more one drew near to it, and by cone-v
quence removed from the Sun, that Light '
became greater. It' is very probablethen,
that it proceeds from the Bearns of day,
and a great heap of Souls, which as you
know, are only made o Luminous A
toms, that are returning toHeaven by their
wonted Doorss ' > - a
This being o, it is no dicult matter to
comprehend, Wherefore the Iron rubbed
with the Load-one, or the Load-one rub;
bed. with the Iron, turns toWards the Pole ,
for they being an Extract 'of the Body ony
' , dole:
 1' 58 The Hiory ofthe'- v
lade! and Oreffes, and having ill retained
. the Inclinations of the two Trees, as the'
'two Trees have thoe of the TWo Lovers;
they aught to a ire to be rejoined to their
Soul ; and there ore they skip towards the
Pole, through which they reeive that it
hath mounted 5 but with t is Rerve ill;
that the Iron never turns that way," un!
_ les it; bettouched by the Loadctone, nor
- 'the Lead-one, unleiisitberubbed with the -
Iron 5 by reaon that the Iron will not quit
a. Worch leaving his Friend the Lead-one
behind, nor the- Lead-one leaving its'
Eriend the Iron, and that the one cannot
(e-blue to performthis Voyage without the
Qhl'p V . l -' _ - * . .

1, This voice, as I think," was about to go

. * of
en awith
greatanother Diourle;
Aleer thatv happenedbut the noie;
hindred it T '
All the in an lk'PirOar, rehunded with
nothing but thee Words,_TbeP1-tgue, the
Bag-te," Emd WM yon' Heard, look allow!
je I adiured the Tree, that had' o .lon'g en?
remained are in difcwihto tell me the Caue
of o great a Diorder.v Friend, laid he to
me, we attack in quarters, lc
Early as yer; informed of all. the Particulars
of the Evil:
i , Words, I'll only-tell
that thel'lague you' in We
wherewith Tbrae;
ar?
' lathe: whichMeei'eze' alike
. A - w
 World of the Sun. 1559'
we "may very well call it o, becaue a
mong us there is no uch contagious Di
renzpcr. The remedy we are about to ue
ain-it, is to force-our breath, and blow \
a together, =tbwards the place from whence
the Inamation comes, to the end we may
drive back that bad Air. I believe that
burning Feaver is occaioned us by a ery.
Bea, that for (ome days has been roaming
about our Woods ,'\ for eeing they never
.go without Fire, and cannot be Without it,
,; this, without doubt, is come tole'; ome of
V our Trees on Fire. - ,
We lient' for the Animal From-ack, to ,.
come to our Aance; however is not as
yet arrived.- But, farewel, I have no time
to talk,lwe mu look to the publick Safety. ;
nay, do you look toyour lf allb, and y
for it, ele you'll be in danger of being in.
volved inourderuction. : * _\ _'
. I followed the. connlizl, but winken;
much raining, becaue I knew my Legs,
In the mean time I was oill acquainted '
with the Geopraphy ofth (Iouutryg chalk
at the end of Ei * teen hours,- I found my
ilfat the'backn the Fotc that Ithoughcl
ed from; and-to add tomy fear, a huge
dred dreadful Thlmdrlaps. &untied.an
Brains,whil.the ghaly and pale Glimpes
of a' Thouand ahes QfLighming put-mu
- : ' _ v ' ' Thee
 I 60 The Hiory of the'
Thee Claps redoubled from time to time
with o much fury, that one would have
aid," The Foundations of the World Were
about to be over-turned 5 and neveri
theles the Heavens never appeared more
Rarene. Thou h I was at my wits end;
yet the deireo knowing the Caue of uch
an extraordinary ACCident, 'made me go
towards the place,- from whence the noie
eemed to proceed." , s .
' I had advanced about four hundred Fur-Z
longs, whenI perceived in the middle oa
great Plain, as it were, two Bowls, which
having ruled and turned along time round
one another, approached and then reco'yi
led : And I oberved that when they
anCked one again the other, then were
thee great Claps heard ; but going a little
farther on, I found that What at a diance
I had taken for two Bowls, were two Ani
mals z one of which, tho round below,
formed a. Triangle about the middle,and his
lofty Head with ruddy Looks, which oated
upwards, pired into a Pyramide ;- his Bo
dy was bored like a Sieve, and through
thee little holes, that erved him for Pores',
thin, ames glided, Which eemed-to cover
'him with _a P-lume ofFires; . >
- Walking-about there, I met With a' very
'venerable old Man, whoobiErved that fax
rlmous conict,- with no les curioity than
my
 World ofthe I6I i

my izlf. He made me a ign to draw nigh,

Iobeyed, and we [at doWn by one another
I had 'a deign to have asked him the' mo
tive," that had brought him into that Coun
try, but' he opt my Mouth With thee
words ; Well then, you hall know the
motive, that brought me into this Country.
And thereupon he gave me a full account of
all the particulars of his Voyage. I leaVe
it to YOU to judge, in what amazement I
was. In the mean while, to inCreae my
conernation, asI was boyling with deire
to ask him,what Spirit revealed my thoughts
to him: No, no, cryed he, it's no Spirit
that reveals your thoughts to vme-u-n- v
' ' This new hit of Divination, made me
oberve him with greater attention than be<'
fore, and I perceived that he acted my A
Carriage, my Geures and Looks, that he
poured all his- Members, and haped all
the parts of his Countenance, according to
the p'attern of mine; in a word, my Sha
dow in relief could not have repreented
me better. I ee, aid he, you are in pain'
to know why Icounterfeit you, and Iam
willing to tell you. Know then, that to the
end I'might know your inide, I dipoed all
the parts ofmy, Body, into the ame Order I
aw yours in ,*\ for being in all parts hi
tuated like you, by that dipoition of mat
t'er,I excite in my elf the ame thought,tht
- * - t e
l
 162 '.'Ie Hiory ofthe _
the ame dipoition of matter raies in you;
1 You will Judge this to be a thing poible,
i heretofore you have oberved, that Twins '
'who are like, have commonly the like
Mind, Paions and Will: inomuch, that
"there were two Twins at Pari:,who always
had the ameSicknees,and the ame Health;
married without knowing one anothers
deign, the aine day and at the lame hour ;
wrote Letters mutually to one another in
the me Sene, Wor s and Stile; and in
hort, have upon the ame Subject compo
\ 7 had a Copy of the ame kind of Vere, with
'the imeStops, Words and Order- Now
.don't you ze, that it was impoible, but
that the Compoition of the Organs o their
vBodies,
they mubeing
act ininalike
all Circumltances
manner ; liEeingalike,
two
like Inruments
rendera alike touched,
like Harmonyi? And thatought to
o] ha
ving conformed my Bodywholly to yours,
_ and become, if I may ay o, your Twin;
- it is impoible, but that the ame Agitation
._ 1 of Matter, muofMind.
ameiiAgitation caue in bath of us the

*i meHaving
again, aid
and o,
thushewent
fell on
a _counterfeiting
: a
You are at preent in great pain to know,
, the Original of the Coniict, ofthee two
Moners' ,- but theTrees
Know then,that I will inform
of theyou ofbe;
Forell it. '
o un
 'Woria ofthe is,
hind u,being unable with their bloV'vin ,to
, their
repel recoure
the attempts
to theofthe eryBea,have
Animial Proem-Nofezad
' \ I never heard of thee Animals, aid I tri
him, butinfrom
and that reatan Oaktoo,
hae of becaue
this Country;
it waect'
ollicitous Far its QWn afety;- an'd there-7,
fore I Would beg of you, togive me ome
account ofthem.
He thereupon pake to me in this man:
ner : In this Globe Where we are,
hould ee the WOods very thin bw'n, by
reaon of the great number df the ery _
Beas that deroy them; were. it n'otiot
the Animals FrIizen-Naer, which at' the
deire of the Fotes their Friends', come
daily to cure the Sick Trees: I, ay cure,
for no ooner have they, from their Icy
Mouth,"bl_own upon the coals ofthat Plague;
butIn
they
theput it out.
World ' Earth, from whence i
of the
both ou and I are come, the ery Bea is .
calle the Solanude ; and the Animal
Frozen-iNoe, is knoWn by the name of R'e-z
Man. Now you mu know, that' the
Remom live toWards the extremity of the
Pole, at the bOttom of the More Glm'de' "j
endit'is the Cold Of thee Fihes, evaporated
through their Scales, which maked-the' sea
,Watelf in thoe quarters' to freeze, thougi
it be Salt." ' ; M'ei- ' Melt'.
 i 64 The Hzory ofthe
Mo Navigators, who have Sailed for
the dicovery of Gum-land, have at length
experienced, that in certain Seaons they,
found none othe Ice, which at Other times
had opt them: Now thou h that 'Lea was
open at the time, when it is Eittere Winter
- there, yet they have attributed the caue o
rit, tohme liacret Heat that had thawed it;
but it is far 'more probable, that the Rema
' may, who only eed upon Ice, had at that
time devoured the whole ock. Beides you
'are to know, that ome Months after they
'have lled their Bellies, that range Food
of uneay digeion, o chills their Stomack,
rthat their very blowing of their Breath,
cfreezes again all the Sea under the Pole.
.;When they "come on Land (for they live in
both Elements ) they fill their Paunch on
xly with Hemlock, Wolf-bane, Opium and
Mandrakes, - .
It's wondred at in our World, whence
Proceed thoe piercing North- Winds, that
alWaYs bring7Fr0 with them ; bUt i our
Country-men' knew what We know, that
zthe. Ramras. live in that Climate, they
Would know as well as We, that they pro
zeed froma..pu of their Breath, whereby
they mdeavourlto blow back the heat of
xheSun that draWs near themi
That -Stygian-Water wherewith the
Great Alexanderwas poyoned, and whclge
-'> * ' . Co -
 World.of the Sun. , I 65.
Coldnes petried his Bowels, wasthe Pils
of'one of theeallAnimals.
man: contains the princi ln ne,.the Rd, _
ofCold in-o
eminent a degree, that pa ingunder a Shi
the Veel is eized with Cold, and ruc:
with uch aNumnes, that-it cannOt wag
out of the place. And that's. the reaon
that one half of thoe, who have cruihd
North-ward,
never foragain
came back the-dicoveryfthe
; becaue it is a Pole;
Mir-
racle'ifthe Remomr, who are b numerous '
ide: in that Sea, op not their VeelS; And
o muCh for the Animals FrozEn-Nqer. -
But as to the Fiery Beas, _ they lodge on
Land under Mountains of burning Bitumen,
uch as zEtm, I/ewim and others. The
- Pimples which you iec upon the Brea
of this Bea, that proceed from the Ina
mation of his Liver, aree-_.-..- r
Hear we put a op to our Talk, that we
might be more attentive tothat famousDuel.
' The Salamamder attacked with mu'Ch ar
dour z but the Remora defended impenetra
bly, Every dah they gave one another, be
got a clap of Thunder ; as it hap ens in the
Worlds there abouts, where the Clahing of
' a hot Cloud with. a cold, caues the lame
Report. . _
At every glance of Rage which the Sa
lamorzder darted ' againrits'Enemy, out of
'its Eyes ahed a reddih Light,that eemed
' M 3 to
 366 The' Hiory ofthe
tokindle the Air in ying 3 it weat bqctjiligg
Oyl' and pied Aqua-rm. ' f
The Remara, on the Other hand, that - .
* gros, quare andheavy Animal, preented
a' Bed ialed 'all over With'Yicles.' Its
large IZ-YeS lookt like two CthaIzplates,
whole glances conveyed o chilling a light,
thath what member of my Bodyit ' ed
them, I felt a hivering Winter-cold. If '
I' thought tq put my Hand 'before ' me, my'
Fingers ends were nummed z nay, the very
Air about infected with its quality, conj
denfed into Snow, the Earth hardned un;
der his Steps; and I could reckon the Foot
ings of the Beat, by the number of the
Chilablanes,
"trode that 'welcomed
upon them. ' i me when '_I ,

4' In the beginning of the Fight, the Sala

. murder by the " Vigorous activity Of its firf
heat, had put the Remom into a Swear z
* but at len h that Swear Cooling again,
_ _ glazed all t Plain with o ippery an En
r up
namel, thatRemiara
'to the the Salammder
without could
falling,notThe
get
Philoopher and 'I knew very well, that ithe
troubleoffalling and riing' o many times,
had' made it vyeary; 'for thee Thunder-Yf
claps'hook
the y dreadfu before,that
he gave' proceeded'
its' Enerny ictwerefroni
nq"
more now butthe chill" Sound o' thoe little?
After-elaps, which denote the end .of a'
,'*.:,-..=j *<,_-,\ ,:.z;,-, _ ,-.
 World ofthe Sim: .
Storm 3 and' that dull Sound, deadned by del.
grees,
that of degenerated into a'Whizzin
a hot Iron plunged'iinto' col ,'Wjatep
like to
When
Fight wasthe
nearRemorzz
an en , rceived, 'that the;
by 'the Weaknes
[ts 7
' -ofthe hook which was . harrier . .feit. by, in,
it raied it elf upon an Angle f'its Cube,"
andthewith
'. Of all its weight fell
Salammde/,with uponixcceishat
oi gOOd the Brea
'the Heart of thesalemandef, wherein" the
vre ofits heat Was contracted,burin made
"ib fearful a Crack, that Iknow not 'ngin'
nature to compare it to. ' " p
'ol' Thus died the Fiery Bea, under the
lazy reance ofthe Animal Ffoze'z-Noe.
Sometime after the Remom was gone,
we approached the lace Battel; and
the old Man having aubed his Hands over
irt 'with the Earth, on which it had walked;
as a Preervative again burning, laid hold
on the Dead Bod of the Salamnzder; Give
me but the Body .of this Animal, aid he,
and' I've noneed for Fire in my Kitchen ;
for provided it be hung upon the Pot-hook,
it will Boyl and Roa all that's laid upon
the Hearth. As for the E es, I'll carefully
keep them; if they werec eaned from the
Shades of Death, you'd take them for two
little Suns. TheAntients ofourWorld knew
- well what ue to make ofthem ,- they called
_ them burning-Lamps,and never hung them
4 up
 168 The Hiory'ofte
up. but in the Pompous Monuments of
' Illurious Perons.
v The Modern: have found ome ofA them,
by digging into thee famous Tombs; but
their ignorant Curioity made them put
them out, thinking to find behind the bro
ken Membranes, the Fire which they ilW
hine there. \
_' 'The'old Man went on ill, and I fol
lowed him, lining very attentively to the
Wonders he told me. But ince I have
been peaking of the Eight, I mu not for
*et the Dicoure which we had,concerning
i heI Animal Proem-No
don't think, aid hee. to me, that you
havenever
that ever een a Remom
rie to ithie brim; for
of they
the are Fih;
Water
nay, elde or
Northern'Sea never
: But 'do theyidoubt
iwithiout leave you
the
have een a ort of Animals, 'Which in ome
manner' may be reckoned of their kind. I
told yout0wardsthe
reaches ju- now,Bole,
that isthat
fullSea
o which
Rema
Par, that pawn in the mud as other _Fihes
do., You mu know then, that that Seed,
' the EXtract of all their mals, o _eminently
contains all its Coldnes, thatifa Ship pas *
over it, the Ship contracts. one 'or more
' Woims, which become Birds 'z whoe Blood
is o 'deitute of heat, that 'though they
'l' have
i' Wings, yet they are'ctreckoned
" among
Fihes
 [World of the Sun. 169
Fihes: zAnd o the Pope, who knows their
Original, forbids them not to be eaten in
Lent; and thee are the Fowls which in
France they call ,Maquereuer.
I marched on ill without any other de
ign than to follow him, but o glad that I
had found a Man, that I dur not take my
Eyes oof him ; o afraid was'I'to loe my
_ Man. Mortal Yquthyaidhe'to me, (for
. I well perceive, that you have not as yet
paid the tribute, which we 'owe to Nature,
as I have done, ) z) oon as vI law you,-. I
dicovered in vyour Face, omewhat 'that
hews you to be curious and inquiitive. If
I benot miaken in the Shape and Confor
m'atiOn of your Body, yOu mu beat From/1- *
"man, and a Natiye of Paris. That City-is.
the place, wherewith I ended my Misfor
tunes, which I had carriedabout'with me
all over Europe. - - ' *
. My name is Campanella, and I am a Ca
lalrian by Nation. Since my coming into
the Sun, I have pent my time in viiting
the Climates of this great Globe, that I may
dicover the Wonders of-them: It is divr
ded as the Earth is, into Kingdoms, Re
publicks, States and Principalities; lb that
Four-footed Beas , Fowl, Plants and
Stones, every One have their, own ; and
though ome of thee allow no entrance a
, mong them, to Animals ofa range kind,
epecx
 ] 70 The Hiory-of'- the
epecially to Men, whom the Birds above
all others mortally hate, yet I can travel
over all without any danger; becaue the
Soul of a Philoopher, is made up of more
ubtile Parts, than the Inruments which
might be made ue of- to torment it. I was
by good luck in the Provinoe of the Trees,
when the diorders of the Salmpmler began
thoe great Thunder-Claps', that you mu
have heard as well as I," which guided nae
to their Field of Battel, whither- you came.
oon after; but I was upon myreturn to the
Province of Philobphers---,-- What, nd'
I-to him, are' there Philofhphers alo then-in
the Sun? Are there, replied the good Man,
ure ; and they are the chief Inhabi
tants ofthe Su'n, and the very ame, * Whom
Fame in your Worlddorh celebrate with o
full Mouth; You may hortly convere
with them, provided you have the Can-
rage to follow me ; for before Three Days
be over, I hope to be in their City. I don't
think ypu can poibly perceive the manner,
howt i: great Spirits are tranportedv hi
ther. No certainly, cried I, for could o
many Others been hitherto o blind, as not
to nd the way? Or that after our Death,
We fall into the Hands of an Examiner of
Spirits, who' according to our Capacity
grants or refues usour freedom in the -.
SUH P * X ' *. *
* ' ' No
 World of the Sun, 171
' Nothing of that, replied the old Man;
It's bya Principle of Similitude, "that Souls
attain to this mas of Light; for this World
, is made up ofnothing eli:,but the Spirits of
Every thing that dies in the Circumambient
Orbs, uch as Mercury, ente, the Earth,
Mars, Jupiter and Suture, ' . '1 '
' Thus, o hon'as a Plant, a Bea or a
' Man expire, their Souls without extinttiz
on mount to its' Sphe're, jut as you ee the?
ame of a Candle points'u'p "thither, in
pight of the Tallow that holds it 'by the'
Feet, 'Now
'the ourCe all theeSoulsbeing
ofDayzand Purgeid'fromunited to
thegr'os
inatter that peered them i'exert far more _
_ noble Functionsthan the e'of Growing, '
'Feeligand Reaonin z Or they are an;
ploy 'in making the lood, ahd Vital Spi
rits ofthe Sun, that great and perfect Auiz
mal : And therefore alo, on ought not *
to doubt, but that the Sun a by the Spirit,
'more perfectl far than you do; ince .it- is
by the heat o a Million of thee Souls rec
tied, whereof hisown is an Elixir, that
he knows the ctet of Life, that he' inui
ences the matterof your worlds, with the
power of Generation, and that he makes
Bodies enible that they have a Being 5 and,
in hort, that he renders' himelf', and all
things ele, viible. ' ' ' '
1 72 The Hiory oft/Je
Now it remains, that I hould clear to
you, why the Souls of Philolopers, do not
eentially join to the mas of the Sun, as
thoe of other Men. -
There are three orders of Spirits in all the
Planets, that is to ay, in the little Worlds
which move about this.
-The groer erve only to repair the'
Plumpnes of the Sun, the ubtile ininuate _ *
into the place of his Beams ; but thoe of
Philoophers,having contracted no Impurity
in their exile, arrive entire, in the Sphere o
Day to become its Inhabitants. Now they
are not as others, a conituent part of its
Mas; becaue the matter that compoes
them, in the point of their Generation, vis
o exactly mixed, that nothing' can again
diolve it : Like to that which forms Gold,
Dia'monds, and the Stars, whereof all the
Parts are o cloely intervvoven and knit to
gether, that the ronge Diolvent cannot
itparate the Mixture. '
' Now thee Souls 'of Philoophers, areo
much in regard of other Souls, what Gold,
DiamOnds, and, the Stars are, in repect of
other Bodies ; that'Epicurm in the Sun, is _
the ame Epicmu, who her'etofore livedin
the Earth. * ' *
The pleaure which *I received in hear
ing that great Man, hortned my 'W'ay 5 and
I often arted curious" 'Weiong about.
' which
 World ofthe Sun. 1 73 A
which I importuned his opinion, that I
might be thereby inructed : And really I
never found o great goodnes in any Man,
as inhim; for though by reaon of the Agi
lity of his Subance, he might in a few
Days have arrived in the Kingdom of Phi
loophers; yet he choe rather to take the
trouble of Jogging on with me, than to
leave me amid va Solitudes.
Nevertheles he was in great hae; for I
remember that having asked him, why he
returned before he had urveyed all the Re
gions of that great world? He made anwer,
that his Impatience to ee one ofhis Friends,
who was newly arrived, obliged him to
break o his Travels. I found by the e
quel of his dicoure, that his Friend was
that famous Philoopher ofour time MOX
eur de: Certes, and that he made all hae to
meet him.
He made anwer alo,wh I asked him,
What he thought of his na'tur Philoophy ?
that it ought to be read with the ame re_
pect, as Men lien to Oracles. Not, ad-
ded he, but that the Science of natural
things 'hath need, as other Sciences have, to'
prepoes our Judgment with Axio'mf,
which it proves not : But the Principles of
his are imple and o natural, that being
once uppoed, there is norhing that more
necearily atisies all APPCZI'ZHCCSa
I
 I 74; - The Hiory ofthe ,
I could not forbearto interrupt him in
'this place .- But methinks, aid I to him,
thatthat Philoopher hath alWays impugnl
, ed the Vacuum: And nevertheles, though
he was an Epicurean, yet that he might have
the honour o giving a Beginning to the
Principles of Epimrm, that's to ay,- to As'
tone: ; he hath uppoed for the beginning
' of things, a Chaos of matter throughly o-s'
lid, which God divided into an innumeras' v
ble number oflittle Squares, to every One of
Which he gave oppoite Motions. Now he
will have thee Cubes, by rubbing one aa'
gain another,to have crumbled themelves
into pieces of all orts of Figures : But how
can he conceive,that thee quarePeices,co'uld
begin to turn eparately, withoiit granting
a Vacuity betwixt their Angles . Mu
there not be necearil, a Void m the paces,
which'the Angles o thee Squares were'
forced to leave, that they might move ?_
And then could thee SqUares, which only
poeled a eertainExtent before they turn-i
ed, move in a Circle, unlei in- their Cira'
.cumference they ha poeed as much
F more? Geome tells us, That that cani
notbe; one hal then ofthat pace,- he
necearily to have remained void ,. ce;
' _ 'ing there were as yet no AtOmes to ll it;
MY Philoopher made me anwer, That
Monieurdes Certes' himelf Wouid give us
 'PVorld the Sun. I 7;
a reaon for that; and that' being an ob
liging Gentleman, as well as a Philoopher,
he would certainly be overjoyed to nd a
mortal Man in this World, that he might
clear him of an Hundred Doubts, which
his unexpected Death had conrained him
to leave in the Earth, that now he had for
aken : That he did nOt think though, there
was any great diCUlty to anwer that ob*
jection, according to his Principles which I
had not examined, but as far as the weak
'nels of my Wit could permitme; becaue,
aid he, the Works of that great Man, are
i o full there
them, and o ubtile,
isneed thatattention
of the to underand
of the p
Soul of a true and conummated Philoo
pher : Which is the reaon, that there is not
a Philoopher in the Sun, but has a Venera
tion from him, inomuch that they will ,
not di ute him the Precedency, if his mo
dey uer him to take it,
To eae the trouble that the length of
this Journey may ive you, we will di2
coure of his Philogphy according to his
Princi les; which undoubtedly are o clear,
and em o abundantly atisfactory,
through the admirable Wit of that great Ge
' nius, that one would lay, He had aed.
in the lovely and magnicent Structure of
this Univerle.
You
 17'6 The Hiory of the _
You remember, he hith, that our Una
deranding is Finite ; o Matter being divi-v
ible in innitum, it is not to be doubted,
but that is one of the things, that it can
neither imagine norconceive; and that it
is far above the reach of the Intellect, to,
give you a Reaon for it: But, aid he,
though that cannot fall under the Senes,
yet we Conceive that it is o, by the know
ledge we have of Matter; and We ought
nor, aid he, upend OUl' Judgments 'a
bout things that we conceive._ Can we
imagine the manner how the Soul acts up
on t e Body ? Nevertheles, that is atruth
not to be denied, nor doubted o 3 whereas
- it- is a far greater aburdity to attribute to a
Vamity, that quality of yeilding to a Body,
and that Space, which are the dependances
ofan Excent, which can only agree to a.
subance; eeing by o doing one would
confound the Notion of Nothing with that
of a Being, and give anlities to that, which
can produce nothing, and cannot be the
Author of any thing whatoever. But,
rpoor Mortal, laid he, I, perceive that thee
_Speculations are tedious to thee ; becaue as m-4__._ A
that Excellent Man aith, Thou ha never
taken pains enough, to purie thy Spirits
ifrom the mas of thy Body ; and becaue
' thou ha rendred it o lazy, that it will per-'
form no Functions now, without the aid of
Senizs. . I
 l *W_0rld ofthe" Sun. l 77
Iwas abOUt to reply, when he pulled
me by the Arm,to hew me a Valleyof won'
derful Beauty; Do yourperceive, aid-'he
to me, that bottom we are going down ina
to ?v One would ay, that thetops ofthe
little Hills that bound it, were' purpozly
Crown'd with Trees, that by the =cool.of
their Shade, they would invite*Travellers
torepoe. . x_ "a
At the foot of one ofthee Hills,theLake Of
Sleep takes its ource ; it conits only ofthe
Liquor of ve Fountains, and if it mingled
not with Three Rivers, and by' its weight
dulled the ream of their Waters, no An?
mal 'of our World could leep.- I .cannut
expres how impatient I was to queioh
him, about thee Three Rivers, which I
had never heard of before ; but I was fetis- -
ed when he told me, that I hould ee
vall. - ' ' s i'
Soon after 'we arrived in the Valley,
and much about the ame time, upon the
' Carpet that borders that great Lakea '
The truth is, aid Campanella to me, you
are happy, in that you ee before you
die, all the Wonders of this World; it's a
bleing for the Inhabitants of your Globe,
that it hath produced'a Man, who can in
form them of the marvels of the Sun ; eeing
without you, they were in danger of living
in gros Ignorauce,and of taing a thouiind
; .. - N P ea
 .
/

i 78 The Hiory ofthe'

Pleaurcs; without knowing whence they'
vcome ;, for it cannotbe imagined, how li-'
.b'eraily the Sun heows his Largees, upon
all your little Globes: and this Valley ab
loue, diues an innite nnmber of Lie1
ings,throughout the whole Univerie, with
'out which yOu could not live, nor i) much'
as hethe Day : Methinks that the ight of
this Countrv
"confes, thactt alone,
the Sunis is
enough
your to make you
Father, and
that he is the Author of all things. *Thee
Five little Rivers, that come 'and dicharge
themklves in it, run not above Fifteen or
Si-Xteen hours ; 'and nevertheles they eem
- .to be o weary when they arrive, that hard
ly can they move; but they expres their
La'itude by very dierent eects, for that
o'fSight contracts its le'proportionably, as J
it approaches to the Lake of Sleep. The
Hearing at its Mouth, confounds, wan
ders, and looes it slf in the Pool : The
Smelling raies a murmur,}ike that of a Man
who ilores .* The TaPte growing wallowih
* by the way, becomes altogether inipid :
.A-nd the Feeling, o powerfu a little before,
that he lodged all his Comrades, is fain to L-zs

conceal/hisown abode." 'On his part the

may-mon
Nymph of Peace, who reides in the mid
vdie of the Lake, with open Arms receives
zrhis gues, lays them in her Bed, and dandles
them o gingerly, that to make them iege),
. ., ' e
 _ 'World of the Snii. ' i79
he' her list takes the pains to rock the'Cra-4
dle. After they have for' ome time been
thus confounded in this va Baon, the
again divide themiizlves at the further end:
into Five Rivulets, which reume the lame
namesthey
.when when they iue
entered i Butout,
thoi'ethat they
Which le;
haeri
'mo to be gone, and tug their Companis'
ons to et out, are the Hearing and Peel
ing; for the other Three wait, till thee _
awaken them, and of all the re the Tae'
lags always hindmo?
The Lake of Sleep is Vaulted over, with
the black Arch o'f a Grand. A- ' eat ma? '
ny Tortoies march owly- about e Shore i
the Flowers of-a Thouand Poppies, by,
looking into the Water,- communicate to it
its drouzy Virtue; Not o much as D'ormice,
but come above Fifty Leagues to drink iri
it', and the purling of the Stream' is d - .
charming,-
upon' the that it would
P'ebblcs with eem to ,break
Cadenoei and
:p endeavour to' compoe Soporick Mu-L
ack. ' ,"- *" '
The Wih CampaneL/d Without doubt'
foreawz- that I was aboUt to feel the?
eects of it, and'therefore headvid-me
to mend my .pace: I woold have obey"
'ed but' themy
had o enveji'gled Charms' of,thaf
Realbn, that *Water;;,
'hardly ,
could'l
ct' i N 2la Wb'rds': * Sleep
an;
 xso- Tbiw ofthe .
_dri,..then,z leep-on,- Iigive you leave,{id
he
here;' and-indeed theithatiyouillbe
aireb perfect, Dreams thatglad
onehas
one
day to' call tom'ind, that which you, are
'about to have, In the mean time, _Pllz _diq
Vert my zlf in viewing tliezRarities of
'the
gain,place, and then
I think comenoback
vhe talked to you_a-_
more, or at
ea the Vapours of ee , 'hadialready put
me out of condition, o being able . to hear
'_him. .
* Iwas in the middle 'of the leahede and a
be c0nceived Dream that ever was, when
m Philoopher came to awake me. I'll
tell it you, WhenI can without di reon ;
for it isletvery
it', to important
you ice, you hou
vWith what d know
freedom the
Mind'of' the Inhabitantsvof . the Sun acts,
Whil' Sleep captivates theierSenes. For
my part', I * think, -.that that-
fitesvathAir;iJhatli__ the Lake; evapoz
v property of
depuranng 'theJMind,ct entirely Lfrom, the
Hogs of_'th'eLSene5-
to YOur szornqthingnot
thoughtiswhich'doeis is preented
eem to a

And 'FI'YhiighIYZepef-tr
realm' 'w'h inruct you 5 athhat's the
thoe Philo
hichL' -_.t. Heats-ba edz
*' .Dreamcrs,
* .- who
akeilaughttit Willis igdranti - _. -_ -
gaps-at che-firm eyeszwicha artz: 51
1 nyK'Ic-Y' I heardihii..1hiirez * -.il Mortal, How
heitaeemwshimoad XSFHL.W9uld_-zee.
\ . a
itn . > 9 l",
 '.World the Sun. v il 8-1
a-Rarity- that ean' n'eVer be' imaghiea in 'your
lWOrld." ' During the ace'of ian how', ? 'or
tliei-eaboms, nce I le you ;_,-_Ihave been
(walking by 'the (Five Fo'u'htains, -' 'WhiCh _
come ont- 0f the, Luke _o'f Sleep, -' You may
believe, 'thatI have conidered them? With a'
great. deal ofA'ttentionf ; they' bear the in'am'e
loftheEiveSEnes,
to' and'glide
anOt-her :' 'That of- very-heatto'bie
the Sig'ht'l'eeins 'one
. a forked Pipe, 'full of the Powder dema- "
inonds , and' little ' Looking-Gla'e's ,' - 'that
eal aWay 'and reore the Image'OF what"
evenpret'znts; in its coure' it incompaes
thKinchh of-Linx 1 Thatlof the 'Hear4
* 'ingiisinIiket'Manheroouble ,-" it turns by '
its 'Inuations like a DEddlllif,-&d
'mo'1hollow:coneavity of- it's Bed, from thect
one lna
bea'rYa'n Bothe'o'f- all the noie-thatoun s
fonndiab'om 3"- ram-much miaken, i 'they
'Were'not Foxes that I w pieking their
'thiare r ' That' of: Smelling eem; like
the former; to divide itelf into two Chan
nels, hid Under one and the ame Arch;
'outa'rofevery-thing- it meets, it extracts -
omewhat' inviible,> whereof' it dempos
a II-'houand - ort of 'Odours,- whieh and
_ fit in' ead ofTWAter'; on the brink I'of that
ourCe,-.thete'a*re-agreat many' Dogs, that
rub and cleane-their .NOIEs. That of the
Tae-runs by purts, \ whichieornnionly
happen not above Three or Four? times a
z Y
N 3 Day,
18; The Hiory ofthe
Day, and-for that tooa large van of Co,
ralv muf be raied, and underneath that
agreat mittle ones of Ivory ; itsLi
' not reeinb Spittle ,-' Butast'o the Fifth',
1- w of Feeling, it is o large and deep,"
that it environs 'all its Siers, nay, and
lays it elf out at length in their Channe
and its thick Juyce, heds it (hi abr
UPQH the err-en Tur. covered with
t'inrel'zlan'e-.v - . * '* 1 '
Now'you mu know, that unn'ed
With VeneraiO, I. aderednthe myeri
us Turnings ofall tlme-'Eountains : When
after a great walk', I came to. the entry
Where" thQY; dichar ed. 'diamclves' into
Three' Rivers q'z But' allow me," yQuTll bet-i
ter conceive dipotion 'ofthee things
'when APromiB that-plea?
ed me wells: throughly'eawoke' me z I
retch-ed"th my'- Arm to him,' and we
kept the ame, way he had follow, 'walk
ztl-Song th'e Dykes that the Five; Bi
i v _ ' inztheir'zvve'ralhaels." ""- .
When; we had gone. about-a Maughme
as glegr'as a'LakeL-'aietd iit elf-to
our Eyes," 'TNO ooner had the-Wie Cam
pznella perceived it, but "he told me: At
length, Son, zweaare zgot Bothe Plant, I
diinctly'elthethreekivem. -- -. e -
Iz was ib briey Franiorted 'with xthat
QQWSJ'that" I thought! was
he. r,- sue:- 3 5 a! r? 'u .u .-...=-*
t
 .' Eagkc. I ew .rather thanw-aked ,'- send:
ran all about with. fh-gmedy;a-C11rioyz=
that in lefe. than an hour, my Guide aiid=
I oberved what new/you mlhear. v 2.' '
, thisThree great
Burning- Rivers:Tlas
Wptld: waxen'-Firhmd
the Fieldsof:
larg-Zz i
q is called Mmorzy thQSW'Qnd,na1-rowei<,
-_.-(_1-_._:- but deepex, > Imagination zK andzth'e Thide
the la .ctih:1h6,' is called Judgment; r,
-. Upon theBanks .Qf Memory; one may:
T'd.
a
82 hear- contiuually .a groubldbmc ;chacceriggz
ijays, Pmom, an' ofalloua'wf
nets, Changhes, Gum-lings,Bit'dsz
Lia-.
'sh-ac chirp What allay have learnt. lathe"
Nighctime they are lent,' Ear xhen they)
axe taken upin feeding npomhauhi'ek 'Y
xexhales from-thee watcryj
31?
03
b-d'z.
Lr-VFR
plaqcssbuuheir-foul.,Stomackdlgnsitfbillz
that in the Mornin zwhmthey-think it chi:
Vemed.Beak
ehejr intoztlzcis-
again, ubance,
asclczr itsitdrops
itwaslin the 'i
River, - ,,
The Watzof &harkizzerzemsxto be;
'P ' dammy, andryns wkhzmxmh none; -
'i ECGhOS'FllatamzformedzinitsCaVems
, selle-Luke weed, &ventoahovc a Thouha
times',- Jt breeds akj'nd of Moners, th
hewe .a Faccmueh .likerxo .thax ofa Woman:
Lcjzagh others taqmvrefurious, who have
aquancand HelmedHeaB, not unlike to
thamfpur Pedants. .Txhc'gdlchumeiof ,
x N 4 thee
1 i Tbe Hiory ofthe
thee isto cry,- and nevertheles ay no more
but jwhat they have heard one anorher ay
[NFOFCL . .- '.:;"i , .= . a
The Riverso 'Imagination runs more
genle gr its. light _and- hining Liquor
parkle's,onlall*hands: :To look upon that
Water like z'aTorren't- of humide parkles ,
ficiWOuldthink, that it oberved no Or
er-zinits coure. ' ' 'After I had' conidered it
attentively; I oberved' Vthat - the hu:
IJIQBP owed ' 'in its Channel, was
ofxpure-PotablefGold, and its froth of the
Oyl 'of Tale; iThe-Fih that it feeds are-Res
'ne'er-an Ham-fand; Sldihmder s; inead
Qravdtisifull 'of 'thoe little Stones' Pli
az of, Twithwvhich Men become hea-i
vy,
i twheri'th'ey
thenztheytouch theirthem
'apply-'to Wrong ide,
their and
Right
.e-.* x I obervedthere alox thoe zother
Stones,zone of which Gige: had inia ring,
which render. things Inviible ;v but =above
all, there are a reat many Philoopher's
ones, < which: p'arkle- among its Sand.
There were: a teat manyi-'Fruit-Trees up
onthe banks 1o . it, 'epecially 'thoe which
Mahomet found. in Paradie 3' their Branches _
Wa-rmed with.EheniXes-, and -I 1- oberved
QLBbeStocks, of 'that * Tree', from which
Baard plucktthe Apple 'which he threw
'Wengthethreeodde'esj- gras of! the'
ofthe had grat'cizld on
- *- r ' '* * . FFB!
 World the &m.- 18;
them, iEach Ofthei: Two 'great Rivers, is
divided, into an innite 'num-ner of Branches,
thatlare interlaeed ione withanether L; and
I toOk notice,- - that when aFP-ectat Rivulet of
Memory, drewnear. to a le s of Imaginati<
on,-'<it'-immediately
onj 'the contrary, 'i aborbed theother
the Rivulet z but
of Imagi-i
nation was the bigger, it dried up'th'e Bro'ok
of MenibrY.;"*-Now eeing fthee Three
Rivers, sboth in" their Channels 'And Brana'
ches, run al ways-by one anothe;'_ where:
oever-the'Memdry is' rong? the Imaginay'
tion 'diminihes ; Sand" thisxagaml wells, its
the'othe'ris'low.<"- >- -' 4;" 's- : ' A
(f-Near to thatfheiR-iver, dfjjiidgm'edt runs
With 'an inti'edible
deep' Ch'anhe'lQ HOWn'eB
itileiq'uor'v Reins -'_It' hath a'
to-becoldfj
and when-it is hed, upon any thing, it dry-3"
inead of moiehin'g. In the. 0'er of- its,
Channel grow 'Hell'ebore-Plants *, = whoe
Roots' retching out in * long Filame ts, 'fe-'
ven" to the Mouthv'of it, purie its aters '
- there :ct Itbre'e'ds '4Serpents, and upon the
oft gras that *c0'ver its' banks, Thoula'nds
ofiElephants Lepoe- themelves -:- It is divi
ded, as the othertwo, into an innite num
bEr o'f little 'Branches i;" it encreaes as it ad
vances' in its 'cOure ; and though it ill
Sainsgroundyet'it continually ebbs and
vowsinitfel-Ngw _- > - v
~ k \_ i .. An

h,-
 186 He'myof the?
_. All the watered y the ' uyoeze
thee Three Rivers -;_ it i;er to eep the
burning of thoe that die in that;
'great World this deerves very well
tqbe handled 'are largely. 4. . . , '
'The Life-of. 'the Animus of the
verylonez moltth expire am but bra-na:
tural Deadk. which; only .h . ,. a:
sed of Swap W'Exehtolou . Years-a
whenmhszstmued Intaeipzz of nued:
' tQ-wahztlmr. ery. me them;
theoxdcrv ifQN- r
yrfgzM-gszturepsmw Mars; z
' would e uire moretime torzpairteAnp-z
at, -B?.iqs_afzth;=n= &coram. e a Remove,
Eveaer to. azo, that the Am?
mad-Pay &ee'n-delyw to UP-SQ
\ Hall. ner-'0 &twies-hire Red Ahezl ,. _:
' zzzsaxhwsr MPPeHs-wntws
1116. v AmIBa-l ->_<m being; CXPKFGdi en m
_ wem enun; _>xhe-Ju=_rlc iWUS-QK
eke: she wade. ue ill? ubwa ease, use
&hee-m is wend thiszurmng WOFJA,
NNW-IcePathtwatsrsd wash the
lBQx ctdmjhree Rivers; ex then be:
gaming ameveale by their. Fluidlt-y,
thsymamuicklr. exte.zthe,z-Hacuchee _ "
ybich that Water. hahzgivep W-L"
giveKnpwlstxthezs ammrg
threads, and by a Flux of Luminougppis,
a harpen
ZFf-Z. **' themelves
' " " ' 'into' Beams,
' - and then.
diperc
 World of the Sun. prey
dierle into the Neighbouring Spheres;
Where theyare no honerWafte , but they
themelves dil'oie the umtter, as much as
. they can, inth Form proper for the eXert;
ing all the fond-inns, whereof they have
room-'acted an Iniinct, inthe Wane; Of the
,Three Rivers, 'the Five Fountains, and the
Lake .; and therefore they ixer themelves,
to be attracted to Plants forv Vegetation s
the Plants uer themblves to be brouzed
Upon by Animals for Senation; and the
'uer themelves to be eaten by
, Men; that o being converted imo the"
ubance,- they may repair the Three Fa
cnlties of Memory, Imagination-and Judg
ment, of whoe power the Rivers of the
. Sun, had given them a Fm'cqtae. _ .
'more
Newaceording as the Atomes have been
or lelhaked, 'in the' Liquor .offtheli:
ThreeRivers ;ithey furnih Animals with
- more or les 'Memory ,' Imagination or
Judgment; had according as in the Three
Rivers, they'have inbibed more or-les, of
the' Liquor of the Five Fountains, and of
' the lake' they fort-nto them Senes more
Or les perfect, and produce Gauls-more: or
kdrowzyx " ' I ' ' '
3 This is in a manner 'What -we=oberved,
concerning the-newe of thee' Three Ria
irersv Little cattered VGiCS'Of themmay
be Mtjvith everywhere 5"- but as [for the
Do out ....-_.-7 ,,1 _, .
 I 88 The Hiory ofthe i

principal Branches, they run with' a reight

coure to the Province of Philoophers:
And therefore we returned to the high
way again, notz'leaving the Current wide
of us, farther 'than it was neceary to get
rupon the. Cauby; . We' 'aw the Three
great-Rivers. always running by. our ide;
but for the 'Five Fountains, we beheld them
vturning and winding below in the Mea
dows.olitary";ctithe.
That's a'veryAirpleaant
there"Read, though
'is pure and
thin, which nourihes the Soul, 'and makes
'itritignzovetthe-Paons. ' tl : A.
-as2 At
wetheendzofFive
werefdiviertingorour-
Sixight,
days - Journey,
with the
variousand' rich Propects of the Country,
we heard a Janguihing Voice, like the
gmaining Of a ick Peron. We drew near
the place, from whente we judged it might
come, and found upon the brink of the
'River 'Imagination ,- an Old Man fallen
backWards ,.i who. Complained grievouly.
Tea'rs'of compaion came into 'my Eyes,
and Pity obligedLme toask the poor wretch
what he ailed. &That Man', anwered
Campamlla, turning towards me, is aPhi
loopher reduced to Extremity :_'For we die
Oftner than once ;vand eeing xwe' are but
Parts.- of this. Univere , .we* change our
form, thatwe may' o Live elewhere ;
which isnOt-'az Mis ortune,>.-mce it is a "do-4
l-- r' ' way
 Worldofthe Su'ctzi. 1 89
way to Perfect ones Being, and to attain to
an infinite r number of Seiences : His, di
* emper is that, which makes all great Men
for the mo part to die.
His Dicourlizobliged me to conider the
' Patient more attentively, andat the r !
- -glance, I perceived that his Head was as
big as a Tun,'and open in many places."
Come, come, aid Campanella to me', pul
ling
may me by we
think the could
Arm,allivethetoaance that-we
this dying Man, i
would be unprotab e, and only trouble him
the more. Let's, Jog- on, for indeed his
Evil is Incurable : The Swelling of his
Head, proceeds from the Relenes of his X
Mind ; for though the Ideas, wherewith he
has lled the ThreeOr'gans, or the Three
Ventricles of his Brain, be but very mall
Ima es; yet they areCorporeal, and by
con equence capable of filling a great place,
r
when they are very numerous. Now you
. mu know, That that Philoopher hath o
dilated his brain,- by ung it with notion
upon notion, that being unable longer to
contain
of dyingjthem,-{it hath to
is common bur;
greatThat way A
Genies,
and it is called, , T_o crack with Wit.
;._ We marched-on ill dicouring; and
what preented r to our view, furnih
ed us withzmatter of Converlation. I
hould have beenvety willing though), to
' - ave
1' 90 TheHziioryofthe " _ A
have left theobcure Regibns o the Stin;
and gone again into the Luminous ; for
the Reader mu know, That all the Counh '
tries are not Diaphanous, there are ome'of
them that are obcure, like thoe of our
World; and which, were it nor for the light '
of the Sun, that is perceived beyond them;
would be covered with D'arknes. Now
proportionably as one enters into the obi
mre Regions, he inenibly becomes i)
himelf ; and in the ame manner, when
one ap roaches
ceives the tranparent
'miklf cript , he per:
of that orriber Obe
Icurity, by the vigorous IrradiatiOn of the
Climate. '
I remember, that upon occaion of this
earne deire Ihad, I asked Campanelz, if
the Province of Philoophers was replen-s
replendent,
dent anwered
or darkih? heleor
It is more as wethan
darkih ill . i
Sympathizect much with the Earth, our nas'
tive Country, which of its own nature
is Opaoous ;v o we could not t out halves *
in the clearer Regions of this Globe.- Ne;
vertheles by a vigorous 'bending of the
Will; we can render our elves Diaphanous;
when wchavera mind to it: a: Nay, and
mo part of the Philoophers, do not peak '
with the Tongue, but When they have a
mind to communicate their Thought-s,
they"qu tthHVIS by the Ejaculatiogz
 l 'World of' the Sun; i 9:
of their Fan'cy, ofa bmher Venom, under
which commonly 'theykeep their Concep
tions covered; and 'o- then as they have
remanded to 'its place, that obc'urity of the
. Spleen which darkened them, eeing their
Body is then Diaphanous, one may per
ceivethrough their Brain what they re
member, what 'they imagine, what they
judge ; and' in their Liver and Heart, what
they deire, and. what they refolve: For
'though thee little Pictures be more ima
perceptible, than any thing that we can
devik; yet in this World our Eyes are clear-a
'lighted enough, eaily to diinguih even
the malle Ideas. r *
Thus when any of us 'would dicover
'to his Friend, the'Aection he has for him ,
his Heart is perceived to "dartout Beams,
as far as his Memory, upon the Image of
him he Loves .- And when on the contra
ry, he would teie his Averion , his
Heart is een to Thunder again-the Image
'of him he bates, orms of burning Sparks ,
and to retreat backward as far as it can;- -
In the ame manner when he peaks With
.\
in himii'elf, the Ideas are clearly to he bly
erved, that'ls to thy, The Characters of
ct every
vriing thinzhe
and meditares upon, which by
Sling, imprinting and eacing,
preRznt 'to the Eyes-ofthe Behold'cr, not
areicnlated Dicourcz huta Hiery of
' 'oil his thOUghts in Large-dom. My
 1 92 The', Hiory bf the
_was
_ My Guide by
diverted would 'have gone
an Accident, on,like
i the bu'twas
he.
never heard before :' And that was, that all
of a udden we perceived the Earth blacken
ed under our Feet, and the Heavens kindled
before with Beams, extingujhed over head,
as if a Canopy 'Four Leagues broad,- had
been pread betwixt us and the Sun. z
_ It would be no eaie matteror me to
expres, what we imagined in that Jum
cture: All orts of TerrOrs, even that of
the Worlds end, eized us,-and none of thee
Apprehenions eemed to us to be impro
bable; for to lee night in the Sun, or
the Air overca with Clouds, is a Mi
racle that never happens there. And yet
this was not all; for immediately after a
harp and skreaking noiIE,like to that of the
winding up of a Jack, came to grate our
Ears; and at the very ame time a Cage _
fell at our Feet. , No ooner had it reed
upon the Sand, but it opened, and was
brought to bed of a Man and a Woman;
- they had an Anchor with them, which
they faened to the Roots of a Rock ; the
nexc thing they did, was to make towards
us. The Woman led the Man, and- with
threats dragged him forward. - When he'
was come very near us, Gentlemen, aid he,
in ome little diorder,Is not this theProvince
of Philoophers ? I made anwer, No; but
U e . . ' L '
. that
 World of the Sun. I 9.'3
. that We hoped to be there within the-'pace
of Four and twenty hours; and that the
old Man , who allowed me his Company,"
.was one of the chief Miniers of that Mo
narchy. Seeing you are a Philoopher,repli
ed the Woman, addreing her [Half to Cam
jmnel/a, without going further, I mu dil
Charge my heart to' you.
To tell you then in a few Words, the ocw
caion of my coming hither, you mu
know, that I come to complain of a Mur
der committed on the peron or' the Young
e of my Children ; the Barbarian, Whom l
hold here, hath twice kill'd him, though he'
be the Father. We were extreamly puzled'
a't this Dicoure, and therefore I deired to
know, what he meant by a Child killed'
twice? Know, anwered the Woman, that
in our Country, among the other Statutes
OfLove, there is a Law regulates the num:
ber of-Kies, which a Husband is 0in ed
to give his Wife : And it's for that rea on,
that every evening a Phyician, within his
own precinct, viits all the Houes, where
' having' viewed the Husband andv Wife,
he'- taxes them for that night, accord
ing- to their . Health, rong or weak, in
more or les Embraces. Now my' Hus
band there was adf'udged 'to Seven: Never
theles, being net edlatome angry words
_ Fgave him,*as ge were'going to Bad," he
 I 94 The Hiory ofthe
did nor i) much as touch me, all the while
* we were in bed: But God, who avenges
the caue of the aicted, permitted, That
that Wrctcll being tickled in adream, by
remembring the Kics, which he unjuly
detained' from me, let a Man be lo.
Itold you, that his Father hath killed him
twice, becaue by hindering him to be, he
is the caue that he is not, there is his r
Murder; and he is likewie the caue, why
he hath not been, there's his econd 2
Whereas an ordinary Murderer knows very
well, that he whom he deroys, is no
more in being; but he cannot hinder, but
that he hathhad a Being. Our Niagirates
would have rendred Juice in the matter ,
but the Crafty Man alledged for excue,
That he would have performedhis Conju
gal Duty, had he not been'apprehenive,
that kiing me in the rage that I had put
him into, he might have begot a Mad
man.
'The Seate puzled - oatxthat- Plea, ordem
-
red us to go and Vappear before the Philo- '
- ophers, ' and plead our Caue there. _ _So
oon as we received the Order to be gone, we
put or elves into a Cage, hung rby the.
Neck of that great Fowl, which you ee
there ;* from whenCe by means of a 'Pully
which we fa'ned to it, we let our elves m th
down to the ground, and hoi our elves be of
\
_ a i up ,
 . " World of ibe Sun. . 19;
-up into'the Air. There are people in our
A ProvinCe,purpoi:ly appointed to tame them
'when they are young, and breed them uP to
the work we employ them in. That which
chiey makes them tractable, contrary to '
their erce nature, is, that to atisie their
unatiable Hunger, we give them the Bo
dies of all the Beas that die to feed on.
After all, when we have a mind tovlleep,
(for 'becaue ofthe conant excees ofLove,
which weaken us, we and in need of
Re :) We let looe into the open Fields, at _
convenient
ithee Fowls,diances,
ea'ch tied Twenty or 'who
to a rope, Thirtytakof

ing ight with their great Wings, diplay

in the Sky- a Night larger than the Hori
ZOn. I was very attentive both to her
Dic0urz, and in great eXtaie, tov coni-'
der the prodi ious bulk of' that Giant-v
Bird .- But o oon as Campanella had lookt
a little upon it, Ha! verily, cried he, it
is one of thoe Featheer Moners called
Candores, which are to be izen in the Ile
of Mandrdgam in our World, and all over
the Torrid Zone, 'they cover an Acre of
ground with their Wings .- But eeing thee
<-_\vx--mw: Animals grow Huger, according as the
Sun, under which they are bred, is hotter _
in the World of the Sun, they mu needs'
be of a prodigious Greatnes.
O 2 How
 196 . TheHi/iony of the .
However, added he turning to the Wo
man, you mu, of neceity accomplih
your Journey ; for it belongs to Socrates,
who hath the inpection of Manners, to
decide your Caue In the mean time,I ad
jure you to tell us,what Country you are of,
becaue eeing it is but three or four years,
ince I arrived in this World, I am but
_very little as yet acquainted witlrthe Map
of it? *
We are, anWered he, of the Kingdom
of Loversr: That greatv State is on oneide
borderied by the Republick of Peace, and
' onthe other, bythat. of the Ju.
* In the Country I come from, at Sixteen
Patmo Age,Boys are put into the Novitiat
of Love: In is.a_.very; ately Palac-e, that
- takes up almo a quarter of the City. ' The
Maidszare put into it at Thirteen', andeoth
'accomplih: their yean oszrobation. there ;
dating Awhich; the Boysare ohly employed,
in meriting the, aaonof the:.Girls, and:
the Girls in rendringz themelves. worthy-oil
the Love Of: the Boys. Whenthewehe
Months, are up, the aculty of medicine
in Body, go and viiti this 'Seminary of: Lo-
vers : They feel: them. Mover; one after
.another, even: to the mot ' Privy parts: of:
their Body; ; make: them oouple- behre
them ; and then. according as the; Male,
upon Tryal, is found to be vigorous and
- ._ w ell
 ' World ofthe'Snm [97
Well-haped , they give him for "Wives,
rh__
Ten, Twenty, Thirty vor (Forty Maids,
uch
love as loved The
them. him ; Husband,
provided heneverthelesj:
recipromll

cannot lie but with Two at a time, and. it

is not lawful for him to Embrace any of p
them, o long as he is with Child. Such
as are found to be Barren, are only 'employ
ed inmade
iare Service ; andand
Slaves, Men who
may are impotent
carnally mingle
with the Female-Drudges. Aftenall, when
a Family hath more Children than it car-1
bring up, the Republick takes care ofthem:
But that's a misfortune that very eldom
happens; becaue o oon as a Woman is
brought to Bed in the City, the publick
Treaury furnihes a yearly Penion for the
Education of the Child, according to its
Wality ;. which on certain days, the Trea
urers of" State themelves, carry to the
Houe of the Father : But if you have a
mind to know more, ep into our Pan-1
nier, it is big enough for Four. Seeing
we are going the tme way , we'll talk
and make our Journeythe horter.
Campanellc was Of the mind, that we
hould embrace the oer; and I was like
wie very glad of it, to avoid being tired :
But when I came to help them to weigh
their Anchor, I was much urprized to find,
that inead of a great Cable, which ought
* O 3 to
 1 98 The Hio'y ofthe
to bear it upiit hung only by a Silken thread
as mall as a Hair. I asked Campanc/[a
how. it could be, that a Mas o heavy as
that Anchor was, did not by its weight
break o weak a thing ? And the good Man
made anwer, That that Line did not break,
becaueiw'as
there being
no pun all why
reaon of anitequal
houldbignes,
ooner
break, at one place than anorher. We all
owed ourelves into the Pannier, and then
'hoied up our elves by the Pully, as high as
the Fowl's ThrOat, where we appeared no
bigger than a Bead hanging at its Neck.
When we were up as high as the Pully, we
faened the Cable bvahich our Cage hung,
to one ofits malle Down -feathers, which
nevertheles was as big as ones Thumb; '
and o oon as the Woman, had made a ign
to the Bird to be gone, we perceived it
cleave the Air with a violent Rapidity.
The Condore haned or ackened its ight,
oared or ooped,
es pleaure, Whoeaccording to its itfor
Voice erved Mirei2a
Bridle. We had nOt owzn Two hundred
Leagues. when we perceived on' the Earth,
to. the our
which leftliving
Hand,Umbrello
a nightmade
like under
to that,
iusi
We asked the ranger. Woman , 'what
he thought it might be ? It's another.
Maleactor, anwered he, who is going.
alo to receive Juice in the Ptovinc'e, Whi-i *
&her
 World ofthe Sun, _ I 99
ther we are going: His Fowl, without
doubt, is rOnger than ours, or otherwie
we have tried away a great deal of time
by the way, for he et notout till after
'I was gOne. I asked her, what Crime that
poor Wretch was accued of? He is not
barely acculEd, anwered he; he is con
demned todye, becaui: he is already con?
' victed of not being afraid of Death. >How
_ then, aid CamPane/[zzzto her, do the Laws
of your Country enioyn Men to be afraid
of Death? Yes, replied the Woman, they
enioyn all, except thoe who are admitted
into the Colledge of the Wife; for-our
Magirates have found by ad Experience,
that he who fears not to'lole Life, may take
- it from any Body ele. p - -
' After ome other dicourlZIs that followed
thee, Campanelld had a mind to make a
'larger enquiry into the Manners of her
Country : He asked her then, what were
the Laws and Cuoms of the Kingdome
Lovers? But he beggedhis pardon, 'if he
did not anwer him ; becaue ince he (was '
not born there, and knew them but in part,
he Was
too little.afraid, heinto
Icame might hy too muchcon
that_Pr0vince, or

tinued the Woman ; bu't-I and all my Pro

deceors, are-originally of the Kinadom of
Truth; my Mother wasdeliverech of me
there, and never'had another Child ; he
' O4 _ _ brought.
 aoo 'he Hiory ofthe ,
brought me up in the Country, till I 'was
Thirteen Years of Age, , when. the King by
the advice oPhyicians, commanded her to,
carry me to the Kingdom of Lovers, from
whenceI come; to the'end, that having
my Breeding in the Palace of Love, that
Education which is more chearful and oft,
than the Breeding of our Country, might
render me more Fruitful than he had
been. My Mother carried me thither,
and placed me out into that Houe of Plea
ure. .
I had much ado to comply with their
Cuoms : 'At r they appeared to me to
be very rude; for, as you know, the OPi?
nions that we have uckt in with our MO:
thers Milk, eem always to us to be the
mo rational ; and then I was but ju come
from the Kingdom of Truth, my native
Country. ' _* *
Not but thatI perceived very well, that
the Nation of Lovers,lived with more Conz
' deenion and Indulgence, that ours did ; *
for though' every one gave it out, That
my Sight wounded dangerouly, that my
Looks killed, and that my Eyes glanced.
out Flames, which conumed Hearts ,* yet
the Goodnes of "all, and epecially o the
Young Men, was o great, 'that they car-5
teed, kied and hugg'd me, inead Of'
revenging the Evil that I had done them;
 WarIdoftheSa'L' A not

ay, I Was even vexed with my ll', for

the diorders that I was the caue-phand that
was the reaon, that out of Pity Itold them
one day, That! Wras reolved to runa-way.
But alas! howean you ayeyour ielf, cry
ed 'they all, embracing my Neck , and '
kimg m- Hands : .Your 'Houe is on all
Hands be et with Water 3 and o great the
danger appears to be, that undoubtedly you."
and we both had been already drowned,
without a Miracle. *
How, aid I to .our Hiorian, is the
Country of Lovers then ubject to Inunth
' tions? It may very well be aid to be, re
plied he; for one of my 'Gallant's (and
that Man would not have deceived me, be.
caue he vloved me) wrote to me, That
for grief of my departure, he had hed an
Ocean of Tears. Iaw anOther who aua
red me, That within the pace of three X
days, his Eyes had diilled a Fountain Of
water: And as I was curing, for their
akes, the fatal Hour when r they lw
me, one who reckoned himelf ofthe num:
ber of- my Slaves, ent me word, that the
night before,an overowing of his' Eyes, had
Cauliad a Deluge. I was about to have left
the World, that .I might no longer be
the caue of o many Evils, had not the
Meenger ubjoined, that his Maer had
charged him to aure me, That I had rro
cau e
\
 202 The Hiory of the
caue to fear any thing, eeing the Fur
-naoe of his Brea, had dried up that De
luge. In ne, you may Conjecture how
waterih the Kingdom of Lovers mu
needs be, 'mce with them it is to weep but
by halves z when from under their Eye-lids,
there prings no more but Rivulets, Foun
'tains and Torrents.
. I was in great pain,what Machine I could
nd, to ave my elf out of all thee Wa
ters, that were like to over-whelm me :
But one 'of my Lovers, who was called The
Jealous, advied me to pluck out my Heart,
and then embark in it; that I needed not
' fear, , but that it would hold me, becaue it
" held o many others; nor that I hould ink,
beCauIe it was too light: That all I was
to be afraid of, was to be burnt, becaue
' the -Materials of uch a Veel, was much
ubject to Fire : That I hould be gone
then upon the Sea of his Tears ; that the
Fillet of his Love, would erve me for a
Sail ;_and that the favourable Gale of his _
Sighs, in pight of his Rivals Storm, would
carry me to Shoar.
I_wasa long while a muing with my
elf, how I could put that enterprie into
execution. The natural Fearfulnes of my
e>t, " hindred me from daring *, but at
length the opinion that I had, that i the
thing were not feaible, a Man would not
' . be
 - World ofthe Sun 203 -
'be uch a Fool as to advie it, and far les a
Lover to his Mires, gave me the Bold
nels.
I natched a knife, lit up my Brea ; '
nay, with both my hands I was already
earching in the wound, and with an un
daunted look, I felt for my Heart to pluck
it out, when a Young Man, who loved
me, came in. In pight of me he wreed
the Weapon from me, and then asked me
themotive of that deperate Action, as he
called it. I gave him an account of it ;
but was much urprized, when within a
quarter of an hour after , I underood
that he had brought the Jealous before the
Juice. Nevertheles the Magirates, '
Who, perhaps, feared they might be biaed
by the example or novelty of the Acci
dent, referred that Caue to the Parliament
of the Ju. There he was Condemned,
beides perpetual Banihment, to go end
his Days asa Slave, in the Land ofthe Re
public/e of Truth ,- with prohibition to all
that hould dezend of him, to the Fourth
Generation, ever to return into the Pro.
vince of Lovers; nay, moreover he was
enjoyned upon pain of Death, never more
to ue an Hyperbole.
Since that time I entertained a great
, aection for the Young Man that aved
ine ;' and Whether it Were for that good
Oce,
204. The Hzory'aftbe
Oce, or becaue of. the Paon, where
with he erved me, when my Novitiat and
his were out, 'I did not refue him, when
he demanded me for one of his Wives. _
We have always ince lived very well
together, and hould have continued to do
o ill, had he not, as I have told you,
killed one of my Children twice ,- for which
I am going to emplore Juice, in the King.
dom of Philoophers.
Campaxella and I were much aonih
ed at the ilence ofthat Man; and therefore
I endeavoured to comfort him, judging,
that uch a profound Taciturnity, was
the Daughter of a very deep Remorle :
But his Wife took me o of that. It is
nor, laid he, the exces of Sorrow that
ops his Mouth, but our Laws forbid
all Criminals, that and Indited, to peak
unlei; it be before their Judges.
. During that converition, the Fowl was
going on ill, but I was rangely amazed
when I heard Campanella, with a Coun
tenance full of tranports of Joy, cry out :
'Now welcome the deare of all our
Friends: r Let's go, Gentlemen, continu
ed the good Man, Let's go meet Moni
cur De: Cartes; come let us alight, he is
ju now arrived, and but Three Leagues
o. For my part , I was exceeding
ly urprized at this Eruption, for I could
not
 ' World of the sz; 20;
not comprehend , hOW' he could come
to know the arrival of a Man, of
whom -We had received no News.- Cer
tainly, ' laid I- to him, you have ju now
hen him in a Dream. lf you call a Dream,
aid
greathe, what your
a certaint Soul Eyes
, as your can ee
ee thev
with as
light
of Day ; toI con
Ravery es that
think, it. But, cried I,
Monieur De:is itCarteri,
not a _

Whom you have not iren,ince you left the

World ofo,thebecaue
Leagues Earth, you-have
is now- imaginedit
but' Three ,

to be o? 'r ' > *

I had ju uttered the la Syllable,
we aw De: Caries come. .Immediately when

Campanelldr ran' to embrace" him: They

talked together along while ; but, I- could"
not mind all the obliging4-Gorn lements
they made to one another, I was o full of
deire to learn of Campanella his Secret of
Divination. That Philoopher, who read
my Paon in my looks, gave his Friend
an accOunt ofit," and prayed him not to
take ill if he atised me. Monieur De:
Caries anwered with a mile, and my learn
ed Preceptor
Out dicourbd
of all Bodies Speciesi's in this that's
exhale, manner.to
ay, Corporeal Images, which dance in
the Air. Now thee Images ill retain,
notwithanding their Agitation, the Fi
. gure, Colour, and all the Other Proporti
r - ons
 206 The Hiory oft/Je
Ons o the Object, from which they pro
ceed : But eeing they are very pure and
ubtile, they pas through our Organs,
without cauing the lea Senation in
them : They penetrate into the Soul,
where becaue of the Delicatenes of, its
Subance, they imprintthemelves, and o
repreent to it Objects very remote, which
the Senes cannoc perceive. It's a thing
'that commonly happens here; where the
mind is not hut up in aBody, made of
grols Matter, as in thy World. We'll '
tell thee how that comes to pas, when
we have had the leiure, fully to atise
the mutual Deire, that each of us have, to
convere with the other; for certainly
thou well decrve to be 'ued with the
' greate Civility. s '
_ gz, -
c
0Y
p
' et

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