begin with the Perihy pate Mefon, or fffa ut, and fo place the Tiphereth anfwering C fol fa ut, upon the fifth ftring: Or whether this number be oftner applied unto bad things and ends, then good in holy Scripture, and why? He may meet with abftrufities of no ready refolution. ἐπίτασις, καλάςασις, xelases piti If any fhall question the rationality of that Magick, in the cure of the blind man by Serapis, commanded to place five fingers on his Altar, and then his hand on his Eyes? Why fince the whole Comady is primarily and naturally comprised in four parts, and creas, Antiquity permitted not fo many perfans to fpeak in one Scene, yet would not comprehend the fame in more or leffe then five acts? Why amongst Seaftarres nature chiefly delighteth in five points? And fince there are found fome of no fewer then twelve, and fome of feven, and nine there are few or none discovered of fix or eight? If any fhall enquire why the Flowers of Re properly confist of fourLeaves, The first and 03 third a Hyades near the Horizon night, at that time. large upon this order, to fearch out the quaternio's and figured draughts of this nature, and moderating the ftudy of names,and meer nomenclature of plants, to erect generalities, disclose unobferved proprieties, not only in the vegetable thop, but the whole volume of nature; affording delightful Truths, confirmable by fenfe and ocular Obfervation, which feems to me the fureft path,_to trace the Labyrinth of Truth, For though difcurfive enquiry and rationall conjecture, may leave handfome gafhes and fleth-wounds; yet without conjunction of this expect no mortal or difpatching blows unto errour. But the a Quincunx of Heaven runs low,and 'tis time to clofe the five ports of about mid- knowledge; We are unwilling to fpin out our awaking thoughts into the phantafmes of fleep, which often continueth_præcogitations; making Cables of b De Infom Cobwebbes and Wildernesses of handfome Groves. Befide Hippocrates hath ru&A fpoke fo little and the Oneirocriticall Masters, have left fuch frigid Interpre niis. * Artemodo pomazar, b tations tations from plants, that there is little encouragement to dream of Paradife it felf. Nor will the fweeteft delight of Gardens afford much comfort in fleep; wherein the dulneffe of that fenfe shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the d Bed of Cleopatra, Strewed can hardly with any delight raife up the with rofes. ghoft of a Rofc. Night which Pagan Theology could make the daughter of Chaos, affords no advantage to the description of orders Although no lower then that Maffe can we derive its Genealogy. All things began in order, fo fhall they end, and fo Thall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and myftical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven. Though Somnus in Homer be fent to rowse up Agamemnon, I finde no such effects in these drowsy approaches of fleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our Antipodes. The Huntfmen are upin America, and they are already past their firft fleep in Perfia. But who can be drow drowfie at that howr which freed us from everlasting fleep? or have flumbring thoughts at that time, when fleep it felf muft end, and as fome conjecture all shall awake again? MYSEVM FINIS, THE STATIONER I TO THE READE R. Cannot omit to advertise, that a Book was published not long fince, Entituled, Natures Cabinet Unlockt, bearing the Name of this Authour: If any man have been benefited thereby this Authour is not so ambitious as to challenge the honour thereof, as having no hand in that Work. To diftinguish of true and fpurious Pecces was the Originall Criticisme, and fome were fo handsomely counterfeited, that the Entitled Authours needed not to disclaime them. But |