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m Bravery, ndlculo,~sJ~e.au~_Yf fi4c,~y.:f1neneIfe, ~

I· and loathfome 1.o~elIllt.'fiS or rnoi't;N x r r 0 N S, 1.Id~

fafhioning ana .. alter itJg . thel~. ~6dics •

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With figuresoftbofe Transfigurations.' ! ~

To which artificial1 and aff~61ed Deformar ions are add(d) : ~Iioi

all the Native and Nat ionall Monflrofir Irs r h3t have .!

. appeared to disfigure the Humane Fabrick, ·"1 ru

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THe hif,h co",,,,ilfloll (rom Heaven grmred for t~,e ,,.,,11 of the l/;'If/hi.1I ch~,gli,,!. upon the matter of F4.tI, tOlfcilm;( Mah's T, ahs/ormation, is c>:hibhcd by the Letter: PalttnlJ, or Gt'oJ ClJa,.uy of Nall4,.,ingrolledwithaS." beame, and ligncd whh the B",adSeale .r ,EltaVCII, prefented by :l H.md,exlendcd out of a clnlld; Tne c"",ned SCfpllr-in rhe other out, ffrtlclJed H anti, o.C .. 8 the G6lwnment of the 11~"d is by the LAwl If Nallire eftabli(hcd from the Creation, and that the forme of proceedings Is ac(ordinll to thH ""-.,,,al,tI S,.I1I", The p,rptIIJicular Ita, intimates that formidable tenteuee which (as it " to be feared ) thall b.,ronounced at the ~enerall day of ,ud!!emoot .gainfi .11.&11[, .... oj their Bodies, who have new-made and deformed the",rclves. 1 know JOII 1101, IIP!,'m are .1'" II'e wo'kt! tfm] na1lds. The Jllg'U, by 1\1<>tto, nprellelh, Thar Gnd mad.m.1I rig,h- 1'01110 bull" hAth ',und out maRY illVfntiDns, The DlfJi/J i,llF,urcd reo joychlg It the praaicAiI and allulive Metamorpbnjisof MOlI,with aft". I}a,~e ; 11IIhe jm.,~e pf Go" IUAtrd he Ibem ! .Ul J have .,w-m911Id,d Ibm 16 Illy ,,,,n li~rN'fJe, The C'mllrfl, the Affi. the LIDj.,d, the HOImd, and the Ape. odmiring It rhe del\enerate Ap,f/ali' oIM"', 110m tha "rigin.1I perletHo, .. 01 hi. true Shipe, cry oUt, Btbo!d Man U btmnt lIIoneff U4! A Tent btingpitched [II" Dio,oYer the V.lmer, whereof, the title is inrcrjbed ARtb,'opOntltllmOrphD!is, or the TrAm/I.m'1l0nor Man, Natllre, with all the Hiero,(lyphieait ~lIil.~e nfher Power, ~cinl!; {cored upon the TyihunaIJ, our Prot"JP'1 A.t.m Ind 1:11' A(fcll;'u. The two B001IS toeing laid open, &neohhe life nfporll, the other of the ah/lre~f ,.'I'lis read,ar which the Gho(\ofGdm appcatl, lis raired up at the report of rhe prodigiollu~ufe nj parts: Wilich be. ing urged and profecured by Natum S~Ii,itor 'j!:.inft the Ndion, at tbe B4", who plead Guihy, ond fubm't thcmCelre, to be try'u by God and Nalure, thereupon tbe Ocullr Wit1l1jJ'eS ue broDght inro COU", anci fwo,,"e upona Hook tordtifie and give in eyidcnceoflhc whole rruth, and notllitlll bur the truth. A Jury being Empannelled, the' Fu,"eltMlI, ~fier eonfulraricn, brings in. 11111, ligned BiNa Ytra, whi~h >mplie. the Inditemenl i!filllnd I whereby thef .. NlIIWI,1 are judged J:uilty ofhigb.Trtajl" againft Nallirt. )lIdgellltilPi'ipa{fcd 0.0 them ro IUffcr a:cording eo their demerin, the COllruofc up, and adjoum'd untill the bll: Grul AfJh .. et anI! SIJi''''

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A through.deferiptionoftbe 7'{jtionAn G"IJ/I"t:

Being illdeed an Anaccpheloilj. of tbe wh,rt .oot. inl imAtrd by Ib, Fronti/,icce,

'STay, ChangliA~ PrDtI/# J let me count the rapes Made on tby Ferme.in thy abufive fuapes:

I bave obferv'd thy Nature-IC:0ffing art Wherewitb tb'lO: Scbemaliz'd in every part,

Out of wife Naturc's plalliquCl hand thy Hllld Came like a ball of wax oblongly (pread; Now'ts like. in its acaminated line.

A SNgAr.loflfe Dr .Apple .fth, Pme,

Nowt'$ IOllg,now fhort,now jl"',now {qNllr"noW rO.l1a. Ind,nt,d now,like to a Foilling.hound; .' .

'fwls foft,now hard; it is I h'oc~hrlld made.

What's this appeares ! ~hc Nci"tand HCfld are Ion, .witbin the Brt-.Jf by force ot Art embofr.

An entire ~rove of baire the skull did fhade ; Now tbe North jid,', alone liepriv'd of haire, And now tbe SDlllhjiJ, ippe.~res ol1\y.~a(e; Now the EIIjI pArtlthe Prone at TirIU pretene, Whil',l the blind N"d(ci:, wants it's ornament; Why now the FOri p"r"s bald.party- pr:r.pale : ~hus one haltelliU thy Art hatb made to bile,

Afcending from thy E"ltwo arched Bowes, Ifhy Fro'" tow'rds the C~ro1l411 {urNr, rOlc;

That Plains tublime extent which fhould be bare, By Art'S now {hortn,d, I~d orcgrown with haire. High For,bMJ, here,above their confines mount, Which fome doe a tranfcendent beauty count. Here frantique men.eornute themtdves,and learn::

The front that weares not In ingrafted horne.

Drawn out by Nature's pencil,o're thy Eyes Two hili'! CT,{c,nts once did Arch·like rile i Which Geometry is now aboli(.h'd quite

;By tlly eradicatiPG aUs defpiGbt. •

. - ... - . ft. 3 Natijfc

Nature lbm~ diR:l~ce between tl\e(c .tlow'~~, But here the FI{bloD'. BIII/,·Br,w' ••

The 1J."./iJ/lDCane to veil the Orb of6gbt, TIW,"J hACitlMra to thy Front, do now afrigbt: . Tbeir Palif.de which did Sight direct,

Now rooud IINt,prefent" torve afpta.

What mean thefe paiN"d Circ/n 'bout each Eye, 'Mongll: other msrkes offearfullbuverie r

Nllure bet ween tby Byes thy Ngfo did place, That goodly Premontory ot the Face ..

Here CNt Alia pair'J bctw.jxt tby Eyes,hoNolC

) s lelt at all their rai~s to'interpol«. , Thy NQftri/1 theretoJ' off (uowing'.! :are found' To reprelem a maR diChol'lcll wound.

Alas poor NolC:leffe Ape! why now't fhculd Ieem , A CA'lIoJfl Saddle-nefe i,sin elleern.

Here,crol'fe to that FdCe-le'f,,/lII'Z defigne,

Thy high rais'd NQle appeareth Aqui/iIIC.

Thy Art-augmented Note here's thick_ilnJ,ftroltZt . Thcre{iorl and/'tt/"and here ov_'r./ollg.

Thy NQllril$ nOIll bor'd through,ring'd on each fidea .. Afford an inlet unto cruell pride.

What Gallantry is this,wherein tn'appears

$0 Hell-hound like with long out·flrett/ud EafCS r wn~~e bo;e:d Tip' torn wide with the fond weighi:

Of gLlttermg,Stones,thy Ihoulders overmfraight. This extant parn whof: {landing offbc:hov'd.; , As glu'd unto thy Head.is leffe improv'd.:

What horrid aff~ctation have we here' .

Thy Chu~ on each fide jmd I hroHJ.h appeare· , Thorough whole boles (the flav'ring Ipedes ve'ot) The r eeth and Gums themfelves to view prefene« Natures feria: Orifice wh!> here deride, '

Seek beauty in a mouth ~,Q" h,4ve"lrwid,. ' Lip~g4//.tn&rJ fucceedsj Th;ck._h/~~~" Lipl

Hm, hanging in their ligbt,tbef..ght Ec:1ipfe~, There 'tis the neather lips efpeciall grace,

To t'4l1down to tile lowell: barball place,

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'It downwards,lnd the: Denta\\rootsdifpla,= Here nicking out,{blt'p Daile-like pegs of wood, In the,upper lip's a bravery underfiood.

What falbion by corrupted fantfie fprung

Through a ';''IV h,l, ptefents tile: playing tongue? Theneather Lip's Im'd through to yield a vent

To them, who arc not with one mouth content.

At each ~nd ofthe month a bored bole, .

There the rich Gems impofed weight condole. Whether by Art's rude force .er N .Iures skip

1 know not; Here we have "' "pp" Lip.

What fcoffers hive we nere?mcn tore a~eat·J.

Of Manhood$l enfigne,who Ibhorr a beard.

Here the luxuriant Chi A quite d,wl'" it- mow»"

The ranke Muftacho's into Whiskers grown.

The upper Lip of Hair's now's di[p'P',· Which nourilh't hlrl,the honout'd Chin invcft·

NQW t'IIDltaO'rlt by thy malicious care,

All the cloath'J parts about thy mouth are bare. What's the next fruit of the pbantallique itch? Thy Teeth mun: now be red,and black as pitch. And this forlooth. we count a maply fiGht,

'Caule childrens,womens,and dogs Teeth are white, R ere thy Teeth are as {hllrp 41 Need/IS fil'd,

7herl, in a foolifh bravery exil'd ,

The fore- Teeth both above and eke belew, ~ Hue left twO ,mp', s"k!u in each row';

Them whoCe G"nuthefe dare own,they ugly think, With Iuch refuling (or to eate or drink.

n're,tor an Elegant conceit,th'J arllw

Five Qrfi:t· Tmh fUll if,h, upp" jlfw.

There,a rich Mouth withgild,dTwh behold 1 R"e,Tceth Io ,o'lllr'd with thin p/Atllof gold.

And fitted to tbe tcclh,they Ieem to be '

Set in the platl!5,by Arts felicity. The",JI,ad,wnf,or elfe ,xtirpra quite,

Th' impovetilht Mouth hath Idl: its proper Ill; g'ht, .And the Sale P;'&l1 Illturall rerute:

With others they the empty@ums recruitt

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Of Stul ~r lr'" frlmed,wbich in (tcld

Ofthe true teeth the vacant rooms (uccted. See /i"rl,( which {ollle to .~old Art impute) A do"h~: Tongul quite cleven from the roat , Room fat F4t;'.mollldlr/,wboafl'ea: the grace Ofa!qu4YI.plain.6r,"d. ,,/m,olh ,lAmr PA" I The concave Face by art here inward prefr. Makes a dogs countenance in great requell:. Here by a Ihange: and onllizing Gin,

The comprefl Checks Irc drawn out long and thin, 'Th,ft wth a torn ""d blosd, fll" sppeare,

Whichis accounted the prime beauty here.

Tber« Art with her bold ltigmatizing band,

Doth f/rMk.} and mllrkts Up OR their vifago brand. The i",.inter-p"in1rs here allume a place,

From whe~e defceaded opr Face, taking race ; Tbeil' Faces Red lind White,Blllck!,r,l/lnv,BIeJ9, Dillain'd,all forts of an impofed hoe.

And her» our Gallal'lti al'amode are met.

With vili~e fLdl offoule black patches fee.

High hNffing-ShoNldlrl he" the gallants weare. Which 'Dove their H,,,t/.I tbey il'l this place do bear. U"., through pride. or tile fond NurCes fault.

On, '/Jo'lle th, other doth it {tlfo ,xIII, :

Hert their bold fancies fll their folly greet, The {houlder.points are drAw,,", fOTc, to mtl', PapfA/hioNI hereith~ work of Nature wrong. DUJ6 with a losehfome lovelineffe /0 long Andftmch,d DNI.the Ilreined bags agree

To reach the WaR,nIY fag down to tbe Knec~ Through their pierc'd Paps.the cruell gallantsbere ' , A Cane of two fpans long doe prtludly weare.

No Maid here's band lome thought unleffc Ihee call With her Ihort pahncs her ll:rcigh,t lac'd body fpan., Thus we moll: foolilhly our life invade,

For to advance the Boap",,,'<!rl ttade.

P4,,,,,d with /.fts,h""naked arms behold,

BNllded .. lfdP9I1lfC'd, with colours manif.leI.

Rich tin~'d Reel, Blllt~'J 1'_""",,,},r,II,,,,,""_h il,;

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,AU badgesoftbegallants gay delight.

Heft Hands are colour'llI: '(h,r' long NAirn define

Idle Gentilitie's allured figne, '

H'''t.<~omng Nlture,~111 :,,,d itlgt,IdrDNlltl,. The N.ileure with inJurl')uS angles crown ~. rllrd~b",lt" Bels hnog 'twilttta.e fle~and5klO. Ht" 10 'he Paphian Rites do nng IUIO. Theretbc Prepuce is bllt"n'tlNp: Her« DOW

A huge end, mOilS Ring Iecures ~ vow.

7herr, ClYcumcifim ihamesrh u~cQvercd Nllt. Which bere with cords J,oHntl "'PIS over-(hllt. Ther, tbe forc'd Genitals trlJ~ N,.ar~ hid Witkin the Body.HIr' CtI/lralio"J bid, . Eunuths in their degraded manhood t~r1vc:

RIT' women E,mf4c/J,s at th~t Mart,a~lIve.

"fhm(by erronious wit a mck d~~ls d)

Women are,lS an ornameQt"eX,cls d ..

lIeye by a fond devilc,the Virgins Th(~hfS

And Calfes,unto a [wellINg gm,!n,jfo rift.

'l'h,,, they uii: art to make theCalfe "(,,,:d,

And here the tafhion makes it dOWNWllrel tend. Naked,nt) Breeches (here)lhey Ieem to l~ck,

Their cGlour'd thighs Trouf.lIke being dy d black, About their Legs tnange liftJ they there doe make, ' Prickillg the fame with,necdle~,t~en they talle lndeliable tincture i which rub d 10, •

The Gallams doe account the bravell: gm.

The greatell: ornament which here we meet,

h,for the women to have /it,le Feet.

Which from their Infancy are kept fo (maU,

They goe but badly, alild halte Ceem te lall.

Her» colout'd Red theGlllan~s feet appear, 'Which on thcic FeCIt'S true nailes fome on ely fmen.

Thus Cap" p,i .. is that Gtllltmt great.

Borrid,'fr""sform,dj,lfNIIAtl, ~tI",Complcat. Admitted for to fee elcb ringed file, ,

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Friend,

e Heroique Difeafe ofWri ... ting hath ( as you well know) , long fince Ieized on me, this being the FifthPublique Pa-,

roxifme I e had thereof Ie hath been ever the humour of my genitu to put me upon untredden Pathes, and [0 make up aggregate Bodies of very Icarce and wide difperfed Notions j which had been more eafie for the Faculty of my. weak Body, had I had a Signaliry of Spirit to fumtn~n Democriticall Aeomes to conglobate Into an ' intellectuaU'Forme;. or, that MercNty had been fo propitious a Lord of the Afccl1'dent in my Nativity, as he was in A~Jphi~ If)tJ~, and' bellowed fome Orpharion upon, me withwhGfe found I might have aura-

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Th, Epi!lle Dedicatory;

ll:ed Notions, and made them come dan~, cing to the Conflruction of a Book-What l here prelenryou with, is an ~nd#emen' framed againO: moO: of the Nations under the Sun; whereby they are, arraigned at the Tribunall of Nature, as guilty of Hightrealon in Abanng, Counterfeiting, Defacin(Ja~d Clipping her Caine, mflampt vvi~h her Image and Superfeription on the Body of Man. The tneltfor of! act i~ pr~vcd by fufficienc Witneffesof cr~edlb.leH t{lor.t~ns) , that it will not be an eahe thl11g for them to tra.."erfe the I nditement. 'The Profecution of Iiich an ACtion, wherein the honour

'and reputation of the great Architect; man's Proroplafles, is fo much concem'd, had been ( 1 humbly confers) more fit for one who had deferved to be ..Atturney Ge-

+nerall to Nature, then for me, the meaneO:

S,,/icitor in her Ceurt, When you have well viewed the Scenes, and, Devillifh Ihapes of this Praiilcal] MetamorphQjis, and fcan'd them ill your Ierieus thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant'Iies, who Ieeme to hold Specijicall deformiti~s, or that any part can feeme unhandlome l,n

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their Eycrs,whichhach appeared goodanu beaunfirll unto their Mtlklr! And J doubt. not but you will Ioone c;lifcerne the ptop~nfe malice of Siat~R in it,tempting mankind to acorporall Apofhcy from himfelf: as if in an Apifh defpight of the glory of mans Creation, that divine confultaeioa; F acidWZU hominfm, Let us makeman accor .. ding to our Image. Me would have his De/adamtu bominem, Let us deface man according to our likeneffe , infomuch as that of thePfalmif/,I dwfoarfuIIJ and wonderful; {Y ma:u)~ight be ironically applyed to malt 1D this hIS (fbuji')Je Transformdtion. Befides what inthelnditemem I have charged upon the [core of mans pragmaticall invention

( ~hi~h ~$'the maine Defignc) upon Il:rict . Dtfqmfitton afierthe caufes and original of there Monftro.fities.,which I had rather call ' Native then Natur~U ; I lay them to ,the charge of man, difcharging Nature from having any hand,orthe leaO: intention ther .. .in.And concerningNationalMonflroficies

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tick- va.rieties of formes as appeare in the world, or Ibould fornetimes fee her Ielfe t~ mock any Perfon, much lefle whole Nations om of their right Ihape and feanire.fc that' you will clearely fee here, as in the mirrour ofAiitophiltu, the truecaures and

i i, effeCts o'f all the Artificiall Retortio~s, N~-

'rive Alienations,and AbulrdTransfigu.ranons of the Hun1ane forme. Why I dedicate this to you, is not folcmnly t~ engage you to a Polemicall Defence of It j but only) if need be, to wirnefie my good intention : andzealeto NtJture (whether it be accor. ding to knowledge" let others judge) and

;' that this may remaine as a Ple,dge of our contracted Fdendfhip and Amlty;and th~t Pof1:erity and Future Ages t,nay know In the Religion thereof,

tl)C alfeCtionof Jour moft De)loted Friend,

Jo a N B U L WE R.

T 0 the learned Author on his Book.'

"( J V Hi/~ !ran!,'ci! .. .l'l6.jleert 9Nr Ph<fl1tafli~f wi'

V T~W"At u [i~rralgn o"~~.nu ""h,u's Fit,

.And ~ur Exotic~ W"rdr~beo"'fy pri;:.,

NotJor the Glfrmmrs fa~e,lJHt ib« D'{gu1fo, Shifting jliUrolH,a"iIlw,lIl1r fil'll" ~'flor~

To )Ve~r' whAt MtSb,ellm, lin 7'''''S I,,[ore; Your Pr"J,nci All thA' while fodlol'l! fur cure_ Alia though lOU Dr[allow'd"ou eONld Endurt:

J1re".fe 110ft growlS l'fFe i"jnr;OHJ [lfr, 'T.) fide )'Pllh [mallflultS,the,,{,e 8"'gll/4'; UIJI,lI,biS leprous toll} prA[f'fe HAd

011 NHturn [elf'.lo MenJ it into Blld. .Ana woula un[..,me C,eA,I&IIS lint;,,,, "d"

.A"d ehllng, I:er g'''lIille B'rlhs,to Bir,h 'Ih' Mllde; Wh,t, the hAJge. (:Mldwife mod,/J ,'V,r1 Part,

Not b, th, GUidc.bNt Wlllld,in,fsofh,r Art, WrMthing ,he Il"'XIII lilH./lS,tiilth., COh[';'

.A fhoilp, not mMn, b, NAINre,but thl! Drl!}fo; "J'emp'ri"g thet ,i,'1dil1g sk,.NII,till (h" be k..mwn

'To hode ,h, cbild.'s brAme,ro d,IIgb, her OWIf.

Ana ,he Arclla' 8r'lI/1 (flJ:rll(ping SIPII,,,.,letrlli'd. Do,bpro'1l' cOHji.tmfnt,wh ch tv,;1 Manilon mild, Wher, the pmt bellrt lid !u';.f:s clofo ribl in'll' fl. Not to be GU4Ydtdtlut to be Oppre/l.

Th, n"rrow'd lolnll,th"r fiNlle [pan .. /!ow'd •. (Jrll; ~ pllrt I :(t1infl p .. rt s ,"nd bOlre/., b"wel, crowd, Tdl all rl,,;,O,.dgf.'lfrdfNYi£r.on! j.1i111,llilrA IJ

Lj/l m {magm.lr, De:·tlncJ. .

'ffbm All rh> aa'V .. nt, t:~ pNrehal'J "v the fIAt, Is/hAt ",ey SI,,,I.,r d,e, "lid pr"i{h N,,,t.

'(",[ulla th,ir I,~, .. rl! th, judicious hilt" ret fIT' th'J "~llh, $'"lr.b,,, <:D,b .. ".

7", ".~"" whiehth,oll a0ft tt4m;WMp6nHhHft~ D,fign;ng to COI1'V;nll' morohm LiCCllfo. . .Allth, ArtilltYJ;s i,her Art,

To h,all! the WONnd and not ~ffnJ. the P ;wt. If anJ ha'V' tmhaftm',), ,rrONr fo,

To hdleh it flill,though thou the danger (hew, Al their ow"e perfil bee't;theJ pllt)' find

whlJ Lofe their eltl,~ut not wh» wilt be Blind.

Phifiophilus,

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B Arbari~s ~deone. fcrax? t~t nl~nHra llupenda

. Protuht I mgenus curse vixexuus alter.

life (l;upet a. merbo prcprium fpe8aOe nirorem Squalori immerCum a:terno; formam illaque Luget Defiorata Cavo Morbilli ltigmale;fa:dlm

Dc:tellati Lepram geas tot a humanarprecantur Prolis Apollinex ;lUxiliumjrepc:tant hrnul ipfi

Artis flhx\:Jea: culmen.Legeique decoris.

Dum nccuatque manus,mordque rcdarguis1altfr

Ut ~ ~ l?~ c,. §U ~ erse, medicusfis tu quoque Co/mIll.

.Arllititi_ ergo 4/E.M.

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ell! bifquifition.and ingenious t\natomy 01 NAtllr'~ .

Hli.lVhofo ft7ft LetlNre lM4 on 4r NAttlreJ /ullld, N~waQ her Featureshtltl) IXllalyft.w'd:

S II did Elich's litt]« CloHa arift

LI~e tl mans htlnd,tiO it had fi/i' d tho skin. J'Jltttle If'arl:..e.k.mdlll a mig hI} fldml,

GrMter,and Brighter jI,ll, Fricnd,grQliPl Ih) FMIH. Pliny bNt NtftHru lliftary UJ glwe ;

Tho". hllr Gleal Chllmpion, d.oft btr h0l10Nr [a'll': find baving <Iii ber Work! well "ndtrftaod,

Puff, with her Mak!r,ftnd them to be good. The Pr4,'rs of S(/ints afte1ld I,I<! Fr4';'k..i.II~c"fll. ,Ma! Il.:avenbe [oplw'dwith th, Defence; And men, wb» fl>alllhe hOHl1ds of NII/Nrl paifo. Mella their de!.rmities h.J ,hh ,h, Gla.lfe; Sucle"lre,mawmdcrfHII a mirroLlr,wher,

,All the Mon(trlljiti&J of ArtappeAre ;

Ma.is Forme-Tr.nJfor",i"g G4rh,s,wh0focr",IJ'rid, Hetb /irange COII~/"ftOHl o1lhh Bod, trid,. Endr"'1Jofmng for,o Ir.njlau himfelfll

lift 0 " Chang/tng. or (omt ONg /J Elfe.

JIf .. d qAllantry I whi~h hla fond Dljig"'. Mllkp it fllf, /oathfom~ 10 be ftlth) jinl •

N.J, ~e mil, foe how high thtir Foi/!u rll'lle, They will ba Monf/m,6I4t thtJ will bt hrtlfle; A",d i?,~efPjgl)f of Naturl too procllC""c,

Tbet the, delight tog/ory intheirjh.tme.

Th, GlaJfe dft "vtrs where man trips, ~r {llulu Down'i~httmo hi4 clofo contrivld{tlHlts i And In prevaricating .bloods· affeclS

New !"ngled jh.,pes, al1d hu trHII f~rmlf rlj,as, It boldsforth i1llfach Part the foull Abufe, Ma reguilltes it to the natifle Ule;

Him the",the Body,and the Mllld. who 11f1l Su rilhl Ihm, Honour the Phylitian.

Fa,ANQlI 90lo.IIIITH;

II

Dna Bulwero T enlporum noflrorum Plinio Terrio, nerninis Secundo, Her-. cult Anglo, Monlhoru.mq; Dorni-

tori Facctiffima.

QUod F ffcit Alcides ~laf)/iJ quod Thefolll tnft, T H c .. lamo pint's mon!lrado')lah"t nov ... Ail lea quam umvisjaEliu ",irMula '1l1ond4m; OrblS, Fer/tela Te,AfricuoIIlS, =:

Non 'lU4l Niles alit,pd'l"£ nllJ f",mlls ,p,.

M01lftr .. "'*1Iim;,& gef/ul,Sola tan-ftra V6(/IS. .Ad (peeu""n tonIs rer",,, poti'",6 Tyranno,

Nil Monjlrllm 'IItl~O majlls Orhone (rlit. .

Fillge & Agrippinam Romllndl Tigridllgenlli.

Et '1"olnp".>: Hno ('lIl"IQ) Nerone Lea !

Terrsr;s pArilis,Til"191f'; Cacacicus "",,1 Clauilius,& Crepit'l/ rite p"ronNs lToIIt ..

StU mofg' ridud"/feJfHS tjH; ,,,d, 'lJirormna A D,mitu Mufch nomm inanl ,"l,t. .

QNiiJ.for'lli !Aci,nt,IIUde"t cllm ,a/ill Reges 1 Ad 'lllorl'm eXI",plHm quillhe' i'~ lo/~t: ,

Non homo tilntum homi", Lup~ etferus, ,ndul' Oml1em.

Q!!.we ferll"_ '"m Simius ipf' fibi,(I-.

Et Caper & Porcus,(nllm jica/llrn" volNptll1 Efficit)& Cirtespocula»ont, b/~/~. ,

N, ''''P"te Deos,nihil hili ~ltt!lTafiniflre .

Effundil, MQnjlr"fIJ flat jib, '1H'h.'I'I"u",:'

Dllmitiinul lnipcratur.

Ad

"\Vhk~l n~r(} was <.11<,,\ Chall1.

~~~~~~*~~~*~~~~~~ Ad eundem.

, N V'lturr/ challenge thee to tal:! a P"", And jlflild II Secmd to tbts pin:e of Art I Which .u 118 PIfC~IJ,6n Ih,Re'1lermd Pace

Bulwer hath IKld,but z.;~'es 7 h,e 'h, d,u gra" ..

Thou her« art 'ietr'J o/JoNI DefqrmitifS,

Free in intent,and when fNCh .-Jell arlft.

'Ine,'", Rapes,lIol Births,4nd tb« enfo, cIa Mother COllld w'fh [14th brAIS,that th« ./ham'd Wumb l"Olild

Sl.u ina pur"! RNle lira (11I.fI,ml ('OUIP • (jmotDer;

Work.! her rJfta s alile! ,NII/tffe the /ol,,'ce

Of iv» k.,ngw"fire .. "" be lit .. Then 't u ~or su», Em th' Intervener ma~,es mlmjlrojit,..

Look_lVhere we w;Ii(~! tfnol ofpllrts Four Tb« World eonJijlea)Africa's all o'rl. ' Or .fEuropa do, ret";'" her nsm«,

'Tis on Europa's beajllJ tuft andfh.4nle.

We a"1 1I0t made,hNI Wt t srn« Monp"s; This, IJ A (pOntanc~Ns Me,amorplJojis:

The World is Topfie Turvy turn'd;Chim-Cbam Br« jillCtl DifgNiftd NDII/',ana CMrft-Ham.Witham Inchal,tmcnrl,or RGmance~food

Eat/; man', It ~xot,and oth' errAnt hrood.

We firft tr~n.rf"tme ONr !fll1Ciel,rh,n ONr B,dieJ" And.t ,mofJ pber tina ,mfl 'f)igilanr Noaa;", ' fill pAint] ~ rR~' t» [poil, bJ pria',or Mirth, (Th, Gaudeant Bene Nati of 0111' Birth)

Which if DIl",' Nature p,rfefll,DIlme Midnight O'r» pin in faclumd fNgar confONlla! fiNIte, Lucina's Bagg.age (N.'fi' and ~/d JPiV",) M.litl H end, and N ofoJ.and th~ /bllpe ContrlvlS Of mlln} {q.int. e/ d,crook·back,cophead child.

Wh,ch h, Dtlmt Nature was exam, ft"d.

whtl' E.g/II Beakes hllTlI flme •• "d Nofo fo RGIIIAn" It pr,'II1I IImptfltlon ,. Dlvining W,m,." !

Othlrl

8th",." "p'.11'" d,,,bleb (old 1'_Ng)tht N"ifl~ ltlllndmg "" ."""dlll'lIt;dlll ",tI~ "fIor[, ; Prom [Nch IIbufo aililfla '1"' IIlId ,arll,

AlmDft to ''11''1 htl.d JOu "'''', II,,'lIrtl.

EIt", of fo hllge II CDII»ptlJli 1t1l,1f IJrlllfd 'JU. , As men wtro~ (wine ."d tllrn'd" Owlcblll.

Somltl"m with/ilcillgl.aHd wit h [Wlfithl toO jir14i,.

POI' want o!ftace,w, haTl' ~ Dandi-pat. '

£r J efferies babi"dilling Petite,

,.A Peccadillo of Barn abies Hight. ,

ThiNg' fo ,Ncill "nd {mall,lhr /I"t1l1' lpif~ Extm,,, from CONp/jlll. b,iHg nni8r jiM.

To fornlfHch jlm of jlNJtt~t'r,jl~wmg r: ., Gi'1le,ltlthe} had dlreh"rg d Solsgen "NI F~rlJ) S, fCllu'rlng.alla JljfH/iVt th, bravI heat,

The fpYI"dil'l mother fie"" not to he great .

With Child bill Man.lllllld tht ftrft hOfm gives J~1 Not to lin I"flllnt'~"t .. bully-boy.

J h"'111 not T,m"IIoT dflY, I ;lIjNY~ /0,

In If pr''1I'nlinl Catalogue to fbe." wh., oNr fONI, Tlie'l of III"1II1,,all", Befidtll th, ft"-/~;P ",,";/ill of France,

(AI.",II11l1h, ilif'-P/) hafll IInd,,,,, ,

In NfI,,,r,, Dimocq ""dwhllt He hAtlowolIlll~ Whom III th, Wenil" of 0"1' Itg,"" fb'w,

wilh , h, jllft Tr.""" ,/ hil prilijillllll,

Inaudira, de· infanda Gentium De .. Iormitare, apud Cui f?indicem i.:J Statorem; 1'1 atune Quach. Hccaronft icha.

IN nOV4 fort II";",,HI mllllltill pllJlt,{t!re formal Corporli: Ds] vortanr,IIl1mV.1 form"jl;s & ;IIM •. .dfp,cio a,yil"14rlll/(lm vlIll/bllS Orb,m,

C "PfYlt lit 'l!N/INI monflroflil [emer« forma,. 1-ranjire In f"r;III,doCll, 'flG'NNS ,mlu prffar.Hm. £::~HII. R~gjo mterril noftr; lIt.n pi,,,,,, ao{orisi Splfial,ljllos OI1loesipalioji Mathina ''''mdi, Oplima,N .. IIHrllm,qllllm'llis Dllx.fperllere glludent. Pull liS d,jC,HCi,ut hominJim Fir miN, flf..Hrflf. SeflttrllllJformAnt jllI/,i in mir;"N/a f" dll ,

LIIY'!"'s 1Ir.tt!ferHot in Am.enlll flHttibll1 ,,{mil •. Me~liYi VaY;OI dycllnt I1I1"t 0,.., col.res.

.Arti~llS ;n}l11dil. A..rtusfp,t,Jre decorah

Arl inimic" mihi, '1Htt drbut' effe fldel,s.

Nobile !"a.ll'" Pltloh"r;ma M IIchina r.orpur. CorpHs inane Ani",,, ,INr.piS ji", pfa." Ir.IIII&lII. .dfpeflu f"dfl 'Ii fIiC/Isi/"Nt IN"PiA membra.

ruttus terrlbi/i5,r •• pidllrllPlJ ,nore f"arum.

Jglluti nS'IIIIformll 'IIiri'''';jcrlllld'''1"t cllittl. Turpinr eft ;l/o,fjucmpllgno fHdil Achilles. Therfires verus,fJI'i formojij]iTNlIl Iflld". MirltJ,mor1Iflrlt,'Uirls,IIdvittiU form.e·. Sing"/IIgtNS P~'Op";"1 glilldll" IIifllmere !ormAt~ S,ngH/lli'lIl prop'tiol plorHnt Aft'feete mor/,ol. !2.!!.ets ji1NI,4t'lNe figllrll ftrD~ (NA "om;nll donllnt.· b"t4 Nt.efis dig"i ("nt [o'""e p"na,; I1Drr,da,llIrrifJdn, m,fo,'Htfp,EfA,l" No"err:4,

H;I fllv" ,IItfNI fovet N IItr;x) Mllterque P II"''IN'~ CrNd,!is M,,"r ~"g;I."~ PAttr impNhHs jO,t I"'I,~IIII ill, Pllt,r,trlld,liII1l9t1Df"" MIII,r.

2);"" '011111 II",; ,II/chrlll mifmft, PII,g"I, PIt"'" 1119Mt IHltnt f"dll"qui tAU. proau"" . Crimillll,N "",rA'" COnlrll,COnlrlf~ue eI,cDr,,"', .At tiD; "Hx,lillm membr;s '1.; 9I11.r;t;, "I.,il, D,form, hDO 'Vilium 'lJe/lrum '1#11 fuf/in~t ~/mll Eft Ph4:blJi".'ln.s,Clllriil ver[alflr I» hortis; R,a/us hili mifir41 jam "on qHip"!'" [ullder• Ut {iI/' em;n ""jlra rmovelis corpo,II urr«, D{m' jim foUntll m,,,il; injlll1lrlfre p'i~ret. C.eterA.rcrum Opi[e1C IIn;motl,1l jinxit.llt ,1/" ANttlJHIIS rttinent,vlntr"to num;ne,for"lIls

Corpo'll '11S1 fuglw,& dlllci" linq·'4itis orA, .

Qllil furIY,O Gelltts ! '1116l t4nllllll[IIIIIII ,Hn[.lt VNlll6NI i"'Vili' vejlrNmmut"" nltOtem 1 Mlns fHri;s IIgita'flf14ltcrudelll.&_ illi~C Turpe eft "'tlS Op.l,pHlchri d'jlor"" Dyer. '. Gratill,t"", mtid.tfll!hgia fplendiall fron",. Barbll,iII,flrr/b,JII,rllb/9fll,lmmlmda, pro(llIJa. l"faMPlllim~tlms. rid'lId" [Hperb,a fpcrr.ll Om1filf,'1"ocorp"i mutlfret,&ora rnanll[qut; H~f1Ze mihi f'HaUllln bune pte,,';! hOl'io,em CNrArllmqllc r~ferJqllOd IIdunc~ 'l/u/nerll formll

. b •

Ttl", IIIonflrofafIJ'ol,otoljlle eXlIrrcor or e ..

H,; mib« qll4{is erat ! qllalltrltn mlltll'Ulllb 1111

Corp';" pr.ep."t/f r)_!41l Cllllf .. ind;gn" [erlHos

Pltda'flit vHI/usfTN4 tNrblda terre: Imago,

.fl.!#lIm /ptCirljll prioT! !l_Ni" cur hltc fllllnerA c"not· Horrefto 1I[p"iens I nNRA[qNI ;nc~'pore partes

Nofeerc qU141 pDjJHm,NnNmq"e eft omlllil "u/nll" Monftrum,horre"dHm,ingens,clli q"ot {lint corpore me",b,." Horridll tot /pearl! infHrgunt "mrab"t Vi!1I 1

1na"erint Er,bi 'VH/tNI,arquI 0711 So",,,m .

P Ifrr fllr;al rtft'rllnt. Hic f(jdum Protell fitl.!!.,t .

Os hl/m,T's 'J);"fimilem. N ~mqN' hllud fib, "HltHt Mortll/;s,fod Tarfllrell1jic 14"AflgHra eff,

objlll,et "",b,lIyum DomINHI,Per"rriINs O"UI. ;PIli/ollis to/lNnt Eqlli,er,plIJiteJqNe Chach~lInDl. MQ"flra hominllmrir.lmt StJgi,s {Hperllrlt'"'IIt[". Plebs jill", ;"jor",is,'.;Mt exital, MllaNJ.~

It ",,/,m ",irlltllr hillllS cllnil ", ",fit'"''

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ddolet HOG E RE FA Alti:Clucianus.

l:~~i~dutiWdnMu_luLduI3w· ,t>.~"~'H:~(txtx~,~~txtxt>:,ptx~4><v~><~'~'H't>'¥'~44"'~"vt4"~ ¢><t><N"'t>(N'¢l,;,~'H4"'t:1:<t>q:¢-4": 4", .. <t4'H ;CN*t,¢l~¢)

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A Letter direCl:ed to the Author

from a worthy Friend of his) fully di{covering tbe ground of all t.MIIIU Prevarications •

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Ilo.ourttl S'I',

Hio firiH call: up tbis account of youringe-

nicus peregrinatio[l through" the World. and fOlind your culiousdillgencc:.looking, not only CiviU (ocieties, but prying a\lo umo the crouds and {llveltrous beards of mankinde. peeping into every latib).lIum and lolitary bulh to devellape the effcC\sand incongruouS refuusef the phantaUicall proiea:s of (the now little better then the pert'caer lort of ape called .WilII) It became my ju!l wonder, to find the: Magmery ot the (..reation in the crucible of His oWfifolly fa cakiried into a trifle; He without whom all other projeaions had been a vaolty, fince the univerfe ani every particular ingredient thercofod:dTarily relate to Him as a Circle to the Center, He who held the prime raocke in that ineffable order in the bolorne ot Eternity. being tbe realon upon the in(crutable decree of all other Entities wbatfocver,that He (hou\d break the laws of his nature,tIc tbe Symeuy of bis exaa: and moll: indilputabk proportion I and (0 in!olently violate tbe Exchtquec ll:andard of Heaven without! blufb, it wasIfay my wonder: And with the Arc:h.pcdpateticke: my 'r~ Od.tJp.cl~0IY proved my· Mercury to my '13 Md.9~j'v. I tasked lOy thougats-witb the refearch ot tbe cauie, why tbe All ot Entities w~o weare tbe livedc of dependency. from the AlI.lightening and All.living luminary the sunne, to tbe molt ~Mpicable alld

l'lu''lJouttll J

'1#ivDcall ;IIfoEl, doe moll obfequioufly performe their primary injunt\:ions, as the: truer Enamoradoes ofthcir conformitie to their modelling I dea or prototype.

And yet man, the Analet\: of all their perf(t\:ions, witb rhe advantsge of his cwne tpecifique nature, which emitleth him 10 all exiflency beyond bis Afhes, fhould fo trsnIpeciate himfelfe, as that neither his feule nor body (both being [0 degloried) by his own moft accurfed ddigne fince they came under hiG own ru.tion, teem in the lea!'c meafure to antwer the perfection ot that pattern, by which they were eiformed,having done as much as in bim lies, to tru .. !lrate the whole cresnon, by dttacing the end .and cancel .. ling the realon at that fir!'c miracle: Thofe glorious Raies the Conduit pipes ofinfiuences Itreamiog from the celefti, all Elixers of light and prot!reative.powers. to what other end are theyrthen by a fubeile and decreed Energy.to aelu. ale the neurraluy of matter Unto hie or bee .. even to the Earths Center(the Boundary ef dependent operanonsjand to enloule the paffionlelTe Plants, endowing them with qualues, either profitable or delightfullj and all tbis tor the behoofo] M4ni.Whl'l,it l Ihould tpesk his native praues to make bis derelidron the: le!l.c excufable, I mun eonfe{fc: t hal when oy rctrolpeaioo, I find him Harting out of tbe clay- pit from bet",:,ixt the hands oihis maker, he was then enriched with a louie as powerfull in knowledge, as Was the Seraph'qN~ nature of Ang~/l;ditferenced onlYWlodo or "m,o""gtndt, they ineuitively knowing and in In inUlnt Heby deliberation &~lmolJs r~Cult,as bemg retarded by bi~ Brickworkfrorn which.the dignity oftbeir order dotb ne~e{{ar~ly interr theConge of Exemption, by the ad: of weh llluitrious elftnllahlll! he demonltratively knew the cele. (bal~Orbs in the perfedion of their mauer, abllrad: from the: realcn of their then indlviduall exittencies • And was very well acquai~ted with the (pring of their 6rn mover upon which tNC:"1ngcnny ot rhe Whole frame did fo abfolutdy depend, that fhould tbe irrelilbble prorogeeive of Heavenjlut command it to nay tor one mome~t thtl whole Wbr!d wou~d fall into a Common falaH ft~pidily,ls tbat ot Lots wite before Zoar. The order ot tile lum], n'!lei (not excepting their magnitude5) and the realon

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of each ones Cite in that order,tbeirconnelllltionBaconjul1; t\:ioAs,a~peas)and !hcit" dj{a!ler~ at Ec1yp~ick re"enc~un. rers, tbeir retpedive powers, 10 all pofitlOllS ~nd ~Ilgles whaefoever, were the very recreations or hts eVlucll:lg Genius.the mereerologicall condenra~ions,& v~lcou:q ~Ol\. eretions in the aire, from (he firUlllotton of thm efficient,

10 their defigned purpoiee, were his crepundia's, nor was there any vegetable upon the disper'd eart h,who!c ~'.en(rall and rclpet\:ive or Ipecifique ~atl1r~,?e did no~ moll o:aclly know, with II happy lind lade lblllty?f telling why cac~ feverall plant hath his mot bearded ~Itb filme & fibres diverfly Ihaped at dlUinaly antwering ItS bounded property, why the ltem,bal'k,leaves,and fruit are of iuch varions and dilferinf' pathetiqce qualities, yea and Irom what t'{'alOl! of nature ~hey borrow their variety o~ colours, and wh~ for the rnolt part green, and yet taklOg ttle whole World for an Herbary, tbere will be found no two plants of differ'"t {pedes which exadly concenter in the tarr c verdure ahocgb in the al'l: or fermentation, dilal:l!\(lI1,ger• mination, pUllulation. ingemlfinalion, tl uctificauon and intemioation (the whole circle of natures dance, aCCQr~ ding to tbe key of the fir[t meature} they doe,all operate alike,without the allowance of one ,Iota U! vartanc,:;Her~ were the Alleys and umbracles of his ordinary recetles, 10 that there was nothing in the Heavens or Celelhall COIlcemeraricns, in this dilljlema,or Expanle, or in, or upon the rerraqueous Globe, but it was by him comprchended without the !.caa hefitation .. Thus the Creauon'and its order methodized him il'1lo the peltet\: and €xaCl: knowledge ot his Creator.i~l[~much th~t his 1~1l1e bec,ame ravifhed with that a\l·kOlttiog anti Seraphique virtue of Charitie, by which his love (which ever holds propCirtion) to lus Maker, teemed to unite them as it were p~r eJfel1tialem,omrac7:urn, nor was his labeur loll, S.'milittr' 'Nm 1A"liciti).ben,voienlill {Hit (r~dam inter rcdam,,"tu, pateAt Autem & ;I)/fllrn amAviffi hom,r;em filii lanta bonanQtJ propter aliud ftdpropter ftm"ip[um dellit, & hominem redamllfiG Deum pe, charitllttm,jit, ho~inem {l1iff, amiell"! D'O.&tjHDI'J;Am C~"fr" ql4emDell1 tlth,! quere/~ hllbet d,ct. '"' j"ftlll I'" ;n"Q~"'/~ conlra VI" amieNm IImiCIIS 11071

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hab,t 9u",/iI",;,4"4' f~liej/Hr /'olHintm h.6I1iffijl~INm ;fJlmelritid & jufJ;,i~, here in this ellat~ the reciprecsll complacency produced I bsppinefle preventing, Heaven, yet (there ample endowments notwithltanding) to acquaint him with his dependency.be was not fixt in this Oation with the unchangeable chaynes ot tmpoffibilityof'being removed.but left in a /llfth/z.ltqflil, hrto,with power to dehnceste which way he pleated, • he habit and crafis of his body adminifiring no violent advance te the mutinie and rebellion of bls pafficns, .thtY onely (xafting what it had been impiety ttl deny by tAe prercribed law ofnature, duely performing rheir impoted homage rothe Scepter of his Reafon j nor was this rich jewell of the louie enamelled with iIlullrous graces, and (et with moll: refulgent virtues. lodged in a luckleffe.mifbapen or uncouth cabinet.but placed in a body reciprocally anfwerable to irs merlr.where the exacHym~try of tvery partenoyed to ample an aptitude to what it w~s defigned, tbat the re(ult became an ocular harmony of that rare eornpofure, that it hath ever fince hinted u,*, us the moll demonlirarlve and Ieveref] Rules in the Marhernauques: to rhat jufily I may fay he was tbe Lord of the World,whicb had not had rae honour ofbeing a fervent without him.

Here now Sr. with the VIOlence of ambition,t he offspring of that obligation, By which I am boun~ 10 my ownc narure.I am paffionattly defirous to Jecure him' But htfi Ru ;p(a loqU~tH', his fate depending upon the fre~domc of his o Vln will. 1J1£l1I oCIlIi. he ditprcporrioned bis alf.:Clions by the banefull br6u(i~g uperr one vegetable, planredby ebe rtght,bltld of providence, (rather for the exerciie of his cunllancy,then the monument of hls folly) and ootwitbout the highdl: f~~[iledgc to be ta~ed for foo~. the gblilt whereof, by preleient decree, fe filaned the face ofnature and dem.fculated the {eminaU venue of the Creation,tblt now each thorne and bryer upbraid him for bts calli attempt.his groanes, ~C:,ares, and cxt~dations, what" are tb'ey? eDt the df.;Cls ot thole blowes which he received from the branditbing (word of divine revenge, which forced·him "ut of the blisfull Allies of the Garden, to hide himfelfe alllongll ckelbickel,,'o.pitcifllllydcpaup~raled.rhat"he was

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Igtree: Oh unhappyMetamorphElfis,~hat loul which even now, was the enterchanging reAechon of he~ own lul~re. embdlifl.led with the graces and vettues c~rdIOall, which run a divlfion upon the keyes 01 Nature .. WlIhout the le,llt demuficaJ1 mHbke, Felicitated in the hIgh c~ntemplltlon of ber Maker,beyond the bO,ui:lds 01 excdl~ ; IS n~w derobed of all her beauty. delpolled of all happl~e[e. And to tLlls deplorable condition, ferving for very h~,le other pur ....

ofe,lhen as ialt to keep the body 'rom (hn~mg, or which fs et Jelfe, to (ecure the World from the fngb!full and rc-

~:lI:MI111 appellation of a CharneU houfe, berog Io much ~~pra v'd by the perpetusll ioiultments of the pa~ons( well ardVer fince like .ARes1Js doggs (andall_lor c~rIofir~) let loofe upon their M,llrclle,not admowle~gmg ~ (overalgnty in that lteafon,which was (a lar wantmg to l,ts lelfe,as to , commiffionlte tbem to the outrage and garbOlI 01 an open

bellion wbmcc: lorward {be langul{heth und er the "-71/.-

~~ • .' Dilorder oblcurity and confufion In the under-

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lIanding • to which the will.be~ng c~n ,cqucnt, mu nee s

prove a participle of til at hapleffe defiCIency. Nt! 'IIol;,U;

!IDA non (it pr.rog1Jilllm, t~lI: k~o~ledge as well 0 t ,e treatute as of the: Creator,huh bid ItS u(ttm_um Ville to tblS in ratefull companion, intomucb as that bl1f~fllU and CO,m-

Ig nt charitie towards God, the harmeldfc and unemng ~1:ai0m and ule of the creature foe bis go~d) ~re both mecoverably 100:, by that habituated corruptlon m the fl.rea~ of propagation: H ti,; dlfiort;o '1,ulfnilfiIlHf .ex Ifffu."Dn'1ler ,iollil ",d er""'lIrll'" neeeff, eft Ipfllm & el' ",elmlftIONer:' fiIHI/,m & p,r Do,,/r'1*enl difpofitione. qUlfndlf"', htlb!"I'" I,m lid ARum pfCINIII ; hllbetlnt ;'11"1"' "1f"~/lJsm",es a primo er IlterAllonem propilgAli 'p/" na/CIIH~II VII ~IItHrA

,c~t,,£ habit."le & prl'lllll;Onem Chllrttlllli :, TillS wa~ Ie i"",beuJ (the YOflgcr brolhers) fatal~ apemen of P"" l . box Which divine p"m,''''111 (right reaton 10 aft) ~:ld no~ attempt to doe,hmc ~oVfI febr'Hm eoh,,~.al1 the maladies both of !:lody Ind mind, aence the SplllO/" cr 'lJe,'I:tII"IJ*'ftmmoftbtj Schools,bellce our (~dc UDc;crt~ln and infignificant gueffes at eft"ences by oper,ltlons,orwblcD is more dull by c;onitious an~ Gb~ious accldcntslllmbl1ullJ

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'lW vitreu plllt! vero hllud 411i1'gilfJIHThUS having Ion the ~,afll,!lry of his rea[an,and the !leady power of' Elc&ian, 1~1 t hings neceflary and convenient.Iike an unskiltull Ma. nner at Sea difancsorated.he catcherh at his own fuccourleGe apprehc~fiOl~s,.not kn?wing,before attempt,their con. gruen~y or mllchl~h:" until! he meets with admollilhiAg experience. the mdltf, rent moderaerix of his Adions and thole of brutes, ~lIfomuch as make them an allowance, or let them dilcount tor their deficiency in the <]I.!_antity and fiee of their braiaes , and the queflion ~III. not .be e~pty. wher~ lies the difference ! truly (Iavtng ~lS relation to th~ rel~lfn'Cli m) I think upon more then pro.)able !?'tllln.ds) It Will not be in tbe Act. but in the tli~gree 01 Reston, from which advantage he claims now his power ollpeech;and by that the leliciry in all t he can-

• vemenccs 01 eommunicating his Ianey, which Ifeither he ,:~nw:j or they had als bold oltentation would prove a va~!tle,orthey would be his companions at bed and board, ] mile men out of that order wherein the advile of advan(led Natures have prudenrly placed them and are they not prefenrly a heard ~f A~imals f mere da(~n3bly outragious a,nd more bcafiJl: irrarionall rhcn rhelioas of .Africa, nay t ncn t~e Beares in Rllffia,making their appetite the Rule ~Y which the,y flaugbttr, othe~s tor ditlenung, which I in~ l(.allc~ as a thing.wherein be IS moll cencern'd.and if deficient In that. what can be expeeted in matters of jdre mo~.nent: Is be not perpetually prsecipitated by his palIions 1:110 all the dangers and dugraces, that attend either fury

. tolly. or ma~neff(! ~ dO,th ~ot thebleudifhments of his ap: t'"~lte (':_'Jhlch011ce his firfl: Iaucinetle, d~v~/ilop.mo,he neither finds Wit n<:>r will to withHand) burry to that inremperence for WhiCh, he ~Ilds no. prefidenrs amongn the Beatts ~ d<:>tb he not dig als grave with his teeth being his G .... n Vefpillo, [0 that when be is at lealure from putting in E:w:utidn that dirlfHII& AccHrftJ Art of NImrod. wherin ~utual fl3ug~ters have ~he luck to be efleemed a prefervatioo.and hellifh executions.the pr~ceae of juH ,and Righti' doth he n~t out ot.th~e~cffc and Immoderate mdLllgeney towards blmfclfe.lmHate the Ape.who iomctimes kils his young by bugging them in kiJ1dne{fcWoth not ~is Viands

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., oft prove his deilrutlion as honite violence,tbt. horeb-

pot or mixture iaereof bath brought the rlltfJ'» of his cen-

liant lite. to that point which was the infancy of his fore-

fathers. when the Iimpiieity of their food, fecured them

tiom gluttony, and tt)e bainful! dfet'l:s of ~ mOII~ifi~I' r~pletion,the natural! brats of Iawce and V1uety, [0 fatall is

his dome,that neither war nor peace can promite him (at;;:·

ty tor in his quett of life he equally finds his' deathiuei-

th~r? And happy was ~ec.i,f thc. d,i1couming of his dales

were the full account et his lIIfclIClty.; but I mull; aHert the

contr at y for a nuth, fit hence. like the escculared mendi-

cant in tbe llelds,he is neceflitated to follow the eys of'bls AnimaU. and like a beall: to live under tbe tyranny ef cu!\ome.which SentCIl politivcly concludes. where he laieS'Epill,123. Non ration' compommHr (,d con{Hlllldins : And that molt oblervant Rabbi; R{lmblll'll,l dew plane "c&idere [olet homin;

ill {tnUlltli4 & optniowbHS (jI~i~US jIllIMY;tUJ 'ft, & pra

IIlnor, i/tllrum ab ilils demover, "equlII','lU~ 'PH/4eft IIr b»:

mo [~pe lion p'/Jitllpprehendere ver;Mem qui" [cdlcet lUll

[tquitHr qUibHI4fllef.iCl'!J tif ; 10 that now .havmg loU the

true ufe of his realon, nghtand wrong, JU!\ and unJuit,

Ii:ems meerly [.loti9ns no't otl:lerwife examinable then by

what our foreiathers were opiniot1:ltcd,And as Archi/"'II longfince eeneluded ;'T~ J',It<l.IOV ~ 'T~ <l.t5\:~ov ~ 'Tr q,JoII,ItI\M

-rr/J VO~(.) which infelicity doth m:cdhnly mrow bun lOt? aperplcxed filuffle,of a croud and quarrell, not to be deci-

ded untill fotce or lhatageill give the la w I nor is Ihis c~rle

upon his'monls ':lIIly. but ~c ~tems tOO too oiren (Ii the

whole earth be viewed oy an 1I1tdlcCl:tla 1 cyu)to take up

his Religion tOO in man~er not~itft:rel'lt ,J~ra~do In """

btl majot'um, as If Epre"rHs had hit .'-truth, ~n ms Slygian

fl uaation "'Tl 11-<1.8' i<l.u'T~ J'11t<lI01U~11 but this 1& too tender !o

be [(arched into. unlcfle with a probe. armed wim e con-

fiAtJt and re[olvtdf,mh, no~ Deed this ar~umcnt to be pur-

Iucd by any thing more for Its confirmation, then by what

you have found,by your rare and uncomparable re{em,"bef,

by which you have drawn the mrtaine of the :-ight,and by

the cleare azure of your indulhy. Ihewn hun upon the Theatre of th,e World. in all his maslling n:mmneties, ,va,

rious Ihapes. andreditHlousrtlOrtlOnf. which are nothlD~

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elte bUI the 6tC(Jard/lnd ilIC!getimllC births oh prim.r, ph,,"taj1''1Ntattempt,nurfed I:1p by the practick bawde of II. dUlrtralcd cuj1o,m, which fioce he ceafcd to make ufe of his r~a!on. a~d the IJII_o1ldam indulgency to his firfi pro· pOr!IOn, he IS more In ~ove with tnen that fymerry in whlc~ h~ WIS. created, and which you hy your noble pen have Jufhfie~,In(omuch as now he teems rather a tbing of his own making, then (prung from the loyns of tho Proto. plan:,. orat t~e~ell but .as: Ar~'J his Ship in A,htIJl. parca d up With 10 many hand raJu's of his wild and frizI<ing fancy, that fcarce any part of him relatesto the fleft dult, from whence he was pnncipiared. And I murt needs fay he had very ill luck, to ~tCOA1e the fubj ea of his own workmanlhip, after he knew he was condemned to be a bungler, much beuer therefore had it been for bim to ,have' played the D.d,IIHI With (orne more fafe materl~II, or to have lit nill in the circle ot his folly, thaping a petncoare lor the moon, uther then to have act"d to the hazard 01 his own nature. Bot this CounfeU{like him who came to the relief o~ro" ~wo dayes.after it ~a~ facke~) comes too lal~ lla tar IS he ingulphed 10 the f1ud:oation 'of his bcd,lamlike phrenfyeland blowne by the tempell of his menacmg fury" tbat hIVing loll, his reafon, the Itcady ballaf] of all noble and laudable Actlons,he is now fhoared ?pon the Conti~ent ~t Change and confu!lon,wher .. thc mco~llancy of his lehoRS, and the various Ihapes be entertained, by t,he ne~ modelling of his Plrlon, jullly brought upon him the Judgment of derelittion,being"p". ro carJ?o abandoned by all tbe·other Animals, (wbofe contormity to ,tb<:ir end. if he had Uaied and mltle it preti_ dent, he mlght have eyaded m01'l: happily.) And thus IX. eluded forl.mo,nficr.& gazed at 18 a Gorgon,wythe ether heards.fuc~ls his Iffogancy.nol thejulHce of llis right.that reading wuh the wroll~ '!1d of ~he booke upward, he conflrues that 10 be rhe dlgOltYtlf hisnature where it is tbe pr~pollerioU"(neffe 0t ~is Ihape and appea~ances. whicb IIfnS'hts th~~ from him! aAd occalionally give him his 'Pamc, for hvmg le~e qL1letly and inmere blQefull confu- 110n then tbey, which arllthe very drcas 01 bis relUelfa phanly, anel accurli:d mifapptcMnfion, . bcfQoling bis

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A Hint of the Vfe of this TREATISE.

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t~';>_I. HIS PJrt of our Csrp(Jr"n philQ(ophy,

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~i .. and AGllfi of Parts ; by many firange

.u;. and Narionall Examples, reacheth us,

how foolifhly Mankinde runneth headlong, blinded in hi's owne err~urs) and how be is deceived, hunting after new- fangled and unnatural! Vanities, ruled by a deluded Ienfe, chuGngvaine things of his owne invention, and abhorring things cerraine and naturally profitable. It fhewes how ficke men (generally) are of rbe Fa/biBI!JS, convincingtbe world of this Truth, Th"e Gild hath "'lJd~ mJ~ rightelt«, ·')l/t he hAth feund sut PMny inuentilNs. And may ferve as a Glaffe for the pernit iouay-affected Gallants of our time to looke in, and fee the deformity, of their Minds, and their Pedigree and Alliance> who praetife fucb phanu{Hcall Emendations of Nature, as difhonour her, and apparently (hew that [hey glory in their flume. And that men defcen:iing into themfelves, may knowthcmfelves 10 l~ mm "nd nIt btllj1S, and learne to order this Augufi Domicil of man reverently to the health of the B~dy) and HOnOUr of the Soule. .-

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Diploma _ Apollinis,

EN! ta'idem Reruw Alma Pilrcns,Auditll Otl~rQ/" 'fl. COI'I[tI.ltJlqrtc Dcas, qrlaJit ral;QIU partlna .. "-

Firma med~/tll1b;, I nlcrt»: {/lffratia mbis.

Hort.1l1iqM ar/dllm, [.la"lI(I dicere 'lie,/;"

SU4dem,& ledulo furMis [sccerrer« ''''fil.

DepD/Hi radm. mtt iorqu« VCnI;if,nior (fifo

Decreui, Cel. 1,"pft(JJlcr(jr~ [Illlllem

ImperoJ & ajJllt1t5 m. lim cDnjidcre r,bIN.

InvUJIIsm mcdlci>l(l mCIJme/l, opifo.-qlu per ~,.bem

Notul ego, gd,d£ 'lilt arc Fericll/a mort is Pr.cc'pio,[m[tofqw art es repar.ire doccbc.

Duw medicM (lih/bore manns ad 'lJftir.cr,j phce{;flJ Cogor,qulC deem: nat») cflr.-lf!, llcJ.mda, /nf,f11dllnJ,N<lrur'l plio re-ou.tr« dolorct»

III Chtl9S anllql4flm .'0 >.filll;/in.:fJy,OmtJi{J I/JOlzjfrA

Legrbm c'IJerfis,rcllt:>J N'siur« rerlbllt,

Qff.~c1uid delirsn: bmml~! teCe,lM V"C,1II!U~

Nnmre, M"tris, Q"';zYr1 mil CIt/rare uera»: II,'

Infcripjere DCOJ (ce/en, ,'llm_lIqtu fllprwlP.m ArguilNr,[lIperi q# .,ji VOJ,/;O& mQ"c,crca;{mt

Mil/fa h01})irJ(J (tI/{,mm.jed non ego 11'11:)1# hllj/II.

QUill t<lcUi; opp(Jrlf~ -: •• mlb{dlttJ) tCir.r>rll dmlllr,

Iii laiC, .{QI1U loti "more[cercl o,1;i.

Clar;or 1/1 fit men ,,,agilll potmtlt! ierris,

(.'o_~ltlerl" qu mtos /Joml/'ll4'ln X,WW oQ}mfm'IJI'N I Human" periltp"mw de fr0nfe chlll'at/cr,

[n[u!fIU reddent trill'llformi{J corpora mentes

A/qNe (.,M 7~{r!re,.t, 'lIeillli Lantim Heror

Imrnundis 11II6m (ric; 'I .lgmhJa cjrcIJm!pt.vil Tran[mHtata, ;11, flf6tf,~m pocu/" Circes;

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Slim 1J6U1 & f'tlftllm,fIT",II'I'1t {fj ~",min" AHCI,,.· Ad Pbee'" Cythlira", "OX COII[OW •• [IY",a.[AIH[fJ"' Corpor",& fOIlH4 hi~. ",f/rilgra,/J/itNH4I111", . Rilrm~nillmqll' [1Ui/,f"i, hllc Sp»phQnia Nllflr.c •. Hoc L,ra. & h." ,,,,1, ",oll/l,al TtftNdo C,1I11orA, FI,("I, ",[eio '1N;d '1"."'.' LJra,jl,b,ld/lll/14 MtlrmIlT",IxlIlI,ml4 r,/pond'lIt jJ,bi!, 11.6,11:

ttt phllom,la mihi 9,111,'11;' 1)11111: [eemiHiI vifa elf

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F,IIJ'.,bAn. '1'1. a"lc, ""Ios, Chll,i"s p"i,rllnt In qH~r"m ["/1;,,, 10ClI, bft'III1 CIIII' '1111 J!.u"w,idlllm, 9"ili,14 efl' .,iI d1co,d'II II"a' Pea"ulflqu6 T..rl, e.IlAinttrceptavid,lIIur. DufflliH4 bAud 'fI"I,. p"c",,,, c"r,.;nll ""'11;", Harmm;c~ n'f"l1~ di/,ilu illfp,Or" chll,d.u CI"ria Ttf/lld. m," Tlftllil & mfJIpa dul.,,,p:

Omnia J'gm",,,,, ($' CJmlilll1i erem~IIllIfilllll •. p ,a.ru H 1I.,,,,,i Jiap,mAI II ",,1111 vid'II'"r. De.;Ullnt Allr"S, tit ini'1NI,IIf'IitU AfoU;

TollII biceft ""Fli, ",OVII h.nc ntC cb.,aa[a/IIIU. e 11m 6,,,, cQmp.jiu., c"rm,,,,,.,,,,r!qu, tJ,,,,~j1I1M' p, I,fignu [aciu, p,dilillltjll/,a Mm, ",:1;,;

JAm VII/" ,x ,,"'rlc~ ,Mil 9uill dlfuJ;~AI 0.,,1 t· ANr,J AmphlmAeril,_ NIf{III Pirr;&hitu 'XlIII Y,ri;tlir 1111 TrQ~b,."" CMj1""S SP8I1d.etu, Illptrt;' C~ftrlliUl fI'~'I4,/iI"rlll"m'II' 01 EpilritN""ft" 1nft"'· mol.ffi, 'IIe"IX c.n/piciIN' IIltlll.

Dan' illc,mpoJit; vu.ltfUtam ,",millil m"n,,,; Singultl9Mia "ferlllll? ,,;6illft '.II{NIIII iNiI:, S"ng.i",.C,,/QpNm IF,/ill"i "'1"" "I.fr#,

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]lIm rev"Ate grad""" l1Jollj/,if'lu, i"j;~it' jrl,IJII FI,m" P,.de",,1 mllmfeflam N"mmu /til"" NM"~,ft Ctlt v;rtlll, ".i"'''[9''' in ,tao" pr~ftHI C.lldeeOrArI .ec;t SpArtam hallC,mllRNllllmnA ellptu D,j"", &' m.njl""11 fimfll & Jim,,1 IIbd", cr;meH. • EX!!NI i. Diu eft)c/;<v~ [ndllllr;/l N.~'

Attollili '11.'. mallie" I ;"'1,r;091111 D",Nm

Erigtle arrl''''u m'II"s,/llIpe[lIa"flil cordll. Agno[eam grllfH4, 'fItltru ''&If;f.;lIf~rm4, . Nemo IX hoc nlimIYO mihi ",n dOll/ltNl abib;t. Q.!I"" "l;" 0 Nil';" S,GVDI flr'llll(1I1 Apollo • Dlli" Jo P4an & Jo bi4 diettt P._n

C,allf1lH4 Phabo, /i9uimH' ,,[MleI, D",um. BIIUer.phall Dogilor mOllforDru," tlrl0rt 'fI,um P'IAfoi Cahjlu ,q"i,jic PNlHII' A6 "I",

ttl p.jJit triplex ha/Mllhll' read'" mOll/lru"" NIIIITum'A,i" n,mQ moaerllmina ;'ix; 1 Ar,ipH,t Prim"" ,ertll & moJ"/lIminil 110'11# Bul wcrllS, ".""",if" & m,dic"mi"4 clIlI". 0",lIi6", ,xelp,u,'11 "o/h"", tllrA "'poum Itll" ,a/it,"1t: 'llf!d,Phre6, ~"t;"11 fifoDit. l"l"",1 "nimol AlfgNfto~orport Vir/lit E,,,III1;_(, f"e;',I,,,,,M dt ",a, [,r/lrll

~J pUdel 11/9'" pit'" p"{chrlll "m,rAffe fill/'M F «M'II,.m Sex.",. q~'m j~'" ~ugn8!c,,, mll,re," E,rm'Ji,m Yell'"'''' "!>lit. Plfrllajfoll L."rlll

T, elrellmt'''llt,f"m- [lIplr .,herll "".m.

q lo,i", trl1d, ",;hi, ".UN., perit.fllptr .v"m.

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n,'"m Curlx A!-,,'ll.Jii":is,pro_ t tcntui. in Cancrt.m,

Mandatum Hogef('~a~ AltJCl'Uciana hoc Diploma, l1t coram Natura: Tribunali, tifhr. ens: rn».

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.CbangJing, upon the Inditement filed by the Author about the matter of Fad of Mans voluntary Transformation.

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tttttt •• ttt.tttttt A TABLE

Of the Scenes. of Man's Transfor,.

.- mation. .

The IntroauC1ion.

The'flrl\ SeE N E. • . ..

CErtaine falhiomof the Head,lIftefted and .,,:mi,cd b. the pra!;ft1atic.all invcllIioD.lnd Illificiall endeavcurs of many Natiuus,

SCENE IT.

Cerraine fftlhions of Haire, atl'<:tl:cd by divers Nation.,and tll£ir opinion. and prattifc aboul Hair-rlres, molt 4er&gawry 10 the hunour of Nature,

~CENB Ill.

Fronull faillions affc6tcd by divers Naticns, SCENEIV.

Eyo·brow rltc8Jorrhe Eye-brOl" abuled contrary 10 Nmue.

SC.ENEV. •

Eye-lid lalhions, affeaed a' note, of Gallamry and BeaulY by dlve" Nations.

SCENE VI.

ManRrou! eonformatlens, propurtie., celours, preponicns, and . Fafuion.blc dtcaat'oO> <.f eyts,amongfl cCltaine Natiolli.

SCENE '111.

CeTlain fOI mes and ftrangc O .... pe' of the Norc much ,.ff( aed ,~Ild anificially contrived, a. mauer ollir.lsular lieaUt)' and ornament, in the etleem otIome Narlons,

SCENE VIII.

Auricular ialhionl, or Cntaille ltnnge iJlvemions of People, ill new-moulding their Earel.

. S C:a N E. IX.

Artifldall fean accounted marks of Gallantry, imprinted on the

Cheeks of divers Nadoru, '"

SCENE X.

Moulh-falhions and Orall monttrofirie s, SCENE XI.

Lip-gallantry. or cenalne ,,"ioll f.{hiGr.s. Invented by ,jivrrfe

NatiolU. -: ~ ~ ~ S(;£:1'<I;

SCENE XII;

, Beard hltcr.,orrhe opinion Inll pr.aire of dlflno Nadon., 1011~ eeraing the n.turall co(igne <If Manhood, appearin, about dll Mouth.

. SC~,NIi XIII.

DemaU Fdhlonl or TQa.:h .1iesl '" ,

SCENE XIV. ' '

Device. of «mine Natlons,pr • .tllld,uIi'0A Lhrir Tong"".

SCENE XV.

Face· monlden. Faceu~en.$tigmadzers and Painteer.

SCENE XV I.

Narionall monftroGdclappcaring ill the Neck. •

. ~ SeENE XVII.

Humerall or Ibouldcr.affctbtions.

, SCENiXVIII.

S(r~nge invetllloni oreenaine NalioA'lin ordcringtbcir Armer,

H.nds and Nailes, •

OS C eoN B X I X.

Pap.Faftlionl:

SCliNE XX.

Dangerolll (albions, and defpcr~[e afldt.tiollsabouuhc Brcaft ,luI Waftr.

SC;:ENB XXI.

Strange inventive comradiltions aglinft Nalure, ,rdUcally mainlained by diven Nalion., in the ordering of Iheir Peivic ,aru.

SCE.NE XXII

Tailed Na!ions,Breech. Gallantry\an:d lbufcnof thaI part. .'

, SCENE XXIII. .

L~g and fOOl Fafhions. or cenainc Legs alld Fecr.ln cltccm whll

Ilivcn Nulon.. '

5 C E N IS X XII II. '

Cruell aad fanlifticall inventions of men. prattifl!oI upon thei' Bodie,. itt I fUI'poftd way 01 bravery. and wicked prattire., bOlhof Men IOd Di,el.,to alter and delorme the Humane Fabriquc~ ,

.' ;

11'181'1111111111

The INTR.ODVCT]ON.

• AleJh to convince the errour of Epicuru!) [aid he would give him an hundred yeart's to alier or change the fciruarion, figure, or Compofition of anyone part of the humane Fabrick , and he did nee doubt, but it would come to pa{fe in the end, rhas he would be forced, to confdfc, that the tame

could by no meanes have beene made after any Dr.Cno,tinhi. other or more perf(_C~,t manner. A moders Ana- Micr~ofD1l)tomift Ipeakes a little more boldly, affirming, graphia.

that if all the Angels Ihould have [pent a thou- ,

fand years in the framing and making of man, "

they could non have caft him into fo curious a mould or made him like to that he is, much leffe could they havefee him forth in any better man-

ncr •. For, God hath wonderfully, and moll artificially framed the body of man. The excellency whcrof is fuch, that the Anthropomorphires held

that God had fuch a Body, and that ours was but

the Copie of ·his, becaufe they knew God to be mofk excellent, they attributed to him fuch a Bo-

dy. And the Philofophers were fo raviihcd with

the confidcrarion of it, that Zoroaftt'r cries out,

as if Nature had undertaken a bold l?iece of worke when {he made man, and EuripIdes faith

B that

-rho Introdutlion.

that man is a moll beautifull Creature, framed by a mof) wife Artifan.'the Spirit of God fpeaks D~yid P{AI. admirably of the Body of man in Scripture, fors J9 tcr.11. David faith, that his Body was (urioufiy w rough; in his Mothers womb as a piece of Em-

broidery or Needle~work) as the Hebrew word (rukkanrhi) fignifies: Genelrard renders the word in the Pra/me, 'f.:arie contextt-u fum, & dtverftJictJt~. Prlicanw, arti(iciore concinnatusfum, that 'is, with fingular variety, and moft artificially fafuioned.·

. Yet the blind impiety of fome hath red them to fuch a height of prefumption) as to finde faulc with many parts of this curious Pabricke, and to qllcfiioll the witdome of God in the contrivance thcreof,upon fuch Blafphemous fancies men have taken upon them an audacious Art to forme and new fhape themfelves, altering the humane Fi~ure, ana moulding it accordmg to their own will and arbitrement, varying it after a wonderfull manner, almofr every Nation having a per~ titular whimzy as touching corporall fa{1:iions of their own invention.In which kind of n uearions, they do fchematize or change the organicaU parts of their bodies into diverfe depraved Figures.

tlll'dAnde reo cardan fpeaking offuch outlandifh fafhion-monrum varitlale gers,faitn, it appears that the humane forme hath tj~, 8. eap,I3; bin varyed many waies.both by Art and Diurnail

fucceffion; but whatfoever is done againll the decree of Nature, is noxious and inconvenictllt for the body: yet they who pra8:ife this Art)c::onceive that they become thereby more healthful!, {hong and gallant. But the Midwife oughtto reduce to the naturall fiate, and not to draw and

ferce

9:hi IntrO!lllflion.

force the bodies ofInfanrs into fanrafhck fhapes, Sennerlu& (therefore) where he writes of the d'[-

cafes of Conformation, a,~d thofe of Figure, la. ::,~~~::~or. mong oth~r Caufes of the til figures of the body, m.Auonic 0- rec~ons tins, that thofe faults which are conrrac- Flt.urlf,

ted III the wombe or in the birth arc not rightly amen~ed,by Midwiv~s and Nurfes as they ought.

And In ~~IS Prognofticks, (there) he faith rharrhe

default In ~gure which!s indl!ccd throLgh evill Con~ormatlon, or rhe.difficulrie of birth or the unskilfulnefle of ~idwives, ifit be rec;nt and

not,lon~ after the birth, may be a little corrected,

~hlle t e bones are yet fofli and flexible; although

111 Adults , when the bones arc now harde- -.

ned, It IS mcura?lc. FontanU5 where he fpeaks of!:ofllu:,:,::::: . the caufes of difeafes of Conformation, reckons giA lib,3,ea/.

the Ma~ or Woman Midwives, who draw om 14,

the Children with their hands, the involutions

of the ,In~an,t in fwathing Bands after the birth,

?r while It IS handled With the hands or from

Immoderate motion, while litt!eChild:en are fuf-

fered before a fit time to goe or Iland, or are ex~

pof~d to more vehemene motions and as Part{a .,,,,(11 ill adv,lfeth, every part of the new-borne Infants bo- prallie.p.fl.dl dy IS to be formed,and thofe/arts that ought to ,~rroJ!.anda

be concave, muf] be pre{fe in; rhofe which 'lilIa, fhould be ~ender, confirained and reprcffedjand

thofe which arc naturally prominent, rightly

dra wo. out: the headalfo i~ diligent! y to be made

round,' ,and as Smnertu& gIVes the indication and

cure, If In any part it be emminent above the na-

~urall figure, there it is to be depreifed ; which

an be cone no other way, but by working it

B l with

The 1 ntrodHfJio,,~

with the hands, to wit, that the Midwife or Nurfe by often gently handling the head and involving it with ncadban~s, abolil1: that figure

, which is'pretcrnarurall ~ introduce inro the n,ead . the true Ihape ddired,Altcrwards(as Panfil faith): all the body is to be exeendcdzzrernittcd.and every part to be put in ~ind of its o~ce. And t,hcfe crimes both of commiffion & emiffion.cornmitted by Midwives and Nurfes fo, frequently in thefe times agaid\ the tender bodies ot Infants, appear more notorious, if we reReCt upon the carefull praaife of ancient times in this matter of high concemmermforir fhould appeare by a paffage of

PI." in Alc~ pIM(), that the Nurritii of 010, whileft the bodies bialle. oflnfants were tender, did conform them moft to the advantage of Nature, which is the office of Cofmeticall Phyfick; not as fome faHly fuppofc, only to provide fucuss to difguife the naiurall, and that way only to palliate the defeCts of'Narure: Cofmetig_ue is the exornatorie ~art ofP~yfick.whofe OtUcc is)that whaefoever IS according to Nature, that it is to p~eferve in th~ BO~y, and fo confcque~tly to cherifh and malll~all1e the native Beaune thereof. But Commodquesrhae is the Pucarorie, Galen rooke away from the parts o(Phyfick, becaufe to,O curioufiy atfeCted,it cxifts about falfe and lytng appearances, and which endeavours in vaine to Introduce and adulterate an afcititious Beauty, which in adorning and feeeing forth the Body ,differs ~othing fr~m the oftentation of S rage-plales) and,ls no le{fe 111- accent then fiCtion in manners; which damnable portion of Cofmetique Art doth flourifh ~.the

OplDlOns

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It

The TntrodutliQno

opinions and monftrous praCtifes of men and women, whereas that of the more Noble part is wanting and grown quite out of ufe, whether

by the overflowing.luxury of thefc times, or the ,

iznorance of Phytitians tis not for me (faith !'!lm4YIalil

1"I '. • '. ' In £,b.DI 0

}'vfrrcurtaltS ) to Judg. Infomuch as confidcring DtcfJati.,.,

there-injurious ncp;leCts and the tampering that {cud, Art. hath been ·ufcd among' all Nations to alter the Co[m!llea. mould of their Bodies, wee rna y fay as plato if.!

effeel: affirms, that onely the firft men which the

world poffcffed, were made by God, but the rdl:

were made and born anfwcrable to the die-

courfe of Mans invention. The jul] contcmplati-

on of which vanity made that found more ftrang-

ly in my cares, that in difcourfe 1 have ·heard

to fall, fomewhat in earnefl, from the mouth of a Philofopher (one in points of. common belicfc

(indeed )coo fcepticall)That man was a meer Arrificiall'crcamre.aud was at firil bun it kind of Ap~

or Baboon,who through his induilry(bydegrcrs)

in time had improved his Figure &. his Reafon up

to the perfection of man. ltis (indeed) an old Ob- 'Plil.l.l.~b,l1. fervation of Pliny, that all the Race and kind of Nat.H,(I. Apes referable the proportion of men perfectly in

the Face,Nofe,Eares and Eye-lids.which eye-lids

rhefe Creatures aloncof all four footed have un-

der their eyes as wel as above:Nay,theyhave paps

and uiples ill their breafls, as Women, Arms and

leggs bending conrrarie wales, even as ours doe,

nailes they have likewife and fingers like to us;

with the middle finger longer then the rel\: as

ours be; Thumbs and great toes they have more-

over, with joints like (in all the world) to a man:

B 3 and

The IritroJ14f1i(m.

anti all the inward partS arc the very fame that au rs, as if they were made juftby one pattern. Yen they a little differ from us in the Feet ; for fomewhat long they are like as t.heir hands be, and the laic ofthcir Foot is anfwerable to the palm of their hand. Their nailcs arc channelled halfe round like a gutter tile: whereas in man they be flat and broad. And Galen, who was a great diffcCter of Apes,and therein aeknowleged the refemblance to man,yct (»bfcrves that the Thumb of all Ape differs much from that of a man. But by this new Hillory of abufed Nature it will appeare a fad truth, that mans indeavours have runn the dean contrary courfe, and he hath been fo farr from raifing lumfelfe above. the pitch of his Originallend(!)wments, that he is much fallen below himfelfe; and in many parts of the world is praCtically degenerated into the fimilitude of a :Bcaft. The danger of man fince his fall is more in finking downe then in climbing up, in dejeCting then ill raifing himfelfe to a Detter condition or improvement of naturall parts. It is a fad thing

Dr .J)oNnl. (as a grave divine faith)to confider the pronendfe of man to fuch a defcent,fuch a dejeCtion and fuch a diminution of hlmfclfe, a defcent generally into a lower nature being forbidden 6y aOD with

,{.Im, &l.V.9. No/itt fieri, Be not made at all, not made any other then GOD hath made you. GOD made man, who was his medall at fir{\: (when God ftamped and irnpriated his Image on him.) God would have this man prefervc his dignitie, Nolite .fieri, be not made any new thing, wherein he forbids him a defcene into any aepravations and

deteriorations

TheltitrodllClion.

deteriorations o~ our Natures, be not pervcrfcly mctamorphofcd into a beaf], goe no lelfe be 11( t made lower, T~e fir{\: fin tbat ever was,w'asanafcending.aclimbiug too highand man in the fecone plac~ was overthrown oy the fame affectatiom but It.f~ems this.fall hath broke the neck of mans AmbltloR, and now wee dare not be fo like God £s we (haul? be j .Ever fince this fall Man is fa farr

rom affeCtmg hlghe~ pl~ces then his Naeurc is capable of, that ~~ IS ftill groveling upon the ground, and parlllcipates, and imitates, and expre(fes more ?f the nature of the beafi then ofhis own. ~h~re 15 no creature bun Man that degenefates willingly from his Natural! dignitie: Thole degrees of goodndfe that God imprinted u pOll them at firft, they. preferve Ilill, they are not depa!ted from their Naturall dignide, for any tblDg ~hey have done. But of man it Iecrns Goa was chftruftfull from the bcgining,he did no~ pronounce u~on Mans Creation that he was good, becaufe hl~ goodneffe was a contingent thin s and confifted ~Il the future ufe of his free wilY: for' thatfa~ult1can~ power of the will isvirtu{ trans~ formof,ttVa, by It we change our [elves into that w~ love mofi, . and we arc come to love thofe th1l1gs '!loft which arc below us. Vive iuxta genu_{ tuum~alth St. Amhro{eto man" live according to thy kind, Non adalteres genU5tuum, doc nor abufe, d?e nos allay, doe not abaftardiferhat Noble kind, that Noble nature that God hath irnpar~cd to thee, imprinted in. thee. This whole world 15 one book, and is it nor a barb'rous thing when all the whole booke befides remaines enrire; to

. deface

Tbe:1ntrodut/ion .

deface that leafe in' which the Authors piCture, the ittlage of God is expreffed, as in man. All 0- . mer creatures keep their ranks, their 'places and natures in ehe world, ondy man himfclfe dlforders all, and that bydHplacillg himfclfe, by loung his place. While wee die pute in Schooles whether if it were poffible tor Man to doe fo, it were lawfull for him to dellroy any one fpec~es of Gods creatures, though it were but the Ipecies ofToades and Spiders (becaufe this were a taking a way one liuke of Gods chaine, one note, of his harmony) wee have taken away rhas which is the jewell at that chaine, that which is the burden of the fong, infomuch that wee are not only inferiour to the beafts, bue wee are our felves become beafls, a maR: lamentable defcent; that as God faid in the beginning, in contempt and in derifion, behold mall is become as one of us : fo now (as St. Bernard makes the note) the Horfe and Mule may fay,qaaji anus ex Nohil,behold man is become as one of us, infomuch as if the correCti vc part of P hyfick were utter! y unk nown in the world, and the friendly offices in might performe to Nature were quite· excluded the ufe of Man, and no care coneinued to prevent the increafe of Nationall monflrofirics (without more reftraining grace) the vanity of man blowne upon by the fuggc:ftiolls of the Enemy of Mankind, would enforce and propagate fo many corporall Errata's in every Region, that the humane Figure would be fo depra ved.rhar (in time )the true fhape of man would be unknown, or 10ft in an injurious crowd of deformities: and although in

there

The InfroduOion~

thefe parts of the chriftian world( we might think) there needed not Io great a Da~lllll:e to be made againft the inundation of this[~l1~c.h~cfe: y~t If we conlld<:r how guilty the moft civiliz dNatlo~lS are .... of tampering with t~le Body to the defo~mmg of it and to the prejudice of Natures operanon£) and V:ithall what foolifh affeCtations in veils we have, wherein we [cern to vic deformities with the moil: Barbarous Nations; 10 approving their afkCted fhapes.that wee arc in a manner und~i1iz'd by them wee may ju{Uy doubt whether this, by the ju1\: judgment of God may not in rime reduce us to our firft Barbarifme, and fo confequently expofe us to all the deformlrie» and practicall affeCtations, which can proceed troll?- a depra~ed imagination. For the better Frevent1~n o.f w~lch evils, in the bchalfe of Nature, whofe vindication I have here undertaken, and for the H<?~our o~ Phyfitians who profdfe rhemfelvesthe friends of Nature and to be her faithfull Iervams, I could wi1b that this reproach that lies upon them might! he taken away oy th<:, prom?ting and revi~ing of this Noble part ofCoff!lcuques, for the better. eftabli1bing and prefervarion of the honcfly of the Humane Pabrique, and the ,regular bcaueyof the Body. It is a wonderfull thing that IS reported of the Honour and efteem that the perfection of the

Body hath been in among the Catheans, who ever "

chafe the handfomeft '!lan ~o be their King.Oneji- ~:~:~~:Cllcd

i tritU5 reports that their bOles, tWO months after GtDI,I'_,b;.~lib. their birth are publikely examined, whethe~ they 11.

have a legitimate . forme and worthy of hfe or

no and according as judgment is paffed upon

, (; thtOl

My LQrdof MOnlllignliR ene of hb Elfay".

The It.tWdtlliOil:

them by him who is C hiefe Center illl this buIinefle, they are eitnerpermitted to live, or appointed to die. And my Lord d Montlligne thought; much to be bound to own, Monfters,although they were of his own begetting. But! thofe things favour tOO much of the other extreme-and arc neither to be approved or put ill praCtife by us. Wee rather recommend unto you that obfervaeion of my Lord Bacon to be well weighed, as he would haveie, ... hich(ashe faith) mayt~ach a meanes, to make the perfons of MC.l1 and Women in many kinds more comely and better featured then orherwife they would be, by the forming and lbapi!,1g them in their InfancYi wherein you may fee the opinion of that lea~ ned VVorthy, touching helps toward the. beauty and good features of perfons, And wiehall, I would have all poffible meanes ufed to prevent all unnarurall 'and monflrous Incroachments upon the Humane forme, and where there hll(!pens any,to reduce it to the Naturall.Statenhae [0 the bodies of men might (as neere as can be)appeareunblemilbed and accompanied with all the requifitcs of beauty it cnjoye4in its originllllperN fe6l:ion._

i'

,MAN

I

!!!1tUttUIJ~rl~U

'IW4'tt.¢+WI,*".¢'¢o*.rW:ott'w>'~ •• "r».~

MAN TRANSFORM'D:

OR TH E

AR TIFICIALL

CHANGLING·

THE FIR S T SeE N E.

Certaine Fafhionloftbe Head, ajfe ..

Oed and comrised, by the Pragmatiealt in'Vention and eiI rtifieiatl en .. aea'V(}HrS of many Nationl.

~~~~~~ Ippocrates obiervcs, that the Hi,pllr",s ti"~ Naturall mould or figure of de 4tYt,IlIJ.Ni4 (po LOClt.

the Head hath bin tampered -

with and altered byArt Sen- Stnlle~t/II.d.

" • • mOl"" F,g~rlf.

nertus aHo, where he wrness

De morlu Fi!,uY<f, reckons a-

mongO: other caufcs of the

ill Conformation of Mens

Heads, that! they arc now and then induced af-

C 2 rer

~kf~~~d~rc; 2' Man Tramform'J: 0 R;

~ ter the Birth, while{\: the render Hcrads of Infants, are by Midwives .and Nurfesformed after a divers masner, while they are involved in Head-bands, and moulded with their hands according co their i~regular ancd varyin~ Phanfies,

'The firft Cephalique Pafhionmong(rs we read of, who offered this affront unto

I'li".lib., &-, Nature, were the

tap.4Mel •• lib. Macrones of Pan-

•• Cap.u.Ari(1. tIM, fo called.. be-

lib.I,Polit,SlIi. caufe there were

·d4Iotxlib.7·

Ri~,rlrll'" found many Ma-

~;~{::~ho~:lj.. crocephali, t~11U is,

)7"'3.£e",. fuch Long Hea~s)

"ius dtllliracul' as no other Nation

Ruart.l'lxalll. h d h I·k A

dlingtwiis. ate Ie: -

ScbtllCt,Obftr. mong whom (of

"".dee-pitt, old) in grew into a Cuftorne, that they were cob/.&f. fteemed for the befk Gentlemen.who had the Ion-

geft Heads; Wherefore as foon as their Newborne Infants were entred .into the World, they had a fpeciaU care, prefently, while their Heads were yet tender and fofe, to prefre them together with their hands, and fitting them to their minds, enforce them co iacreafe in length: and left that fhoud not doe the feat, they bound them up with Head-bands and other apt Inflruments , which by conneain~ and ga~hering in their tender. Heads, prohlblred the roundiieffe of their: ~. Heads,

I I

I

Tb A· :1:' lJ (I.. ,. ,. Sag.1'" L~afc.

,~I e rt~.}"Cta oang tng. 3 l~ .

Heads, and was a means to conftraine them to grow and increafc in length) whence, when they were come to mans Etlare, they had all very Long. Heads, fo thar at lel1gt~ irgrew Na~urall unto them: For, Nature finci1l1g .hu felfe )uftl'l agrieved at the Paruafticall reftrainc they impofed on her;: began to conlpire v.:ith c_uftome, and fo left them to their own vam mvennon, that there was no need of any Artificlall comrulfion. But let us hcare what HilJ'PQcrates rccounccrh ofH·

. t . 'h. IppoCfate.

rhefe fort of Men which he cal- q>o~ij'. T e ~cy- lib. de A,re, Ii.

thians (faith he) who inhabit phajls, to be dllf~- '.luh.& Luus. rene-from the vulgar, chofe for a token of their

Nobility to have a Head like a fugar.loaf.. And

to i11a pc chis F igtire by Art, when the c: hlld w~s

Borne, the Midwives eooke care to b1l1dthelf

Heads with Swath-bands untill they were Fa-

Ihioned unto that forme; and this Artificialndfe

grew rofuch force, asit was converted int~ Na-

ture: For, in procdIC of time all the Chtldren

that were Borne of Nobilitie, had their Head

fharpe from their Mothers \,yomb~; fo fr<?m thenceforth, the Art and diligence of the MId-

wives therein became fuperflnous : but fo foon as

they left Nature to her Liberty and her own

ordering, wiehour oppreffing her any longer

with Art, (he turned by little and little to reco-

ver againe the Figure which {bee had before:

So true is that, Naturam e:t:ptUasfurca, lim ufq; recurret,

. 'The Cilician, .AttiC/u, and .Argive Women .. h

d f ·ld h h' h"" 1II1fnl/jl.

were note Q 0 ,as t e l' oxt were to ave

high turbinated Heads, The Women in Peru,al- Slrllbo ~to.

C h h &.,b. 111,.

3 t oug .

~t1gar.toJf&o 4 . n·r lin T. rausiQrm. '.J: 0 R,

like Heeds, e/Jf.t I , fJu. .

M~C- though they are gracious by ~hei~ faire Faces, ye~ Qgr.pIJ,Amrr;(_ tor the molt pan the tops at their Heads are ab

furdly acuminarcd, and r~n into an acute Cufpis. Strato makes mennon of forne !ndtllns" who he cals I1I/lUVGlt~qJ<t~ou~. CapIta cunet. forml" habentes, tbat is,baving luch Piked and W~dSlike Heads. This Figur~ of the. Head IS 111 Fa{hion and Requeft at this day with fome Nations, beilll!; ind.eavoured with as much Art, as it was of old by the Mac roms of Pontw. ¥or,the GenuenJi~m (tor the moil: part) have high and copp-crown'd Heads, Pine-~pple form~, after the condition of a fharp uptight Ptllar, m Inch manner that the neather part 1S bigg an? round,

s but the upper part fharp, And indeed, .1~ 1~ con-

elaY'amont Ae • • ' • h h . H d b d

tonjetf.cuju[q; cluded-thac the Midwives WIt t en e~ - an s

lIIor.I." and other devifes, are the caufe ofrheir Sugar-

loa fe-like Heads. This affeCted forme of the I:Iead being common? and Nationall .unto them, IS reputed fo Pafhionable, tha~ ~t 1S held a Note of Gentility and a Gallant S pmc among th~m. .

Hippo(; 611/.1, Hippocrates n~tes, t~at an acute H ~ad IS alw"t~s naught> lind Vertly, thts tompuljive force of .Art IS ma"y times very Injurillus to Natureand her operations, but not alwaies: for the Genuenfians whIJ delight much in this Figure of the Head, and Ilre. noted for the mo~ part to have acuminated H fads, I)at'e at ltaft {ueh an acumm of wit, ~s make_s . them excellent for an .ABive Life; and in the opmto~ of Claramontius,thejorm of the thing gives if {uRrage unto it • for: [ueh a kind of turbinat~d Figure repre[mts a :erl;in.e par'tl'ity, and .the;·e[ore the !l eat of the Heart is lelie hroke~ hl It, wher8.upon. ,Man'$

'JJ. ren-

I

l:

I

'I'heArt;& tt.alJ.ChaI'J(J/in(J· 5' Suge,. Lo,fc-

'J'" b b' , like He.II ••

rendered more .AETirz.,'f, And thtreJore in this place I1~;I. 1femultadmit 'lfIJat Hofman gives us to knOll?: That

fo long as the ARions of the Brat ne are not hurt, it is

ofJiy a Neteral! or A rtiftciall fault or imperjeEtiOi'J,

no dt'{ea{e, but when they art hurt, then it is adl[-

nlf I' as it was in Therfites,wha was q>Oeah andwithali H~l9Itr I1jad.

a Foo/e,and{o fiek oj this Fafhion. .

For the truth is, as to the Jignes lJiagnoffick, a rl.!itious Figure of the Readisknown lYfZ~ht, which althoUgh it doechiefiy declare the Conjormation of the skull, Jet it is . likely and agreeal/e, tlMt the Br aine which is concluded in the skull, fhould Participt.te of the {amI' Figure, but the di{wvery of it is made alfo by certatnt ~JjeEts ; and it is e4fe to know the inn8te

joU. y bred in fome Men, by the vit;o/Jis Figure Drthe s /' "Ca

S 1· . h h f ca Igl. milt.

H Md. ret ca 'lgcr gtves anot er C afaBer o 4d lib 1. T beo'

tht{e Genuenfians, which Imports 'fhatthey pay jor phrafl· de '411ftS their .Ajfef1ation: The Genucnfians faith he, ha- PI.III'P~&·'B7. ving rec~ived [rom the Mauritanians their Proge_-

l1;tors this CuJfome, to comprrU abe 7emples of their

Infants asIoon as they are Borne; now, without that Comppeffion, are' Borne witb j't Therfiricall Head

and Heart.

We read in the Chronicles of 1 he Prodigious 0ffents,

that Nature hath many tim. et mocked Art in produ- '''b b

. hi p' ,j:' h H d F L' ·fih n .lyeol' tiltH r:

ttngt IS tJ{ure OJ t e ea. 01';,. lCO e es de prodit..Gr

"ritesthat in Ploa a Towne of Voitlands t~ert' was opent.

IJ Monflrotls Inj~nt Borne, with {ueh an aeumi,na-

ted Head, like a Cap that'the Kings ufPerCta,and the

Prieffs in the old Law tlfed, or like a Tiara or Tur-

ki{b TuDe: and in Saxonie in the Month of Febru-

ary 1 5 45, there was aNother Infant borne with II

Long Head, notably marked as it were with a T~r-

kub

Sugtr.toare· 6 M· 7- ,.(;. 'J 0

Jikc Meads, an ransJorm: 1\.,

~ kil11Cap. The Samaritans a/fo (as Jam lnfortntd 1;) ~ Learned and. OtJerving Treueller) hav. e (uch Sugar-Loaj'e-llke Heads; There heing 6. colledge of Samaritan. Secular Pt'ie{ts in Rome foundeA 6) Pope G regcry t~e thirteenth, who have all (uch Heads, and this Figure of the Head, it {eems, is fo. Gmtilitiall to Ii Samaritan, that they are apt there. to/urpeR thofe CoUegiaus not to he true Samaritans, whoJ e Heads are not{o exaRly moulded to this Figure:

Nor is this as a private and particular Ol{erl.!ation,. hounded with in the wals of this coUedgt; For I·have had great di{courfe with {orne Merchants that have lee» great Travellers, who told me, they have a kim/' of Phyftogmmy to difcernr of all N at;on$ 6y the figure of their Heads, which Obfervation is railed ufon this ground; that whereas e1.lery Nation have difJeJ'enmof manners lywhich they are eaftly di{cerned one from Another, i;,fomuch as you may know oJ' what difcent from any Ntltion anyone is, either ly his v~ice, Sptuh, Di{courfi, po/icy, Converfation) Diet; .AJ/aim, Love, Hatred, .Anger, and manner of warfare and {uch Ii/u Exerci{es : fa tVery Nation, whether Civ;/l orBarlarian, h"thnot only. PI'culiar Cuflames and Rites,but a(fo Peculiar .Affe8ations of Formt or Shape of their Bodies, which will /;e .Ahundlmt/y difcovered· hy a world of ftrange .A~tifi'~s And Pra~aticll/J endeavours pr"R;re~ in. thIS Hiflory, n:mFrom the Head to Foot, alltendtn$, . to AccfJmodate their .A/feaations with the Pride anil v,wityoffuch urmaturall d~{tinaions.

.'

The

'The ArtificiaO Changling.

L1)ng.Head,

~

B rufon. F aM. lib,4.

The Women of Siginnus a City ~of Egypt, an: reponed to have great "arc that they ma y feeme to have moil: Long Heads,

The Low-Country-Men or Dutch of Belgia, have Lome what Long Heads ; which with them is the moil: Fa(hiona---- ....... --ble Figurc)this their

Mothers caufe, being carefuU to brinz them to it, ~aying t~tm when th~y ar~ Infants, lJand wrapt 111 fwad11l1g Cloarhs 111 their Cradles, fuffering them to flcep moll upon their fides and Tem-

ples. Bapli/l.Port.

The PortugaIs have generally long Heads, HUM, PbyfiogH. which happen by the fame Artifice of the Mid- Ijb.~. Pj'II,NI

. f G d k r h 'MOd .. u: opufi. Phy{. ..

WIves; or as 0 ma essio t e~., I wifefbapess ...tnal.lib .r-

and {bee is directed by the Mother and Women

prefent at her Labou! al,1~ l¥ing.in, who all will

be fure . to put! the MIdWIfe 1~ mind of moulding

the Childes Head to the Pafhion moll in requefi •

Some alfo by an affe6tcdor an enforced thin Di-

et have attained unto the fame badg of 6entility·

For, that will doc ie as HipJocrates affirmes, fo:

thereby the Temporall Mufcles being dryed up,

the T~mples become thereupon hollow; And

[0 then Heads feem longer, the proportionate

D Latitude,

S,benl~ii .6ft,. val, dle.pilf obf, &6, ex "lit{lI·

li~. .

8 Man Traniforwld:, 0 ~,

S~o~i' .

.......... ~ Latitude of the Head being thereby diminifhed, This aJftRation of Nur{es in di't,'trs Regions And

F al1~ilifs, praff:{edupon'a {uppoJition of' .onferring Bft!f;ltj upon clJildm.,and t~eir Jlreight tindin<~ their H cpdslIJ [crce thEm 10 J,he Formis; Senucrtiis a,ld Hildanus tothtake-NiJttu of and condemne, For l.y lhe C,IJWPYfjJion of the skuti, lind that thus exten(,ingoj it inlen,f,th, de Braille, togethrr ";tb its ,Vermid:s are compr,'eUed? whence, the Spit'its not

fuJficiemly p.rep are il and well )prou<.~bt, tbe Head is rreakene&', lind made obnoxious unto Carhars, and if'f,uch Children grow up to Adolefcency (wbicb,yet h~jJpejj§.:'lirrJ, ,r,~'(ely') ,t~l'J. pr~ve to be ot ,a/lower ~~d du//fr Wit, that oldJaytng lemg mllnt1rOIy'I.:erijred

ift them,Malas artes Inventoribus male cedere, The GentMns have fhort Heads for the mofl pan, fuch Heads bC!l1g In repute among them; which they atraine unto by their Mothers or Nurfes care, who lay, them ill their Cradles when they arc Infants) (6) that

, alwayes fleep

, upon their Backs)

their Hands for the mo{\: pare left OUIi unfwathed, ~ing tied on both fides Oil the Cradle.

ZOurfhall'ilg.... The Men of Braftl havc flat Heads, the hinder lib. 6. part not round budlat, which may very well be

F.bric.HiIJ. '<III, t.onfcr_ 'Val, 99 .Sen , nenus , .. {iile lib, ',p."'.t. cap,13'

.4I1dr"as Ve!.t. ""f,!iF.I,eap, r ""'''p.H,,'II, hbr.

'.~

1b, .Arllfl~ii/J {/Jangling; 9 a~

b\! imaS.ined to proceed from .fon.,~, AffeCtation" '

or F allele, that they hav c,qf{uch a fQrml! of the

Head, , " " "

Tbe inconveni;nces ftf'.t:;~#J.~:times :lttr,end th~s a.Be~ed Fafhton, Qft'~e.:lf~itd'f:"Wh?,:n.the .Nape JUtb a little lunchtnes ',rerhafmth not, lu~ . the Nodock is made flat are,thafthe Brain is not fo Figured as is requiftte for wit, and If ability; ~or, the deprtjfioi9- oJ thispoJlerioY' proi(iii'iency of the Head, wea.kens the H a6iJitie to Affion, asGal~n ,hewes; the rea(on, is, lecau{e Voluntary motto» depends upon the Nerues, n·ho{e prin'ipie the Cer~b~llum i~;"Since ,therefore th~ Or;gi~ nail and. chleje I,!~rument oj VoluntMY motion, rejides tfJ the hinder part of the Head, frlm Me ly this depraving the Figure of their Heads, ma~e m~re cold and indi/po/ed unto motion, and fa ltkewi{e unto recordation, the After-Bra;ne,

the {eat of Memory let'ng thus perverted. whicb . .

tJfea was ol{erved( as Benivenius rel)orts) in the BbCdD,l!COIUSda

dill" ,I' ~ L' a IU.

'.p eElton oJ one ames If, Famous; : Thiefe, the

hinder p~rt of w ore Hesd-: where the {eat of Memory IS, was found [o jhort, that it contained

but a very little portion of Braines for which ((Jufe, when be could leaH Dr all remember the Bat,i!hments, Imprifonmems "nd Torments he had frlt· [ered for hi~ former Vi/lanies, (ailing like an impu~ent Do~g to his Yomit, WIIS a& laSt Hanged, JPhtCh put an end to his Lite and Theft' to· gether.

'fhe

D 2.'

• t' ~

Ronud He.d,

~

Man 7'ranJjOrm'd: 0 It,

The Greeks of old were Iloted to Love and afftct' a round. H cad) as furable and bdl: agreeing with chofe that fp,'lke on rotundo; and it was fo Paihionable a figure with them of old, and fo nouri-. fhed by Arr.: that Pericles the Afhenien (. who as plu-,

11 L' . tarch writes) had a.

' uurCnlll , f M II hi h '

the LIe ,{Pe. long Head in Pafhion 0 . a a et, w 1C IS

riclcs. Galen the moil: exaCt and Naturall forme, was de-

'Ep,dCOIl1.I, , b h . di f hi T'

4p6 37. ridcd for It. .y. t e . Come IIJnS 0 IS ime,

and the Artick· Pocrs.call'd. him Cynocephalum,. that is, Dogs-head, The Attick Poets call him schinocephalos, as much a~ to fay, ~s Headed . like an .Onyon, for t~oic; of Atttc!, doc fomctimes name that wluch .IS called 111 the. Vulgar Tongue Scilla, that. is to ,fay, an <?ni," on of Barbar;e, or the Sea Onion.. Schtnos •. .Phyloc/esthe Cornick, Poot. ~als him ~xJ~epha~ tum) fcoffing . at his coppid crown d Head, which appeared.like. the head of a Lapwing, Among tne refk of the Attick' Po~ts, Cratin~, hath never done playing upon Pericles for this deformity, Comically }cil:in,g, ~t his Monllrous joulting Pate, fir-naming him Joult-H~ad, and. Onions-Head, or as we would fay, SqU1I-He~d, , and it. was held fo great a reproach unto him, .

. that.

10

B1Pli/l Pm. l~."m Phlfi"gll. IUt""

'TbeArtiftciaO (ba~gUng. II ~ds

that the Statuaries that made his Stature, to hide thisfuppofed deformiriesor ra~her want of conformleies al waies made him With a Helmet U pon his Head : wherely you may fee bo» ridiculous a thing it is to ha'(,'e a H ea_d out ofFtifhion.

. At this Day the Gr'walls and Tm'!(s have round Heads much refembling a <?lobc" whic~ they affeCt and nourifh by Art 111 tl~elr Children, as holding it the moft commodious forme to fit their Turbants and Shafhes which they weare on thdrHcads.

The Antuerpienftans have a1fo round Heads, which is a Comely Fafhion as they think, and in good repute ar~ong them." .

The V irgin~ of Bruxels« hkewlfe for the moft art arc. round-Heads, but only that they have a

PI'\l'arper Chill. The FreJfCh arc obfervcd to have C"/!Hllt~l.l:b· ,I. har Orbi 1 hi 1 1 ' 1I4".rl, ... t •

their Heads fomew at r leu ar, to W lC 1 t icir 18. .

difpofition and Naturall temper i~ Analogicall.,

Aild the ul1natu~alne1fe of the FIgure leads uS.i

to fufpea the Areificc o~ the,Nurfes hand to con- j

curr to their confC)rmatlo,~,thcrefore th~.French 1 Haberdafhers being: furnifhed onel Y WIth Hats proportionable forfuch Heads, ~avemuch~doe

to tit an Enghili Mans Head WIth a Hac, 111[0-

much as when.they~fall upon,this diffi~ulty, they

are wont to tell him, thae his Head 15 not A-la-

mode. ,f ,11" • ,(I.

. All that they g .aim, nhlJ ~hus rr~JpalJ e agat.nJ"

the 1u~ice of Nature, .enforcmg theJ~ J!tads. to,a SphericaU!orm, or, .~hroughroundnlle, ss, A. qUIck moving'UNftablen1fe, forgetfulln1Jt, [mall dir~,r~-

tion and liul« wit. for the Mritton of the Spmt·

. D 1 ' never.

". '.,:, ~

1I,~ 'l&M4n.TranJform'd: 01\,

neuer cfll[elh nQr rejiet", as in many french 111m Hill i'hilio. 4"d Spaniards, and the like in artAine Gcrm~ns~

r g bath been oLfen,/ed and notea, For Iv/~1'IJ theJ~rme

of the Head is through rouI',d, then, IS ~he mtddle trentricl« large, and the Spirits uo~klilg til-,tIJe fame fo large, untiil., tbej I' ft nde a large place, whtc~ tit the, meaM time afe not fufficimtly umted: and In fuch m{e is the oertu« E{tlrflati'1:e wellkened, i.y th{lt the Spirits 4fe carried round about the}ounds. of the [amI' ; i40much that {uch Men havmg the /tke formed II eads are iii reported off~r their proper qualities and conditions in Phyfiognomie. Albertus

Albertu. . d d H .1' d

lIl.g~.'h rccrc( Magnus (Indeed) commen s a roun - eaa, an

Mulier. p..ould h(l'1,:e Boyes leued that have round Heads, he((Iu{e that is themofl NoMe Figure; Therefore, NurII'S [aith he are wont to compre/le alld endea'l.;our to make Boyes Heads round, which hence {eems to have

teen accuitomed either in Padua or R!ltisQone.

The .Mu{covites,

who are for the moftparll of a fquare proportion, broad, fhorr and thick, have broad Heads, which is in with them at this Day. And when they arc young Infants,and in their tender Age apt .ro be drawn and

. to any fhape,

their Fates arc explained and flatted by Art, and

. . . fo

SpigcUo Hum,Corl'. fabr.lib.l.

me AJtijicialJ Cbangling. 13 ~~~~!,n.rrQw

fo direCted to grow into thisGentilitianforme. ~

The ApiclJiqul' pichunfli, . Sava, People of l'IIYcbal Pifgr. the Indies, affcCl: the fame mad Gallantry of, a 4,lib·7. broad Head and platter Face ; to bring their

Children to which Affected deformity, they

lay one board on the Forehead and another 011

the Neck, 10 keeping them in prefs from Day to

Day untill they be foure or Ii VI;: Yearcs old.

The Women of Cumana affeCt a very long Head and Face, as accounting it the moil: comely and Beaurifull Figure of the Hcad.A long Face and thin Cfieekes being their chiefe Beauty. To attain unto which deftFed Deformity, they gently comprelfe the Heads of their Infants between tWO little Pillowes to extend them. Such conrradicti-

O]1S there -is in thePhantalles and opinions of

Men'an~ daChings in point of Elegancy ill the

Figure of the Head, that we may well cry out

with Pliny, that thereis 110 thing fo vaine and fo .,lj".N«t,lli~.

Proud as Man. .

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In

SfJulr~.He.d 711

~~. 14 I.YJ.4n 7-r4mform~d: Ott,

In the Province of old l'ortin the wep-htdies there arc men that have a [qual e- Head, fo made by An. For they to bring their Childrens Heads to this Pafhion/no doubrjin great requeft with them, pus them between Boards when they new Borne, which being render & yong,are enforced to grow

after the Forme of that (quare wooden Box that encloierh them on every fiac.And this Arc pafferh at length into a kind of Nature, by long fuccctlion.

The Geometricall pates of our Square-headed and Natter-fMed GaUanis, is a new Contrivance: For, there Fafhions of the Head were not knowne and dij'col;ered in the time of Galen, nor the violation ojthis Artifice praEfired; Galen reckoning up the foure unnaturallFigures of the Head, the firft,where fhe Anterior eminency is loll, the Pofferior rfmll;· ningin good cafes the{econd, when the hinder Eminmcl.or out-fhoot is wanting, the Frontall Jettie{tlfe) the third ,when hoth oftheTII lire miffing; the Fourth when the Temples are E1ffine1lt, the Occiput and Sinciput depreUed, {aies for this laft Figur", it may he imagined, hut 1UJt poJljhly he found, "gainft which

Vef.liu'l,ap. Vefalius oppofetb htmj'elft, 41le Jgin~ hoth .AU~h(J~ I~J· rity and Experitnu;the Authority is otHippocrates, who

(IHlll1l.rlt rtfl4l11'IJMitIJilI. 8,'~P'4~·

~-.

'The Arlifi~jaltCbtngling:' 'i 1i,=-

Dbo (as he faies) writes, that the H et$d rom~timer

doth more remarkably protuherat At the Eares then

tither forward or backward. His Experience is

taken from Three, whereof tbe Pirft he (aies he

raw at Venice, /lnother at Bononia, a Third at

Genua; Againft him againe Fallopius oppofeth him·

[elfe, and as for Hippocrates he faith, that for this

cau{e he had read Hippocrates through twice, Anti

could never finde anyJuch thing,.andfor the ExpeM

rienct, he had [een the Venetian Boy_, who had not

this FOllrth Figure. To Hofman it Teems tllat this

ought not to he 4ccounted among the unnaturall or unvaletu~inArie Figu_res; For, not inJiffing upon Ptt.ApDII'''P' thefe Owdentall In(jla_n/qU4Yt- Heads, "hove pre- Dijfi'!'"'1'. rented, he findes Conciliator to write, that he had Conciliator,

reen two,nay me4fured their H eads,and to havefound

agreater diftapcefrom one Temple to the other, tl,m

from the Occiput ,to t~e Sinciput. Huso Senenfis -

al{o had [een this Fzg~re, AS Th, VeIga teftipes: 1".Y.~ig'CD"'; and Petrus Martyr fates, he raw fuch a B~ at Mi- ",ent.lu~p'.U,

I . J a H fi . h Arl.M,d"'IIII. ane, At ~,., 0 man IJ,grees wit Ga en, that Gilt,

[uch p,re Mon~roHs, rare and invitall.

And'L:eri!J thefe fqua~e.He~d~d GaUants muft needsfuJJer j'ome dammagetn their Intel/eauals ly this 4feHation ; for Phyfiognomers affirmt, that aHead that halh .Angles argues an impedimmt of Judgment IJ,ndr4tiocination. For evenaun EcchoisleDe oppofttel, formed in Angular Buildings, then in an .Arch?r winding ~o".nds~ So the Vigour ofJudgmem IS more jJourifh;ng sn. a StuU, NlJ,turaU'jrouna, then in Heads knotty andAnl,ulp,r • .And therefore Man NatNraUy hath .a great .Advantage O'tler other Cre4trmsinthe rOllfJdn~(feorh;sH ead ifor al-

. E' though

'i:

iljuare.Head·t6 Man TranriiJrm'd: 0 R.0;

~ . ~r

though in the Fabrick, aU Creatures {eem to ."n· [w£r one gmeraO Rule, although they are ,of diver: fpecies and u(e, yet (1 the w_onderfuti.per.llce ~r 1,.ventio» of God (as Laccaueius [peaks). thtr~ IS one Simililude of frame in aU, for, one di[l'ojit!on .an~ one H alit prodllceth a~ innumerslle varlette of LI'!;in!!, Creatures; For tn.all Creatures, .that Breath, [or the mo~ part, there IS the {amI' SerIeS and order of Memlers, nor do the. men;bers onel~ 01[er7.le and I((ep their Tmor andScttuatlon, but aljo thr parts of the Memlers;for in one aJld the fame H~ild,the Eam, the Eies)the no~rils)the Mouth. alfo,tln~tn the Mou~h, the Teeth and Tongue,pofIe.JJe acertam place, whtc~1 heing the fame in ~~ livi~g Cre4tu~es, yet there IS I nftnite lind Manifold dtver{ity of FIgures, for th~t they are either more produced or rontrafled.orcomprtfed in lineaments variouf/y diDerin$' As for Ex-

leO the Head in other Creatures IS formed after a

.tmp, b' h b d

Triangular manntr, and w ereas It oug t to . e rou~

.' Man thefe Nations diflmding the orbIcularity

tn, ., A I B J

of tbrir Heads, chlenge It mto an ngu sr (J~ty,

therely, to tbe .'l.reat aUro'!, of .N_ature and abafement of the Humane Forme, matr~tal mn!!, "great~r A nll/o-

;1' between them and brutts then ever /he tntended. if ar.y accidentall depravatio!' of the H,·ad re[e,?,,hling this aDefled Irregu/amy, thr~~ten. preJudICe to the operariontJ[_the inteUefl, the m,fchtefemay be prevented in Infants, ly the Phyjic~O .correFJor or Cofmetique Chirurgion, whofe Off!ce# .tS to 1!re[~,..ve 'What is according to Nature,and.n cafeo! mtsprijio'j. to reduce unto the NaruraD ~a~e, the endeavour o~ which Art hath fucccmled happdy to many. Dr.Ga renci:rs told mebe knew II Child th~t tlJrou$h the

. difficulty

T he Artifici4/J Changling~ 17 D~·

difficulty of Birth and the u[uall accidents of hard Labour ,his H ead WIIS [0 comprej] I'd and driven into A kinde of Angula,'ity, that they much [u[peRedjome detrimen: would thereby sccre» unto his under~andings yet ly llie Midwives and Nur{es cafe, whlJ indeed have the onel)' opportunity to officiate;n this bujineJJ e (I would they bsd as much judgment and ahi/ity jor the place) the Chi/des H eaa recoueredtb« Natm'aO !hape, amI it pro'1./ed to have a 'L'ny gaod wit ilndu1Jder~anding.

Many have held-

Opinion, that Mega!fhenes} Pliny and Aulu~ GeUius were loud liars, when they wrote and publifhed that there li ved a. cerraine kinde of People in Scythia which had Doggs Heads; and, verily although Pliny hath been by fome in- ........ --_...-t.~ credulous and Igno-

rant Men Pater Mendaciorum, and an impudent". lyar;yet I have [Qrnewhat of his to {hew not onely for las truth but alfo for his Modefty:for when he comes to write of the ftrangc and wondrous Sh~pes of fundry Nations, he doth advcrrife the Readers of his Hiftory, that he will not Pawne his credit for many things that he rherin delivers, nor lrindc them to believe all he writes as touching firange & Forrain Nations.refer them rather

E :i'. be

D~I.~~~c!:' _0 '21:4' ~ 'fl' · s, O· ,

V'&''-I ~ "na. '"I,·rl#ll 'Ormfl. 'R

, ,

he dotb. to his AuthorSo whom ill all points(more doubtfulL then the reft) he cites andalled~es, whom -they may believe if they lift, ondy he would not: have them think much to follow the Greek writers) who from time to time in this behalfe ha~e b~en more diligent in penning, and more CUrlOUS 111 fcarching after Antiquities.

And although the Author of the Treafurie of Times, indeed holds this 'for a Fable,. bccaufe all rhofe Countries have been difcovered, and doe declare 110 deformity on the Peoples Bodies:. yeo the, relation is confirmed by fome of the or-

b ... der of Predicanrs fent as Legars from the Apo-·

De te us •• " It I" h •

"r.f". ito lque State unto t e Tartars, who alfure us

, , , that mere are a certaine Nadon in TartAry who

Ymc.Hlp.llb,havea Dogs-Face; the fame Authors adding' 31,&.,,11,& '.J.. 11 h I h h h M hr.' ' J.b.nnes de wnna ,t at a t oug t e aen ave Iuch a .. re-

pl'1II1"'lnoril~. femblance of a Dogs-Head as beforefaid , yet

the Women' have a .Humane V ifagc as other. Women in the \Netld have •. Ther-eforetherc is fucha Nation, the Authors being many and ccnfiderable who affirme it, and Kirrnman1J1H atfents thereto, conceiving the relation to he true" infomuch as it were a fhame fOl-'any Man to be. rcfraCtorie in point of beliefe, and not to afford Credit. to fo Bvident a tfmh.. For although this Nadon 9f Men.hatJ't been account@<lbymany among the TypesandFabulous Narrarions ot the Anciems,. yet inehefe latter Times 'We have rece~ved" credible lntclligence of fuch kind of N~t1ons,newlyfoun,d.'ohaTlnes'd~Plancarp'ifyand v Imenttus BingunJllIs' make relatiens of Ntuions ~atelf dillDvwid; bavins fuch. Dog-lik'e-Head~"

. OJ! eri &114

I I?o,!:.~.~· 9v.l. '\.9'

1'he .Arti/icialJ (hangling.

Odericus Pofteraffirmes, that in Nicfll.}erraa City

Of India there are men that have Dogs-Heads, .

hi h . 111 Mandcvlh

in the Ifle called MacumeraJ1, w IC IS a great 11e n-a'llelr~/,6h

and a faire, the Men and Women, who arc rca-

fonables have Heads like Hounds.

Marcus Paull# the Venetian affures us, rhae there is an Hlandnamed Daganian, ( Kornmarm'l# cals it .Altgani,w) the 1l1habit~llts whereo!' have Heads like unto Dogs, and ~tve by feeding 00 liIu:nane Fldh; and PatljamM delivers Ulit~ us a relation of one Euphemm by defcenr a'Cartan, who faw fuch People in the Wands?f the Oceans, when he was driven thither by a 1 empcft as he

was failing into Italy., ..', ,

ThattdHfication a1fo thatA~~otleglv~of Pigmies, is much rcvcrenc;ed by J~htW.MS Csmers, HeRor Pintus, and (oftheAliClCmt6).~y' ljidore, as affording good ground of prr;>babdIue,of ~he being of a Nation of CYliorepha/h or Men WIth Dog;s-Heads,and they are reported to ~e Negr08s inhabiting. a Moumainl:l,ncere the RIVer lndw, and fo numerous, that there arc an hundred and T.wcnty. Thoufandof ,them, being called by the Indians Cali~~ios, Whl~h; t,he Greeks w{)uld. call cYfloCfpha/os, td eft,CamctJHtes.lndeed the ~IftOricaU truth. is much embafed by many vam appe.nd'ic(s)asiliat'theybar}c and howl like D.cgs,and. fo underfrand one another, ~:lVing'no'other Langl.1ag~, that they have Teeth greater then Dogs Clawes, but longer· and rounder s rhae a~thel\,lg~ they cannot Ipeake; they make figlles with thell" Ha.nds-andFingers, as Deaf and Dumb men ufe to .doe, that boeh the Men and Vvemenht;ye.

, ~ 3, 'fades

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MAn"Tranj[orm'd,: 0 l\;~

Tailes at their Rumps like to Dogs; but that they arc greater and ducker of haircss that they en-

gelh.kr with W.omen more Canino, accounting any other way of Copulation fhamefullj all which Addiraments arc more advanragioufly read then be lievcd,

B) what meanes thefe Nlltives might come to if; thus month ou.l) defmne4,and the {hafe of their' II eads fO degenerate into the ,firnilitudeOj a Dogs-H ead, fJ:alt be [ufficiu._rly declsred in our (ucceeding Face~ moulders Scene, where u;el! !bali pre! ellt the cynoprofopi or A1m having a Dogs Face. The .Artifice uJ~d ieing as I prol6tly conleHure,the [time in hoth.

Ancienv Writers have fpoken of .Ace'phali, or a headlefi! Nation. Me/a writes that the Blemii are . Headleffe, and have all the pares of their countenance iii their Brcafl, Solinus delivers the fame thing: there arc faith fie who want" their Necks, and have

,: ' , . ~, . their' ,"I;.y es 'in the Shoulders. And before thefe Au'thors;tnany have Aul.Gtll.,AII. written the very fame thing; whom .Au{z.u GeUilH ~t:9.C~~". reckons up. pli»)' in open words doth frequently ,.;~', I ·$'a(fert the fame, for he delivers thai their Heads Plin.lib.7.ca/. arc wanting, theirMouth and their Eyes affixed in

z. their Breafi:s." and not far from the '1'roglodytes

. , . '". there

Ii :.dlCll'c N.lion. ,~

2.0

of·

soUnIlJ.cap. 1$3'

q"he Artilicia/J (hanu/intl 2.1 H.a?'elfc

'1.' 0 b· Nallonl

there are cerraine Men that have no Neck, having p~

I 'E . hci Sh ld ur • .,plall. z.

t leu yes 111 t elf ou CIS. pm,co/mo-

Sr. John Mandn.:il reports, that in one of the I.r~ph.c·~'3.'

II • b 1" h d rni I ' ,M.ndev,l.1I

es C ollgmg to t e gnat an Ullg 1ty K1I1g of his Trav,ls. c.

the I1and Dodyn, there arc Men that have 110 6J..O-.caf·68. Heads, and their Eyes are in their Shoulders

an? ~heir Mouth is. on their Breaft, HI.' gives thci:

originall, ~ham(falth he)cook the bell: part EaO:-

ward that 1S called AJia, being the mightid\: and

Richcft of his Brethren, and of him arc come the

Parmim folke, and divers manners of Men of

rhofe Ilesfome headlefle.and the other Men disfi-

gured. And becauie fome things fpoken by him

might feern firange and fcarce Credible, there.

fore he thought good to make known to all that

will fee more proofe hereof in his Book called

Mappa Mundi, there they {hall 6nde the mofi

part of the fame ratified and confirmed,

St • .AuguHine makes commemoration of fuch .411)!,IIP. de ,iv. a Nation, and although he there doth not im- D",,1I,6.rAp.S. pofe a neceffity of believing the Relations that

are made offuch kinds of Men j fo he Iecms to

grant that it is not incredible; Nay, he rcfllfics,

that he had feen them himfelfe, for he affirres us

in rhefe words: I was now Bifhop of HifI/10 I4l1gllp,Sfrm.

, .' , ' ?,«d[r.rr"

and WIth certain Iervants ot'Chrifl, I Trave lcd;""remh

to l£thiopia to preach the Gofpell of Chrifl unto the~,and we fawthere many Men and V\'om('n,

having no. Heads, but groffeEyes fixed in their Breaff,thcu other Members like unro ours;which

place ofAug~~. Fulgo/usdtes to the fa~e pu!"pofe. ~~~~,'ib.Id' . But let, us, heare, Sr. waltEr Rtlwletgh Ius rela- Sr.Weleer .; non of this kind of transformed Nationjthe Ewai- R~w'ejgh ,

, Hiflor4GllIo panomJ anI,'

'JleldleR'cI Natlont

c,r.:G'~

2~ . Mil. 1" ran/rot••j :·0 ~; ..

pttn9mi faith he arc a.ftrange headleffe Nati?fi,fBr on the Banks of the River Caoraare a Nation ?f People) whore Heads appeare not abovethclr Shoulders, which though it may be thought a meere Fable, yet for my own part I am refo~vcd

it is true; becaufe every Child in the Province of .Arromaia and Comurs affirme all the fame: they arc call'd Ewaipammi,&arc rc ported to have. their E yes in their Shoulders) and rheir Mouths in the Middle of their Breafts, and that a long rraine of haire groweth backward between the. Shoulders. The Son of Tomawari,which 1 brought with me into England, told me, that they were the moll: mighty Men of all the Land, and ufe Bo\Ycs,Arrowes, and Clubs, thrice as bigg as any of Guiana, or of the oronoqueponi, and tliat one of the Iwarawakeri, cooke a Prifoner of them t~e Y care before our arrivall there, and brought hlm into the Borders of .Aromaia his Fathers Country. And further when I feemed to doubliofit,he told me that it was no wonder among them,but that they were as great a Nation, and as common as any other in all the Provinces, anel bad oflate Y cars {lain many hundreds of his Fathcrs Peopl,:, and of other Nations their N eighb~urs; but It was I10t my chance to heare of them, till I was come away, and ifl had but fpoken~ne word of itwhile I was there, 1 might have brought one of them with me, to put die matter O101t of dou~.r. Such a Nation was written of by Al~ndtVIU-, whofe reports were held for Fables many Years; and yet fince the Eafl-Indies we~ediCcoverC!d, we

. .find hisrclatiOil trueof f uchth~~as.~er~tofcre.

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sr« .A t;C • /J ri. l" HeldlellO

:I. Dlar. ".J"el" u'Jang tng. 23 Nati9nl.'

wee held incredible; whether it be true or no) ~ the matter is not great, neither can there be any

profit in the i~agillacionl for my ownparr, I faw

them not, but I am refolrcd that f 0 many People

did not all combine, or fore-think to make the

report. The Tranflaror of the Hillery of Con~o

written by Pigafetta hopes.ehar j 11 time.iomc good

Guianean will make good proofe to our Eng-

land, that there arc this day headlcffe Men. And

if any make Confcience to joyne Faith to rhcfe

things upon thtfe relations, yet they ought not to

think this wonder impoffible, efpedaHy being

certified by fuch Authors as are here alledged.

For rhefe firange Hifiorics of Monflrous Nations, which in Pliny and other Ancien» Authors 1 have heretofore counted vain, do now require and dcferve fome Credit: Iince in thefe times there is a new Nature revealed, new miracles, a new World, full of firange varieties aod fincere novelties. Dr. Fr4na{m Htrnandu1, who by the Command of Philip the fecond, failed to the new World to difcovcr the condition thereof whofe manufcripts are kept in the Kings Library of St. Laurem:t in the Efcu riall, and other Manufcripts tent to the King of Spaine about the at:' faires of India ;.by the Advantage of which, Eu[ehim Neirem/;er!I.tJfljis was inabled to write his new Hiftoryof Nature, doe juftifie thefe and firangcr relations of divers kind of men among the In'dinns, in'fiature, difpofition, forme, and aeformiry, as Monfirous as thefe .Acephali or headlefle Nation. .Avian was fo boJdto affirmerhat after the immenfe inundations of the World, not only

,F' mall-

Z4 ,Man ~rtJiiJforwiJ:OR;

mankind, but all other Creatures wcreproduced from the tabid Carcafles by the Celeftiall influx

without feed; which is a thing no wife man can be brought to believe, that fo Noble a Creature thould arife OUIl of a putrid matter, aboue whofe Creation the whole Godhead was employed, wherefore fo great and Bcautifull a workc that was worthy of the Divine Labour, could not Iponeaneoufly proceed, it being mo1\: unlikely that Man being Compos mmtu,which is a, particle of Divinirie, Ihould rcfulc fromfo vile

San,lf • .4u~u~jn an originall. S,1' • .AlI..{t4~in, where he fpca~s of inllb.d~CI1lI- thefc .Acephali and othcr Monfbrous Nations, we D:'. fomwhar better refelves.rhe doubt of their Ori-

ginall; Ids demanded (faith he) whether Noahs 1011l1es, or rather Affirms (of whom all Mankind came) begot any of rhofe Monfl:rous Men; and he concludes, that whaefoever he begot thae is Man, that is, a Morrall reafonablc Creaeure, be his forme, Voyce, or whatever, Rever [0 different from any ordinarie mans, no Faithfull Perf on ought to doubt that he i s of 4tl ams P1'<!JgCll'Y : yet, is the Power, of Nature fbewn and ftrangdy {hewn in fuch. God! made all, and when or how he would forme this or that he knowes be{\:, having the perfeCt skill how to Bcaueifie the Uni~ verfe by 0RPofition and diverfitY,of parts; but he that cannenconremplare-the.Beaary of the whole, ftumblcs at the deformity of the pan, and not knOwing the Congruence that it hath with the who1e.)fet GPlUoroid that anyone {hollid be fo, befcreed; as- to' th,ink the Maker-cered in thefe McHs, Eab11kk> tho.ugh~ we know net why, he

made

He.dlem. Nalionl ,~

rrt: 'A ,;C;"· 1JC.'Il. 1· ' , ' ' HeaRlcftl:

:I. oe rttJ"ot.tI (Janglmg. '25 N3tiOOI

made them thus, be the diverfiry.nevcr .fogrear, ~ he knowes what he doth and 11011e mufk repre-

hend him , therefore what Nations fo e're have

(hapcs. differing from that which is in mofl Men,

and feem to be exorbitant from the Common

forme, if they be definable-to be reafonablc Creatures and Mortall , they muft bee acknowleged for Adams Iffiie, But St. Au~in

here fpe~ks more like a Divine then a Philofo-

pher 3 for although the fupreame <Indent and fupernaturall caufe of Monflcrs is God, and that

when Nature feems to defleCt from the common

Law e{\:ablHhed, {bee is rapt by a Divine force,

and there is aliquid Divini in the peculiar caufe

of ehefe transfigurations of the Humane forme,

and that the 6naIl caufe of thefe prodigious appa-

ritions may be the anger of God, who is no way

bound to the Law of NaDure,and who in revenge

for fome crime committed, may rransforme a

Man as he did Nebuchadnezzar, or give over a felf-deformed Nadon, to the vanitie of their own inventions ryet it founds very harfh to the princi-

ples of our Philofophie, that the God of Nature

fhould be fo glorified by fuch fl:rangc apparanceg,

that evill and imperfect Creatures [hould (011-

curre to the perfection of the univerfe, Iince they

have no reference to ehe Beauty of the VVorld:

, becaufe the Beauty of the univerfe confifis in things perfect and perrnanenr.aad Monfters, (quatenm Monflers) being nothing but defeeh and privations, can contribute no perfeCtion, and fo confequentlyappertaine not to the 'Beauty of t~e

F Z urn-

"

Hoadlclfc .6 Man TrarJt'Orm'J ~ . 0 R~

Nation. . .. 'J 101

,VX'J univcrfe s if they did conferr any ornament, they fuould for the moft part be produced, becaufe the great decorum of the World is fuftained by fretlu~nt cffea~·, but Monflcrs happen rarcl ysand rhcrcfore they ought to be fC'g~,:gatcd from the Ornaments ot the "'" orId; and it they had come to light to adorne the World, they had f~om the bc!Oinnina ot the World appeared, winch we

rl • t'l 1 read oi no w iere,

How tbis Monflrot14 .tlienation from the HuSI AIIgu/liwt mane Fo~ m was fjr~ i(Jtroduced and continued is not defl'UIl,PI;, {o fttJ'ie to con;ef!ure,. St Auguftine.thinks tha~ ihe fame rett{on may be f"ven for thefe,de{fJrm_ed Nattonf, II-S there i: for tho[e Mon~rous proauHto,:s of, Men whic/J [nmetime: happen among itS, of whtch ktnd of protligiQus p_rodu[filJns there .tr~ many reco~ds wh~rein Naturt'Tums to have upbraIded Mans mVmtlfJn, and to retaliate his aJfeHations.

Anno Dom.t 5 2 5, at wittenberg an Infant was

borne without a Head. '

Anno 15 S4? In Mi[lJ;a. all Infant was born with-

out a Head, the Effigies of Eyes expre1fed in his l'j~,eljIl1 de

",irae.ll.jlri ]3rcafi. .

" .. porn. Anno Domini'r 5 62~n the Calends of Novem-

ber at viUII[ranc in vaJconia a Monfrer wAs borne} a Female .Auphalon; the Poureraiture of w:1ich headlcffe Monficr, FontanU5 who religi9)lfiy affirmed that he had feen it, havinp; communica-

6dielebillJd, ted to Johamm .Altinus the Phyfitian,~ ~e pr~IlUIJjf,Clpir. Iented it to PIWdlU& when he was WIlting his

'.,tllIJ lib,lf. Commentarie ef Monfters. .,'

u,.~, . And rea[ol.1may perC wade usrhae IUS not im-

. pOl1ible,

7De .A,tijic;aO Cbangling. 2. 7 ~::i~~~e

pollible, for it may happen by the conttieueion of u:£\J the Climate, rhae the Neck may not be allowed

to be eminently advanced above the Shoulders,

and yet the inftrumcnes of Nature may performe

their Office' is a nearer approach of the Neck

unto the Body, which is the opinion of Kornman- I(,orlllllanllur nels. But for my own pa rt 1 much fuf peC\: Ionic lib.l.J~ vlv~. villanous Artifice and affeCtation to have been 'Nm"'~'MH11J concurrent caufes of this non-appearance of the

Head, and [orne fanrafticall diflike of the Natu-

rall difiance between the Head and the Body by

the Inrerpolirion of the Neck, which hath been

the humour of fome other Nations, who ha ve in a

manner no Neck, as appears in this Scene, and in

the fifteen and fixteenih of this our practicall Meramorphofis, where you {hall find this very Na-

tion defcribed as if they affeCted to have their Shoulders higher then their Heads; And Sr wai-

ter Rawleigh faith, their Heads appearc not above

their Shoulders, And I conceive that they arc not

fo much headlelle, as that their Heads by fome

V iolent and eonflant Artifice arc prefled down

between their Shoulders, and affeCting to have

their Shoulders higher then their Heads, the

scapula's by the conltane endeavour of their Le-

vators grown to a habit, hath drowned the Head

in the Breaft, the Head being crowded tOO clofe

to the Shouldcrsand as it were growing to them,

the Neck is quite loft and the Eies feem planted

as upon the Shoulders, and the Mouth in the

fueaft, a Chadow of which refemblance we may fometimes fee ill very croked Chon neck'd Men.

.And eo»/equentlj .0 the M{t.S· of the Neck in point ,of

, F 3 ctr-,

Man Transform',],: 0 Ii; \

circumfpeaio~ are quite lo~ by this Artijice, and the Donation of Nature iberei» is made void, for they cltnn()t lritb eaft' turnt' their Head alout to and fro, every wlty to looke about them, the spondylt's or turning round Bones tied and f affened one unto another by Joynts and knots, cannot poJfible in this fofture

accompliJh their Motions. . .'

But this charge and eVldellce I give 111 only

ag,ainft them by way of rrefumption.: you Gentlemen Readers of the Jury may give up rour Verdia: according to your judgmellts, and either

find Billa Vera, or rcturne IgntJramu5.. .

s, .. ~()hnM.J'l. BeYGll1dthe Land of Cath~ythere lS~ Wdder-

devll'T(4'11ils 11"., wh(;rein are many wild Men with Hornes

"j.83' neue, r. b on their Heads very hideous, and Ipeake not, ut

rout as Swine.

That men fhould be fo cornutedsor have horns

grow on their Heads,is a thing neither impolfible nor incredible, for many have been Borne cor-

nutcd. . h

.4",al. Lujil. .Amatus LuJitamU fpeaks of a Boy Borne Wit

"nl.cul'.s I. a little horne on his Head. . .

Lycolt.cbroll: Ann.u33,In Rathftad~a 1'own 111 the NortCan de prod. & .Alpes, which the Inhabitants call Tat4YIU, there

(lent. was an Infant Borne cor~uted. "

, Anno 1 S 5 1, in a Vlllage of JI.larch,rJ,$ caUd

~~::!':;e ~h~- Dammmuvaid neer whi~~ocl(, a ~oul1try Mans ,ulis. Wife brought forth a Monfter with fuch ahor-

ned Head. . 1 l'

Among the S ubalpians in Q...".itrus,a h~t c own

ten Miles difiallt from Taurzn (Teurzn) Anno Amb.P,r.tlls Dom.1578, the feventeenth of Ja!lUary about S lib.''1.",.3I. of the clock at,Ni~hb.an bendt-Matron broug4t forth

1 Headleffc Nuiqnl

C(t;G'~

TheAriificiall Cbangling. ~9~~~t!~< "

forth a qhild bav~l!Ig five homes one againll: ano- ,~ rher on his Bead like unto Rams homes,

Lanfranem fa VII a man who came unto him fer Lanfraneul his advice, who had feven Eminencies in his traa.3Dclo~.

d . ~"al'3' ".

Bea sone greater then another, aad 111 divers pla- rHr. M.JQr.

cc:s, whereof one was fo great and acute like the

horne of a yO~l1g <:Ioar, or an ll1c.h long.

lngra!fi.u faith, that together with that prudent Chirurgian lacobtu a Sorua, he faw at Panhorn a Ingrama.

certaine Noble Virgin, who had many crooked

h?rnes, {harp€ at the end, reprefencing the Effi-

gles of the hornes of a young Steere, which ren-

drcd her [0 deformed, that {he rather look'd like

a Devill then a Woman.

One lI!argaret, about fixt, years, the Widow of DtJlUtd Owen a Wcl{h M~n, had growing in her Forehead a horn much like unto the horns of a Lamb, as I finde in a private marginall note to S.chmckim ?bfer~ations, written by fome PhyfiClan or Chirurgion that owned the Book.

I~ is reported of a ccrraine Sea: of the Bannian l4/oijiur B,ip • Prlt~s, that they have as it were a little horne M"'o !_p,"ir

ftandlllg out upon their Heads. a~ l"dl~r 6-

I b I LA d . . fc SlIIlU mIJf~.

remem er nave rcac In C amerartUf or ome

other, a Story of a certaine King, who being

jealous of his Queen, and [uppofing himfelfe to

be a Cuckold, dreamt one nigh~ that be was cor-

nured indeed; and that he had reall hornes bud-

ding out of his Forehead, and he found his

dream true when he waked; which the AuthGr theredefcanting upon, .conceives to be pciffiblc,

b~ Venue of Imagmanon;' tran,sferr~ng matter

thlther, fitfor fitch a prodUcUol1.

That'

H)rncd Nadons

i~

30 M,sn TransforwiJ: 01\, .

That homes may be engrafted upon the Head appearcs poffible by the report tOO we have read of lome Nations, who are wonll to cut off the fpurs from the heelcs of Cocks ne~ gelt and to enferr them fo cut off into eheir ow~ Foreheads, which afterwards encreafe there and grow in a wonderfull m~nner.

Now whether this cornuted Nation was the cffspring of any horned Monfters, fuffe~d to propogate themlelves,and fo to become nanonal!, or whether they at firft affC\.,\,ing fuch a badJ!;e of Bcafiiall ftrength, el1grafted them and fo lt became Naturall unto them, I leave to !llY. Ma!lers of the Jury to find out upon a Melius tnqutrtn-,

dum, 11' .

Among other contrivances of Mat:s crue In-

vention I (hall annex a ftrange ,HlftOY aut of Filbricius HildtSNu~.

In the Yeare 1593,at Park there was an I~fant about 15 or 18 Months Qld, who had the skin o~ its Head 10 extended thali it exceeded the magnitude of the Head of any Infant HydroCfphd~s that was ever feen. This Childs Parents did carry it about from Town to Town to (hew, and therebyexceedingly enriched ebemfelves-

At length there being a gr~at concourfc of Peopie, and the l*ariJian Maglftrate bemg a very difcreet Man, Cu[peCting it eo be fome bafe deceit did caft the Parents into Prifon; And having examined, they confeffed their Barbarous and impious crime, faying that t~ey ha.d cue the skin of thelnfants Head by m. aktng a little h.olc about the Crown to the very Mufclts, and by

. that

Thr ArtiflCi4lt lhilngUng.

that very helefput-

ting in a Reed between the skin and the Mufcles ) had blowne into ir-and by d~grees, within fome moncrhs, (by continual! put:' fing into it) the skin of the Infants Head was extended to that alritude, and that -- .... they did expofe

it to all here and about France to get money

thereby. They had made the hole fo neatly that

drawing out the reed, with wax or [orne fuch rna-

teriall they could eafily clofe the fame; When

they had fully found OUb this horrid favage in-

humanity for ccrraine, they put both the Parents

to death. This Hiftory Hi/danus affirrnes to Mr. Hilcl. ob· have received from Ocular wimeffes and perfons {trflal. ,hir.

of Credit. e,nt, 3.06[.18.

Among other Monftrous formes and prodigious apparitions of the Head, we (hall here p~efent !Jicipites or Men with two Heads.I faw (faith Halt) a Man that was Borne having two Heads, one feperared from the other.

c(£liu! Rhodiginu~ is reported to have feen two P",,,.,ib.Z4.

Mon1l:ers in /ta/y,(me a man the other a Woman Dplr./Nflr,up.&. their Bodies in all pans well and neately compo~

fed, but that they had two Heads, of which the

Woman lived five and Twentie Yeates.

G Anno'

") I Hlaro~ephl. ~ Ion.

~

Brdpitet; 32 Man'TranJ"orwlcl':OR;

~~ 'J~

Anno 153-8 there was one Borne who !!'>rc:wup to the perf(·a Stature of a Man, with his Head and Shoulders only double, fo that one Head 1!'IIS t:lrklMrdly oppofire unto the other wonderfull Iikc one another, their Beards and Eyes vcry much refen~bl1ng each the other, rhcy had. both the fame appetite to meat, both Icnfibie

11 '/fl'b 01 one hunger, their voyce alike, the fame ddire /~e~:n;~:':C: of one Wife, which they had, and of enjoying gCRew.hom. her was to .borh Heads, 9c was above 3 o. Ycares

~f age when my Author chanced to fee h.lm. The . like Moniter L)cofthems faw in Bavttna Anno . 1541, fhee was a, Woman of about Twenty fix

LycoP.Pfodrg. y. ld wi h H d 1 f one was

(njlenl.chI'OIf. (arcs 0 WIt two ca 5, w iereo

. fufficiently deformed.

I confetlc I have not in all my inquifirion dif· covered a Nation of fuch Men, although there may poffibty be fuch a Nation in the V·Iorld, fince there have been fuch of both Sexes.and wee by thefe relationsfccthey may live to the Age of generation, although it be again{\: the common condition of Monfters, who for the moil part are very [hort lived: for as they are borne again{\: Nature fo they live, moreover they are very irkfome to themfelves becaufe they are mocking-frocks to other Mortals, therefore they judge their life difpleafing to them, but the number of thof e that: have been Borne with tWO

Heads are very many. .

In Vientum there was a Boy Borne with tWO "1~fI.Jmf~

mundl.31,r. Heads.. .

lI,ujf.lib,1.'''M At Frujinon,.amaid brought. forth a Son with

de genel·~r. H .:J .

H~lIIi. two . eaus •.

Anno

'The ArtijicialJChangling: '33 ~:~ds~itht"O

Anno Domini 60. I there was a Boy Borne that Ly=

was double Headed. - . dig. ,1i1. ~ 838•

, h d fi h r. n, IIIcrq' lit Scb •• •

Anno 1'j 5 Z 111 Raffia tree ayes a ter t C reau 'hjll4~idelhTfx

of the three Kings or Twclfth- Tide there was a Jillio obfe· Mafculinc Infant borne with two Heads, a dou- qrl£~~'(b' Ii ble Neck, and with a Body very well compact LJC9 .' ·fro •

and agreeing with the other members.

Anno 554 in the Village of Semu; there was a Mon1l:rous Boy Borne with two Heads, which

fTaleriola reports from the T cllimonic of Men of Vale~iola lot. Credit who were SpeCtators and Eye wimcflcs com.lrhcap.IS

of chis Prodigie.

Cicero fpeaks of a Girle Borne with tWO Heads. ;!~cro de divi'

About the Ycare of our Lord 141 ~.OI1 the 9th of A~lIIjmlll the Calends of Aprill,there was a Girle Borne in Alma{.lJojOfU/fJ

d .a'· 1 H d Iru·1.

San ers-DroJJ Wlt 1 two ea s.

Auno 1544 in the Month of J anuary the~e C .. rd~n dt TJ~. wasa Female Childe :Borne with tWO Heads, 111 rlfl.lri.14.,ap.

all other things reprefeneing one Body. 77.

Anno 1487 at Patavia there was an Infant l.;co/lh./ib.

Borne, in whom befides this Capitall luxurie prod/g. there was nothing uncomely to behold.

Anno 1536 at Lovane there was an InfantGemmallb •. ,.c.

Berne with two Heads. (i. Co{momt.

And in the memory of PCIICerU,( there was PtlICefllsTiI· ... a Child feen in H affia, t.he fift of the Ides ~~if' a"'v~~ja. of January Anno 440 with two Heads re-

fteaed towards the Back, whore Faces be-

ing obverfe beheld one another with a frow-

ning countenance.

Anno 1553 in a certaine village of Mi[nia, Lycojlli.prodi. called Zichejt, not far from pirnauu, there was

an Infant Borne with two Heads) being abfo-

G 2 lute,

---_._---_ ............ _-------__j

Biciplre,; 34- Matf Trantform'd: 0 It,

~ lute in all the other Members.

The appariri<;n. of ehefe Monflrous Men was

ever held prodigious . PorlJhir.ius faith that over Rabbi MO{es 1 L d f "I' h t

parlie. '4 d. t I.e ,an 0 Stet te t ere happene-d a great E-

,lJlli/m. chpi.e, and that Y care the' VVomcn of that

RegIOn brought forth deformed Sonns having

two Heads. '

IJto~.lib. Anno Domini 1104 there were montlrous

Irfdlg. :Bi,nhs brought forth, Cattell and Men Borne

.,t..,eHl;nus Ii.h, WI,th two Heads. After Clement the third was S ANnal.S.jo· driven out of the City, among other prodirUII. gil's there were alto Monfirous Births, Men

Borne with tWO Heads. .

But, "". mu~ /;",owabove aU things, that thefe ,appart:'0ns that be contrarie to Nature, hllppm n,ot Without ,t~e pro't;idence oj' Almighty God, but fo~ the pun~f1_1tng and admoni(hing of Men, thefe thlltgs ly his Juft Judgment ere often permitud, not b~t that ~1an ~ath a !.rellt hand in thefe mon(t~oJittfS: for, tnordtnate Lu~ is drawtJ in 6S a CAu/'e of thefe Events, whereby the {udof Man is made w~ak and tlnperfeE1, whmce the produfiions thereof mu.~ nec~ art/y prov~ weake and imperfeE1; for from a p~e_cedent defeR, ''? the reed, it is II confeqence. ,.hat the iU ue mu~ be defeHtVe, and on the &onJrarie If the[ee~ be fuperfltlous, out of a fuperfluous a[u: perJluous tS hegot,as anyone may e41/Y coUeEl.

Now to vindicate the regular beauty and honcfky of Nature from the depravations of Art, we,fay that the Head swhen free from any irregulariry of Nature or mifchievous endeavours of Arv, it obraines its Naturall Figure· by the tdtimonyof Galen it refembles a 'Sph('~re, but ob-

long,

rhe.Artil:c;a/J 'cha1lo1ing 25 The H~jd~

'J~' b'} true F'i1,ure.

long, the pans a- «rx» bout the Temples

a little depreflcd

on both fides; and

when it obferv's its ligirimarc magni-

tude, it anf wcrs

with its length,

which is from the

end of the Chin to

the Crowne of the

Head, the Iixth

rart of the whole

Body: That the

parts alfo fhould agree among rhcmfclvcs, in

requires foate equaH lines; the firO: is that which

they call the line of the Face, and reacherh from

the bottom of the Chin to the top of the Fore-

head, the other is that which wee call the occipitialllinc, and it is drawn from the cop of the

Head to the fira Vertebre of the Neck; the

third is of the Forehead, running OUt from

one Temple to the other; Laflly, the fourth led

on from the bottom of the Eare (in which place

the mammillary procdfe is) to the highe£\: pare

of the Synciput: Thefe foure lines if they be reciprocally equall, the Head' is called proportio-

nate; but if they have declined to any inequa-

lity, they arc faid: to recede fo much from their

juft and,natur,all conftitution)as they draw nearer

1:0 that. For of rhefe lints) if that of the Face

be longer, the Head is called long, but if fhor-

ter it fhall be called (hort, If the line of the

G 3 Fore-,

TheH.lds 6

,lrueFigure. 3' Man Transform'd:O R; .

~~ Forehead exceed the rcft in length, it makes a ~road Head; if that of the occipitium cranfgrcffe its bounds, the H~ad is acuminate , if all be equall, the Head proves round and Naturall, If they be all unequall, or lome or more, from thence arifeth that forme of the Head, which with H tJlpoc.rates and G alen is called ~o~ov; So rhae there arc tome Heads long, fome broad fome .

. acuminate) and Iome round; and others ~~J. SO

Sp!ge/. Annat. Spigeliuo. All commonly fafhioned by the

pragmaticall endeavours of the Midwives and N urfes in every Region : but becaufe many Phyfitians and Anacorriifts have qucflioned ehc proprierie that our Sugar-loafe-like headed Gat..' lanrs have in the word ~oe~v, wee will doe them that juG: favour as ti) fet tort h their Tide • .Ariflot!ecals fuch who have Capitaacuta, I'~~"t, quaft proacuminata capita habentes, vel exfa{ligiatiIJne quam VOCltnt oeU'TH11ot, or from the form of fire, web is called "r.~;. But Anaromifis are of opinion that I'o~~ figni!i.es onely a deformed or depraved Head and

6al./i6. dt 11[" not this acute, fince G aim reckons an exa8: round' pari.". and Sphericall Head amongft rhefpecies of 1'0;'1,

Siculul deolfl. hand tdheref?llre theYdthin~ that siculU6 and ~egiU4

. bus apud G.t. ave one 1 to ren er It acutum.

e- Rtgius 9' de Amongft the r~ft (Sennertsu) fpeaking of the _[,.part.17. vinous Fisures of the Head, thinks that all Heads which recede from the Naturall Figure are by Galen generally called ,o~J, and fo they are not andy I'o~.~' which have capita faffigiata, copt-crown'd,or acuminate Heads; but alfo thofe iA whom either the fore, or hinder, or both the emminencies arewanring, or jet out more then

is

The Artiftcialt Changling. 37 P~

is meet: fo that Heads andy backward,or for- ....

ward, '01' .upward, may appeare fharp towards

the tOp. For.either the Synciput or anterior part

of the skull is more crnminent then it Ihould be,

the hinder P(\rt of the Head on the other fide,

as it were vanifhing away and not cxtubcranr,

or clfc the hinder part of the Head is prominent

and ncirher the Anterior liar Poflcrior emi-

nency pro tube rates ; and if it be not dcpreflcd on

the fides, it exhibits as it were a perfeCt Sphcarcs

and if it be depreffcd in the Temples, the Head

may run out in the ,op or crown and be acumi-

nate.

Hofman faith, that I'o€.~ with the Greeks arc H fm"." In~. thoie who wane the fore and hinder eminency Nicd.llv. 3· of the Head, called in Dutch Spit:doep[, the fame

alfo are OeUIGII'IotAOI, X'VOIG~'1'IIIMI. & 1'Te9lGt'1'ctr.ol,he knows

not how to call them in Larine, yet he will def-

cnibe thcm,Qyi acuminatofunt capite. And there-

fore though PaUopisu will have all thofe who have

a pretcrnaturall Fizurc of the Head to be called

fO;~1 of G alm,and that therefore it ought not to be

rendered acutum or acum;natum, but deprauatum;

that it mi?;hc be r,ightly oppofed unto the Natu-

rall : Yet H o[mannu5is for the firft verfion \ for H fI

Iince 'TO,ipO~~t by the confeflion of F allopiu5 himfelf is m~n~l~c';~~ oppofed to -fit 7re9P.»IGH', (the word which G a/en 1I- pArI;

fcth to expreffe the verx Naturall Figure of the

Head) who Ices not (faith he) that the Head

ceaferh to be 'll'op.{,lGlltoUongum, and thereby to be

made acute or acuminate when either or both the Eminencies perifh ? and if Galen extend the

word more largely to thofe who have the Emi-

nencies,

38' M4n Tram!(Jf'wid : 0 s,

nencies protuberanng beyond the Naturall ~oportion, that ought not to evert the proper lIg-

nificarlon received of all Authors; therefore ,oea, is properly he wh<? hath an a~uminate He~d, fuch a one as he dunks the Latines call Chllo-

Bauhio.dMal nrm) and which Bauhi,;u~ accounts for a fifth Fi-

{,b'3. gure of the Head contrived by Art. ,

But it appears plainly.that ~fiJe!. '.!'e1t:'~m, to w~t, f}hera, oUon<~a, not prolong", as i~me 1Ilt1:r~ret tt, (which Galen feemsro point to as It were wlththe F inger, where he cals it JPhtram quaJi {omp,.ejJ am) which you muft conceive about the, Eares and the Templ,es) is the ondy NaturaU,Flgure ofrhe Head, which when Cclumbtu dentes, affimung all Figures of the Head to be equally ~at~rall, he doth nothing; for, this is Naturall which IS, for the mofl part; which alfo is moG: co~modlO~s to the Aa:ions of Nature; But fuch IS the FIgure which Galen, out of Hippocrates~ fayes does confiitute the Naturall Figure, a fpheare not every where equall, but fuch a one as haeh cavines and Eminencies. For, the beft FIgure of the Head which is Naturall is affimilatcd to a Iphcare f;cntly compreffed on each fide, ~nd which is In the Temples after a manner plaine, but in the fore-part and hinder ~art is more prominens then in a Spheare ; yet It mo~e proraterates iM this, then that, in the Crown It obferves the convexity of a Spheare: they therefore who chance to have fuch a Head with a decent magnitude, they enjoy a vigorous alacririe of fenfes, and arc endowed with a good O:rength of Body. But why this laterall comprcffion ffiould be the

mon

The H:.d, true. Figure.

(V'J[\j

Tb A" ';1:. It (h· 'l" . 'I'hcftcadf

e rt'.J~Ct4 ang mg. 39ttuc Figure.

mofl pr9per and Naturall Figure of the Head, ~ rha t the' fore-part and hindc r parts thereby arc

made more gibbous, and the fin all caufe thereof

ought to be enquired. . ,

.A'I,;icens opinion is, that although the skull be AVlcen. round, yet it is oblong made in length, bccaufc

the originaU bf the Nerves arc difpoiCd from the Brain in longitude, and therefore it was fit they Ihould not be fireightned, and it hath two Eminencies one before and another behindc, that the Nerve; might defccnd, which dcfcend to the

front and the Nucha.

Zon"rdu~ well notes that the Head hath fuch a ZontrdUI Globous roundneffe, which on both fides is fom-

what plaine, in the Anterior part it is fomcwhat

acute and elevated, and that to reraine the Vcn-

tride of the Braine in the fore-deck of the Head,

OUt of which the Nerves which caufe the five

Senfes proceed, and after the fame manncrsit ~s a

little elevated in the hinder part for the reception

of the Ventricle in the fierne or hinder deck.From whence the fpondiblc .Marrow and the Nerves

Which procure voluntary motion arife,

Hugo S enenJi s Iaithsthis manner of com prelfion Hugo SQlcn. was contrived for the better diR:inguHhing of the Ii,.

places from whence iii was'opportiine the Nerves

Ihould arife, which would not have been well difi:inguithed if the Head had been exadly roun~.

Secondly, becaufe the former and hinder Ventri-

de ougheeo have a greater cavity then the mid-

dle, ana becaufe the middle Ventricle oughe to

be a wa y from one to the rell: s . therefore it was neceO'ary) that the Anterior and Pofterior parts

, '. . H - Ihould

~~:~j~::e/4oMdn Tramfotnid:OR,

. V':C\J fhould have an Eminer.lC;y, Afch.mgelu~ picholol'iclJol.pl'~I~{I, mOJU5 thinks, the Braille is lightly deprdfed 011 Auar,llvs, each fide, and a little cxporrected in lcngtl~ ~or

the foremoft V cnrricles fake, made hollow In It, which appcarcs to be oblong, to whofe hin?er part the third V cnrricle adhcares.and to the thud ~hc fourth: wherefore a Brain not perfeCtl vGlobous, but gently comprcffed on each {i,de and liuhtly pretended ill length, was convenient for

b , 1

the Ventric es. .

, .Ant9ni1U vlmU! to thefe true opinions of rhe

Antonlullll- A' h h h 1 f h d f hi F'

Pllu,d'!iIl,BJr- ncienrs at t aug tt 0, a~ot cr en 0 t IS 1-

bte,H.IIIll'/." gure of the Head, WhlC~l 15 confirmed by the

tdHmony of fence) who 15 of opnuon that the Head was laterally compreffed for the Eies-fakc, to wit, the better to promote the aCtiO~lOf,t,he Eic, whofe action is then better when.it eXln~ more free, Now the Head.compreiledythe Eie is enlarged to the feeing of things backward.to the right arid IcflJ hand; and although nodimply to the.univerfall [pace of a-circular ,v,i{ipn,yetat leaf\: to fome ponionof rhe fame. Men,mllY know the truth of this if they firfi try it.inthe Cephalicall comprcffion, fiancling with. a ·aUf

- Neck,and,tl.)rIlingi9I)-c Ej~ ro.ehe put~~rd ~l1g1e, letthc:menqt:av,ourlll'lull th~y.¥.ef,elv~ w.l;ic;r~ thevifory Rayes.doe.come , in whic,;he~periment they had-need have ,the place manked with fo,me PQte; A.fec:rwards, .remaining fi.x,t .jn .eheIame , place, .and ftanding, j\lRas.in toe. fawe~xpc:r;~~e~t, he would have them by fome device .. to haverthCillr Beads rQtundedQr'rOllnded,thatthey ma,y,p1b· taintl,pe~(~ ,fnhcrirj,ty, then ,l~t,~hr;~~ t\l.~n~,the

. - '1.t' .. lame

'The ArtiftcialJChangling~ 41,;::~;~::,

fame Eie to the outward Angle, and try to nnde ~ whereabout or how farr the Vifory Rayes

reach the place fGJrmedy feen, and marking, ill

with [orne note; that done-let them confult with

Scnce, what portion of the place is hid from the

very Eye by rotundirie of the Head; for, Sence

will apparently teach, that ill this Cephalicall compreffion to the {ides, the Eyes more freely

expatiate to the back parts; the gaining of which advantage he thinks to be the caufe offuch corn-

preffion.

Having thus prcfented the artificial! conrrivan, ces of Mans Invention, praCtifed 011 the Head, upon imaginary conceits of Beauty and genero· !icy, and dilcovered the inconveniences of Iuch foolifb and phantatricall devices, how deroga· iorie they arc to the honour and Majcftie ofNature and prejudiciall to her operations; and having fell down ~he Canon of Nature, ~or the true and proper FIgure ot the Head, With the ufes and finall caufe of filch a fhape, which is the only true and naturall forme of the Head; and having condemned them of the crime L4a Majeftatio, who have forced Art (the ufuall Imitator of Nature) to turne Prevaricator in humanity, wee cannot but commend rhofe Nations who have been tender in thispoint of'offering violence to Nature, namely the Lacedemrmians, whole Nur-

flCcsh~l'dad a cc;thaitl. mh al~ner . of cbringmingl up htheir Plutlrch in

I . ren Wit out a vmg any. r.o e-c oat s, or Ihe lift ,fLy, allY thing to Iefe the Natural! growth of the CU'I\UI. Head, but left nature free to her own courfe,

which made their Heads better [hap' d. The like

H 2. modeft

Blotk.hcad611c4... Man Tram'Orm'd-:·Oi.",

Logger. hrad$. £I . 'j,U • . .' ,

V)..'"'\J modd\: acquicfcence in the wifdome of Nature, I fuppofe to be the rcafon why the Sl1'itzelS H cads for· the moll part arc fo conformable to the Canon and intention of Nature.

I knew a Gentleman had divers fonns, and rhc Midwives and Nurfes had with head-bands and ftrokings fa altered the Natu~all mould of their Heads, that they proved Children of a vlry weak undcrlranding ; his lall S.Olll~ oniy,upol1 ad"icc given 111m, had no reflrainc impofcd upon the Namrall growth of his Head.bur was left free from the coercive power of head-bands and other Artificiall violence, whofe: Head although it were bigger, yet he had more Wit and underfianding then them all.

Hitherto of thofe Nations who have tampered ' with the Figure of their Heads, and h~ve l~boured to introduce a change and aheranon 1Il the moll Noble part of the Humane F.abrick: There be other Nations fit to be: brought on this Stage, 'who ufe Art to alter the fubfiancc and temper of their Heads ; For Blockheads and Logger-

'Purlbal,ilg,. heads are in requeft in Braf/' and H~lm.et~ arc ",lib,l' 'oflittle ufe, everyone havmg an Arrlficialized ,.Na;turall Moriim ofh.is H. cad: for, the Brajilians Heads,fome.ofthel(ll, are as hard as the wood that growes in their Country, for they cannot be broken, and theyha v~ them ~o hard, rhac ours in compari[oR: of theirs are Iike a Pornpions and when they will injure any whiteMan, ehey call him [of" Head,. fa rhae hard-head and blockhead, termesof reproach with us, aeeributed to them, wouldbc taken for eermes of Honour and

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

rrt. A· it: ··lJ Ch !'. Slocll.btadl& .

;J. ne rttrCItt ,ang mg. 4 3 Log~erhead.

Gentleman-like qualifications; This property ~ they p~rchafed ~Y· Art, with g?ing bare headed,

which 15 a ccrtame way to arrame unto the qua-

lity of a BraJilian Cbevslier, and to harden the

tender Head of any P rif'cian, beyond the fearc of. breaking or needing. the impertinent plaifrer of

predamick Mountebanks. . . '.

The J lidians of H irp,miola, the skuls of shcir DI ~drlYnmd~'~'

r h d 1 . k h h 'd ow. • .... y-

Heads arc 10 ar and t uc , t at t e Sl'ama.r S dan.liM.de

agreed, that the Head of an I ndian,although bare, {ij~lil.

was not to be Itruck for feare of breaking their

Swords, which 1 fuppofe to happen through the

feme Artifice.

T~e lEgypti4ns alfo arc hard Heads; for, their Heads arc fa hard, that a. Stone can hardly break the skin ; which they attaine unto by having their haire fhavcd from their childhood; fa that the futures of their skuls grow firme aned hard with the heat.

Hence wee read, thM in the Battailes that paJIed

.' between. the lEgyptians an,d Pcr~ans, Herodotus and divers oth.~rs tooke jpe CI aU notice, that of [ech M layflaine on the. ground, the }Egyptians skuls were without cflmp_ar;Jon much h~rder then the Perfians, by l'e~fon thefe goe covered with Coyfes and Turbants, and thofe from their I nfaJacy ever fhaved and bareheaded, King Maffiniffa, the Empe~'our Scvcruss Cefar, and HannibaU, in all weathers· were wont to gOI! bare.-headed;. and Plato for the better health and prefervation fif the Body, doth earne~ly petfwilde, that no Man fhould ever l,iVt the Head oth.er =« then Nature had al/lltted it ; .And Varro IS of Optnion, thatwhm we were '61PoilZted to ~aml bare-

-.' H 3 . head

Block.heads Be . M 1-' ~c, 'd 0 "

. Logger·heads. 44 ·an' ranStjorfIJ t ; ' 'Rj

~d . .

. bead hefore the gods, or in the prefence of the Ma-

gi~rat-es, it WitS rathfl' done for our health, and to inure and hardm us againft the injuries of the rPea~

tber, then in rrfpeR ojreuerence, .

And I fupp(lfe nee in this Kingdome ;ncflrrfome incosoenienees hy keeping our Heads [0 warme as generally we doe, neither (I ielieue ) doe the Brafilians or iEgYFtians rfcape the (lJJli8ion ofHeaa-aches; for ly this their Artiftct', the futures grow together. and ie alliterated in them, as theJ a~'efound to he many times in thofe who have Jujfered incurable Hettd-aches, ffrangling cathars, Apopitx(S lind other .3faltldies, for no ether cau{e thfn that their fze/ures legan to c/afe,and their skuls to grow folid, the skullgr()win!{ dry ma'1 times in youl8g Men, ece» as it is tumt to doe ly reaj"on of .Age. A thing ufualt in hot Countries, as Celfits notes, and Parens affirmes, that the Ethiopians, alfd Moores,and thofe that inh.16it the hot Regions, a60ut the Meridian lind EfjuiiloCfiaU, ha7.le.lheir skuls ~arder,' and p_arte~ wit~ none or few futures; hy whtch temper of thm elimates and their concurring .Artifice,they ohtaine indeed a natalie defmce again~ outward injuries, ,mar, then the ordinary provijiotJ ~f Nature doth aUoord, lut thertby they lecom« more ()~noxious to in ~ ternaU injuries, to wit, to thofe difeafes, which artfe from the retention of fu1iyJnous vapours, and their thick skal: may render them more indocile lind oUiviou$, as the Indians of Hifpanccla are noted to leo Celfus therefore is mi~aken,where he aJfirmes their Heads to become thereby more firme and {afe from pain $ but h~ more derogates frOm the; a(tice and H1[do7i1eof Naturt, *hen hI! IIlftrmes that the fewer

futures

The A t:C °,,:11 r,_ 1°·'· 'BIQck.heids;C . .ar .'i"C(wII-L1I4ng tng.4$ Lqgp;erheadl,

futures there te,the health of the Head is more there- ~: ty accommodated, loth which opinionso{' Celfus,

FaUopius 'Very moderately e:>lipolli'lds 6y way ofdiftin- G b TI II •

. f. C • h h . '" I A r.," 'pl//4

Elton, aytng,tat IS optnton IS partry .true and l'art- .".'lIInl.in lib.

Iy taJfe; for if you underftand him ofthofe ajfeEfions Gal. d. OQibllf. that have pain from an internallcltufe,tiJen it is [o

farr that their HeAds(hould 1I0t ake,tbat they ra-

"her aNe, jince there ar;e fOUlfd ma,1J.ypDeflions whicb .

artIe from v4pours andfmoak retained: blclt if !pe an-

derjland it ofthofe griejswhicl) may afife from lon~~

ahode under the Sun, or fr;om the (oJdn:e}Pof the

llY(lhient .Aiu, his ojli~ion is 'mo.#, truf!).becaufe

fince there are. no futures,there can be no trailfPirtJtion

of externall are hot or cold; th~refol'e he m~~ 6e un-

derHood of paines which proceed from an e:x:tdnjique

(allfe. But the other part of his opinion is not to he

endured of thofe, who tender tlu reputatioJ~ and he-

nour of Nature; For, Columbus from many molt Re~ld. colllm&. (maine arguments drawnfromt'xperimcl', and dif- Ll;?,.llb.l. feE/ions made upon the skuls of many men, (and whicb til ,s,

is more~range and fcarce credible) fame Women wlJo

have died of incuraUe H ead-aches,havebeen affu-

red (finding in their skuls (mall futures, and t10fe

con;oyned clofe together) that their paims have bee»

occajioned from tllat too clofe compojitt()ft of hones;

lind hath hence tooke a iuft occajion to right Nature

I:J thirJ~J)fZ4.Urf1.Ue conelufton, That the ruture~ of

,thClHe4i ..doe InOt finly con{trre to the defence of the

Bodies health, hut do cosferr more unto it hy hOIP

much the /treater and loofer they (haIL he.

wherefore <faith he) 1 could ne,Ver appro,ve of the opinion of Cornelius Celfiis, tljJ erting that Heads without futures are not only m~Jf (lrolig and forme, but

Block.heads Ik 46 M 4n T ranJ form'd : 0 .rt';

Logger,heads. 'J U

I~ but ,,1[0 free/rom all manner of griefs, {uch as are to he found in hot and {corching Regions,; for ~e 0"1,, takes notic~ of cdtles hurting the Headfromwtthout i Jure if the raying of Celfus were true, thofe H etsds [lJould be weak~r and more aft to/uRer, which had remarkaUe futures, then tho1 e whtC~ had {mall or ,no futures at aU. But fince it is ot/~erwi{e, and ~h~ Brame is more apt to he dllmnified ty tnternalt/ultgtnous recrements« then outward injuries, we mu# conclude t"at tho{e Heads which have more ample (uture~, are tar fafer from paine, then thofe that are deftttute of them, or are interfeRed 1ftth f Willi and very clo{e one5.

.'

SCENE

T bl Arlijici4iJ lhaniJing.'

47 Bald Pitt." ~

SCENE II.

Certaine PIlJhion! of Haire a!feCied by di,»ers Nations, and their opinions and prafJi[e about Haire-rites, moft derogatory to the Honour of Nature.

~~~;tiE;;j:5 He ,Arymph.ti who dwell near Ra'llijillstx

Id the Ryph<l?an Mounraines , H,rQllol~.

dl:eem Haire upon the

Head to be a very great Iharne and reproach, and therefore they affett bald-

olOlao""""#NI~ neffe, and are fo from their

nativity,both men & women. 1 he .Arnuphe.e (as Pliny reports) be all thorne

and (haven, for both Men and Women count! it P1iItJJib'6. a Ihame to have haire 011 their Heads.

The Argipp.ei, that live under the roots of )0: Bohcmus the high mountains ill S cythill, arc bald from their ~t t'jljbUJ'gmt~

Nativity both Men and Women. Ili.a.

The Miconii alfo are borne without Haire, and !/r«b, /ib,IO, baldneffeis lovely and Nationall to them-where-

I fore

Man Tramforwid: 0 R,

fore they are wont to call bald Men Myconians. And ~t is likely thae this which now is na'curall . unto them, proceeded at firft from Iomc affeCl:ation& cndevour of Art, which in rime, through the indignation of Nature, made the Heads of rhcir. Qif-fprings

Naturally barren of Haire, which is not very improbable, confidering the firange conclufions that ha ve been tried, to croffe and rurne the ordinary courfe of Nature into the channell of Mens fantafiicall inventions.

Lindrch9tCn. The Japonians account it for a great Beauty to lib'I,cal,~6. have no Haire whdl with great care theydo pluck out, only hav'c a bunch of Haire on the Crown

of their Heads, which they tye together. ,

, Another faith fome ofthemsuU away rheir

Gnlllllone ~f ' hi d h -

Ibeir lIIannm. Haire before, and others be 1Il., an t e pea

Iauts and meaner fan of People, have halfe the Head bald: the Nobility and <sentry have few Haires behind; and if anyone touch them that

arc left, they hold it for a great offence. ,

S,' John Man- In the Land of Lombe wher groweth good W me, 8c'Yils Travels and Women drinke Wine, and Men none, the

c"p·W Women fhave their Heads, and not Men:

Montaigncs Not only in the Province of Bas/te, but 111 other

liJf«ifl. ... . places

B.ld PUeI, . 49, ifi.~

The Artificiall Changling.

places) Women .

arc accounted fai- -_~

ref], when their Heads are fhaven, & which is firange in forne of the norrherly frozen counrries.as plinie affirmeth,

That tbe Haire pJoutd be, as thefe Nations conceive, a~",",-_ moH abJeft excre-

ment, an unprojita- ,

lie lurthen, and amoft unnecefJary and uncomely covering, and that Nature did seuer intend that excrement for an Ornament, is II piece of Ignorance, or rather malicious impiety Ilgainft Nature. .

How great an Ornament the Haire is to the Head, ilppears by the deformity is intr8duced 6y baldnejJ'e:

If the Haire were an excrement, it fhould be Thut guite out of the Body, tut this remaines in, and they bat'e many different accidents, of which they ought to give a jinaU cau/e, and nrJt to tie them to the necCffity of matter, which is {t/pptfed one end of their prodt/tlton. N:either doe they proceed from the fulif,inaif<! excrements of the Bralne, as fome are pleafedto think; but rather a$ Spigclius well notes, of Blood attra8e« by the root of the H sire unto the rep of the Plant and Truntk, which may be procured from thofe things, . which in other Creatures hold analogy with the H aires of ,Man. .And therefore when the Jiraine ~s con{umed, /;;lldneJJe en/tieS; tlJe dUO wed

I 2, plenty

'8lbld,pated

4-W~

The NllC!lfall t:!'o-' Man Tranl'OrmSd· 0 it""

ufcof Hllr, J - 'l" • ~

- ~ pIe Illy 9f Mootl txh.tlfled, to FI1it, ,,, .. , from ",IJtlJtt 11 airu, and wherew;,h the Braine a,,,1 the &irell"'. {fant pArtS.,en,,,,,[heJ. Thep,ime mdlhtrefmof the H.ire of the H"dis" defend ,Iu skin, the fi&ond tlfe;s to d'lellJ the B'Ainejr,m ;»ifl,its from rpithof)t, er ITDm ",ithin, From wlth,flt tber» may h'a/eml, filiI upon it Air», If,liNt, Haile; from Within, ra. PONTS, exhaling from the infer;or pa,ts, mA' prove t"flblerome. The vI;rl may him the Head ",ltll, WJtes, b,cI/dne{fe confliplltingthe pomoftheski", tthence the regriffe of "'IpOllrl is exhibited; 6) htllt, whence ,he spirits are de(sip,lttd And the Brlline as it were fod; ~, moiflnt(fe, relaxing tlJe inlernall f",ts; 6y drineJfe,a~ringing liP,.",," "1I!tlm; .. ! the innate htl~ miditit : ,gainft all ,htre inconvtn,tlleel (wIJicll the fi,!t(b "nlltce tI[theft MtI' 6ring tlpon their HeAds) 'he Hai" IJ, 'f)vering the He"dJ,th Vfr'l aptt,6rinl rtfieft. Raine m,ijlens, Hllile !mitu~" it 3 Ihe dmfitJ of the HAJre lteeps off 'nt, theolhtT the dGfitls " e'Nrfi" the Haire tUTns away ~ for Ihe thMmefe,/ the Haire admi" nol taftt, of Rlline, alia ,he tNT"ings ,fthe Haire doejlrailhtwll1 eaft'ff the Haileth"t J.rll upon "it Head. 111 like "'Alllltr Ihey a~Ate the foreeoJ ;nterllall ConljfJge""el,f~' th" IIiflSrd II pAfJ,,!e tl ra, POUrI, eltvilled fro", the ;"forior pam, anti a[eendil1g to the top of Iht Head, granting" flU "ndop(II ",ay tmlltheTfl. vdnd fin" the llr"'neis {evered fo for, from the FOImt"ill' If h,A', 4lfdcolljining [111m the ;B,nes, and Nndtr the", fillccd with TlO fat, Ihtft Hllirel p"t,n a"d WAr",e it. Tht, therefor"".1 eul ,1"," whoNy "",IIJ, "" flol ,nly ~Tillg a deformil;e up· on Nat"", !JNI "ff,or" an occllp,n to dejlNXiol1l.

1J'_41 ,!,uft~'U_m (Ih~,,) fr~'" ~~~N" ,"eft ~~/NmtJlel:f

I"e.

rrt. A ifi· lJ Ch n..': The Natunll

;I, fJC ru ae . angling. S I life of Ha're,

Ibe opiniolJs ""d pra{lim of Alm:Th,lt"o Haire is ne- ~ ctffary" ",nel,in tMall; Thllt Hairesartapurga.

ment 'ftht Bod, IIlto.~ether unpTOftta6tt, growing on-

ly that they may6e ]haved, /;eing made b, N_atuTe"

tloe nothing: lind recommend thQ[e Co[mettCjufs liS

''Illda611, which pre[trve nsire for the ufe lind ime».

tion o! N.,u,C, condemning aU thoft =r! of ~uat-

'1llleio/l prat1i{eJ 6y the .Al1ciem to the prej"dlCt of'

Nalure, mlhing 6ut the rigid taw of ine~OTab!c ne-

eiflit" ;n cafe of diftllfts ,6eiwK (lblt,o tXClifo Man for intmlt1dng upon him[etje a voluntary (;aldne{fe, fba.vin.:;(generaUy fpeakillg) 6eillg [ervile, rUieN/ollI,

a'lI/ pN'per to F~(Jlel and Knaves, aTJ Illfamotls Mot 0/ tjJeminac1, (JII index,! ignominy, cala~ltii and dam-

mage, N"cfJmely, 6ecau[e alliedrmto dept/ed 6aldntffi,

bei»g in (91th a vottmtary,!pofJtalteolls ,atld wilfull b;zld~

milt ;jha'Ving off the Head unto the quick, being,from 1I11.ntiqllity app"priaud #NtO Pilolel, 6eing proper in

them to fignifit Ihe tItter dcpri'Ulltion o[Witandunderftallding, and ~I fir ft 6eglln in moclce" a~d 10 ~0'!1e

lAughter; not 10 meNtion how repugnant it IS If) dlvme

writ, it is app"renlly .jbame all" ,tdifgrllCe ptlt upo"

N illure, And Ihe reproach, as anindekbte C hllracltr of in(,Imy,deaves unto the'mem~', 0/ him who !JeArn tile

~me o!Corfes, for being the firf/who flllferetltht

Hllire ~f his Hwllo/;e /haved. His wit (therefore)

Will './fiBed with a {hamefoll Imd impious Itch, who

(Cr(llchl hir Nwl for /ii," Il PA,,,dox 4S praifod ba/(f~

nt/fo; Sinefius 6) Nllme,,,ho thmin /hewedmm Wit

'hen H~nefty ; fir /;e&ANfl D ion had juftl, "mmended

a ~"fh (Jf lIair" he forfooth 0" the contr(J'1; """,Id

'like tlpo» him II ,(Jmmend 611ldrleffi, That 'he 84m

;s a Nalu'411 Or"amellt, ./t Allegorica/t, Atllhors

.. -- - t 3 hav, ,

The'N3lurall "A sr: ,.(;, 'd 0 . DlgnlllfHair.53. J.V1.an 1. ranfJorm: R,

~I;!j hav: jigniftcantly maintained, and tlJ4t the deprarr:atl0n and voluntary al{enee thereof is a lIemifh and tntroduceth an a{peU of bumiliation: moft Nations h,rt.-:e ly their pral:1ice afferted, and therein given. thm' (uUl'age to ,tile Natu~all com~lineUe tbe.reof.· Amoi'lg(t the Indians the Kmg caufetb the H atreo! the greait.J't Malej'aHors to be cut, tbinking that to be thegreate~ reproach andpuni(hment.

HCl'oiot. Pur. The Perjians and the canmyns Women, cue

fhal Pi/gr.>. their Haire at the Punerall of their Friends.

lib.IO, The People of Bra[il and Sourherne parts of A~ 1:1am pi/gr. ,,; merica, although when they are angry they let lIb. 7. their Haire grow long, when they mourne they

cut it.

:it:~. pilgt:~. rt, In Pegu? MHel1da~d Wfi' t>mef.n that ~e neer akin;

mavc tficir ea s III 19ne 0 mourlllng.

JlI'tmi~1J 41. And baldneff e. and a fhaved Head, were pra8icall

C'P·37. tokens of mourning among the Jews.

Mun'er cor. The lEgyptians onely who have many nrange

mograph.lib.6. cuftoms contrary to Nature, whereas moA: morUN 8. tals in Funerals {have their Heads and let their

'Beards grow long, they on tke contrary let their Haire grow long and fhave their neards.

The

The Artificialt (bangling.

5'" PI41nlaaicall' ~ Tonfure ••

.~;

Bruf'on, {acel.

l,b.7,

The Alantes or EtiloenJians( as the Brafdians do now' to the Crown) were wont to {have the forepart of their Heads, and were the firft that ufed this kind of barbing ; which was alfo ulcd by the off-fpring of Tbf{eus ; the Curetes (that is to fay, clipped) of. the Greek word COt4- ra, which fignifies clipping, and the .iEtolians did the like; they of the Region fJ!!icuri, and other PVt'ffIndiansdothe like. The ancient Gauls, faith Sydo/l. Apol. weare their Haire long before) and t;:I!.U'-- __ ~_--'"

all the hinder part of the Head fhaven.A Fafhion Menuigno which our wanton Y ouchs, and effeminate Gal- Ej[a14'. lants (faith Montaigne) have lately renewed, and

in this new fangled fond doting age brought up

againe, with wearing of long danglh)g Locks l'elr.MKfIJ" before. Bare-locks being alfo a penilent ell - dem/,1.

. . frome

Mid Shavers' 54 Ms» T ramform'J: 0 It;

fV'"Y\.§ fome, as Petr/M Martyr obferves, in the Province of Duhar!) in the weft-Indies.

Bru{on. Fmt. Ijb.7.

Grinlll:one rf tlJei'''''IfNCYI. IC;....._...::..~:..:::

Herbe .. ts 7i'll'IJlh.

(.pl. Smilhs] Rifl.

of Yirgjlli~.

The Maxies weare their Haire long on the right fide ofthcirHead, and {have the left fide.

They of the Cape of Good H ope,[ome {have one fide of their Heads, .and leave the other curled and long.

The inhabitants ofS. Croix of the Mount, their Heads arc (haven bare on 'either fide, having a tuft of Haire in the midft: (orne {have but one halfe, cither on the right fide or on the left, and moA: of them round about, fuffering the Haire to grow in the midll, they fay they received thiscuftome from one Paz-

(ume. '

The slI{quefahanougbs) a Giant-like People of Virginia; weare their Haire on the one fide long, dic

T h, AttijiC;ilJ' {hangiing ~ 5~' Mad ShAvers

the other Ihort and clofe, with a ridge over their ~

Crownes like a Cocks cornbe, .

The Tartarians commonly fuave the back ~~i~::;II:fs. part of their Heads, and let the other grow long,

which they tie behinde their Bares: not onely the Tarrarians arc {haven after this manner, but alfo fuch as goe to rernaiue in their

Coun-try. Bruffll.PAW.

The Dscians (have lill.7.

the crowne of their Head, fuifering the Haire to grow in the middle, clipping it here . and there orbe, , Although thefe Men deprive tliem{elves iii a manner of ha1Je the benefit intended them /;y Nature, yet

fom~ of them did it not o~t of an] malice to Nature:

(or ,whereas they had lefore-lime much !l "ir~ "eOn

thetr Fore-Iuads) and the' Emmy tllkzifg oecaJlOn

therely to lay hold on them the more ea{ily, tlJey fha't.'ed

themJrlves he/ore, and kept their Haire long behind.

But the ~ncient Gaules had 'no ruch, colourlllle ex-

cufe, hut they remained 115 they life to paint oppor-

tunity. _ :

Fronre cap illata, poftdl: occafio calva,

And if the Maxie. and the inhahitants of ,he Cape of Good Hope Qffer noaffront to Nature in fbillving one halfe of their H'eads, lind letting the

l( other

56. . Man rrram/orm'd':OR,',

ot~er grolv, . David ~as V'y) impertinently. angry. with Hanun for [erveng his Amba.Dador~ 4tert"~t

manner, and they neetfednot to lJave ~ald at Jencho untiU their Haire was gtown.And Demofthenes might have walked abroad wit/Jout "917oacIJ, when be had thus. fhav'ed his Head, 'that for jbmm ofbein,'l. [e('nin[o deforming a Garb of Haire, he might keep the clo[er unto bis ,~udy. Neither are '}bur Catchl!0les tl,us Ihaved at the I nn5 of Court, any way ill imreated,

. PIt, JIl.rl de· They of the Region £l.t.Jicuri,in the wc~ Indies ;

wl.3. the \lVom-;:n ufe to CUt their Haire, but the Men let it gr,ow bchinde, which they bindc up with fillets aqd winde it in fund!'}' (015, as our Maides are accufkomed. to doe:

The Women the Naeurall Inhabieants of virginia are cutin many Fafhions a~reeable to their

, Yearessbur evgr fome part remaincrh long.

eapt',Smlth. 111 New England among the Naeive Inhabl-

d'lmp •• {Ne'JIII h Maid i M ied fh h h

B"t,l.mf. ranrs, w en amar IS arncc, ee cutter er

Haire and ~eep'sher Head covered, untillit be grownc agam.

r"I.Marl.d,- The chicoranes nourifh their black Haire down

~d. ,. G' to their G irdles, and the Women in longer traces

sr !troll Irn/" d b h 'b h s . 'h" H .

Co!mograpIJ. roun a out tern, ot exes t1CUP t err air,

In cl,inathe Men as well as the Women doc

Mat.in.lndqr. T'f.... f

weare long Haire, rolling it up upon the top 0

theirHeads, which they faaen with a filvcr pin.

Mag;/f:Ame- In Peru the Men weare long Haire which they

rila. binde up with fillets ..

lind[cbmn The Bram!nfs aever. cut their Haire, but weare

. .' itlong, and turned up asthe Women doe.

PM'~IIIIS PlIg~. The ~ietn..JeS Haire- Fafhion is in homes, moe~~~ . " k~

e.p S11iths BJi.of PlYt,inia.

The Artificialt 'hangling. "7 rf:~·halred:

king them, that want them as Women; for as ~ the Males have hornes, which the female Beafts

want, [0 there falvage Beafis alfo, The Q..uitteves

have a Pafhion none may imitate, four homes,

one of a [pan long on the mould of the' Head

like a Unic9rne, and three of halfc a fpan, one

on the' Neckj. at each Eare another, all upright

to the top.

The cygu/.nians have their long Haire wreathed and rolled after a Thoufand Pafhions.

In Savoy, Dauphine, and Languedock, about the Alpes, both Men and Women Wear 10ngHairclwhc:rc-

upon a part of ,,,,,,~I _.;=~=

France was called

Comatd •

. D. Junius the reverend Paflor of Delph, doth RelliU1 ~ IIr,;· wltneffe, that in an Ifland called the Bcaurifull l- ,_piliilil! £land, the Men wore their Haire as long as Wo-

men, which they had much adoe to make them

lc~v~ off. Whereby you may fee it is true what

Pitmc affirmes, that Men by the Donation ofNa-

ture, have as long Haire on their Head as Wo-

men, if they let it grow andne're cut it. .

The Haire in a more /peciaU manner wdsgivm Woman for a tovtring. In aU kindo/Creatures,"nd

K 2 in,1

Pt/.Mart. •• "d. I

Pljll.Nal.Hi~. lib.,I.

Haire Regu. hted.

vnJ

5 8 M~~ Trantflmld: 0 It,'

in ever)' {exe Naturl' hath placed jQ"fIt note of diJferenee, and the Judgment oj NAture is no way ambiguous,where fbe hath granted lJa pec~'iarindulgence, as ~n OflJamtnt and /;{'t!.uty, the tncrea[e oj lOJilg Htllre, e'tJen ~own unto the ~ett ,: Nature having allowed, them tnrecomfenc~ oj their [moot/melJe and want oj a Beard, proltxe Hlltre, which u[e hath rolled uP? a cu#ome lome [eeme too ftriFily to urge, lvho U'tll no~ allow Women to baue Haire hanging =« by their chuks,but all to be hound up and hid. Cettatr.e/y ruck a dependant part by;t Id/e, of its own Nature, IS not contrary to the Law <if Nature, ~r unlawfuU, neither is it intrinfically roiH, fo that It cpn neuer 6e hone(l; /ir, politis ponendis it may Han_d,with the hOlfe~y of Nature,and the mode~y ~f a Chrifttan,woman. , Butf~r "w,0man to be {horne, H darly aga!nH- the tntentton of Nature: in Itffrage to w!.,;h truth, the Germans and ancient ~a~ks thought there could no greater punifbml'nt 6e 1fJfl~aed upon a WOman for adultery, then to (ut her R IItr~, and to turne h~r fo dif._'l,racejuUy out o!'doors ( deprt'Led of the peculiar Ornament of her {ex.) It es noted al/o,that tliat cor;fult oft he Senate of Athens upon occajio,! of their Army which perifhed;n iEgi~ na, was a,(atnft the Law of Nature' which commanded Men to nourifh their Haire, ;nrl tbe Women to .cut ,~heirs: And no lflfe dt{pigbt again~ N4turt, /hewed Anfi:odemus the 7jrimt o/Cumana, when he fomm,anded aD the ,virgins to be trimm'" rounr./.

, For ~m t;o nourifh long }I sire is quite contrary to the tnten.t!()p of Nature, even 6) thejudgmmt oj St. Paul. ?ot~ not N4tf!re ({pith he) uach JOU, thM /on$ Hlltre In a, Mlln 1S a fhamt? 'Tis trse, our

common

"

The Artiliciti1t Chanl1/ing' '5l"l H,ire Rcgu.:

'l" b· 71alcd,

(~mmon parent nature hath planted the H epd,the tow. V1("U er of Reajim and the Sen{fs, and the principle Sanf{u-

ary of the faculty of the Soul, wit~ a r~'uitfuO grove of

Haire, partly that they pJould miltbe the tlffiux of fubr~/ent hU'!l0urs, p~r,tlY,that tht:s covering' m~ght

be uJefull a~atnH the InJuries of Am, and t/Je ~tngs

of in[ells;yet (he would !'l0t.M it were by an irr~fragllUe

EdiEl, e]tal/ifh a[emptterntllla1Jd unrejlramed per-

miffion, to the lu:>curie of Haire, but made it lawfull

for uS to cut it according to our arbitrement, and to

re'tJoke that [uperJluous and recrementitious 09-

£pring of H sire to a ju{l moderat;OIt: Mol as we

prune lte:>curious Vil,es, fo wee may take away and

Freely coerce that improJicuous matter of Haire; nouriJhing of e:"traordina~ie IO/IJg Haire, ha'I:Jing

been 'ever infamous to Men tn all ages, and Tonfure

,ome~', nmfrary to the tri~~jng of the Bod)', rr:

per, healthful/, and honorijiqtle, an ,argument of

virility to a free and politique Creature af Man is;

for to whM ufe or purpo{e fbould that (uperf/uous crop

of Haire [erve r or what emolument it (an bring none canfee,unlllt it be to breed Lice and Dandro,aJter the

manner oljou'! lrifh;who as thfJ are a Nati~n e~ran-

ged from any hNma~e ex~eUencj,{car:e' acki!0wlec{?,e

anyother itfe of their H atre then to wtpe their hands,

from thefat and dirt of their meales ; and any other

filth, for which caufe they nouri{h lung feale locks,

hanging down to their Shoulders, which they are

wont to ufe in §fead of Napkins to wipe their greafie

Fingers. The Gerse it/fo an,d Barb'rous Indians, are condemned .for neuer cutting nor regulating their

Haire, as {u!fering themfelves to enter into a nearer

aUiance with Beafts then euer Nilture intended, who

K 3 " hath

The Haire RegUlared.

caGd

'0 Man Trans[orm'd: 01.\·;

hath made Man more {mooth and nothing{o hairy as they are. For Manthere.fore to ·weare H aire {o Jon/{ ,If it may [erue (0,. a cotJering, M Womans Haire if, WJ.f neuer intended to be allowed by Nature; Jinct [uch Haire may {ommhat hindfr the affions ofcom~ man life, which the Nazarites, who cut .not their Haire, [eeing and knowing by {e;,{l', they not only conuertcd their Haire unto the Jides, but turned them behind their Ears, and to t.he hinder parts If the Head, by that meanes {paring their Haire, and meeting with the inconvenience which may happen to the aBionoI the Eye and Organ of the Eare, if they be covered with Haire. which parting of the Haire occaJioned that difcerning Organleam or Middle wloy, wbich appears {a commonly in womrn, being not a NtituraIL, but an arti(i~iaIL linear diftinRiow, becaufe made by Art, although for a NaturalL end, ruch Mare th.e .Anions of the {aid Eyes and EareS • .And in troth, if wee examine the matter more fuNy, to what end, fhould wee either mingle or change the cu{tome, or the feque~rin~variance of virile Nature "ith Femininr, that one Sex cannot be known or diftinguifhedfrom another? for •. wee that Wte may be no leJ1e diRtring in our tdmmingand Ornament, then "e tire in Se~l doe cut our Haire, neither is there ~ny more R(tI{on that we Jhould counterfeit Women then thry Me~; None can deny but that both have been a((ounteda (hame· fult rtproach. Diogenes, to one with curltd long Haire, asking a qu~(tion, denitd to an[wtr, untiO he WM lI{eertained whether ht "as a Man or a wo· man; But the maine Qu.ere ii, what long Haire it iI that is repugnant to Nature, againft ber Law, and again(f, above) or beJide the Naturall u[e,and

Igtl;nft

The Artiftcialt Changling. 61 ~:~:d~Rc.

'..'S,i,,} ,he "der of Natflre, ,.hi,h fler, BeAHs 06- .~ {i,ve, and which turnes to the Dilmmage of t"6e IIftr,

whith ;1 nothing tl(e, thtn to be fl""'ge fmn the ,lid

for which Haire was gi<Ul-n to r.,M,,,, ; whether the

Hl.ire of M." ,ught til bean, IOllger', thenbartt,lo

mItT the sleu/l or whether the, (bolita be allowed,

which "lIch,m the Craniam aPJr/ are not in the Heads

'lit 1I0tabl, deft'eNd 6e/oJf1 tht skul, ,md can bring n,

rtliifeto 'he Hc,d, and whether foeh Il"irecan be ei-

ther holle}, mnd" or f,,/I 0/ Majefly ? Some thin/:

,hilt god h.,h delineAted the hounds ~fthe Hairu6QNt

,he ForthcAd, "'It I that fill'c the Iml"ds Art (0 a"'phi-

''1Uy jlrlldt 'Ht as it were with" paire ofCompaJ!es,

tfJerelm ;t isnDt lawfull to tr anfgreffi t {ufo {;01l1lds :

W"i&I"lot" n,' (ol/Ortl I fllr 6, thefam~ rute, Women Aiel, he jborne, ftnee they h,we (origin~",) tho{e aemmined ~IJHnds o(the Haire, ",hich are Clltedlly our 8a'~ers ;he 'N.!,,1I111 Angles; BeclINfe the Bones a,~ aeli"eawJ. "here theY4r ire,t htrfo'~ jb,utd t hey run 0111 noforthlr? N"turf halh determined the place rvhmce 'he Ner<ues arife, fiIIf.ht thiy 19" therefore to /preotd over ,h~ Body, IJUl6/cllt ~Jfthtr~ where tht, Arifo? Msno gild argument from the 6~und of A things rifing, t,the h,und of its pr6greffo. .Alia the H Aire ,,~s ",, Dnl, ;,mndtd t~ ceuer and warm the skill, for It ma, e,ver the Temples o1na the Neck, bre""(e there mmoflth;II B,nes; 'l his is the p,incip!e 'f the Ner<ues which fprwl thtmfelvtl BV" the whple Body, ArJJ lire CBld 6, Nature, thereforeh, the COlm{t1J of the 6tft p!Jy(itians, the[~ pArts sr« ,,6e covered,.ith the H,ire ; The, thelefo,' who "',Hid have us beliwelbal the Haire jhoNld defeend no I'wti" thm the £",.el, and whichlrAn[ce"J ,h,folimits) p}'Mid cOfllHmeliolljly, de~

- fjJlghr

-: ~'i1

The ~~tcncy 6... 71" en Tr'a' mlOrtridl":O It ' .

"fHmthted. ~ ,.lV.Lw ')U J

,~ JPight Nature, ,M having fa much intrilifique malice in it as canllOt Jland with in.nocenCt~, ha~ need pro'L'e tl)at Adam had (ciJ1ers, and cut his H asre m Para: dife. They are yet more [euere, who n:ou1d ha't,:e It agailJ~ the Law of Nature, to weAre H are ielowthe skul ; for there isfome difference /;etwee~ Nature a~Jd the law oj Nature: The Law if Nature IS that, whzeh hy rea{on of Rationali Nature is common to all Men amfJng themfelves, which is written in the Hearts of all Men, according to which they a~cufe or excufe themfeh.;es. They are Hot of the Law of ~ature ,which mat,y Nations never had, nor have notice of, It mufo he known to alt Men; Some think this Law is written in aU .Mens Hearts, <'xplicitely as to (i.me things, implicitely as to others, and we (hali not charge .ali Nations of Malice or wilfun tranfgreffion agamft the law o/Nature, who nourifh Haire befides the ;ntension of Nature, fince there are many conclufif!nf which are of the law of Nature, which are nOt kJ10wn to all Men; To (one/ude, Haire long or {hort, thick or thin, more or lelFe, is a matter oj' indiflermcy; 'wherein there is a variety incident according to' the diverfitJ of complexions, ages, {eafons of the re-are, climates' or places of habitation, difeafes or health: the prolixity or Imvity whereof wee cannot fofitivelJ determine, Upon pr.ettn(e of their hot climate, the Turks caUfuch as weAre long H aireon their HeAds, flovens, and' account them' 'Salvage Bea/h, for they them{elves weare no Haire at aU upon their Heads. We in'colder climatts are hound hy II principle of Nsturan praEtife alld conveniency, to reduu our Tonfure

. to a ;uft moderation Ifmf decency; f¥·hereinfomeregard mu~ be had to (u{tome, which is the rule of de• corum:

7"he .ArtiJiciallChangling. 63 !~cc~c~.airc

corumfor he doth that which is !idiculo~s, a~d 11] e ~ honeft and conuement, who oflends ~gatn.~ (u~om~,

rthich is the Rule of Decency) n'h? ietllg (tngular, ,5

Poled and dofcly cut among thGje who weare a iu[h,

or bu(hie among thefe who are poled. .

The .Maldives cfteem black Haire a great Beauty, and make it com~ fo by Art, by cont,inuall Ihaving, keeping thcll" Heads (haven untill tight or nine years,they (liave tI;cm from 8 dayes to 8 dayes which makes the Haire very black,

The T:rks have a black powder made of a Mincrall called Alcobole, with which tincture they ufc to colour the Haire of their Heads ana

Beards black; And divers with us that are grown LOI'd B~(OIl

gray, and yet would appcare young, findc N~~.Nlfl.'m.8,

. . k b' bi VICI,

meanes to make their Hanes blae . y com 109

it (as they fay) with a leaden combe, or the

like. .

Verily the Art Cofmctique refufcth to accommodate any in this bufincfle, It being !10U to be attempted by Art, fincc Naturall. whitenefle of aged Haires is rather an Ornament then a fhame unto the Head; and therefore Iince grayndfc, as it cannot be amended, fo it ought not to be palliated with any Fucus,and he tha.t affaics to doe it is ju1Hy derided, of whom Martttli.

Mentids iuvenem tinflif, Lentine, captllif, Tamfulito cor'l./us qui modo cygnus eras, Non omnet fallis, fcit te Proferpina (anum, Perfonam capiti detrahet iDa tuo •

Cana e~ barba, tibi ni[<ra eft co""1> tin .. 'l,ere larbam, Non potes, be« ,aufa e(t,[ed potes Ole comam.

L 'The

{Marlial,l, r. Bpil.r.

Zdem lib. r. Epigr·9'}.

...•... -~~-

64 Man Tratl!form·tl: 0 R;

'I'hc 7'urkifJ? W0l!len alfo praCtiCe this Art, of b,lack1l1S their Halr~, as a foyle that makerh me white feem whiter, and more becomrning their other perfeCtions.

The ciguanians (if Nature deny it them) make' their Haire black by Art.

I'linle7{at. The Water of the: River Bu[entu.{, would

Hjfl.lj~'3. fcr~e t~}(~fc People for a. curious Cofmerique, which IS reported to have a propcrue to die the Haire black. The like would another River (as tharin Bolttia) which makes the fleeces black of thofe Sheep that are dipdn it.

1.in{,boten lib. In Jap~n, contra de to the opinion of rnofl Na- 1.&dp.t.6. dons, Who think it a goodly fight to fcc Men with white and yellow Haire, efleeme it the filrhieft thing in the World, and they reek by all mcanes they can, to make the Haire black, for that the white caufcth their griefe, and the

-::;;~~I.lib. black makeeh them glad; And therefore they mourn in white.

In Germaniethe Noble Virgins, thatthey may fee~c to have fomewhat ~otique and peregrine Heue, or that they may differ from the Plelean Maides, to w'hom the ydlowor Golden colour is gratefull, affe81: to have their Haire black.

Sit [ttl", -tHHJ'# '1.khr""'j6eir 'NeJ"wn ·6, t'~· tI,,51i()If" Artificial! p,,,,hA_(e. Tltl{t rlrg/TIS [telnllI ,htm/elllHs ·f' lI,e~1 thM lEthiope, w/g, lived i»,h, CO"" 'f lI·m'llIi", Germane p,i"ce, whl oftttl ,,1m h,t {it. in fill ,,"'fr,," ,,,ire, ri'.fm, (Jnd.yp.ilh~/IA IlItle 614C1e whelp, . he {Alll-lmIQ.,.ht Yirg;tI, "".,1r.eml f";I'e, HI ,-his 1)'gi1 flirland 6elllll;/*11 ;Gau~et fic cOl'l~ler atfo, -¥II Ju!ius :Scaliger (.III! : ,MU' . . . hi!t'l).1

Arrllid.tl black Haire.

~

Slndfl Tre'IJ,tslib.i

Fellr Mm. v",d 3.

Tb« ArtiCc;4lJ Chan(!linn 6~ "leilo. Haire

'1.' b b· J .!feet,d.

ha'Vt kno.,,, "me Wlmen Am,lIg NS .. hi "jelling ~

th,i, MIll H "I,e lorits ~t*rall rerJ;ejft, h/we worn

Ma,k t.rt,J lI&kl; whIch 4lth,ugh it/4Ififitd ,heir comple_l()ns, lind ,herein waS II m[p"JJe IIgilinp NII-

ttJrt, '" tile, fetm" agrtll ",it" 'htir clee, skIns 41

'h~ Natfm.lIdoe, wi,h the 61ack Womell,h", ",ec/~tre

s"II'I'Ii.

This ,inl!,m ofHI.;re, ;S hut .. fiolip) amlridkulOllS 1[,lIaIlQ1I, all' mallY times pmm a {ill/ull 'fIa"it,: Galen thm!ore, a FamoNs Mr. ;11 Co[meliqflts, 'IlI,uIJ tlwcr communicAte t, any IDofland wllntDIJ Womall,A", m,dlCAment 10 make their Haire ~tack 6uaNfe he knew the, WONtd af"ft i,: ~II' tl Matr'ns who liv~d

hm/IIJ, he wilti1Jgly afforded thi' /lccomm,dation Hi'r.MII'~.I;{'.

Th W f· 1" • de decorallone.

. e o~el~ 0 0 d rime.did mof] love yellow

Harre, and It IS found that they introduced this colour by Safr?n, and by long fitting daily in the ~un, who inflead of Safron fornerimes ufed me~lCate~ Sulphur. This Art of changing their Haire ~lth Safron, ~as called Crocul'hantea. Tertullian ,6{eTvillg thIS artifict, tels the", that the, are afhaWled 'f their &l1I",r1, alld 'lVould be Gauliie W,,,,e,,, or Germanie WOl1ltlf, fo milch did the, dlf gllJfo themp/fles, wheTe~y Is know" hsw ",tuh re,J Balm "ert ejlteme,J ill ,lie old t;",e which to fetla ,ut 6, ~", St. Cyprian Iflld S,: Jerome with Terrullian, doe [ay,thatthe [",.,d"pr.r;,~etheft,e

ifHtl. 1'",

Galen afpr",es ,II"t ill his timt moft Womtn wert G,le"./ib.I tI,.d with the HeAd-IIeht, ntilhtr &luttl there 6e lin de 'IJ~~i",enliJ ,,"'.edie "pplied t, thiJlJ.viU, 6ecatlj"htJ jltJl!tia IOIl~ loca/lbHf,ap.I,

whIle l1"re·htadtlli" the su", "rentier ,heir 11",rel Matmrpu! tl, ,to,.", (m~h, rel",Slkal flr'hefo"'H~uJt) flmuf~:fli::b'I{H

L 2. them

ArllllciaU ., L li"",,, rfi 'J 0 ''1

yellow Haire. {90 lYJ..an" -I ram orm:ll,

VY'\j ,hem 19ftlhei, Hllire alld "(,.me ~.ld,,,ndJPtrHetlumlto Ovidsremtd" /orth41 dtjfCl, titht,tohor. r(llV other Womens Haire, or to rtlYlfack the Graves·

. oj the Dead, for adIhoneJ1 fllpp!y. .

Tcr!lll\ia~."b. Tertullianrpeakin~ of elm tbtng; (lith, that Woo drt'rnallljre- met) Ivtn prmtijhutfo~ this their taFciviou.('mffc, ~r

tJjin:rlall. ,I I' 1/" Jfj

thallJ mfln ofthtir daily long ttbodein the SlIlI, their

Lucian in Heads Iwreoftenmojl t{rievorljly hurt with the Htad.

Epig,·am. ache, and;1 [eems when this folly "'as grown hahit,,,,11 unto them, II dcgentrllfed into Dotage; fDr Lucian very lepidly deridtS an old Woman~ who notJPithflandmg pm WAS {tVtNty Team of age, ytl fhcewo,lld h,wt 1m Haire 0/ a ye/lolV linaMre, and exhorts t~e old Mother to de(ift /rom her flUy; fir atllJltlgh /bte tottld eolour her {i'ver HaiTts, 'Yet fheccouldnot rtcalJ her age. The Venetian Women lit this day, lind th8 Paduan, .nd thop of Verona, .nd,ther parts of Iraly, pral1ifllhe fome vAnitie. andrm;ve thefalnert· tomplnce for ,heir affeBation, there hein! iN liB theft Cities; epm and manifeftexamplts, ,fthoft who hAve undergone .. kinde of Mar",Jome, to rulder their

Sehencklus H dr« ycllo,v~ Schenckius relates unto us the H 1101,,/ ~bfIYVal. lib. a cert aine Noble Gentl(wom.m, a~ollt fixtten or feve».

teen ,eares of Age, th41 would exp'p her h4rt Ht4dto' the fer""" heal 0f'he S,m dllil, fIT [ome h"ms, that· . Jlm mig hI purch4(e yet/'R1 and lon.~ flaire, b, ano;n. tint them with luerlai»e ,mguem ~ lind althollf,h fIJt,6ta;ued the tffta of her defim, yet withllU, fhee rfuredt, her (tlfe II violen, Head ath, lind bl",/ a/m,n l'tIery tillY abundilntty through Ihe Nop: andon 4timt 6eing tltfimts to fl'p the I$Im1 hy the prtji'ing 'I htr'1i.!!fl,i/s, not /Arr from her right B,e "WArd her _TtlPplt) ,hl,ugh II f"e, M it were by" hotewMrJe with,.

needlts;

The Artil:cialJ CLAn1ul,'n!!7: '67 M. ad aff~ft.ln,

, . '1'" Klu b O· - ef yell : Han·e.

nudles p~int. the Bl~,d hurj/ ,ut IIhundarJtly, Iwdla- ~ king away her fingm; IIgliine caufod;t to rtln through

her Nofi ;andal thaI 'Ve,y timtfhee was dlfiflfed6'J

the objfruElion of her cOllrfs.

v1nothtr M ,tid atro hy tlfi~~ this fame Art, he- J?hlnne.

I .n bli d "I r.' Francus ""d.

came a m~)' In WIt n tore Eyes. callJicenjis.

Had thtfe Women ktlown the {terets of tilt art Cormetiqrlt ;nvmtcdto this (ffW, tfPeciallythal harme-

teJ!e andtmknown rarity of Lufitanus, they might Lotli:.~~U5CCIII. hav4 gone a lutter way to lVorkt, Or haa they known s·'" a '59' the tinEl"ro IVhich the jf.gyprian Women tire tocolollr

their HAnds and Pee) into a G9lden hue, they (as

Profper. Alpinus [peaks) corlld !oave nothinglVoich Profper. Alpi. they mi".ht morefteurelJtlfe to tTu.ild their H aiff nei: nus.llb <I!

o ~ 'plalll" iEgypl

tIm J1Iouid theJ nud to burne them(elves inthe Sflric';P.I3. •

beams, and divcr/e wayes ojfend their Heads; nei:

tber 6, re.[ono/this depraved lill{/ure Oft heir Hairts;

would they, as fome Pirgins hllve hem, IIjfefled with

foch peri/OilS and wonderful! by/ll,omes ; rpm oGferva-

tlo» oflllhichexemplary prmipJmenes, Johannes Fran-

cus the ,phyfilian thlls[peakes : So ,hey who arc

fludlous to IIt~<~ment their Beaut1, oJlemirms d(forme themfelves,

What a curiDl1S accommodation to thefe people had'Plinielib.3·

r: "I. h h d h .a: Nal.lllp.~ap.

Jome Foumllmeoten,t .It a II almele", p_roperty to 106 •

cDtoHr their Haire according to tbeir mimIcs, fNcha

one as the Rioer Crathis mentioned by Plinie, whofe .

~t"re was to make Haire ye/Jow, which efficacy 0- OV1~ {,tla.

vid attr;brltts to Another. m9~p jQ II.

Crarhis & hinc Sybaris, nofiris conrerminus or is,

" EleC\ro fimiles faciunt Aeroque Capillos.

Montanus taking notice oj Ihis erroneolls !,ae/ire,

L 3 (If;

·MadlilFc4kr. . 711· T: ,~ · J • 0

Of~~. 79 J.YJ.6tn rllnJ)rJrm". 1\,

I '/ Womtn ;11 hi, time i" Verona, and o,h" parlSfJ/ Italy, '(my ratiollan, ~nd LearNedly o6[er'IJes, Il;al thiJelldea'f/our flrornamtnt, cafllhlminto" Krt.tter mifohitfi, for although the, Ofllaintll their end ill colo"ri,« ,IJei, haires. 1et afmwardl ,htrtupon they become fllrter, har" a"d ha,fh, whereat ",,,,nonly W01JltfJ have /oklg and [oft Haire. But theft Worn'lI, ,hoofing wer thaI whl&h is ",6r/l. Nfo flrong Willtrs which are d'1m; for allhollgh tht, ,hitde thtir H4ite is coloured 6, Ihe",. yel they ra,her {;Nrnt the", ,,"d make the", ]hort, the, deftro, mlJrtfJ'lJer 'heir rd~ fiAnce, And which is w~rfo, tbe, deftr"I;fi# jelft.

A caution to be confidered of by our Gallants. .

The European Galatians although they have yellow Haire by Nature, yet they ufc great diligence to increafe the Native' colour, making their Hain~s thicker by Art, that they differ no-

thing from H orfc maines.

111 the low Counrryes, the Ier¥'ifh Women who are all black Ha.r'd by Nature, wear great yellow Pcriwigs, which.Ifhppofesiseieher out of Ioolifh diilike of their owne complexions-or eIfe a defire to conforme ehcmfelves, to the gencrall hue of their Hair atnong whom they livejor both.

1Je{er;Plinrf The Savages of Nova Francia, although their N~'IIA f"n,j~ vanityflretcli not fo far as to the curling of Haire, yet it doth to the colouring of them; for as much as when they arc merry, and paint their Faces be it with blew or with redd, they paint alfo their Haires with the fame colours. And indeed painting the Haire of the Head, hath been anciently noted in the l.ndiam by many Poets, who tooke occafion to dcfcribe them.

1~: B~btm,de morib,j, lim,illln lill.3.

His

rrt: A :1:' It Ch l' 8 Tintturcof

:lUe rt'.J~cUl . ang mg. ~ Haircoadem:

Hi!. coma) liventes imitatur crine hyacinthos, R~l.

Atqs gerunt fimiles H yacinrho fronte capillos, D}Qni{i1ll AI'l'

Et qui eingentes croceo medicamine crines, LIlian.

TinElure of H eire is moSt fhamefull and deteflalle in Men; {o in that impotent creature and untamed AIJimal, woman (to the mote honouratle fort of whom ornamentalt drejJes of Haire are permittetl) the indulgency is to te moderated, and their licence herein /!,ralJted them by Nature to be reflrained with. ilf. certaine bounds, that it neither ex tend to too much curiojity or an.y [UCIIS, fiYJce alt [ucujJes in the very endeAvour of Beauty are ugly and difhonoura~ lie to Nature •.

One thing (faith Kornmannus) is Hrange and moSt jingularly remark all:: out oj' Guliclmus Pari[ienfis, uponlhe {ayingofSt. Paul I Corinth. II. A Woman ought to ha'C.:e her Head covered, /;ecauj'e olthe the Angels. This rome have tmder~ootl oithe eviU Angels, whore lu~ they thought wa. vehemmlly pro'voked and inflamed hy the Beauty of women: I-1 ah: and hence the Incubi are more trouUerome and prone teve» women, who have a[aire head ofH aire;which happens throug hthe J ufl permiffion o.f God, for the vanity,pomp,and idle complacency offuch Women,"lJ Ilo !peNd too milch time in trimming, and colouring their Haire, infolently gloryiNg in that impro'tJed Ornament, and oftentimes hy their Beauty, infiamin._'l, others to luft : and {a percha. nee for terrour, the p. rovidence of Divine goodnef!e, permits them to Jiener this tentsiion from evilt fPirits, that they might de:

Ji~ from {uch viline care, fearinf, to en{nare Men with their H air,to luft after them'.lznce they{eem to in. p~gate and provoke to /u~ the 7"fry Diuels themJ'eI'tJ.es.

. whlcl)

Man Transform'd: Q'R;

whiel1 may [erue [or a caveat to the [rizeled and O7.;e,' powdered G allants ~f our times, left they pra-

'Lcke, rome {u(culm,f, to gt'tl'e them an UJUlookt Jor vifitatton.

P",:dJas pilg,~'; The Altlffines let their Haire grow, which

'J..llbI7. Ierves them for an hat and Headrire, and for

fil~er bravery they curle and anoint their Haire ~1th butter, ,which fhcwes in the Sun like gratfct 111 the morlUng dew; leil: their locks and curles fhould be ~Hordercd, when they goe to Bed, ~ach one pitchcth a f?rke orcratch, a foot high III the ground, betwixt the homes whereof he repo~(:rh his Neck, and flcepcrh with his Head hang1l1g. The JelTamine Butter with which our Gallants anoint their Haire, is a pretiousinven-

HclynTcrrll don belonging to the fame vanitie, The ManiNig.'ir. conJ!.o Nobilitie for the greater Gallantrie anoinn their Haire with the fat of Pifhes which makes them Irink moil: abominably.

Heres C!lorious co{metiques for our tender Gldlll,r.ts, 1l'~/ch would prov~ as pleafing to their ho~ericall .MI{l'ftUeS,as the [neet Atomes, which make {ueb a Cirque of olimpique duIt upon their hoarie Shoulders. And to make a little bold with the hal'Jd{ome exprrffion of a Gentleman, who, as I underftand, could have been content my Booke by commin~ a little foon~r to his hand, hsd affor~ed him tbe fame opportumty. Our Gallants wmte noddles are put into {uch, a pUfe modiftedtrim, the diflocations of every J/ am fo exaClly ret, the whole bufh [o curioufly candied, (and ulJich is moH prodigious) the naturali jet offome of them, (o exalted into a perfeR azure, that 'their familiar Friehds' have much a«oe to own their

Pacet.

11 .tre-

Ano;olers. 70

c(~\1

''''1!~"-",-

'The ArtificiaU Chang ling. . 71 ~~fr~~rcd

Faces. For '" their powdered H eads,you lrould take ~ them to be Meal-men:'Tis agreatlenefit oINature to

to ha'L'e the lett,rty of a free tra"[pir'ation, wherely

tbrougb the c~mous em_unElions of the pores, fhe doth

co~#a~tl) emttt a,nd dtslur~en hetfe/feof{up,er:Jluous e;.;aporatt~ns) whtch ()therwife ~~e may we" tbt}'Jk,tho{e

f~we~s betng llockt and ehoakt ttl' with tbtU jirut ar-

Itft:la" dulf, ,conglomerated into dirt, ly the juriow'! a~t~g o~ their fiery, Braines, may in time dij]l1ive ifJ dl(ftllattons, and (If not, ollt/Fatt their ir.'L'entions, n:/~ert tbey have a ~i{poJitton to court their fo/iJl:reD fS, IPltb rome rare Puce of PoJie) Ii nd a paJJaf,e to their LUi'I$S' ,and c acexicate their pretty Corpu{culums, if not til t!m~ make way f(Jr a ConfumptiofJ. Alld leJides the,opptlatton of,thoTe inviJille per/orations, through ~htcb Nature IS _wont to wire-draw {pare humours Into a fine ~x~rffemcy for a (upplementalL hand{ame 0rnament,tt ts,to ie doubted the old ~ock too,ly vicinity after a, wh~ Ie, grow putrid and fall away, and then they wilL either looke itke pilt'dEwes, or el{e muH put,on a ~eaJlly thing calL'd ~ Perriwig.'l,' and make theIr Friends put a wor{e interpretation upon the matter, then there may ie caufe) indeed one (1(1- ~'a~:age tbeY,may happily. have fy Ibis ~rtiJice, th~t J oJte!tf~eattng and new dredging their Heads, for recrut~, tn (hort time their Heads may grow {o well

~Otkt In Jix, footed Cattell, that thej need not te to Jeek a~'a,!y time of a medlcine jor the Jaundies.

h~rtzhng ana curlin~ of, HaJre ,with hot Irons, w ,1c1~ was lately much 111 Iafhion with us an ~ft1fic~al affetla~ion in imitation of a naturall buG.

Haire, was III praCtiCe among the Romalls.

M

Cum

Men wIth M -r: rfi ·d· a

pllled Haice. 7 'L an J. ram arm. R,

O~fd cumgraciles 1]tnt, t ame» & lanuginisin~ar,

IImqrr, He» milia vexa« quanta tulere come 1

Rt, ... 11'nje pr,ebueratferropaticiltO'C/ i;,,,; 1 Vt pact torto Nt,'lCilii ode jiliP5. ~ C/iIYilal{lm[ctiM e(/, i(lcs {Ctk! tli'fyt crine« Stonte decent, c.1pi:iIerrea i,.lree t ao,

IJ,~pro~mt arl.r Seneca well obfcrvcd and ccnfurcd this vanity: / •• 1101: rovtYJ'l' I ld 1 li ' t 15 now 1<: t 1(' accomp ifhed Gallantry ol

our Youth, to frizlc their Haire like Vvorncu,

to fpeake with all effeminate Iinalncffe of voice, and in rcudcrncflc of Body to match rhem, and to bedeck thcmfclves with moll undcccnt trimrninz, But their extreamc curiofiry, . in planing and foY. ding their Haire, he in another place JoH: lively de[cribes,and as,l?arply,but julll y rCfroves: how doc they chafe It the barber be never fo little negligent, as if he were trimming a Vvomanshcw do th c_y take 011 ~f any th~ng be lopped off their feaks or Ioreteps, If any dung lie Out of order, if every t,hing fall not even into their rings or curlesl which of thefe would not rather choofe, that the flate whereof he is a member, fhould be.in corubufti~l1, then his Haire ~lOuld be difplancdt who IS not much more Iolicirous of the grace of his Head, then of his health? who makerh 110t more account to be fine, then honefl ?

Periwigs alfo have been an ancient vanity,and :a{fumed by them, who were non well plcafcd with Natures donative, for the Romans (as many Gallants among us) wore Haire which they bought inftcadof their own.

The Artiftcittlt Changling.

Jurat capillos eJJt quos emitfuos Fabulla, nunquid i/la,Pau/e,pejerat?

falullafwcars, her Haire (which at a rate She bought)is hers.is {be forfworne ill that?

And this ~ithGut ally fhame they openly bought:

Frtmina fracedit denfJ1ima crinihu! emptio pyoqucf uif alios efficit arte [uos, ) Nee pudar eft emijJ e palam~

Cah» turpius eft nihil comato,

Then tuJhie haldneJJe nothing is more deformed.

SCENE

7 3 Pcriwlr;d bal.

palCI.

~

iMarti.l.liiI.l~ Bpigr.1f

lIllIe Fore. 74 head, .Welttd

~

Man T'rtJnif(}f'f/t'd: o R,

SeE N E I 11.

Frontall F ajbions a./felled by di'Perl

Nations. -

~ He ilJe."1CiCans jud~e thole the <1~1 moil: bcautitull that have little Foreheads, and whereas they [have their Haire over all their Bodies betides, by Artificiall meanes, they

..Ij'b..r.:.~~~ labour to nourifh and make

., it grow only ill their Fore-

headstand it is to be fu[peeted that the Matrons of DIBIJ.Hi/l. Secot« in Florida by fome fuch artifice have a .

Jr... ilion Forehead.

The late F_ afhion generally ufed among{\: us both by. Men and Women, of bringingaown the H airetocover the F orehead, and almoft to meee the Eye-brows, Iavour'd fomewhatofthis affcltation.

Nature hath circumfcribed the whole fpace, JIIee call the Forebead, which beginning from the Biebrows, a,{cends even to the forepart of the Head towards

The ArtiftciaO CbangJing.

wi%¥'ds the (oronall fuMe: nhi ch is I he /'llitude of the Forehead, the longitude is from one ot tl.'e ,]'eml'/es unto the 0- tl,er,tow(f(({s jlle future, which extends to tl)( ftonJ tones,to which I)lace the Hairs a/To come, fo Ibat. three parts of tlle/ront are toun-ded out with the Haire oj the Bead, the Eie-l roas enclojing thefourth : all wbich place Nat/tIe intended to le '!o'l.:eaU.r. and 'L?id of Haire, (no~e Naturally growIng tberin) bteau}e the »[e of the Hair is to C01Xf, n-beretls the.Fo~ebeatl is }'o rnuclJ covered nith 1I sire as lfe p/!ilfe: to what end l)IId H aires /trown in tbe Forehead ~ which could not have been {uJtefed wit/Jout prejudice to tl.'e ei«; whem they will have fbadowed : to remove which obffacle,we fl)ould /;(1)e (tood in need of conti nuall tonfare, which Nature providently prevented, left our Body fbould have l'erpetu'l/ly ma4e worke for us. 'Tis true, that part in Bruits, whtch an{wers to the Eorehead, is h"iry, yet is thought no way to hinder the aHion of their Eyes: but that may be in regard their Eyes are placed mIre to the fides then mens are, and thet'r prone a[pe[t makes it 1iot{o iJII,onvmiou,and tllerfore we may wi.th Hofman askl! whether the erefj Figure of Man did notrequirt fuch a{moothm[fe andbare ForelJead:the grl)wing of Hair!! in. rucl) an info/ftary place,

\ M 3 . to

75 LGwForcheads alt'et\ed

~

~a~t)ff~a.d 76 Man Tramform'd:O R,

~./J['(J) is accelmled IIfld reckoned by Pla[('rusfor a deformity, {iMe II IlIrge'/mliOlb Forehead is Ihought" add/,men hat to the bra»11 of the p,lrt. T?cy t~ereflrewho tllfts la~ofll' to remove I he bound filM l1ane-mar/(t of Nsture, to cloud the thr01JC of L~ve and HonDNr, and tbe lmpaiall frat and manfiOl1 plac~ofJYifdome, placed in thefront of A-1.m, ojftr agr.,./Je. mdt~ntty and defPight ttnto N aturr; and ptmt 10 ctalflu lundred Of Cats lind Sown who amorlf. (Jther hAiry frented .A~ rim:", h .. vc lit;le and 1MT"rOII1 Fire/uads r And if Natt"t Jboutd jllflly an[wer 'hem in their j,11y of folC ng their Ralre 16 a p,eterNatu,all dt{ceNt, .lInd fl, e ~({hl ning their Foreheads mo,e , hen JU8»venttnt, (d1'j7m flmctimts dot!;) flue fooutd flnd"""h e,"ffe IIntl excrementilioNS hn"mm "/;ONI Ille foreparl oflhe Bra ne, which PJott/d ",,,ke their Faeet more i"el"bOruei and conf"ftd: that in thei, little Foreheads, 6, rtarOn of tegument of Htfjre, and the hu",oNrs in 'he forep"~t "tiYig /l'jJe pe¥figerated thm is fit, alld heat .. giwmg the hflmours~ there fb'fllll e"Jut foeh am,. veable diJpofilion, as !bfi.td i"tempt and 4/;a~e the pNril) of iudicatiM, which are th,mnm,nllCctdents of {rIch P"eluads. for, lilli, F"ehe,ds coneaine /Jilt finat ventricles oft hI "iain,,,, Imtet the [pirit s fl,eighl"td afid 'ej/efled, ri(t "gaine, caflling a mo"ility of cogil4tion. Now it [temes t, me (",hoam a little tnabird II, plodding on this arglmltnt, to [meO ONt 'he 4- 6u6ve flggefl;onr ifllle grtfnd Enem, 'I M"nlti"tle, wh~'a6oII1S a/l he C.II, II "leer And Jeprave that PA" oflhe Image of GoJ, which rema;IJII ill the F ,,6riGIt of man) that in Ihe GlrI/lrmAtion o{ 'heir Poreheads,the, prevaricated '",0 waies, eilher l, "",lting the;, e"eheads mm an!.NfI the1l is Na/uraH, 4c&,rdi.g "

1,,'gil.tI,

7'he Artificitlll fhangling. . 77 ~;~~',F;~~eit'(l

1000~)tudeor decortling to tali/ride, either 6yfo c()mprcf e..T}t '\.9 Jj,)~ the shu! lind Temples "1"al/y or. tach jidf, the

Head WdS (/O,lg,II/'J, fr~m th« (orep~r~ IIIto the hmdc1'"

p.art, alfld [0 the Forehead J1m~:hlrl~fl '''01'6 then, IVM

necrf1;'ry and the decent Itmgltlldc in I VI' {;o,1C faded:

the (Jtll;,,' wu,1 W,IS 6y l~ylrJg the 11ma' .tbove t heir In-

fonts Foreheads, jo, tlhlt the esd 0/ the ":O/'l or P;/m~

fell a60llt the roots of the Hntre, a"dUJClr fi~~trJ a-

bove the filll~re Corona/IS; fo jrongty comprtJluI,g the

Bone untilltNty flreig/,tntdthe Forehead ,md?/J,ltici't

tong(~ : in both whichth"y offered,~reilt r siiolence fa 'i'l,jtflTC,inthtIS pCfvertl1lg the 'N..:!tu.r,dl forme of the Forehead.

The Spal1i[h Woo

min JealJ 19 be (0 tli.trc~m/, ajfefled with 4 high Forehead, 411d to account it (0 tran[cendcnt a beauty, t hdt they ex • tend th« bordtrs of the Forehwl,bc10rJd the natflralL con(iiJts o/the H~ire,making the Synciptd " {Ore!a" of the fleAd all Foreheads (0' "J a wonderfNO invention Ana arli/ioe, the, take of( t!Je

Hai,., 0/ the Synciput, Ana lay it 6are, f! that It lies

open in a Illrger exlent, then the ,Forehead It (elft. orw~ldus

Which arl of making" fain FQ1thead, Ofwaldus Gabclhovcr:

Gabelhover fiems either If) hAve leArned of Ihem)or 'he,l/him.

The

~i'F-----""""-' '"" :yr,.,... -~, - ." ~ •. ~,' ,~.~~~'.--.--- .~-~--.--.--'.--'

_ High·Fare.' ~ head, and FJretops,

CRO'eJ3

Spigelius.

., "i

78 Man Transform'd: 01\,-'

The Englifh commonly love a high Forehead, and the Midwives

-and N urfes ule much art and endeavour by flroaking up their Foreheads and binding them hard with fillets to

make the Foreheads of Children to be faire and

high, and we are now very lately returned from the praCtiCe of dowding the Foreheaa,with a. prrecipies of Haire, and to nourifh a foretop which tends mofl to the advancement of the Forehead,and the glory of che coun-

reliance.

The Ruffians love a brQ~d Forehea?, and u~e an to have theirs fo , Their Faces being explained and drawn out in their infancy, thereby to direCt their Foreheads to grow in this forme.

All endu.VQurto pen.Jet t aDd alter the NaturaD.

, fo~me

The ArtificiaU. Changling. 79 ::~:~For~ -.

form of the Forehelld, if a dif}aragement of Nature, .~ and any mutation wrought therein /:;y .Art implies a

fault, imperfeHion; and privation) and thefurther

. the altered Jigm'e recedes from the N~turall, the

greater the aJfeEled tran{grfJlion of th« Phancie is.

But to {peake the truth, a broadfquare Forehead,(o it

he proportionate, is not a figure much different from

the NattlraU) .Andi}(ldeedlo th~Rujfialls, who are

q(a[quare proportion, jar the mo~ part, broad,/hort,

and thick, a 6road Forehead rrhicb in a manner

:refemUes a quadran~le, may be {omewhat (ilitaUe. 1

caU that a quadran-g'le broad Forehead, which is los-

ger in one part) and hath two oppo(ite fides equall,

ha'L'ing right upper' anfl,les in the front~ pr~duced

unto the Bones of the Temples, and endtn,~ en that'

'part wherin the .Anterior implantation of Temporall

.. Mufcles arifeth: wbich quadrangular Jigure (tnee it hath two equall fides oppofite one unto the other, one o!,thefe greater jides of the quadrangle is tt.love nigh . to the Haire, the other oppojite unto it, is defcriled in a' right line, ~retched about loth the Eye-lrorrs, lind protra.Eled eue» unto the extreeme parts of them :

The lejJer ]ides are thofe whifh are noted by a line

, defcmding 6y 60th the Temples, and Imittin?, in loth the greater fides together, which figure is Plaloniek) forfromfuch a broad Face and Forehead, Plato had his name, as Plutarch and Nearchus report •..

The People of Syginnns, a Ci~y of l£gyp-, ufc great care to have exporrected Foreheads.

. The IM/ians, for the moft part, doe much rcjoyce in a prominent Forehead, efpecially in the upper part of the Forehead, which is perpendicularly oppofite unto the Nofe, wherein a cer-

- N taine

Promineftt f.ore·head"

Vi'"\j

80 Man Traniformet: 0 R,

taine part of their Haire jets Out Co! that it fecms to re-

rn:fel1t a ccrraine iillock.which they mofl affeCt, thinking it to be a fign of a valiant Man: infomuch that they' who would [eemc to be Valiant and Military Men.nourifh that part of Haire, procu· ring it to enclinc upon their Fo~eheads, tha~ it rna y {hew (being convex in the rniddleja cert~lne gibb. ofires 3$ it were the Ie(fcr part of a little noole-ball, which fa(bio~ feems lately 110 bcrevi ved by fome of our Ladlcs~

Hown;er this politide NatIon ~aJ t/f/u.de. tht'm' {elves with the opinion ~nd pra8ire of t~tS errour.i :iet there is nothing in this tiffe8ed F a(hz011; that IS ';ler] manly, II roulld promine'!t ,Forehead wIth filth d convexity, heil.!' rather ftmmme :n.y, hath romr. 1IIhat in it o{tbe Forehead of ~n .A [fo., Baldus WQ~1d (aUruch a Forehead tlevated In the mtddle, .r~eml1Jg to reR,.reftnt the lefTer halfi. e of" Sfheare, "r,dICU{OUS mon/fer. being a preternaturAU figure,. whICb ,cantllt 4JJar« a' good wit, which is a paJlion foOowmg the NaturaO{iate of t~e HI. ea,d; and if I fhould not, charg~ them with tampe.rtng wIth the mould of then' lore heads, (as l'think I juJl; might,) fin(e what. ever 4IJJ,NAtion aief's liS. {a.JJJ;on"Olf, t.hlll theyau::J

Tb, ArtifiCitt/J Changling. 81 ~~~~:~:

""ft 4",;46Ie And .ttllIl, IUId the G"/I.,,IS "'ill h"vI ~, (if Nil'." dmie it Ih,.) IJ, thep"'IIIeAtilllS of Ar"

("s ,hM ",;IJ aI' iI:) ,et wemN/I aUI!I.fo th'moJ" high

T"{Pilffi (,,,,,,,ill,ti .gainjll/J, Miljeft;e" Nature.

in ,h", 6, Ihal W~"m( l'rllm;,mlCe If th,ir PIr,IJe"d,

,he, A"AWIII, dAmllije N",.", in ,,,, 1/ the m'ft

mfitltTA6/e ""d '.p6"a", illli'lIS If the B,e, .. hie"

;4 ,h, {.Mi., .nd &~nte"'plal;lIg .btll there,! I,

He."ell. TI 'Vindirate 'it Tlg"l", 11'''''1 ""ti hOlle~,

oj N .,1Irt,[r,m thtfl PIAjliq", lmp'./1m,,,e fay, th.t a Pmhe"d,hill kttps its Nat.raO mag,litNde, illnt sf

'lit Nllij'ollJofthe P.ee,,,,hll[tI,lIgitfu{e(,,lJich we mllft

eOllcei'Ve If II right line drft'm:liwg pe'penJuNrArln

'IIIJe ,hirll part of the F tlq" tlnd otlghl 10 tlII!",eT the

Imgth If ,h, N,fo; fo 'hill if wee qomp." it II Ih,

ren If ,lte Faet, it Itlghl to ha'llOhe ,,,;,,,ion of.

h4/fi tart 10 A d!lple: its lowg,itllJe All' IIIIItI,ally it

fluh, IIJ"t the frlnl is liktwifi iN IId.p/, proportiOil

'I'lle to ,,,, 3 ,011 rna, ('''ftrre it with theg,,,, 'f

'he binJ,r P"" If ,h, Hw/, after Ihis mAnner, let

the lCei,., of" ""1411 .eH p"flrtH"eJ, 6" mt,i{imd

,,;111 .. Ih,ud., Itg;nning al tlie pan of the Tlmplts,

"herein Ihe HA;ru ttrl'llin"te the Forth, .. d, "ndlea-

dinl it "NlId ill "" 6y,h, I&ciput, uII,Ulyou end ill

tilt other p"" ,ftht Tel'llpltl. ,his ,h,wlwiltp1'o'lJC

""Ift Ihe leRgtb, whieh is /rIm /;~/h 'he Temptes 6y

,IJe {r,,,t.and' 3,,,,ipIII; ,hisis "hel'1Ig,hoftbe Fm-

htad, ".dis to the ttreumfirtlltt! ,Jlhe OteiptI'. ""der

'/Pllit" tile I .. ft 'Veil""! ,lie 6,,,;lIt is, l1li4 'he "eg;,,-

lIin,! Df the 4fttr~lirll;lIe) til ,ne I, tRl,: "nd its "ltit"de

,otl1,. ,,/Nnltlce marmer, ,mdlo'bew!Jole Fa(e.IIJA'

it ;, its thi,II, 119' "hm,i[e all' tllen II il the Ihirel

14" of,he wh,', ,i,rllmjerell(t of the Ntlld. This

N 2 P"elutld

Cloudy Fore· 8 /I A <:T rj';:/ oJ 0 .

hcadsatfeBcJ. 2. IVJ.tln ~ ran! orm :.. R.".

~ Forehea~ is alfo (tI."~d II great Forehead, ifit he com" pared with II jeminile Forehead; and it appeares{o . much =s=» the m,oteit. approachethto aplain/"Jell e, bet~g neither glObous nor tuberous, as the Foreheadoj'women. Boyes, or Ihofe which trarlpofed leyond Nature by the nnolence of Art are.

The rea{on why the Forehead fhould . rather draw nigh tO,a certsine plainneff e, then It .concavity o~ II, com.:e;"lt)', IS thIs; for, that platnneff e is a ceruun« meene between a convex and a concave figure. Now If, front that it difpqJed according to Nature, comes into a Nt.turaU mediocrity, becau{e tllat conduceth moft to the advantage of.M an, that he might be vigorous in fence and memory, which he cannot well exerC1[e,. unleiJ e he. ha't;e an out-jettyo! the occiput,. lvhich.could not be done unleJJc the part of the Spheare ~ppofite unto it fhould be prij] cd together; thtrefore tt is fo frame~ that a plaine Forehead is· adjoyned to atuberous OCCiput.

'The ArtiCciaO Chano!inri83·'SJlgmllb.'d

'1"'. . . b o· /Pere.bcads.

intention oj' Nature, WllO neuer meant the Foreheadl~ Jbould be alwilies cloudy, sor ever deere, but to

chan_l!,e [cenes oc~aJional/J' according to the {e'1.;erall

afie8io1.& of the mind,

, The Samians

were wont of old .

to burnlettrrs 111 their Foreheads,

and in a brave-

ry to fiigmatife rhcmfcl vs, whence Ari~ophanes cals them populum literatum: and it was

a proverb, Samii.,.· n,eminem efJ e lit erattorem,

The ingenious Joh.n.~ohem~ Women arc marked with ccrraine notes in the db f/lOrltH4. Forehead; which is accounted a kind of genero- II 'j.

firy, they efkecming it an argument of ignoble-

nclle.to be withoue them.

Among the rhracians (al[o)thde frontall cha- Pancer-ol.lit. radcrs were mofl familiar, and eflecmed a great hd, pQTCcI~· ~llligne of'Honour and Nobiliey, Cicero's phrafe

IS, that they were notis compunEli, and hence

fiich marks were called Threici£ note : and rna-

ny of the India1'!s areae this day of the [arne opi-

nion and prachfe. I remember to have. [.:-('n in

London, a wcll favoured .1flackmore Boy, who

had the mark of a barbed. Arrow fianding in the

midft of his Forehead •

The pmali lawes o/fome Hates) have indeed£n-

N 3 jliCfed

The Scylh)'Mis, (con~rary to the Bononians, who for, the mofi parr have very fmooth Foreheads ) have all cloudy Foreheads" made. on purpofe fo by art, and he .that . hath noefuch an one, doth' not S (Jth;c ~ intuery.

.A lontrivanee dealle· (ioffing the. intention

Porta pby/i' 'u,.Iib.:. •.

'The AniccldlJ Cb,l1lt'J/ino 8· ill PalnteclPor.;

'J'" b b· ~ beatiL

knees, which painting the SpaniArd ufed as a ~ iratagem to take their King.

The Relatorfaith,th_ta Man would thifJlethetnto te incarnate Dive/s, hr6/tt out of HeU, theJ arefo lilee H ~U-h.ounds. 18m fure they 'Liolate-And impudently affront Nature, thus to objcare l~e Na!ur,,~ r~lft if Jhame and mod~(l bafhfulnejJe wIth thm pa:nlmg i {o that the flufh'lIgs oj the purple Mood, whteh Nature fends up to releive the Front in the paQion of (bame, carm~t ftgnijicantl,y apptare in their. Na-

tive hilt'. .

:r.:~ Pore. 84 MaM1'rtlnl!omiJ: 0 a,

,~ {li8ftl up4n runntgate flaves and Malej'afiors, at »eleS of jlavt'1 and' infamy) .hranded markes on the Forehe~d; l~ fo,. Men ingenious andIree, to aJJefl fuch (ltgmattcaU charafiers) as 1IJ9te-S of bravery) and Enftgnes, of HMour .an1 Noli/it)') is" veryjlrllnge phaltt~fitCaU' prevarlCatton; for, Nature never inten,ded the Forehead to be, Tanquam rafa Tabula, a ftUrt blanke table of the aJfetlions, and a plaine Index of the mind, not to he charged I¥itb our artiftciall char.afters, but the NaturalJimprejfion of motion on-

ly. . .

Pureh«l ,ilgr. The Bramines of .Agra marke thernfelv es in

s.lilltl~. the Forehead, Eares a.nd throat, with a kind

, of yellow geare which they grinde, and every

morning they doc it, and fo doe the Women. ldllllead.lib.9. The Gentiles of Indoftan, Men and Women both, ,Paint 011 their Foreheads, and other parts

of their Paces-red or yellow fpots. .

The Gufaretes and Baniams of Camhllia, they weare a Starr upon their Forehead, which the,. rubb every morning with a Iirle white faunders tempered with Water, and three or four grains

of Rice. '

Lin4r,hot.I.I. The MaJahars and MejUcbos have a1[0 [orne fuch Frontall cuftome,

PIt.Man; The cyguanians are of a horrid afpea, much

U'.I. like. the People called Agath,rfu, of whom the Poet VirgiB fpeakfths for: they were all painted and (potted with fundry eolours, andic[pedally with (,lac1: and red, which they make of certain f.ruits nourifhed in- their Gardens for the fame p,urpofc" with the juice whereof. they paint ihemfelves from· the Forehead even unto the

knees,

SCENE

Man Transfor,,"d: os;

-!""7Jt..'j'-' -- -~.'---'-; ,

. ,.-

SCENE IV.

Eye.brow Rites, or the Eye-brows abus'd contrary to Nature.

He Ruffian Ladies tie up their Foreheads (0 firia with fillets, which they are ufed to from their Infancy, that they cannot move their Eye-brows, or ufe any motion ; the meaner fort alfo affeCt it: the skin is fa firei-

ned, that one would wonder how they could endure it, but they being ufcd unto it from their infancy, it is eafie. what a plot have there Women upon Nature, thus to hind their Eye-hrows to the oh{n-vation of fo JfriR and unnaturaU a filmee, to hinder her in one oj' her mo~ fignifteant operations, and to e:)cc/ude that part orthe mind whieh u[etb to he ex-

M . • hibited /;'IJ the Eye-hrows.

omllgnc In Jr' 1 b '

l1iHlif4ifS. Among rome Nations, Beet c- rows are In

fafhion : whi,h is not only quite .egainfo Zeno's phi-

10J'ophy, hut againft the ordinance of Nature, thus perver(ely

'The ArtificialJ Chang ling.

pfrver[ely to j oyn wbom /he hath {eparated. For this intereilar [pace was intended by Nature to di~inguifh and divide the hairy srthes of the Eye, aNd to make good that laudable dupli&ityor Naturall j'raterl'Jitie of the part! ~f the Face.

In the Indies, Cumanans pluck off all the Haire of their Eye-brows, taking great pride, and ufing much firperftitioll in ehae unnaturall depilation.

In Nomhre de Dios, • the Women with a certaine Hearb, make ehe Haire of their Eye-brows fall off.--......;;..... ...

In Peru they ufe offerings in pulling off the P~rc~u 6;, Haire ofrheir Eye-brows, to offerunro the Sun. PIII.I"III,&e. The Br .Jilians (alfo) 'eradicate the .Haire of their ldtllf.tld,,,,. Eye-brows.

'Thefe htttry extremities of the Forehead, the Eye-

o /;rows,

87 "SIIIftrtln" . ·FDrehead, IndBccda.

browl afRo

a~

':.,

...... 91'l'

Hsrers ef S' S Man Trallf10rm 'J: 0, R,

H lire Upofl 'J ~

the Eye brows ltOlfS: who{, circum-

~,,,"=~N .

J cript iOFt and ft-

gu,t's,P:ew I/;~t tbey lr!'Y'e made [or fbI' Eye,1 (d:f) and ill" deed they doe con:

Jeri much to the hone{ly of the Eyl IIfr" L orne with Y," the l'ki It thereof bein,~ harder, that tbe ' Haim might ie of equall namter; anti ---~~ not, increll{e to too

,fl,reat a /;ulke;whic~ tllt/Jough the~be equ.1ff i,! lmgtb, numler, and'thulmeffe, Jet .111' not Prt'lght, bllt are pr(Jduced olliqae, in manner of a, lended Bow er Triumphant Arch ,according to the roundnefJ I' of the Eye, that they ml~f!.,I)t the better calt off any thing IJJat comes againft ibe Eyf, wbic,~ if they were (hotter, {ewer, or tblnner, they (ould not [o weD defend the Eye: if on the contrary,they lvere longer and thicker, they !Vould binder IheJi~I; And therefore when they pro'tie ol.:ergrown in old /Wen,ly rea[on ()f the relaxation of the couching IO,f!.,ether of the lone wherein they aYe planted, [o {u1Jerillg II t'(anf miffion of the humours, they ff and in need oJ clipl'in~. Moreover,the Brows doe help the Eye-lids, and m;ke faire the Face: For he that hatb not his Browes hairy,is not comrly. Behold here, what inconveniences tile &(pightfuO preVarication of fome Nations have brought upon them, wh() wilfuOy deprive themfelves, oj thefe IIfe/itll and comely Ornaments of

the

Tb« ArtifiCiitO Changling. 89 r!'l,~.:!~~~:;

'/ I L ' I. ,r:" h ' Byebro, ..

tne Pace. For., rOl>tJtn({ tJe Eyes oJ t fir Naturalt ~~

'PefJt-h()ufe O~' water taXle, they exp()j'e them bare to imbricaJions.

Prom the perpetuall magnitude of tbt{e H aires, and GJJ.IO. de u{iI thfe of the Eyelids: Galen takes an ()uajion to de- pdyllllm.

ride Mofes IJ,nd Epicurus, from wblch calumnie R b'M fc Rabble Mofes defends him, and that 'L'ery' excel- ;'/II;horirc;. lentty; ~hich pillce is worth 't!Jl reading, ly thofe Mom.nua lrbo are curious, which argument tbe) may jinde dile- .mtd.p~rl.z.

tedinMont~nus and Hofmanus, . Hofm.nul

Of old nrne , the Women when rheir Eyc- C4I11Rl,,,lirt brows were long and broad.rhcymade them nar- G.I~d' U/M row, fubrile, and arched, either with pincers or ,.rIllim. "0' fcilfers, which artifice would not be approved of

in Jat'a MII/()r, where to their little Eyes, they

have greae Eye-brows: and therefore no doubt uourifhed as in rcquell'. The ni&kednefj'e and mad-

rJF[s of the Greeks

and Romans, in this effeminate placking and pulling flttheir bodieJ~ amlabujing it with depilatories,wewi Jlingly paJ]e over, left I {hould abufe good Paper with [0 foul narrations; who liffs to heare of

thefe tmmanly prac- .... ~

tifes, may find move

then enough in Francifcus Junius. "-.; Fran. Junius

This wee may fay with Galen, thatfuch eJffminate duomara'·7.

02 Men

· _ . ..,. ', ..

M~,n' Traniform'J,:Ol\~

.Men are to he piuied, nho are fo ~verfe to the truth, that they know not they ha·ve aMlnd that ,they owe Culture to, rather then to the Bodie.

The Women of old time, when the Haire of their Eye-brows, were yellow or white, they b,lack them with foot, as you may read in Tertul/tan, Plautus, .Athm.eus, Clemens .Alexandrinus,and others.

And there Women did not blufh to have it known, that ufuaUy they painted not their Faces onely, bun their very Eye-brows.

J!ye·llrow· roo

!'ainters. ,;

~

~:'!d~ercm: scitis et induffa c-andomn qu.erere cera,

AMor. Sa'!/!.uine qu.e vero non rubel, Art« rubet,

lA.'r.'!jupereilii eonftnia nuda repleti$!

P arvaque.finceras vel-at aluta genas.

Nee pudor eft 'oculos tenu; Jignarefavilla, relprope te nato livideCydne croco,

.Mdrtillll fpeaks ofon.c who{e Face did not fleep with her, but {bee am innaere with an Eyebrow, put Q~ every morning.yvhat this Fuligo or fooe was, 1S not well explatned by Authors;

Mcreuliali.. Mercurialilthinkesit 'V;1!1that Pucus which by lib.de decurRt. plin;e is faid ,to have bc(!h'caUed Calliplt'lIroA'l; the like Fucus made with !coleduft, the Women of thefe times Me for the fame purpofe.

Gri,m(\one of The .Aralian Women. nave a certain black

,bur manl«rs.·' d f h fi k fG IdS ~

pamttng rna . eat e moa -o . a 5 an anron,

with the which theypaiHt'~heir.Eye-brows ofa

'triangular forme.

The American WOl'p,en doe with a certainc

Pucus paint their Eye-brows, which they lay all

or Trlangulir." . ;;I and Hilh Ir. the" Eyebrows alfelted.

~.

The Anificia/J (hangling.

on with a pencil!; a thing alfo ufuall with French Women who have lit'tle moddl:y.

They of Csndo« Ii1alld put a certaine blackne{fe upon their Eyebrows.

The Tartarian Women anoint their Eye-brows with a black oint-z.:;::----..;=--~

ment.

The Turks have a black powder made of a Minerall called .A lc hole, with which they colour the Haire . of their Eyebrows which they draw intoembowed Arches.

The Women affe€\: very much black Eye-brows, .c:"c---".:;.;..;:~"'"'-''''''''''''

and likely they are naturally fo, if they be not, theydi~ them into this hue by Art, made high and halfcCircular,and to meetif naturally they

doenor.

The regulating of the Hsires of the Eye-hrows

o 3 when

Purcbas Pi/gt a.lib.~.

Idem Pil£.3~ liill;

I.Bacon Nat. lli~. (Int. II.

Sandy' Tr/J' vrls lib.IO!

'The'ArtificiaO Changling.

r-~~~~,I(tW 9!. M4n T ranJform·d~·~'O R"

,,~

¥then the) chance to grow out of order, and the re-

ducing them with PirIers orfcijJns to conformity, is hit II Cof metique elegancie. But this generall conipirsrio» oj aU Nations to llack them, when Natu~'e hal h produced them o/another colour, isf9mmhat deft r~~II:ve to the true ~non'ledge of comp/e;.;ions,and pre!uMctall to the cautionary Art of Phyfiognom)', which Nature htu/J[o fa'f.·ouraUyfounded in the Face to an ot{er'l:ers notaUe advantag e; and even now,when tbis fI:~et was going into the puD e ,an underftamli ng and di{creet Lady,] ailing into dtfcour{e of this vanity,told m~e'fheeknelf' a Gentlewoman" who/Jeing, di{pleafed 1ftth the natrue colour 0/ the. HaIre of ber Head which was yellow, procured a water oj' a PhyJitian a/;out this Towne, to die her Haire Black. .And hei ng ad'T.'irtlfed of the incongruiJie of the H~ire of her E~e-brows which were white, with that new tinffure of the Haire oIber Head, fhee applied tbis water to ber Eye-trows to U,uk thema/fo, 'whicb{oonefitcht o~'alJ the Haire, 4,_nd tkerdy introduced a very ridtcNlou& afpeR, betng,wtthout aUrecovery,deprived efthe Native Ornament oftbis part. ' ' ,

To draw them into embowed ,Arches, is 6ut an imitation of Nature: but to make them mut, is more then fhee ever, intellZRed; tilt (as the Arabians doe) " , ctopatnt them til a Tria»gular forme, u "piece of Geometry, which we cMllot alljw to he exerci{ed ill the l!._ye-6ro ws •

SCENE

93 Eye. lids turned lutkv;a:d, towards the Forehead,

~

SCENE V.

Eye-lid FaJhions a./fecled tM Notes of GallAntry and Beauty by .diueis Nations.

'&;.~3~§~ The Giacl.w or, Aga~i of the Pu!eha! l'i/g)',

IT' [I'.M "q E hi C ' < L d ~.llb'7.

'" .,";0/. t top/an ounrreys ceyon

";:)\ Conf(o, have a cutlome to ~indr<hoten

~ . - , turnc their Eye-lids back- lb."

, _ wards towards the Fore-head 'Pigafelt~'s re«

r ~ _. and round about; fo that pO:' (phe r

Ji;Q~ffPt'; ~heir skin being all b lack.and ~:;g~~e r

111 that blackiicfle 111cwing the white of their Eyes, it is a very dread full, and divilith fight to behold ; for they thereby caf] upon the beholders a mof] drcadfull aflonithing arpet-t,

what ftrange and prodigious Co(meliqufs hath the great Enemy of.M ankind inflru8ed the[e Infidels in, per{wading tbem to defraud them{elves oia NatuyaU convenience, for II DialoliclIU .fafhion, expofing the' mojt tender part, to aU the in;lIries ineil/tnt toJo o.

dious:

Man T r4ns[fWni"d: 0 It,"

" ' . dious an apparition,

and withall inferring not a little damage to the important operations of the Eye ;[or,the externall conform.1tion of the Eye, con(ijls not onely in the BaD or Apple of the Eye, 6utbj' the eircumjlantiaU parts of the E1t-lids,haires, and, Ej'e-hrows ; Imy

of n'bich in the leajlwi{e changed; it' will ntcefJarily foOow, the Eye cannot rightly perform' its Offi,e, rifton being a moft {umptuous thing, conJifting in {ollccurate II proportion, that it ~ands in need Of many things to its accomplifhed perfeRion; and aBions lire hurt, not onely when the PJincipall part is hurt or perverted, but any otber thing thllt is u[l'full andlllflftant unto the princip_le, as the Eyelids are to the E)'e; for thefe Coati's ofJi.v,ht or fhutting windowes orthe Eyes,are caDed Cilia a Celando 0- cul os: their NaturaD office, beingjir~ to cover the Eyes, left with variety of' OhjeHs, they fhould di{iran tl,e mind or OCII!Y it /1I!erfluolifly; the {econd imp/oyment, is 6ya meet interception oj'the Aire, to

.' {ilhtiOize it : and{o If} lUff.. and pr1'erve the Jighr{eAritr-tit·4o.de reen, they Ilccording to Iftdor.efl;eing called P, alpe"mum". bre, quia palpitando mov~ntur, ue affid!l0 ~o·

tu objufiim oculum reficlanr,' there WINton IJflng intended to refrefh the Eye, when the fight thereif' grew

...... ,.~.

'The ArtiG~ialJ Chtmolini1• 9' " The ure oldie

'./'" ". "~ ~ .J Eye.lid,.

grew obtu{e, and their Nature conJifls in a Nm;o#s ~ iVinfubftance tofacilitate their motioh; 11'1,;,/1 /;eing

almott continuaU, they there!', correft the Aire,and

fo keep the Eyes from the injuries thereof: another

ufe of them is to ado me the Eyes, and to comfort them;

whence Ariftotlc raith, that Creatures that want Arilt.Ii& .... dt Eye-lids are weak-lighted, as Fi[hes and Haires;Anddlli"',f. ~adrllpedes) clofe their Eyes ty the upper Eye-lids,

end Birds ty thfir lower Eye-lids;afi which are rather

to be called Cooperroria.ass Tela than Palpebre,

whi,l} are proper to Man.llloreov(r, the EJelids doe

not only much conduce to tbe 9uietne{s of the figIJt./;ut

of all the other Senfes, it hezr.g'(probab/e that the,Eye

olall the senIes, was encomp(lO ed with this de{enu

jor the agilitte of tbe senfe ofJight, and a communion

with tbe'other Se4(s: whence we may fllferve, that fo

long as we hold our Eyes open,or are "eufJitated to hold

them fo, wet c~nnot fleeep; nay, they who have their

Eye-/ids cut off, as Marcus Artilius Regulus had,

they are eaftly kilt d with watching, unleDe their de-

, he recompenced hy the fll6~itution of rome other which may helpe to recreate the Eyes with flerp, is the naturaU u{e ami office of the Eye-lids:much

is their in NiFfation,when we are awake.One

of the is, that /;ytheiropacitie theymigl.t

infinuat;n~ it {elft too much in the "thing wouldh.ve been anolftacle to ' .• n argument whereofwe have, ,that when we [ee Il thing more ACutely,and dijlinElJy,we draw .,'o(1ej'herour Eye-7ids, that they a/moft meet, [ometimes hold our I}lend overollr Eyes,ihat the pupiD might

morefhadowed; andfor this reA{on. it is that 'a!firmcs thofe CreAtures io {ee/arther who Avcrroesi, ;J

. 'p 1}(1:f.)e (,"[IICr [~ji/j,

i!r~dicltorsof96 Man Tran!rflrm' J. 0 R

H~~~ a. ,

Eye·lid,. have thicker Eye-lids; and for tl)isrea{on it Is,

~ tlJat Fifbl's and In{effs [ee more obtu{ely, for th~ want Eyelids. Now all thf{e intended benefits of Nature, by this divili{h de~';{e, are Jrufiratedand lofl·

)ohae,Bobelu. The Tartars, under the great Cham, have the II, m.orib~J deane contrary a.ppearance, for they have gro«e 6cnllNm,llh. prominent B,yes, very much covered. with their

Eye-lids, inlomuch that the opening in them] ver~ [mall: whether they ufe any Artifice to caule this extraordinarie expanfioa of the Eye-lids, I have not as yet ditcovered, but certainly they hold it no imperfection.For althoug~ of all men, they are moll: deformed in Bod)! yet this Nation contemnes all other Men,tbin' king ehemfelves to excell in prudence and good, neffe, rhae they difdaine ana explode all omen from them.,

Mllntlci cI/'· The Inhabitants of the Cape of Good HOY, 7a7~ar-II.'f. which Pomponius cals the Head of .Aphrica, FU~ .. . off the Haire of their Eye-lids, and therein thq paint divers things in a manifold colourcas whil/l black, skie colour,andred.'

~,!rch.1 PUgr; The Bra{iJians alfo, and thofe of SIerra LrollS 1,lIb·4. in the EaO:-Indies~ pull off and eradicate the lindrc.lii. , .. Haire growing on their Eye-lids, -which mak6

them {hew for the moft part fearefull and ugly.

M,d. p.rs 1.. Mcmanus it rums was not aW6re of this urmatt

rail kinde o!,depilat;on, prlJEli{td ly there Nal;olli, whmhe faith, that none· ever dejired to dejlro) t~.~ Congmitt and natUYIJU H airs,either lIhle or FemA~ hut· all AS well as they can, endea.vour to prrftfi,l the"" .Ithough in the Po{lgenit; they di{mm fi

tblt

Tbe Artifict.~alJ Chatlu/intT. 9' 7 n~ureolrhc

.. '. b b HII,.ofrhc

thm are fome who dejire to ha'L'e 'hem, and {ome af Eye·lid.. .

Ita them them i'Jot,as Women atld efJeminate Men, ~

to whom he h8th afforded a learned, although fame.

what too officious an accommodation. '

~an is ,then perfeEf when he Ifdnts none of thore thmgs whlC~ he ougllt ~o IJa'L'e,jor that is his perfeF1i~fJ.Every Ej] ence hat" tt~ perje~ion;the Eye ola Man t~ then H tI1l1ane, "hen It ohtatn,es bsires M the Eye~ Itds and Eye-brows. It may be obltEfed,that Man 11'L'es without the{e, and {ees:who denies iftbut tlJat man who is de/!rived o/th efe, doth not live lI~r fee hum~nely, p,ccordmg to the orde~ a~d lawes of kinde con{ttluted ly NiJture.whlSteverts tn the Body of Man according to Nature, that is ft.mply MeceffiHJ) you may mtll{ure the neceffity ly the eff ence ;{or botl} are convertible: for't!, the~ pr(Jve dejeEfive,or any thing be wanting, that BodJzs no longer perfeR and al{olute, hut lame andimperfeEl.w_hdte'L'er H sire is in tile Body,whatever it he, ([o,nothtng happen heJ!des Nature) it is nect./Jary, whtchwe ought to he per{ waded of,and rhat by a re40n, 110 waycontrmptiUe,rakenfrom the dignity of Nature, rrho alwaies whatfoever fhe doth, [bee doth for rome end; for 'tis a,l{urd, a~ Ploti~e faith, to fay that there IS {omethln/{ confittuted tn the order of things, and to have r;,thing that it calt ; for an Ens is {uch rtat~rally, that, it Jhould .AR or fu/fer {omething, wht~h{entence IS not om1y true ofthe{pecies of Effim:" us tn general I, but of aU parts that Natur~y exi(t in Iln~{pe&ifique Body, as thofe haires doe: and if we examine the tI{es of the Haire in thefe part~; we fhall form perceive the folly and madne{s of thefe nlltions)who to their owne /hame IJnd prej",dice, h.we rejected the n/sturalJ Imujils intended them /;J the wi{dome Ilnd

P 2 pro~den,e

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The Artificid!l Chingling. 99!~:,lid palD~

experience hllth pJtwed rn) aye 'ffe"Jedwiththe ItAft ,~ duft, Alld of all thillgs "Imoft that OCCNffe, thiNgh

rever (0 (maO.

Plime t1oltlh, that the womul9! Rome dll" COI(lNrplin.' ~l',I[.

, ',I h ' I J J' h d' Nat.E/.1,1.

toe H ar« (1) I etr Eye. ius ever, aay Wit an or tna-

ricpiliNting thAt they had: fo cnri,us Are (lU' D~mts

fditb he, and WQIlId (0 fa;ne 6e F Aire aNd Bttlllt1flf/l,

that rorfoofh they mil) dte their E,ts 41fo. ~tNl'e

ywis gave them thffe hairie Eyt-lids for allQther emi. , •

The People of pur,chal Pltgr.

J Ifl d J"tlb.9.

CanuQU an

put a cerraine blackneffe upon their Eye-lids.

The '1'lIrfts have a black powder made of a M ineral called Alcbole, which with a nne pent ill t hey lay under their Eye-lids, which ..,;.;;,0...-. ....................

doth color them '

black, whereby the white of the Eye is fee off more

white :'with the fame powder alfo they colour

the haires of their Bye-lids, whichispra~iredalfobytheWomen. And.yo~ {haU.findem Xell,.

phon that tl.1e Medes u fed to paint their Eyes •.

ifllelldea'Uf}"" f/ Artpret~mJin~'9 ;IIlvA!'ct !ht Eye a6.ve its "al.rall BeAHt1, II ".l4Im and ''''PIO'II, as IllUth'tlmgalitIJ: f','" 'he wifdQrne ~f f{_4ture. vi" .;-,JJtetl, "h'r,NAI,mfomettmes fatles, 4.dp~9ves de{em", "'" help'" {,,,the, her 1,rf,BIDP : 6Nt

, P 3 "ker,

urdBwm N.I.Hijl.ccnr. 8.

Sandy,7r.tI,ll l,b.l.

By~.1id bairel 100 Man T ramlOrm'd: 0 It,

I,,,nrcd• ') IJ

,~ where fbee ,,!!eares "a6f'ltltt, there tI.dJ or demll is i1lJltad of mendi"g to rnArr all., ~et per~h4n,e. 'he Turks in painling ,1:, hllireo/thm Eye-I,ds. m,ght be tN'Uftri, i{ they did it 'III N al"rIJ1~ ,"d, (whIch 1 doubt the, dot n,t, but in a pharJtajlIC.1I 6,,,very J for Jome think ,hallhe h"ire of the Bye-lids d""ft " ~JddoR1 up,,, the Byt, helping there!'y the blackntjfo of the thin mem6,ane Chorion, thllrft thAI &lvereln the Optiqtll firJtw, .tld prohl6ill ehe 'iffu(ion ,fthe

Philippus fPle,ul"o{the Chrijfafline: rt1bi&h,1S Montalto faies, ~l

MOAtal!O.4. ;s better done whm the, Art6I"k; whic" he fbewelil rt~·:tioni "1 'he f~Ample If O1fe, wl10 haviNl g"Y Ejei, - 1111; T"~um.IQg.ra· flmewhatwhile lJ.ires'l/J his Eye.lids, as 'iltn.s he ~~:n.ndtu. hlackt them witlJlnk. hefllA1bmer. OfthiJ MII"iJe {lIpll1til.m,lib. repDrIS, thAt inhi$ chitalJlDda"dnu,h, hef.wl1et. l(J,Mp,7. rer in the Night ,henintheDA" ~fI' whe"heR14u

MAn, ,h, '4ft was AltertJwith hi"" .Ana hudJ" tim the Moores hAving talten him, "Jack, the HlJire of his E,ebrows with ink, where.p'" be law ~etter, b,,, his Did defin ret.rned ;/IJI haiiwJptd'if the [Ilk. 7 he c""re wllmDt ~'ing ,millld I, Montalto. the mofl l(a'If,dPlempeius ,hrlughJy ."Jerfl,,~,t' wit, ~hat the white Hai" 'f the B1t./ids Jid tDO much tli"".ijh th,ftthiugs which Wtrl p'Iinted ill the 1{$t. like CDAte, ,,1I,a Retiformis. .4"dKyplcr w,.lan" hAve tIJ;$ n'tion nlgltn.td, th., ,he Haires. 'f til' B1e·1idt, tI, c/Jiejly Clnt/Mc, 11. their .",IJ"Pt" to A mort t~prt{[t piOurufJpu;tUtst to "hi,h ,nd/or til' m,flpart, th" ""'Plen to 6e "I .. ,/(, "lIa Ihe, "h, h.,,'IJ~ thlm wbitl, foe ''''fI ptrfiOl,.

SCENE

me Artiftcialt Changling.

One.Ey'd 101 Nations.

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SCENE VI.

MonftroU1 conformations J rrofertie S J colours ,proportions ,a",d fdJhtOnab~e a./fef1 ationt of Eyes ,amongft certam

Nations.

~,.c.frc~'i1';?;:.-!)~,,,-: Ature Micitof!s ab,out fi) excel-

~- <:~, lent an ARtono! the Eyes, be-

,a><, I' , t

@) flowed on l'l/t ng creatures, no

r:f. one, 6ut to everyone two. That ~ Cognilion might be /lerreR, lind i@' that when onr.ftliles, rrefhou/~ ~~~~~~~. notprl!enr& bealt~$ether deprt-

vedof{ogreat agift• .

Y erthcre are found in the Indies( as Coirno-

graphers tefli6c:) Men who 0 ha. ve but one Byc,and

that planted in their .Foreheads; Authors of no contemptible auehorirys avouch t~at t~lCre arc . d ' fuch One~Ey'd Narions. Aulus Ge/1tu~ \vitne~cth, ~~~,J,,':j6.'; that he had learn'd from very AnCient ,writers, up ".

that in scythia, there are a certaine Nau.on who

have but one Eye in the middle of their Fo~e-

heads who are called ArimtlfPi, and- .Appzan

) , . pla,eth

OncE,'d

NaeloR'. 102.

~0,!5'

Pel.Appian Co(mDll.de AfiaCIlN. Solillus Idp. J9·1d,,,, ,ap.p.

Man7-r(l~for:{1)~d: 01\;

placeth them in .A{ra. Solinus- faith,· that about Jjefglithra (placed not farr from the C_IIJPian Sea) there is an one-Ey'd Nation; and in another place he faith, that towards the Occidenrall part of lEthiopia, the Agriophagi inhabit, who feed upon-thetlelb of Panthers and Lions onely, ldtmcp!S3; having a King thas hath but one Eye, and that

in his Forehead, In another part of his Boeke, wee read faith he, of Men among the Indians, 'Pliniul1>'". who are Monoculifls, or .borne with one ;Eye. Hijl.li.1·edp.,,: Plinie reports alfo of the ArimaJPi, to be a Unocular Nation, ha yiog one E y" itn die middle of their

Front, and he places them neere unto rhofe Scythians, that inhabit toward the Pole Arrkke, and not farr from that Climate, which is under the very rifing of the Norsh-Eaft Wind, andabous that Famous Cave or hole, out of which that Wind isfaid to lffue, which place they call Gl'fclitlmn,that is the Cloifturc or Key of the Earth. 'Ihe[e maineaine Warr ordinarily about the Metall Mines of Gold, efpecially with Griffons, a kind of wildbeafts that fiy,and ufe to fetch gold out of the V cines ofthofe Mines (as commonly it is received) which Savage Beafts, (as many Authors have re-corded.as ~amely Herodotus. and .Arifteas the. pro(onn,eJi"'!' tWQ writers of gre8;teft name )ftnve as ,eag~rlte, to. keep and hnfd thofe golden mines; astfie ArimiljNims todHfeife the~

Step.R.ittCrus th~reo£;and togeti,awaythe G91d,ft:Qm them. Rtt- 2r:~,,!!~~:;,; term faith they obtained the name of Arima(pi Ir~[oIllWH"" fr<;>m their de~.ceaive~~lelle{fe of Eye ; fot Ari

. -wirh the scyth,4..ns {igndies,one,& Mifpos an Eye;

. AQ:or~~~ to .!l tro4otus, dte~ by c .eli'." R.hodi$iirb~ .

The ArtijiciallChangling. 103 ~r~:~~~aIlP[o-

lib. 16. cap. ~~ • .A ':iY}'UI. fignifics one al:d sf~ all l~I. Eye, ffidor Iikewiie affin~e~, that the (yd~ps 3· .

are Monoculilr f nt/tans. Sr. John fo~al,de'tll/l, Sr.lohn Mm-

hofe relations Iincc the late difcovcrics of the devils TravelJ W 1 I' d" 1 . 1 CAp 6,

new VVorld, are held very ere io e,_repor~5 t lat, . .

ill an me under the government ot the K1l1g ol

Dodyn, are Men that, have but one Eye, and tha~

is in the midfi of their Front. And although t~lC

Wonder- related of po/t'phemus in Virgil, as Seruu« Servi~1 ~QJ1I~

~ :_t, b~ Poetic 11 in vlrgll,4·

his Commentator conceives, are Ut oeuca Pl(id.li~'3'

c:l:ions. yet it is no Fabk', that there are Men

n~, 1 I '

Monocular; Seeing that w len ~u 'WUo Torqufltu~

was Conlul again{\: ,the, Vof[ctal'iS, t?l'rc was bronght out ofll-Illurttamtl t? Rome, fuch a finglc- E Y ,d Man, intercepted 111 the vait ~~Ce1'ts of ]£"Jpt who was carried through the Clty to be lo~ked upon as a wonder, w h(:reupol~ there

hap ened a tbing memorable; For Macrtna th.c .

W ftc ofTorquatu5, a W oman of fingular challi- ~::~1~,~ F"!. tie, during the ablencc of her Husband,no where Jlj!,~ 1J~~,j, fa.

~e[entcd her felf to be Icon-or went OUt of dores, m'/I~~lhu$ cot. d b I IGqulU qu .. 'la. ow when this MMocular was carne a out, 1C brlliur RpNd

was by chance brought before the doores of ~,!- !rW!,dog~eluIfIJ nina her Maid relating the paffing wonder, In- In ejUS VII- till,

, d ' (\... (11 I d 1.'lp.~Z. .

vires her Miltris to bchol It; ince a t 10Ug I e-

Iirous to fee this one-Ey'd ~on{h:r) had rather

die through curiofity of MUlde, then (hew her

felfe at her doore. In the Wand Taprobana,thereLycoll.4p. arc Humane Creatures, who among other pr~- ,en~.chro". varications from the lawfull forme, have onepr~dlg. andy Eye in their Forehead. Neither is it incre- Aug.de civil. diMe that a one By'd Mlti'on may be jo.und, and that l,b.i."p 8 -, nien in thei udgmfNt of St. Augul.hne, nay he af - .

Q.. firmes

(

olls"iib. 10. MatlTr.amlOrilid: 0 R

m~ ~ 1~,'

~ ~ fir,mes i~ eXJ.W1TelJOrds, that JJe fa~ Ju,h a N.'1~ion, SCflll. 37.ad wtth bis owne Eyes. J was TJOw,[lltlh he, BI{hop of Fraire! ill£re. Hippo, and I tr~7.:eI!ed with cert aine Jervams of 1m. chlijf, unto 1EthlOpIa, to Preach theHolyGo[peU

cd Chri(f unto them, and we raw in the lower parts of JE rhiopias ltlen having onel) One Eye itt their ForeFulg~rus Ii~. 10 heads, &c. Am{ the fame rea[Oit may te afJorded{or de M,,,,,ulll. the pcjfitility of [uch Nlltions, as is [or. the produEfiLycoll. Chrln. om of Jueh Monocular Mon(lers, as wee {ometimes de prod. &d,ojl. meet with in tlu Chronicles oj'prodi(Jious o(fents; Alld

dnllO mUll '. , C 1. <;> I h

311~. Zonarus reports tbat tn onltanrinop c, t ere was

Zonuus ill, of Monocular Child tor;u: for as it happemjor Men

M ,,"alle tluCl$ , I. I h Ii h ' h' d, b

ftlir; to le lome Wit ~out "or Eyes, 0 no: In!, In ers ut

}I1en may he lorne without Eye onely. And there Are H ifto~icall Records of Men born« without E"es.

Liyie tiee.d.4. Livie wimcflcth, that at Ariminum there were I,b.', ingenious Boyes borne without Eyes, and wirhZonarus in out a Nofe ; Zonarw tefi:ifies, that in Thrace there

Mcuriljo.. was one borne without Eyes and Eye-lids.

Lycoft.li;. In H 17jfia, there was an Infant borne with all.

,rodi,. " his Members well diilingui{h(!d, faving that

Anno l)Ollllni wholly he waneed Eycs,Earcs, and Noftrils, haIf03;,

ving onely a Mouth,kn his Face. .. ,

S.r.JohnMln.. Sr. John MandtVlU reports of Nations WIthout Tr~vtl".,.61. eyes;for he faith,thatin an lland. belonging tot he King of Dodyn, there are M~I'I withour Eyes, bun they have two-round holes infrcad of Eyes. And in' another Iftand} are Men that have no Head 1101' E yes, and their-Mouth is in their Shoulders •.

Such Monflrous c.onEhtutions of Eyes, have alfo been feen in cerraine Men, that have had foure Eyes. Anno-l)_omini 30S at Daphnes, that moB:

P,l-eafaAundam1iliiellsSubttrbeof Ant;o,hiA (A.

.. ,horrid

T'·'·· b· if·:I:· ~'I Ch': 1" .tti1 ". ~ 'Nadlnl "lib

e .n.rt'.l"ct,",,· ling '.rb- 10 J !!iel milplaced

horrid thing to relate or fee,) there was borne in ~ the times of Con~antine the Emperour, a Monfrer,

to wit, an Infane with two Mouths, tWO Teeth,

a Bear d, foure E yes-and two fery 010rt Auricles.

All Anconit anian \1\1 oman, brought forth a cer,

raine Monfter: for in the third or fourth Month

of her impregnation, fhe fent forth a ccrtaine

mifhapen fiefhie little Body.which was all rough andhairie, having foure Eyes.

Wee read of fome Nations whore Eyes are mifplaccds and planted in other ftrange and hid

parts (If the Body. .

Sr. John MandeviD reports, that in one ,of the ~~!~g~ Man.

Wands under the Government of the King of Dodyn, there are men rhae have E yes in their Shoulders, and their Mouths on their Brcatts.

In .lEgypt'it pleafed them to nourifh a Por- l'lillie/ib. m tent, a Man with two Eyes, in the hinder part of rap.f~.

his Head, but feeing not at all with th,em : but

this being a lingle Monfter, i~ not fo admirable as

if there were fome fuch Nation found: and why

noe a Nation as well as tingle Monfters, which

ill Chronicles wee meet with?

In Millane, Anno 1542, a cerraine pleheian Per.Lamp!l1li~ Woman, called F auf tina, . bro~ght forth an In- }::..prOIlI&IQI" fane, with Eyes feared III ,hIS {bo,ulder:, Iuch

an one was Borne in P'afcoma, and 111 Mifma an

Infant was borne which had his Eyes in his

Breaft, which you fhall finde Ipoken of before,

in our relation ofheadldfe Men.

10 is not without a miracle of transformation, ~ulus Gclliul

h I· h h M n 1,11.,.,_, .••

w at Au U5 GtUttu reports, t at t ere are en,

who have two Pupils in each Eye, both Men and

Qz Women,

Man Trin!fornid: OR,

women, and that they kill rhemwhorn they long kh~ld when .t~ey ~re angry,and that rhcfc an; in Jlyn,'1, but l~llme ~alth ,tliat they arc not ondy in Illy 1(1), ~u.t In Tftl~lIio and SlJlhill,. which is call~d, By:mnti!:and allo he reportS of fuch 111<:11 inhabmng Pontut, and that have fometimcs ill their

13. yes the Effigies of a horfc, I

l'linie Ii'", But Plil,ie was deceived by the ambiauitie of

C"I,·· I . h

t ic wGrd~ as VtJfcius and Daleca.rllpius obfervc for

·1lJI!c.Jj,yr. the word III Phr/archus was * HIppOS, which tl!;!nifics a perpetual! (hading of the Eyes, which 'plime hath !amy rcnc!red the Effigiesofa Horfe,

s-, 101m M.r.- Beyond the valley, Oil the left fide the River

~.v,1s Travels p:r: ' Ifl N 1 d 1

rap9'~ ,IJ 011, 111 an e orr iwar , t rere are many e-

~ III an,d f<?ule women, who have prctious flones ~I.~ their Eyes, and they have fuch a force, that It they ~ehold all¥ Man with wroth, they flay them with beholding as the: Raftlis/.: doth,

l),I.rchasPilgr, In the 49 degree of the South Pole, there are I.M, t, ~yal1ts, who have red circles painted about their

E ItS,among other. notes of their fearful! bravery. ldem.pjlgr,.. They of Cape Lopos GOllilh;es, both Men and

lib.7. Women, ufe Iometimes to make; one of [heir Eyes whiresrhe other red or yellow.'

The Guinetlns, uCe to paint one Eye red many times.the other white: or yellow.

FoxN.rlh.wrjt. The women in the Northern Wands, about l'agRge, Greenland, have blew Ilroaks about their

Eyes.

purchas PilJ,,r. :rhe fubjects of a cerraine King, farre from the ~.Ilb,9' RIver Gamtra, for a dW:incrionliavethree Ilrcaks under their Eyes.

IdtNlPitgr,z, .. The Negro {laves of Bllrnagi!Jfo Kingdome, and 1,1;.7· Colo

Lindfcbotcn iiboJ.

The ArtificiaO C,hangling.

(alo 8r.I'I.'II, have ccrcaine markes between their Eyes made andy for a Bravery. with a cold iron.

The Turks have an Invention whereby they aff(Cl: to bcaucitie their Eyes; for they put between their E ydids and .c::..__--:.. __ .-z.=~

their Eye a c.c-rtait1e,b\!ll:~' -powder, with a fine IwO' pcncillsmadc of I:) a Minerall brought outof the kingdom of Feu, & called Alchole; which by the not difgraccfl.1lly O:a;l1ing of the lids, doth better fl't

forth the white-., .

nc[s of the E ye,..:.:..---.':..._......;;;;::::.-......; ...

and though it trouble for a rime.yet it comforteth the fight, and repelleth ill humours: they are of elegant beauties, for t~e molk part rUl~dy, deer and finooth, as the polifhed Ivory, beIng never' ruffled by the weather, and daily frequenting the Bannias,but with all by the felfc fame means they

fuddcnly wither. Q 3 The

Sandy' Tr4~ W/llib.l.

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Plt.llp/iAn. c~{mogr·pb.

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'~Suridl'Y Idrilk lOS' Mlln '1' rdm'Drm'rJ :01\,

of Eyes. , 1)'fJ

P'~II.' The People of Con no, a region of AphriciI,

'!loretta C'4- '. _.:> di fc 1

Von ofC~ngo. the Apples ot thea Eyes are ot rver e co ours,

Pure has Pi/gr. black and of the colour of the Sea.

~J!~jlgr'3" In 'China they have narrow Eyes, generally

, ('!!u-form'd, black, and O:anding OUt: and there-

HelIn GCQg'4. ,dj ld oourtraet d fi d

)ellan.Rohem. torewhen they wou pourtract O,ut a e orrne

d! morrblll gen- Man, they paint him with broad Eyes.

'M "I":;, t' The Cathaians have little E yes.and fharp fight.

au;EU', 1.6. I' 1 E

Magin, Geo~ The cbino)fe have very m eyes.

grapbiade{mp, The ancient Sc~thiilns have fmall Eyes, fo have

"6'111' Franc, f ./r_ , '

l'urcbal Pi/g, the Women 0 Co}mtn neere Ganges.

lib.lO The Inhabitants of Cando» lIand,for the moll: pare l,dbem eadem have little Eyes.and when the SUIl is fee they canII ·9., h c T I ' l' h

not fcc at all.no-rhoug torty orc ies were Ig -

ted-which is a kine N yCtalops or N oaurnall Ctr. citude that befals them. There arc Iome that canfcc when the Sun Ihines : for there is a very black

Eufebius Nic· Nario n of Moors among whom( as it is report, ed2

rembclg.Elljl. '1 r. h' e. d h h

NAt.liU .CA". there 'are fome born no ('15 w loeQC, re r en toe

that are born in rhefe northern pafts of the world; rhefe are prefenrl y ftrook blind at the prefence of the Sun,although they behold it nor.ir .is enough jf the Sun fhine on rhem.rhe mofl beaueifull Eye of

Nature doth Co fafcinatt! thefe Nations; The spaJ'Jiards call rhefe Altinoh that is, Whites, as they cal the others .Blacks.Thde a,re furdy allyed to them of AlbAnta,neer the Ca{ptan Sea.who fcc

_ better by night then by day. .

Munftcbr'lcbol. In Zanz;/;er they have horrible Eyes, and the

11I0t.ra, • I • " r. f h .

",.14" Women are deformed by reaion 0 t err pro-

~aulul Yme', minenr and ge>glc Eyes.

~~·flAu,car. The Tartars have groll'c prominent Eyes, yet din. • for the moft part, they have fquint hollow Eyes. de r "rlll1l 'lJtlr,~ 1'he fI,I,fI. ~,.

ert: A iG' lJ Cb l' Great Eyes'

:J. fIIe.n.1t'.J"Cla ',ang mg. 10,9alfcdecl

"lheJewifh Women for the mofl part,arc gog- s~,

. 1 d 'litis lib. ~.

g c-,ey. . h d I 'bl E Sleph.Rllter;

1 he C)mbrtans. a 1orr~ ~ p,rcat • yes.. Co{m0t.raplt.

The Azanagllt of .£thtoplll, have promment ,io{omet.lib. 3

black E yes and of a tone afpeCt., "

The Turkifh Worne!' (who are_fma1l1l1 Itarurc, Helm GeD,,,. which they amend With Choppines) ar~ accoun-

ted moll: beaucifull and amiable, which have

greatefi: Eyes, and arc of the blackeil hue; And

bccaufe great Eyes in 'Turky are eftcemcd fuchan excellency, therefore Mahomet. w~1l know~ng

their defire, promifeth them 111 111,s Paradifc,

wenches with grt'at ~yes" o~ Eyes like Saucers:

Great Eyes al£o arc 111 principall repute, and af-

feCted by the Greeks. , Fcrruu! Ero.

The Peruvians judge thofethe moll: beaurifull romanla, that have great rolling Eyes.

The alJolute ma!,nitude of the Eye cannot he defined, yet this is gemraUy to he Yiote~, tha~ the gre.au~ Eyes are not euer the heft: for as In lookmg_glaj] es; or otber little optiqU8 p~PtS' the Jm.age~ of things are perfe8ly exbihited, [0 ,t jals ou~ tn little Eye~, yet the naturt:ll magmtude of the Eye, propo)'tlonate with thM Face wherein it is lodged, ou;,bt ~o be {ueh, that fo much as the {emi-ci."cJe oj the mouth tSlo muc" Jhould be the femi-circle of the Eye: and th.e tntervaU from th~ middle of the Eyebrows, to the end of tb,e

txternall iln.<~le of the Eyes, fboul~ be {o mu~" as 1$ from thence to the roots oj the promtnency, whub fuljidfS the Apple of tht Eye, although sen[e ~an~ot va'1y weI/judge of ith an~ other Willj of ~a~/octnatlon.

Now the E1e of !Wan IS r~und, and It IS natu'1ally 0/;;ferved,tlNlt the diAmeter of the Or~ or Sphe1eofthe E',e 1$

°lle-Ey'd Na- ,. .If 1- ~r,.,' J 0

lions. IIO iVJ.an ransJorm a: It,

~f:!j is to an{lver the length oj the Nofe.Now Eies thllt ex{fed tbe natu1'",lmedio.rily,lein,e.It[s or greater timet the fame mep[ure, are not to be commended; lecaz,{e tlJt'Y lecomenot a F ace,th4'e Eyes tei'.lll. truly laudable Il-lmh are nrither 10' grl'at nor tooliule, but oJ'a mean proportion, which conjl~s inth« abnegation of loth the extreams: Phyjiognomifls therefore pre} erre the midling (late of theE) e, which hathfo we/b'amed and (orretied a mediocrity ofgreatneDe a( cannot be lettered 01' reprehen_ded:This tiJfe~a:ion then of great Saucer/Ike Eyes, IS alaney aJ,alnft the ru/eo] Nature; For, ai'l EJe greater then the proportion oj' the Face and Body requires. cannot be really beatttifull in a Natural acceptation,alihough it fhould have a gallant featmjJe and elegancie oj apparance annexed unto it.

purchas I'ilgi'l Some of the Inhabitants of M atheda, are blind

~.lib.8. and [quint Ey'd People.

Idemeodem. The Braji/Jans, a few of them, have but one

'Pm. Appian Eye.

~::it·lnd. In the Mountaines of Peruana, which are al-

waies covered with Snow, the Inhabitants are all purblind or blind.

Lud.Ro/1l.Pa- In Sumatra, they have Eyes, obroeund, of

I •• H4vig.,. I

lib. ,. green co ~ur, . I

Purchu IJj/gr. The Gutneans have white Eyes,of a {harp fight,

z.lih·7. and fee further then we.

SIC ph. Ritte- The SarmatiallJs had Eyes like Lizzards, and

rus Grunbur- were called Sauromau, ab Dculis /acertll'lum. ,..'!f,""

genii. Co{mo·, I ft I .

,,r~pb.Profome-·entm eft scerts, reut .'Ilj'_: oc« ~. .

tylCt,,/ib'3' The Gaules were blew-By d.which was noted cfAlllm'an M pecially in theWomcn,when they were in choleel. I • ar-.1er, being notable {brews and too hard for their

husbands,

The

'The ArtiCci4/J ChanuliTlh 111 OeultrprO-:

. "Jtl b o· pertles

the People of Taprobane,as Plinie reports, have Pl~~ blew E yes. Of which there rna y fome doubt be m, 41, I ,

made confidering the climate, which is in the 8,

9, and 10 degrees onely, 'd'h' ...

Th C h lwai f in rh . E Lin rc ot .• r.·

cum/mans ave a wales pots 111 t elf yes, fill' lib,,,.

and are dim-fighted. ,

1~~ Budin;, a great and ~opulous Nation in- ~~IDIIS Drallhabmng the Etlropean scythIa, neer the River Boroflhenes, were all grey Eyes like a Cat,

In ,A/banie there be a fort of People borne Plini~ Nit,

. I E Iik 0 I h f h f h . fi HI~.liII·1.,ue

WIt 1 yes 1 ewes, w ,ereo t e l{i; t IS re o[lrogonlll Ik

red-and can fee better by night then by day _ Ni~can.

Man (me/y hAth his Eyes enameJ'd round with diI/,'ers colours, the Eyes oj'alt other creatures Vllr1 11Ot, hut keep the conflant colour of their kind, this '!:ariation happening to men and Nations, according t~ the divn's tempers of their Brsin« and Eyes, hut in rf[peR Nations lire much mingled, we know not '/that rarenefle to choofe for tile beaut) oj' Eyes, ,for many love hfew Eyes, and fome the grey Eye, that {urns to he all ChriftaUine ;{ome I07.;e Mack Eyes, effeeming them mo~ amiable: and others love them green, Tfhich were alfo in ancient time much prai{ed: for among the Sonnets of Monfeiur de Covei (which was in old time {o great II CJerk in Love matters, Songs were made of it; Green Eyes were praifed. He that WfJu/d make a new comment upon Hippocrates his BDok,De Aere,Aquis & Locis to{upply the want of that mU(JJ dejired Comment of Galen, upon that Book, might perchance "mong thefe Ocular diflinguifhing p'i'(Jperties of divers Nations, ftnde matter tof'urnifh his conceptions wirb.

R

SCENE

112 Man Tranifornia: 0 Il,

. SCENE VII.

Certaine formes and flrange jhapeJ of the Nofe much a./feE1ed, and Arti· ficially contrived, as matters offingular beauty and Ornament, in the efleem of flme N mkm«:

Y-~~i!I! He Tart4ri.1n "Varnell, cut and pare their Nofes between their Eyes, that they may feem marc flat and (addlenofed, lea~ing rhernfclves no

.... 1Ir""':l~~. ~ Nofcatall in that place, an-

~ noinnng the very fame place

with a black oynunenr ; which fight Ieemed moil: ugly in the Eyes of Fryar wiUiam de Rubraquis a French Man, and his companions, who obfcrved the fame in the wife .ofScatai, when they came to his Court. And this

. . ~ ilia pc

:The':Artificiall Ch'Jngling~ 113 N=

. fhape of the Nofe, is in great requefr, as you may cafily imagine, when the Kings wife at the time of publique audience appeared ill that fafhion, And indeed they arc an illfavoured Nation, all flac nofed, the women

~ ""';.::!.!.!.:.~I . being Iuitable to

the Men,

It u impoJlible the adulterate wit oj"women f/Jou/d ~ommit d, fouler trefpafJ e againfi beauty, and the maJeflyof Nature, or introduce a more oe/ious alteration in the Face, then is done hy the contri'L'ance of tbis fap)ion; jar, whence the NoJe fhould excite [0 great a comlineJ!e and beauty in the Face, cannot weU be imagined, butfrom-its Difcriminationit makes of the parts thereof, for this di{cretion of the Nofe is [o

true and necejJllry to the whole Face, th'lt Severinus Scvcdnul, fhould thin!.', that this was the cflufe, for l"fihich it was made,tioat from this one part very much grace and ho-

nour fhould accrtw unto the Pace, and that the No[eeither cut ojJ, or vitioufly depr.fUed, there fol-

l,weth thereupon [0 great a deformity. Certainly tbe

Face among all the parts, is therefore mofi honoura-

~le, and moft goodly to behold: for that it is varioufly

tltfculpt and diftingui/hed. But what doth dtfcrimi-

l1ate and di~erminate the two Eyes, the two Sun-

{him ApP/fS, the Cheeks, Imd the two fides of the

R 2. race

/

~:~"~~!\ril. 114 Mdnrransform'r1: O~;

cur"W. f'ace, but,the !lcfe alone which as "banek, or equaD

V1t'J 'ridge a! hils, IS f,xten,ded alottg the Facf, to mai~taiil their ElegaJ'it {ep(watto1Js.

For, the N4'e is placed ;n the very middle of the Face, as the mort worthy and honoura,{Ie {eitHatioil, and neu/J arily J laced between the E)es: finee not omly a gr~(Jt leauty ae,crews unto th.e ~ace !herely,/;ut ao fome u:tO hm,;e tt, It /er'l.;es to difltnguifh ~he E)t's 0i!ejmn another,and IS the ctluf~ that the 'l..lfory Jpi')'/IS are not (onjeunded, and mlxt together, and in the interim, ieing annexed on loti) fides, to the tones oIthe Gm,nit covers and fils up that horrid den, 1I'iJich atherwi{t Tfould appeare [0 alominatle unto the A~ht) ,as it doth in their praffi[e, nb(J buak down the partirlan waO that Nature had interpo{ed between the Eyes, lind aga;n{t the ls» of Nature, remove her lounds an~ ,,!angle that goodly pro'ftioJitory that run: along to dt1.itde the Pafifique Sea of beaut) in the Face, tbereby' endea'tiouring to their otone clinfu(ion, to joyn thofe tcgl'ther, whom God and Nature IJad [0 wtfely{eparated.B) all which it ;stoo too f'vident, 'What reaD beauties thr{e Nations deprive them{ehes of, for an imaginary and Juppo{ed tlegancie, or rathe~ an a}feEl-l'd defotmi't); wherely to the great inJurte of Nature, not tmely the beautiftill.proportion oj' the No/e ~ loN, tut theofficia".~ elee.ancJ thereof ver:r muck impaired., For atthou<lI.hnotwithftdnding thefe fafhtonaUe maImer of the No{e,they may fee, and ,breath, and {peake, a'nd in[o'flle fort enioy the other utes {poken oj, }I'& lJOt /0 tl!t'li as they otherwi{e might, nor ;n /0 atro/ute a mann'e'r as they ought, ly ~he co»{titution of htlin~n'e Nllture., '

The Cititens of Rhino&II/,zllta or RhiMtorura,

.. ', (which

rrt: A ;{;' lJ' Ch"· . 'Men dCp'rived

".I. ne rttpCItl angung. II 5 ofNoftult ....

(which Plinie placeth in Idumea, and Strata in p~ , PIJlJ:ntcia, but according to Lodovicw cive«, Ilan- Ccelius [({lbod.

in rh fines of d ti ) 1 d SI, Augu ,de

dcth 10 t e con ncs of lEgypt an Ara t~ ia ,;uit,Deiliir,'6.

no Noflrils to ,ap.~i'

their Nofes: from

which mutilation

of their Nofes

their City had its

name. Lodovicu;1 r.odGvicu~

. r. . 1 h Cummflll.I"

Vt~'tS iait 1, t a.t .4I1,~.dHj'IJjt.

without all quefli- D, i,

Oil, the Jews and lEgyptians claim'd

it to thcmfclvcs,

and peopled it

the lE;hiopi-

am, whom they , .

conquered and cut off their Noles. Y et Diodorus DiodoIUS/t, 2; sicu/w, makes a contrary relation, fiR/fanes

(faith he) King of .!Ethiopia, having conquered

all lEgyPt, partly by force, and partly by con-

dition, fer up a new law for Thceves, neither

acquitting them, nor pUl1ifbing them with death,

but gcttinp; them altoge~hcr) he punifhed them

thus; firfr he cur off their Noles, and then Iorv

ced them to goe into the farthcrmof] parts ofthe

Defarrs, and there he built a City for them, cal-

led Rhinocorura, of their want ofNofcs. I cor,frffe

my EVidence is 'not {o cleer and Authmtiqul', (IS 10

charge theft Rhinocoruritcs,with a 'L'oluntllry conti-

nuation o,fthis firft impofed deformi t)',yet we have pre-

/idtnts where a deformity intl'nded for a national p'un'!hment,hath afic'I'wards hinrecewed (1 cominued

.l, 3 .. ;IS,'

Norc.wanting 6 M . 7- rfo • .1 0 ..,~

C[~izen.. n an rans orm a: R,

CfV(.;'~ A r: n ' ji h ;/1' r.' 'I

" . "s aJaVJtOn.But tnce tJ.ortart~Jpe .. ~ not up dtreCi y to'

. Pbmus, tile pOInt, we fhall wave our acc_uy"tton. Yet you (ball

. 'fff.~·'~;:'-30. read of Nations that have rio Noftrils,there being Lyco~.~hr,16. an equall plamncfle throughout their whole Face; Expphmo Ilh. that Face mull needs be plain that wants a Nofc.

1.~~ ,~. h

Sccnckius ob' A~ega~ enes reports, that there is a Nadon

fiK"var. among the Indian Nomades, having holes ondy

ornnunnus, I I f h N Il. 'I d . h

de MiYM. viyo, 111 t ie pace 0 t e olin s, an that t cyarc

!Il'm. called Syr;H.r: Sr. John M andeviU Ipeakes offome

Sr. Iobn Man. N' h h N I: b f llh I

devils Tr4vcls, atIons,. t at ave no Ole, ur two rna 0 es,

whereof one Ierveth them to breath, the other Ierverh infkead of a Mouth.

Great is the Ornament, that the Face receive/I, by the Ne{e ; that part of tlu Face which tlu No{e taketh up, being Jliled by the ancients, the imperial! {eat oj MaieJtique 6eauty; that admiraO variety of faces, and i ndi-r;iduaU difri nElions teing chiefly occajlomd hy the Nofe, the very ltaft alteration where· of, cau{rng a manifeft chan~'l,e in theayre of the Fact. Iftut a little part of the No[e were cut off, it were a hM'd matter to {ay, how deformed the whole Face

" ,would prove,a maim in the No{e,therefore heingll1ft ..

~'rg'l, JEntlll.ly called hy Virgil, a difhoneft wound,

. T runcas in Honefto vulncre Nares.

The protuberating or flrutting part of the Facr, c:arrieth with it, faith Laurenrius, a kind of hau· ty, yea of M aje~y. 7'he heauty that is added to the Face of Man, hy the Organ ofj'meUing (I meant! the

Dr. Crookoc· No{e ) Dr. Crooke g,ves us a pregnant in#ant rtlict': co{tllo. thereof, in an example worth our rememhranu; &'.p • II young Man heing adjudged to he hanged, And the

executiOlur at hand, a certaine Maid [uhorned hy his friends,.nd quaintly dr1Jed and ret aut, goes unt9

1 heArtificiall Cbangling. 117 ~f~F~~r:t

unto the judges, andmllkes{upplicationfor his!tfe, ma~. requiring him for her husland; weU,!hee ouercsme

the I udges: this done,' he guilty Joung Man ieing {et

at liherty, and commin<~ from the GaUowes unio the

maid, attired and dre!] ed in fuch CQ~ly Ornaments;

he p~'e{ently caft his Eye upon her No{e, ubich indeed

was 'T.ery deformed, Mad 1'n~anlly cries out, that he

/Ji!d rather have been. hanged, then freed upon con-

dition of' under<~oing fo defiwmed a choi{e in his , .

Matrimon~ . to this is //;(It Of Horace anfr(!erable Hor~r.1U Am

;; , ~ • PJetlfA.

Hunc ego, fi quid componere curern,

Non magis cife vclim.quanr pra vo vi vcre N afo,

Trea{on and adultery, tl;erefore, hath not met

IPith a more fhame/utl or difgracefull punifhmmt then

tbt /oj]e of the Nofe; for the Bengalian law de- Lindrchotcn~ pri''_'es them of their No{es,who me taken in the aEl of .Adulter)"and the }Egyptian Law cut off the woman: I~,.Bohcmu.s"e Nofe, who was taken in Spontaneous .Adulter)" with ,:'tlbul genlJllm

h'hd:r h d1' f,f,IIV,'.

w tc IJgrace, t e countenance ,was e armed, u r -

feringthcfhamefull lofe of that fart, which mo~ adomes the. Face. In [ome parts ojMufcovia, the fecor.d aEl of Theeuerte, is punilbed with this dlf!.~'lIce·

full Na[all mula. Heraclconas, the Sonne of Heraclius and Martina, as the greate~ llemi(h their malice could inf/iH, was by the Senate and People of Confiaruinople, dprived of his /Vo[e: the like loJ] e Lccnrius Cafar fufJered iy Alfinarius, and 3000 Coreans to their ignominy') had their Nores cut off

in Meacco a Town of Japan.

T~at . admir.aUe .~ratagfm of Zopyrus, whocu!

D.ff his owne No(e) and the Abbas Ebba, amlthofe

, R 4 Chaft

, • >

Man T ramfo1m'J, : 01\;

Chaft Virgins, which wtre in our KingdoTtu at t~ time oj'tl)t! lncurjion of' the Danes, who cut off the~r OlM Nofes to prej'erve their Cbaftity) were loth huzlt

upon this concfffion, tlJat the Nt!e any way mangled 0,' cut off~ aiues the greateH Uemi(hto the Face, and p,ows m~t dtJfruEtive to the enchanting, /;t'a~ty thereof, which doth much advlI-nce the Art otTallacorius, and the new i'narching olNofes ; and when wee flit the Niese! Male/aRors, wee doe it to 6rand them with the moft deforming note of infamy, and t he ~eafon and sence holds goo~ 3 But the heautj ort~e Ncj e is to be counted as nothing, baau!e the Ult/lt, thereoj'is fo admiral/e, the leaut) ofwhofeu/'e doth much exceed afld{t<rpa.D e the pleafure ofbeholdin,~ it; Ileauty being not intended as the Jirft {copeD! Nature, but as an additament '-i'Jd parergon of the main work: but what /hee is moft incumbent upon, and J~I}ich fbe aJwaies lehoM, are ,ho{e things whick ~pp_~rtaine to Attion and IIti/ity. Now Aff!on dt~m f~'om utility" lecau/'e in conffruRion and gene~a~lo~) the aEtion of the part hath preadmcy, but uttl!IY fI lefort it in point of dignity, true beauty is rtfemd to the (uccrOe andgoodneU'e of utility, Jinceutility iI

llbnus de Fine the fidt in the con~ruffion of all p~rts. Lllmus tea~ BllIb" HUIII. (beth w ~hat it the IrNt' /uaflt, oj a part, wl)l(h It that theyare flfed to call the phyjicallorolfjcialtpul' chritude, for it proceeds!roWlthe Office, ufe, 6ndtttilitJ, no otherllli{e !mt as a Rive" f!ow,th from a Fountaine. Now if we ewquire {or-the Iileglln,yof the S cApu/a of the N4'e~ .. "tithe IMh of the N()~1'i11) and that heauty which fo maniMtty "PI!e~'Y'J in,the wings fif tb, Noff, you- /h,dl'fonal them, ifyo_ujoyn ~h8m' ]pith,tln, atlion. of tht""and' weigh thm c~n~

, . (lruetzon

'Tb,illuty. lal!)f1 snd lIdlicic"f the Norc.

f~

118

1 he ArJiJ:cidllICh4t1tt!inr,.' 111·,Mcn with illl

")' b b Nofe,.

pru8ion together) for that wilt 4fford you the true ~ pandart, rU/f, o~' meafure ofjudgment, and dt{eer-

ning true ler.uty, which is Puldiritudo officii, vel

official is, the beaut) of office,br officiall elegancy. The

Face hath no peculiar aEfion, neither rightly or pro-

perly is it called a diffimilar part, but is rather a

congeries or heap of diffimilar parts, nhereofevery

one IMth its proper aRion, or tlfe are [eruien) to the

.Agents. The Eye{ees, the Frl)JlJt is dtjfinated to its

[e'f'l.iice, and]» are the Nofe and Bares, The No{trils

fm;e [or expiration and in[piratiol., and a mote

plentijull e:~1<Jflation,and for a ftgnificant indicatiOlt

of the affeFitolJs oj'the mind.

The indi,lYIs Divers ha ve their Nofes flit like broken winded Horfes, I tis an ill Trade.that cannot be cxercifed without deforming the Body, that beIllg a badg of their profcffion, which is a penall marke of a MalefaCtor a- - _ _;_~a.._"'~mOllgus.We read . . .... " ..

(as if Nature eherein had mocked art) that in

Brajill, about the FeaR: of Eafker Anno 1556, LYCDI't.:<lt " t~ere was an Infant borne with his Noflrils fo prodig.&ojlenti flit and open, that his braine was eamy difcer-

nable through his N ofe.

S In

:!- ....

purcha. PUg,: ~, Ij~. 10. _ .. ~

Man 7'ranlform"el: Oil;

In the City Cin':' gui, between Cathai and the Kingdomec erg ath,they have a little N0fe. The chinoyfe doc hold them for the. fincft women who have fmall Nofes, wherefore from their Child-hood, they ufe all the art they can poffible,

to prohibit the ellereafe of the Nofes of their female Children. And indeed, generally their Noles are very little-and fcarce ftanding forth. The People being, as another noeeth. in the compofidon of their Body ,_"""',,, nofeds when

, they . make the

portralbure of a dcforj;}\cd Man, they paint him

with a long Nofe. . .

Certainly thenaturall {agadtie of thefe people muff{omewhat tl6au; fortis they that wari' the Nofe (mtll1P!t,fo II fhort Nof:{mels nat{o weD as a long.

Wlth. us, an~ ~~h. ~10i\ of Europe, a long Nofe

NoIMqlleze~. 120 V".Y'U

l'all1. VeRct. Ii •• 10.

'The ArtificiaU Changling,-~ 121 ~::Ic~or~.

Nofc is held more beautifull, cfpeciaUy in Meni ~ for,the Midwives as foon as children are born,ufe

with their fi~ers to extend the Nofe, that it

rna y ~e more faire and longer, Perchance.

par~mi.i de Na{atorum peculia vulgo trit» .Adformam NaJi, cognolcitur haft" Baiardi.

Now the No{eaccording to the luftice of Nature; pJould be no longer then the Lip and Earl', lind the third part of the Face in lengtl}) and the thirtieth part oj the length of the whole body, it fbould not exceed in length halfe thtlt dift ance which interpofeth· between the externall .Angle of both the Eyes;therefore the length orthe Nofe (hould anr Ifer in a sefquialtera propoY'tion, the length oftl}e Eye, aNd the Diduflion of the .M outh; nor (hould it extend in length, beyond the meafure of its circumference at the bottom. A lang Nofe (indeed) may be ro~ advantage to the Sence of fmelling, as appears in the Nofes of Bloodhounds: yetfor the fent oj' Man, that length is{u!ficient, which conJifls with beauty, and may be reconciled with the proportions of Natures (ymetrie, bt),ond which who endeavours to extend the Nofe, renders him/elfe guilty of a great Tran{grejfion: as on the (f>ntrary they alfQ doe, who labour to prohibit the NaturalL extendare of the NQ{e,upon any pretence o/beauty, what{oevtr.

,In, caJj'enaa Region of Aphrica, neerc the!E- ~~Jf~I~'fub. tlJloptans, there arc Men wh.o are valde Nllfutt,or LeDHj(l.~f Aendued with very thick Noles : One than is igno- fri~a!j~'1. ~ant of the Nature of ,things, (faith Car~an) Jlcr- !!;!;/~1:,1::' chance will laugh at this relation, efpeclall y if he M.ginus Ou·

S 2. have ,'_pb. Afr1~lri

ertatNcilC., affc~ed

~,

MatlJ(rantform~d:' OR;

have not feen the Hifrory of Hippo· crates; wherein he t!eatc:th of Macro· cephali, or thofe with Sllgar-loafc like Heads, the caufe whereof he there declares, to have been at firll: a Panthafticall affeCi:atioll of Art, as it was likely al[o in thefc ofcaJJena. a great Nofe is in requcfk

In Pervia'na alfo, and naeionall, Munllerlib.r. The Inhabitants of the Ifland Zanzihar, have '~p.149. " noflrils turned broad upwards) and the woman arc deformed by reafon of their great noftrils, & al it may be upon rhefame fcore ofinvelltion. ~ ... ulus Veneto Add if they u{e' a1) artificiaU endeavOU'I' there-

lit. ,. t)., tbey'introduce a difell{e u/,on the in~rument of Nature; jor, the Nofeis depraved as to itsmatter, and therefore bee au/I! of vitiated metter, the inforume»: itfe{fe is perverted, and it is a d;Jea(e!Jy rea{on of magnitude, that is of' quttntity,for that qUllnthie it{eije is ~reater then is convenient for thAt inflrument; fo;, quantitie foUowes immediately matter, IlJJd is ttdherent unto it, th.ct it eanfcarce hefepar.Mnl. I(onfflfe ingenious men hatLle: doubted, an detur ~ritudo ill magnitudine;, but ifthis'greatmile of Nofe'doe (as it probaUy may) hurt or hinder the operll#Oflofthe No{e; itmuffl;e ~(fmow/~&eda

. . . di{ea{e.

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;J. fJe rt".J.cea.. ang tng. 12Jand fad4J.e'

~r. r. J' h f. fh . ~ f' h·J[.' N Glee aft'caGd

dlJeaJc OJ tea 10ns, and1J t IS PJJcffatlonamount ~

not to a nafall dire,{e) yet it is very probaUe it may

prove an ot~acle to'LiJion, and fbmewhat prejudice

the E)'e in point of ProfpeR: and fo conJequently

wt'fp,yje agaitlit the naturaU prorogati7.:e of that

Sense,

The Huns, a moft cruell Nation, were wont Mun{\er cif.; to fiat downe the Noles of their Boyes, lcafl it ':tb.1,;~~~P' 3' Ihould be a hinderance to the putting on their

Helmets.

The Country Peo, pIc of the Northern Wands Fox lor Ib,~

lik h II N t: d NorI1-wrJ'

be let e 'Tartars, nat Ole, P_g'g"

They. of Caffaria in the lower iEtbiopia 3nd!:yndrchotcn MQfambique, have their N ofes broad, fiat, and I,b. J. lap, il.

thick at the end. .

The Matrons of Secot« in F/oridawhoareofDiBI}Hi{l. forme elegalltenotlgh, have plain broad Nofcs. Illdian ..

The l£thiopians are Camoife nofcd, the Epi- Steph, Ritter. thite of Simi being by the ancient Poets bellow- co/m,01,r. P!o{o.

mell'lu. ed upon them.

In StQn8t'f'IZ, they have a moll broad faddle ~odovic. ~OTII.

N r: hi I . ! . II d' he' lilt. NAV11."1.

Ole, w ic 1 IS cpena y note In t e . ICy 4. cap.~.

~~~~ .

In the Ea!l:-lndies,and the Kingdomc of china, ~~.;.hl:b~ 1. the Inhabitants have all Camoyfc or [addle "p, 6. 6VlIgin.

Nofes, Gf0l.rApbi,.

Theyof Guinea, their Notes are fiat, which Bohcmus dt they make fo when they are young' for they Rit. Genlj'~m.

, PUrclias 'P,/g,.

cflecm a flat Nofc a great Ornament unto them,

and it feems it doeh nor amilifc With them, as

they order their Bodies; for accordlngto the proportion of Body, they beaurifie their Faces.

Another faith, they account the princi pall part Hclyn Grogra,

S 3 of

Shooinp; horn 71 A 7- rl:. • J 0 . '

Nofeutfeficd 12~ JVJ.anransJorma: R,

cr.::r.;-.,!jofbeauty to confifk in a flat ,Nofc. I am informed of the truth of tbis relation by a T raveller that

hath fcen the prael:ife. '

SoliLlUS& 'The, 1rgypp.ei arc Camoifc nofed, with a

C~mm!nl Drarj· great Chm

glUs • ,

l'urchu Pi/gr, In America (contrarie to us, who defirc

4·lib,6. fir,dght Nofes) the Husband who pcrforrncrh the l.h,drthOlcn office of a Midwife to his wife, when he hath rclib,l. ccircd the child, and cut the Navill firing afun-

de! wi.th his teeth, he preflerh down the Naie wl_th his ehumbe , fo~ they efleeme the beauty of children to confifl 111 the fiamefle of the Nofe, even as they ufe 'to doe in Franct, with ccrraine foifting Hounds, which are there in great rcquclk for the flatneffe of their Nofes,

pu~chu Pi/gr. In the great Turk$Court, flai: Nofes are in reit~'::e'jn his q~efi, b~tit is for t~e foile of their deformity, SerAglio "i Ibe this fafhion appear1l1g moll deformed among GrAnd Sign;ouy them, who affeCt and have the contrary appea-

rance: ~or th~re Negro Girles are efteemed mofk for their uglmes by the Sultanaes; therefore the Bafbaw o~ Cairo ~wh~ for the moft part fends them all) 15 alwaies dtlIgent to get the moll: ill. favoure~, cole black) flat nofed girles than can he had in l£gypt, or the bordering Countries, to fend them for a prcfenr to the grand Signior, who beflowes them upon his women, who make the fame ufe of them, as our Ladies doe of illfayoured waiting women) thai: is to Ierve as a [9.11e to fet off the fplendour ofrheir beauties. pli-

Plinie lib. h. h h

"flAt. HiP, me notes, t at t e fir name of simanes came from

the firf\: of the familie that had flat Nofes, and they were called Silonts, who were hooked and

. . Camoife

The .A.rtil:cialt Chanu/in,," I' "" C! Llllle Norea ..

r:J'" ~ ~. IJ.. ) tfl'etted.

, Camoife [loCed upwards. I ~

The Braft/ia.s, who are borne as fairc as the common fort of Men I but comming out of the wombe, they are made deformed in fqueezing of their Nofe, which is the cbicfeR: patr.wherein (onfifteth the beauty of Man ; That as in ccrtaine countries (as you may reape in this Scene) they praife the long Nofes, and in others the Hawkes

Narcs, fo among thole (as the Moores of v1phri. , ',i

C4, who are allof'ehe fame fort) it is a faire thing

to be flat noted, and to have large expanded

noflrils and a fhort Nofe, Ana thaI y,"ma1 fte that 1z~I/Jedtfcril' a'" n,' the Inlt,Deftanttr I'P'" fiuh prcv,u;clltiollSillke'Flon or.r:!°IY~

h hI I." J J N' h ranor ... 'v,&

'" lIet e Relat"~all~slJls lHtrtJalwtontot tNarra·,ap.l~'

live of this attifie~: Ifll10ng 111/ the form,s of living

ami bodil, mattms, ({4ith he) thllt of mall ;s the

fairefi IIlId ",oft perfill, which VIlIS very 'tUnt, both

for the Creatlm ana Crealor, feting thAI man is

p_laced in the w"lalto commlfnd afl thM is h·ere belleath;

bllt ,/th,ugh that T{atHrt end(4v~lIrefh he~eirJ al-

waies to d~e glod, n,twit"ftaud,ng fhee is [omttlwm

Jhm and enlDreed in her aaims, And thertfort it

"'"mefh that rIIee h4'Ut [0 many "",nflers, lind Hgl1

things, tll'Jlrarie '6the orainarie rflleof6lhers, yeA,

lvell .fter that ~Ifm hath do,u her office, rIIee

help 6, our am, to render that "hith pm hAt/uN.de,

ridiculous and "'i[bApm. And verily whwmfufft-

citntly "dmire how this aifelled deform;t;, 'f II depre[-,

lui ["ddlt Nofi, came firp in {alhlon with theft Na-

ti,ns, a,,11 like a tI"t"gion i"filled (0 great a part of

m4111:;114 ; or how Ji vil/anoNs a" a/;fordit1 /houlJ in

dtfpight 'l~tHre, he to"tinued to this day .. {Nfll,

Ibe ~rA"d De/iJrmcNhe6euer to r;~e 'he a611fid ]l8ft-

- . ,- ,afles.

''The'Nar~nQI 126 M4n T'ramrfl'omiil: 'OR~

tbe promlnen- , ,

ci~ro t.tflu ,f there !tople, '",' cl'Apthis flllld(upon tllt/"

..... F sses, dlld'",ad",.his 4 {hlOJng-horne t, drAW the", 'n

to of her corporAU f,J4nities. .

8y 4 moil rt1114rKablepr()vidence,;t wat o,dertd ~1 'N..:Jflm,.that the 'R.tfe !hu,,1d be m,re p"minem ill one p"rt,to,-be more:~plt,JJtreh, to give wiS1 d /itt1410 a,.y Ihing fallingnpofl it, whie/? fo eafily Jlidles 1/ : fo tmiNtnt, 11141 it hidu the Byu as ill 4 Cave"na v4/ley, asit wert, hU4Ufo Ihe,ahhorr Ihe&ol1traCJo(a/J things;tlJere(oreto defendlhe Eye, heing ttjier am"". ner like a Jhidd, 'Jet n9 Wtf1 impedltu vijion: for ij4b'f# the rit{f,e, nine, or Imko/theNo[e, ilhad bun ,I;rlad, it would hAve r(mllin'd liS en 06.flt1c1e tl vi{ion, litfidu,that thebre"dth wONldba'TJ,uUI{igllred the, Face, flU which hmnvmlenm theJeNofMeve/lm mMjI needs;n [orne for, incuTTe: 1Iay, IIYlhls [pnading their NIps c"ltrllr, "tht M tljeflicIIU ;fllen. tion DIN alNrt, Ihey mNft [omewh.t PrtjluJice the NoP, Not ontly in t hop "Biolls whuein it il prlpta61e fir the /;elltring of ollr 11ft, 6,,"lthoft whereinil ismctlfary to lift it /tlft, For Iheft Natio"s who ~ tlltir Apifl' ajftflalio1l ~("me Simi or Simones, they ""chale ollely II di{taft; for, the ,'FigurlO! the N8fl is pervemd; Ttllhis pmiti' it ftlfe is not lI1e dittA{'e, hue the dipAle wanls a name, and is afierwar-is cilUed 6J tNename of" Sympt,me. Blltlhis diftaft hath II /~fion of operations I otherwift it were not" diflaft, iMt rather a Clrtflim dtflrmity, tlmefore ,be d;{t"ft iI, {mANle the Hofe;s ,hjlrN[ltd I, the hjllJtrAlIce~f '~fPiralion, AlIdthae'~ftrllllion is. dl{ellft "P'"which there followes "Iejiln of operatj,nl5 for, fiN theft Na· ';OIlS certa;s/, forw"",ot" (rte fe/pirilliON, fo DeAlet, thAI tbe,CtlN /c,fr&4_ ~e"tlderJfm/) If"' Ihey ""foldtl

- Jie4ke

, '

<,

, b A :I:' 1J Ch 'l' > 'I" 'Thelnconve;

1 '.arl'.J"C'4' ang '''g. 'l7 niencClofracl •

. r dle Norc •• rpealee in the No/e,Jet it{eems it doth note as l{uppoJe (J.(W~

;t might) {omewhilt hinder their /meUing,for it isfaid

olthe Brafilians and them ()f.Peru~that they hilve the

[meUingJ'o good,thatin {meUtngof the hand,they knolv

if iI man be a Spaniard or. a Frenchman .. But becaufe

the difeafe wants a name,tt ought acc~rd~n'l, ~o MOl1.-

tanus,to be nominated/rom the. caufe,whtth IS the s,t-

mitie itfelfe.' Simit, therefore IS the caufe,not the di{-

fare,and the difea[e is in the ~i~1 figure" hecau/e tbat

which ought nClt to be depreJl ed,u made depren ed, and

(0 malees i~ to be Morbus In figura or re tlgurata.

And now who call deny tIJrfe Nations to he Jlck of the fa{hions?and if their defigne be to gain heauty tberely;

they are much out of the ,!a"fince ~h~ No{c is :herely

hurt in its form,becau{e It IS ,hurt In tts adom!ng and

beauty, which is thm!;, Uemifh e«;and when Its 0r~~-

mmt and beau!) is Mlmi/hed, lhi very forme oj tt IS hurt,andJo cOnfequem/y_ the in(hument;Yet we ought

tolenow that the imbellifhment and leauty, doth ,not

confifi i~ the [oJ1nl1e and ;r'hitmelfe,of.JleJh ( asfond

women rAfh?Y ha've entert~tned an oplmon: B~t the]

confi~ in a due conformatIon of parts and fi I {cttu~tt-

011, to the end they may commodlouJly and aptly lrlng

forth their opnations,lecaufe OmamNlt and leiluty

tend to the operation;ofthe parts, as Gal~n> a!firmer.,

' since thertfore t?e very ft.g~re of theNo{e ~s III beaMY &ornament,whtch conJiftsm II conformatIon of parts, and a cOrt'Vmient {cituation ; the beauty and Ornament hurtJthe forme it {elfe is hurt, and the in~rument ;t felfe in refpeEt of its forme is{aid to be I)urt: when we {peak of the figure of the Nole, ~ee meant the conformation it [e(fe, not the fulftanttall forme, but the conformation of pam,wbich in latine is,aptly

r' caUed

Ait Ape.lik=· Nofecoll. . de-mlled •.

~

})1. Brown l'{tHd,,,ia 'pidlll1,

128 Man Tramform'd:.O.ft;.

ctll!ed Pla~matio, having rr[peH to the nature of the. thing, whtch cOlJ.form~fion cBnfi.fis in its proper in,~rumef'2tall 1!1emter, JfJ It due manner, :with.the figure 1t [elje,wlJen the Receptacief, pafJ ages, and. [upevficies are not,alfo depraved;nor doe ~e under-

~ an_d (as advertIzed htfore) the [ubftanttallform6 wlJlCh. is inthe't:ery matter forming it and 'l,iving it to 6e In aB., I know ,tI~e heauty oj the Note. ~sgen~~ rally cletnmtned ly optfJIon,and[eems (as one mgent ... ouf/y (pt'akes .in tbis cafe of flat No{es, and other aJJeEll'd ftgur~s thereof) to have .no 1'0 ence, .that holds one notton With aU, that [e,emmg brauteous umoone, ~pbich bath no favour with another, lind that unto n;ery on« according +ff Cuftome hath made it nsturall, or Sympathy and conformitie of minds, Jhall make it fume agr~alle; which various apprehenfions of Men and Nattons,hath made him think tl)at ~odeviations can be expounded[o high to an unduJillUe deformit;f, without a mallife{t and confeffed drgm ofmonftrofitie; ret it i~granted,that in die naturaD lody of Man, the perjeBtons of everJpart receiue their exaBneffe from the. firH Idea of the Creator: httt, hfreir.,is " contrivance which {eems to oppore dgainfl it, the PhafJcy of a~ .Artificer o'll'er-ruling the intention of .JI!at".re, 1¥htch muft con[equentlyroidence rome de· f~r?"lttJ' To [pl'~k the. truth, .this No[e heinggentiIlttof(s and natIve to an Ape, can. never become {/, Ma.nsf~c.e: the Nat~ve hea.uty of the No{e conJiffing rather In the, elevatlo'!, then dlprfffion of it; That PhyJique .AX_lOmchetngfirme, as H aUifhed .upon the truth of Natures intention, Nafus- homiai alrior ad decorera, A flat No{e leing therefore excep!rd. iZg~inft. in, t~e ]..(.vit;caO larp) and excluded alJ'j .

. prieM

:r.he ArtificiaD Changling. 1~'~!fc~:~~0~!

h fen any beau.

prieftly approach unto t e Altar, as accounted an un-If 10 II Face,

naturall blemifh and deformity; Oneol the unclean» o,r'...{i\!.) fignes 0/ the LeproJie being a dilatation and at~gmen-

tation of the rrings of the No{l', and a Simi tie Qf the

noftrils, whereby tbe Face, whole beauty doth not a

little cMji~ in the Decent figure olthe No{e, appeares

'I:ny filthy and di(honeH. And therefore we moft

JujUy .zbhorre the Nore tlJa~ is funk into this Figure

ly the Vert eri sn rot, as the greateft lIrmi/h and miJ~

chiefI' that [pight/ull,dif.gractfull and disfiguring mn-

l'ldy can in/li[f. Now that there Nof'e-mouldas

many times preiudice nature in her operations, alltl

Uemifh her perieEfions, is too apparent. But let us[ee

yet farther, whether they obtaine their ends, wllich

is to advance the beAuty of their Faces, the rather, 'j

finee one H iftorian imagineth that rome of them doe.

Tbefigure of the Face generaUy [eems to be diftingui-

(bed in there differences, etthet' it is oUong, round,

or broad; for, a narrow face which is oppoJite unto a

lroad, if reduced to an oblong. So hence there difJe-

rmees are reduced, either the Face is extended e»

quaUy according to its altitude and latitude, and [0

if an obkmg F see: or if more exporreBed according

to latitude ihe» longitude, and if caUed a hroad Face;

it is €afie to imagine that the longitude, w/lich we

al{o caU tbe altitude, if to be taken trom the Forehead

to the Chin, the latitude on tlJe contrary, from cheek

to '.heek. Some bring in another yotunditie oiFace,

whIch if wfJefJ it doth {well, and if prominent into

the anterior part, 10 which roundneJl I' they <Jppofe a

hoUow, to wit, which if deprefTed. In a 'L'aried

txpreJfion, wee may fay, a Face thit way round ie

tliat which if Convex in the forepart, a HO/1.ow-face

1"2 «

·~.7.\;',:.~,~ .1

__ ,-_ r ~_~, .• _ .... ~~.... •

~:~I~}h:hC·riO tMat1Tranlform'J: 0 R,

Norc~oAtills. 11 that which in th.dame part is Concave. Now le-

~ fides that which is commonly cslle« the figure of tht Face : there i6' another which is, compounded oj the figure Oflhe[f>veraU parts of the Face, and oJ their delJtwda1'lce and ref'peR theJ h4ve Among themfelves, wl};ch Critiques in leaui1 caU the Forme. And tbe front alone (1M is 6lferved)-may be varied (601)e 576 waifS, and therefore the NoJeiliJinitfly more, /;ut many parts ma)' le varied in fe-veraU ways and degr(t's and various complications among them{elves, from whence arifeth that infinite (almoft) variety of humane Formes. Now he4UI) rejides in the Forme; for if every parthrightly joirmed, and rightly corre/pondent one unto another, the Face wiD be beard;fuU, if it have withaU a plulftl'.! colour. But t~e parts may aO be beauti/uU, and yet not well anf uer one another; at for eXAmple: A fhort, Ion!" flrait, crook't or Aquiline Nofe, little or great, it' they be Graphically con[tituted, may he leautifull; but the queflion 1fiU he, whAt Jigure of other paris is uquired to m4ke up the perfeR harmony of a Face,' A faire high Hawks Nore, rather agrees with aJaire plump Cheek, then with ajaire thin Cheek: and on the contrary, a beaut;juU Cbeeke lfut leane; doth rather love a [trait Nofe, then an Aquiline. The Perlians therefore to make good t be leaut)', M weU at tile tra4iendent dignit, oj'thdr No{es, had need have convex or fuU extant Faces, as indeedfor the moff_part they have. As for the 'I attars and Chynoire, who afJefled It P.st No/'t, it mufl needs le COIlftlTed, it if not un{uitaUe UfJto their broad Faces; hut 110. INan ,the fame Nofe "ea~tifte a round F,au, fuch at the.GulDfftOS f,nd theJof Caffara, m the lower

, iE1hiof(""

rrt: At;/: . /J Cb u The N'llur.U'

:I. (Je r '.i"CIA ilng mg. 13lperfcaio~Clf

h" r 'd h I.n '0" IhcNorCIA

lEt lopfa are Jal to a't/e, un IJJe wee wt tmagmt min Ind

(uch a rotundity, til make: a Concave or hollow I'ace, Woman. 1fith u hicb It Camoife No[e m.f) have rome indifJe- ~ rmt corre/pondell,cy. Now ftnee t&th {exes are guil-

Iy of tbu ciolesce ofjered unto nature, the letter to

c01J't:ince them 0/ their erroars u e fhall not thinke

much to exbibite tbe a6folute forme, 60th cr a Man

md Womans Face, the naturall perJeEfion of a Mans

Face requires thEfe conditions: .A{quare Forehead,

upon which thofe forelocks oftbe Haire alide mode-

rately elevated, his EJe6rows hard, great and long,

II good amiable charope Eye, rJot v~ry concave nor prcmimnt, fomewhat Lion-like, that little cloud

that is faid to appean: above the No[e, being no-

thing elfe but" certaine rUlged or [carce apparent

Tumor, which declares a kind of light contrllHion or

tbe Forehead: A No{e thick, not acute, lut rather ~reatthenfmall, a Face great and notlony, agrut

Mouth, firme teeth, not thin,ofan indifjerl'nt'jiu,

And 1fhite, 32. in number, his upper ]awes are equal I

to the lower] ,fwes, and neither exeeedes nor are ex-

ceeded or put Jorth leyond each other; for fo Man·

would be deformed, lut nature makes the Ml1{culine

prr/dl, ami 1fha! is perfeR according to the naturlllJ

Hate, aD that is 'Lay heautifull; fuch therefore

ought to be the exaR Sym~try oj the ;awes, I)is Eares

1I.ot too big nQr too little, weU enJ!_ra'lled, dellrticulate,

II H rad of a moderate magnitude, drawinJ!, nearer,

yet toagreater thenalej]t, and venera Me withaU.

To 'he ablolute forme of (J Woman! Face, there goes.

4'aire white Forehead) marked wjth 110 wrinkles or

lines, longer thm thaI o/'M ans is, and drawing to a rOllnaneUe IIVOII' Ih e Temples, Ihat it ((ems to r(p're~

. 73 ~,

Theabro!ute 13" 'Man ·7~ a ,/:, . 'J ··0 .'

petfetlionsof" . r nsJorm ..•. ·R,

a Cf~:~r ftl1' II TU1kijb heW invetUd, wkerei" therupptarS tiD"

. an, t.mOllr or gi6bofoty, or a"7 clDffJ, no {nmity or

. fadmfTe, '-'ut a ple.fam Alld modeft chetrefuln,J{e,4 F Me rOllnd, pleafsn, 4Ndelegant tD 6ehQId.' Jl tittl« M{Juth, ["newhat but fca,,·' oprnil:g, fm.lH white teeth, jomelVhat j1JOrt, eoen, in tlumher juft 28, liP' this, nor toO hard cloftd together, [omtwhat foIl lips, Cora/l, imita,ing Permilion, II little Nisjo1ned, YClfo liS the teeth Art rCar" difcovered, whi/eftjbte hol"slm peace" laughs no', tmmoved; ,hat is (uch" woma» thatd{JthYJ~treJt, 1Jorbitl, nor(uck her lipl ; theft/ips 'hus aefcrilled add II wOllderfull grMe and "itnit,'tI a WOma1l1 vi[age: neithtr iJ 'he Nofe,o he omitted, the honour And OrnAment of the countenance, whicb re,,,(enlllhe ,.,ward part 'f II Ro[e: or II Meane lize, ftrAif~ deane, ,.,itlJ II certaine ,btllfem{{e MUle, lUllhe holes of their nDjJrill {mAO. A r6und white pill'd Dr {moolh Chill, the CandDr whereof {eems t, introduce into the IJthotaers mind, a ce;taine {u(plt;,n of A RO{ie t(J/our, 6", no Irall at aU, nor an, ptrceplion of hair'l is to be ret/Hither in the lips" Chin: .A. [maU fbIT, Purple To1'JgNt, mDfI (trli.;II'Y dslh 6eft/mome'. "'0. I1Jan, whMJ Jet is flarct (Jr nsver feen, the tip Jcam .p. pming whiles flee JPtAlm: the EJe.~ro"'l 'ugh'" ~e 6lac/(, [u61;le, Jisj'1ned, (Oft, alfd [wwl, archtd. $(Jm_fwh.t "lAck B,es, declining tD {mAUne{fe,co"c.svt, "g",.~, IA.gII;'ng, pieafanl,mlfjbinJng. The Bats of the Cheeks rO(lnd, altogethtr 'tN)it/of hAires, flefhie, ,,/it, ""d nftmMng the red Sun·fhine Appleuf Autm"n,. t..A/;~ve theft "",Aine the Temp_les, ",hich ollg/;' to 6e no lejfo white ,lmJ thl FOrlhead, lind ",itholll PI/pilion of <1», IJOfJeS, ,et no' f.,ln nir dtp"jfod, "Nt i'JA man"e" litlieilnd{c"r&emmwi. BII't~!"~,()tn

folll-.

TbeAttiGcialJ Cbanu/inf1 133~he tOO ofR~:

'Jill e b' . c,o~uttol

1~lNtwIJII,' flIrt, flft 4ntf deliwe, IIf}"fM .ilhlhe ~l~o;;fegofraldtlfl&id coloflro{Ro,fes. The "h,le Htadra,htr little fams noted. thmgreat,mIYerDlIlIathenamilm, comei""el1 and ~

elwaled '

. Theft Are the NilturaU "eaNties oflhe pll,.tllJel(,"~ glng hoth to t4 Ma. alld WOmAriS Fact: Jel no Man mlly he~ttlp,,! c(Jne/ude thlll F lOt I, 6t beaut;!ull and ptrfill In all ttl "lImbe.r, that hath All thefe COllditiOllS for ild9th lI~ttru/y foil,,.,. But M a Lute6r Hllrp r: 1101 therefore [llid 10 b, H armlntcAlly an" fitl, ';ade m~J ,,,,,I prepared, lJeGilt~ft il hath flire Anti good jirtl'lfS, ,Dr beea"fo it is gNildld, but bUtwft '''"coIIcorti "",ll ont Anlth,r in HArmontcli1/ 1114119/;(" thm/6re it founds wtll411d u praifed: fo II MIn Dr w,~ ma"s Fllce, NlIleJ[e the a/Dre/did parts thereof agree lind t01l,ord aPlt.", wllh one anDther, M neither heatlti/ull "" mnely.

We in this Uland arc of an opinion, and praCl:ife fomewhat contrary to thefe Face-levellers and doe 110 way like of a fhocing- horn-like N o[e,l'~ither do we~ ell,cem fucb to be grati~foJ. And therefore OUr Midwives and Nurfes are a little too forward to ftretch out their ha~ds to help Nature in this cafe. For illthough all children lire a tuue c am,,'~d a60flt '·he NDf~, 6e/ore Ibe 6rUgtriflth, being 1101 propuly 6ut tqllt'lmolUy cal/til [alldl,.No[ed, 6tcau{t they have afDwer, II1JJ." to receive II NDfo more p(rfa, appeAmlg,flnely CAm,lft; 6eca,,[e 'he "atllrall heal which is the tl'lfJ"lJme~1 of 'he oertne F'rmalri~. hllth not yit ~t'fiaed their NDfor, nor elevated ,hal Cartilage to ttJ nalurag and appoillied magnitude, according to IlIhDfo figure.U tJppe/I.~/'lIs oJlhe N'fe art reftrred. N". ,k4' IMlllre "(",liltS neeJe, the ()f/hiofls ""d 0- .

T 4. 'lie,,;

"

.'AIiA~umlie 134 Man Transform'd.: 0 R;

or high hawkc . . ,

Nora wbare ver diligmt help and art of Mtdrnws ~ndNur{es)tQ

!~ to phJch up our Ntles as thEY doe, IM;f nature were )acob,l'onta- not aUe to per/rft her owne worler. Iacob: Fontanus RUS;7I P~i- in hu comment upon the phyfiogMm, orA~jft •. ta-

flog". Anft. . ,/, h . . II J :l.f 0-1 d .

king notICe OJ t ti pragmatuau uevtJe OJ .L"~~ WI'lJts,

[ayes, that btcauJe chi1drm /;y rtAloll of their tmder tones, which are taply depreJ~, appe,are [addle-nofed. the) laying hold of them with thetr. Thumhe And fore~ftngtr, are wont to comprt.Oe the laterall parts of the Nojr, th.st thu Simity of Chtldrm, may be the[oo: ner abolifhed: moreJor beautJ then/or a'!y commod,tyit bringeth tolife, for they are/omettmes [OCII!"" prefJed by 'kem, that they become 11] e commodtOUl for the purgmgout of the mUCOIM excreme~ts of the Braine. It iG true, it belongs to the correfftVe part of medicine to looke a little to this pufintfJ e, aNd to corre8 the tapfe of Nature, where a juft ?ccajion ii, but not ly G'I.'er diligence to bring theNofe snto a worfe condition thm it would ha'tl'e been tn, had they trufted the ordinarie providence of nature.

The ,erJi.sns of

old, very much efleemed a high aquiline or hawks Nofe, as a note of ' honour and magnanimitic, ,which they affetl:ed in memory of cYNU,who had (uch a nofe, and they would fuifer none to raigne over theAl

but

1 be Artiftci4B Changli1fg. 135 ~~:~::er ,

but princes that had fuch imperiall Nofes ; nay, H~. ids a cultome at this day, to exceptagainft fuch • that arc not thus nofedjwhcrcfore thole that have

she nurfery and educanon of the King of l'er{ill:$

children, and the Princes of the Royall Blood,

ufe all the arn they call to make them GrypiJos, or crookec-nofedlike a Hawks bill; and they had

no other Nurfes Ieffe honorifique then Eunuchs,

whofe chiefe command and office, as fofter-fa-

thers; was to make the Nole as beautiful! as

might bee, col~po~ng and direCting their mem-

bers, from' winch imployraenr they were all ac-

counted Grandees. 1 hefe Nutritiall Eunuchs did

conforme the Nofe, as Mercurialif doth pro ba- M . u

, . hid crcurta II

bly conjcdure, Wit ea en plates kepG on by lb. d,Dc,uy.r.

lome faftening contrived without, and for their

inrrinficall operation, they ufed little hollow

pipes, thruft into the Caverns of eheir nofkrils,

by which their tender Nofes Ilrcimed and bound

in fuch a mould, in procefle of time) were for-

med according to their defire.Nor farr From this

artifice, is that libertie which is granted to the

corrective part· of Medicine, in correcting the ill conformation of the noftrils, when in children

they are either too large or fireight, the way of

which correction, is to wrefl the member to the

oppofire part; that is, if they be too wide, to con-

traCt them gently with the finger, and in cafe

t~ey be too Clofe, often ~ilate.them, or by put-

tmg fome fuch hollow pIpes 1I1to the noflrils as Mercurialif thinks the PerJian Nurritii ufed in the

affeCted arching of Perfilln N ofe, This fizure of

the Nofe, is now become gentiliti.all, anl native

V to

I' I

~~~I!~:fe°lllJ. JJ6 Man' Tram/orm' d: 0 1\.; .

whcrc.ffetlecl h fi h h . hi h C h .

~ to t e Per lans, "!' 0 to t elf .IS tore eads,

have generally high hooked Noles: fo truly is that verified in the prac\ife of Men.

Regis ad exemp/um totus fomponitur oriis.

For if once the Grandees b~in a corporall. fafhions the contagion foone fpreads, and the meaner fort will imitate them in the fame prac\icall Metamorphofis,although they pay for it. So»

Quicquid delirant Reges,pleFlumur Achivi.

The Romans of old loved a large & prominent note, which was with them in fafhion as mofl imperiall: and wee ufe to call fuch an high and eminent _ Nofe a Roman Nofe . and the Aufirian Nofe beares fway at this da y in Germany. Pllrcha. pj~r. The Indian wo- 3' lib. I, . men bore their Nofirils. full of holes 0)) both

fides, wherein they - weare Jewels, which hang

down unto their lips. . -

ld,. Pilgr. I.' The People of the Hland Arucetto, have holes JiI",. in their Nofes on each fide) wherein they weare

Rings ftrange to behold. . The.:

rrhe ArtifiCiall Changling: 137 Norc.Boren.

The Nation called curen1a, up the Riv~r r: p~r, rana, have little ftones, which hang dangltng 111 ... liu.6".1

thdr Nofes, . , ,

The Chiribichenfes bore holes 111 their noftrilsr«, Mm.u-

for an elegancy, and the richer fort) deck th~m CAd. ai.

with ;ctwels of Gold, the common ,people, WIth

divcr1c (hels of cockles and Sea ,Snal1es. PurchU PUff.

A little from Gambra in AfrICa, Men and women, as an enfigne of Nobilitie and greatndfe, weare one great Ring, in a hole bored through

the Nole, which

~y~t~md .

take out at pleafurc , tolt was a cuflorne in Mexi co to /pierce the noflrils of their eleCted King: for when Ticou the King of Mexico was chofen, they pkrced his 110ftrils, and for all Ornament, put an Emerald therein ; and for

this reafon -in the Mexican PiCture-Chromcles,

'his King is noted by his noftrils pierced. .

The urear Ga~a Calando King of Gagas,l~fl/l Pili.r.~.

I:> , rl' hi N {i I,b.t.

weareth a pIece 0 copper eroue 1S ? e, tWO

inches long, which is the lea(\: part of hIS cruell

bravery. ' '/J

The Kings Wife-of CumlLna? hath ~er ~ofirl~s ~'l.rJ' nil"

bored) and a Ring hung therein, which 111 eheir

V ~ language

U,m pi/gr, J. lib. S',

N~. 13,8' ManTramform'd: OR,

JIll chas P'f' language they call caricari,

z. hb.,. l~r. The l!lhab~tants of ~he Cape of L_opo Gon(aivtS)

weare flngs III the middle partsof their Nofes. fome thrufl Imall homes of teeth through them: and weare them fo,which they think to be a great Ornament unto them.

~t~::chOteft The Guineans hold rhcmfclvcs Caire with their

NaCall Ornaments, fame thrua finall homes or rceth through their Nofes, and 10 weare them, Hicr. Girav.e all (as they think) to beautifie ehcmfel ves,

CD{mol/Apb. The Inhabitants of Florida, for the Came pur-

, pofe, bore their Noftrils.

Pu~chal Pllgr. The Cueremagha's, (the Men) have a little hole

4./IQ.6. • hci N fc' hi h i:

In t en 0 e, mro w ic , lor an Ornament they

put a Parrotsfeathcr,

U,IIJ fIdem. The People of Tiem/;w, weare on either }Iofi.

rill, a blew flarr, artificially madeof a blew and white fione.

~::~.PjJgr. 2. They of Barn.tgIlU'o Kingdome, and Colo BraVIl,

the Negro-naves, have cerrainc marks on their Nofes, made ondy fora bravery with a cold Iron, and they fay rhcfe marks are rery bcautifull unto them; my Author fhewcs how they ~~ili~ ,

It/1m ",(,Ii. Ie. The women of Ormw, . weare on their bored Nofes, many jewels, and a long barr of Gold upon one fide of eheir Nofes,

The jewifh women of old, had alfo Nofcjewels in rcqueG:, as an ancient Ornament, rec~011'~ up by the 'prophe~ Ifaiah, among other impliments of their abominable pride.

They of St. Chri~opher-s, fikk pins on tb~ir Nofes,making the.irNofes fervefor pin-pillowes e .

The

. tT1_ A ;1:' lJ (·b ' !' . Th1sNorcltr.:

:J.fJe .n.rtt.J',CM . ang mg. Ij.9vcryullctl-

'the inhabitants of,t~e p~ovinc~ QyiUacenca about P$;~r.

Peru, weare Iron rlllgs 111 rhcir.Nofes, and jew- 4' _/lb.? .

els thereat, whence the province had its name,

being hence called Q(.tiUacenclf ;thatis, the Iron-

Norc Province.

The better fort of 1E~'lJtian women weare t' h

• t II gowca

rings of Gold or SIlver, t rough the hollow of Travels.

their Noles, hanging rich Pearles and precious

/tones at them, wherein the common People

imitate their betters.

It is a jtrange thing to ,confider the vario~ phan-, tajies of Nlltions? to~clJtng matters adornmg the Body; for fome thtn~ It "!ore ornamenta# ~o weare their bracelets on their wrt~s, othersfay It 1$ better to have them about their andes: rome think it moft comely to weare Rings a~d Je.w~l~ in the Earf, Jo"!c 11'ili have them alout thetr prIVIties, and others WlU not think they lire compleat, un/eUe they hang t~em upon theiy lips., Chee~s, or Nofes, tff,tho[e Natt~ns doe who are well rtn'1,ed for rootmg, and tn-: lo/the ffatute beau tie ol~ur fwine. Surely their "': 'I,efltion was much put uut, when they {uJfered their No{es to be bored, to brin?, up thisfafhion, the patience of tbat Man waf fomething allied to their folly, who walking ly amarke, at whicb {weill Archers fhot, and heing {hot tbrou?,h the No{e, told tllem plainly, that if they fhot there againe, be would hreak their Arrow. Tbe heau!y of the NQ[e, conJi~s in the equalitk and polifh't [m,ootbm'./Je thereot~ whicb if the NaturaO Ornament of the part. Hence wee [ee bow uncomely it it, rr.ben enriched with Rubies and the Puflels of compotation, which e:lCpo{eth ruch richfaced and carbuncle-nofedtofPots to ~he mockery of till

V 3 Men.

· Norc.Borerr. 140 M-anTransrform·d: OR~

laxcd. ..

c,r;x;-!Jj Men. Norleffe ridiculolMJuhe golrlm Rings a/IJd preciom Jewels, in the {no lit of Iuch {wine; jor, the extant bulk ot thofe Nu{e-rings, and pendants

"-",_ wherewith they overlaid their Noj'e.rj muff {orne way

hinder the {igkl; and dive/ifh pride, who hath thm hored them through the Nofe, and made more vents in Natures conduit-pipe then [he intended, (bee fure faies them wages, in rendering the No{e leDe apt for the right forming of the ",'oice. lPhich muft nreds be 11fe articulate and explained, and the lPords fomewhat tun'din the Nofe. In the curiom Machini of {pmh, the Nofe if added tU a Rrcorder, to advance the melodious mho of the found, which thefe lPomen think that Nature hath not made comp/eat enough; thert[ore they lPilL bore themfuU of Recorder~ops at it were, M trthey [houldfpeake onery in the recording tone of their Nofe, which invention if to the blemifb IJnd prejudice of N aeurn nil/aU operation, and mufl needs rather marre, then any way ;mprove the inflrument.

sea NE

_ .Ji_ _.. .-

.... ,.,

, ··d.

1'be Artiftciall Changling.

Lf)ngEar'd 141 Nations.

~

SCENE VIII.

Auricular fafhiom, or certaine ftrange Inventions ofP cople in new .. mouldingtbeir Eares.

INdent writers Ipeake of Iomc Indians, whofe Eares

, lA~ did reach UntO the ground. .

~ Pomponiw fpeaking of rhefe

or fome like them, fayes

they call them F aneJios or i;;AtP:II.~~:<!I' Sstmalas : the Greeks as Stra- SI~abD.Ge,gr ••

(.;_ . 11 hem i ,bl~; 1Ib •• 1 S·

60 wntes.ca t iem UtllTO"OIVT~'a

becaufe they ufe their Bares for acouch to Ilecp

on.

Mrgaphmes an ancient Aaehor, and so, lim~ SDlinUltap.u; fay, there are Iflands, and a Nation called Fane-

ft;~ (1 readeie fome where Panoti;) whole Bares

are dilated to fo effufc a magnitude, that they

COver the ref] of their bodies with them;and have

no other cloathing,t~en as they doth rheirmem-

• . .bers

Man 1. ramform'J: 0 It,

bers W1h the membranes of their Eares. Plinie alfo makes report of fuch nations about PontU5 (faith he ) there are Scythian Ilands.where there isa Naeion of ranefti, who being 0- thcrwife naked, have Eares folarg, that they invelope whole bodies with them ; And in hisfeventh book he proves, that in the borders of In. dia, not farr from T aprobana, there are men who co-

, ver themfelves all

Ifidordlb. II. over with their

"p.~. E ~ ffi

,ares.IIdor a rms as much of them.The refnmo-

rues 0 rhefe men arc very ancient, but there are notwa nring Ilore oflarcr witndfes. .

Eufcb. Nie., l!ttr~ Simon, and .Antonius Daca, as EtI{ehilU ~:~;g. 81_. Nttrtmbergenjis imformes us; report of men tha~ were lately found, whom they call TlilanuchaJ (which name lignifies an Eare) fuch as the old world called Onotocit4ls,whofe Ears arefo prolix, that they hang down even unto the ground, and fixMen may be hid under ODe of them:thefe Men

were

'Mcnwilh

Earl down to r4'l weir Peet. '

~\.j

P linie.lib. 4. oap. '3.

MunDer co{mograph.lib. f. uplu6:

'Plln.lib.1.

~ hi ArtificiA Cb4ng}ing. 14 3g~~~t Ear"

were difcovered towards Calijurn;a. ~

l't/.ximil;lIn~ TranJilvanu5 reports, that there Mnimll

is an Wand neere the Molucca's, where the peo- Tran6l.' .,1Id ple have fuch vaft Eares, And pi1.ll]etta aflures us R~IIi"'. rOlll .... that in .Arucetto, which is an Hland reckoned

among the f'dolucca's, ther~ are Iuch People as

before mC!lt,lOncd, . whofe Eares have fo fpatious

~nd prodlglOus dimentions, Purch.u faith, that l'ufGhl' Pilgr; In this lfland Arucetto, are men and womcn not

paft a cubite in height, having Hares of fucl~ big-

ndfe, that they lie upon one, and cover rhein

w.ith the other; fo that although rhefe things.

have been reported in fables, yet you may 6nde

Authors wh?m it would not dif~leafe one to fol-

low: Str&ho indeed accounts rhele relations fabu-

lous, and he fcoffs at Me1.ajlhenef, for writing

of fuch kind of Eares , Yeli Mela faith he had

Authors for it, that; were not to be contemned.

And as Kornmllnnus thinkes, it is not difagreea- Kornmannul ble to truth.if yOG weigh the number and autho- lib: d. 'tIirlTlIl1f rity ,of thofe writers; which will appeare more mIra'. credible by the modern relations of fome ocular

witneffes, mentioned in this prefent Scene: that

ther~ fbould be whole Nations that have Eares

of fo prodigious a magnitude, is a relation I

doubt will fcarce credibly link into the Eares of

men , yet we may fafely affOrd th I' F' h Tho!" :rhg•

, • C lame art maul! 111 bOT"

unt? u, as to the records of monftrous births, mlllldi.Gilbcrwhich have appeared with fuch Bares GilhertUl'Us ,.rO!l. .

. hi Ch . 1 n I· '. .' Skencklus l,b.

10, IS rome c aerenss t iar a woman in a cer- I. ub{ervRt.

tam cafile of Lumliardie call'd C,;tnOJf~)in thet ime

0~ Pope Gre1.oyy, brought forth a little Infant,

With fuch great· and large Eares, that they co-

X vercd