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Show ""h- The E P I s T L E Danicarorty. And this untimely Birth wanting due Limbs and Linea; ments, craveth the covert of your Graces Wing, and it eing attended with the ill circumfiances or a mean Parent and its own Poverty, beggeth the favour of your Gigcious reception, and the honor of your Pafs t0 recommen it to ‘ ‘ of others. . theéoliiirllgimily is highly Renowned in Honor and Anti; quity, as being deicended from many Noble Pi'ogenitors, and is rendred numerous too, as being propagated into many Families of great Honor, Vertue, and Fortune, which make them very Valuable and Meritorious in the Eye of 'V orld. . theadorn Goodly Perfonage is beautified with the fine Linea» ments of a Graceful Vilage, and Enobled With outward and inward Parts, difpofled in elegant order : Your excellent frame of Body is adorned With a boun Mine, pleafant Lana guage, and amicable Converfe, highly endearing and com; manding the hearts and hands of all that have the honor to be known to your Grace,whom I moii humbly take the bold; Apartiment is fieeled above by the Cleric/er, and fortified be; fore by the Srcmon, as With a Breali'pla te, and behind with the carved Spondyles of the Back, and on each fide with many bony Arches of the Ribsj and more in‘wardl is adorned with the choice hangings of the ‘P/ez mz and Aledig/Zinc, encircling the Heart, ( as an Engine to move the Blood,) and the Lungs a Sylieme of Pipes to fan and exalt the Blood by the elaltick Particles of Air, The third Apartiment is embelilhed with a beautiful Fron , tifpiece of the Face dreiied With variety of ColoU rs, com; poléd of many lights and lhades, and of a fine fymm etry-of diiierent parts, anfwering each other in due proportions. The Brain being the noble Houiholdl‘tuii of this highelt Story, is guarded with the Ivory Tables of the Skull) , as with a Helmet, and clothed more inwardly with the cover , ings of the firm: and Pia [l/Ieniitx, as with thin Vails : This delicate Compage of the Brain is made up of various Pro, celTes, beIEt with numerous fireaks, which are {0 many Fir laments entertaining the Animal Liquor and Spirits, the immediate EmilTaries, the great Minii'ters of the Soul, by nets to prelént with a fine Sight of the Farts of Man s Body (wherein you may flee your own Stately Fabrick, clearly which it aéts its more noble operations of Senfe and Realb ii. reprefented unto you as in a Glais) confiilting of many out, ward Coverings enclofing each other as fine Walls guarding feveral Apartiments, and their rich Furniture, relating to Thus I have ihewed You the plealant prol‘pec't of the the more inward and Noble parts, fupported by a fine Co» the magnificent Fabrick of Man, that your Grace inav lumn of the Chine, compoféci of many joynts of the Ver- tebers of the Back, curioufly carved into variety of Pro. cefles. This elegant Pile of at Humane Body is made up of make a refleétion upon your own Elegant CompofitiOn, and three Stories, the loweli is outwardly covered with the common Integunients and Mulcles of the Belly, and more in» wardly beautified with the fine Hangings of the Rim of the Belly and Can] , encircling the noble Furniture of the W (cm. The Stomack is like a Retort, in which a milky Humour is extracted, and the Guts are its recipients; the Spleen, Liver and Kidneys are To many Colatories to refine the Vital Li not; and the Llreters are Aquaeduéls to convey the {trained watry parts of the Blood into the Bladder, as into a Cifiern. The middle Story of the Body is divided from the loweft admi re and adore the great Goodnels,Wifclom and Powe r of the Omnipotent Architeét, difpofing all things to your own Perlon in due weight,number,and meafure, and give this great heavenly Nlaker all Eucharift and Obedience by reafon he hath imparted to ou out of his infinite Mercy, fuch falua tary methods of ertue, expreffed in Sobriety to preferve your excellent Frame of Nature ; So that your Grace hath iérved the ends of 'Nature and Creation, as you have dez moaned our {elf in that decorum, which is molt order ly in Iétifual njo merits proportionate to the Law of Natur e, and perfeétive o a happy Life. Your well compoied and ferene Temper is {cared in a Haven ofEafe and Repole, as fecured againf't the Stor ms and Tempefis of Paifions, making your Grace capable to infpeé 't the Secrets of Nature, and Myiieries of Religion, and contemplate the more Divine Attributes of the Eternal by the interpofition of the Midrifl", as by a Floor, arched in its repoie, and brought toward a Plane in motion; this Being, and your regular Appetites hold conformity with Apartiment the ' |