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Show ... (Jf theA . tllilk~mi._ t1if1e~rtiing. ~ dedi thc~foreco~cerning Hifl~ry.,w~lc~ Wtliit parr oflearmng,. w hu:h anfweret_b to one o~ the Od~es,Dim~c.ilts ,"Or o~C:S of me.M~fik! of Man; .. wJii£aisthalo£theMemorte. ' :, 1 J. } ' • 11 ' 1. • t 4 0 ES IE is a· part of~earni~g. in ~.ea.fure of. . ·words for.tl1c mofipartrefiratned-: bur1n a.llo• . ttpoint~ exrrea~elf Ji~nfe~: a.ndfo?th truly.re-. f.crle to the Imagtna~n : -whtah beeu1.gno~ tyed . t die I.~a\ves of Matter 1 may. at pleaf~r-e ~o~nc ~hat which Nature hath koerea:&feucrth~t wh1ch Nature bath ioy.ne.d··, . and fa make v.n~a"'fu1L~\1at· ones &diuotfes ofr~bings:-Jf-i[/or.ibus-,rt.~e.Poetu &c• J·t is ·taken-. in two femes .i~ refped· bt _\¥ordes:or ·Maitei; In the fir.fi: Cenfe tt~ 1s bw a Ch.4r~l1er.oflbl~, .and .belot~gcth .to Arts of fpeccl~e, . and lS·OOl peru~ nen~for:the prc{ent. In di ~alter~it is~.as hat1ll>eene faiGC }. one ·of·tbe '-p.rihcapalll·Portlons. ·o.~t lear- ·- nirlg •· and is ·~net·hing dfe .but ·F.~ I ~·ED~ H -~· S\~ o R ¥,whi~ may be ftiled·a$ ~.elltn P.rDfe as 1n V.~.. ~.r,I-JT·. ' ·"'', . . . . , : if·hevf.hlifiJtdtis fh.I·N·EE>· HlS·.T·OB.l!, .. hjth bcen·e t6 giue fomeriliadow~ of:fatiffa~on to .. the minde of Man in thofe points, w h¢rcin theN~ ru re"of things 4ot d~oie·i ,the world being in pro~ .pdrtion inftrio~ to th fotllc :. b¥ reifo.n whcr.cof , ~her~ is agr .eableto t·h fpiri of Man., a-mjreamf' pic ·Gre~uae[e ,, ~. mQtc riat'l· Gooantffe ; :fnd ·a more :abfolute varietie then can bee.- f.ound-in· the ature of things. ~here fore , becaufe the_Ads · " .o.t: '. , fr-JwifetrJTtd~~ - t.tMt.Hijl1rll, haue notJila a de, .Ju"h ati~fictfi the min<leof ~'fan' P.lejit. ainef l Adb and Euents Greater anti more Heroic~U; be.; aufe:JrNeHi/~t~ritpropounC!f~.th the fUccefies anti Je ~ o6aetioris,tiotrfo agr:~able to the merits of M-e ~nd Vice ;~berefore ·pNJiefaines tne·m (more;iu i.n;ietribution, and more aGcording to Iteuealea · ~rouidence,be-eaufe 11:11lHijl1rie reprefenteth A ttL ons anef;Eucnrs,more orainatie and· IelTe interchah• ged, lherd"ore P~tjit enduetli them with ~rc Rarene[e, and more~nexpetted, andalternat~ae Variations. So-as it appearcth that Potjie feructh aad c~nfcrrttth tP. Magnanimitie, Moralitie,and to eletlatioa. ~ d t·hereiot·e-it was eue~Jhought ta haue fon1e participation of -diuinetfe , b'ecaufe it ckNh raife and erect the Miode, by fubmitting the Qlew.es o£things to thedefires of the Mind; whcreti fon ~oth buCkle a·nd bf>w.e the Mind.Vnto th __ ftire ofth-ings. And we fee that bythefeinfintm~ · ns and -congruities wirhmansNanire and plea .. fprc~ioyned a-lfo with;the agreementand.confar It ~ · h U with.Mnlicke,it hath had acceffe-and efiimati. th ·n rtidct~imes,and-barbarous~R~gions) wnereo-' :therlearning tloode excluded.. ' · · . · ~hediuifio ofPoefie \vhichts apteft in the propri~ ·e herof(beftdesfhofediuifios whicH are com on nto i'- with hiftory : asfained <Ehronicles , fained . , ·~ja.es,& t~e Appedices of HHlory ,as fained Epifiles; •fai edQrations, anddierefi) tis -int PO ES I~.' E e 2 . :N A R R A. |