CHAPTER V 



On the mysteries and secrets of this order Five the number of justice, 

 called by Plutarch the divisive number, justly dividing the entities 

 of the "world Opinions of the ablest modern naturalists on the 

 quinary arrangement The conjugal number ; character of genera- 

 tion A stable number, as -we never fnd animals ivith f-oe legs, 

 nor ivith ten Query as to Phalangiavt This number often to be 

 observed in scriptural, medical, astrological, cabalistical, magical 

 examples Concluding passage The Quincunx cf Heaven Night 

 Sleep. 



But the quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time 

 to close the five ports of knowledge. We are un- 

 willing to spin out our awaking thoughts into the 

 phantasms of sleep, which often continueth precogita- 

 tions ; making cables of cobwebs, and wildernesses of 

 handsome groves. Beside Hippocrates hath spoke so 

 little, and the oneirocritical masters have left such frigid 

 interpretations from plants, that there is little encourage- 

 ment to dream of Paradise itself. Nor will the 

 sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in 

 sleep ; wherein the dulness of that sense shakes hands 



