22 TEMPORIS PARTUS MASCULUS. 



altera parte cohortem Chymistarum, inter quos se ante 

 alios jactat Paracelsus, qui audacia meruit ut separatim 

 rm-n vatur. Atque superiores illi, quos modo perstrinxi- 

 iniis, iiu-iulacia; tu monstra. Quse tu novis Bacchi orac- 

 ula in ineteoricis fundis, aemule Epicuri? 1 Ille tamen in 

 hac parte tamquam indormiscens et aliud agens opini- 

 unes veluti sorti committit. Tu omni sorte stultior in 

 absurdissimi cujusque mendacii verba jurare paratus es. 

 Veruin alia tua videamus. Quas tu fructuum elemen- 

 toruin tuorum inter se imitationes ? quas correspon- 

 dents ? qua? parallela somnias, idolorum conjugator 

 fanatice? Nam hominem scilicet pantomimum effecisti. 2 

 Quain prseclarse autem sunt interpunctiones illae quibus 

 natunu unitatem lacerasti, species nimirum tuae? Quare 

 facilius Galenum fero elementa sua ponderantem, quam 

 te somnia tua ornantem. Ilium enim occultse rerum 

 proprietates, te communes et promiscuae qualitates ex- 

 said that he professed medicine at Montpellier ; and probably he took his 

 name t'rum Villeneuve, which is not far from it. Brantome (De la Yue, 

 &c.) makes Raymond Lully his disciple. Villa Nova's best known work 

 is the commentary on the Regimen Sanitatis Scholce Salernitance. Sir Al- 

 exan<!<T ( 'roke has given some specimens of it in his edition of the Regi- 

 men. It is in some places sufficiently fanciful. The line 



Unica nux prodest, nocet altera, tertia more est. 



of which the real meaning seems plain, is made to imply that the nutmeg 

 iKi.ta is medicinal, the walnut unwholesome, and the nut or 

 catch of the crossbow deadly. In the phrase "alii id genus " it is probable 

 that a reference is intended to Roger Bacon. 



i This very obscure sentence appears to be corrupt. It is probable that 

 inn-is ou^ht to be novi or novioris. But it is difficult with any probable 

 ii to obtain an intelligible meaning. [For novis read nobis? 

 s.j 



trine of the microcosm is here alluded to. It recurs 



throughout' his writings, hut is statod more definitely than usual in the 



. i.f his 1'hil.is.iphia Sagax, ii. p. 532. of his philosophical writings. 



:. f.ir a statement of the fruits educed from each 



of the four elements bv the generating power of the sun. 



