70 Of the Advancement of Learni/tg. ^ Lie,IL 



contumelie. But however begotten, the Parc£, they fay, were his fi- 

 ftersjwho dwelt in a cave under ground', but Pan remained in the opea 

 Air. The figure and form, Antiquity reprefented him by, was this. 

 He had on his head a pair of Horns, rifing in a (harp, acuminate to hea- 

 ven i, his body (hagged, and hairy '-, his beard very long 5 his (hape bi- 

 formed j above like a man, below like a bead 5 finilht with thefeetof 

 a Goat. He bare thefe enfigns of Jurifdiftion 5 in his left hand a pipe 

 of feven Reeds j in his right a fheep hook or a ftafF, at the upper end 

 crooked or inflexcd : he was clad with a Mantle made of a Leopards 

 skin. The dignities and offices attributed unto him were thefe 5 that 

 he was the God of Hunters ^ of Shepherds ; and of all Rural Inhabi- 

 tants : Lo. Prelident Mountains , and next to Mercury, the EmbafJa- 

 dour of the Gods. Moreover he was accounted the Leader, and Com- 

 mander of the Nymphs 5 which were always wont to dance the Rounds, 

 and frisk about him : his train were the Satyrs, and the old Silem: He 

 had power alfo to ftrike men with terrors, and thofe efpecially vain, 

 and fuperftitious, which are termed Tanick fears. His J&s recorded 

 Cic Fpift. gj.g j^Qj many ^ the chiefeft was, that he challenged Cupid at wreftling, 

 ^^^ ' ■'■ in which conflift he had the foil 5 caught T^phoM in a net, and held him 

 Claud- de f^Q, Moreover when Ceres being (ad and vext for the Rape of Froferpi- 

 R. Prefer. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ p^jp^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^jj ^^ Q^jg jqqJj^ pains,by difperfingthem- 



felves feveral ways, to find her out 5 it was only P^wj good fortune, as 

 he was hunting, to lite on her, and to give the firft intelligence where 

 (lie was. He prefumcd alio to put it to the trial,who was the better mu- 

 ovid, fician he or Apollo^ and by the judgment of ^//<!/</f was preferred, for 

 Met.xi. which judgment, Midas had a pair of Aflesearsfecretly imped to his 

 head. Of the Love-tricks of r^?«, there is nothing reported, oratleaft 

 not much 5 a thing to be wondred at, efpecially being^among a Troop 

 of Gods fo profufeiy amorous. This alio is (aid of him, 'That he loved 

 the Nymph Eccho^\vhom he took to wife '■, and one pretty wench more 

 called Syrinx^ towards whom Cupid (in an angry revengeful humour 

 becaufe fo audacioufly he had challenged him at wre/lling) inflamed his 

 defire. So he is reported once to have follicited the Moon apart into 

 the high Woods. Moreover he had no idiie (which is a marvel al(b, 

 feeing the Gods,rpecially thofe of the male-kind, were very Generative) 

 only he was the reputed Father of a little Girl called lamhe, that with 

 many pretty tales was wont to make ftrangers merry ; and (bme thought 

 that fhe was begotten of his wife Eccho. The Varahte feemeth to be 

 this. 



kj P^« as the very name imports reprefents, or layeth open the world, 



or the world of things. Conceraivg his Original there are only two o- 



pinions that go for Currant : For either he came of Mercury^ that is the 



V/ordofGod, which the holy Scriptures, without all Controverfie,af^ 



firm i and the Philo(bphers, fuch as were the more Divine,(aW5 or el(e 



front the confufcd fcedr of things. For fome of the Philofophcrs 



tacrt.ia held, that the Seeds and Principles of Nature, were even in the fub- 



Anaxag. ftnnce infinite, hence the opinion, o^SimiUyy Parts primordial, was 



brought in 5 which Anaxagoras either invented, or celebrated. Some 



more acutely and foberly, think it fufficient to (alve the variety of Na- 



laertin ture , if (ecds, the fame in fubfiance, be only diverfified in form and 



Tiiiscc- figure; certain and definite; and placed the reft in the inclofure, and 



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