74 ^/ ^^^ Advancement of Learning, L i b . II. 



§ The office o^Pan could be by nothing fo conceived ; aqd expreft 

 to the life^as by feigning him to be the God of Hunters jfor every natural 

 Aftiouj and fo by confequence, motion and progreffion, is nothing elfe 

 but a Hunting. Arts and Sciences have their works; and humane 

 Councils their ends, which they they earneftly hunt after. All natu- 

 ral things have either their food, as zpey ; or their pleafure, as a re- 

 creation ; which they feek for 3 and that in a quick-difcurfivcj and diG- 

 cerning way, 



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Virg.B.i. Torva le£naLupumfequitur, Lupu/ipfe CapeUafXf 



Florentem Cythifum fequitur lafciva Capella, 



§ Pan is alfo faid to be the God of the Country Swaittt 5 becaufe 

 men of this condition lead lives more agreeable unto Nature, than thofe 

 that live in the Cities and Courts of Princes ; where Nature by too 

 much Art is corrupted : fo as the faying of the Poet (though in tht 

 fence of love) may be here verified ; 



Mart. Ej}. —Pan minima ejl ipfapuell A fui, 



fj Pan was held to be Lord Prefident of the Mountains ; becaufe in 

 high Mountains and Hills Nature lays her ftlf moft open, and is moft 

 difplayed to the view and contemplation of men. 



§ Whereas Pan is faid to be ( next unto Mercury") the Mcjfenger of 



the Gods; there is in that a Divine My ftery contained; becaufe, next 



unto the word of God, the Image of the world proclaims the Divine 



power and wildom ; as records the facred PoetjTAe Heavens proclaim the 



Pfal. ip. cloyy of God^and the vaji Expanjion reports the workj of his hands. 



§ The Nymphs^ that is the Souls of living things, give great delight 

 to Pan : for the (buls of the living are the Minions of the World. The 

 ConduB of thcfe Nymphs is with great reafon attributed to Pan^ be- 

 cause thefe Nymphsjor Souls of the livingjdo follow their natural di(po- 

 fition, as their guides ; and with infinite variety every one of them af- 

 ter the fa(hion of his Country, doth leap and dance with unceffant mo' 

 lyj I tion about her. Wherefore one of the Modern very ingenioufly hath 

 ' reduced all the power of the Soul into Motion ; noting the mifprifion, 

 and precipitancy of fomc of the ancients; who fixing their eyes and 

 thoughts with unadvifed hafte,upon Memory ; Imagination and Reafon 

 have paft over the Cogitative faculty untoucht ; v/hich hath a chief part 

 in the order of conception. For he that calleth a thing into his mind, 

 whether by impreffion or recordation, cogitateth and confidereth ; and 

 he that imployeth the faculty of his phanfie^ alfb cogitateth ':, and he 

 that reafoneth doth in like manner cogitate or advife : and to be brief^ 

 the Soul of man, whether admoniflitby (en(e, or left to her own liber- 

 ty ; whether in funftions of the Intelleft, or of the affedlions and of the 

 will, dances to the mufical Airs of the cogitations ; which is that tripu- 

 diation of the Nymphs. 



§ Th^Satyres ^ and Silent^ are perpetual followers of Pan^ that is 

 old age and youth : for of all natural thing3,there is a livcly,jocund,and 

 (as I may (ay) a dancing age; and a dull, flegmatick age: the car- 

 riages and difpofitions of both which ages, may perad venture feem to a 

 ^ man 



