nG Of the Advancement of Learning, L i b. 11. 



more (ed^t judgements of God, found fomewhat hard and harfh : 

 Which rude ignorance, albeit it be well proclaim'd by Affes ears 5 yet 

 notvvithftanding thefe ears are (ecret , and do not openly ap- 

 pear 3 neither is it perceived , or noted as a Deformity by the 

 Vulgar. 



§ Laftly, it is not to be wohdered at, that there is nothing attri- 

 buted unto Pan concerning Loves , but only of the mdrriage with 

 Eccho 5 for the world doth injoy it felf, and in it felf all things elfc. 

 Now he that loves would enjoy (bmething ; but where there is enough, 

 there is no place left to delire. Wherefore there can be no wanton love 

 in Pan, or the /Ft>rW, nor defire to obtain any thing, (feeing it is con- 

 tented with it felf) but only speeches 5 which (if plain) are pronounced 

 by the Nymph Eccho, a thing not fubftantial, but only vocal ; if more 

 accurate by Seringa 5 that is, when voords and voices are regulated by 

 certain numbers , Poetical, or Oratorical, as by mufical meafiires. It 

 is an excellent invention, that amongfty^ecfAe/ and voices, only Eceha 

 fliould be taken in marriage by the V/orld'-y for that done is true Thilo- 

 fophy,Tphich doth faithfully render the very words of the rvorld , and rohich 

 is written, no otherroife, than the world doth di&ate ^ and is nothing elje 

 than the image and refie&ion thereof-, and addeth nothing of its own, 

 but only iterates, and refounds. 



§ And whereas Pan is reported to have called the Moon ajide intox 

 highpadowed woodi, feems to appertain to the convention between 

 fence and heavenly, or divine things; For the cafe of Endyntion, and 

 Pan are different j the Mo^n of her own accord came down to Endy/fti' 

 en, as he was alleep : For that Divine illuminations oftentimes gently flide 

 into the underjianding, caji ajleep, and retired from thefenfes 5 but if they 

 be called, and fentfor by Senfe, as by Pan 5 then they prefent no otb^ 

 light than that, 



^ale fuh incertam lunamjub luce maligna 

 Eji iter in fylvis. 



It belongs alfo to the fufficiency, and perfe&ion of the world, that it beget t 

 no ijfue : For the world doth generate in refpeft of its parts 5 but in re- 

 Ipeft of the whole, how can it generate, feeing there is no body be- 

 yond the bounds of the Univerfe ? As for that Girl lambc, father'd Up- 

 on Pan^ certainly it is a wife adjeftion to the fable, for by her are re- 

 prefented thofe vain and idle Paradoxes concerning the natnre of things^ 

 which have been frequent in all ages , and have filled the world 

 with novelties , for the matter, fruitlefs 3 fpurious for the Race 5 by 

 their garrulity , fometimes pleafant 5 foraetimes tedious and un« 

 feafbnable. 



An other example of Philolbphy according to Ancient Parablcfl 

 in Politicks of IVar, according to the 

 Fable of Perfeus, 



Herod. V. Petfeus a Prince of the Eafi is reported to have been imployed by 



Ovid™' Pallas/<7r tbe dejiroying of Medufa, who was very infe(\ious to the We- 

 Mer.4. ft^rt^ P^rts of the World , about the utmofl: Coafts of Hibcria, A 



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