A Confufion of Languages, fuch, as fome of our Modern Virtuofi us'd to express thmfelves in.

Idem 6.

That had the Orator who once.

Demofthenes, who is faid to have a Defect in his Pronunciation, which he cur'd by ufing to fpeak with little Stones in his Mouth.

Idem 8.

He could reduce all things to A&s.

The old Philofophers thought to extract Notions out of Natural things, as Chymifts do Spirits and Effences; and when 'they had refin'd them into the Niceft Subtilities, gave them as infignificant Names, as thofe Operators do their Extractions: But (as Seneca fays) the fubtiller things are render'd, they are but the nearer to Nothing. So are all their Definitions of things by Acts, the nearer to Nonfenfe.

Id. Ibid.

Where Truth in Perfen does appear:

Some Authors have mistaken Truth for a Real thing, when it is nothing but a right method of putting thofe Notions or Images of things (in the understanding of Man) into the fame State and Order, that their Originals hold in Nature; and therefore Ariftotle fays, unumquodque ficut fe habet fecundum effe, ita fe habet fecundum veritatem. Met. L. 2.

Id. Ibid.

Like Words congeal'd in Northern Air.

Some report that in Nova Zembla, and Greenland, Mens Words are wont to be Frozen in the Air, and at the Thaw inay be heard.

Idem 9.

He knew the Seat of Paradife.

There is nothing more ridiculous than the various Opinions of Authors about the Seat of Paradife: Sir Walter Raleigh has. taken a great deal of pains to Collect them, in the beginning of his Hiftory of the World, where thofe who are unfatis fied, may be fully inform'd.

M 4

Goropius Becanus endeavours to prove, that High-Dutch was the Language that Adam and Eve fpoke in Paradife.

Id. ibid.

If either of them had a Navel

Adam and Eve being made and not conceiv'd and form'd in the Womb, had no Navels, as fome Learned Men have fupbecause they had no need of

pofed, them.

Id. ibid.

Who firft made Mufick Malleable.

Mufick is faid to be invented by Pythagoras, who first found out the Proportion of Notes, from the Sounds of Hammers upon an Anvil.

Idem 12.

Like Mahomet's were Afs and Widgeon.

Mahomet had a tame Dove that used to pick Seeds out of his Ear, that it might be thought to whisper and infpire him. His Afs was fo intimate with him, the Mahometans believe it carry'd him to Heaven, and

stays

stays there with him, to bring him back

again.

Idem 14.

It was Canonique, and did grow
In Holy Orders by strict Vow.

He made a Vow never to cut his Beard, until the Parliament had fubdued the King, of which Order of Phanatique Votaries, there were many in those times.

Taliacotius was an Italian Chirurgeon that found out a way to repair loft and decay'd Nofes.

Idem p. 19.

But left the Trade, as many more
Have lately done, &c,

Oliver Cromwel and Colonel Pride had both

been Brewers.

Idem p. 21.

That Cæfar's Horfe, who, as Fame goes,
Had Corns upon his Feet and Toes.

Julius Cafar had a Horfe with Feet like a Man's. Utebatur equo infigni, pedibus prope humanis, & in modum digitorum ungulis fillis. Suet. in Jul. Cap. 61.

· Idem

Idem p. 22.

The mighty Tyrian Queen that gain'd
With fubtile fhreds a Trast of Land.

Dido Queen of Carthage, who bought as much Land as fhe could Compafs with an Ox's Hide, which fhe cut into fmall Thongs, and cheated the Owner of fo much Ground, as ferv'd her to build Carthage upon.

Idem p. 23.

As the bold Trojan Knight, feen Hell.

Eneas, whom Virgil reports to use a Golden Bough for a Pafs to Hell, and Taylors call that place Hell, where they put all they fteal.

Idem p. 25.

In Magick, Talifman, and Cabal.

Talisman is a device to destroy any fort of Vermin, by cafting their Images in Metal, in a precife Minute, when the Stars are perfectly inclin'd to do them all the mifchief they can. This has been Experimented by fome Modern Virtuof, upon Rats, Mice, and Fleas, and found (as they affirm) to produce the Effect with admi rable fuccefs.

Ray