Raymund Lully interprets Cabal out of the Arabick to fignifie Scientia fuperabundans, which his Commentator, Cornelius Agrippa, by over-magnifying, has rendered a very fuperfluous Foppery. Id. Ibid. As far as Adam's firft Green-Breeches. The Author of Magia Adamica endeavours to prove the Learning of the Ancient Magi, to be deriv'd from that knowledge which God himfelf taught Adam in Paradife, before the Fall. Id. Ibid. And much of Terra Incognita, The Intelligible World is a kind of Terra del Fuego, or Pfittacorum Regio, discover'd only by the Philofophers, of which they talk, like Parrots, what they do not understand. Id. Ibid. As Learn'd as the Wild-Irish are, No Nation in the World is more addicted ta this occult Philofophy, than the Wild Irifh, as appears by the whole practice of their Lives, of which fee Camden in his Description of Ireland. Idem p. 26. In Rofy-Crucian Lore as Learned, The Fraternity of the Rofy-Crucians, is very like the Sect of the Ancient Gnoftici, who call'd themselves fo from the excellent Learning they pretended to, altho' they were really the moft ridiculous Sotts of all Mankind. Vere Adeptus, is one that has commenc'd in their Phanatique Extravagance. Idem p. 30. Thou that with Ale, or viler Liquors, This Vickars was a Man of as great Interest and Authority in the late Reformation, as Pryn, or VVithers, and as able a Poet; He tranflated Virgil's Eneids into as horrible Travefty in earneft, as the French Scaroon did in Burlesque, and was only outdone in his Way by the Politique Author of Oceana, Idem p. 33. VVe that are wifely mounted higher. This Speech is fet down as it was deliver'd by the Knight in his own words: But fince it is below the Gravity of Heroical Poetry, to admit of Humour, but all Men are ob liged to fpeak wifely alike; And too much of fo Extravagant a Folly would become tedious and impertinent: The reft of his Harangues have only his Senfe expreft, in other Words, unless in fome few places, where his own Words could not be fo well avoided. Idem p. 35. In Bloudy Cynar&tomachy. Cynar&tomachy fignifies nothing in the. World, but a Fight between Dogs and Bears, though both the Learned and Ignorant agree, that in fuch Words very great Knowledge is contain'd: And our Knight, as one, or both, of thofe, was of the fame Opinion. Id. ibid. Of Force, we averruncate it. Another of the fame kind, which though it appear ever fo Learned, and Profound, means nothing elfe but the Weeding of Corn. Idem p. 36. The Indians fought for the Truth The Hiftory of the White Elephant and the Monkey's Tooth, which the Indians ador'd, is written by Monf. le Blanc. This Mon Monkey's Tooth was taken by the Portuguefe from thofe that Worship'd it, and though they offer'd a vaft Ranfom for it, yet the Chriftians were perfwaded by their Priests, rather to burn it. But as foon as the Fire was kindled, all the people prefent were not able to endure the horrible ftink that came from it, as if the Fire had been made of the fame Ingredients, with which Sea-Men ufe to compose that kind of Granado's, which they call Stinkards Idem P. 37. The rage in them like Boute-feus. Boute-feus, is a French Word, and therefore it were uncivil to fuppofe any English Perfon (efpecially of Quality ignorant of it, or fo ill-bred as to need an Expofition. Idem p. 42. Tis fung there is a Valiant Mammaluke. Mammaluke's the Name of the Militia of the Sultans of Egypt; It fignified a Servant or Soldier; they were commonly Captives, taken from among the Chriftians, and inftructed in Military Difcipline, and did not marry; their Power was great, for, befides that the Sultans were chofen out of their Body, they difpos'd of the most Important Offices of the Kingdom; they were were formidable about 200 Years, till at laft Selim, Sultan of the Turks, routed them, and kill'd their Sultan near Aleppo 1516, and fo put an end to the Empire of the Mammalukes, which had lasted 267 Years, Paulus Fovius, &c, Idem p. 43: Honour is like a Widow won. Our English Proverbs are not impertinent to this purpofe; He that Wooes a Maid, must feldom come in her fight. But he that Wones a Widow, must Wooe her Day and Night; He that Wooes a Maid, must Feign, Lie, and Flatter, But be that Wooes a Widow, must down witla bis Breeches and at her. This Proverb being fomewhat Immodeft, Mr. Ray fays he would not have inferted in his Collection, but that he met with it in a little Book, Entituled, the Quakers Spiritual Court Proclaimed, Written by Nathaniel Smith, Student in Phyfick; wherein the Author mentions it as Counfel given him by Hilkiah Bedford, an Eminent Quaker in London, who would have had him to have married a Rich Widow, in whofe Houfe he lodged. In Cafe he could get her, this Nathaniel Smith had promifed Hilkiah a |