147 Where Truth, &c.] Some Authors have miflaken 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. ii. 148 Like Words congeal'd, &c.] Some report, that in Nova Zembla, and Greenland, Men's Words are wont to be frozen in the Air, and at the Thaw may be heard. 151 In School-Divinity as able, As he that hight, Irrefragable, &c.] T Here again is another Alteration of three or four Lines, as I think, for the worfe. Some fpecifick Epithets were added to the Title of fome famous Doctors, as Angelicus, Irrefragabilis, Subtilis, &c. Vide Voffii Etymolog. Baillet Jugemens de Sçavans, & Paffevin's Apparatus. 153 PA Second THOMAS, or at once, To name them all, another DUNCE. Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican Friar, was born in 1224, ftudied at Cologne and Paris. He new modelled the School-Divinity, and was therefore called the Angelick Doctor, and Eagle of Divines. The most illuftrious Perfons of his Time were ambitious of his Friendship, and put a high Value on his Merits, fo that they offered him Bishopricks, which he refufed with as much Ardor as others feek after them. He died in the fiftieth Year of his Age, and was canonized by Pope John XII. We have his Works in eighteen Volumes, feveral Times printed. Johannes Dunfcotus was a very learned Man, who lived about the End of the Thirteenth, and Beginning of the Fourteenth Century. The English and Scots strive which of them fhall have the Honour of his Birth. The English fay, he was born in Northumberland; the Scots alledge, that he was born at Duns in the Mers, the neighbouring County to Northumberland, and hence was called Dun/cotus: Mereri, Buchanan, and other Scotch Hiftorians are of this Opinion, and for Proof cite his Epitaph: Scotia me genuit, Anglia fufcepit, He died at Cologne, Novem. 8, 1308. In the Supplement to Dr. Cave's Hiftoria Literaria, he is faid to be extraordinary learned in Phyficks, Metaphyficks, Mathematicks, and Aftronomy; that his Fame was fo great when at Oxford, that 30,000 Scholars came thither to hear his Lectures; That when at Paris, his Arguments and Authority carried it for the immaculate Conception of the Bleffed Virgin; fo that they appointed a Festival on that Account, and would admit no Scholars to Degrees, but fuch as were of this Mind. He was a great Oppofer of Thomas Aquinas's Doctrine, and for being a very acute Logician, was called Doctor Subtilis, which was the Reason also, that an old Punster always called him the Lathy Doctor. 1589 As tough as, &c.] Sorbon was the first and moft confiderable College of the University of Paris, founded in the Reign of St. Levis by Robert Sorbon; which Name is fometimes given to the whole Univerfity of Paris, which was founded, about the Year 741, by Charlemaigne, at the Perfuafion of the learned Alcuinus, who was one of the firft Profeffors there; fince which Time it has been very famous. This College has been rebuilt with an extraordinary Magnificence, at the Charge of Cardinal Richlieu, and contains Lodgings for thirty-fix Doctors, who are called the Society of Sorbon: Thofe which are received among them, before they have reseived their Doctor's Degree, are only faid to be of the Hofpitalit Hofpitality of Sorbon. Claud. Hemeraus de Acad. Parif. Spondan. in Annal. 173 He knew, &c.] 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 unfatisfied, may be fully informed. 180 By a High-Dutch, &c.] Goropius Becanus endeavours to prove, that High-Dutch was the Language that Adam and Eve fpoke in Paradife. 181 If either of, &c.] Adam and Eve being made, and not conceived and formed in the Womb, had no Navels, as fome learned Men have fuppofed, because they had no Need of them. 182 Whe first made, &c.] Mufick is faid to be inyented by Pythagoras, who firft found out the Proportion of Notes, from the Sounds of Hammers upon an Anvil. 232 * Like MAHOMET's, &c.] 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, that the Mahometans believe it carried him to Heaven, and stays there with him, to bring him back again. 257 * It was Monaftick, and did grow In holy Orders by ftritt Vow. He made a Vow never to cut his Beard, until the Parliament had fubdued the King; of which Order of Phanatick Votaries there were many in those Times. 281 Y So learned TALIACOTIUS, &c.] Taliacotius was an Italian Surgeon, that found out a Way to repair loft and decayed Nofes. This Taliacotius was chief Surgeon to the Great Duke of Tufcany, and wrote a Treatife, De Curtis Membris, which he dedicates to his great Master; wherein he not only declares the Models of his wonderful Opera G 2 tions ons in reftoring of loft Members, but gives you Cuts of the very Inftruments and Ligatures he made use of therein; from hence our Author (cum Poetica Licentia) has taken his Simile. 289 z For as ENEAS, &c.] Eneas was the Son of Anchifes and Venus; a Trojan, who after long Travels came into Italy, and after the Death of his Father-inLaw, Latinus, was made King of Latium, and reigned three Years; his Story is too long to infert here, and therefore I refer you to Virgil's Eneid. Troy being laid in Afhes, he took his aged Father Anchifes upon his Back, and refcued him from his Enemies. But being 'too follicitous for his Son and Houfhold God's, he loft his Wife Creufa; which Mr. Dryden in his excellent Tranflation thus expreffeth: Hafte, my dear Father, ('tis no Time to wait a 337 For ARTHUR, &c.] Who this Arthur was, and whether any ever reigned in Britain, has been doubted heretofore, and is by fome to this very Day. However, the Hiftory of him, which makes him one of the Nine Worthies of the World, is a Subject fufficient for the Poet to be pleasant upon. b 359 Toledo trufty, &c.] The capital City of New Caftile in Spain, with an Archbishoprick and Primacy: It was very famous, amongst other Things, for tempering the best Metal for Swords, as Damafcus was, and perhaps may be still. с 389 But left the Trade, as many more Have lately done, &c. Oliver Cromwell and Colonel Pride had been both Brewers. 433 d That CESAR's Horfe, who, as Fame goes, Had Corns upon bis Feet and Toes. Julius Cæfar had a Horfe with Feet like a Man's: Utebatur equo infigni; pedibus prope humanis, & in modum digitorum ungulis fiffis. Suet. in Jul. Cap. 61. 467 The mighty Tyrian Queen, that gain'd Dido, Queen of Carthage, who bought as much Land as fhe could compass with an Ox's Hide, which the cut into fmall Thongs, and cheated the Owner of so much Ground as ferved her to build Carthage upon. 476 f As the bold, &c.] 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 steal. 526 % As three, &c.] Read the Great Geographicar Dictionary, under that Word. Ꮒ 530 h In Magick, &c.] Talifman is a Device to destroy any fort of Vermin, by cafting their Images in Metal, in a precife Minute, when the Stars are perfectly inclined to do them all the Mischief 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 admirable Succefs. Raymund Lully interprets Cabal, out of the Arabick, to fignify Scientia fuperabundans; which his Commentator, Cornelius Agrippa, by over-magnifying, has rendered a very fuperfluous Foppery. i 532 As far as, &c.] The Author of Magia Adamica endeavours to prove the Learning of the ancient Magi to be derived from that Knowledge which God himself taught Adam in Paradife, before the Fall. |