Built long, and fquare: fome fay that laughter here

Keeps refidence; but laughter fits not there, Where darkness ever dwells, and melancholy fear,

XVIII.

And should thefe (p) ways, ftopt by ill accident, To th' Hepar's ftreams turn back their muddy humours,

The clondy Ifle with hellish dreariment [mours: Would foon be fill'd, and thousand fearful ruFear hides him here,lock'd deep in earthy cell; Dark, doleful, deadly-dull, a little hell; Where with him fright, defpair, and thousand horrors dwell.

XIX.

If this black town in (9) over-growth increases, With too much ftrength his neighbours overbearing:

The Hepar daily, and whole Ifle decreases,
Like ghaftly fhade, or afhie ghoft appearing :
But when it pines, th' Ifle thrives; its curfe,
his bleffing;

So whena(r)tyrant raves, his fubjects preffing, His gaining is their lofs, his treasure there diftreffing.

XX.

The third bad (+) water, bubbling from this fountain,

Is wheyish cold, which with good liquors ment, Is drawn into the double Nephro's mountain; Which fuck the beft for growth and nourishment;

The worst as through a little (†) pap diftilling To divers pipes, the pale cold humour fwilling, Runs down to th' urine lake, his banks thrice daily filling.

ΧΧΙ.

Thefe (u) mountains differ but in situation,

In form and matter like: the left is higher, Left even height might flack their operation: Both like the moon (which now wants half her fire)

Yet into two obtuser angles bended,

Both ftrongly with a double wall defended; And both have walls of mud before those walls extended.

(p) If the spleen should fail in this office, the whole body would be filled with melancholy fancies, and vain

terrors.

(9) Where the spleen flourishes, all the body decays, and withers; and where the spleen is kept down, the body fourifbes. Hence Stratonicus merrily faid, that in Crete dead men walked, because they were so fplenetic, and pale coloured.

(r) Trajan compared the spleen to bis exchequer, besaufe, as bis coffers being full, drained bis fubje&is purses; fo the full spleen makes the body fapiefs.

(4) The watry bumour with fome good blood (which is spent for the nourishment of those parts) is drawn by the kidneys.

(t) The Ureters receive the waters feparated from blood, as diffilled from the little flefby fubftances in the kidneys, like to teats.

(u) The kidneys are both alike; the left fomerubat bigber: Both bave a double skin, and l♥b compassed with fut.

XXII.

The fixth and laft town in this region,
With largest ftretch'd precincts, and compafs
wide,

Is that, where Venus and her wanton fon
(Her wanton Cupid) will in youth refide:
For though his arrows, and his golden bow,
On other hills he frankly does deftow,

Yet here he hides the fire, with which each heart doth glow.

XXIII.

For that Great Providence, their course forefeeing

Too eas'ly led into the sea of death;
After this first, gave them a fecond being,
Which in their offspring newly flourisheth :

He, therefore, made the fire of generation, To burn in Venus' courts without ceffation; Out of whofe afhes comes another Ifland nation.

XXIV.

For from the first a fellow Ifle he fram'd,

(For what alone, can live, or fruitful be?) Arren the first, the fecond Thelu nam'd; Weaker the laft, yet fairer much to see :

Alike in all the reft, here disagreeing,
Where Venus and her wanton have their
being;

For nothing is produc'd of two, in all agreeing.

XXV.

But though fome few in thefe hid parts would fee Their Maker's glory, and their justest shame; Yet for the most would turn to luxury,

And what they should lament, would make their game:

Fly then thofe parts, which best are undefcry'd ;

Forbear, my maiden fong, to blazon wide, What th' Ifle, and nature's felf, doth ever ftrive to hide.

XXVI.

These two fair Ifles diftinct in their creation,
Yet one extracted from the other's fide,
Are oft made one, by love's firm combination
And from this unity are multiply'd:

Strange it may feem, fuch their condition,
That they are more difpread by union;
And two are twenty made, by being made in

one.

XXVII.

For from thefe two in love's delight agreeing,,
Another little Ifle is foon proceeding;

At first of unlike frame and matter being,
In Venus' temple takes its form and breeding;
Till at full time the tedious prifon flying
It breaks all lets, its ready way denying;
And shakes the trembling Ifle with often painful dy
ing.

XXVIII.

So by the Bofphorus straights, in Euxine feas,
Not far from old Byzantum, closely stand
Two neighbour islands, call'd Symplegades,
Which fometime feen but one combined land;
For often meeting on the wat'ry plain, ›
And parting oft, toft by the boist'rous main,
They now are join'd in one, and now disjoin'd
again.

THE fhepherds in the fhade their hunger feasted, With fimple cates, fuch as the country yields;

The middle province next this lower ftands, Where th' fle's heart-city fpreads his larg commands,

friendly bands.

(1) The beart is the feat of beat and life; therefore alled about with the ribs, for more fafety. (b) The breafts, or paps, are given to men for firength drnament; to zoomen for milk and nursery alfo. When the infant grows big, the blood veffels are prefed, that partly through the readiness of the paflage, but especially by the providence of God, the blood w back to the breaft; and there, by an innate, but derful faculty, is turned into milk.

The breafts are in figure hemifpherical; whose are crowned with the teats, about which are reddifb pes, called (Areola, or) little altars.

(e) In the Thorax, or breaft, are fixty-five muscles for refpiration, or breathing, which are either free or forced: the inftruments of forced breathing are fixty-four, whereof thirty-two diftend, and as many contra& it.

(f) The inftrument of the free breathing is the Diazome or Diaphragma, which we call the Midriff, as a wall, parting the heart and liver: Plato affirms it a partition between the feats of defire and anger: Ariftotle, a bar to keep the noifome odour of the ftomach from the

beart.

Bu

XIV.

This coaft ftands girt with a (4) peculiar wall, The whole precinct, and every part defending:

The (1) chiefeft city, and imperial,

Is fair Kerdia, far his bounds extending;

Which full to know, were knowledge infinite: How then should my rude pen this wonder write,

Which thou, who only mad'ft it, only know'ft aright?

XV.

In middle of this middle regiment

Kerdia feated lies, the centre deem'd Of this whole ifle, and of this government: If not the chiefest this, yet needful'st seem'd, Therefore obtain'd an equal distant seat, More fitly hence to shed his life and heat, And with his yellow streams the fruitful island

wet.

XVI.

Flank'd (m) with two several walls (for more defence);

Betwixt them ever flows a wheyish moat; In whofe foft waves, and circling profluence, This city, like an isle, might safely float:

In motion still (a motion fix'd, not roving) Moft like to heav'n, in his most constant moving :

Hence most here plant the feat of fure and active loving.

XVII.

Built of a fubftance like smooth porphyry;
His (n) matter hid, and, like itself, unknown:
Two rivers of his own; another by,

That from the Hepar rifes, like a crown,

Infolds the narrow part: for that great all That his works glory made pyramic'al, Then crown'd with triple wreath, and cloth'd in fcarlet pall.

XVIII.

The city's felf in two (o) partitions reft,
That on the right, this on the other fide:
The (p) right (made tributary to the left)
Brings in his penfion at his certain tide,

(k) Within the Pleura or skin, which clotheth the ribs on the infide, compasses this middle region.

(1) The chiefeft part of this middle region is the beart, placed in the midst of this province, and of the whole body: fitly was it placed in the midst of all, as being of all the most needful.

(w) The beart is immured, partly by a membrane going round about it (thence receiveing his name), and a peculiar tunicle, partly with an humour, like whey or arine; as well to cool the beart, as to lighten the body.

(n) The flefs of the heart is proper, and peculiar to itself; not like other muscles, of a figure pyramical. The point of the heart is (as with a diadem) girt with two arteries, and a vein, called the crowns.

(0) Though the heart be an entire body, yet it is fevered into two partitions, the right and left; of which, the left is more excellent and noble.

(p) The right receives into his bollowness, the blood Thirffing from the liver, and concotts it.

His w

Largely pours out his purple river here;
At whose wide mouth, a band of Tritons fla

eth,
(Three Tritons ftand) who with their th
fork'd mace,

Drive on, and speed the river's flowing ra But strongly stop the wave, if once it back repa

(g) This right fide fends down to the lungs that of the blood which is less laboured, and thicker: be thinner part, it sweats through a fleby partition mi left fide.

(r) This fefby partition fevers the right fute the left at firft it seems thick, but if it be wells ed, we fball fee it full of many pores or. pallag

(s) Two skinny additions (from their lik the ears) receive, the one the thicker blood, the right; the other, called the left, takes in t by the lungs.

(t) The left fide of the beart takes in the air blood; and concocting them both in bis hollow b fends them out by the great artery into the whole b

bellow vein, bringing in blood from the liver; et a (u) In the beart are four great veffels; the firf mouth and three little folding doors, with these f giving pelage, but no return to the blood.

Clofe (ƒ) by this pipe, runs that great channel down, [day Which from high Cephal's mount, twice every Brings to Koilia due provision: [the way, Straight at whofe (g) mouth a flood-gate flops

(b) The lungs are covered with a light, and very tbin tunicle, left it might be an hindrance to the motion. (c) The wind-pipe, which is framed partly of cartilage, or griftly matter, because the voice is perfected with hard and Smooth things (thefe cartilages are compassed like a ring) and partly of skin, which tie the grifles together.

(d) And because the rings of the griftles do not wholly meet, this fpace is made up by muscles, that fo the meatpipe adjoining, might not be galled or burt.

(:) The Larynx, or covering of the wind-pipe, is a griftly fubftance, parted into four griftles; of which the firft is ever unmoved, and in women often double.

(f) Adjoining to it, is the Oefophagus, or meat-pipe, conveying meats and drinks to the fłomach.

(g) At whofe end is the Epiglottis or cover of the throat; the principal inflrument of tuning, and apting the voice; and therefore griftly, that it might fooner fel when we swallow, and rife when we breathe,