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It's well. Despair's a subtle pleader, and employed Only by hell. Fear call a court. Hope is in opposition with despair; And Like a zealous advocate 'th' cause Of his afflicted client, labours still To overthrow the fallacies and quirks Despair is nimble in; whilst fear with trembling Expects the trials issue. By these three M ns acts informed of, scanned and canvased be, At length by Conscience censured, thy are sent To have reward, or suffer punishment. What are you? Proceed quickly with the rest. Custom in ill that do affect the sense Makes reason useless, when it should direct The ills reforming. Men habituate In any evil, it's their greatest curse, Advice does seldom mend, but makes them worse. Who is this? Let it be read. I'll then pronounce you happy. Man's a ship Laden with riches. Tempests rage, and hell Sends pirates out to rob him; heavens eye guards him; His soul's the pilot, who through various seas Of time and fortune brings him to the port Of endless quiet. Now dismiss the court. Exeunt. List to my charge. Conscience the judge of actions Is neither power, nor habit, but and act; To wit and application of that knowledge That sh was the difference. Its Synteresis, Or purer partly, is the instigation Of will to good and honest things, and seats The mind in a ich throne of endless quiet; When being clogged with gilded of many ills, Those leaden weight express it as it mounts, And sink it into horror. Conscience stained Is Like a fretting ulcer, that continued rod's The partly to hath infected, and though cured It leaves a scam re. So heal a wounded Conscience: Repentance stays as the vestigium, Or mark impressed, by which the passed disease Is found to have been. There's no punishment Like that, to bear the witness in ones breast Of perpetrated evils, when the mind Beat's it with silent stripes; guilty of blame. But being unstained it laughs at lying fame.
Plot summary
Plot — Microcosmus
The four elements, children of Nature and Janus, fight with one another. Janus' attempts to discipline them prove ineffectual, so Nature tries to persuade them to procreate. She invokes the help of Love, who creates concord between the elements through the music of the spheres. Earth gives birth to Physander, the perfect being. The four humours become his servants, and Love brings him Bellanima to be his wife. But Bellanima brings with her a good and bad genius, who can each influence Physander's moral actions. He succumbs to temptation, dismisses the good genius, and seeks out the whore Sensuality. The four humours suggest ways of wooing her: Choler proposes violence, Blood, dance, Phlegm, language, and Melancholy, pathos. The five senses, Sensuality's servants, conduct him to her, and she seduces him with the promise of luxury. Bellanima attempts to reclaim him, but he refuses her. After sleeping with Sensuality, Physander falls ill. The humours drunkenly attack him, and Sensuality disowns him. He feels ashamed at having left his wife for a whore. Bellanima summons Temperance to cure his wounds; she prescribes a simple life and frugal diet, and he is cured. The evil genius still maliciously seeks his destruction, and plans to drive him to suicide through remorse. He is tormented by Furies and accused before the court of Conscience; Despair prosecutes, andHope speaks for thedefence. Physander admits his marital crimes, but his penitence and commitment to future fidelity save him from punishment. With no further power over him, the evil genius can only torment herself; Sensuality, reduced to beggary, joins her on the road to Hell. Love accepts Physander and Bellanima into Elysium, and they are crowned with stars.