MEMORIA

How soon a wise man shall have his wish. I am glad I saved it from the Swine—Spretious I have forgotten something. Oh my purse, my purse, why Anamnestes? Remembrance where art thou Anamnestes Remembrance, that vild Boy is always gadding, I remember he was at my heals, eve now and now the vild Rascal is vanished. Would sirrah, what a brawling's here? You answer sweetly, I have called you three or four times one after another. Leave your tattle had you come at first I had not spent so much breath in vain. G e sirrah, run, seek every where, I have lost my purse some where. My good Lord, I remember that I knew your Grandfather in this your place, and I remember your Grandfathers great Grandfathers, Grandfathers Father's, Father, yet in those days I never remember that any of them could say, that Regi ster Memory ever broke one minute of his appointment. Thus it's, the most customers I remember my self to have, are (as your Lordship knows) Scholars, and now a days the most of them are become Critics, bringing me home such paltry things to lay up for them, that I can hardly find them again. Very familiarly: for they must know of me forsooth how every idle word is written in all the musty moath-eaten Manusripts, kept in all the old Libraties in every City be betwixt England and Peru. I remember in the age of Assaracus and Ninus, and about the wars of Thebes, and the siege of Troy, the e was few things committed to my charge, but those that were well wor thy the preserving, but now every trifle must be wrapped up in the volume of eternity. A rich pudding-wife, or a Cobbler Can ̄ not die but I must immortalise his name with and pitaph: A dog cannot piss in a Nobleman's she, but it must be sp inkled into the Chronicles, so that I could reme ̄ ber my Treasure more full, & never emptier of honourable, and true heroical actions. I remember there was For (to say the truth) at my ast being at others (It is now, let me see, about 1800. years a go) I was at a Comedy of Aristophanes making, (I shall ne ver forget it) The Arch-governor of Athens took me by the would ̄ worser and placed me, and there I say, I saw Socrates abused most gros lie, himself being then a present spectator: I remember he sat full against me, and did not so much as show the least count nance of discontent. I mistake, or else Galen in his book De sanitate tuenda, commends gold as restorative. My Lord, in your great Grandfathers time, there was I remember such a breach amongst them, therefore my counsel is, that after his example by the strength of your au thoritie you convent them before you. I Remember in the Country of Utopia, they use no oh there kind of Artille y. Ah you le den heeled Rascal. Is this all the hast you make. You might have be e here long ere this: Come hither sirrah, come ither, what must you go round about, goodly, goodly, you are so full of circumstances. Havillaine, am I a man likely to be found in such plam ces, would? I remember and other quarrel sirrah, but well, well, I have no leisure. I remember about the year 1602. many used this skew kind of language. Which in my opinion is not much un Like the man Plam nigh the Son of Lagus, King of Egypt, brought for a spectacle hall e white half black. I remember it very well, Orpheus played upon the Harp, while she sang about some four yea es after the Counterfeit tention betwixt Apollo and P , and a little before the excori ation of M syas. I Remember that I forgotten my spectacles, I left them in the 349. page of H lls Chronicles, where he tells a great wonder of a multitude of Mice which had almost destroyed the Country, but that there resorted a great mighty slight of Owls, that destroyed them, n mn stes eadem these: ticles dis tinctly. I remember when Jupiter made Amphitrio Cuckold, and lay with his wife Alcmena, Coelum was in this taking for three days space, and stood still joust Like him at a non plus. You are deceived, for I remember when Pha tun ruled the Sun, I shall never forget him, he was a very pretty youth, the earth opened her mouth wide, and spoke a very good speech to Jupiter. Velle tuum olo. Dindine nolle volo. They need not, for I remember I saw a Cardinal weigh the ̄ once, & the Woman was found 3. grains lighter. Oh sir, I remember, 'tis their only delight to do so. Take heed you fallen not in love with your self Phan tastes, as I remember: Anamnestes who wast that died of the looking disease? It may be so, for I remember being once in the towns Library, I read such a thing, in their great book of monum ments called, Cornucopia, or rather their copia-Cornu Not now my Lord, but I remember about some 4000. years ago, when ̄ the Sky was first made, we herd very prefectly. Our ears are so well acquainted with the sound, that we never mark it. As I remember the Egyptian Catadupes never herd the ro nge of the fallen of Nilus, because the noise is so familiar unto them. True for a Cannon will kill as many at one shot, as Thunder does commonly at twenty. Oh I remember this dish well, it was first invented by Pluto to entertain Proserpina with all. I pray you stay a little? let me see? would, would, would, would would, 'Tis a strange thing that men will so confidently open pose themselves against Plato great year. 'Tis as true and opinion as need be; for I remember it very readily now, that this time 49000. years ago all we wear in this very place and your Lordship judged the very same controversy, after the very same manner, in all respects, and cercumstances alike. Lets go, I'll tell you as we walk. I remember my Lord many have done so very oft, but women are troubled, especially with this talking disease, many of them have I herd answer in their dreams, and tell what they did all day awake. Peace you vild rake hell, is such a jest fit for this company, no more I say sirrah. It is a very common thing, I have seen many sick of the Peripatetic disease. I remember told me the reason once, as I think thus: The nerves that carry the moving faculty, from the brains, to the thighs, legs, feet, and arms, are wider far then the other nerves, where over they are not so easily stopped with the vapours of sleep, but are night and day ready to per form what fancy shall command them. No I remember it very well, it was the language the Arcadians spoke, that siued long before the Moon.