Lumen de lumine: or a new magicall light discovered, and communicated to the world / By Eugenius Philalethes [pseud].

  • Thomas Vaughan
Date:
1651
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Credit: Lumen de lumine: or a new magicall light discovered, and communicated to the world / By Eugenius Philalethes [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I Pmrch-yard,vue. came at Jaft to the Santtua, iyie, where Thalia turning to mee, made this i her fliort, and laft fpeech. Eugenius! This is the place, which many have de fired to fee, but faw it not. The Tra- t paratives to their a/Idmifflon here} were want*» \ine ; They did not love rJMee, but CMine. \They coveted indeed the Riches of Nature, but i W*dture her felf they did both neglett, and cor-; yupt. Som Advantages they had in point cfAf- fault, had they but ftudied their Opportunities. |/ was expodd to their hands, but they knew mee not. I was fubjefl; in fom meafure to their ^iolence, but IIee that made mee} would not fuffer mee to bee rifl'd. In a word,, the Ruine of thefe men was built on their Thfpofition. In their i/.fddrejfes to mee, they refembfd thefe pittifu/l things, which fom call ffourtiers. Thefe have their ^Antics and Raunts, as if they had been train'd among(l i/Ipes, They grape fas one hath weS exprefi it) proport $• (JHathematica/l; make flrange L>egs and faces, and in that phrafe of the fame P oet j Vane their Mouths as stwere by Magic fpdf f. To figures oval], fquarc, and Triangle. * r? thefe impudent Sophiflers affaulted mee with pinglorious Humors. when I looked into