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TO THE Venerable, & highly Accomplish't, THE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS
of the Colledge of Physitians in LONDON, GEORGE ENT
Wisheth Health and full Felicity.
To the Incomparable Dr. Harvey, On his Books Of the MOTION of the HEART and BLOOD, And of the GENERATION of ANIMALS.
To
Sol, the grateful Persian homage payes;
He Sees by them, and so Adores the rayes:
Deeming the Suns just title to arise
To th'Tribute, as to th'Vision of his Eyes.
And such is thy due claime, Great Light of Art,
Who to the long-dim World dost sight impart.
To thy Loud Fame for ever be apply'd,
As th'Conduct, so the Glory of our Guide.
He Sees by them, and so Adores the rayes:
Deeming the Suns just title to arise
To th'Tribute, as to th'Vision of his Eyes.
And such is thy due claime, Great Light of Art,
Who to the long-dim World dost sight impart.
To thy Loud Fame for ever be apply'd,
As th'Conduct, so the Glory of our Guide.
While gray Antiquity Oracular heares,
Not for the Truths she brings, but for the Yeares,
And her sowr Dictats from the Tripod thrown,
Look more to be Obey'd, then to be Known.
Thy daring Art first stands her, and doth breed
This Rescue thence, that Science is not Creed.
Not for the Truths she brings, but for the Yeares,
And her sowr Dictats from the Tripod thrown,
Look more to be Obey'd, then to be Known.
This Rescue thence, that Science is not Creed.
Who for their Age alone doe Writers trust,
Prize Armour, not for th'Proof, but for the Rust.
From Books to Nature thy Appeale is made,
Thy Copies by their Archetype are swayd.
Though High and Reverend thy Authors sit,
Yet the Creation is thy Classick Writ.
Prize Armour, not for th'Proof, but for the Rust.
From Books to Nature thy Appeale is made,
Thy Copies by their Archetype are swayd.
Though High and Reverend thy Authors sit,
Yet the Creation is thy Classick Writ.
The various Colonies, whose brood supplyes
Inhabitants to Earth, to Seas, and Skies,
These are thy Vatican, and onely these
Are thy Infallible Hippocrates;
Thy Sibyll-Volumes, and Thou knowst them all,
Like their first Godfather before the Fall.
Their Natures, Kinds, Distinctions and Concent,
The Parts conteinec't, and Parts continent,
Their Order, Substance, Temper, Site, their Force,
Relations, and confederate Entercourse.
Their different Cells, which different Bowels bound,
Rooft and partition'd from their Neighbours ground.
The Numerous Intrals Thou hast searched through,
Might both Appease the Gods, and Surfet too.
Inhabitants to Earth, to Seas, and Skies,
These are thy Vatican, and onely these
Are thy Infallible Hippocrates;
Thy Sibyll-Volumes, and Thou knowst them all,
Like their first Godfather before the Fall.
Their Natures, Kinds, Distinctions and Concent,
The Parts conteinec't, and Parts continent,
Their Order, Substance, Temper, Site, their Force,
Relations, and confederate Entercourse.
Rooft and partition'd from their Neighbours ground.
The Numerous Intrals Thou hast searched through,
Might both Appease the Gods, and Surfet too.
Not in the dull Emerit Carcase, where
The Shops remain where once the Workmen were;
And onely yield this cold Account; there stands
The Stuffe and Tools perhaps, but not the Hands.
But in the Living Laboratories, when
The Vitals ply'd their task like Lab'ring men;
When Life and Industry one Fountaine fed,
And to give over Work, was, to be Dead.
The Shops remain where once the Workmen were;
And onely yield this cold Account; there stands
The Stuffe and Tools perhaps, but not the Hands.
But in the Living Laboratories, when
The Vitals ply'd their task like Lab'ring men;
When Life and Industry one Fountaine fed,
And to give over Work, was, to be Dead.
And now the Beasts hold their Instructive life
Innobled by the cunning of thy Knife.
Their Fall heares Sacrifice to th'Publick good,
Nor is it to be Slaine, but Vnderstood.
Innobled by the cunning of thy Knife.
Their Fall heares Sacrifice to th'Publick good,
Nor is it to be Slaine, but Vnderstood.
There thy Observing Eye first found the Art
Of all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Heart:
The mystick causes of its Dark Estate,
What Pullies Close its Cells, and what Dilate.
What secret Engines tune the Pulse, whose din
By Chimes without, Strikes how things fare within.
Of all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Heart:
What Pullies Close its Cells, and what Dilate.
What secret Engines tune the Pulse, whose din
By Chimes without, Strikes how things fare within.
There didst thou trace the Blood, and first behold
What Dreames mistaken Sages coin'd of old.
For till thy Pegasus the fountain brake,
The crimson Blood, was but a crimson Lake.
Which first from Thee did Tyde and Motion gaine,
And Veins became its Channel, not its Chaine.
With Drake and Candish hence thy Bays is curld,
Fam'd Circulator of the Lesser World.
What Dreames mistaken Sages coin'd of old.
For till thy Pegasus the fountain brake,
The crimson Blood, was but a crimson Lake.
Which first from Thee did Tyde and Motion gaine,
And Veins became its Channel, not its Chaine.
With Drake and Candish hence thy Bays is curld,
Fam'd Circulator of the Lesser World.
Yet thou no sooner wroughtst this wonder out,
Though proof both gainst the cool suspense of Doubt,
And rougher Violence o'th'Despisers tongue,
But Europe round with hot combustions rung:
Its early first Defiance sprung up here,
At last a swarm of Champion Pens appeare
From Forreign coasts, and to the conflict come,
Some thy bold Challengers, thy Seconds some.
But when Experience vanquisht their defence,
And Prejudice was captive led by Sense:
The Ingenuous laid down Arms, and fled to You,
As their Instructor, and their Victor too.
Thus twice endeer'd, thy Secrets we allow,
By Truths at first, and by Opposers now.
So Gold disputed, and Approved such,
Comes Mettle, but parts Treasure from the Touch.
Though proof both gainst the cool suspense of Doubt,
And rougher Violence o'th'Despisers tongue,
But Europe round with hot combustions rung:
Its early first Defiance sprung up here,
At last a swarm of Champion Pens appeare
Some thy bold Challengers, thy Seconds some.
But when Experience vanquisht their defence,
And Prejudice was captive led by Sense:
The Ingenuous laid down Arms, and fled to You,
As their Instructor, and their Victor too.
Thus twice endeer'd, thy Secrets we allow,
By Truths at first, and by Opposers now.
So Gold disputed, and Approved such,
Comes Mettle, but parts Treasure from the Touch.
A Calmer welcome this choice Peice befall,
Which from fresh Extract hath deduced all,
And for belief, bids it no longer begg
That Castor once and Pollux were an Egge:
That both the Hen and Houswife are so matcht,
That her Son Born, is only her Son Hatcht;
That when her Teeming hopes have prosp'rous bin,
Yet to Conceive, is but to Lay within.
Experiment, and Truth both take thy part:
If thou canst scape the Women! there's the Art.
Which from fresh Extract hath deduced all,
And for belief, bids it no longer begg
That Castor once and Pollux were an Egge:
That both the Hen and Houswife are so matcht,
That her Son Born, is only her Son Hatcht;
That when her Teeming hopes have prosp'rous bin,
Yet to Conceive, is but to Lay within.
If thou canst scape the Women! there's the Art.
Live Modern Wonder, and be read alone,
Thy Brain hath Issue, though thy Loins have none.
Let fraile Succession be the Vulgar care;
Great Generation's selfe is now thy Heire.
Thy Brain hath Issue, though thy Loins have none.
Let fraile Succession be the Vulgar care;
Great Generation's selfe is now thy Heire.
M. LL. M. D.
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