Mystical bedlam, or the world of mad-men. By ThoMystical bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. By Tho

As man is Microcosmus, an abridgement of the world, he hath heaven resembling his soul: earth his heart, placed in the middest as a centre: the Liver is like the sea, whence flow the lively springs of blood: the Brain, like the sun, gives the light of understanding: and the senses are set round about, like the stars. The Heart in man is like the root in a tree: the organ or lung-pipe, that comes of the left cell of the heart, is like the stock of the tree, which divides it self into two parts, and thence spreads abroad (as it were) sprays and boughs into all the body, even to the arteries of the head.

As man is Microcosmus, an abridgement of the world, hee hath heauen resembling his soule: earth his heart, placed in the middest as a center: the Liuer is like the sea, whence flow the liuely springs of bloud: the Braine, like the sunne, giues the light of vnderstanding: and the senses are set round about, like the starres. The Heart in man is like the roote in a tree: the organ or lung-pipe, that comes of the left cel of the heart, is like the stocke of the tree, which diuides it selfe into two parts, and thence spreades abroad (as it were) sprayes and boughes into all the body, euen to the arteries of the head.

The Egyptians have a conceit, that mans growing or declining follows his Heart. The Heart of man, say they, increaseth still, till he come to fifty years old, every year two drachmas in weight, and then decreaseth every year as much, till he come to an hundred: and then for want of Heart, he can live no longer. By which consequence, none could live about an 100. years: which conceited demonstration hath often proved false. But it is a vessel, a living vessel, a vessel of life.

The Egyptians haue a conceite, that mans growing or declining followes his Heart. The Heart of man, say they, increaseth still, till hee come to fifty yeares old, euery yeare two drachmes in weight, and then decreaseth euery yeare as much, till hee come to an hundred: and then for want of Heart, hee can liue no longer. By which consequence, none could liue about an 100. yeres: which conceyted demonstration hath often proued false. But it is a vessell, a liuing vessell, a vessell of life.