Lumen de Lumine

Eugenius! This is the place, which many have desired to see, but saw it not. The Præparatives to their Admission here, were wanting: They did not love Mee, but Mine. They coveted indeed the Riches of Nature, but Nature her self they did both neglect, and corrupt. Som Advantages they had in point of Assault, had they but studied their Opportunities. I was expos'd to their hands, but they knew mee not. I was subject in som measure to their Violence, but Hee that made mee, would not suffer mee to bee rifl'd. In a word, the Ruine of these men was built on their Disposition. In their Addresses to mee, they resembl'd those pittifull things, which som call Courtiers. These have their Antics and Rants, as if they had been train'd amongst Apes. They scrape (as one hath well exprest it) proportions Mathematicall: make strange Legs and faces, and in that phrase of the same Poet;