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Of Selfe knoweledge. Chap. 1.
AS Hesiod in his Theogonie saith that the ••gly night—〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, begat two fowle monsters Somnum & somnium: So we may not vnfitly say that the inueloped and deformed night of ignorance (for the want of that coelesti∣all Nosce teipsum,) begettes two mishapen monsters, (which as the Sepia's inkie hu∣mor doe make turbulent the cristallinest fountaine in man,) Somatalgia and Psychal∣gia, the one the dyscrafie of the body, the other the malady and distemperature of the soule: For he that is incanoped and intren∣ched in this darkesome misty cloud of ig∣norance,* 1.1 (being like the one-footed Indian people Sciopodes whose foote is so big that