Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq.
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Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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London :: Printed by W. Wilson for William Palmer ...,
1660.
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"Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a44756.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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THE
CONTENTS
Of the severall
SECTIONS.
SECT. I
CONSISTS of divers Interlocutions
'twixt Morphandra, Pererius, and an
Otter, who had bin first an Amstelian Mariner,
and being proffer'd to be retransmuted to his first
nature by Morphandra, and to be transported by
Pererius to his own Country, yet he wold hearken
to neither, alledging the strange Chimeras, and
extravagant Opinions which Human Brains
have been subject unto in this latter Age of the
World, &c.
SECT. II
Contains an Interlocutory Discours 'twixt
Morphandra, Pererius, and an Asse, who had
bin once an Artonian Peasan, wherin ther are
som glances upon the Country it self, and upon
the present Government therof; But though
Prince Pererius us'd all the perswasions he
could, and re-inforc'd Argument upon Argument
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to induce him to re-assume Human shape, and so
return to his Country, Calling, and Kindred,
yet the Asse utterly refus'd it, and his Resons
why, &c.
SECT. III
Consists of a Dialog 'tiwxt Morphandra,
Pererius, and an Ape, who had bin once a Preach∣man
in Gheriona, who having bin carried away
with every wind of Doctrin, and folling any fa∣natic
new-fangled Opinion, was transmuted to
that Mimicall shape; In which Dialog ther is an
account given of the sad case and confusion wher∣in
Gheriona is involv'd at present.
SECT. IV
A Colloquy 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius,
and a Hind, who had bin once one of the gretest
Beauties in Marcopolis, and for som youthfull
levities and wildnes was transmuted to that
shape; In this Section ther are various Discour∣ses
of the state and nature of Women pro &
con, &c.
SECT. V.
Discourses 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius,
and a Mule, who in his Manhood had bin a
Doctor of Physic in Tumontia, whom for som
Quacking tricks he had plaid, and for som other
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Resons, Morphandra metamorphos'd into a
Mule; In this Section ther be discourses of the
Art of Physic, of the various complexions of
Mankind, and of the nomberles diseases of body,
and distempers of mind that are incident to the Hu∣man
Creture, &c.
SECT. VI
Consists of Interchangeable Discourses 'twixt
Morphandra, Pererius, and a Fox, who had bin
a Saturnian born, whom for his cunning dealings
and Mountebankish wily tricks, she transformed
from a Merchant to that Species; This Section
treats of divers things, and particularly how the
Art of tru Policy is degenerated, and what poor
Sciolists or Smatterers therin are cryed up of late
years, &c.
SECT. VII.
A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius, and a
Boar, wherein ther are various Discourses, and
particularly of the rare Sympatheticall Powder
that is lately found out, which works sudden and
certain Cures without any topicall applica∣tions
of Medicines to the part affected, &c.
SECT. VIII.
A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius, and
a Wolf, who had bin a Cuprinian Soldier, whom
for his Plundrings, Rapines, and Spoils she
transfigur'd to that shape, &c.
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SECT. IX.
A discourse 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius, and
a Goat, consisting of many speculations both Na∣turall
and Metaphysicall, with other Criticisms,
&c.
SECT. X.
A Dialog 'twixt Morphandra, Pererius, and a
Soland-Goose, a Carboncian born, who was
transmuted to that shape for his foolishnes in re∣belling
against his own Conterranean King, and
so jugling himself into a Slavery from that
Free-Government he was formerly under, &c.
SECT. XI
Consists of a Dialog 'twixt Morphandra, Pe∣rerius,
and a Hive of Bees, who had bin once a
Monastery of Nuns, and were transmuted to those
small Insects, because that after a years Proba∣tion,
and their own praevious free Election, they
murmur'd at that Reclus'd Claustrall life, and
wish'd Themselfs uncloyster'd again; In this Secti∣on
ther be divers Discourses of the Immortality
and high prerogatives of the Human Soul, as al∣so
of the Hevenly Hierarchy, and Ioyes Eter∣nall,
&c.
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