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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Title: 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.
Author: Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. Wilson for William Palmer ...,; 1660.
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Subject terms: Allegories.
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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.