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.

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

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

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.

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.