CAP. 5. The Efficient by it self or an Accident.
Q. What is that that which effecteth by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈…〉〈…〉ans?
A. That which effecteth by it self or an Accident.
The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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- The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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- Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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- 1685.
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"The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54745.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.
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Q. How effecteth it by it self?
A. When it effecteth by its own faculty.
Q. How effecteth it by its own faculty?
A. When it effecteth by nature or counsel.
Q. Give an example of that which effecteth by Nature?
A. The efficient of the winds is natural.
Aeneid. 1.
The East and South winds on the Sea do blow,
They rush through deep, till on the top they show
The Affrick oft with these his blasts conjoyns,
And so the floods are cast up by the winds.
Q. Give some example of that which effecteth by counsel?
A. That confession of Cicero touching himself, is an exam∣ple of Counsel. The War taken in hand (O Caesar) waged also for the most part, not constrained by any of my judge∣ment and will; I came forth to those Wars which were un∣dertaken against thee.
Q. How doth the Efficient Cause effect by an Accident?
A. When it effecteth by an external faculty.
Q. How doth it effect by an external faculty?
A. When it is done by Necessity or Fortune.
Q. How by Necessity?
A. When as the Efficient is constrained to the Effect.
Q. Give an example of this?
A. There is one in the excuse of the Pompenians. But to me truly (saith the Orator) if there may be sought out a pro∣per and true name of our evil, it doth seem that we are faln into a certain fatal calamity, that hath occupied the unpro∣vident mindes of men; that none should wonder how hu∣mane Counsel is overcome by Divine Necessity.
Q. How by Fortune?
A. When somewhat happeneth beyond the scope of the Efficient.
Q. Give an example?
A. So the case chanced (saith Tullius tertio de Nat. deo.) That Pherius the enemy was profitable to Jason, who open∣ed his impostume with his sword; which the Physicians could by no means heal.
Q. May not Impudence be numbered amongst these kind of Causes?
A. Yes.
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Q. Give an example?
A. Ovid. de Trist. 2.
Why hurtful light, or ought else did I see?
The fault was mine and not unknown to me,
Wise Acteon Diana naked saw,
And food became to's dogs devouring maw.
Blind Fortune 'mongst the Gods is surely blamed,
Ne pardon gets, the Gods she hath so harmed.
Q. Do not Deprecations then proceed from hence?
A. Yes.
Q. Give an example?
A. Pro P L. Pardon O Father: he hath erred: he is slip∣ped: he thought not: if ever hereafter. And a little after I have erred: I have done rashly: it repenteth me: I fly to thy clemency: I ask pardon for mine offence: I intreat thee that thou wilt pardon me.
Q. What first caused the name of Fortune?
A. The ignorance of the Causes have feigned this name: for when as something happened beyond counsel and hope, it was called by the common people Fortune.
Q. What is Juvenals Opinion of it?
A. Wise if we were, no God should want but Fortune: We place thee high, and often thee importune.