Armilogia, sive, Ars chromocritica The language of arms by the colours & metals being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world : whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles : a work of this nature never yet extant / by Sylvanus Morgan ...

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To Doctor Baldwin Hamey Esquire, and of the Physicians Col∣ledge London.

SIR,

THe Physicians of the Princes Body, Constantine in old time honoured with the Title of Earles; whereof those that had been Professors of Law, and other Sci∣ences twenty years together, deserved by the Law to be made Earles, by the twelfth Book of the Code: and though now they are without that Dignity, yet Divinity, Law and Phy∣sick, are as it were the three Graces of Humane life; and are set in Prima cera, in the first place of the Table; and to ho∣nour the Physician is a debt. Precedency at first proceeding from priority of Birth, among Men that were of equal Digni∣ty; and afterward Priority of Choise, or Creation, among men of the same dignity, gave the Precedence: as the several Emi∣nency, or Honour in secular Offices was esteemed by the nature of the Imployment, by the long or short Robe, by the Usefulness of them to the State, and of the Power joyned with them. Of how much use the Physician is, is not at all doubted; and of what honour may appear by that Instrument of Doctorship of Philosophy and Physick, produced by the learned Selden, &c. wherein, beside all the Priviledges and Honours due to a Doctor of Philosophy, and Physick, it is also granted, Sibique

libros clusos & apertos, biretrum in capite, annulum in digito, osculum pacis, ac sedem sive cathredam, omnia∣que & singula Doctoratus infignia: All these you having received, made you one of the Long Robe; and the Paluda∣mentum of your Ancestors shew Ut acccinguntur omnes operi: and as a Cheif in your Profession the Roe is current above the Fesse, (and the Nature of the Stars is submitted to your Candid Interpretation; and like a Mullet of Six Points Excitat & dirigit) it hastning to things above; and it is your happiness to be born and framed to virtue, and to grow up from the seeds of Nature, rather than the inoculation, and forced Graffes of Education.