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of nature: So the Philosophers tell me. The dose of the
universall medicine, is the weight of one graine.


IX.

Vse not too frequently, the permissions of Marriage.

Man for procreations sake, should not abhorre the Concessions
and Priviledges of lawfull love, but let him eschew all wantonnesse,
and confine his desires to naturall and legitimate, and that too
within the bounds of Wedlock: But in this also there must be
moderation. Solons Law was thrice in the moneth. Emission

of seed weakens all bodies: This experience tells us, for men 10
that are addicted to this intemperance, have the most nice and
tender constitutions, easily offended, and seldome fruitfull: like
Trees, which bearing too much in one year, yeeld nothing but
leaves in the next. You are to understand from this Paragraph,
that seed is two-fold, Radical, and Prolific. The Radical seed,
is the innate balsame of the body, which if it be advantaged with
perfect digestion, will yeeld effusion, and a balsame of the same
nature as it selfe. In this balsame the body lives as in his proper
seed. Hence Anonymus Leschus, Tract. 7. instructs us, that so
long as there is seed in the body, it lives; but the seed being 20
consumed, the body dies. It is no wonder then, that so many
have perished by this intemperance, who *
going to bed in a vegetous, perfect health,
were found dead next morning. If you
excite a Tree to bear fruit by violent and
unnatural means, or by artificiall, as by
kindling fire under his branches in an
unseasonable time, you will but kill the
Tree, and manifest your own indiscretion.

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3 frequently] frequently 1655 12 fruitfull: G: fruitfull, 1655 22 this
G: the 1655. 38 gratum] g atum 1655 41 liberty] lib rty 1655
* It was not long before
the publishing of this peece,
that I was told by a very
noble Gentleman, that in
his late travailes in France,
he was acquainted with
a young French Physician,
who for a long time had
beene suiter to a very hand-
some Lady, and having at
length gained her consent,
was married to her, but his Nuptial bed proved his Grave, for on the next 30
morning he was found dead. It was the Gentlemans opinion, that this sad
accident might be caused by an excessive joy, and for my part I subscribe to it;
for a violent joy hath oftentimes done the worke of death: this comes to passe by
an extreame attenuation, and diffusion of the animal spirits, which passing
all into the exterior parts, leave the heart destitute, whence followes suffocation
and death. Scaliger Exercit. 310. gives the reason of this violent effusion and
dissipation of the Spirits: Quia similia maxime cupiunt inter se uniri, ideo
spiritus veluti exire conantur ad objectum illud externum gratum ac jucundum,
ut videlicet cum eo vniantur, Illudq; sibi maxime simile reddant. If any will
suspect, that together with this excessive joy, there was a concurrency of the 40
other excess mentioned by my Author, I permit him his liberty, but certainly
I thinke he will be deceived.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Works of Henry Vaughan. Volume: 2. Contributors: Leonard Cyril Martin - editor. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford, England. Publication Year: 1914. Page Number: 558.
    
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