Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

THE THIRD AND LAST
BOOK, CONTAINING BY WAY
os Dialogue, a Discourse tending to
the Blazon of Arms, with a more Philoso-
phicall and particular examination os the
causes of Colours and their participa-
tion, with, the light, according to the
opinions as well os Ancient
as late Writers,

The Speakers. Cosmopolites, Ettdaemon.
U D JE M O N well met: what make you
■-{ here sosollitary all alone. Come, you have
1_4 some point of Mu lick in your head, or
inventing some Impresa or others this Bjrse was never
built to study in.
Eud. To tell you troth, I was thinking how £«-
etatt could make his opinion good, concerning the
souls os wealthy usurers, and covetous persons, whom
aster their death he verily believes, and affirms to be
Metemphychoscd, or tranQated into the bodies of As-
ses, and there to remain certain thousands ofyears,for
poor men to take their pennyworth out of their bones
and sides with the cudgell and spur.
sisni. There is no better Physick sor melancholy
then either Lucian of the heathen,or of ecernall memo-
ry Sis Thomas Moore among the Ghristians for witty
epneeit/-