The division in the fore-, middle- and afterbrain is based on the development of the human brain during the embryogenesis.

Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.

… their vessels for use are made some of clay, of which sort some are so great as that they will containe more then one hogshead of water.

He will tell you to do so-and-so, but read the instructions first, anyway.