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A90256	Ovid's Invective or curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. And the histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with natural, moral, poetical, political, mathematical, and some few theological applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double index: one of the proper names herein mentioned; another of the common heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, sex and age, and very useful for grammar schools. / By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford.; Ibis. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Jones, John, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing O678; Thomason E1657_2; ESTC R208994	89,564	191

upon a Countrey rich in the plenties of a long peace and full with the surfeit of continual ease it never leaves purging those superfluities till all be wasted and consumed Thus the roaring Lion of hell falls upon a soul being full and secure As to Lycurgus son that climb'd a tree And Idmon bold a Bore thy ruine be 1 Butes whom some authors call Ancaus or Angaeus son of Lycurgus King of Thrasia being fiercely pursued by a Bore climbed a tree but before he was up the Bore pulled him down again and slew him 1 This when we are climbing the tree of knowledge and sublime understanding of divine truth that Bore of the wilderness the Heretick labours to pluck us back into errours Thus when we are ascending the tree of life towards heaven that Serpentine Satan indeavours to draw us back into deadly sin and damned Hell 2. Idmon a southsayer among the Argonauts was in Bythinia slain by a Bore 1 Southsayers and Astrologers can foreshew to others what evils they may shun but cannot prevent what hangeth over their own heads Thales gazing on the Stars fell into a ditch Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit If thou be wise be wise unto thy self The Bell rolls in others to sermon but hears not a word it self Moses brought the Israelites to Canaan but entred not in himself Many I fear shew others the way to heaven and come short themselves Sic vos non vobis mellificatis Apes A Bore thy deaths wound give when he is dead As upon whom fell such a creatures head Thoas a famous hunter in Andragathia was wont to hang on a tree the head and feet of all he caught as a sacrifice to Diana at last having got a mighty Bore he kept the feet and hang'd up onely the head by a string which fell upon him being a sleep under the tree 1 Although the Priests were allowed part of the Jewish sacrifice the whole was offered unto God 2 If so fearful and sudden death befell Ananias and Saphira because they detained part of their own gift devoted to the Church Acts 5. what may sacrilegious latrons expect who never gave to the Church as much as one of the widows mites yet take from it to their own use the most part of that was given to others 3 Offer not to God the blind or the lame serve not God by halfes but give him the honour due unto his name being Holocausts whole presents to him the● ought to be feared God might justly require all yet he accepts the tenths of our means and the seventh of our time shall we grudge him that God forbid 505. Like them be thou whom fruit of Pine-tree kill'd As Phrygia's hunter and Berentius child Atys a Phrygian hunter and Nauclus son of Berentius sleeping under a Pine-tree were both slain by apples falling from the same tree 1 Mille modis morimur mortales nascimur uno By one way we are born by thousands we die As God can save by small means so he can destroy Death is a long sleep and sleep a short death some have fallen into such a deadly sleep they never waked Lie down therefore with the Prophet Davids petition in thy mouth or heart Lord lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death Psal 13. And if to Minos sands thou voyage make Let Cretians thee for a Sicilian take For the death of Minos King of Crete killed in Sicilia by King Cocalus or his daughter in the pursuit after Daedalus the Cretians ever since so hate that people that they put all to death that arrive in those coasts 1 The Aspick pursueth him which hath hurt or killed his mate and knows him among a multitude him he still hunteth and laieth for his life breaking through all difficulties and dangers to come unto him Dall Aph. So is revenge furiously out-ragious and out-ragiously furious Yea for the cause of one single person families cities kingdoms fall at variance and hardly or never be reconciled In revenge of one Dinah Simeon and Levi destroyed all the Sichemits Gen. 34. but cursed was their wrath Gen. 49.7 510. As to Alebas daughter it befell And to her husband let a house thee quell Alcidice daughter of Alebas a Larissean with her husband Lycoris by the fall of their house were slain 1 Whether these persons suffered this punishment for any offence to the Gods for the father Alebas was an oppressour or their house fell by chance I read not But holy Writ reports that while Jobs children were rioting the house fell down and killed them I will wind up this ap●lication with our Saviours caveat unto the Jews and in them to all Thinke ye that those on whom the tower of Shilo fell were greater sinners more then you verily I say unto you except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13. As Tiberinus and Evenus nam'd The streams where they were drown'd be thou so fam'd Tiberinus or Tiberius King of the Albans was drowned in the river Albiola which since is called Tibris or Tiberis after his name So Evenus son of Mars and Marpesse was drowned in the river Lycormas and gave that river his name Evenus 1 The noblest honour the ancients could invent for the dead was a glorious Monument with their Names Titles and Deserts but Auson Mors etiam faxis nominibusque venit Death as well seizeth upon Monuments as Men. 2 Immortal fame was the utmost hope of the Heathen after death And what more doth that Christian expect who takes more care to have houses called of his name then his soul in an heavenly mansion The Lord be pleased to write my name in the book of life then let my fame on earth be as mortal as my body As Hyrtacus his son one fix thee dead Upon a stake let mans food be thy head Nisus son of Hyrtacus adventuring to redeem his friend Eurialus being caught by the army of the Kutilians willingly endured the same death with him their bodies were cast to be eaten by men and their heads put upon stakes 1 He that is a friend to all is a friend to none he that sincerely is a friend to one is truly a friend to himself for a friend is second self Let no man therefore like Janus bear two faces under one hood nor blow hot and cold out of one mouth Let friends like Harpocrates twins laugh and cry together partake and sympathize in every estate Learn of our voluntary friend and undeserved Saviour that freely died not with us but for us not for his friends but enemies 515. As Brotheus did when death was his desire Thy body cast into a flaming fire Brotheus son of Minerva by Vulcan because he was jeered for his deformed body cast himself into the fire and died 1 Vasius that deformed Roman to prevent others would first jeer himself 2 What nature fails in one is recompenced in another part Who more ugly shapen then Aesop who more ingenious

Isis thus Jupiter loved Isis Certainly the Egyptians worshiped Osyris under the shape of an Ox and why not Isis in the form of a Cow for she taught them husbandry and many arts Nor do some of the learned doubt but that the Israelites long sojourning in Egypt brought thence their superstition of the golden calf made after two by Jeroboam Sandys that lived an exile in that countrey So much for History But Naturally Jupiter lay with Iö that is the aetheriall heat draws up vapours from the earth perpetually and is delivered to Argus that is the starry heaven Nat. Com. to be kept Morally thus Iö was turned to a Cow and delivered to Argus so many by Gods permission degenerate into beastly affections whereby they are made slaves to wealth and are subject to watching and continual cares like Argus his eyes Or as Melanthius son that guilty lay In dark by light his mother did bewray So let thy body he with weapons cut And of all friendly succour destitute Codrus son of Melanthius not the King nor the Poet having killed his father hid himself his mother alone knowing where he lay with a candle found him out and delivered him to the Athenians to suffer death 1 That famous Greek Law-giver being asked why among other Laws he made none against him that killed his father gave this worthy answer I thought no man could be so wicked Wickedness it is of a deep die to kill a natural father but it was a crime in grain for Ravilliack to kill his civil father That is but a private This a publick person and a common parent The bloud of a murdered st●anger will cry aloud to heaven for vengeance of a brother louder but of a father louder yet If Cain shall be avenged seven times Lamech shall be avenged seven times seven Gen. 4.24 Such as the desperate Trojan that did vow To steal Achilles horses rest have thou Dolon a nimble-footed souldier of Troy for a sum of money promised to fetch away two of Achilles horses but he was prevented by Ulysses and Diomedes by whom he was all night examined concerning the affairs of Troy and in the morning killed 1 Who can blame Dolon a poor Pedee for adventuring his life for Gold What else next to honour is the highest aim of the chiefest souldier The first was the happiest of all ages it was golden not from money but manners for then was no gold nor silver known no war nor souldier used This last and worst of Ages though it be called the Iron age because so much armes and weapons are made it may indeed more properly be called the golden age for never was gold in more esteem Aurea nunc verè sunt secula plurimus auro Venit honos auro conciliatur Amor. Now is the golden age indeed for gold Honour is bought and love it self is sold Such sleep as Rhesus and his company May'st thou enjoy the night before thou die Rhesus King of Thracia had horses of whom it was destined that if they drank of the river Xanthus and tasted of the pastures of Troy that Troy should not be taken such was the fond conceit of the besieged he approched very nigh unto his fatal steeds but was taken by night of Ulysses and both he and his company slain 1 Whatsoever Providence hath decreed concerning person or Nation cannot be avoided All humane policy plots and stratagems crossing this are but labour in vain sublunary and secundary causes are but subordinate instruments The divine power is the first mover and director of all 2 Man may purpose God must dispose But if God be for us who can be against us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If God thee aid no force can thee assail If God helps not no labour can prevail Or with Rutilian Rhamnes whom the son 630. Of Hyrtacus slew and his companion Rhamnes a King and Southsayer an auxiliary of Turnus being a sleep in his Tent with many souldiers was taken napping and slain by Nysus son of Hyrtacus and his companion Euryalus 1 Augustus Caesar would gladly have bought that mans pillow whereon he could sleep being in debt not fearing a Catch-poll at the door to apprehend him Desperate is the condition of that Mariner that falls asleep on the top of a mast-pole and who will pitty that souldiers death that s●orts in his tent not dreaming that the enemy is still watching to surprize him 2 Let us keep a continual guard over our souls Be sober and watch for your enemy the Devil walketh about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 As Clysias son hemm'd in with stifling fire Members half burn'd bring to the Stygian mire Alcibiades an Athenian could frame himself to all manners customes and fashions Plutarch in his life bestows upon him this character He could more easily transform himself to all manner of shapes then a Chamelion so that all people did wonder that in one man could be so divers natures At the last by the means of Lysander he was banished into Phrygia whither Pharnabazus sent executioners to kill him They set the house on fire which Alcibiades espying ran through the fire somewhat sing●d the Murderers shot him with darts and killed him 1 The Chamelion is a small beast much like a Frog or a Toad it can change it self to all colours but white so can Hypocrites to any thing but honesty The Polypus in Lucian is a small kind of fish that can turn it self to the colour of any rock she swim● to So Timists Hypocrites change their opinion and swim with the tide like Alcibiades to day a● holy as a Monk to morrow as wicked as a Devil like Materia prima omaium formarum capax apt to entertain any form Omnium horarum homo turn'd up and down like and as oft as an hour-glass But such All-no-noth●ngs though they may not perhaps with Alcibiades suffer the fire and sword here must expect their portion among their brother-hypocrites in the lake hereafter As Rhemus that upon th'unfinish'd wall Presum'd to leap thy pate rude weapons mall When Rome was building Romulus the Founder and Namer of the City made an Edict that upon pain of death none should climb the walls before they were finished his brother Rhemus not regarding the Kings command ascended but was killed for his pains by the workmen 1 Fortune and Justice are both painted blind the one bestows without respect of persons so should the other punish not conniving at friends or a brother as dear as Rhemus Qui non vetat peccare cùm potest jubet Sen. Trag. An ill executioner of Laws is worse in a State then a great breaker of them Therefore Zaleucus when his own son for Adultery should according to Law have lost both his eyes he pluck'd out one of his own eyes first and then one of his sons thus shewing himself a tender father not onely to his child but countrey in preserving the Laws entire 635. Lastly among the Sauromatick frie And darting Getes here may'st thou live and die Sarmates are fierce and cruel people inhabiting near the Euxin Sea in the utmost part of Scythia they feed upon horse-flesh and mans flesh and are therefore called Anthropophagi by reason of the extreme cold of that Climat they lie in Caves under ground they fight with darts never knowing p●●ce The Greeks call them Sauromates from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a L●zard and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Eye G●es are a people in Europe near Scythia sometimes called Daci or D●vi therefore slaves among the Athenians were named Davi or Ge●ae To this cold and comfortless nook of the world was most unseasonably transplanted the choicest flower of Poetry our most ingenious author Ovid. 1 This one Distick is the acutest and smartest in all this little learned Poem for it is not only most of all Satyrical but succinctly Rhetorical Ovid after many grievous miseries and mischiefs imprecated against Ibis summes up all particulars in this one Total and comprehends all curses that he hath or could repeat in this brief Corollary for worse he thought he could not invent To live and die in that accursed coas● where he was banished And Oratorically herein he doth closely intimate to Augustus that of all the punishments he could possibly inflict upon the most grievous offender none could be more grievous then his banishment into Scythia These lines in brief and in post-hast I wrot That thou might'st not complain I thee forgot 1 Surely he must have a memory brittler then Messala Corvinus that forgot his own name and a judgment shallower then a Baeotian that having throughly perused this Book will imagine that Ovid had forgotten Ibis My votes are few Gods add unto the score 640. And multiply thy tortures more and more More shalt thou read which thy right name shall hit And in such feet as bloudy wars be writ FINIS

'd say Peribis Silas Taylor To the Author of the Translation of OVID'S Book in IBIN AT the first sight your pains did seem to me A sullen rudeness to Civility Bringing by bold attempt that book to light Which was in sable robes condemn'd to night But having read your sober Illustrations Moral Divine Poetical relations I handsomely saw couch'd what might in short Please both the learned and the vulgar sort The names of Phasis Strymon Hebrus make My Muse in Autumn chill'd with cold to quake Yours broke muchice since first you undertook To level precipices in this book And make aenigma's plain that all the Nation Might read a mysterie in your Revelation Reece Morrys To Mr Jo. Jones Translator Illustrator and Commentator of Ovids Ibis NOr do I weigh what any Mome may think Onely I wish his Gall to make me Ink When I a Satyr write but now my quill I 'd wish to dip where Ovids self did fill His versing pen for he who had the wit To teach the art of Love would practice it He who what e're he thought on to rehearse Like Metal in a mould would run to verse He 'd shew himself as grateful unto thee As e're to Ibis he could spiteful be For th' ast enammell'd his cast Poetry Making him Heathen speak Divinity And with choice Jewels ne●● cut and enchac'd His Muse and thine hast joyntly richly grac'd Thou hast redeem'd him from his long Exile And made him Denizon of our English Isle The Act is past but not by publick stealth He 's Naturalized in our Common-wealth But stay let 's see Apollo be my guide How many Gordian knots are here unty'd And if the young King when he cut but one With 's sword 't was destiny'd that he alone Should the World's Monarch be what honour 's fit For him who hundreds loos'd with sharper wit But that this Iron age doth wisely afford Less honour to the Pen then to the Sword Yet stand again what have I now espy'd After these ravell'd knots thou hast unty'd Thou knitt'st again their ends an endless pain Weav'st them with wists of thine own studious brain Then in fresh colours lively to the eye Like Arras work describ'st each History Thus fram'st a piece of curious Tapistry May any students study beautify Yours still JO. HILL To his much honoured Mr John Jones Master of Arts and School-master in the City of Hereford upon his Translation Comment and Observations upon Ovid his Ibis SO Phospher wakes the morn with grateful light Translated from the obscure armes of night So Phoebus from a cloud rescues a ray At once to lighten and adorn the day This Book of all that 's Ovid I do think Was like the Cuttle hid in it's own ink Each line an History and as it stood Then Ibis self less known or understood Thus a fair room in building where no way Is left by window to let in the day Conceals it's beauty and by that abuse Rich to it self is Poor to every use But when the Artist's hand shall let in light At once we see with wonder and delight Embroideries Arras Tissues we behold Rich Persian carpets fring'd with pearl and gold Then we first praise the riches when once shown Before not understood because not known Here you remove the veil and let us see The now known wealth of conceal'd historie So fully doth your Comment clear your rhimes By Observations to our use and times That while we suck these flowers like Bees we do At once draw pleasure thence and profit too While some men leave the Reader more perplext With Comments far more hard then is the Text Or with a safer ignorance pass by The ravell'd mysteries it cannot unty Others too full of fancy while their brain Runs riot still decline their proper aim So a rank Hobby with unbounded wing Wantons i' th' aire and stoops at every thing Your Muse here flies not at so loose a rate Whiles others Paraphrase 't is you Translate No flyings out your Muse though free is bound To word for word to render not confound The Genuine sense so justly that we might Say Ovid's self did dictate you did write No rack here shewn to make a word confess Then what it signifies or more or less No virgin Muse here forc'd no violence Or rape committed upon word or sense Each word so fitly married as if ment To shew you woo'd well first then had consent So Adam tranc'd in sleep did wake from it And found an helper for him meet and fit Even so exactly so we see a face Translated in a glass whose every grace Each aire each line each glance each motion all Agree in one the same Original Henceforth 't is no more Ibis you in this Have made it Ovid's Metamorphosis More strange then all his changes while you frame A total change which wholly is the same Ed. Bosworth An INDEX of all the proper names in the Histories recited by OVID in his Invective against IBIS which may be found by the number of the verse at each name here appearing Thus. A. ABdera Verse 465 Absyrtus 433 Achaeus 298. 540 Achilles 373 Achimenides 414 Acrisius 462 Actaeon 478 Adimantus 325 Adonis 564 Aeacus 187 Aegaeus 493 Aegyptus 177 Aetna 602 Agamemnon 352 Agenor 450. 570 Ajax Oileus 340. 618 Albula 138 Alcaeus 54 Alcibiades 32 Alcidice 510 Alcmaeon 340 Alebas 322 Alexander 295 Alexander Pheraeus 320 Allia 220 Amilcar 388 Amphiaraus 352 Amphion 582 Anaxarchus 568 Antaeus 392 Antiopa 534 Archilaus 293 Archilochus 54. 520 Aristophanes 521 Arsaces 463 Astyanax 493. 561 Atalanta 370. 600 Athamas 340 Atys 505 Atis 454 Atrax 468 Atreus 427 Augaeus 506 B Battus 583 Belides 177. 353 Bellerophon 255 Biblis 356 Bistones 379 Blesus 537 Bôotes 610 Brotheus 515 Busiris 398 Butes 506 Buthes 612 C Cacus 487 Cadmus 443 Caeyx 273 Callimachus 55 Cambyses 312 Canace 356 Capaneus 467 Cassandrus 460 Cercyon 410 Chaerilus 517 Charybdis 383 Cleombrotus 492 Clitretho 360 Cocalus 288. 507 Codrus 626 Caelum 271 Coronis 447 Corybantes 452 Crambus 269 Creon 602 Creusa 602 M. Curtius 442 Cybele 452. 455 Cyniphia 222 Cyphenes 552 D Daedalus 496 Daedalion 273 Demasicthon 580 Danäe 462 Danaus 177 Dejanira 603 Demodocus 270 Diximanus 402 Diomedes 380 Dionysius 328 Dirce 533 Dolon 625 Dosothöe 473 Dryops 485 E Egiale 347 Elpenor 484 Elysium 174 Empedocles 595 Erigone 610 Erisichthon 423 Eteocles and Polinices 35 Ethalus 619 Etracides 292 Evenus 512 Eupolis 528 Euridice 480 Euripides 592 Euristhenes 612 Eurition 40 Euryalus 285. 514. 630 Eurydamas 329 F Fata tria 75 Fatuarii 81 Faunus 81 Furiae 80 G Galli 452 Ganges 136 Getae 635 Glaucus 553. 554. 555 H Haemon 560 Halcyon 273 Hannibal 388 Harpagus 544 Hector 331 Hercules 346. 603 Hermias 318 Hippodamia 364 Hippolytus 90. 575 Hypermnestra 350 Hypsiphile 482 Hyacinthus 585 I Iaziges 136 Icarius 610 Idmon 502 Ilice 497 Ino 275. 495 Io 620 Irus 415 Isis 620 Ister 136 I●ys 432 Jupiter Hammon 295