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Apollo Christian: or Helicon reformed
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their brother and aethereal fire Which first the rites of marriage did beginne Louing each other with a loue entire No cause bee falne to lessen their desire Their Father did empeople diuersely For creatures finn'd with wings did vp aspire Without controllment swimming through the skie Fish wing'd with finnes enhabited the deepe And heards of beasts vpon firme land did keepe V. Lords ouer them hee also did ordaine As among beasts the Lyon Prince of all The Dolphin ouer sin the Soueraigne And among birds the Eagle Principall Hee Lord and Lyon and the King of all Created Peeres likewise in euery kinde As the huge Elephant the Camel tall Who loyally vnto their Lord resignde As birds to th' Eagle all things vnto man Aswell the Lyon as Leuiathan VI. Nor did God leaue the better parts vnfraught Defrauding heauen of formes inhabitant For from the radiant plentie of his thought His euerlasting WORD co-operant Armies of shining Angels foorth hee brought Transparent spirits clecrer then the light So Cherubim so Scraphim were wrought The essences which neuer lost his sight Thus heauen was builded thus the earth was deckt By meere intention of the Architect MELOS XI Of the Situation of Great BRITAINE I. ANother world another continent About the same so many Iles doe swarme It selfe so great and of so large content CAESAR who gaue thereto the first alarm Esteemed it cut from Europa so Some of which Iles embuttresse it before Other on either side themselues doe show Like to the Sporades on Graecian shore The Orcads and the scatter'd Aebudeas Hee thrust behinde into the Scottish seas MELOS XII ANathema to irreligious mindes To black desarts Anathema to all prestigious signes And all false parts Anathema to all immodest lines Anathema Maranatha to harts Who to our youths corruption bend their Arts. The faire white tower of gratious chastitie Mayds soueraigne praise And wiues most duty by what battery By what smooth wayes Is 't not euerted Mûse the verses flye And flie the prose where such lewd baits doe lurke The poyson vnawares doth ruine worke Better it were that Printers Art should dye Musicke bee dumb Better that impudence should dearely buy In fight to come And all the praise of vvit in dust should lye English take rust and Britaine barbarous bee Rather then shamelesse Heauen loues chastitee Greece had her Sappho and her spruce old vvagg Anacreon Rome her Caetullus and the like some bragg Of Albion And would to God that heerein to seeme lagg Were not a cause of absurd shame to many Court who court list bee not wits Ape to any Without that noble Sidney heere I tax Or Spensers pomp And gladly granting Iohnson nothing lacks Of Phoebus stamp For neuer wits were made of finer wax Then England hath to vaunt of in these times But them I tax whose reason 's lost in times Despaire of such as in some bookes delight That shall bee namelesse Fathêrs keep children from contagious sight Of authors shamelesse For they are charmes and nature soften quite And such as vse them will too soone finde true That they are blest who such bookes neuer knew Anathemaes of other kindes to reare Ioyes God and Man Anathema another sense may beare As sacred can Sacred for hallowed and the same for dire New HELICON for new IERVS ALEM Mine HELICON an holy ANATHEM DEO GRATIAS An excellent old Latin Prayer translated GIue to mee Lôrd Gôd a wakefull heart which no curious cogitation may draw away Giue me a noble heart which no vnworthy affection may draw downward Giue mee an inuincible heart which no tribulation may breake Giue mee a free heart which no peruerse nor violent passion may enthrall Bestow vpon mee my Lord God an vnderstanding knowing thee a conuersation pleasing thee a perseuerance faithfully expecting thee and a confidence finally embracing thee with thy paines to bee crucifide by remorse to vse thy benefits in the way by grace and lastly to enioy thy blisse in heauen by euerlasting glory Amen ◠Sacrum Pictati APOLLINI suisque HELICONIADIBVS vltimum Authoris VALE VOTIS NVNCVPATIS MVSA damnosas Domino facessens Et sequi doctus mage profuturas THESPIIS sacras posui deabus Saucius artes ARA OFFICII BONO PVBLICO IN discharge of that immortall obligation in which God and Nature tie mee vnto England after I was aduised for my healths sake to grow very remisse or rather for a while altogether to giue ouer reading and to solace my selfe with the Muses whose apt sweet notes might cure in mee the Tarantula's sting of whatsoeuer distemper in the naturall state of my affections I made it my worke to deuise how I might draw the flourishing wits and affections of all well-borne well-bred and well-giuen young Gentle-men thereof to see and taste a more dignitie and sweetnesse in holy and heauenly arguments then in prophane and sensuall According to which desire I haue in theve my poems somewhat endeauoured to come neere the olde Maiestie of the ancient Lyricks for breuitie and to the best examples for piety in all the most famous olde authors who professing Gnomologie or some other good matter founded in publike benefit haue beene held worthy to liue in their written moniments for man kindes sake and respects of common-weale to all posterities So Hesiod for his poeme of husbandry so Theognis and Phocyllides for their morall sentences so Oppian for his naturall History of fishes in verse dedicated to one of the Roman Emperours and worth to the Author a golden peece for euery line and by decree of Senate before whom it was rehersed whatsoeuer else his heart desired in the Empire so Aratus for his poeme of the stars so Dionysius for the earths description among the ancient heathen Greekes of which Anatus is honoured by S. Paul in his sermon to the Athenians before the Areopagites where for proofe of Gods vbiquitie and of mans origination through him he citeth a part of one of his diuine verses though concealing the name as contented to haue said sicut quidam vestrorum Poetarum dixerunt So among the Latins Cato for his morall couplets if Cato was their author and not Ausonius so Virgils Georgicks the absolutely best and most compleat of all his learned poems so Columella so Manilius so generally also all antient Christian Poets whither Greeke as S. Gregory Nazianzen and Synesius or Latin as Tertullian S. Cyprian Prudentius S. Paulinus Lactantius venerable Bede Inuencus Arator Venantius Falconia Proba in whose Cento of Virgils verses applyed to Christ Caiphas his speech in S. Iohn expedit vobis vt vnus moriatur homo pro populo is admirably hit vpon by her in this Hemistichtum Vnum pro multis dabitur caput So the Lady Elpis wife of great Boetius the Martyr whose bookes of Philosophicall consolation are extant with vniuersall applause and for the verses in them are equall to the very best that euer were and many other of farre more authority as the hymnes of S.
were of them whom blessed Paul describes To bee the choysest glories of their Tribes Cloath'd in goat-skins without perfumes or dresse Wandring on mountaines and in wildernesse For-borne by wilde beasts but by Tyrants slaine Stoned in townes whom rockes let safe remaine And poore distrest from caue to caue did passe Of whom the wretched world vnworthy was And though that Henoch and Elias were Most eminent so that our Master here Vpon mount Thabor did the Thesbite see The Baptist was as great as hee or hee Therefore of him would Christ his baptisme take And was baptized for examples sake Jordan saw this and where our Sauiour stood Came trembling forward the abashed flood Vnworthy Christs most sacred limbs to touch Nor could the opening heauens admire too much This secret most profound that Mercies Sea In narrow riuer should contained bee Before this time Christ well declared had By arguing with the Doctors what was clad In scorned semblant Natures author hee How else cold fountaine water changed bee The first of his great wonders into wine Honouring marriage mystery diuine But who hath words sufficient to expresse The testimonies of his heauenlinesse Words are too weake seeing that other Iohn The Gospels Eagle Christs beloued One A flures vs nor is his assurance vaine That the wide world could not the Tomes containe Might written bee of miracles hee did Yet let vs touch some For enthronized Although hee bee right at his fathers hand This monument will to good purpose stand §. 5. OVt of pure nothing all the world was rais'd And beeing somewhat God the Sonne it pais'd God all powre gaue to him as hee was man Who wonders at it Hee who all things can May all things gouerne well and so doth hee Euangelists fowre of you such there bee Whom great Ezechiel poet most diuine In figures fowre exprest As Matthew thine And thine ô Marck Saint Peters scholler sworne And Luke and Iohn on Eagles wings high borne Matthew presented in a wing'd mans image Marck in a Lyons Luke CHRISTS mothers linage Describing by the winged Oxe is known Their harmony a perfect Vnison That what Iustinian of the Septuagint In Romes lawes most authentick instrument What Aristaas or the Fathers write Concerning Scriptures brought in Greeke to light At Ptolomees command t' enrich the store Of Alexandria's bookes the same much more Is certaine in the Gospels rare concent Those first Translatours of th' old Testament Diuinely did accord although apart They sat in seuerall cels that so to Art Their harmony could not imputed bee By the same Spirit did these fowre agree Their concord worthiest to bee most admir'd As most vndoubted and alike inspir'd Not in one place as were those seauentie two Nor at one time and what they had to do Was not deriuatiue but originall Vpon this Quadrate Euangelicall This rockie Basis truth her towre doth build Which spite of weather still hath stronger held Himselfe writ nothing nothing did commit Or did omit which the most captious wit Could charge for sinne or could be better done Enough enough this shewes he was Gods sonne Maiesty made him others pens to vse And Deity his spirit to infuse §. 5. MOst wondrous this that he should bee so poore As not to haue or couch or homely bowr In which to rest his venerable head Propriety by him vnpractised Such as are downe in meanes doe feele this state Most difficult of all to eleuate And that a weight of wonder lies therein O whither yet from hence did he not win Nothing to haue and yet all things to sway Apostles twelue Disciples do obay Thrice two times twelue to his magistrall will These he did cloath these he with food did fill Out of his doctrines force For Lordships hee And farmes had none though his the whole earth bee With whatsoeuer creatures are therein Th' Oeconomie of Hierarchie seene They begg'd not they lackt nothing nor tooke care For morrowes a felicity most rare Hee Primate among his and worthiest was Prouiding that no day should ouerpasse To bee repented as in wants dis-spent What of the Author of the firmament Durst men hope lesse The blinde the deafe the lame The dumbe sicke dead who to their senses came Through his immediate gift were infinite Hee grew authenticke in the peoples sight Angels who had beene chang'd from white to blacke From faire to fowle from such as no blisse lacke To such as all blisse want and others make To lacke alike hee did so throughly shake That among swine they gladly harbour sought Nor could obtaiue till leaue of him was got Thus was the Diuell trampled vnder foot As God had promis'd when in natures root Man blasted was by his infernall guile §. 6. FRom hence let me conuert my mounting stile To the last act of his most wondrous life His sermons we omit in Gospell rife Rife and exact as the rein penned downe By God who spake them And in all the crowne Of auditors who did not rise admiring Or who doth read his words and more desiring And thinking more from roading doth not rise Witnesse those daily swelling Libraries Growne out of comments on his sermons made Into whose depths no mortall wit can wade Nor line can sound th'abysses of his lore We often know the lesse by knowing more Abysse begets abysse mysterie mysterie All schooles are blanckt all eloquence all hystorie Nor lies this hardnesse in th'Euangelists Who weaue their text with most transparent twists And on the precious ground-worke cause t' appeare The images of acts so perfect cleare And with proportion so exact and true As make no dainty of an open view Nor doth the Greeke with dialects vex the sense As th'Hebrew with their words equiualence To sundry vses th holy phrase is fit Aswell for loftiest as for lowest wit And as much as the largest tongue can bee To all intents of full capacitee Nor stints the maruell heere For who so dull That somewhat not conceiues and who so full Whose stores may not encrease ten thousand fold Gods wisdome in it doth the wonder hold Abstract from miracles for weake ones granted Who wholly build on them are often scanted His parables his sentences his speeches Are altogether such as no minde reaches The fulnesse of their Anagogicke sense Pole is from pole not so farre distant hence As Fathers Doctors Counsels are farre short Not of the truth but of th' entire purport Yet is it written and that writ is right That in his light wee faithfull should see light And from one cleerenesse passing to another Last times should open what the first did smother O had wee beene so happy from on high As to haue felt the force and energie And most victorious vtterance of Christs words Did Scripture as it substances affords The postures of his action shew to vs And gestures grace which th'artificious Are so much in ô had we beene so blest Rapture could onely serue to speake the rest Enough to constitute a proofe past