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The new starre of the north, shining vpon the victorious King of Suueden
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Gill, Alexander, 1597-1642.
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1631
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GUSTAVUS ADOLPHVS KING OF THE SWEDS GOTHS VANDALS GREAT PRINCE OF FINLAND etc. Behold the beames of this bright Northen starr Enflam'd by Mars but sweetned more by Ioue He hands and Lands subdues by dint of warr But farr more hearts by goodnes win̄ing love By both before he came he overcame Owing of Victory as swift as Fame Etiam juriusquam venj vicj MD sculpsit Sold by R Mylbourne at the Greyhound in Paules Church yard THE NEVV STARRE OF THE NORTH SHINING VPON the Victorious King of SVVEDEN LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES for ROBERT MILBOVRNE and are to be sold at the Signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1631. THE NEW STARRE OF THE NORTH Shining vpon the Victorious King of Sweden IN the yeere one thousand fiue hundred seuentie two there appeared in the heauens a new strange Light exceeding in the apparant bignesse thereof all the fixed Starres and shewing forth a bright and Maiesticall lustre which was beheld not onely in the night time but also by some at Noone day and became at that time the gaze of the world and taske of all the Astronomers of Europe many of them in divers Countreyes publishing their Observations and Opinions concerning the nature of this Star and future events fore-signified thereby but none comparably with the most famous Astronomer of our time called Tycho Brahe a Nobleman of Denmarke who by the advantage of his large and curious Instruments and vncessant paines in Astronomicall Observations more exactly then any other setteth downe the true Place Forme Motion and Height of this wondrous heauenly Lampe Whereunto hee addeth also his Iudgement what euents it portendeth like to befall in the yeeres neere following the said Apparition Accordingly hee treateth of the sayd Starre in aboue 500 pages of his Booke called by the name of Astronomica Progymnasmata which Booke in the yeere 1593 was honoured by the Attestation of King Iames our late Soueraigne of blessed memory in manner following James by the grace of God King of Scots to the Noble Tycho Brahe Lord of Knudstrup the chiefe Astronomer of this age WHereas Wee haue vnderstood as wel by your letters written to Vs as also by Our seruant Young that you intend to publish those Workes of yours which with invincible paines and manifold watchings haue been composed by you namely those your excellent Astronomicall Exercises stiled by you Astronomica Progymnasmata Towards the publishing whereof you haue made suite vnto Vs that Wee would vouchsafe thereunto our Commendation to be written by vs in Verse as also our Royall Priuiledge to the Impression of them We haue thought fit to affoard both those fauours to your singular good Deserts and admirable Learning whereof wee are not now to take notice by other mens report or by the only view of your Writings hauing in presence with our owne eyes and eares been made spectator and hearer in that very House or Tower erected and dedicated by you vnto Vrania the Heauenly Muse where We receiued such content by that goodly spectacle by the learned conference which you had with vs that it is hard to determine whether be greater the delight or the admiration wherewith we now call the same to remembrance c. Then followeth the Tenour of the Kings Priuiledge that none for the space of thirtie yeeres within the Dominions of Scotland presume to Print the said Workes without the consent of the said Tycho or his heyres This Letter of Priuiledge is dated from his Maiesties Court in Halyroodhouse that last of Iuly 1593 in the sixe and twentieth yeere of his Raigne Then the Latine Verses with this Title The commendation of Tycho Brahe his Astronomicall Treatises by Iames the 6. King of Scots In which verses after the description of the artificiall modell of the motion of the Planets fixed Starres represented in those incomparable engines erected in that house by Tycho Brahe followeth also the intent of Astrologicall prediction in these words Vt miti aut torvo aspectu longe ante futura Praemonstrant Regnisque Tonans quae fata volutet Tychonis pandunt operae Lege disce videbis Mira domi Mundum invenies Caelumque libello c. Iacobus Rex F. manuque propria scripsit Great Tycho's labours also doe foreshow Events which shall befall on earth below And by disasterous or faire aspects What destinyes on Kingdomes God directs Reade heere and learne If you for wonders looke Loe heere the world at hand the heavens by booke Made by King Iames and written with his owne hand Tycho in this his booke after generall observations of the motions of the heavens treateth at large of this much admired newe Starr whereupon that whole Treatise is intitled De nova Stella anni 1572. giving the description of the forme place motion and durance thereof and demonstrating out of his owne and other Astronomers experimentall observations that it was not seated in the aire but aboue in the throne of the highest Heavens being fixed in the very chaire of Cassiopeia a figure of Starres so called he very certainly concludeth that it could not possibly be any Comet supposed to arise out of the vapours of the Earth elevated into the vpper Region of the ayre according to the vulgar errour of some Philosophers but that it was a true and proper Starr made of heavenly matter being none of the originall first borne lights made by the hand of God in the Creation which possesse an indefeisible freehold of their station to the worlds end but a kinde of adopted childe of the heavens admitted onely for a Termer in that habitation which he possessed about sixteene Moneths This Starre as it was scituated in that part of the heavens which is called via lactea the milke white way so it is not vnprobably supposed by Tycho to haue beene composed of the matter of that part of the heavens Wherein Tycho avoweth that he beholdeth since the vanishing of that Starre a kind of vacuity or diversity of colour in that very place where the Starre stood as shewing the consumption and absence of so much white ethereall matter as was vsed to the composure of that Star By some it was deemed to be the very same Starre which appeared vnto the Sages of the East at the birth of our Saviour and thereupon coniectured to be the neerefore-runner of the second comming of Christ as that was the attendant of his first comming Accordingly as Tycho in this booke recordeth Vir admodum celebris de literis tam sacris quam philosophicis praeclare meritus de hac stella eleganti Epigrammate sic lusit Theodore Beza a man famous in this age for his great abilities in learning both of Humanity and Divinity made an elegant Epigram which thus endeth Et qui nascenti praeluxit nunciat idem Ecce redux reducem rursus adesse Deum Hinc igitur felix ô turba applaude piorum Tu vero Herodes sanguinolente time That lampe which
those for whom God had provided it The flying enemy was shrowded by the black mantle of the night so that the conquering King could not further pursue his Victory till the next morning when drawing out a thousand horse he in person followed them eight Dutch myles cutting off 1000 of the foot and taking prisoners 3000 more The losse on Tyllies part is esteemed at 18000 whereof slaine 8000 and taken prisoners 10000. The losse on the other part not aboue 1200 men as by the more strange truer Computation is avowed The Kings Motto or Word was Deus nobiscum God on our side Tillies Word Sancta Maria Saint Marie I think more foreboading coniecture might haue been made out of the vnequall counterpoise between these two tutelary Patrons or protectors then out of the auspicious flying of a great troop of birds in that field by some observed vpon that very morning instantly before the Armies set vp their rest in the place namely overflying the place of Tillyes army and lighting in the place of the King of Swedens army The ancient Latines called that augustum which was bonis avibus gestum acheived according to the foresignification made by the lucky and prosperous flying of birds and in that sence may this victory be called augusta though contra ipsum Augustum in his principall commander of his forces defeated and ruined Some haue obserued the symbolizing and easy transmutation between the names Augustus and Gustavus inferring thence that whereby his friends would heap vpon him more glory and perhaps his enemies more envy But those that looke vp higher to reade Characters written in the Heauens and guilded with the beames of new Stars will not so low and vpon so light ground as Anagrams are lay the foundation of predictions and therfore neither will we insist vpon that menacing sentence Te debellabit aversus DEVS denoting the SVED And because the late coniunction and association between him and the Duke of Saxony hath bin is a strong means of the late further growth of his streÌ„gth and progress in Victories it is here to be obserued and accounted no small part of the fore-spoken alterations that the said Duke formerly being a kind of dormant Neutral therby giving way to the encroachments of the enemy is now awaked not only seeth the danger whereunto the Liberties of Germany were cast but also reacheth forth his helping hand and ingageth his strength toward the recovery of the ancient iust Liberties therin commenting by action vpon the Prognosticall speculations writteÌ„ about sixty yeares agoe by Paulus Grebnerus a man of the same Astronomicall profession with our Tycho Brahâ— but what authoritie or reputation his writings deserue I leaue to the iudgment of others Penes authorem esto fides This Grebner wrote a lâ—rge book of predictions which he is said to have given to Queen Elizabeth our late Soveraigne of blessed memory The originall wherof written by the hand of the Author was by the worthy and Reuerend Doctor Nevil giuen and put into the Library of â—rinitie Colledge in Cambridge whereof hee was Master and a most generous and edifying Benefactor vnto it In the 261 page of that Book he thus Bohemia Tumultus et bellicosos strepitus magna cum defectione suorum sentit Tempore ill Caesar Electoris Saxoniae naso Hispanica fraudulenta dolosa blanda insidiosa imponit conspicilla quorum naturaÌ„ tandem ipse pernâ—scit proprioque edocetur experimento quod haec Austriaca conspicilla poppysmata et phalerata verba sceleratae et proditoriae sint practicae quibus si vltra fidem habere duceret seipsum conjugem natos vniversos Christianismi confederatos in perniciosum praecipita et exitium What revolt of Bohemia may here be intended let others make construction but sure this present Duke of Saxony being now himselfe a grand agent both in opposing Tilly and also since that in vnyoaking the chiefe City Prague with other Townes in Bohemia demonstrateth that he hath recovered the right vse of his eyes by casting away those false Spectacles which were put vpon his nose by some cunning hand Out of this Grebner diverse other parcells haue bin transcribed and much enquired after as applyable to these times and to the mutations present or probably expected in Germany and other countreys But I forbeare inserting them because they conteine confused and ambiguous matter and may happily seeme as well to poynt at other times as this in which Sâ—ecus felicisimo successu classe suo populo terra marique in hostem vtetur The Swed shall with most happy successe employ his Navy and people by sea and land against the enemy Yet verily the attribute of felicissimus successus may by this Gustavus for the vnmatchable prosperity of his attempts be challenged as a proper Character in which neither any other Swed nor man for many ages can pretend partnership with him much lesse eminency aboue him Whilest these things are vnder the pen the further processe of his victories comes to our eares and among the rest his entring of Francâ—ford vpon the Mein being the chiefest Mart-town of Europe and the seat of the Crowne of the Emperor Which Towne he rather won by loue and respect to his honour then subdued by force The gates whereof willingly opening to admit him he made entrance thereinto the seventeeth of November Through which Towne he passed with all his army in aray but with so good order and discipline without violence or wrong to any of the inhabitants that it seemed rather a pomp of a natiue King then an enforcement by a foreiner Of this and the like his seisures or entries into the many other yeilding cities and townes it may be said that he speaketh by action what formerly was vttered by the pen of one of his predecessors Theoderick King of the Gothes sharer in Roman Empire with Iustinian He in one of his Rescripts or letters Missiue thus Aliorum forte Regum praelia captarum civitatum aut praedas appetunt aut ruinas nobis propositum est Deo iuvante sic vincere vt subiecti se doleant nostrum dominium tardius acquisisse Warrs vndertaken by other Kings for the most part tend to the destruction or sackage of those cities whereof they get the mastery but our purpose is by Gods assistance to conquer in that manner that the subdued may think themselues ill apayed that they did no sooner cast themselues into our hands Add we hereunto for conclusion of this present application the happy protection which hath accompanied him in the midds of extreame dangers which argueth that the hand of Gods providence hath both appointed safe conducted him to become an instrument of great mutatioÌ„s in melius for the bettering the estate of some parts of Christendome Warfare is to all militant men a perpetuall contexture of the netts of danger but most to Princes vndertaking in person With this enemy hath this King