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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

till they drink and then can much less rest till they die It is a fools paradise and wilful unquietness 2 Ambition is still climbing but not on Jacobs ladder for the higher it mounts the farther it is from heaven yet this sin doth ambitiously insinuat among the best as Satan among the children of God Joh 1. It crept into the very hearts of Christs own disciples they strove as Lycophron who should be the greatest Let kinsfolks through a wood thy torn limbs rake As him at Thebes whose grandsire was a snake Pentheus grand-child of Cadmus that was turned into a Snake despising the religion in Thebes established by Bacchus the God of wine notwithstanding the counsel and requests of Cadmus and Athamas with all speed would alter it His mother with his Aunt 's Ino and Autonöe all distracted with the fury of Bacchus supposing Pentheus to be a Bore transfixed him with Javelins and tore him in pieces 1 Noah was first after the flood that planted vineyards and taught men the use of wine therefore some write that of Noachus he was called Boachus Sandys and afterwards by the Heathens Bacchus by contraction or ignorance of Etymology 2 Nothing as King Pentheus well perceived can more please the vulgar then Innovation of government and religion to this they do throng in multitudes 3 Wise Princes should rather endeavour to pacifie then violently oppose a popular fury which like a torrent breaks all before it but being let alone exhausteth it self and is easily suppressed Reformation is therefore to be wrought by degrees lest through their too forward zeal they encounter too strong opposition and ruine themselves and the cause as this Pentheus did 3 The blind rage of superstition extinguisheth all affection Agave murders her own son and their Aunt their Nephew Nor have the latter ages been unacquainted with such horrors Or as th' imperious wife of Lycas thou Be dragg'd by Bulls along a mountain brow Lycas King of Boeotia first married Antiopa she was got with child by Epopus and was brought to bed of Zethus and Amphion whom she fathered upon Jupiter Dirce second wife to Lycas caused Antiopa to be bound with chains by prayer to Jupiter her chains are loosed and she freed her sons drag Dirce at Bulls tailes the Gods turn her into a fountain 1 Many sin willingly as Antiopa and lay the blame on God whereas God tempteth no man to that which he hateth forbiddeth and punisheth but every man is tempted of his own lust 2 Adultery overthrows whole families Antiopa was the cause of her own divorce and imprisonment or her husbands death and the murder of Dirce. 3 In distress as Antiopa pray unto God he will not onely loose thy chains and open the prison gate as to Paul and Sylas but in the end he will loose the chains of death and open the prison of the grave 535. As th' Harlots to her sisters husband let Thy tongue cut out fall down before thy feet Tereus ravished Philomela his wises sister and cut out her tongue Progne revengeth it by killing their son Itys Tereus is turned into a Lapwing Philomela into a Nightingall and Progne to a Swallow of this read more before 1 Pausanias observeth that no Nightingall doth sing nor Swallow build in Thracia as hating the countrey of Tereus But where Swallows build the Archietecture of their nest is admirable and to rob it or pull it down was among some people held not onely unfortunate but sacrilegious When cold weather comes and Flies which are their chiefest food be gone they creep into the clefts of rocks or sink to the bottom of a water Mr Burton and Mr Sandys do report that it is not extraordinary to draw Swallows out of some ponds with the fish which do seem dead but being put in a stove or to the fire they revive and take them to their wing As Blesus that knew Myrrha dull'd to a tree So childless found mayst thou in all parts be Blesus it seems first knew the virtue of the Myrrhe tree for he was childless And Dioscorides saith that Myrrhe openeth the Matrix and helpeth child-birth and why not child-begetting Ovid here wisheth Ibis that though he should change many climats and many wives yet he should still be childless Which doubtless is an heavy curse and reproch to man as Barrenness among the Jews was to a woman For he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them See more of Myrrha before 1 Myrrha is feigned to be turned into a tree because after that horrid fact in the fruition of her own fathers bed she ever after hid her self and though unsensibly she shed bitter tears for her transgression signified by the gumme distilled from that tree 2 This tree doth prosper the better when the root is boared and distills most juyce in blustering winds So an upright setled mind remains immoveable and I bears most fruits of virtue in the stormes of envy and affliction appearing more comfortable and glorious being oppressed Virescit vulnere virtus Let busie Bees fix in thine eyes their stings 540. Such creatures to Achaeus did like things Achaeus devising a Poem in his garden was stung in the eyes with bees and so made blind 1 Thus envious enemies of the Gospel of peace as busie bees or rather wasps put pricks in our eyes to blind us that we might not see the truth But behold and tast that honey-like comfort of the sweet singer of Israel They came about me like bees yet they are extinct as the fire among the thornes for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them Nay they will destroy themselves As wheresoever a bee stings she leaves her sting behind and then turns a buzzing idle drone despicable to all ingenious industrious bees Fixt to a rock gnaw'd be thy bowels as He to whom Pyrrha brothers daughter was Prometheus brother to Epimetheus that was father of Pyrrha for his bringing fire out of heaven unto earth was bound on the hill Caucasus where an Eagle fed upon his heart 1 Menander the Greek Poet thinks that Prometheus was thus tormented not because he brought fire from heaven but because he bought woman which is worse into the earth 2 Our daily labours be refreshed by sleep at night as Prometheus heart Cura cor urit Renew the pattern of Thyestes meat Thee like Harpagus son thy father eat Harpagus because he killed not Cyrus as his grand father King Astyages had commanded him was invited by the King to a feast where Harpagus own son was the chiefest dish being killed and his limbs sod and rost Read this history at large in Justin l. 1. So was Thyestes served by his brother Atreus Good Authors do relate this of Harpalice who being forced by her father Clymenus when she was delivered killed the child and made it for her fathers table Of Thyestes read before 1 Maugre all the bloudy malice and preventing plots of Astyages Cyrus his grandchild and

best Saints was advised by his Ghostly Father to drink a little wine 1 Tim. 5. Why then should the dry Goatly Fathers of his Holiness rob their Lay-children of their due share in that cup of blessing in the Sacrament They may as well make them vow with the Reckabites not to drink wine for ever 345. Oetous and Dragons son in law be thy fate Tissamens Father and Callirhöes mate 1. Hercules suspected by his wife Dejanira that he loved Iole more then her sacrificing on the hill Oete in a garment dipped in the bloud of the Centaur Nessus sent as a token by his wife fell mad and burned himself 1 Womens Jealousie is like their Lust and both like the fire of hell unquenchable Some think that Dejanira sent her husband that token not in revenging hate but to gain his love So often an ill event follows a good intent Thus a cockering mother kills her best beloved child with kindness Thus the Ape by hugging strangles her dearest darling 2. Athamas husband of Ino daughter of Cadmus that was turned to a Serpent having in his madnesse killed his son Learchus at last killed himself 1 Unreasonable creatures do not onely procreate but preserve their issue why then should man be so mad with reason to murder his own child 2 Let us strive to give deadly wounds to our sins those bastards begot by the Devil upon our flesh Happy is he that can dash these Babylonish brats against the stones 3. Senec. Trag. Orestes father of Tissamenus son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra having killed his mother that committed adultery with Aegysthus fell mad 1 If a parent sins how dare a child or any private person take up the publick sword to punish This Matricide Orestes ran mad after the fact Parricides voluntarily are mad before The end of such is by their own or by anothers hand 4. Alcmeon husband of Calirhoe going to his other wife Alphesthaea whom he had deceived for a jewel was slain by her brothers 1 Polygamie is double Misery One may as easie serve two maste●s as please two wives One at once is enough if not too much 2 Achans golden wedge procured his untimely death Covetousness endangereth body and soul Thy wife to thee no chaster prove then she Of whom old Tydaeus might ashamed be Diomedes son of Tydaeus married Aegiale whom Venus caused to make her body common because her husband happened to hurt Venus when she defended Aeneas 1 An adulterous wise is Acteons park dispal'd a whole pound of Harts-horn infused in Nectar will scarcely cure her husband of the head-ache The urine cast by scolding Zantippe upon the head of her husband Socrates was less dangerous then an harder thing A loose wife makes her husband horn-mad and heart-sad Faelix quem faciunt aliorum cornua cautum Or Locris lass that with her husbands brother 350. Lay and kill'd her maid the fact to smother Hypermnestra of Locris lay with her husbands brother and killed her maid to make the world think that she not the mistriss was guilty of the offence 1 Sin scornes to go alone Adultery hath Murder waiting at her heels she that dares destroy her own soul by Adultery will not stick to destroy anothers body by Murder 2 Committing a second sin to cover the first is to take a remedy worse then the disease Boyes will excuse the fault of Treuantnes by the sin of lying Adam to quit himself will lay the fault on God The woman Thou gavest me c. Gods grant thy life be faithless and so bad As Taläus and Tyndar's son in law had 1. Amphiaräus husband to Eriphele daughter of Talâus one of the seven Kings that besieged Thebes at first for fear of the war hid himself his wife for jewels discovered him he went to the siege and there was slain 1 An army of valiant Lions led by a cowardly Hart is not so prevalent as an army of Harts led by a Lion Like Captain like company 2 God made husband and wife one flesh No man ever yet hated his own flesh but woman doth hers The Philistines could not plough without Sampsons Heifer He was never taken but by means of a wife Neither can the Devil tempt us to evil without the Dalilah of our own flesh We have good cause then to pray in the sense of the Spanish proverb O Lord deliver me from my selfe 2. Agamemnon husband of Clytemnestra daughter of Tyndarus returning from Troy was killed by his own wife and her Adulterer Aegysthus 1 My own house should be my castle of defence not offence Women chiefly a wife should be not woe to man but a helper 2 A sheep shunning a storm shelters under a bush where he loseth his fleece perhaps his life So the foolish fish leaped out of the frying-pan into the fire A window wholly opened brings in less dangerous cold then a small chink Open enemies abroad overcame not this royal Agamemnon but that bitter-sweeting his wife at home Or Belus Neeces that did dare to kill Their Husbands Therefore carry water still Fifty daughters of Danâus son of B●lus marr●ed to fifty sons of their uncle Aegyptus Ovid. Met. in the first night killed all their new husbands but one wherefore they are condemned to draw water in hell till they fill a sieve or a pitcher full of holes 1 Husband-mens toyl is like these wenches their work is never at an end 2 Learn with the one sister Hypermnestro rather to obey the command of your Heavenly then Natural or Civil fathers 355. With lust of thee thy sister burn and be True but in vice as Biblis Canace 1. Biblis daughter of Miletus and Canace lustfully loved her brother Caunus Natal Comes travelling many Countreys and not finding him she dissolved into a fountain the monument of her punishment and perpetual sorrow 1 Here we may observe the impotency of passion and wicked affection Woman is naturally of a more cold complexion and tempered with less impudency then Man yet that devillish Cupid findeth the weaker vessell to be the fittest instrument to kindle his fiery darts 2 It is true that Cain and his sons out of necessity married their own sisters which was afterwards forbidden by the law of Nature acknowledged by all Nations Justin But Cambyses perswaded by his sycophants that a King was liable to no law durst infringe it Nay among the Romans Claudius was the first that married his Neece Tacitus 2. Canace daughter of Aeolus brought forth a child begotten by her own brother Macareus her father discovering the child by the crying going to nurse killed it with his doggs 1 All kinds of sin by the law of Heathens so by the law of God were accounted equal yet by the laws of Man Fornication is a great sin Adultery greater Incest greatest of all in that kind A great folly was committed in Israel when Judah lay with Thamar his daughter in law Gen. 38. A greater when Ammon defiled his sister

Paris son of Primus King of Troy took away Helena wife of Menelaus a Grecian King and kept her in Troy therefore the Grecians besieged the city and in the tenth year of their siege burned it 1 Woful experience hath taught us by too many a short siege what lamentable effects a long one will produce Lord defend our Troynovant In wars without send us peace within As Paeans son club'd Hercules his heyre So in thy thigh a poyson'd ulcer beare Philoctetes son of Paean swore to Hercules dying on the hill Oe●e that he would never reveal his grave to bind which trust Hercules gave him his arrows Without these arrows Troy could not be stormed Philoctetes earnestly sollicited by Ulysses would not express by words but gave signs with his foot where Hercules was buried Philoctetes carrying those arrows towards Troy was wounded by one of them in that part which divulged the secret 1 In trust be just if thou be executor performe the will of the Testator Much more let Christians keep the covenant in the Testament of Christ on their part 2 Without the arrows of Hercules Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Gods judgment for sin souldiers besiege us in vaine 3 Equivocate not as Philoctetes did and Papists do by words nor by signs or tokens 4 Though treason prevaile the Traytor is punished 5 God punisheth the member that sinneth as Dives tongue and Philoctetes foot Be vex'd no less then he that Hind did suck Who by an unarm'd man being arm'd was struck Telephus son of Hercules and Auge King of Mysia was nursed by an Hinde hindring the Grecians army to pass through his Countrey towards Troy he was wounded by Achilles in his thigh nothing could cure the wound but the rust of the same spear that gave it which Telephus desired and obtained But some conjecture that he was cured by the Magnetical oyntment applied to the spear 1 It is no piece of safe policy in a Prince to suffer a forreign Prince to enter into his territories For give him an inch and he will take an ell 2 If an army be terrible to a great kingdome what may it be to a small Countrey 3 They say the love of a Lady that wounded the heart can cure it as Achilles his spear did Telephus doubtless our offended God can wound by his darts of judgments and cure us by his salve of mercy 255. Or who in forreign parts from horse fell dead Whose beauty had his life endangered Bellerophon a comely person being falsly accused of Antaea or Stenobaea wife to King Praetus for tempting her chastity was sent by Praetus with Letters to Jobas desiring that he would kill him he employs him against the Solymi Chimaera and Amazons by the help of the winged horse Pegasus he overcometh them all For which noble acts Jobas gave him his second daughter and half his kingdome Antaea hearing of this hanged her self Bellerophon proudly mounting his horse towards heaven fell off and died 1 Note the malice of an harlot missing her aime she will plo● thy undoing Thus Potiphars wicked wife abused honest Joseph but providence will alwayes preserve the innocent and bring to a shameful end their persecutors A good Conscience like a brasen wall retorteth all false accusation upon the head of the enemy 2 Christians must fight against Solymi Chimaera and Amazons the world the flesh and the Devil and raise their souls on the wings of meditation as a Pegasus up to heaven 3 The Proverb is fully verified in Stenobaea Harme watch harme catch Envy not prevailing turnes fiercely upon it self 4 Some do physically take Bellerophon for the moysture of the earth exhaled by the Sun and falling down again but the morality of this story may be this Pride will have a fall Or like Amyntors son be thou struck blind And trembling grope with staff thy way to find Phoenix son of Amyntor by his Mothers advice lay with his Fathers Concubine for which bold attempt his Father cursed him he flying to Peleus was made Tutor of his son Achilles he is reported to have first invented the Greek Letters but at last he was struck blind 1 Climb not thy fathers bed with Phoenix and Reuben lest a curse befall thee 2 Follow not thy own mothers counsel to do evil 3 Take heed to thy wayes and incur not a parents imprecation for it happeneth too often very fatal See thou no more then whom his daughter led 260. That kill'd his Father did his Mother wed Oedipus son of Laius King of Thebes and Jocasta whom the Oracle foretold should kill his Father and marry his Mother as soon as he was born was by his Father delivered to his shepherd to be killed the shepherd pittying him bored two holes in his feet whence he gain'd the name of Oedipus that is swollen-foot and hanged him on a tree Phorbas the King of Corinths shepherd found him and gave him to his Queen being then childless when he came to mans estate he unawares killed his Father and married his Mother which when he once knew he plucked out both his eyes and was led by his own daughter Antigone 1 Let not childless parents repine or be impatient better want then have a son like Oedipus 2 Too many by ill courses bring their fathers gray hairs with sorrow to the grave Therefore Augustus Caesar wished that he never had been married or never been a father 3 Oedipus repenting plucked out his eyes Eyes are the holes through which sin enters into the soul yet we must not follow his example when our Saviour bids us pluck out the offending eye the meaning is that it is better lose an eye then a soul better to part with a sin as dear as thy eye then lose heaven Or that old Judge i' th' merry case of Jove That famous in Apollo's art did prove Tiresias son of Udaeus one of the five captaines that survived the unnatural war of Cadmus killing of a female Serpent was turn'd to a woman long after killing a male was turned into a man againe Being a fit and elected Judge betwen Jupiter and Juno he gave this sentence That the woman had nine ounces in the vigor of Love and the man but three therefore Juno deprived him of his sight which Jupiter supplies with the gift of Prophesie 1 Histories if we may believe them tell us that some women have been turned to men not men to women 2 Tiresias judgment between Jupiter and Juno was in this kind just as Jupiter is taken for the element of fire and Juno for the air For the air confers thrice as much as the fire to the generation of vegetables moysture yielding the chiefest part of the materials and heat producing form and maturity Nor without cause among Grammarians are the two superiour elements Fire and Air of the masculine gender and the two inferiour Earth and Water Feminine because the superiour have predominancy over the inferiour as the husband hath or

should have over his wife 3 As Tiresias was both male and female so are turn-coats hodiè mihi cras tibi to day mine to morrow thine So is the multitude Neutrum modò Mas modò vulgus 4 Many that are blind in body are quick-sighted in their mind as Tiresias 5 When a great power as Juno doth oppress us a greater as Jupiter may relieve us Saepè premente Deo fert Deus alter opem Lucian reports that Tiresias is feigned to be male and female among the Grecians because he divided the wandring stars into male and female Or he be whose devise a Dove was guide Where Pallas ship should on the Ocean ride Phineus son of Agenor had by Cleopatra two sons Orythus and Crambus whose eyes by the counsel of his second wife Idaea he plucked out in revenge whereof the Gods plucked out his He advised the Argonauts to follow the Dove which Pallas should send and so avoid the rocks called Symplegades 1 Phineus may be feigned to have lost his sight because he was so blind with avarice that he could not look unto himself nor afford necessaries unto life which is contented with a little 2 Stepmothers like Idaea seldome love the children of a former wife Injusta noverca 3 Retaliation is a just judgment of God an eye for an eye 4 Parents that blind their Children with ignorance not allowing them education God will punish so that the blind shall lead the blind 5 Let every Elymas that blind mens souls and draw them from the faith expect not onely corporal blindness but utter darknesse 6 If you will avoid the offensive rocks of schisme and heresie follow the true Pallas Christ the wisdom and the Dove which he hath sent the spirit of truth so will you safely arrive at the haven of heaven Mean time from blindnesse of heart good Lord deliver us 265. Or he whose eyes the infants Gold surpriz'd Which to her son the mother sacrific'd Polymnestor King of Thracia received into his Guardianship with a vast summe of money Polydorus son of Priamus King of Troy whom when Troy was sacked coveting the money he inhumanely killed Hecuba mother of the child sent for Polymnestor pretending to deliver him another summe when he came she scratched out both his eyes 1 Guardians should be defenders not destroyers of their Pupils 2 Covetousnesse is the root of all evil 3 No sin comes single Robbery and Murder will hang together 4 The natural much more the violent death of a child moves a mother to impatience As Aetna's shepherd whose blind fate of old One Telamus Eurymons son foretold Polyphemus was a shepherd on the hill Aetna and chief of the Cyclopes he had one eye in his forehead which Ulysses put out with a fire-brand when he had besotted him with wine after he had eaten four of his men that came to lodge in his cave One Telamus prophesied his misery These Cyclopes made thunderbolts for Jupiter and chariots for Mars 1 Injustice armed with power is most outragious and bloudy but Polyphemus was more savage then the West Indians these eat but their enemies onely he his guests 2 These Cyclopes may be evil spirits whose service God sometimes doth use in raising thunder and stormes to punish the wicked Polyphemus or Beelzebub is the chief he devoured Ulysses men that is man-kind but the true Ulysses Christ pouring into him the red wine of his wrath thrust out his eye restrained his power When Polyphemus the shepherds eye is blind what a blind guide hath the sheep 3 When there was no King in Israel the light was quenched the Eye was out then followed intestine wars and Vulcans sons did work for Mars Like Phineus sons whose eyes one gave and took 270. Like Thamyras and Demodocus look Orythus and Crambus their eyes by their Stepmothers counsel were plucked out by their own father Phineus whom divine vengeance after blinded for his unnatural cruelty and sent Harpyes to eat his meat and defile his table 1 Mark the just judgment of God upon an unmerciful father provoked by the false suggestions of a femal night-crow 2 These Harpyes might be covetous desires not suffering him to eat what was set before him himself polluting it with his own sordid disposition 2. Thamyras or Thamyris a Poet and Musician comparing himself with the Muses for skill was deprived of his harp and sight 1 Boldness puts men forth before their time they run before they are sent like Lapwings with some part of the shell upon their heads so it follows as they began presumptuously they proceed unprofitably and end not without shame every man condemning them of arrogance and ignorance and indeed these are inseparable twins for who is bolder then blind Bayard as the proverb passeth 3. Demodocus was an admirable harper but he was blind 1 No man is so happy to have all gifts no man is so miserable but to have some Of the two I had rather be blind Homer with his acute mind then nimble-eyed Lynceus with his obtuse capacity 2 Note that Ovid wisheth to Ibis not any of these mens good qualities but blindness Let one thy members crop as Saturne that Wherewith his ancient father him begat Saturn son of Coelum and Thetis cut off his fathers testicle● the bloud whereof ingendred the Furies 1 Saturn that is Time cut off the genitals of Caelum that is heaven because the heavens at last shall grow old and by time shall lose the power of generation 2 Gelders of ancient Records Fathers and Scripture rebel against heaven like Saturne and hence proceed those Furies of Heresie Dissention and Schisme To thee let swelling Neptune prove the same As him whose wife and brother birds became Caeyx King of Thracinia son of Lucifer his brother Daedalion being turned to a hawke went to the Oracle promising his wife Halcione to return with speed She seeing his dead body in the sea would have drowned herself but the Gods turned her into a Kings-fisher and him into a Sea-mew 1 When the Halcions lay eggs the sea is calme hence peaceable dayes are called Halcionian or Alcian dayes 2 Alcione was the daughter of Aeolus that could imprison the winds and a dead Kings-fisher hanged up by the beak will turn her belly to the wind 3 The Male and Female accompany all the year not for lust but love I wish no lesse modesty and love in all married people 4 Moderate sorrow for friends is comely immoderate dangerous it made Halcione desperate 5 These Halcions were begot of the Morning-star Lucifer and calmed the sea but some soul birds in the world begot of hellish Lucifer do raise stormes and disturb the sea of the State laying eggs of dissention and fishing in troubled waters 275. Or the wise man on shipwrack'd plank that sat Whom Semele's sister did compassionate Ino sister of Semele advised Ulysses to leave the ship and trust to swimming offering him an immortal ribband to gird his paps he refused her