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Vicissitudo rerum An elegiacall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world. The first part.
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Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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the bodies that Nature vpreares Prouing their temper and their temper steres Mong all the creatures that are earthly built Best temper'd stand distemper'd soonest spilt 14. Nay mindes inclines and manners good and bad Proceede some say by moouings and aspects Of Heauens Spheres and Plannets wherewith clad That giue and take and worke the sole effects In Men and Beasts and in all earthly sects All which beginne and end by influence That doth proceede by Heauens concurrence 15. Vertues and vices health and sicknesse too Long and short life force feeblenesse and wit Yea well and ill the Heauens egge to doo All earthly bodies subiect vnto it Humane affayres prayse-worthie and vnfit Depend on these that of themselues are not But stand created to their proper lot 16. Though some prerogatiue aboue the rest They haue An instrumentall meane onely And not the cause efficient confest A fatall Law or of necossitie None holds it so that hath fidelitie Let sacred Wisedome be our studies guide To stay on him that is and will abide 17. The pleasing Sunne with sweete resplending rayes Doth rise and set and yeeldes such influence As earthly creatures glorie in the dayes Not in sad nights that come by consequence The sunnie beames that comfort passed hence Men birds and beasts trees and the hearbes in field Bemone the lacke of what the day did yeeld 18. Whereby wee see the Sunne is held a ghest That with his rayes filles all the fields with glee The plants the hearbs the blossoms and the rest Vnfolde in token of gratuitie Preaching to men the Sunnes benignitie That ayne reuiues their members late neere dead All creatures ioy to see her beames espred 19. The Sunnes ascent and her descent renewes The yeere with change as she comes farre or neere Her course oblique depriues againe endewes The earthly bodies and their powers arere The Solstices and Equinoxes bere As on the wings of th' Zodiackes twelue signes They yeeres foure parts diuided by their lines 20. The Winter with his siluer hayres beginnes When Capricorne receiues declining Sunne As she returnes from Autumne where she lins And with his cold and moysture now begunne Depriues the bodyes of their pride late wonne And all the creatures that of yore grew gay By like degrees doe wither and decay 21. The louely Spring which liuely lends her skill To re'install these creatures in their pride Enters the Ram and equalize she will The Nights and Dayes A moyst and hotter tyde Restoring greene what Winter had vndi'de And yeelds them vigor that were erst decayde All sects reioyce to bee thus re'arrayde 22. Then comes the Summer with her gloornie rayes Imbracing Cancer parching hote and drie Making short nights and the longest dayes The Summer Solstice heaues the Sunne so hie That forthwith she falles and alters by and by The surface of the Earth and all earthly things Thus Time turnes the worlds glasse with silent wings 23. Friendlesse Autumne vnclothes againe apace All that the Spring had clad so fayre before The Sunne in Libra with beclouded face Affords sad nights longer then of yore Depriuing sap and withers by her lore All vegitables and transformes the rest A necessarie but vnwelcome ghest 24. The Yeere thus parted in her qualities Yeeldes great effects vnto the Earths creatures Compounded termed Elementaries As of elementall temperatures Grosse soone decay the purest best endures Exceeding in one qualitie it dies Nought hath true meane that is below the skies 25. The Moone hath secrets in her times effects She swayes the humors ouer which she raignes Increasing decreasing full in aspects Still she disposeth Bodyes and their Vaines In her some mysterie no doubt remaines That worketh wonders by the meane of her Which some affirme so farre in it they erre 26. For shee a creature can yeeld no Euent Compact as other elementall things Her vertue in Decrease and Increment But purer and pure qualities she brings Soring her circuite by diuiner wings And through the force of her high qualities She works in Bodies sundrie faculties 27. As in the Ebbes and flowing of the Deepe By course and by reciprocall retreat Moou'd by the Moone as she her course doth keepe The Ebbe makes emptie Floud againe repleate The Moone in Forme the Sea vnlike in Seate Their like concurrence and like changes shew The Moone and Sea alike to wane and grow 28. The Starres that wander and that fix'd remaine Do cause in ayre great changes Cold and Heate Windes Thunder Tempests and great gusts of Raine And their Aspects and Oppositions met Some strange presages of Euents beget Of Warre of Death of Famine Drought and Pest. Yet nought befalles but by supernall hest 29. Though some affirme that these mutations Of changes and of strange and rare euents Proceede of such like innouations As heauenly bodies and their concurrents Worke in the like compounded Elements And giue them moouing issue and successe As if effects proceeded of the lesse 30. The lesse yet great lesse in respect of one Who mooues the Moouer of these Moouers all He he the swayer of euents alone And sinne the cause that moues these to our thrall That moue and change and cause men rise or fall Not as these will but as the Powers aboue Make them the meanes to checke for change of loue 31. The greatest changes and most rare euents In States in Kingdomes and in greatest sects Are sayd to issue of the Spheres dissents The eight and ninth not by their ioynt aspects Their awkward moouings breede rarest effects Not by their natures inclination But by their motiue trepedation 32. Besides coniunction of triplicities Of Saturne Iupiter and Mars aspecting Are held most powerfull principalities Greatest alterations effecting Their triplicities duely respecting Fierie or ayrie watrie or earthly Th' euent corresponds the triplicity 33 Of such some count seu'n since the world begunne Fiue thousand fiue hundred sixtie two yeeres The eight shall be when foure yeeres more are come By testie of the best Astrologers Presaged thus it may well summon teares That he that rules may moderate his ire Lest World consume with fearefull gusts of fire 34. Seneca reports Belus to foresee The vniuersall deluge e're it came And when the conflagration should be To burne the masse as water drown'd the same When of the Starres such opposition came As one right line might pierce their circles all In Cancer signe this last effect should fall 35. The antique Poets in their Poems tel'd Vnder their fondest Fables mysteries By Phaeton how heauens powers rebel'd In fires force and by the histories Of Pirrha and Deucalion there lies The like of waters impetuitie In part concurring with diuinitie 36. Which hath reueyl'd the Worlds destruction By water past her future fall by fire But holds the cause sinne not coniunction Of fire or waters selfe-reuenging ire The Powers diuine commoue them to conspire To make the earth and earthly bodies nought That doe defile what he so pure hath wrought 37. The Priests