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A33571	Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker.	Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4843A; ESTC R29228	23,067	74

Cocker's Morals OR THE MUSES Spring-Garden Adorned with many Sententious Disticks Poems In ALPHABETICAL ORDER Fitted for the Use of all Publick and Private Grammar and Writing Schools for the Scholars of the first to turn into Latin and for those of the other to Transcribe into all their various and curious Hands Omne Bonum Dei Donum By Edward Cocker Practitioner in the Arts of Writing Arithmetick and Engraving and published for the benefit of Learners London Printed for Thomas Drant at the Ship in St. Mary Axe and T. L. at the Golden Lyon near the Meal-Market in Southwark Stationer 1675. To my Honoured FRIEND Mr. ELEAZAR WIGAN That Famous Writing-Master Living at the Hand and Pen on Great Tower-Hill LONDON TO you you rare Commander of the Quill Whose Wit and Worth deep Learning and high Skil Speak you the Honour of Great Tower-Hill How said I Honour of Great Tower-Hill Yea all Great London all the World your Skill Will with excessive admiration fill To You th' ensuing Verses I present Whose great Imployments prudent Management Proclaims your Skill and Conduct Excellent Crown them with Rayes of your auspitious Sight Survey them first then let them take their flight For every Learner's profit and Delight Thus round the World you will Vrania send Thus will her spreading Wings your Fame extend And thus you will endear your real Friend Edward Cocker To the Reader IF here you meet with any worthless Line Humanum est errare Stamps it mine But if you find here any Worthy Line It from a Fountain flows that's more Divine So Read as to commit to Memory All Sentences worthy that Treasury And so remember all as that you may In season practice them and so display Their Influence as Honour may redound To GOD and you may be with profit crown'd AGAIN SOme in compendious Epigrams shew forth With charming Artifice their Wit and Worth Some with rich Lines and Emblems well design'd At once affect the Readers Eye and Mind Some in Soul-pleasing Pastorals do prove How Coridon did Amarillis love Some high flown Brains in lofty Strains indite The amazing terrours of some horrid Fight Some with Satyrick lashes of the Pen Anatomize the vicious Lives of men Some with Historick Lines their Readers please Relating Feats and Fights on Land and Seas Some with high Raptures fitted to the Lyre Ingenious Readers well-pleas'd Souls inspire Some with Heroick Strains of noblest kinds And choicest Theams inflame their Readers Minds Some which beyond the rest deserve the Bays Wisely exalt their great Creators Praise With many more whose varions rare Inventions Delight their own and others Apprehensions But I the last and least strive to teach Youths Good Manners and inrich their Minds with truths Edward Cocker A A Christians noblest Ensign is the Cross And all things to belief in Christ are dross Alas what are the Best of Human Race Till their rude Natures are improv'd by Grace All Arts by powerful Industry are gain'd And by continu'd Exercise retain'd Affection make your Servant Will your Slave Passion your Drudge you 'r then a Prince most brave A love to Learning is th' unfailing Clue That leads us Learnings Rarities to view Advance your Plumes be bold yet humbly wise Thus high you may stand firm and low arise A faithful Friend is as the Phoenix rare And who can find where two such Creatures are Action and Virtue if we separate They both into the Aire evaporate Abhor to Navigate in troubled Seas And hate the Company of Sloath and Ease A good Effect may spring from a bad Cause Both cross to Reasons and to Natures Laws Accept a Courtesie at first Rebound And wait not till a second may be found Arithmetick scorning all Bounds and Bars Transcends Earths Sands in numbers and Heavens Stars As by degrees ill Customes have been taken So by degrees they best may be forsaken Ascend not Honours Alpes the price is small Tempt not the danger of a dreadful Fall Although we know our Steps would lead to Woe We find it hard not in those steps to goe Action thou Queen of Virtues what high Praise What Trophies to thy Honour shall I raise It far transcends Man's skill thy Worth to rate All those who Love not Thee their own Souls hate All famous Monuments beneath the Skie Thy Excellence commend and magnifie A healthful Temper you may best advance By Moderation and wise Temperance At other Mens enjoyments to Repine What augmentation will it prove to thine As Tygres vex'd their Spots more plain appear So Men provok'd their Passions Domineer Amendment of concernment is to all Virtues vast Columnes but for this would fall A Suretie is a sure tie he 's most sure Who is from Bonds and Surety-Ship secure Ambition and Presumption mount Men high But if they fall the more 's their misery Abstain from Creature-Comforts all you can And that 's the way to prove a happy Man Amazing heights fondly aspire not to Fools mount and fall the Wise walk safe below Act nothing but what you may safely own And what you need not blush at being known At smallness of Estate never Repine He that hath less would gladly change for thine Artists invested with rare Skill and worth Scorn that their Tongues the same should trumpet forth Always with Honour Fear and Reverence Meditate on th' Immense Omnipotence Adorn your Place if entertain'd in Trust By being Impartial Diligent and Just All you that in fair Writing would excell How much you write regard not but how Well A Gift with a sweet violence entrance makes And the deceiv'd Receiver Captive takes At Board accept what your Friend 's pleas'd to Carve Observe not hastily your self to serve A man would strange to view the distances Of Promises and their Performances A Tongue that 's now rough as the coursest File Can in a moment be more smooth than Oile Always contend not do not always strive For sometimes to Retreat is to Retrive All Scholars these three Lessons much concern Grace and good Manners with a will to learn A Christian contemplating things Divine Enjoys a Pasgah-Sight of Palestine Assume a noble Resolution strain Your Faculties rare Sciences to gain Amorous Embracements and Adulterous fires Abhor and quench hate all but chast desires Arithmetician make your Art appear Compute your Sins Sum-Total for a Year All rare Projections sink though nobly high Projectors wanting Chink for their supply All our Designs in this vain World should tend To future-Hopes this Life will quickly end Affection with Instruction and Direction Are the Renowned Handmaids of Perfection Against that time when Death and Time must die Resigning all up to Eternitie Most solemnly prepare that you may stand Amongst the ever blest on Christ's right hand All God's Commandments are Divinely pure By keeping them men keep their Souls secure Art rarifies the Mind and various wayes Improves dull Nature to JEHOVA's Praise All things are mutable beneath the Skie And nothing constant but

would they prove Learned Men. Learning and the choice Documents of Truth Should be infus'd into us in our Youth Like Tares with Wheat most Mens Expressions be Complements mixt with small Realitie Learning the Learned before Gold prefer Learning not Gold defies the Plunderer Long are we gaining of a small Excellence Which in short time is lost by Negligence Let me be just to all though I sustain Some Loss thereby that Loss will turn to Gain Looseness to Fastness is an Introduction Men Rant and please themselves into Distruction Learn now in your Minoritie those things That may in Age lend your Discretion Wings Let not the choicest Creature Comfort have The Power to denominate thee Slave Lament wild Youth your loss of Blooming Prime Lament your Parents pains their Cost and Care Lament the vain mis-spending of your time Lament th' unhappy State wherein you are Lament Lament because your Lamentation Except you timely turn and that even now Can firmly promise you no Restoration Of these lost Pearls whose price you do not know M MEn that are gen'rous humble just and Wise The Pageantry of the vain World despise Man's mind as Master should right reason have And evermore hold Passion as a Slave Men for this Worlds poor Riches are at strife Neglecting those of everlasting Life Merchants who plow the Foaming Main their main Concerns must mind nor slight the smallest Gain Most who are Rich and Great and can command Command Inferiours with Imperious hand Men Ignorant ascribe that Influence To Fortune which proceeds from Providence Mens promises by their performance measure Like Gypsies Knots they 'r fast or loose at pleasure Men oft at Banquets more advantage gain Than at those Battails where are thousands Slain Misfortunes seldom come alone but have Their followers as Wave rowls after Wave Many have vain Loquacitie lamented But none their prudent Silence have repented Mount mount brave Soul assend above the Spheres Of common reason and inferiour Sence Court Arts improve thy parts till there appears The Quintessence of their prime Excellence Many mean Persons might become Brave Gallants If prudently they would imploy their Talents Men who in verbal Sounds do least abound Are always found to be the most profound Millions of Inconveniences Surprize Us because we are our own Enemies Man's little little World transcends the Greater 'T is strange that this Compendium's the Compleater Man is a thing of nought yet from above There dart upon him such strong Rays of Love Like Sol's refulgent Beams that they refine His Rubbish Nature to a Golden Mine Much Reading much the insight does improve The Ey-sight too much Reading does not Love My Admonitions to my Loving Friend Shall for no End begin and have no End Men fain would be thought Virtuous though they Still Steer their Course the quite contrary way Men promise fair perform not in this Sence Exuberance is turn'd to Indigence Man's greatest Wealth lyes in contempt of Wealth And next to that his greatest Wealth is Health Mars his bold Son is for the Field or Sea An Academy is the Scholar's share The Tradesman in the City loves to stay The Country hath the Husband-mans chief Care The Marriner is for a Ship or Port And the gay Gallant glisters in the Court. Might we assend to Excellence sublime Without a careful management of Time Thousands would then to Excellence attain That are unworthy of one Dram or Grain But Excellence is seated on a Throne Above the reach of every Dunce and Drone Meum Tuum backt with hopes and Fears Have thousands set together by the Ears More confidently none themselves advance Than the unworthy Sons of Ignorance N NAture to Reasons School comes to be taught All the most curious works that can be wrought Nor Gold nor Pearls nor Gems of highest rate Can equalize a Self-conceited Pate Notional knowledge is of slender use That 's best which we to Practice can reduce Nectar Ambrosia and the Thespian Spring May all avant for Mony is the Thing Nor Fume nor Fret nor Stamp at things amiss That 's not the way to mend them Patience is No Rule no Line found out since time began Could Gauge or Fathom the vast heart of Man Nothing can more to my improvement tend Than the reprovement of a loving Friend Never do well that ill may come thereon Never do bad that good may thence accrue Never do ill that ill may thereupon A curs'd Effect from a curs'd Cause ensue But evermore do Good that Good from thence May Spring and Magnifie Heav'ns influence Noblest Examples with good Education Of Virtues Fabrick are the firm Foundation None others more defame or more advance Themselves than the blind Sons of Ignorance Nimble Prevention from a danger flyes But dull delay proves Slave to the Surprize None mourn the loss of transitory things But such as never heard that wealth has Wings No wonder if the best Men sometimes fail Since all are Mortal and their Natures frail Not many Words but few exprest in season Proclaim the Noble strength and force of Reason No kind so unkind to their Kind we find As Man-kind unto Man-kind is unkind No Crosses can so much our Passions move As those that Cross us in the Things we love Nor Bears nor Boars nor Wolves nor Tygres can Be more sharp Foes to Man than Man to Man No Chains so strong hath Fortune as can bind The inclinations of a Noble Mind Now Bend your mind fair Writing to attain Your present pains will prove your future Gain No Charm so powerful was ever known As Love to make anothers heart your own Not Riseing early nor our Working late Will do 't there is in things a secret Fate Not for dull gentle Readers but for those Who Read and practice we these Lines compose O OThers to Virtue Poets do excite By intermixing profit with Delight Of Mischief he shuns many a Rock and shelf Who learns betimes to learn to know himself One thing there is for which all men contest From Age to Age that is Self Interest On this Worlds Stage a wise man would not stay Longer than he can Act his part o' th' Play One moments pleasure brought an Inundation On all mankind of pain and lamentation One minutes Show'r of penetential Brine Transcends the Treasures of a Golden Mine Omission of good Works and the commission Of bad involve Men in a sad Commission One small Dram of good Life excells a Pound Of humane Learning though the most profound Our chearin Sun our Glory and Delight Are soon inveloped in shades of Night Old Friends to trust old Gold to keep old Wine To drink are a solacious good old Trine Only these two Intelligences move True Friendships Sphere Civility and Love On the Worlds Stage so let me act my part That the wise Head of Solomon and Heart Of David may both seem to Crown my Art Opinion is an Empress and Fame says At least three quarters or the World she