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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

and in the neerest places adioyning vnto Rome that no Ecclesiasticall Policie could stand on foote nor erect publicke Churches and consequently no Mitred Bishops to solemnize or order the affaires of that spiritual Common-wealth in any complete forme no more then at this day we see in France a few places onely by their Ciuill Warres tolerated Specially in Paris the chiefe Citie they of the Reformed Religion cannot haue any but by permission about two leagues from the Citie they are allowed their Diuine Seruice The like though not so openly those ancient Christians were tolerated to enioy priuately in their Houses as in hugger-mugger at Rome the Capitall Seate of that Empire In processe of time Constantine the Great attained to the Empire who for some causes and principally because he would bee a neerer Neighbour to the Northerne Nations and also to the Persians who infested his State with sundry inrodes and hostile inuasions he was constrained to remoue the Imperiall Seate to Constantinople leauing the Bishop of Rome some power at old Rome whereby in his absence hee might as a Reuerend Prelate with his graue and Christianly exhortations retaine the Citizens in their Alleageance In this sort these good Bishops continued loyall to their Prince and subiect to their Command and to their Successours in the Empire vntill the yeere of our Lord 606. about which time after a great contention for the Primacie betwixt them and the Patriarch of Constantinople which then was called New Rome Phocas by the murther of his Lord and Master Maurice the Emperour hauing gotten the Soueraigntie made Boniface the Third Supreme Bishop aboue all other Bishops and to that end sent forth a Decree that all the Churches in his Empire should obey him as their Soueraigne Bishop which Iurisdiction he held onely in Spiritull matters After this the Emperour Iustine Iustinians Sonne raigned who sent Longinus as his Deputy into Italy to settle the confused state thereof after the expulsion of the Gothes who altered the forme of Gouernment in Rome and abrogated the Senate and Consulary Dignities which till that time continued and carried with it a glimpse of the ancient Maiestie of the Romane State and in steed of them appointed one Principall Gouernour whom he called an Exarch or Viceroy This innouation ministred an occasion to the Lumbards to enter into Italie And then the Citie of Rome felt new troubles But at last Theodoricus King of the Goths by the Popes Counsell remoued from Rome and erected Rauenna to be the Head Citie of his Kingdome and there keeping his Royall Court gaue room to the Popes to flourish in Rome Sometimes they tooke part with the Emperour some other times with the Lumbards accommodating their fortunes warily to the strongest parties liking Thus they continued vntill the Emperour Heraclius his time who being oppressed by the Persians Saracens and Arabians vnder Mahomet was so farre from looking into the affaires of Italy and into the Popes aspiring designes that he found much adoe to defend his neerer territories from those bloudy Enemies and Infidels The Popes watchfull to take aduantage partly by their Religious carriage among the common people and partly by Rewards got themselues to be equall in Power with the Kings of the Lumbards And then Pope Gregorie finding himselfe reasonable strong assaulted Ra●enna the chiefe Citie of Italie and tooke it But being presently expulsed out of it by Astulfus King of the Lumbards hee was reseized thereof againe by succours sent vnto him from Pipin King of France After Astulfus death the Pope falling at ods with Desiderius the sonne of Astulfus hee sent for aide to Charles the Great King Pipins Sonne who in proper person came into Italie tooke Desiderius Prisoner augmented the Popes Dominion and at his motion crowned himselfe Emperour of the West at Rome At which time he againe to requite his good will enacted that from thenceforth the Bishop of Rome as Christs Vicar should neuer more bee subiect to any Earthly Potentate And whereas before that time they were themselues confirmed Bishops by the Emperour at Constantinople now by this new Emperour of the West they began to be of themselues and by their wits got the Emperours to be inuested at their hands This Pope was Leo the third And this notable Accident and alteration fell out about 801. yeares after Christ. After Leo his decease Pope Paschale after the example of his Predecessour Leo who had wrested the nomination of the Pope from the people of Rome and also the confirmation from the Emperour at Constantinople caused those Priests of the Citie who had elected him as the next neighbours to be enobled with a glorious Title and to be called Cardinalls Thus in lesse then two hundred yeares after their Supremacie obtayned from Phocas in spirituall matters the Popes aspired to a Supremacie in temporall affaires not so much for their hypocriticall holinesse as indeed for the Dignitie and repute of the Place and Seat their Citie of Rome hauing beene the Lady of the world and the eyes of all men being fixt on that Place brought at length most Princes of Christendome as Factions grew betwixt them to make profitable vse of their friendship either to appease their Aduerfaries or vnder colour of their Excommunications and Saint Peters keyes to oppresse one another Yea and that which was most strange as Machiauell obserues in his Florentine Historie King Iohn of England vpon the dissention betweene him and his Subiects yeelded himselfe at the Popes dispose when hee dur●● not shew his face in Rome by reason of the Factions of the Orsini and Columneses and of the Gu●●ses and the Gibellines but was faine to translate the Papacie to A●inion in France Whereby our Politicians may gather this remarkable Rule that things which seeme to bee and are not such in very de●d are more feared or regarded afarre off then at home by reason of the vncertaine knowledge which strangers haue of other mens states Thus may all good Christians note by what meanes the Church of Rome arriued to her Greatnesse and how like a Foxe by little and little the Pope crept vp to the double Supremacie which Saint Peter and the blessed Apostles neuer once dreamed nor would our Sauiour Christ by any meanes accept of the Temporall Sword For hee vtterly defied the Deuill when hee motioned vnto him of an Earthly Kingdome And when some purposed afterwards to make him King he forsooke that Coast. To conclude this point of the Popes Supremacie Pope Hildebrand whom some call Gregory the seuenth after much contestation with the Emperour and his Gibellines was the first which triumphed ouer him about one thousand yeeres after Christ. Of whom an ancient Historiographer thus testifieth To this man only doth the Latin Church ascribe that she is free and pluckt out of the Emperours hands By his meanes she stands enriched with so much wealth and Temporall Power By his meanes shee stands inriched with so much wealth and

his lamentation and comforted himselfe It is in vaine and too late for a man to seeke the reuersing of the diuine Iudgement when he hath not the Grace to goe to the Physician before he fall sicke It is a sacrilegious sinne in the Pope to make men belieue that it lieth in his power to redeeme any mans soule from the place where the Almightie hath seated it seeing that hee cannot adde one yeere more to his owne life then is allotted him by the course of nature nor borrow one minute of an houre to allay the pangs of his owne death The very Best haue enough to doe to saue their owne soules without presuming to vndergoe a fruitlesse labour for another man Yea though these three men were among them Noah Daniel and Iob they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnesse saith the Lord God Seeing that Iesus Christ by his death and Passion hath satisfied his Fathers Iustice and makes continuall intercession for the Penitent let none despaire nor trust any other besides this powerfull Mediatour CHAP. XI Gratian the Canonist conuents the Waldenses and Albigenses before Apollo for celebrating diuine Seruice in their Country Language and not according to the Rites of the Romish Church Zuinglius defends their cause by the Authoritie of the Scriptures and of the Primitiue Church Apollo pronounceth a definitiue Sentence against the Pope on the behalfe of the Waldenses and Albigienses NO sooner had Apollo refelled the vse of Popish Pardons inuented of purpose to make good the old saying that Purgatory is a very pick-parse but Gratian the Canonist framed a supplicatiō against the Waldenses and Albigienses wherein he shewed that whereas Ignorance was the Mother of Deuotion and thereupon the Church of Rome to retaine true hearted simplicitie in the bowels of her children had like a politicke Mother forbidden the reading of the Scripture in their Countries language to the intent that green-headed people sowgelders and base Mechanickes should not dispute of diuine Mysteries which surpassed their vulgar capacities yet those rude mountanists Montanae belluae presumed to vnlocke the cabinet of the Bible and to reade Gods Seruice in their barbarous Tongue Whereby much euill contentions and continuall bangling arose of late yeeres among Christians which otherwise might haue lyen couered as fire vnder ashes Zuinglius a notable Diuine of Suitzzerland being deputed by the Waldenses Albigienses to defend their cause stood vp and said with what face can you O Gratian blame these honest men for seeking the surest meanes of Saluation Who will still stand groping in the darke that may enioy the free light of the Sunne Haue not they soules to looke vnto aswell as the Pope himselfe and his Cardinals In reading the Word of God Faith increaseth And the Gifts of the Holy Ghost multiplyeth in relen●ing hearts So that Peace Vnitie and Loue as a ●uster of Grapes doe spring vp together and beare downe the wrangling opposites Neither is it any new Religion which they professe For all your Chronicles can testifie that these people haue departed from the Romish Church and proclaymed the Pope to be Antichrist aboue three hundred yeers before Luther was borne And for the reading of diuine Seruice in a more familiar language they haue the Scriptures for their warrant and the Primitiue Church for a patterne The Prophet Dauid pronounceth that man blessed which studies the Lawes of the Lord and therein exerciseth himselfe day and night Saint Iohn recommends them to the weaker sexe and children as appeares by his Epistle written to the Elect Lady and her children Saint Paul protesteth that hee had rather speake fiue words to bee vnderstood then ten thousand in a strange language And in another place he prayseth Timothy that hee knew the Holy Scriptures of a child Saint Basill in his infancie was instructed in the Bible by his Nurse Macrina Saint Ierome extols Paula a learned Matron for teaching her Maides to vnderstand the Scripture Theodoret speaking of the ancient Christians in his time You shall saith he see euery where the chiefe points of our Faith read and vnderstood not onely of our Doctors but also of shoo-makers Smiths and weauers and of all kind of Artificers not onely of our learned women but likewise of them which get their liuing by their Needles and of M●id seruants not onely of citizens but also of Husbandmen insomuch that you shall be 〈◊〉 among us ditchers and Heardsmen arguing of 〈◊〉 Trinitie of the Worlds creation and of other deep● points of diuinitie Saint Chrysostome called for his Eloquence the Golden mouthed Doctour exhorteth all men to reade the Scriptures Heare me all yee Laymen get yee Bibles which are Physicke for the Soule Or at least wise prouide your selues of the New Testament Saint Paul prophesied that Antichrist should bee consumed with the Spirit of the Lords mouth What is the meaning of this but that hee must bee condemned by the Word of God declared in the Canonicall Scripture Euen by this Testimony the Sword of the Spirit at the bright brandishing whereof the Romish Clerkes runne away like Cowards and flye from them as if they were their mortall Enemies relying in stead of God Spirit vpon the Spirit of man which speaking without such immediate Reuelations cannot but Erre and grossely Erre The consideration of this weightie point enforced Doctor Fisher Bishop of R●chester in his Booke against Luther to wish for some other meanes to put downe the Protestants then the Holy Scriptures Therefore quoth he when Hereticks contend with vs we must defend our cause by some other helpes then by the sacred Scripture In this they verifie the effects of that wonderfull Booke which Saint Iohn in the Reuelation auerred to be as sweet as Honey in the mouth but afterwards bitter in the belly that is to say sweet to read because it promised euerlasting life but for all that bitter in the stomacke when Crosses came to bee digested when they were to forsake the pomps and vanities of this seducing world and specially when that counsell of our Sauiour came to be put in execution Sell all that which thou hast and come and follow mee No wonder then that the Pope and his Cardinalls delighting in temporall glorie cannot abide to try their Controuersies by the euidence thereof but with the hazard of some poore Schollers liues they send them abroad as Frogs out of the Dragons mouth to croke and crake of Antiquitie and Traditions but in no wise to contend with vs by the Bibles Testimonie This Booke proues indeed very bitter to their stomacks who hunt after worldly Preferments While the Bodies of the two Testaments lay despised moth eaten and shut vp in their libraries the Great Men of the world after their massacring in the Cities of spirituall Sodome and Aegypt sent Gifts and Presents the one to the other in token of gladnesse So iocond were worldlings as long as they might do●

smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

Phisicians to take care ouer all the English Sailers which from thenceforth should hazard their liues to the Indies He likewise commanded the East Indies Company to be more bountifull to the poore Widowes whose Husbands chanced to miscarry in their seruice Lastly his Maiestie caused the London Merchants to ioyne together for the prosecuting further of the Northwest passage and for the honour of those braue spirits which had already aduentured their persons in the discouery to ingraue on a brazen Table these verses following and the same to place as a Frontispice on the Delphicke Palace Orbis in Occiduâ latitat via parte sub Arcto Ducit ad Eoum qu● magis apta mare Dux Frobisherus Dauis Hudson et inclitus ausis Buttonus validis hanc petiere viam Cambria non tantum sed et Anglia laudibus effert Te Buttone suis aequiparátque D●ako De quot te memorem saluum euasisse periclis Sint testes Indus Maurus Iērnus Iber. Non glomerata tibi Glacies imperuia ferro Non Hyemis longae nix numerosa nocet Quin tunc vlterius transisses altera naui Obuia succedens sireleuasset onus Albioné mque nouam nobis incognita Meta Tum benc vulgasset per fretanostramaris Neere to the Pole there lurkes within the West A shorter way to saile into the East Braue Furbisher Danis and bold Hudson Sought out this way with the valiant Button Not onely Wales but England rings his name And with great Drake compares our Buttons fame Though Ireland Spaine India and Affrick rage To beare the brunts of his stout Pilgrimage Yet they will prize him more when more they know How he endur'd a winter deep with ' Snow For eight moneths space besides the Icy hills Which Natures eares with strange amazemēt fils And if supplies had come in his distresse New Pillars he like those of Hercules Had raisd but with Plus vltra in the place Where Drakes new Albion waites for Britaines race CHAP. 8. The Merchants of Lisbone doe complaine on the English and Hollanders for trading into the East Indies for Spices Drugs and other Commodities Apollo reiecteth their complaints and aduiseth how they may saile thither with lesser inconueniences then heretosore APollo hauing giuen order to the Inhabitants of Great Britaine to set forwards some Shippes for the discouery of the North west passage word was presently brought to the Portingals that his Maiestie had interessed the Protestants in the Trade of Spiceries Whereupon the City of Lisbone sent to Parnassus foure of their most substantiall Citizens where being arriued they made meanes by Osorius one of their learned Bishops to haue a full Audience of their matter the next Court day which fell out on the fift of Iune last 1626. as Menante the grand Post-master deliuered the last weeke at Paris But Mercurius Gallobelgicus affirmeth otherwise that this weighty cause was discussed on the ninth of Iune Such is the disparity of iudgements and inequality of reports that wee cannot rightly be informed by any of these Currents concerning those passages which happen in our neerest times How much lesse then shall we credit Historiographers of elder ages which haue left vs the occurrences of many memorable affaires which ought to serue as mirrours to posterity Howsoeuer most true it is that the East Indy Cause was decided before the sunne entred into the Tropick of Cancer in this Moneth of Iune last The ground of the Plaintiffes suit was fixed most vpon the Diuision which Pope Alexander the sixt made betwixt the House of Castile and the House of Portingall about 120. yeares past that all the whole world then newly discouered or to bee discouered should equally be shared betwixt them both the East Indies to belong vnto the Portingals and the West Indies to the Castilians the same to haue and to hold to either of the said Nations their Factors and Agents for euer warranted contra omnes gentes Vnder colour of which authenticke Patent they freely inioyed the same vntill the bold English and Hollanders lately intr●ded into their Liberties and haue vsurped many of the Coasts in those rich Countries Apollo not wont suddenly without mature deliberation to order causes of such high consequences sent for Peter Martyr the Author of the Decades and asked him how that Partition became ratified Peter Martyr now a member of the Corporation of Parnass●●s and not daring to conceale the verity of that businesse from the sincere Head of the vertuous Society answered that indeed such a Capitulation was treated of betwixt those Princes and that iust as the said Commissioners intended to diuide the whole world by certaine Lines and imaginary points in the Globe they were quite put out of their agreements by a Knauish Boy who at that time accidentally bathed himselfe in a riuer neere vnto them as they debated of these Lines and hearing the Commissioners varying and wrangling about the drawing of these new Lines he turned his backe side vnto them and wished them to forme the same equally as if they should delineat from the Center of his Ano and so taking the same for a patterne the one halfe should appertaine to the one and the other halfe to the other Vpon which ridiculous interruption the Commissioners being abashed and ashamed that a Childe should touch so seriously vpon their Masters ambition they departed leauing the partition vnperfect Apollo perceiuing that the Portingals drift was to ingrosse the whole Trade of Spiceties as a Monopoly preiudiciall to others of the Christian Profession vtterly misliked their a spiring and greedy purposes and after some bitter exprobration of their Couetousnesse hee framed this speech vnto them In going about to appropriate the whole world to your selues yee seeke to ecclipse the power of the Omnipotent to forestall the wonderfull Art of Nauigation and by keeping backe the Protestants to let the Mahumetans still to ioyne with you in this beneficiall Trade I confesse your Nation deserues to be commended for your discoueries of the Cape of Good Hope vnder Vasco de Gama But afterwards for you to ingrosse into your hands more Coasts and Trades then yee are able to mannage is meere auarice and a wrong to your Creator who happily by these your Neighbours aduentures may in time to come discouer as yet more vnknowne Countries and settle in those remote places the word of God euen beyond New Guiny where more Noble Nations doe yet reside then yee haue found out What greater glory can arriue to this part of the world then to search into the vttermost parts of those Southerne Regions In all ciuill Countries the Inhabitants must as well looke into the Artificiall waies of acquiring wealth as into the naturall meanes abounding in the places of their abode This consists in Corne Cattell Wooll Lead Tinne or in the like Commodities which are ordinarily and without much Art deriued from their natiue Seates The other depends on their industry and more curious skill to work vpon those materialls as

Bacon I will eat Or Pudding nere so blacke of hew or Hare though beauties meat But if you please and stand precise Vpon those Iewish Lawes Your double tongue I le Circumcise Which marres your Clyents cause I worship not false Mahomet Who barres the Ivy signe As ignorant how some haue met In wine the sisters nine Nor Romes good will seeke I to winne Which orders me to plow Red furrowes vp in naked skinne And merits seed to sow Such Grace let Popes graue on themselues And leaue me as I am Who brookes it worse then Egypts Elues The Diuell or his Dam. I count that Church Ba●des Pedlery Which all for money cares Sells Masses Pardons Letchery Soules Beads ô precious wares Though lack a dandy when he houles Frights children from the dugges Will men giue bribes to keepe their soules From Purgatories bugges Though Apes weare coates and some birds p●a●e Not knowing weale from woe Yet sober men though somewhat late Owles Mattins should forgoe I hunt not for more miracles The Gospell to confirme Nor outward shewes Gulls Spectacles To hold my Inside firme The Golden Calfe old Iewes averr'd With manly voice to crake Christs body some are not a●eard From Gods right hand to rake I like as ill the Cloister life Vnlesse a Nunne I schoole Let him that hates an honest wife Be gelt or beg'd a foole No Priest shall cozen me to fast To pull my courage downe If once of Shrift my Wife had tast Or lou'd a grasse-greene gowne At Tombes and Shrines I dare not call On Saints this match to guide Nor Heauens Queene let Idolls all Lye from this mariage wide But vnto ONE that 's alway prone To pardon humane vice I vow them both in Christ alone A lining Sacrifice The Stony-heart who can deny But vnion tender makes Of diffring Tunes an Harmony In spight of Hellish Snake No venome shall their soules defile No dreames no magicke spells Not Crocodile tempt them with guile So sweet Loues Posie smells No Beast shall touch their honey flowres No flashing curse them sindge What God hath set he weedes at houres Gods knot let none infringe With Oile of Gladnesse Bathes of blisse Dipt shines free Maiestie In Albions Throne where Thamesis Extolls their Amitie The Crownes they weare no Fiends can teare S. Michaell guards his owne The Golden Scepter which they beare With Lawes swayes Field and Towne With might maine their mind contends The Dragon to put by Who red with blood at last intends The westerne Monarchy Yet let him reckon with his O●st For his warre-fares wages Not all his Rents in Indiaes Coast Will pay th' arrerages Let none wonder if God Thunder Vengeance for our Iarres While we vnder Sathan wander Himselfe with Dauid warres But reconcil'd he wils to fight His Battells valiantly Though Dauids might Goliah slight On God all Conquests lye Couragious King then bid vs smite Tyrants downe Gyants growne Downe with those Do●s which Britaines spight Tara tantara downe Me thinkes Lisbon I see now wonne Th' Iles ransack't th' Indies sack't And sweet Eliza thought vndone Rein-stald by vs swakt In March like Iune their springs first light Reuiues our Garden beds With louely Roses red and white And Leekes with siluer'd heads The Spirits Gardner will keepe greene With Buddes perpetually Our Rosie King and Lillies Queene On him if we relye Whom last I pray as Pageants gay As Maskes or Gemmes in Gold My Muse to prize though clad in gray My Will though too too bold CHAP. 13. Vpon an Information preferred before the Lady Pallas against Scoggin and Skelton for interrupting S. Dauid in his Sonnet she vtters some obseruations on the behalfe of the Learned and thereby takes an occasion to banish all Scoffing Companions from Parnassus and from becomming at any time after partakers of the Golden Fleece discouered in this Treatise THe next day after this Sonnet was sung in the Amphitheater at Parnassus by S. Dauid Spencer the Emperours Atturney for the English Poets being moued with the vnmannerly and rude interruptions of Scoggin and Skelton informed against them as Libellers before the Lady Pallas who sate as Queene Regent in Apolloes absence These dogrell Rimers confessed their Errour that they were seduced by the Spirit of Detraction to disgrace this Reuerend Prelate as much as in them lay because his Grauity had composed that Sonnet in such a homely straine as seemed more conuenient for men of their ranke then for a venerable Patriarch whose veine ought rather to flow with Heroicall blood then to borrow their plaine robes of Poetizing Vpon this Confession of the Dogrell Rimers ore tenus the wise Regent proceeded and vttered these notable resolutions that Scoggin and Skelton well deserued to be punished as Libellers in that Starre-Chamber-Court First because they had interrupted a person of that high worth and that publikely before they had heard the Sonnet throughly repeated which argued that they did it more out of spleene and pre●udicate iudgement then out of the apprehension of their titulary liberties Secondly that a simple course Poeme inriched with liuely matter and iuyce ought to be preferred before an heroicall swolne verse puft vp with the barme or froth of an inconsiderate wit Thirdly that no man should critickly quote downe the imperfections of any Booke or writing except hee also would note the best and choisest conceits thereof whereby it might appeare in the ballance of vnderstanding that the one did downe-waigh the other For it is easier to finde faults then to mend them to pull downe a house then to build one vp And whosoeuer would marke the worst things leauing the sweetest and most worthy of commendation behinde her Grace compared him to that Foole which forsooke the Rose and smelt to the pricking brier Fourthly that many men vsed to reprehend the works of the learned which their owne muddy Pates could not apprehend nor comprehend because they might seeme wiser to the standers by then the Muses had made them Fiftly that a iudicious Writer should not care what censure a malicious Sycophant gaue of his workes For it were more honourable to bee praised of one Socrates then of a hundred Mo●ists That Scholler therefore which with an Apology defends his innocency against these vipers toungs the most prudent Queen likened him to that hare-braind Traueller which in the scorching Moneth of Iune being troubled with the croaking noise of Frogs would needs light downe from his horse to be reuenged on them for offending of his tender eares All this sayd the noble Queene did our Reuerend Patriarch know when hee went forwards with his Sonnet notwithstāding the crosse-oppositions of these Buffones scorning out of a braue Britaine courage to reuenge himself on such contemtible creatures Neuertheles because their floutes and taunts tended to the breach of Ciuill Orders her Maiestie banished all scoffing companions and base ballet Rimers quite out of the Iurisdiction of Parnassus and Colch●s and for euer after to become incapable