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A57657	Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1962; ESTC R21749	84,753	182

Apollos Temple as soone as he lands in Italy in his devout prayers he makes to Iupiter Apollo Venus and other gods piety also towards his old father in carrying him on his shoulders in bewailing of his death visiting of his tombe going down to hell to see him his love was great to his wife Creusa in lamenting and casting himself into open danger for her his love was great to his sonne Ascanius in the good breeding and counselling of him to Palinurus Mysenus and others his vigilancie in guiding the helme at midnight when his people were asleep his liberality to his souldiers his magnanimity constancie wisdome fortitude justice temperance are fit by all Princes to be imitated and the Aeneads to be diligently read He that would safely passe black Acheron And scape the dangers of hot Phlegeton Must carry with him Wisdoms golden rod Sybill must guide him that 's advice from God So shall he not fear dangers nor miscarry When Styx he crosseth in old Charons wherry What strength of Towns or Castles can withstand Sibyllas head-peece and a golden hand But yet beware of gold I would advise thee For gold ill got will down to Hell intice thee And if thou wouldst true gold and wisdom finde Seek after Christ and on him fix thy minde Be chaste like Doves and let Gods Word instruct thee There are the Doves which will to Christ conduct thee If Kings will fear great Jove who reigns above Then Vulcan Neptune Mercury and Love Shall serve them Juno's spight shall not destroy them Nor Aeolus with all his breath annoy them AEOLUS HE was Iupiters son a King over divers Ilands and reigned in a City walled with brasse he kept the Winds in a cave or hollow hill which at Iuno's request and promise of a marriage with her Nymph Deiopeia he let out against Aenaeas THE MYSTERIES HE is called Iupiters son because the winds are begotten by the influence and motion of the heavens 2. He was an Astronomer and could foretell stormes and calmes therefore it was thought he had the command of the winds 3. His City was said to be walled with brasse because it was guarded with armed men 4. He kept the winds in a hollow cave because some caves be full of vapors which sometimes burst forth with violence 5. He reigned over Ilands because they are most subject to storms 6. Iuno could not sinke Aenaeas his ships without the help of Aeolus neither can the aire violently worke if it be not moved by the vapors which are the winds or else without vapors by the Planets 7. The marriage between Aeolus and the sea Nymph shewes the relation that is between the wind and the sea 8. Hee may be called Aeolus and the God of winds that can curbe and keepe under anger and other unruly passions 9. It is a dangerous state when Iuno and Aeolus that is wealth and power band themselves against innocent men He 's Aeolus a God and not a man That anger can Subdue and keep unruly passions under He 's a wonder He is a King and stronger then the winde That curbs his minde It 's ill when wealth conspires with violence Gainst innocence That State 's a Sea Ships sink or drive on shoare When such storms roare AESCULAPIUS HE was the god of Physick and son of Apollo and Coronis the Nymph whom Apollo shot with his arrowes and cut out the child who was nursed by a goat or bitch as some would have it he relieved Rome from the plague in the forme of a Serpent being brought from Epidaurum in a ship he restored Hippolitus to life therefore was killed by Iupiters thunder THE MYSTERIES A Esculapius is the milde temper of the aire as the a word sheweth which is the effect of the Sun or Apollo and is the cause of health therefore Hygiaea and Iaso that is health and cure are the children of Aesculapius His mother is b Coronis or the due mixture and temper of the aire which because it depends from the influence o the Sun therefore Apollo is said to beget Aesculapius of her but when he killed her with his arrowes is meant that the Sun with his beames did over-heat and infect the aire with a pestilence 2. I had rather understand by this fiction the true temperament of a sound mans body caused by Apollo and Coronis that is the due proportion of the naturall heat and radicall moisture called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the true cause of health Then Coronis is killed with Apollo's arrowes when the naturall heat degenerats into a feverish inflammation and drieth up the moisture but when the heat returns to its former temper Aesculapius that is health is recovered and nourished by a goat because goats milke is good to feed and restore decayed nature 3. By this fiction I thinke is represented to us the properties of a good Physitian he is the son of Apollo and Coronis that is of knowledge and experience knowledge kills experience when the learned Physitian trusts not to experiments but by art and knowledge he cures for indeed in physick experience is little worth for what experience can one have of such infinite varieties of temperaments which are amongst men every man having a peculiar cóstitution which is also still differing from it selfe as Aesculapius was nursed by a goat or bitch so Physitians are maintained by gluttony and venery Chiron Saturns son was Aesculapius school-master for time hath brought the knowledge of physick to perfection or because Chiron being halfe a man and halfe a horse sheweth that a Physitian must be a Centaure that is a man in judgement and a horse in courage it is fit that Physitians should be brought to Rome that is to great Cities infected with sicknesse the Serpent Cock and Raven were consecrated to Aesculapius so was the Goat also to shew that a Physitian must have the Serpents wisdom the Cocks vigilancie the Ravens eye and forecast and the Goats swiftnesse for delayes are dangerous and if Physitians cure desperat diseases they must not be proud and attribute the glory to themselves or skill but to God lest they be punished in his just anger as Aesculapius was 4. Christ is the true Aesculapius the Sonne of God and the God of Physick who was cut out as it were of his mothers wombe by the power of God without mans help and cured all diseases the true brazen Serpent he only who was struck with the thunder-bolt of his Fathers wrath and sent to hell to deliver us from death and hell He that would prove a good Physitian Must be a Centaur that 's a horse and man And he that will keep men from Charons boat Must be a Cock a Crow a Snake a Goat Let him that 's sick and bruis'd who cryes and grones Repair to Christ he 'l heal the broken bones He can do more then Aesculapius Who brought from death to life torn Virbius He first subdu'd death in himself

use of wine THE MYSTERIES BY Bacchus is ordinarily meant Wine which is the fruit of Semele that is of the Vine so a called because it shakes the limmes for no liquor so apt to breed palsies as wine ashes because hot make good dung for Vines therefore Bacchus is said to proceed of his mothers ashes and to be cherished in Iupiters thigh because the Vine prospers best in a warme aire and in a soile most subject to thunder which is caused by heat which is most fervent and thunders most frequent in July and August when the grapes do ripen He was bred in Egypt because a hot aire and mellow soile as Aegypt is is fittest for wine and because moisture is required for the increase of wine therefore he was said to be nursed by the Hyades and Nymphs Hee subdued the Indians either because wine makes resolute souldiers or because most countries are subdued with excessive drinking and abuse of wine and indeed Bacchus may weare the Diadem for he doth triumph over all nations of all sorts of people and professions there be few that with Lycurgus will oppose him his Thirsus reacheth farther than any Kings Scepter or the Roman Fasces if we would see his Orgia or sacrifices his Priests or a Maenades his Panthers Tigers and Lynces with which his chariot is drawen the Satyrs and Sileni his companions with their Cymbals and vociferations we shall not need to go far he never had greater authority over the Jndians than he hath over this Kingdom he once slept three years with Proserpina but we will not let him rest one day The Thebans tore Orpheus for bringing in Bacchus his sacrifices among them and Icarius was thought to have brought in poyson when he brought in wine but the case is otherwise with us if any discommend the excesse of wine he shall have Alcithoes doome she for discommending Bacchus was turned into a Bat and he shall be accounted no better yet I discommend not the moderat use of wine which is Iupiters sonne or the gift of God for it strengthens the body comforts the heart breeds good bloud for which cause Bacchus was alwayes young for wine makes old men look young if it be moderate otherwise it makes them children for so Bacchus is painted he had also both a virgins and a bulls face hee was both male and female sometimes hee had a beard and sometimes none to shew the different effects of wine moderatly and immoderatly taken he was worshipped on the same altar with Minerva and was accompanied with the Muses to shew that wine is a friend to wisdome and learning Mercury carried him being a child to Macris the daughter of Aristaeus who anointed his lips with honey to shew that in wine is eloquence and so likewise the naked truth therefore Bacchus is alwayes naked and if Amphisbaena the Serpent that is sorrow or care bit the heart let Bacchus kill him with a vine-branch wine refines the wit therefore the quick sighted Dragon was consecrated to Bacchus and to shew that much pratling was the fruit of wine the chattering Pye was his bird And because wine makes men effeminat therefore women were his priests he slept three yeares with Proscrpina to shew that Vines the first three yeares are not fruitfull he was turned unto a Lion to shew the cruelty of drunken men he was torne by the Titans buried and revived againe for small twigs cut off from a vine and set in the earth bring forth whole vines He was called a Liber because wine makes a man talk freely and freeth the mind from cares and maketh a man have free and high thoughts it makes a begger a gentleman a Dionysus from stirring up the mind he was the first that made bargains and so it seems to be true by the Dutch-men who wil make no bargains till they be well liquored 2. Bacchus is the Sun who is both Liber and Dionysus free from all sublunary imperfections and freeth the world from darknesse and inconveniencies of the night and pricks forward the mindes of men to their daily actions he is still yong not subject to age and decay naked for he makes all things naked and open to the eye of the author of generation of all things as well as of wine the son of Iupiter because he is a part of heaven and of burned Semela because they thought that the Sun was of a fiery matter he dyeth and reviveth again when after the cold winter he recollects his heat strength and vigour his sleeping with Proserpina sheweth his abode under our Hemisphaer the wilde beasts which accompany him sheweth the extremity of heat with which beasts are exasperated he is a friend to the Muses for by his influence our wits are refined a destroyer of Amphisbaena that is the winter which stings with both ends for at its coming and going it breeds diseases and distempers in our bodies he was painted sometimes like a childe sometimes like a man because in the winter the dayes are short and his heat weak but in summer his heat is strong and dayes are long he is cloathed with the spotted skin of a Deer to shew his swiftnesse and multitude of Stars with which he seems to be covered at night the travels of Bacchus do shew the motion of the Sun 3. Originall sin like Bacchus received life by the death of Eva who for her disobedience was struck with the thunder of Gods wrath and it hath been fomented by Adams thigh that is by generation this unruly evil hath travell'd farther then Bacchus did and hath an attendance of worse beasts then Tygers Panthers c. to wit of terrours and of an evil conscience and actuall sins it hath subdued all mankinde and as Bacchus turning himself unto a Lyon made all the mariners in the ship wherein he was carried leap into the Sea so this sin turned us all out of Paradise unto the Sea of this world 4. Christ is the true Dionysius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the minde of God the internall Word of the Father born of a woman without mans help as the Graecians fable their Bacchus to be and yet they give a credit to their figment and not unto our truth he is Liber who makes us onely free the great King who hath subdued all Nations whose Diadem is glory He hath kill'd Amphisbaena the Devil the two-headed Serpent his two stings are sin and death with the one he hath wounded our souls with the other our bodies he triumpheth over all his foes his body was torn with thorns nails and whips and went down to hell but he revived and rose again he is the true friend of wisdom and learning and who hath given to us a more comfortable wine then the wine of the grape that wine which we shall drink new with him in his Kingdom his lips were truly anointed with honey grace was diffused in them and never man spake

thy honour will due Trophees raise ERYCHTHONIUS THis was a monster or a man with Dragons feeet begot of Vulcans seed shed on the ground whilst he was offering violence to Minerva the virgin which monster notwithstanding was cherished by Minerva and delivered to the daughter of Cecrops to be kept with a caution that they should not look into the basket to see what was there which advice they not obeying looked in and so grew mad and broke their own necks THE MYSTERIES VUlcan shedding his seed on the ground is the elementarie fire concurring with the earth in which are the other two elements and of these all monsters are procreated and by Minerva that is the influence of heaven or of the Sun cherished and fomented though not at first by God produced but since Adams fall and for the punishment of sin 2. Vulcan offering wrong to Minerva is that unregenerate part of man called by the Apostle the law of our members rebelling against the law of the minde of which ariseth that spirituall combate and strife in good men which is begun by the flesh but cherished and increased by the spirit till at last the spirit get the victorie 3. Minerva that is he that makes a vow to live still a virgin must look to have the fierie Vulcan of lust to offer him violence and so he shall never be free from inward molestation and trouble therefore better marrie then burne and if he intertains any unchast thoughts though his bodie be undefiled yet he is no pure virgin as Lactantius a sheweth that Minerva was not because she cherished Erychthonius therefore an unchast minde in a chast body is like Minerva fomenting Vulcans brat he is a pure virgin sayth a S. Hierom whose minde is chast as well as his body and this he ingeniously confesseth was wanting in himself 4. Minerva that is wisdom hath no such violent enemie as Vulcan that is firie anger which doth not only overthrow wisdom in the minde for a time for it is short fury but is also the cause of Erychthonius that is of all strife and contention in the world 5. War is a firie Vulcan an enemie to learning or Minerva the cause of Erychthonius of monstrous outrages and enormities and oftentimes fomented by seditious schollers and learning abused 6. Erychthonius is a covetous man as the world shews for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is contention and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is the earth and what else is covetousnes but a presumptious desire of earthly things and the cause of so much strife and contention in the world this monster came of Vulcan the god of fire that is of Satan the god of this world who reigns in the fire of contention and in the fire of Hell and is fomented by Minerva the soul which is the seat of wisdom 7. Tertullian b sayth that Erychthonius is the devil and indeed not unfitly for he is the father of all strife and of avarice he hath a mans wisdom or head to allure us to sin but a Dragons feet to torment us in the end for sin whosoever with delight shall look on him shall at last receive destruction 8. Let us take heed we pry not too curiously in the basket of natures secrets lest we be served as Cecrops daughters or as Pliny and Empedocles were 9. A Magistrate or Governour must be like Erychthonius who was himself King of Athens he must be both a man and a Dragon if the face of humanitie and mercy will not prevail then the Dragons feet of vigour and justice must walk 10. If any firy or chollerick Vulcan shall offer us wrong we must wisely defend our selves with Minerva and conceal the injury our own grief as she did Erychthonius 11. Though the preserving and cherishing of Vulcans childe is no certain proof that Minerva lost her virginitie neither did shee lose it though Vuloffred her violence because there was no consent yet it becoms all chiefly virgins to aovid both the evil the occasion therof that there may be no supition 1. Why Vulcans fire With Vesta did conspire To make the monster Erychthonius It was because Man would not keep Gods Laws But run the course that was erroneous 2. There was no hell Nor death till Adam fell Nor monster or deformed Progeny Minerva's thigh Nor Sols resplendant eye Did neither cherish nor such monsters see 3. Now Vulcan sues Minerva to abuse And to pollute her pure virginity So doth the coal Of lust inflame my soul The flesh against the spirit strives in me 4. O if my minde Could peace and freedom finde From inward broils and Vulcans wanton eye O if the fire Of lust and all desire Of earthly things in me would fade and dye 5. My soul is vext And too too much perplext With angers fear and fiery violence Which breeds in me Much strife continually That darkneth both my judgement and my sence 6. And how shall I Resist the tyrannie Of Vulcan if I have not arms of strength Therefore O Lord Lend me thy conquering sword That I may be victorious at length EUMENIDES THese were the 3 furies the daughters of Pluto and Proserpina or of hell darknesse night and earth in heaven they were called Dirae in earth Harpiae in hell Furiae they had snakes in stead of hairs brasen feet torches in one hand and whips in the other and wings to fly with THE MYSTERIES COmmonly these 3 furies are taken for the tortures of an evill conscience proceeding from the guilt of sin they cause feare and furie as the word Erinnys signifieth hell is the place of their aboad and where they are there is hell the tortures wherof are begun in the conscience of wicked men 2. There are three unruly passions in men answering to these three furies covetousnesse is Alecto which ●ever giveth over seeking wealth and indeed this is the greatest of all the furies and will not suffer the 〈…〉 r to eat injoy the goods that he hath gotten a 〈…〉 riarum maxima juxta accubat et manibus p 〈…〉 contingere mensas this is a Harpie indeed 〈…〉 ly delighting in rapine but polluting every t 〈…〉 hath b contracting omnia faedat immund 〈…〉 may be called Iupiters dog or rather a dog 〈…〉 manger neither eating himself nor suffering others to eat the other furie is Megaera that is en●●● full of poyson and snakie hairs the third is Tisiphone which is inordinate anger or a revengefull dispositiō the burning torch and wings shew the nature of anger all these have their begining and being fr●● Hell from darknesse and night even from Satan and the two-fold darknesse that is in us to wit the ignorance of our understanding and the corruption of our will but as the Furies had no access unto Apollo's temple but were placed in the porch c ultricesque sedent in lumine Dirae although otherwayes they were had in great

flow silver streams of grace In whom all goodnesse and perfection dwels He was a harmlesse spotlesse Dove The Center of his Fathers love The object of my chief desires And he in whom my soul respires Who on the wing of his Divinity Was elevated far above our sight And now inhabits that eternall light Which with our mortall eyes we cannot see He Nectar of his merit pow'rs Before his Father and down show'rs On us his graces from above Out of the bottles of his love O if some cloud-dividing Eagle would Under my feet spread forth his airy wings And lift my minde from these inferiour things That I my God in glory might behold Lord let my prayer pierce the skies And from the bottles of mine eyes Receive the Nectar of my tears And drink them with thy gracious ears O if I could with Eagles pinions cleave The highest clouds and with their piercing eye Could my Redeemer in his glory see Triumphing over death and o're the grave And as the Eagles do repair To places where dead bodies are So where thy flesh is Lord let me Resort that I may feed on thee And when my soul shall leave this house of clay Command thy winged Messengers who still Are ready to obey thy blessed will To be my soul-supporters in that day And in the Resurrection When soul and body meets in one Let them uphold me then and there Where I shall meet thee in the air GENII THese were the sons of Iupiter and Terra in shape like men but of an uncertain sex every man had two from his nativitie waiting on him till his death the one whereof was a good Genius the other a bad the good ones by some are called Lares the bad Lemures and by Tertullian and his Commentator Pamelius they are all one with the Daemones they were worshipped in the forme of Serpents THE MYSTERIES GEnius a gignendo for by them we are ingenerated and so whatsoever is the cause or help of our generation may be called Genius thus the elements the heavens the stars nature yea the God of nature in whom we live move and have our being may be called Genii in a large sence and Genii quasi Geruli a gerendo vel ingerendo from supporting us or from suggesting good bad thoughts into the mind therfore gerulofiguli in Plautus is a a suggestor of lyes and so by these Genii may be understood the good and bad Angels which still accompanie us and by inward suggestion stir us up to good or evill actions The form of Serpents in which the b Geni were worshipped doth shew the wise and vigilant care which the Angels have over us when after this life they punish us for sins they are called c Manes Therefore the Genii were painted with a platter full of flowers and garlands in one hand and a whip in the other to shew that they have power both to reward punish us They have oftentimes appeared in the forme of men therefore they are painted like men but they have no sex nor do they procreate for which cause perhaps the fruitfull Palm tree was dedicated to them with which also they were crowned because they were held of a middle kind between Gods and men they were called the sons of Iupiter and earth or rather in reference to Plato's opinion which held Angels to be corporeall our souls also are Genii which from our birth to our death do accompanie our bodies every mans desire and inclination may be called his Genius to which it seemes the Poet alluded saying an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido and perhaps Aristotles intellectus agens is all one with Plato's Genius for without this we have no knowledge because the passive intellect depends in knowledge from the active in receiving the species from it which by the active intellect is abstracted from time place and other conditions of singularitie and this is all one as if we should say we receive no information of good or evill but from our Genius and as the Gentiles beleeved the stars to be Genii so the Jews thought them to be Angels and that they were living creatures therefore they worshipded them called them the hoast of heaven but indeed Christ is our true Genius the great Angel who hath preserved and guarded us from our youth by whom we are both generated regenerated the brasen Serpent from whom we have all knowledge who alone hath power to reward and punish us who appeared in the forme of man and in respect of his 2 natures was the son of Iupiter and Terra of God and earth and who will never forsake us as Socrates his Genius did him at last who came not to affright us or to bring us the message of death as Brutus his Genius did to him but to comfort us and to assure of eternall life let us then offer to him the sacrifice not of blood crueltie or oppression which the Gentiles would not offer to their Genius thinking it unfit to take away the life of any creature that day in which they had received life themselves but let us offer the wine of a good life and the sweet fumes of our prayer a and let us not offend this our Genius or deprive him of his due but make much of him by a holy life and though the Gentiles assigned unto every man his Genius and Iuno to the women yea we know that Christ is the Saviour and keeper both of men and women that with him there is no difference of sex To what high dignity and place Hath God advanc'd our humane race To whose beak and command He did subdue all things that creep And flye within the air and deep And move upon dry land Besides heavens blessed Harbingers Gods nimble-winged Meslengers Are with a watchfull eye By his appointment to defend Us from all hurt and to attend On us continually Lord send to me these winged Posts And guard me with these heavenly hoasts From Satans pollicies And let them with their shady wings Protect me from all hurtfull things And from mine enemies And let this hoste in squadrons flye Before me Lord unclose mine eye That I may see my guard How with their Tents they me inclose And how they fight against my foes And keep their watch and ward And let these be my Tutors to Instruct my minde what it must do And how it must obey O by these sacred Pursuvants Shew me thy just commandements And guide me in my way And let these comforters asswage The pains of this my pilgrimage In my last agony Let these swift-winged Legions Through all the starry regions My soul accompany And when the trump Angelicall Shall sound which must awake us all And raise us from our dust Let these intelligences bring Me to the presence of my King And place me with the just O thou great Angel who hath still Been my protector from all ill