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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

qualitie adherent to beautie either true or apparent which causeth love in us now that love which all creatures have to creatures of their own kind in multiplying them by generation is the childe of Vulcan and Venus for it is begot of their own naturall heat outward beautie by beauty I mean whatsoever we account pleasing to us whether it be wealth honour pleasure vertue c. 2. The reasons why love was thus painted I conceive to be these Cupid is a childe because love must be still young for true love cannot grow old and so die amor qui desinere potest nunquam fuit verus Hee hath wings for love must be swift he is blind for love must wink at many things it covereth a multitude of sins he is naked for amongst friends all things should be common the heart must not keep to it self any thing secret which was the fault that Dalila found in Sampsons love he is crowned with roses for as no flower so much refresheth the spirits and delights our smell as the rose so nothing doth so much sweeten and delight our life as love but the rose is not without prickles nor love without cares the crown is the ensigne of a King and no such King as love which hath subdued all the creatures rationall sensitive vegetative and senslesse have their sympathies the image of a Lionesse with little Cupids playing about her some tying her to a pillar others putting drinke into her mouth with a horne c. do shew how the most fierce creatures are made tame by love therefore he hath a rose in one and a Dolphin in the other to shew the qualitie of love which is swift and officious like the Dolphin delectable and sweet like the rose his arrows do teach us that love wounds deeply when we cannot obtain what we love some of his arrows are pointed with lead some with gold he is wounded with a golden arrow that aimes at a rich wife and cannot obtain her to be wounded with leaden arrows is to be afflicted for want of ordinary objects which we love and so his burning torches shew that a lover is consumed with grief for not obtaining the thing loved as the wax is with heat Ardet amans Dido Vritur infaelix Caeco carpitur igne Est mollis flamma medullas Haeret lateri laethalis arundo c. These are my conceits of Cupids picture other Mythologists have other conceits applying all to unchast and wanton love whose companions are drunkennesse quarrelling childish toyes c. Alas my soul how men are vext That fix their love on gilded dung Which when they want they are perplext And when they have it they are stung Great riches wounds With cares mans heart As wealth abounds So doth their smart Doth not the love of earthly things Devest men of their richest robe And then they fly away with wings And leaves them naked on this Globe Besides all that They blinde men eyes That they cannot Behold the skies And doth not earthly things besides With burning torches men torment And with sharp arrows wound their sides So that our dayes in pain are spent Then why should I Affect these things Which misery And sorrow brings This love makes men like foolish boyes Who place their chief felicity In bits of glasses shels and toyes Or in a painted Butter-flye So riches are Which we alas Scrape with such care But bits of glasse Lord let me see thy beauty which Doth onely true contentment bring And so in thee I shall be rich Oh if I had swift Cupids wing Then would I flee By faith above And fix on thee My heart and love That Christ is the true God of Love Christ is the onely God of Loves Who did his secrets all disclose Whose wings are swifter then the Doves Who onely hath deserv'd the Rose Thou onely art That potent King Both of my heart And every thing Both Principalities and Powers And all that 's in the sea and land Men Lyons Dolphins Birds and Flowers Are all now under thy command Thy Word 's the torch Thy Word 's the dart Which both doth scorch And wound my heart It was not Cupid sure that spoil'd The gods of all their vestiments But thou art he that has them foil'd And stript them of their ornaments Then thou alone Deserves to be Set in the Throne Of Majesty Sometime a Crown of Thorns did sit Upon that sacred head of thine But sure a Rose-crown was more fit For thee and Thorns for this of mine O God what love Was this in thee That should thee move To dye for me Thy youth is alwayes green and fresh Thy lasting yeers Lord cannot fail O look not on my sinfull flesh But mask thy eyes with mercy's vail O Lord renew In me thy love And from thy view My sins remove CYCLOPES THese were the sons of heaven their mother was earth and sea men of huge stature having but one eye which was in their forehead they lived upon mens flesh Polyphemus was their chief he was a shepherd and in love with Galathaea he having devoured some of Vlisses his fellowes was by him intoxicated with wine and his eye thrust out These Cyclopes dwelt in Sicily and were Vulcans servants in making Iupiters thunder and Mars his chariots c. THE MYSTERIES THese Cyclopes are by some meant the vapours which by the influence of heaven are drawn out of the earth and sea and being in the air ingender thunder and lightning to Iupiter as their a names shew they dwelt in Sicilie about hill Aetna because heat is the breeder of thunder they were thrust down to Hell by their father and came up againe because in the cold winter these vapours lie in the earth and by heat of the spring are elevated wise Vlisses overcame Polyphemus that is man by his wisdome and observation found out the secrets of these naturall things and causes thereof Apollo was sayd to kill these Cyclopes because the Sun dispelleth vapours 2. I think by these Cyclopes may be understood the evill spirits whose habitation is in burning Aetna that is in Hell burning with fire and brimstone being thrown down justly by God from heaven for their pride but are permitted sometimes for our sins to rule in the air whose service God useth sometimes in sending thunder and stormes to punish the wicked they may well be called Cyclopes from their round eye and circular motion for as they have a watchfull eye which is not easily shut so they compasse the earth to and fro they may be sayd to have but one eye to wit of knowledge which is great for outward eyes they have not their chief food and delight is in the destroying of mankinde Polyphemus or Belzebub is the chief who having devoured Vlisses fellowes that is mankinde the true Vlisses Christ the wisdom of the father came and having powred unto him the full cup of the Red wine of his wrath bound him and thrust out

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