force As it hath powre it selfe to overcome How blest are they that doe themselues divorce From Custome ill by force of good custome And ten times blessed they that from the VVombe Accustom'd are to Vertues straightest VVay For such by Custome vertuous become Though powreful Nature doe her selfe say nay For Nature Customes powre is forc'd t' obay When the Affections Acts are habits growne Then Vertues or els Vices are they nam'd A vicious Habit 's hardly overthrowne For our Affection is therewith enflam'd As with the fire infernall are the damn'd Who though they would and though they anguish haue Yet cannot that outragious mood be ram'd But still they raging sin and cannot saue Themselues from that that makes their griefe their graue A vicious Habit is Hels surest Gin Wherewith a Man is sold to sinne and shame Running from sinne to sinne and nought but sinne As Rivers runne the same and not the same Til the mindes Iointes sinnes force doth so vnframe That it becomes most loose and dissolute Neither regarding heav'n hell shame nor fame But to liue loathsomly its resolute Thus Habits ill make evill absolute But few there are in whom all vice concurres And fewer are they that all faults doe want Vnto the worst offences cling like Burres And to the best as to the Adamant The Iron cleaues for the Church militant By nature is accompanied with sinne Yet the least force of faith partes them I grant Because it cleaues but sleightly to the skinne But to the wickeds flesh its fastned in For as a burre the longer it abides Vpon a garment being cott'nd hy The more the VVooll windes in his hooked sides So sinne the longer it in Flesh doth ly The faster to the same it s fixt thereby If Nature then sinne soone doth entertaine Vse violence to Nature by and by That it perforce may from the same refraine For what skill cannot force may yet constraine And as the Burre to VVooll so being fixt With skill or force cannot be parted thence But that some part will with the VVooll be mixt So sinne where it hath had long residence Will leaue remaines there maugre violence But Iron from the loadstone cleane will fall With but a touch and so wil sinnes offence From those in whom it s not habitual With but a touch of Faith though nere so small That I may touch the Subiect of my Rimes More home though homely I the same doe touch And for my travell'd Muse might breath somtimes And that the Reader too might doe as much Lest that prolixitie might make him grutch Here shall shee make a stande and looke a-backe As Riders rancke on Steepes haue customes such To breath their bony Nags when winde they lacke And courage them againe like toile to take THe knowledge of the Soule and of her Powres Is the well-head of morrall-VVisedomes flood Hence know we al worth knowing that is ours In body or in Soule that 's ill or good And if these Powres be rightly vnderstoode We know the founts from whēce our Actions slow And from what cause proceedeth ev'ry moode Or good or ill and where that cause doth grow Al this and more this knowledge makes vs know For in the Soule doth shine though sinne-obscur'd By Natures light great light of such science Whereby the Soule is made the more assur'd In all her Actions and Intelligence Though oft deceav'd by seeming goods pretence And for the Soule is to the body bound Affections therein haue their residence That as with wings the soule with thē might boūd Aboue her selfe from being bloud y drown'd Wherefore shee hath Affections of two kinds The one eggs on the other doe restraine By which the Minde the body turnes and windes As they the mind and minde the Corpes constraine Yet whē these Curbs our head-strong nature paine It winceth with the Heele of willfull-will Orethrowing those Affects that doe it reigne And in extremities it runneth still Which is the Race of Ruine Rest of Ill. This comes to passe when as we overpasse The bounds of Nature by our Natures vice And in some one excesse we do surpasse Desiring more then Nature may suffice To which our corrupt natures vs intice For let the least Necessity appeere A ken from vs though neere so smal of price We hold what els we hold though nere so deere VVorthlesse and for that want with woe we steere Hence is it that with never-ceasing toile And no lesse care we traverse all this All Nay all that All we restleslie turmoile And bandy as it were this Earthie Ball Past reasons reach to win worlds wealth withal Desire of having thus still moiles the minde Though Nature be suffis'd with pittance small VVhich makes vs loose our selues when wee it finde Sith see our selues we cannot being blinde It blinds our Eyes that seldom'st are deceav'd Eyes of our Soule that make our Bodies see Then Soule and Bodie cannot be perceav'd By their owne vertue when they blinded be And mine and thine doth sever mee and thee Nought can content vs. Therefore the Affects Are in the soule like windes that nere agree Vpon the Sea and worke the like effects Some great some smal yet like in most respects Beside the chiefe windes and Collaterall Which are the VVindes indeede of chiefe regard Sea-men observe more thirtie two in all Al which are pointed out vpon their Carde But our Minds Mapp though many may be spar'd Containeth many more Affects then these All which though sett our Minds Content to guard Yet sturr they vp as VVindes doe on the Seas Vnquiet Passions which the Minde disease When Zephire breathes on Thetis she doth smile Shee entertaines that gale with such content But if proude Boreas doe puffe the while Shee 's madd with rage and threates the Continent For those proud puffes her soule doe discontent So some Affections our soules browes vnbend And other some doe sextiply each dent Some meanely please some meanely doe offend And some doe make the Soule her Soule to rend Those that doe meanely moue Affections hight The other Huff-snuffes Perturbations be These later rudely gainst their Guides doe fight And so enfume them that they cannot see Or make them from their Charge away to flee So that the soule being left without a Guide And tost with Passions that still disagree Doth like a Sternelesse Shippe at randon ride On mightiest Seas wrack-threatn'd on each syde For if our Reasons iudgment blinded be Th' Affections needes must ever run awrie And draw with thē each sense tumultuoslee To offer violence to lowe and hye That God and Nature tast their tyranny Let but the Hart bee loue-sicke and the same Will carry Iudgment where his Loue doth ly And there confine it setting all on flame That offers but resistance once to name The lower Iudgment in our blood is sunck The lower is her reach in Reas'ns discourse For Iudgmēt
fulfill And leave the Reader to thinke what he will NOw may we range next to the Ranke of loue Other Affections and to doe it right We must place Favoure there by which w'approve Of some thing wherein we conceave delight For that it 's good in deede or so in sight Herein Loues obligation doth commence Yet favoure may haue force where loue lacks might But without Favoure Loue is a non ENS For Favoure waites vpon Loves excellence Then Reverence with Favour we may Ranke Bredd by comparing some high Dignitie With some inferior State that Fortune sanck Which then is in it's right especially When extreame feare and Hatred come not ny For though in Rev'rence Feare and Shamefastnesse VVith moderation doe obscurely lye Yet Feare by some Ill caus'd Good doth suppresse Still seene in that which breedes our humblenesse True rev'rence therefore beare we vnto God Who is allâ—good as he almightie is For fear'd we nought but his revenging Rodd Our Rev'rence would be turn'd to hate by this Then Rev'rence growes from pow'r and grace of his And whosoere with them he most endowes Of Rev'rence from lesse Rev'rend cannot misse For Rev'rence Pow'r and Goodnesse still ensues And the lesse worthie to the better bowes For when we eie the vertue pow'r and grace Of the most Noble truely called so And looke vpon our selves and weigh how base VVe are compar'd with them then bend we lo As vnto them that vs in Good out-go For as selfe-liking doth enlarge the Hart Or puffe it vp like Bladders which we blo So it contracts it selfe in ev'ry part When we see others passe vs in desart Then as we rev'rence God for goodnesse more Then for his might and awfull Maiesty So if we would be rev'renc't of the Low'r We must surmount them in that ex'lency That makes vs most resemble Dëity For whereas Goodnesse doth associate Might There the most Insolent most rev'rently Though otherwise repleat with al Dispight VVill doe their Homage freely with delight For homage fealty and honor are To sacred Vertue due by Natures Law Honor we owe to Vertue though but bare And Vertue matcht with might doth Rev'rence draw Then Honor Reverence and loving awe Are due to Maiestie and that is due To Magistrats that Men froÌ„ Vice with-draw And make them Vertue eagerly ensue Themselues therin be'ng Leaders of the Crue The last Affects to Love subordinate Are Mercy and Compassion These are they VVhich make vs like God to commiserate The miseries of those that still decay Or are at point to perish without stay These these bewraie that we are Members quick Of that same Bodie whose Head doth bewray That they are Members mortifide or sick VVhich feele no paines that fellow members prick These make vs make the hand of the distrest Our Mucke and Earthly Mammons continent Yea make vs make the Orphanes home our Brest And our right Arme the VVeedowes Sustinent And all that want our All them to content O that these were more frequent then they are With those that doe our Churches so frequent For damn'ds Devotion that will nothing spare But for selfe-comfort altogither care These Colledges and Hospitals erect And both endow with copious maintenance These are so prevalent in their effect That they vnto the Heav'ns doe Earth advance Wherein there is no want or sufferance These doe forgiue as gladly as they giue Vnto their foes miscarried by Mischance These good and bad like God in lacke relieue For Mercies Bowels melt when anie grieue These Bridges builde ore Rivers semi-Seas And turne deepe VVaies though endlesse in extent To Cawseis firme for Man and Beasts more ease And ev'ry waie provide for bothes content Through fellow-feeling of their dryriment These make their VVaredrops and the Needies one And their owne Limbes limbes of the impotent Ioy with the ioiefull mone with them that mone And sigh in soule when they in Bodie grone O that my soule could as it gladly would It selfe infuse into each worde or line That tendes to Mercies glorie then it should So as it ought at least like Phoebus shine If not at most bee more then most divine For Mercie and Iustice are Gods mightie Armes But he most might to Mercie doth assigne As bee'ng the right Arme holding all from harmes Though All do fall through Frailties least Alarmes Mercie 's the true Idea of Gods Soule Wherein his matchlesse glorie glitters most Which is of force his Iustice to controule For when in Iustice all that are were lost Then Mercie them redeem'd to Iustice cost The Lord of Iustice was vniustly slaine That Mercie might triumph and iustly boast As Loue first made so Mercie made againe Man-kind that sin had marr'd with monstrous stain Sith Mercie then is of so high account Shee should bee most familier with the Hy For God in mercy doth himselfe surmount That is it doth himselfe most glorify So they that eie the Poore with Pitties eie And haue most mercie seated in their soule Draw neer'st the nature of his Dëity Whose names engrossed are in his Check-role And next him ought the VNIVERS to rule THus having toucht th' Affections most humane That humane nature doe consociate Now follow those that are most inhumane Bred by Opinion of Ill which wee hate Which make vs savage or in worse estate The vnrest of our soules the while they rest Within our Bodies and predominate Proceedes from fowre chiefe causes of vnrest Which thus by Natures searchers are exprest Desire Feare Griefe Ioy all immoderate Which perturbations be from these proceede Al Passions which the soule excruciate Which the Mindes ignorance doth fatting feede As knowing not what 's good or Ill indeede Desire and Ioie those goods accompany Which be not good further then Natures neede And that a little God wot doth supply For overmuch doth her soone mortifie Aske peace and plenty what fell fights they haue With these three Monsters Pride Strife Excesse Hardly themselues if they at all doe saue From their fell force they eas'ly wil confesse Yet God with Peace and Plentie Man doth blesse That Man might blesse God both in word and deede Not take occasion from thence to transgresse But from these Fountaines pure doe oft proceede By their abuse Abuses which exceede For sinne in peace and plentie is so arm'd VVith all that may allure the simple sense That sense by those allurements is so charm'd That soone it yeeldes to sinne obedience As it were forc'd by some Omnipotence When sinne so sweetly doth intreate and pray And promise Flesh Heav'n in Incontinence To which prosperity doth Flesh betray How can fraile Flesh and Bloud say sweet sinne nay If Tast would tast what might her Pallate please Sinne offers Manna Nectar and what not VVould touching feele sinne opens pleasures Seas To plunge the sense therein it to besot The smell shee ioies with sents as sweete as
Circumference But Reason by right Rules them both doth meate VVhich shee hath made by her experience And findes the Sunne as erst we said more great By Demonstration more then most compleate We by our soules conceaue as erst was said VVisedome and knowledge bee'ng incorporal But outvvard sense is altogither stai'd On qualities of things meere corporall The soule by reason makes rules general Of things particuler but sense doth goe But to particulers material The soule by the effect the cause doth sho But sense no more but baâ—e effectes doth kno The proper essence of things is obscur'd And by themselues of vs cannot be knowne Therefore the knowledge of them is procur'd By accidents and actions of their owne Which to the soule by wits discourse is showne For she concludes by Reasons consequents Though of themselues they meerely are vnknown That thus they are which high experiments Lie farre aboue the reach of sense ascents In them which wil not vnderstand this Truth Their ignorance is sinne most pestilent But they which cannot ah the more the ruth Their ignorance of sinne 's the punishment And who denies a Truth so evident Hath neither grace nor sense for all may see The soul's immortal and divinely bent And hath most force when shee from flesh is free Which proues her powre and immortalitee If soules and bodies then be so distinct And that the soule as she of God was made Is free from sinne and by her owne instinct Shee hates that sense that doth to sinne perswade How is it then that shee should be so bad For from the soule sinne doth her force deriue Which with her waight the body doth orelade Can shee both cause and yet against sinne striue Shee may quoth All but few doe it beleeue This is a Gulffe that swallowes vp the soule And quite confounds her if shee enters it This secret deepe deepe wisedome did enroule In that still-closed booke of secrets fit For Her alone to know not erring wit â— Therefore the more presumption we show In search hereof the more are we vnfit A secret so vnknowne as this to know For they know most thereof whose sp'rits are low The lesse sobrietie vve vse herein The more we erre in by-pathes of Offence And giddy headed headlong fal to sinne From which we hardly rise by penitence For sinnes presumptuous grace doe most incense Then let vs curbe our head-strong thoughts when they Would run beyond the reach of sapience And make them stop where wisdome points a stay That is to go no further then they may Many a curious Question hath bin mou'd Touching this secret and no fewer Iarres Hath it procur'd and all to be reprou'd Sith ev'ry one his owne conceite preferres Which to maintaine stil maintaines wilful warres Some so desire to know that faine they would Breake through the Bounde that humane knowledge barres To pry into His brest which doth infold Secrets vnknowne These strange opinions hold But let it vs suffize thus much to know That though the soule cannot be soild with sinne As God created her yet sinne doth flow From Adam to the soule and enters in When shee the bodie doth to moue begin Nor must we make her sinnefull in respect Shee with the Corpes is Cas'd as soild therein But make the Fault of Adam her infect VVhich is indeede sole cause of that effect At large to proue her immortalitie I should like her well-neere be infinite For if the Image of the Deity Bee found in Man in his soule it is right And though by Adam shee bee made vnright Yet by the second Adam full of grace Shee is againe reform'd and made vpright Which makes her striue when sin would her deface To foile it or at least not giue it place Inough my Muse of that vvhich nere ynough Can well be said and let me restlesse rest For I must ply my Penne which is my Plough Sith my lifes sunne is almost in the VVest And I provided yet but for vnrest Time flies avvay these Numbers number time But goodes they number not for their int'rest Is nought but Aire which though to heau'n it clime Is but meere Vapor rising but from slime There is no end in making many bookes and much reading is a wearinesse of the Flesh. Eccles. 12.12 Yet this we doe and pleasure take in toile Although we doe but plow the barraine Soile FINIS An Extasie WEther entranc'd or in a dreame of dreames Procur'd by Fancy in our sleepes extreames Or vvhether by a strong imagination Bred in the Bowels of deepe Contemplation My soule vvhen as my bodie vvaking was Did see what doth ensue in Fancies Glasse I know not vvell but this ful wel I know If it no substance were it was a show A show whereat my Muse admired much Which she with her best sense can scarslie touch It was so strange and full of mistery Past apprehension of her ingeny Me thought I saw at least I saw in thought As on a Rivers side I lay long-straught Eyeing the VVaters eie-delighting glide An heauenly creature more then glorifide Vpon the waues come tripping towards me Who scarse the water toucht did seeme to flee Her face was louely yet mee thought shee lookt As one that had long time and travell brookt The Robe she ware was lawne white as the Swanne Which siluer Oes and Spangles over-ran That in her motion such reflexion gaue As filâ—'d with siluer starres the heav'nly waue Her Browes two hemi-circles did enclose Of Rubies rang'd in artificiall Roes Whose precious haire thereto vvas so confixt That golde and Rubie seemed intermixt Vpon her head a siluer crowne shee ware Depressing so that rising golden Haire In token that shee knew no marriage Bed VVhich neâ—thelesse was richly garnished With rarest Pearle that on the arched bents That rose from that rich Crownes embattlements Did shine like that braue party-coulord Bow That doth Heav'ns glorie and their mercy show About her Necke hung Natures Miracle A Carcanet of glorious Carbuncle VVhich did the Sunne ecclipse and clos'd mine Eyes That they could not behold her other guise This sight though glorious much amated me From which rowzing my selfe I sought to flee But with the offer I fell downe againe As one whose Legges could not his Corpes sustaine Yet still I off'red bootelesse to be gon For Sights divine daunt the stout'st Champion At the first sight for Nature doth not love To see fraile Creature ought her selfe aboue VVhen lo this heau'nly Apparition Bad me not feare with sweete perswasion For I am shee quoth shee that lately was Thy Sov'raigne frëed from this Earthy Masse I now can like an Angell with a trice Shift place to serue the Prince of Paradice And I am come to thee by his permission That notwithstanding thy obscure condition Thou should'st by me haue light and cleerely see As in a Glasse what shal
but trie To keepe them in in their conceaving place Dissembling so Discretions fowle disgrace But as I cannot colour my defects So can I wel dissemble in no case Which is the cause of many badd effects For none though nere so vaine this vaine affects Teares are the Tokens of a Passion'd Soule That Hart for Loue somtimes sends to the Eies And oft they witnes there Ioy Paine or Dole But how so ere from Passion strong they rise Which Passion in Compassion often lies Mine Eies are kyn too neere of kyn to these Which though my Spirit doth it much despise Yet doe they turne mine Eyes too oft to Seas To drowne Harts Passion and to give it ease But blessed were I if mine Eyes could flowe With Teares of Pittie seeing the distrest But much more blest had I then to bestow And franckly giue then were I treble blest In Teares in wealth and in both so addrest My Secret to my selfe I blesse Him ay For being no worse though badd I be at best The lesse I speake of what I feele that way The more I feele his grace my thoughts to sway He Fount of goodnesse holie be his name Was often seene when he as man was seene To weepe and seem'd delighted with the same Seeing the VVorld through his Teares stil oreseene That might by his example blest haue beene Who never was observ'd to laugh or iest Either in Manhood or when yeares were greene At merry-meetings or at vveddings feast Showing thereby what moode fitts Vertue best If Ioy at any time had toucht his Soule As when his words had made a Proselite He only wise would wisely it controule For that this moode with Maiesty doâ—h fight Which in his Person was enthron'd by right This we admire as that we cannot doe For we in pleasures vaine so much delight That Ioy may make vs madd and kill vs too For Ioy or Griefe can our hart-stringes vndoe Thus when our Teares doe testifie our ruth We neede not rue or of them be asham'd For Vertue therein her owne selfe ensuth When with selfe-love her Soule is most inflam'd Which selfe-loue burns the Soul yet nere is blam'd Wherefore such Teares and Teares effus'd for sinne Is wyne of Angels so by Angells nam'd Then blessed are those Founts that never lyn To send forth streames that Angells glory in VVhen sighes for sinne ascendâ— Mercy descends And in the rise their flight anticipates Grace centreth sighes that Mercy comprehends But sighes from sinne ascending Mercie hates Sighes for and from sinne are vnequall mates From sinne none but sighes sinneful can arise But sighes for sinne high grace consociates And did not Mercie stay them in the rise They would with violence the Heav'ns surprise Two kindes of Ioy or Griefe the Hart conceaues For Good or Ill possessed or future The name of Hope the later Ioy receaues Which of some good to come doth vs assure The latter Griefe doth Feare in vs procure Of Ill to come which we with Griefe expect So Ioy and Hope or Griefe and Feare in powre Are much alike their ods Time doth effect And take their names as they doe Time respect Hope time to come respects bred by Desire Desire of good wherein we Ioie by Hope Hope hath no helpe of science but intire Rests on coniecture which to doubt lies ope And likelyhood giues her her vtmost scope Yet Hope that 's fixt on that all-working VVord That gaue Earth being and the Heav'nly Cope Excludes Coniecture and is so assur'd As if that hopt for Time did straite afford Then no true Ioy can hope accompany That hath but likelyhood for her best stay For such hope Posse evermore doth eie Which ere it comes to Esse slides away For in each Possibilitie we may Behold a possibilitie of faile Which must of force our hope sometimes dismay Then Feare a shaking hope must needes assaile And hope must shake that crosse events may quaile Such is the VVickeds most assured hope Who Ancor it on transitorie Toyes They feare the cracking of that cable Rope That holds them to their hopes expected ioies Contingencie their constan'st hope annoies Which ay is constant in vnconstancie And oft them with their groundlesse hope destroies Which fils their hopes with dire perplexity And lines their ioies with lasting miserie But hope that hath for obiect certaine things As those which Truthes nere-failing word assures In great'st distresse great consolation brings And like good sauce an appetite procures Griefe to disgest as long as life endures This hope makes harts to hold that els would breake And harts almost quite broken shee recures And when our foes by force our ruine seeke She giues vs streÌ„gth to weene their force too weake Shee holds the powres of hell in high contempt And makes a iest of temp'ral powre or paine From all annoy of both shee is exempt For in Griefes bowels shee doth ioie retaine As Ionas did in the VVhales intertaine The aire shee striketh with so strong a winge That aire or fire the force cannot restraine But vp shee will through both and ev'ry thing That lets her from the place of her biding Nay she with such resistlesse wings doth flie That shee her selfe her selfe doth oft surmount The Faithfuls Father made her so to stie And diverse other Saintes of lesse account Being on her VVings she maugre force wil mount Who through the ten-fold heav'ns though thick hard CaÌ„ glide with ease as Fish do through a fouÌ„t Nor by the high'st himselfe can shee be bard But will prevaile as it with Iacob far'd Thus Ioy and Hope goe iointly hand in hand Like Twins got by Desire by Fancie borne And as Hopes ioie on future Good doth stand So Fear 's a griefe conceav'd for Ill vnborne Which we expect wherewith the Soule is torne Then looke what ods there is twixt Hope and Ioy The like 's twixt Feare and griefe in minds forlone A like they comfort or the Minde annoy As they best know that best or worst enioy Feare doth the Hart contract that Hope dilates And shut so close that vitall Sp'rits it pines Then Nature to prevent death which shee hates Drawes bloud and Sp'rits from al the parts confines And to the Hart in haste the same assignes Then are the outward partes as pale as cold And quake as fearing their approaching fines Then pants the heart that labours life to hold Which ties the Tongue womb loosing ere it should And as this sense-confounding Passion Feare The hart with horror thus excruciates So in the soule it such a swaie doth beare That it the Powres thereof quite dissipates And makes most abiects of most mightie States How like an Idoll stands Feares servile Slaue Whose total senses Feare so captivates That no one sense hath force it selfe to saue But Death desires to kill the feare they haue If this base Feare harts hatefull hel possesse The hart the
insist But what I shall in this behalfe insert Through my no skill and lesse experiment Comes from a Muse that can but speake of part Much lesse hath skill to teach al government Or if shee had shee were too insolent So to presume sith Reason hath bin strain'd To highest reach for Rules of Regiment Sufficeth me to touch it as constrain'dâ— By that I handle els would haue refrain'd Nor wil I iustifie all rules for right That Policie approveth for direct God and Mans wisedome are repugnant quite Mans wisedome holdes for good a good effect Caused by ill which Gods doth stil reiect And to doe all that Policie doth will Must needes the soule with mortal Sores infect Heare what shee wils then iudge if well or ill And vse or els refuse it as yee will Whose powre if it with puissance be conioin'd Controules al powres saue hellish or divine It glues together states that VVarres vnioin'd And severs those that Concord did combine It makes or marres disposing Mine and Thine On Sov'raignes heads it makes Crownes close to sit That sooner shal their heads then Crownes decline It makes VVill law when VVit thinkes Law vnfit Yet wils that Law should lincke with VVill and wit It tels the Statesman sitting at the Sterne Embozom'd by his sov'raigne he must be Carefull the humor of his Lige to learne And so apply himselfe thereto that hee May neither crosse nor with it stil agree Like Sol that with nor gainst the Heaven goes But runnes ascue by whose obliquitie Each thing on Earth's conserv'd and gayly groes So Councellors their councels shoulde dispose And as the Moone reflects her borrowed light Vnto the Sunne that but lent her the same So statesmen should reflect how ere vnright Their wel-deservings and their brightest fame Vnto their Liege as though from him it came For Princes may put shame of their oresights Vpon their servants who must beare the blame Applying praises of those mens foresights Vnto themselues as if they were their rights Great Subiects must beware of subiects loue And Sov'raignes hate the first oft breeds the last Kings wil their Brethren hate if not reproue For being too wel belov'd who often tast The evil speede that growes from that loues hast Which makes great subiects in great policie That would of King and subiect be embrac'd To mix their vertues deeds with villany T' avoide the plague of Popularitie With submisse voice it tels the Soveraigne Severity makes weake Authoritie If that too oft the Subiects it sustaine And smal faults punisht with great cruelty Makes Feare and Hate desp'rate rebell'ouslie For death of Patients Emprickes lesse defame Then Executions oft doe Sov'raignty And all that haue delighted in the same Haue hate incurr'd and often death with shame For Policie can hardly wel prevent The purpose of true Hate made obstinate With ceaslesse plagues and extreame punishment For when the weakest hand is desperate It may confound a Caesar so a state Who death desires is Lord of others life He feares not hell that would be reprobate A calme Authoritie represseth strife When much severitie makes Rebels rifeâ— It 's better cure then cut of members ill If it may be and if that wil not serue Yet cut them off as t' were against thy will For Men hate not their members which they kerue Or cleane cut off the rest so to preserue For Cruelty sometimes is Clemencie Its mercy in the Prince peace to conserue To cut off Rebels with severity Lest they prevailing make an Anarchie And if in case a mighty Multitude Of mighty Men for Treason were to dy Policie would not haue the sword imbrude In bloud of them as t' were successiuely But all at once let them al headlesse ly For oft revenge with bloud to iterate The malice may suppresse of few too hy But stirres the harts of all to mortall hate Which may impeach the most secured state And therefore that which must be cut away Away with it at once quoth Policie And to the sores these plaisters ply straight way Doe some great good that argues Charity And pardon some to shew thy Clemencie To shedde the bloud of corrupt Maiestrates Doth not a little the paine qualifie The sacrifice of such hate expiates Thus bloud must heale what bloud exulcerates Intemp'rate Patients make Phisitions cruell And wayward Subiects make the Prince seveare Ceaselesse abuses of Ire is the fuell Can Sov'raignes beare when Subiects nought forbeare Such must be taught to loue through cause of feare For oft a ijrke from a kinde Masters hand AmoÌ„g much cockring makes our loue more deere When as we know it with our weale doth stand So short correction tends to long command Iudges corrupt and all Extortioners Like Spunges must be vsâ—d squiz'd being full And so must Iustice handle Vsurers They pull from Subiects Kings from theÌ„ must pull And wheÌ„ their fleece is grown sheare off the wooll These are the Canker-wormes of Common weales They mortifie and make the Members dull Then when the Head thereof these Cankers feeles He needes must clense them ere the Body heales For whosoever feares hate over much Knowes not as yet what Rules to Rule belong Let Subiects grutch without iust cause of grutch They will wheÌ„ they perceave the Prince they wroÌ„g To right the same continue Subiects long By Punishment and by Reward a State May be ore-aged beeing over yong In Mould of Love to melt the Commons hate Is to correct without respect of state From Piety and cleere-Eyde Providence Authoritie derives resistlesse force For Piety constraines Obedience Sith all beleeves the Heau'ns doe blesse her coorse And Providence subiection doth enforce For it foresees where Riott may runne out And with strong Barres which Barristers r'enforce Makes fast the Parke-pale there and round about That to goe through no one wil goe about It teacheth Princes wisely to beware How they exhaust their store for warre in peace To maintaine Reuellings and nothing spare That tends to Sensualities increase Although therfore their Flocks they often fleece It ill beseemes quoth Providence the Prince His owne and publike Treasures to decrease For private satisfaction of the sense Which sincks the State with waight of vain expeÌ„ce If there be factions for Sions cause So bee 't they breake not bounds of Charitie Instruction sooner then Correction drawes Such Discords to a perfect Vnity That yeelds a sweete Soule-pleasing harmony For when a Violls strings doe not concent We doe not rend them straight but leisurely VVith patience put in tune the Instrument So must it be in case of Government It s the least freedome Subiects can demaund To haue but liberty to hold their peace Who keepe their errors close from being scand Doe hurt none but themselves in warre or peace If Freedome true Obedience release It will containe it selfe in
in truth and equitie But pious Augustine canonized For piety saith there are certaine lies VVhereof no great offence is borne or bred Yet are not faultlesse in which leasings lies That lie which Kings for common good devise Hence may we see how much deprav'd we are VVhen Kings sometimes must faine and temporise For their estate and common-wealthes welfare VVhich would fare ill if they should it forbeare VVho note withall It breedeth small regard To bee too lavish of their presence when Among the commons it might well be spar'd For Maiestis like Deity in Men VVhen wee it see as farre as wee can ken Yet policie the proppe of waightie States VVould haue them present with all now and then As well to comforte as to cease debates Both which their harts to true loue captivates It tels them other Documents among That who so bridles their felicitie Shall better governe it and hold it long For Temp'raunce ioined with Authoritie Makes it resemble sacred Deitie It bids them loue the learned with effect VVho can with lines their liues historifie That ay shall last and their renownes erect As high as Heav'n maugre humane defect And here I cannot wonder though I would Sufficiently at these guilt times of ours VVherein great Men are so to money sold That Iupiter himselfe in golden Showres Wil basely stand to gather while it powres Mars scornes Minerva gibes at Mercurâ— He better likes Venerian Paramoures Greatnâ—sse regards not Prose or Poesie But weenes an Angell hath more Maiesty Artes perish wanting praise and due support And when want swaies the Senses Common-weale VVitts vitall faculties wax al amort The Minde constrain'd the Bodies want to feele Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt to heale Which doe the Mind bemire with thoughts vnfitt HeÌ„ce come those dull Conceipts sharp witts reveale Which nice Eares deeme to come froÌ„ want of witt When want of wâ—alth indeede is cause of it How many Poets like Anatomies As leane as Death for lacke of sustenance Complaine poore Staruelings in sadd Elegies Of those whom Learning onely did advaunce That of their wants haue no considerance What Guift to Greatnesse can lesse welcome be Then Poems though by Homer pend perchaunce It lookes on them as if it could not see Or from them as from Snakes away wil flee What 's this to me thinkes he I did not this How then to me should praise thereof pertaine Thou hitt'st the Marke deere Sir yet dost misse For though no praise for penning it thou gaine Yet praise thou gett'st if thou that Pen sustaine That can eternize thee in Deathes despight And through it selfe thy grossest humors straine So make them pure at least most pure in sight Which to Posterity may be a light In common policy great Lords should give That so they may though great much more receaue The more like God the more they doe relive And the more VVriters they aloft doe heave The more renowne they to their Race doe leaue For with a droppe of ynke their Penns haue pow'r Life to restore being lost or life bereave Who can devour Time that doth all devoure And goe beyonde Tyme in lesse then an how'r Where had Achilles fame bin longe ere this Had not blind Homer made it see the vvay In Parchas â—pight to all eternities It had with him long since bin clos'd in Clay Where had AEneas name found place of stay Had Virgills verse of it no mention made It had ere this bin drown'd in deepe decay For without memory Names needes must vade And memory is ay the Muses Trade But how can these Daughters of Memory Remember those of whom they are dispis'd They are not Stocks that feele no iniurie But sprightly quicke and wondrous wel adviz'd Who though with loose Lines they are oft disguis'd Yet when they list they make immortal lynes And who soere by those lines are surpriz'd Are made eternal they and their Assignes Or wel or ill as Poesy defines Leaue we to vrge poore Poets iust complaint Sith they are deafe that should redresse the same That Policy we may yet better paint And consecrate more lines vnto her name That learnes our Pen her laudes by lines to frame Shee would that Government should never dy Which is the Rodd of Circes which doth tame Both Man and Beast if ledd by Policy And tends to perfect Mans Societie Shee teacheth Kinges to giue and take no vvrong One gettes Revenge Contempt the other gaines All gainfull Leagues she would haue lengthn'd long And not to warre vntill iust cause constraines For Iustice prospers VVarres and Thrones sustaines No Secrets nor no publike governments To Clawbacks or to those that scrach for gaines Shee would have shar'd for badd are all their bents And evermore doe ruyne governments In such is neither truth to God or King Therefore shee would have such aloofe to stand As farre at least as a bent brow can fling Them from the Sov'raigne or a straight command These bitter baneful weeds doe spil the Land But to the tried trusty she would haue The Sov'raignes favoure constantlie to stand For with their losse they seeke the whole to saue To whome like Fathers they themselues behaue Shee tells the Kinge that Treason gathers strength Extreamly in his weakenesse and requires That it be cut short ere it gathers length And level that that out of course aspires Shee chargeth Kinges to quench their vaine desires Of vaine expence without the Commons charge Lest it enflame Rebellions quenchlesse fires Which oft such large expence doth much inlarge Who oft the same vpon the King discharge Shee wils that holsome Lawes should be ordain'd Bereaving Kings of pow'r t' infringe the same For if their Crownes are by the Lavves sustain'd They should not breake the Props lest al the Frame Should fal to their confusion and shame That of Reteyners shee would have obseru'd Else most Ignobles in a Nobles name Wil let Lawes course which should be safe reseru'd And wrack the Poore which law would haue coÌ„serv'd And as the Law should governe Maiestrates So should the Maiestrates the People sway The Governours are living Lavves in States And a dumbe Maiestrate the Lavve is ay As Bodies Reason and the Soule obay So States should Law and Maiestrates by right For Law is Reason keeping all in Ray By which the wise themselues doe guide aright And Vulgares have it from Law-givers light She bidds the Sou'raigne take heede how he heares Much lesse embrace th' advice of selfe Conceipt For such Conceipt hath neither Eyes nor Eares To heare or see another but doth waite Vpon her selfe admiring her owne height In cases doubtfull it is dangerous T'admitte light Councells for for want of weight T' wil make the case to be more ponderous The whilst such Councells prove Aereous For it s oft seene that Publike Policie Occurrs with matters
good hart will haue consideration of his meate diet Eccl. 30.25 Eccl. 10.17 Note Simil. a Corne. Psal. 144. 13 Pro. 27. 26. The person that is ful despiseth an hony-combe but vnto the hungry Soules as hunger-bitteÌ„ Soldiers every bitter thing is sweete Prov. 27.7 * The fore part of the Scull Psal. 104. 1â— Eccl. 31.28 When the righteous are in auctority the people reioyce but when the wicked bear rule the people sigh Prover 29 2. * Psal. 144. 9. Ps. 119.67.71 God King Sir Phil. Sidâ— Sir R. Sidney Sir Ed. Dy. Sir Ed. Wingfield The light of the kings couÌ„tenaÌ„ce is life his fauour is as a clowde of the later raine Prover 16.15 * 1. Tim. 6.15 Rom. 19.16 * Psa. 64.45.6 2. Pet. 2.4 In Gâ—d are all sith without him are no Ioyes Math. 11 2â— Deut. 32.42 Ramuâ— Paris Rochel They disease thereby killing and ease them being killed 2. Kin. 11.1,2,3 2. Kin. 16. 3. 2 Chro. 28.16 * 2. Kin 6.26 27,28,29 2. Sam 7.18 Gen 10.6.8.10 Isai. 66.19 Sir Roger Williams f P. Parmâ— Ioh. 10.12.18 * Christ the true God of Wisedome the onelie Sunne inâ—lightning our Intelligence * The secrets of the highest Heaven are farre aboue the reach of humane Reasonâ— * Every knowledge hath its beginning of the senses which are often deceiu'd Therefore all scieÌ„ces which are deriu'd fast rooted in the senses are vncertaine deceiptfull a The vnderstanding abused by the misreport of the inferior senses diverts the will from embracing good obiected to hir 3. Kinds of Appetites in all creatures The naturall apetite two-folde Soules Vegetatiue The natural desire how devided The sensitiue apetite two-fold a Though Beastâ— haue much more perfect outwaâ—d senses then Men yet can thâ—y not imploy them reasonably as Men doo b Free-will is not avoided by grace but established because grace healeth the Will that is giveth vs a will to righteousnes Aug. de spiritu littera Cap. 30. c That we doâ— will wellâ— God worketh of himself without vs and when we will so well that we doe accordingly God worketh togither with vs. August De gratia libero arbitrio Cap. 17 d God draweth vnto him but he draweth none but the willing e God giues regenerate Men free-will to do well but the reprobate haue free-will onely to doe evill Musculus coÌ„moÌ„ places f Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that to come When Man pleaseth God God wil please Man All is to be given to God who prepareth the good-will of Man to bee holpen and helpeth i being pâ—epared Aug Enchir. ad Laurent Cap. 22. g These are Beasts in humane shape whereof the World 's too full h Griefe Ioy are alwaies Consociates of our will i The will naturally cannot desite that which in nature is evill Will makes Reason to attend her The Wil may obiect or not obiect what shee will to the Minde The vnderstaÌ„ding straineth out of the secret hidâ— causes of thinges that which to wisdoÌ„e is incident Wil exacting the saÌ„e * The Wil refuseth Good being found not for being good but not being so good as it willingly would hauâ— Iâ—l spirits may provoke our faÌ„tasies wilâ— It is a kind of bondage to haue powre wil and liberty to doe ill Whosoever seekes felicity where it is not shall finde infelicity where it is Reason and mans desires shoulde be in continuall league The Hart and Minde beeing at Vnity procure the tranquility of the Affections The Braines and Hart are the Seates of Reason and the AffectioÌ„s Sin is nothing because it was made without him without whoÌ„ nothing was made that was made a Sinne. b The scriptur c That is betweene Reason and the Affections Reason Concupiscence Ire 3. speciall powres of the Soule Anima Mens Animus Ratio Spiritus Scientia The soule vseth not the ministry of the outward senses when shee is swallowed vp with divine meditations The soule being divine works divinely if shee bee not hindred by her Clog the body The Hart the Mirror of the Minde A cleane Hart and a cleane soule are convertible * Natures providence for Manns good should lift vp his minde to the consideration of the loue of a greater Good The Hart is the fountaine of naturall heate The Hartes motion is double * A motiue to brotherly loue taken from the disposition of the Members The flesh of the Hart is the firmest flesh of any part of the Body * Iniustâ—ce makes great Kinges lesse then Fame can take notice of The Hart is hang'd in the Brest by even counterpoise Many good comâ—lexions are ill in conditions Mutual loue is to be learned from the mutuall assistaÌ„ce of the partes of the body Vertues Throne is erected iust betweene extreames * Murder themseluâ—s a The Soule Vegeâ—atiuâ— dâ—siâ—es to Be The Sensitiue to be well The reasonable to be best and therfore it never rests till it be ioyned to the best * Eviâ—l cleaves to each worldly Good as Canker doth to Silver * Ioy and sorrow as Plato affirmes are the Ropes wherewith we are drawne to the embracing or avoiding of euery action * Iudgement foregoes the Affections * The Affections may work without souÌ„d advisement a The Soule worketh by motion and the Body by Action * Phisicke can extenuate the Humors that make the Body vnapt to execute the workes of Vertue * Humors be the children of the Elements An Element what 2. Elements in Phisick-Arte Complexion what Wel tempred Complexion what Il CoÌ„plexion what The Bodies temper is fiue waies discerned A natural reason for the gurmaÌ„dizing and quaâ—fing of the Flemmings The Coulor shews the bodies temper The reason why men cholericke of coÌ„plexion are â—oone angry A humor what Howe the meates are changed to Humors How the Humors raigne in mans body How when the Planets rule in mans body Precise dates assigned to severall changes of mans age in his life Psal. 31.11 * Paint the face * Bis puer The Aire wee breath may hasteÌ„ our age Causes of the Aiers putrification consequently of grosse witte The passions of the Aier do affect our Minds The situation of the Place makes the Aier good or badde Foode good or badd helpes or hinders Witte a The Hart Brayne * Wine moderatly taken cheeâ—es â—he Haâ—t spiâ—itâ— 3. Offices of Drinke f Vomittâ— g Gluttony Drunkenâ—sâ—e are he horrible sepultureâ— of mans reason iudgment Temperate exercise available to minde and bodie Natural heate The Sons of Adam borne to labour Divinity oft in dreames A natural reason for the divinity of Dreames Over much watching debilitates our wittes This waking care breaketh the sleepe as a great sickenesse breakes the sleepe Eccle 31 2. â—â—re enemy â—o sleâ—pe and â—â—â—epe coÌ„â—orâ—â—â— of Care Care a CaÌ„ker to Minâ—e and Body a The laboure of like Bodies be not a like painfull For glory in a Prince makes the laboure lighter then that