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A08316	Vicissitudo rerum An elegiacall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world. The first part.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1600 (1600)	STC 18642; ESTC S113308	17,364	48

Vicissitudo rerum AN Elegiacall Poeme of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world The first Part. Omnia tempore producuntur mutantur consumuntur AVT NVNC AVT NVNQVAM Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill neere Carterlane 1600. To the Right honorable Sir VVilliam Howard knight the Lord Howard of Effingham Sonne and heyre apparent to the Right Honorable Earle of Nottingham Lord high Admirall of England MInerua fained goddesse of best skill Seem'd friendles to my sad feeble Muse The Sisters nine bar'd me Parnassus hill Mount Helicon where praised Poets vse Therefore my Lord my pen deserues no praise But pardon Honor pardons weake essayes The Change of things in slender verse I sing A weighty subiect common yet to all From lowest creature to the loftiest thing Nature her workes doth tosse like Tennis ball Now rayz'd by force then downe again by poyze Rising ne falling she showes not by noyze But when sterne Time eche thing created sees She fawnes a while and tenters it on Pride And soone she frownes and then forthwith decrees To pull it downe and lay that thing aside Yet as a mother she againe doth beare Some new and that a while she doth vpreare Thus Time by turnes turnes all things out of date And will preuaile till she her selfe haue end For sure things changes proue time terminate And times exchanges doth her turne portend This time once gone a timelesse time shall bee Till then in things a changing state wee see This mooues my Muse erst silent now to sing Though slenderly the swift exchange of things And this to you my Lord I fearfull bring Wishing that time that plants puls downe Kings Would daigne long time to her that still is one By whome we here enioy true Helicon At your Honors command Io. Norden The Preface SYth Time applaudes to see Varieties And nought more alters then Times chāging dayes It fits the Time to sing sad Eligies Of Things exchanges florish and decayes And how Things past rest now as things forgot And Things that are exchange and come to end How Time begins to solue the fatall Knot VVhereon the World and worldly things depend Yea Things aloft of th'mouing Firmament Are seene to alter by Times swaying hest The Heauens Spheres Bodies circumferent Are not as earst but in their course opprest The Elements and elementall things Do change and by silent degrees decay The Sea and Land Riuers and water Springs Stay not at one but oft exchange their way And Man himselfe stands as a wauing Twig Bent to and fro or broken with the wind In no state constant be he base or big Ech thing comes diuers in his proper kind As by this first part these are partly seene The second showes the alterations That in the world by course of Time haue beene In Men in Cities Kings and Nations Ouid. Metam lib. 15. Sic tempora verti Cernimus atque alias assumere robora gentes Concidere has Mar. lib. 9. Quid non longa dies quid non consumitis anni 1. SOme sing the Regall actes of worthy Kings Some of fell Warres some of a publique State Some praise haut Beawty some praise baser things Wittes haue their change Will stāds in highest rate Will yet doth wauer Pennes paint Loue Hate Therfore my pen shal publish change in all One onely Essence standing firme from fall 2. The Heauens in their peereles pryde may bost That they in their orbiculer figure Are farre the freest and by change vntost Keeping by turne their Reuolutions sure Though still reuoluing yet alike endure As Orbes and Circles figures perfectest Held by all Artistes to excell the rest 3. The Heauens seeme of most admired might Fixed on nothing yet stand firme and fast Prouidence Diuine them hath so set aright Worldes may not waue them nor vnprop their bast Who then essayes to prooue they will not last Syth from creating they are as they were Not changed by chace nor alter'd by their stere 4. These Figures then form'd of most perfect mold Shaped by Science farre exceeding Wit If they haue change how may the baser hold That haue their Vigors b'influence of it A powre more potent boue this Powre doth sit That giues and guides and swayes all as it list In whome the Heauens and the rest consist 5. And all the mouers and the voluing sphere He first created and disposed so As to haue progresse and againe reuere To tell the Times and seasons as they go Mouing in Circles daily to and fro Ginning and ending as their Circles bee Greater or lesser distinct by degree 6. Ten Spheres in one Astronomers do hold The tenth reuoluing in his fixed tide Twenty foure houres and then his circle rold Againe reuolues powers infinite her guide From East to West still on the dexter side And by her course most swift and impetous The rest she moueth most miraculous 7. For in the selfe same time she moues the rest Although their mouings contrary to her Be on sinister part from West to East And that the ninth Astrologers auerre Hath forty nine thousand yeeres thus to erre Thirty thousand to the eighth assign'd Againe seuen thousand as the learned find 8. The Sphere of Saturne in her thirty yeeres Returnes and Iupiter in twelue they sayne Doth runne his race Fell Mars in two appeares To end his course reuoluing backe againe Sol Venus Mercury haue one yeere to raigne The Moone the lowest soone her circle rounds Twice foureteene daies then againe rebounds 9. This comely course and order of this frame May challenge most if ilke Perfection be Or State not changing but as still the same The Heauens yet a body as wee see In all her parts from Change cannot be free Nor still perseuer as they first were set Though none haue power but Power diuine to let 10. Let Time bee testie in this cause of doubt That did begin when Heauens and Lights were made She was and is and shall remaine throughout But not alike shee flourish'd gins to fade Dayes Weekes and Months and Yeeres she makes by trade All these doe change none doth alike abide Summer nor Winter Autumne or Spring-tide 11. The dayly moouing of this Firmament Distinguyes frowning Nights from fawning Dayes And either by such entercourses pent As they ne passe due time nor make delayes None checks the Sunne to shade or send her rayes To banish Darkenes and to fill with Light What was eclipsed with the shade of Night 12. Yet neither Day nor Night continues one But by reciprocall exchange imparts Each to the other Time as Time is gone Time turnes the Yeere into his aptest parts And Yeere to Yeere lends time likewise by arts Rising and falling changing by degree The present vnlike the preter yeere wee see 13. The first and greatest Mouer of the rest Imparts her moouing to the lesser Spheres To men and beasts and creatures as the Test And tries

the bodies that Nature vpreares Prouing their temper and their temper steres Mong all the creatures that are earthly built Best temper'd stand distemper'd soonest spilt 14. Nay mindes inclines and manners good and bad Proceede some say by moouings and aspects Of Heauens Spheres and Plannets wherewith clad That giue and take and worke the sole effects In Men and Beasts and in all earthly sects All which beginne and end by influence That doth proceede by Heauens concurrence 15. Vertues and vices health and sicknesse too Long and short life force feeblenesse and wit Yea well and ill the Heauens egge to doo All earthly bodies subiect vnto it Humane affayres prayse-worthie and vnfit Depend on these that of themselues are not But stand created to their proper lot 16. Though some prerogatiue aboue the rest They haue An instrumentall meane onely And not the cause efficient confest A fatall Law or of necossitie None holds it so that hath fidelitie Let sacred Wisedome be our studies guide To stay on him that is and will abide 17. The pleasing Sunne with sweete resplending rayes Doth rise and set and yeeldes such influence As earthly creatures glorie in the dayes Not in sad nights that come by consequence The sunnie beames that comfort passed hence Men birds and beasts trees and the hearbes in field Bemone the lacke of what the day did yeeld 18. Whereby wee see the Sunne is held a ghest That with his rayes filles all the fields with glee The plants the hearbs the blossoms and the rest Vnfolde in token of gratuitie Preaching to men the Sunnes benignitie That ayne reuiues their members late neere dead All creatures ioy to see her beames espred 19. The Sunnes ascent and her descent renewes The yeere with change as she comes farre or neere Her course oblique depriues againe endewes The earthly bodies and their powers arere The Solstices and Equinoxes bere As on the wings of th' Zodiackes twelue signes They yeeres foure parts diuided by their lines 20. The Winter with his siluer hayres beginnes When Capricorne receiues declining Sunne As she returnes from Autumne where she lins And with his cold and moysture now begunne Depriues the bodyes of their pride late wonne And all the creatures that of yore grew gay By like degrees doe wither and decay 21. The louely Spring which liuely lends her skill To re'install these creatures in their pride Enters the Ram and equalize she will The Nights and Dayes A moyst and hotter tyde Restoring greene what Winter had vndi'de And yeelds them vigor that were erst decayde All sects reioyce to bee thus re'arrayde 22. Then comes the Summer with her gloornie rayes Imbracing Cancer parching hote and drie Making short nights and the longest dayes The Summer Solstice heaues the Sunne so hie That forthwith she falles and alters by and by The surface of the Earth and all earthly things Thus Time turnes the worlds glasse with silent wings 23. Friendlesse Autumne vnclothes againe apace All that the Spring had clad so fayre before The Sunne in Libra with beclouded face Affords sad nights longer then of yore Depriuing sap and withers by her lore All vegitables and transformes the rest A necessarie but vnwelcome ghest 24. The Yeere thus parted in her qualities Yeeldes great effects vnto the Earths creatures Compounded termed Elementaries As of elementall temperatures Grosse soone decay the purest best endures Exceeding in one qualitie it dies Nought hath true meane that is below the skies 25. The Moone hath secrets in her times effects She swayes the humors ouer which she raignes Increasing decreasing full in aspects Still she disposeth Bodyes and their Vaines In her some mysterie no doubt remaines That worketh wonders by the meane of her Which some affirme so farre in it they erre 26. For shee a creature can yeeld no Euent Compact as other elementall things Her vertue in Decrease and Increment But purer and pure qualities she brings Soring her circuite by diuiner wings And through the force of her high qualities She works in Bodies sundrie faculties 27. As in the Ebbes and flowing of the Deepe By course and by reciprocall retreat Moou'd by the Moone as she her course doth keepe The Ebbe makes emptie Floud againe repleate The Moone in Forme the Sea vnlike in Seate Their like concurrence and like changes shew The Moone and Sea alike to wane and grow 28. The Starres that wander and that fix'd remaine Do cause in ayre great changes Cold and Heate Windes Thunder Tempests and great gusts of Raine And their Aspects and Oppositions met Some strange presages of Euents beget Of Warre of Death of Famine Drought and Pest. Yet nought befalles but by supernall hest 29. Though some affirme that these mutations Of changes and of strange and rare euents Proceede of such like innouations As heauenly bodies and their concurrents Worke in the like compounded Elements And giue them moouing issue and successe As if effects proceeded of the lesse 30. The lesse yet great lesse in respect of one Who mooues the Moouer of these Moouers all He he the swayer of euents alone And sinne the cause that moues these to our thrall That moue and change and cause men rise or fall Not as these will but as the Powers aboue Make them the meanes to checke for change of loue 31. The greatest changes and most rare euents In States in Kingdomes and in greatest sects Are sayd to issue of the Spheres dissents The eight and ninth not by their ioynt aspects Their awkward moouings breede rarest effects Not by their natures inclination But by their motiue trepedation 32. Besides coniunction of triplicities Of Saturne Iupiter and Mars aspecting Are held most powerfull principalities Greatest alterations effecting Their triplicities duely respecting Fierie or ayrie watrie or earthly Th' euent corresponds the triplicity 33 Of such some count seu'n since the world begunne Fiue thousand fiue hundred sixtie two yeeres The eight shall be when foure yeeres more are come By testie of the best Astrologers Presaged thus it may well summon teares That he that rules may moderate his ire Lest World consume with fearefull gusts of fire 34. Seneca reports Belus to foresee The vniuersall deluge e're it came And when the conflagration should be To burne the masse as water drown'd the same When of the Starres such opposition came As one right line might pierce their circles all In Cancer signe this last effect should fall 35. The antique Poets in their Poems tel'd Vnder their fondest Fables mysteries By Phaeton how heauens powers rebel'd In fires force and by the histories Of Pirrha and Deucalion there lies The like of waters impetuitie In part concurring with diuinitie 36. Which hath reueyl'd the Worlds destruction By water past her future fall by fire But holds the cause sinne not coniunction Of fire or waters selfe-reuenging ire The Powers diuine commoue them to conspire To make the earth and earthly bodies nought That doe defile what he so pure hath wrought 37. The Priests