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The muses melody in a consort of poetrie with diverse occasionall and compendious epistles / composed by the author Tho. Jordan.
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Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
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HEre lyes in dust a married man's great wo A nimble Linguist or a quick-tongu'd shrew Now she is dead and dust to dust is flung The earth holds her that ne'r could hold her tongue On Jack Summer who with two shillings won twenty pounds of Captaine Swallow WHen poor Iack Summer was an overcomer Of Swallows purse one Swallow made a Summer On Scorta SCorta the whore sayes she 'l pay all her owings In the next Term if God send good her doings An Epitaph on Mr. Will. Lawes Batchelor in Musick who was mortally shot at the siege of Westchester COncord is conquer'd In this Urne there lies The Master of great Musick 's mysteries And in it is a riddle like the cause Will. Lawes was slain by such whose wills were laws A Defence for Musick in its Practique and Theorick Dedicated to all Lovers of Harmony but more especially to the much honored Mr. JOHN ROGERS EMpress of Order whose eternal Armes Put Chaos into Concord by whose Charmes The Cherubims in Anthems cleer and even Create a Consort for the King of Heaven Inspire me with thy Magick that my Numbers May rock the never-sleeping Soul in slumbers Tune up my Lyre that when I sing thy merits My subdivided Notes may sprinkle Spirits Into mine Auditory whilst their fears Suggest their souls are sallying through their ears What Tropes or Figures can thy glories reach That art thy self the splendor of all Speech Mysterious Musique He that doth thee right Must shew thy Excellence by thy own Light Thy Purity must teach us how to Praise As men seek out the Sun with his own rayes What Creature that hath Being Life or Sense But wears the badges of thy Influence Musique is Harmony whose copious bounds Is nor confined onely unto Sounds 'T is the Eys object for without Extortion It comprehends all things that have Proportion Musique is Concord and doth hold allusion With every thing that doth oppose Confusion In comely Architecture it may be Known by the Name of Uniformity Where Pyramids to Pyramids relate And the whole Fabrick doth configurate In perfectly proportion'd Creatures we Accept it by the title Symmetry When many Men for some design convent And all concentre it is call'd consent Where mutual hearts in sympathy do move Some few embrace it by the name of Love But where the Soul and Body do agree To serve their God it is Divinity In all melodious Compositions wee Declare and know it to be Symphonie Where all the Parts in Complication roll And every one contributes to the whole He that can set and humor Notes aright Will move the Soul to Sorrow to Delight To Courage Curtesie to Consolation To Love to Gravity to Contemplation It hath been known by its Magnetique Moâ—… To raise Repentance and advance Devotion It works on all the Faculties and why The very Soul it self is Harmony Musique it is the breath of Second Birth The Saints employment and the Angels Mirth The Rhetorick of Seraphims a Gem In the Kings Crown of New Ierusalem They sing continually the Exposition Must needs infer there is no intermission I hear some men hate Musick let them shew In holy writ what else the Angels do Then those that do despise such sacred Mirth Are neither fit for Heaven nor for Earth A Banquet of Discord dish'd up and dedicated to all lovers of Confusion and contemners of Concord 1. COme hither you to whom the breath Of Musique is a second Death Whose untun'd ears are neither 〈◊〉 For Concord Poesie nor wit That chatter in unpointed Prose And use no Organ but the Nose Who Fantsie nothing but the rents Of Families and Governments Whose spirits are as rude as Rocks And Blasphemies are Orthodox My Fantsie hath a mess of Ministrâ—…s which Shall please you all and make your long ears itch 2. The first soft Musique I can finde Are herds of Hogs perplex'd with winde And taught by Dogs of Farmers house The tearing Sol-fa of the Souse And next to please your approbation A Quire of Cats in Copulation Where you will hear exceeding skill If treble Puâ—…s but hit the â—…rill But to provoke your active heeles Fifty new Carts with ungreas'd Wheeles sound Then when Hogs Cats and Wheeles in Chorus Who will not say you are with Discord crown'd 3. The next in stead of Drums and Tabors Twelve Strumpets in aboâ—…tive Labors To mixe with these a shrill Grand Jury Of Fiâ—…-wives fill'd with Ale and fury Whose every close doth sweetly roare With Witch and Bitch and Bawd and Whore Ten Pewterers with Platters empty Tinkers and Kettles four and twenty Thirty Lock-smiths forty fellows Blowing of as many Bellows And whilst all these in Parts together chime I will have sixteen rag-mills to beat time 4. Then for the melody of Fowles Thirteen Peacocks nineteen Owles Fifteen Ravens eighteen Dawes Naked Rooks with empty Crawes And instead of Lutes and Citterns Chatt'ring Magpies Crows and Bitterns With a set of Trencher-scrapers That will make your teeth cut Capers And to fill ye with amazements Northern windes and open Casements If these will not content to help the Quire The Bells shall ring as when a Town 's on fire 5 Dying men when they are Rack'd Womens cryes when Towns are sack'd Irish mourners when they howle Over some departed soul Wracks at Sea where few are savers Whirlwinds cut in Semi-quavers For I know without misprision You are Lovers of Division This is Musique fit for them Who do Harmony contemn When this grows stale and that you wish for new The other world may better furnish you An Epigram on a Mad-man A Friend desir'd me once as I pass'd by Bedlam the Dippers University To walk in there with him where when I came I did behold one as much out of frame As was the Chaos in continual Night Before Jehovah said Let there be Light Madness and Drunkenness conjoyn'd in one Would sure have made a less confusion Then that within his Brayn some people by Observing so supreme an Extasie Ask'd if he were marryed that had this strange fit No quoth the mad-man I 'm not so mad yet A meer Souldiers Resolution written by his own aâ—…rection in the yeer 1642. PReach not to me the justice of your Cause Your Priviledges or the Kingdoms Laws Nor call 't Religion to oppose your King Such stale pretences fram'd for quarrelling I le neither hear nor ayd I come to be A sacrifice for my Necessity Give me the Coyn shew me the golden showrs That onely is my Cause and why not yours But late I heard a winged Herald sing The Cause hath left us and is gone to th' King Why then beat up your Drums leavy your Men We all go for the Cause to fetch 't agen Yet stir not till the Troopers have their pay The price of blood just thirty pence a day This makes me mount my Jennet do not tell What else we fight for and the Fiends of hell Circled with unextinguishable fires Shall never
before were forc'd To flye from Naseby ragged and unhors'd The State took care for them that since their fall They should be drest in Haberdashers-hall A Congratulatory to the bountiful Lover of the Liberal Sciences Sir THOMAS PRESTWICH Baronet BRight Beam of honor in whose worth and wâ—… The ravish'd ruines of the Muses sit If wishes wing'd with the felicious flight Of nimble numbers may create delight Or if this composition may set forth The zeal of one that hath more will then worth â—…uspend your approbation and you 'l see How much my Loâ—…e exceeds my Poetry Heroick thoughts enflame your soul may no Affronts afflict you wheresoe'er you go All that is mix'd in Consolations dish What studious man can think or we can wish Crown all your Contemplations may the skie With fattest favours fill your Treasurie Honor embalm your Name and may your fall Make you rebound to joys Aethereal May all the happiness that can be due To a redeemed Spirit wait on you Love be your Manuductor may the tears Of Penitence free you from future fears Divinity direct your wary ways And guard you from the forth of bad mens praise These wishes issue from the soul of one Who means you more then he can think upon To Coll. Washington on his word Away with 't c Composed in 1643. COme Gentlemen Away with 't stand t' your Arms In waâ—… the valiant prove most free from harms The Rear's not more secure then is the Van Death doth not always meet the formost Man What would become of me then who did ne'er Bring up the Front to fall into the Reare Like some wise Leader who can well endure The Guns to quarrel whilst they stand secure Who fain would purchase honor if they durst He that Commands in chief should be serv'd first And so will I be though the field be set With Henbane Wormwood deadly Acconiâ—… Or what soe'er comes terrible to fright The Feeling Hearing Tasting Sent or Sight My word 's Away with 't if you 'l know the Cause 'T is this it comprehends my Martial Lawes Let not a Souldier dare that bears a Gun Having receiv'd his weekly pay to run Away with 't lest the Marshal arm'd with death Stop both at once his running and his Breath Let 〈◊〉 a souldier from a Townsmans grass Drive forth a Lamb or Sheep he shall not pass Away with 't lest he suffer that and more If more can be then his Camrade before Let not a Souldier in his Quarters break A Trunk or Chest for gold he shall not sneak Away with 't 't is his Majesties intent 〈◊〉 should command an honest Regiment But hear me souldiers if you sack a Town That is in opposition to the Crown And in their bags or Cabinets do know Where Plate and Jewels are I 'll bid ye goe Away-with't 't is no more thâ—… suâ—…um 〈◊〉 To pillage them that come to Plunder us If you finde Linnen Woollen Swords and Knives Or any thing but their unuseful wives Away with 't but you sots that do enclâ—…e To pillage Cellars of their Beer and Wine Take heed of Rats-bane such fair bayts are seâ—… To tempt your Palates and you 'l hardly geâ—… Away with 't if ye finde Powder and Match â—…ikes Musquers Bullets with all quick dispatch Away with 't load the Cart when all is done 〈◊〉 march Away with it quoth Washington On 〈◊〉 â—…-Precher Went the other day to see a Lay-man Ascend the Pulpit some say 't was a Dray-maâ—… 〈◊〉 in his Prayers he made as â—…me believ'd 〈◊〉 hundred sevâ—…ral faces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…o see him so for iâ—… he wâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…ey were no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the great lover and protector of Honor and Sciences Sir Henry Newton Knight c. SIR I salute your Candor and commit These courser Compositions to your Wit All that I can commend unto your youth And abler skill is this That they are truth Much Learning and Humanity we see Doth issue from your ingenuity Vice is your Enemy and there doth flow Nothing but worth from your Seraglio Excellent Sir I know you use to sip Much of the Muses fair goodfellowship Leander and lov'd Hero's Life and Death With all the Verse since Queen Elizabeth Lifts not the front of Fantsie up so high As you can when your Genius will comply All that is Excellently Good and New Pious and profitable chaste and true You have an int'rest in y' are one of those That love all worth which men e'er spake in Prose Reason and all the rules of Art have taught You to excel in things above my thought The figure of your fame deserves to grow Green in the leaves of Michael Angele Xeuxes or great Apelles I shall then Conclude and leave you to a nobler Pen. EPISTLES Queint And COMPENDIOUS To a Lady of most Excellent Perfections Honoured Madam PErmit the humblest of your faithful servants to invade your sacred retirements with a few expressions proceeding from the white verity of a Genius made eloquent onely by your Excellence I will not enter into a commendation of your Beauty because it is so high a degree above my Rhetorick that to attempt it were as vaine as to wash white the snow-crown'd hills of Italy or cast Vermilion upon Roses To give a character of your swift wit sober judgement curious fantsie and capacious intellect with a rough draught from my rude Pencil were as impertinent and impossible as to discover the Sun in his Meridian with the bashful rayes of a wax candle I shall therefore in glories of this kind convert all expression to admiration But if you will believe that your Excellencies have wrought in me delights of such a ravishing nature that they exceed all temporal felicity and that you dare extend your favours to one who loves you next to his Relion that would esteem it greater honor to serve you then to command both the Indies and all things else in the world which that treasure can purchase vouchsafe the cordial encouragements of your literal returns and felicious presence to Madam The humblest of your Admirers To a young Lady from a Gent. whose Parents commanded him to desist from loving Madam THat I was once your Servant and that your vertue was the object of my sincere devotion is so fair a verity that I shall never blush to acknowledge it nor is there any intervenient evil on yours or my part that can claim the cruel priviledge to mortifie your merit or myaffection but since we all live within the circumscription of God and Nature I must take leave sadly to tell you that I am constrained to let obediential fear nullifie nuptial love and that no less a power then what doth solely sway divine and humane actions could have put so unwelcome a period to our little less then perfect unity my parent and my natural aliance being the only hinderance which I beseech you in your native clemency so to consider that if ever you untye