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A57659	Mystagogvs poeticvs, or, The muses interpreter explaining the historicall mysteries and mysticall histories of the ancient Greek and Latine poets : here Apollo's temple is opened, the muses treasures discovered and the gardens of parnassus disclosed whence many flowers of usefull delightfull and rare observations never touched by any other mythologist are collected / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1964; ESTC R1748	187,684	318

bounty should stil be joyned with sinceriti● their smiling face shews that gifts should be given freely they are stil young because the remembrance of a good turne should never grow old they have winged feet to shew that good turns should be done quickly bi● da● qui cito dat 5. They that will be bountifull must take heed they exceed not lest they make themselves as naked as the Graces are painted there is a meane in all things and no man should go beyond his strength he may be bou●tifull that hath Euronyme for his wife that is large possessions and patrimonies as the word signifieth 6. There be many unthankfull people who are content still to receive benefits but never returne any these are they that strip the Graces of their garments and have reduced free hearted men to povertie 7. The Graces are called in the Greek Charites 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from joy or from health and safety and they still accompany the Muses Mercurie and Venus to shew that where learning eloquence and love are conjoyned there will never be wanting true joy health and contentment 8. I thinke by the three Graces may be meant three sorts of friendship to wit honest pl●asant and profitable honest and pleasant friendships which are grounded on vertue and delight looke towards us because they both aime at our good but profitable freindship lookes from us as aiming more at her owne gaine then our weale which as Seneca saith is rather traffick then freindship but all friendship should be naked and without guile and hypocrisie like the Graces still young and cheerefull and still nimble and quick to help 9. By the three Graces I suppose also may be meant the three companions of true love of which Aristotle speaks to wit 1. good will or benevolence 2 concord or consent of minds idem velle et idem nolle 3. bountie or beneficence these three like three Grace look one upon another and hold each other by the hands these ought to be n●ked pure still young and where these three are found to wit good will concord and bountie there shall not be wanting the three Graces that is 1. Thalia a flourishing estate 2. Agalia honor or glory 3. Euphresyne true joy and comfort for these are the handmaides of love 10. Faith hope and charitie are the three divine Graces pure and unspotted virgins daughters of the great God sincere and naked without guile looking upon one another and so linked together that here in this life they cannot be separated one from the other but their positure is somewhat different from the other Graces for of the other two look on us the third hath her back to us but in these three divine sisters one only looketh to us to wit charitie the other two faith and hope fix their eyes from us upon God faith is Aglaia the glory and honor of a Christian hope is Euphrosyne that which makes him joyfull we rejoyce in hope and charitie that is Thalia which would make our Christian state flourish and abound with all good things if wee would admit of her companie amongst us but by reason there is so little charitie I doubt me there is as little faith and hope for reject or admit of one you reject and admit of all CHAP. VIII H HARMONIA See CADMUS HARPIAE See BOREAS HEBE SHe was the daughter of Juno begot without a father only by eating of lettuce for Juno being invited to a feast by Apollo into Jupiters house shee presently conceived by feeding upon lettuce and bare this Hebe who for her beauty was made Jupiters cup bearer till she disgraced her self by a fall in Jupiters presence at a feast where shee discovered her nakednesse by which means shee l●st her office and Ganymed was chosen in her room The INTERPRETER 1. BY Juno is meant the air by Apollo the Sun by Hebe the fertility of th● earth which is caused by the air being warmed with the Sun and refreshed with cold and moist exhalations which is meant by the lettuce 2. By Hebe is meant the Spring by Ganymed the Winter both are Jupiters cup-bearers both moisten the earth Hebe is beautifull because the Spring is pleasant but when Hebe falls Ganymed succeeds so when the pleasant time of the yeer is gone Winter follows 3. I think rather that He●e was the daughter of Jupiter and Juno for Jupiter being the heaven and Juno the air by the influence of heaven upon the air is caused both serenity and fertility in this inferiour world 4. Jupiter would have none to serve him but such as were beautifull as Hebe and Gany●hed neither would God be served in the Tabernacle by such as had any deformity or blemish much lesse can they be fit to serve him who have deformed and maimed soules God is beauty it self Christ was the fairest amongst the sons of men and he will have hi● sister and spouse to be all fair and for this cause hee hath redeemed his Church that shee might be without spot or wrinkle or any such thing 5. Though Hebe had disgraced her self yet Jupiter married her afterward to Hercules by which is intimated that youth is accompanied with strength and vigour of body 6. Hebe was the sister of Mars to signifie that warrs doe accompany youth and fertilitie or richnesse of soyl 7. Hebe had a temple erected to her at Corinth which was a sanctuary for sugitives and idle persons so idlenesse and wantonnesse abound mos● in those Countries which are blessed with a temperate air and a fruitfull soile 8. Hebe was wont to be painted in the form of a childe clothed with a rich garment of divers colours and wearing garlands of flowers on her head by this they represented the nature of the Spring which is the infancie and beauty of the yeer clothed with partie coloured fields and meadowes and graced with delightfull and fragrant flowers 9. Adam was created beautifull both in body and soule therefore God delighted in him and made him his servant but by his fall hee discovered his nakednesse in the fight of God and Angels therefore was rejected and banished from Gods presence and that earthly heaven in which hee was but afterward God taking pitie of him married him to Christ the true Hercules who only by his power subdued all the monsters of the world 10. Though Jun● was at the feast with Apollo in Jupiters own house yet shee conceived not till shee ate lettuce this may signifie that the influence of heaven and heat of the Sun are but universall causes and do not work without the concurrence of the secondary and that the matrix is unapt to conceive if there be not a due proportion in it of heat and cold for if it be too hot it corrupteth the seed so excessive heat is a main cause of sterility 11. Jupiter would be served by young Hebe and young Ganymed to signifie that God will be served by us in our youth which

is the prime of our life therefore young men are not made for themselves and their own pleasures but to serve God Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth And remember young man that thou must come to judgement Josiah in his youth served the Lord. 12. Hebe fell in her younger yeers and when shee was at a feast youth and feasting are dangerous ten●ations and occasions of falling young peoples feet are slippery youth is more apt to fall then old age which made David pray Lord remember 〈◊〉 the sins of my youth And that feasting is the occasion of much falling is too apparent for it made Job goe to sacrificing when his children went to feasting and doubtlesse if they had not first fallen then in sin the house had not fallen then on them Therefore let all especially youth beware of feasting and drinking which drinking matches and merry-meetings were fitly from the ancient Gre●ks from Hebe called Hebetria 13. If Jupiter did not spare his own daughter which hee had of Juno but thrust her out of her office and drove her from his presence when she fell then let not the children of God think that they are more priviledged from punishment when they fall then others are ●ay judgement oftentimes begins at Gods own house and hee will correct every son whom he receiveth he neither spared the Angels nor Adam that were his sons by creation hee spared not Christ his onely begotten son by an in●fsible generation much lesse will hee spare them that are his sons onely by adoption Qui flagellat unicum sine pecca●o ●kin relinquet adop●iv●m cum peccato saith Augustine 14. Hercules was not married with Hebe till hee was received into heaven and his spirit placed among the starrs so whilest our sou's are in this earthly tabernacle they are deprived o● that true beautie youth vigour and alacrity which they shall enjoy in heaven 15. In that Juno conceived not till she had eat of the lettuce by this perhaps they did intimate that lettuce accidentally is the cause of fecundity for as Dioscorides Mattheolus and oth●rs shew lettuce or the seed thereof is good against the Gonorrhoea and also against nocturnall pollution in sleep which are hinderances to procreation 16. In that Jupiter removes Hebe from her office and his presence wee see in what slippery places Princes favourites are and how suddenly the affections of Princes are altered Ste● quicunque volet lubens aulae culmine lub●ico me dulcis sa●●●e● quies HECATE SHe was the daughter of Night or of Hell and the queen of hell of a huge stature and deformed face having snakes in stead of hairs and serpents for feet shee was accompanied with d●gs and had three heads to wit of a horse of a dog and of a man or of a wild hog as some think shee is called Luna Diana Proserpina Hecate Juno Lucina The INTERPRETER HEca●e is so called either from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is an hundred because she hath a hundred waies of working upon sublunary bodies or because of the hundred-fold increase of grain which Proserpina or the earth yeeldeth or from the heca●ombe or 100 sacrifices that were offered to her or from the 100 yeeres walking about the river S●yx of those soules whose bodies are unburied Cenium e●rant anno● volitantque haec littora circum or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is one of the titles of Apollo whose sister Hecate was and hee is so called from shooting his darts or rayes afar off 2. Hecate was said to be accompanied with dogs by which are meant the Furies and by these the tortures of an evill conscience which most of all howle and rage in the night time of which Hecate is queen Visaeque canes ululare per umbram Adventanie dea therefore her s●crifices were performed in the night and she was howled or called upon in the night by her pri●sts Nocturnisque Hecate●riviis ●riviis ululata per urbes and her sacrifices were black by all which the Poets elegantly signifie the terrours that accompany the guilt of sin chiefly in the night for then it was that Job complains hee was affrighted with visions and terrified with dreams and David saith that his sould refused comfort in the night 3. Hecate was said to be the goddesse or protectrix of witches because witches doe work most in the night and the time of darknesse is most fit for such works of darknesse and for such as are the servants of the prince of darknesse 4. Rich men were wont at night when they were going to bed to place a table for Hecate in the high wayes which they furnished with lupins mallowes leeks and other mean and savourlesse cates which the poor in a confused manner snatched all away while the rich men were asleepe hence arose those Proverbs Heca●ae coena for a meane and beggarly supper as also for a tumultuary or confused Feast And Anus digna Hecatae sacris for a miserable beggarly or poor woman Rich men now adayes use when they are ready to sleep their long sleep or to die to bequeathe some small share of their ill gotten goods to the poor and as it fared with these rich Romans so doth it now with our rich cormorants the wealth which they have with much care and pains been scraping together all their life is oftentimes dissipated and snatched away by strangers and wee see that the poor are more beholding to rich men in their death then in their life 5. Hecate is called Trivia because shee hath the charge of high-wayes because the high-waies are discernable by the Moon-light which in the dark are not easily found out and because the high-wayes are barren or fruitlesse hence Hecate is said to be a perpetuall virgin 6. Hecate was said to affright and terrifie men by which I suppose the Poets meant that fear and terrours proceed from an evill conscience 7. Hecate was the name of a cruell woman who delighted in hunting and in stead of killing or shooting beasts murthered men sure shee had been a fit wife for that mighty hunter Nimrod 8. The common conceit is that Hecate is so called whilest shee is in hell Luna while shee is in heaven and Di●na on the earth but I could never finde the reason of this conceit therefore I doe suppose that the Moon hath these three names from her divers affections or aspects for in the full shee is Luna quasi Lucens una giving light alone for then the Starres shine not though some of then are seen So shee is called also Lucina and Diana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the light of the Moon is a speciall gift of God Her other name Proserpina which is a serpendo hath relation to her increase and decrease for her light as it were insensibly creeping comes and goes But the third name Hecate was given to signifie the change in which shee affords us no light at all but then seems to be the Queen of hell or