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cause_n	good_a	reward_n	work_n	2,765	5	6.8633	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17961	Poems By Thomas Carevv Esquire. One of the gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber, and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty.	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639? Cœlum Britannicum.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.	1640 (1640)	STC 4620; ESTC S107383	70,156	270

accounts Leases Rents Stewards and the feare of theeves That vex the rich nurse her in calme repose And with her all the Vertues speculative Which but with me find no secure retreat For entertainment of this houre I le call A race of people to this place that live At Natures charge and not importune heaven To chayne the winds up or keepe back the stormes To stay the thunder or forbid the hayle To thresh the unreap'd eare but to all weathers Both chilling srost and scalding Sunne expose Their equall face Come forth my swarthy traine In this faire circle dance and as you move Marke and foretell happy events of Love They dance the fifth Antimasque of Gypsies Mom. I cannot but wonder that your perpetuall conversation with Poets and Philosophers hath furnished you with no more Logick or that you should thinke to impose upon us so grosse an inference as because Plutus and you are contrary therefore whatsoever is denyed of the one must bee true of the other as if it should follow of necessity because hee is not Iupiter you are No I give you to know I am better vers'd in cavils with the gods then to swallow such a fallacie for though you two cannot be together in one place yet there are many places that may be without you both and such is heaven where neither of you are likely to arrive therefore let me advise you to marry your selfe to Content and beget sage Apothegmes and goodly morall Sentences in disprayse of Riches and contempt of the world Merc. Thou dost pres●… me too much poore n●…dy wretch To claime a station in the Firmament Because thy humble Cottage or thy Tub N●…ses some lazie or Pedantique vertue In the cheape Sun-shine or by shady springs With roots and pot-he●…rbs where thy right hand T●…ing those humane passions from the mind Vpon whose stocks faire blooming vertues flourish Deg●…deth Nature and ●…ummeth sense And Gorgon-like turnes active men to stone Wee not require the dull society Of your necessitated Tempe●… Or that unnaturall stupidity That knowes nor joy nor sorrow nor you●… forc'●… Falsly exalted passive Fortitude Above the active This low abject brood That fix their seats in mediocrity Become your servile minds but we advance Such vertues only as admit excesse Brave bounte●…us Acts Regall 〈◊〉 All-seeing Prudence Mag●…nimity That knowes no bound and that Heroick vertue For which Antiquity hath left no name But patternes only such as Hercules Achilles Thes●…us Backe to thy loath'd cell And when thou seest the new enlightned Spheare Study to know but what those Worthies were Tiche enters her head bald behind and one great locke before wings at her shoulders and in her hand a wheele her upper parts naked and the skirt of her Garment wrought all over with Crownes Scepters Bookes and such other things as expresse both her greatest and and smallest gifts Mom. See where Dame Fortune comes you may know her by her wheele and that vayle over her eys with which she hopes like a seel'd Pigeon to mount above the Clouds and pearch in the eighth Spheare listen she begins Fort. I come not here you gods to plead the Right By which Antiquity assign'd my Deitie Though no peculiar station 'mongst the Stars Yet generall power to rule their influence Or boast the Title of Omnipotent Ascrib'd me then by which I rival'd Iove Since you have cancell'd all those old records But confident in my good cause and merit Claime a succession in the vacant Orbe For since Astraea fled to heaven I sit Her Deputy on Earth I hold her skales And weigh mens Fates out who have made me blind Because themselves want eyes to see my causes Call me inconstant 'cause my workes surpasse The shallow fathom of their human reason Yet here like blinded Iustice I dispence With my impartiall hands their constant lots And if desertlesse impious men engrosse My best rewards the fault is yours you gods That scant your graces to mortality And niggards of your good scarce spare the world One vertuous for a thousand wicked men It is no error to conferre dignity But to bestow it on a vicious man I gave the dignity but you made the vice Make you men good and I 'le make good men happy That Plutus is refus'd dismayes me not He is my Drudge and the externall pompe In which he decks the World proceeds from me Not him like Harmony that not resides In strings or notes but in the hand and voyce The revolutions of Empires States Scepters and Crownes are but my game and sport Which as they hang on the events of Warre So those depend upon my ●…ning wheele You wa●…like Squadrons who in 〈◊〉 Dispute the Right of Kings which I 〈◊〉 Present the modell of that martiall 〈◊〉 By which when Grownes are stak'd I rule the game They dance the sixth Antimasque being 〈◊〉 representation of a Battell Mom. Madam I should censure you pro salso clam●…re for preferring a scandalous cros-bill of recrimination against the gods but your blindnesse shall excuse you Alas what would it advantage you if vertue were as universall as vice is it would onely follow that as the world now exclaimes upon you for exalting the vicious it would then raile as fast at you sor depressing the vertuous so they would still keepe their tune though you chang'd their Ditty Merc. The mists in which future 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wrap'd That oft succeed beside the purposes Of him that workes his dull eyes not discerning The first great cause offer'd thy clouded shape To his enquiring search so in the darke The groping world 〈◊〉 ●…ound thy Deity And gave thee rule over contingencies Which to the piercing eye of Providence Being fix'd and certaine where past and to come Are alwayes present thou dost disappeare Losest thy being and art not all Be thou then onely a deluding Phantome At best a blind guide leading blinder fooles Who would they but survay their mutuall wants And helpe each other there were left no roome For thy vaine ayd Wisedome whose strong-built plots Leave nought to hazard mocks thy futile power Industrious labour drags thee by the locks Bound to his toyling Car and not attending Till thou dispence reaches his owne reward Only the lazie sluggard yawning lyes Before thy threshold gaping for thy dole And licks the easie hand that feeds his sloath The shallow rash and unadvised man Makes thee his stale disburdens all the follies Of his mis-guided actions on thy shoulders Vanish from hence and seeke those Ide●…ts out That thy santasticke god head hath allow'd And rule that giddy superstitious crowd Hedone Pleasure a young woman with a smiling face in a light lascivious habit adorn'd with silver and gold her Temples crown'd with a Garland of Roses and over that a Rainbow circling her head downe to her shoulders Hedone enters Merc. What wanton 's this Mom. This is the sprightly Lady Hedone 〈◊〉 merry Gamester this people call her Pleasure Plea The reasons equall