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A16884	Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.	Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 378; ESTC S100113	209,794	528

dies Loue is all truth lust full of forced lies W. Shakespeare Where whoredome raignes there murder follows fast As falling leaues before the winters blast R. Greene. Lust is a fire and for an houre or twaine Giueth a scorching blaze and then he dies H. C. O deeper sinne then bottomlesse conceit Can comprehend in still imagination Drunken desire must vomit his receit Ere he can see his owne abhomination While lust is in his pride no exclamation Can cure his heate or raigne his rash desire Till like a Iade selfe-will himselfe do tire VV. Shakespeare Lust neuer taketh ioy in what is due But leaues knowne delights to seeke out new S. Daniell In chastitie is euer prostitute Whose trees we loath when we haue pluckt the fruite G. Chapman Eschue vile Venus toyes she cuts off age And learne this lesson of and teach thy friend By pocks death sudden begging harlots end M. of M. The lechars toong is neuer voyd of guile Nor Crocodile wants teares to win his praie The subtillest temptor hath the sweetest stile With rarest musicke Syrens soon'st betraie M. Drayton Lust puts the most vnlawfull things in vre Nor yet in limits euer could be bounded Till he himselfe himselfe hath quite confounded Idem Abandon lust if not for sin yet to auoyd the shame So hogs of Ithacus his men the Latian witch did frame VV. Warner That great Phisition that had liu'd in helth age admirde Did answer askt the cause not he had done as flesh desirde Idem The Spartans war for rapted queene to Ilions ouerthrow The Monarch of Assiria chang'd and Latine kings also For Tarquins lust Idem Each house for lust a harbor and an Inne Each citie is a sanctuary for sinne And all do pitie beautie in distresse If beautie chaste then onely pittilesse M. Drayton Lawes Deriue thy lawes from wisest heads to be vpholden still Not adding or abstracting as conceited tire brains will Encourage good men by thy loue reforme the bad by lawe Reserue an eare for either plea and borrow leaue of awe VV. VVarner In vaine be counsells statutes humaine lawes When chiefe of Councells pleades the iustest cause M. Drayton So constantly the Iudges conster lawes That all agree still with the stronger cause M. of M. Pansamias and Lisander by their swords And warlike vertues made Lacaena rich Fame followed them where they the tents did pitch But graue Licurgus by his lawes and words Did merit more then these renowned Lords D. Lodge Licurgus for good lawes lost his owne libertie And thought it better to prefer common commoditie G. Gascoigne That Lawyer thogh he more by art thē right doth ouerthrow Consents to sin deceiues the Iudge wrōg right is iustice foe VV. VVarner Libertie Sweete libertie to vs giues leaue to sing What world it was where loue the rule did beare How foolish chaunce by lots rul'd euery thing How errour was maine saile each waue a teare The Mr. loue himselfe deepe sighes weare winde Cares rowd with vowes the ship vnmerry minde False hope as firme oft turn'd the boate about In constant faith stood vp for middle mast Dispaire the cable twisted all with doubt Held griping griefe the piked Anchor fast Bewtie was all the rockes VV. Watson O liberty how much is that man blest Whose happie fortunes do his fa●es areede That for deserts reioyces to be freede Th. Storer Sweete libertie the lifes best liuing flame I. Markham Our lands may come againe but libertie once lost Can neuer find such recōpence as counteruails the cost G. Gascoigne Learne freedome and felicitie haukes flying where they list Be kindlier more sound then haukes best tended to the ●ist vv vvarner He liues to die a noble death that life forefreed once spends Idem The name of Libertie The watchword of rebellion euer vsde The idle Eccho of vncertaintie That euermore the simple hath abusde S. Daniell Life All mans life me seemes a Tragedie Full of sad sighes and sore Catastrophes First comming to the world with weeping eie Where all his dayes like dolorous Trophies Are heapt with spoyles of fortune and of feare And he at last laid forth on balefull beare Ed. Spencer Our life is but a step in dustie way S. Phil. Sidney This mortall life as death is tride And death giues life M. Roydon What in this life we haue or can desire Hath time of grow'th and moment of retire D. Lodge Our bodies euery foot-step that they make March toward death vntill at last they die Whether we worke or play or sleep or wake Our life doth passe and with times wings doth flie I. Dauies The life of man a warfare right in body and in soule Resignes his robbed carkasse to be rolled in the mould W. Warner The terme of life is limited Ne may a man prolong or shorten it The souldier may not moue from watchfull stid Nor leaue his stand vntill his captaine bid Ed. Spencer The longer life I wot the greater sin The greater sin the greater punishment Idem Thus passeth with the ouerplus of life The pleasant spring and flower of mortall life The Aprils pompe once subiect to decay Returnes not in the bud that earst was rife Whilest mornings weepe the liuely flower doth bost Then pluck the stalke and let not it be lost D. Lodge The sunne doth set and brings againe the day But when our life is gone we sleepe for aye Th. Ach. Sunne sets and riseth goes downe and quickly reuiueth But mans light once out eternall darknesse abideth Ab. Fraunce All mortall men must from this life be gone Of life and death there are more soules then one The greatest and most glorious thing on ground May often need the helpe of weakest hand So feeble is mans state and life vnsound That in assurance it may neuer stand Till it disordered be from earthly band Ed. Spencer The restlesse life which men here lead May be resembled to the tender plant It springs it sprouts as babes in cradle breed Flourish in May like youthes that wisedome want In Autumne ripe and rots least store waxe scant In winter shrinkes and shrowdes from euery blast Like crooked age when lustie youth is past G. Gascoigne The wicked liuers oftentimes haue wicked ends S. I. H. Life is not lost said she for which is bought Endles renowne that more then death is to be sought Ed. Spencer Better it is for one to liue obscure Then in a publike state to liue vnsure D. Lodge No life is blest that is not grac't with loue B. Ihonson They double life that dead things griefe sustaine They kill that feele not their friends liuing paine G Chapman That life 's ill spar'd that 's spar'd to cast more bloud S. Daniell Loue. Of Loue 's perfection perfectly to speake Or of his nature rightly to define Indeed doth farre surpasse our reasons reach And needs this priest t' expresse his power diuine For long before the world he was yborne And bred aboue in Venus bosome deare For by his

differs but the outward fame W. Sha. Seld shall you see the ruine of a prince But that the people eke like brunt do beare And old records of auncient times long since From age to age yea almost euery where With proofe hath glutted euery yeare Thus by the follies of the princes hart The bounden subiect still receiueth smart G. Gascoigne Quietnesse The wind is great vpon the highest hills The quiet life is in the dale below Who tread on y●e shall slide against their wills They want not cares that curious arts would know Who liues at ease and can content him so Is perfit wise and sets vs all to schoole Who hates this lore may well be call'd a foole M. of M. Quietnes the onely nurse or ease M. Dray Wellwot I sooth they say that say more quiet nights and daies The shepheard sleeps wakes then he whose cattell he doth graze VV. Warner Reason Logicke reason in a daunce Reson the Cynosure and bright load-starre In this worlds sea t' auoyd the rocke of chaunce For vith close following and continuance O●e reason doth another so ensue A in conclusion still the daunce i● true I. Dauies Reason should haue abilitie To h●ld these worldly things in such proportion As lethem come or go with euen facilitie S. Phil. Sidney ●uery thing that is begun with reason Will c●●e by ready meanes vnto his end But thi●gs miscounselled must needs miswend Ed. Spencer Reason by prudence in her function Had wont to tutor all out action Ayding with precepts of Philosophie Our feebled natures imbecillitie But now affection with concupiscence Haue got ore reason chiefe preheminence I. Marston What warre so cruell or what siege so sore As that which strong affections do applie Against the fort of reason euermore To bring the soule into captiuitie Their force is fairer through infirmitie Of the fraile flesh relenting to their rage And exercise most bitter tirannie Vpon the parts brought into their bondage No wretchednesse is like to sinfull villanie Ed. Spencer But in a body which doth freely yeeld His parts to reasons rule obedient And letteth not that ought the scepter weeld All happie peace and goodly gouernment Is setled there in sure establishment Idem He that is of reasons skill bereft And wants the stuffe of wisedome him to stay Is like a subiect midst of tempest left Withouten helme or pilot her to sway Full sad and dreadfull is that ships euent So is the man that wante intendment Idem Reason doth teach vs that the care is vaine For ill once past which cannot turne againe Th. vvatson If reason bandie with opinion Opinion winnes in the conclusion For if a man be once opinionate Millions of reasons will extenuate His forced malice conference Cannot asswage opinions insolence But let opinion once lay batterie To reasons for t she will turne heresie Or superstition wily politist But she will win those rampi●es which resist Ed. Gilpin Nought can reason auaile in heauenly matters S. Phil Sid. She whom sauns reason men haue reason hight Since first in ●ire the Lord the aire inclosde In aire the sea in sea the earth disposde Hath with mild faith maintaind continuall fight I. Syluester The eye of reason is with raging ybent Ed. Sp. Religion Sacred Religion mother of forme and feare S. Daniell O that this power from euerlasting giuen The great alliance made twixt God and vs The intelligence that earth doth hold with heauen Sacred Religion O that thou must thus Be made to smooth our vniust vneuin Brought from aboue earths quarrell to discusse Must men beguile our soules to win our wills And make our zeale the furtherer of ills Idem No one quailes religion more then foundring presbitie Each s●t impugning order saith and doth his infancie W. Warner What may not mischiefe of mad man abuse Religions cloake some one to vice doth chuse And maketh God protector of his crime O monstrous world well ought we wish thy fine M. of M. English men nay Christian men not only seeme prophane But man to man as beast to beast hold ciuil duties vaine Yea pulpits some like pedlers packs yeeld forth as men affect And what a Synode should conclude a souter doth correct The rude thus bos●ing literature one sin begets another And grosly thogh a schisme yet hath ech Schismatick his brother Mean while the learned wāt their meed none with profit hears The tedious dolt whose artlesse tong doth preach to verie eares VV. VVarner Since pure religion doth install Learned professors Prelates of deserts Let them aspire and reac instructed harts Against the base bestowers of church liuings That vse their graunts in tellings not in giuings Th. Storer Repentance Repentance makes two riuers of her eies Her humble face dares scant behold the skies Her broken breast is beaten blew and blacke Her tender fleshis rent wih rugged sacke With sorrowes snowes her hoary waxen head With ashes pale and dust is ouerspread I. Syluister Repentance hope and soft humilitie Do flanke the wings of faiths triumphant carre Idem Repentance A salue a comfort and a cordiall He that hath her the keies of heauen hath This is the guide this is the port the path M. Drayton O happie they that keepe within their measure To turne their course in time and sound retreit Before that wit which late Repentance tought Were better neuer had then so deare bought S. I. H. Sinnes haue their salues repentance can do much R. Greene. To be penitent for faults with it a paron beares W. W. Then hope we health when sinne is left repentantly in hart Adde then new life and we to God God doth to vs conuart Idem Yet stay thy feete in murders vgly gate Ill comes to soone repentance oft too late M. Dr Their liues no man so setled in content That hath not daily whereof to repent D. Lodge We see what 's good and thereto we consent But yet we chuse the worse and soone repent S. Daniell Rest. What so strong But wanting rest will also want of might The sunne that measures heauen all day long At night doth bath his steeds th' Ocean waues among Ed. Spencer Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best Idem Who long hath rested cannot runne apace The fettered horse is hindmost in the chase Reuenge Next within the entrie of the gate Sate fell reuenge gnashing her teeth with ire Deuising meanes how she may vengeance take Neuer in rest till she haue her desire But frets within so farre forth with the fier Of wreaking flames that now determines shee To die by death or vengd by death to bee M. Sackuill O fearefull frowning Nemesis Daughter of iustice most seuere That art the worlds great arbitresse And Queene of causes raigning heere S. Daniell Fierce Nemesis mother of fate and change Sword bearer of th' eternall prouidence Idem Nemesis whose hastie reuenging Hands are euer at hand whose mind is mutable alwaies At miseries laughing at mens felicitie grudging A. Fraunce

for to bee led And in his stand a burning brand hee had The which hee brandished about his head His eyes did hurle foorth sparkles fierie redde And stared sterne on all that him beheld As ashes pale of hew and seeming dead And on his dagger still his hand hee held Trembling through hastie rage when choller in him sweld Ed. Spencer Boyling wrath sterne cruell swift rash That like a boare her teeth doth grinde and gnash Whose hayre dooth stare like bristled po●cupine Who sometimes rowles her gastly glowing eyene And sometimes fixly on the ground doth glaunce Now bleake then bloudy in her countenance Rauing and rayling with a hideous sound Clapping her hands stamping against the ground Bearing Bocconi fire and sword to slay And murder all that for her pittie pray Banning her selfe to bane her enemie Disdaining death prouided others die Like falling towres o're-turned by the wind That breake themselues on that they vndergrinde I. Syluester Full many mischiefes follow cruell wrath As horrid bloud-shed and tumultuous strife Vnmanly murther and vnthriftie scath Bitter despight and rancors rustie knife And fretting greefe the enemie of life All these and many euilles more haunt ire The swelling spleene and frenzie raging rife The shaking palsie and Saint Fraunces fire Ed. Spencer When men with wrath and sudden paines of ire Suffer themselues to bee o're-whelm'd and drownd And hot reuenge that burnes l●ke flaming fire Moo●es hearts to hurt or tongs or hands to wound Though after to a mend if they desire Yet place of pardon seldome can be found S. I. H. What iron band or what sharpe hard-mouth'd bitte What chaine of Diamond if such might bee Can bridle wrathfulnesse and conquer it And keepe him in his bounds and due degree Idem Hastie wrath and heedlesse hazardie Doe breede repentance and lasting infamie Ed. Spencer Poore sillie lambes the Lion neuer teares The feeble Mouse may lie among great Beares But wrath of man his rancour to requite Forgets all reason ruth and mercie quite M. of M. He is a mad man that doth seeke Occasion to wrath and cause of strife She comes vnsought and shunned followes eke Happy who can abstaine when rancor rife Kindles reuenge and threates his cruell knife Woe neuer wants when euery cause is caught And rash occa●ion makes vnquiet life Ed. Spencer Be not moody in thy wrath but pawze ere fist be bent Oft Phillips sonne did rashly strike and sodenly repent W. Warner Achilles when with counterfaited crest He saw Patroclus bleeding all the way To kill his killer was not satisfied Except he hald and tare him all beside S. I. H. If fortune helpe whome thou wouldst hurt Fret not at it the more When Aiax stormed them from him The prize Vlisses bore W. Warner Rage wanne and pale vpon a Tygre sat Gnawing vpon the bones of mangled men Nought can he view but he repines thereat His locks were snakes bred forth in Stigian den T. Lodge World The antique world in his first flowring youth Found no defect in his creators grace But with glad thanks and vnreprooued truth The gifts of soueraigne bountie did embrace Like angelles life was then mans happie case But later ages pride like corne-fed steede Abvsde her plentie and fatswoln increase To all licencious lust and gan exceede The measure of her meane and naturall first seede Ed. Spencer VVhen arked Noah and seuen with him the emptie worlds remaine Had left the instrumētall means of landing thē again And that both mā beast all did multiply with store To Asia Sem to Affrick Chā to Europe Iapheth bore Their families thus triple wise the world diuided was VV. VV. I take this world to bee but as a stage VVhere net-maskt men do play their personages T is but a murmur and a pleasant shew Syth ouer all strange vanities do flow I. Syluester The world to the circumference of heauen Is as a small poynt in Geometrie VVhose greatnesse is so little that a lesse Cannot bee made Th. Dekkar The first world blessed was with heauenly fauours And the last curst with painefull hellish labours Ch. Middl. O vaine worlds glorie and vncertaine state Of all that liues on face of sinfull earth VVhich from their first vntill their vtmost date Taste no one howre of happinesse or mirth But like as is the ingate of their birth They crying creepe out of their mothers wombe So wayling backe goe to their carefull tombe Ed. Spencer Ah wretched world the den of wretchednesse Deformd with filth and foule iniquitie Ah wretched world the house of heauinesse Fild with the wreakes of mortall miserie Oh wretched world and all that is therein The vassals of Gods wrath and slaues to sinne Idem O worlds inconstancie That which is firme doth flit and fall away And that is flitting doth abide and stay Idem Must not the world wend in his common course From good and bad and then from bad to wourse From worst vnto that which is worst of all And then returne vnto his former fall Who will not suffer the stormie time Where will hee liue vntill the lustie prime Idem This golden age to yron doth decline As summer vnto winter must resigne D. Lodge The first and riper world of men and skill Yeelds to our latter time for three inuentions Myraculously wee write wee sayle wee kill As neither auncient scrowle nor storie mentions Print The first hath opened learnings old concealed And obscurde arts restored to the light Loadst The second hidden countries hath reueald And sent Christs Gospel to each liuing wight These we commend but oh what needeth more Guns To teach death more skill then he had before Th. Bastard Take moysture from the sea take colour frō his kind Before the world deuoyd of change thou finde All that in this world is great or gay Doth as a vapour vanish and decay Ed. Spencer This is the rest the vaine world lendes To end in death that all things ends S. Daniell All men are willing with the world to hault But no man takes delight to know his fault D. Lodge A die a drab and filthie broking Knaues Are the worlds wide mouthes al-deuouring graues I. Marston Nothing doth the world so full of mischiefe fill But want of feeling one-anothers will G. Chapman Not by that which is the world now deemeth As it was woont but by that same that seemeth Ed. Spencer There neuer shall bee any age so cleere But in her smoothe face shall some faults appeare Th. Middl. The world must end for men are so accurst Vnlesse God end it sooner men will first Th. Bastard Youth Youth is a bubble blowen vp with a breath VVhose wit is weaknes and whose wage is death Whose way is wildnes and whose Inne penance And stoope gallant age the hoast of greeuance Ed. Spencer If crooked age accounteth youth his spring The spring the fayrest season of the yeere Enricht with flowers and sweetes and many a thing That fayre and glorious to the

her brauest hue And Iuno in the shew of maiestie for she is Samela Pallas in wit all three if you will view For beauty wit and matchlesse dignitie yeeldes faire Samela D. Lodge Their soft young cheeke-balls to the eye Are of the fresh vermilion die So Lillies out of Scarlet peere So Roses bloomd in Lady Vere So shot two wanton starres yfere In the eternall burning Sphere G. Chapman Her eyes like Gemini attend on Ioue Her stately front was figured from aboue Her dainty nose of Iuory faire and sheene Bepurfurate with ruddy Roses beene Her cherry lips doth daunt the morning dew From whence a breath so pleasant doth ensue As that which layd fayre Psyches in the vale Whom Cupid woed and woed to his auaile Within the compasse of which hollow sweet Those orient rancks of siluer perles do meet Prefixing like prefixion to the eye As siluer clowd amidst the sommers skie From whence such words in wisedome couched be As Gods from thence fetch theyr Phylosophie Her dimpled chin of Alablaster white Her stately necke where nature did acquite Her selfe so well as that at suddaine sight Shee wisht the worke were spent vpon herselfe Her cunning thus was showed vpon the shelfe For in this hand was fancie painted faire In eyther hand an azure hand she bare By one repeating many a sweete consent By th' other comfort to the hart she sent From which a seemely passage there doth flow To strangers pleasures that are placst below Like to the furrow Phaeton did leaue Amidst the Welkin when he did receaue His Fathers charge and set the world on fire In this fayre path oft paced sweet desire At euery turne beholding with delight That marble mount that did affect the sight Of Virgine waxe the sweet impression was The cunning compasse thereof did surpasse For arte concluding all perfections there Writ this report all graces dwelleth heere Which Cupid spying built his mansion so As scorning those sweet graces to bestow On mortall man with bow ybent doth waite Least Ioue should steale impressions by deceit And wondring at the crisped Comet faire In thought concludes it meeter for the ayre Then mortall mould next with the stately thighes Like two fayre compast marble pillars rise Whose white doth staine the dainty driuen snow Next which the knees with lustie bent below Conioynd with nerues and cordes of Amber sweet These stately piles with gladsome honour greet Such stately knees as when they bend alite All knees doe bend and bow with strange delight Her calues with stranger compasse doe succeede In which the azure streames a wonder breede Both arte and nature therein laboured haue To paint perfection in her colours braue Next which the prety ground-worke of the pyle Doth show it selfe and wonder doth beguile The ioynts whereof combinde of Amber sweet With Corrall cords yeeld bent to seemely feete From which who list to lift his gazing eye Shall greater cause of wonder soone espy When on the backe he bends his wauering looke In which the worke and taske Diana tooke vvhen with Arachne for the prize she straue Both arte and nature there excellence haue Where from Pigmalions image seemelie white vvhose close conueyance passing Gordians plight vvhere louely Nectar drinke for all the Gods vvhere euery Grace is stained there by ods vvill not content which gazing looke for more And spy those armes that stand his sight before vvhich for their mould th' Egyptian wonders passe Which for their beauty staine the christall glasse vvhich in theyr bosome couer natures sweet vvhere blushing streames present a secret meet vvill now amazde conclude at last of this That in the hands all grace concluded is vvhere nature limits euer fatall time vvhere fortune figures pleasure in her prime vvhence spread those fingers typt with Iuory vvhose touch Medusas turne may well supply vvhere to conclude now all the shepheards deeme All grace all beauty all perfections seeme D. Lodge Yet neuer eye to Cupids seruice vowde Beheld a face of such a louely pride A Tynsill vale her golden locks did shrowde That stroue to couer what it could not hide The golden sunne behind a siluer clowde So streameth out his beames on euery side The marble goddesse set at Cnidos naked Shee seemd were she vncloth'd or that awaked The gamesome winde among her tresses plaies And curleth vp those growing riches short Her sparefull eye to spread his beames denaies But keepes his shot where Cupid keepes his fort F. G. Shee was a woman in her freshest age Of wondrous beauty and of bounty rare vvith goodly grace and comly personage That was on earth not easie to compare Full of great loue but Cupids wanton snare As hell she hated chast in word and will Her necke and breasts were euer open bare That aye thereof her babes might suck theyr fill The rest was all in yellow robes araied still Edm. Spencer A shape whose like in waxe was hard to frame Or to expresse by skill of Painters rare Her hayre was long and yellow to the same As might with wyer of beaten gold compare Her louely cheekes with shew of modest shame vvith Roses and with Lillyes painted are Her forhead faire and full of seemely cheere As smooth as pollisht Iuory doth appeare Vnder two arches of most curious fashion Stand two black eyes that like two cleere suns shind Steddy in looke but apt to take compassion Amid which lights the naked boy and blind Casteth his darts that cause so many a passion Leauing a sweet and curelesse wound behind From whence the nose in such good sort descended As enuy knowes not how it may be mended Vnder the which in due and comly space Standeth the mouth stainde with vermilion hew Two rowes of pearles serue in theyr place Hence come the courteous words and full of grace That mollifie hard harts and make them new From hence proceed those smilings sweet and nice That seeme to make an earthly Paradice Her brests as milke her necke as white as snow Round was her necke most plum and large her breast Two Iuory apples seemed there to grow Tender and smooth and fittest to be prest Wauing like seas when wind most calme doth blow Argos himselfe might not discerne the rest Yet by presumption well it might be gest That that which was concealed was the best Her armes due measure of proportion bare Her fayre white hand was to be viewed plaine The fingers long the ioynts so curious are As neyther knot appeard nor swelling vaine And full to perfect all those features rare The foote that to be seene doth sole remaine Slender and short little it was and round A finer foote might no where well be found S. I. Harr. Apollo when my mistris first was borne Cut off his locks and left them on her head And sayd I plant these wyres in natures scorne Whose lustre shall appeare when time is dead From forth the christall heauen when she was made The puritie thereof did taint her brow On which

instrument of heauen To call the earth and summon vp our shame By an edict from euerlasting giuen Forbids mortalitie to search the same Where sence is blind and wit of wit bereauen Terror must be our knowledge feare our skill To admire his worke and tremble at his will S. Daniell Howsoeuer things in likely hood discent In birth life death our god is first the middle euent And not what he can do he wil but what he wil he can And that he do or do it not behoues vs not to scan W. Warner God may all that he wills his will is iust God wills all good to them that in him trust Th. Hudson Transl Where the Almighties lightening brand doth light It dimmes the daz'led eies daunts the sences quight Ed. Spencer The Gods are euer iust Our faults excuse their rigour must S. Daniell The Lord law-maker iust and righteous Doth frame his lawes not for himselfe but vs He frees himselfe and flies with his powers wing No where but where his holy will doth bring All that he doth is good because it doth proceed From him that is the roote of good indeed From him that is the spring of righteousnesse From him whose goodnesse nothing can expresse I. Syluester Indeed the euil done Dies not when breath the body first doth leaue But from the gransire to the nephewes sonne And all his seed the curse doth often cleaue Till vengeance vtterly the guilt bereaue So straightly God doth iudge Ed. Spencer There is no strength in armour man or horse Can vaile If Ioue on wronged take remorse For he on whom the deadly dart doth light Can neuer scape by raunsome friend nor flight I. Harr. Mir. of Mag. Eternall prouidence exceeding thought Where none appeares can make her selfe away Ed. Spencer If Gods can their owne excellence excell It 's in pardoning mortalls that rebell M. Drayton God most doth punish whom he most regardeth S. I. Harr. Transl Where Gods do vengeance craue It is not strong deensiue walls that any thing can saue VV. Warner God hath made a salue for euery sore If men would learne the same for to apply S. I. Harr. Transl Man purposeth but all things are disposed By that great God that sits and rules aboue Idem What man is he that boasts of fleshly might And vaine assurance of mortalitie Which all so soone as it doth come to fight Against spirituall foes yeelds by and by Or from the field most cowardly doth flye Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill That though grace hath gained victory If any sleight we haue it is to ill But all the good is Gods both power and eke the will Ed. Spencer God neuer seekes by tryall of temptation To sound mans heart and secret cogitation For well he knowes man and his eye doth see All thoughts of men ere they conceaued bee I. Syluester Transl God Conioynes no lesse our willes then bolds our harts A sure presage that he is on our parts Th. Hudson Tran. Our God is iust whose stroke delaid long Doth light at last with paine more sharpe and strong I. H. M. of Magist The mistie cloudes that fall sometime And ouercast the skies Are like to troubles of our time Which do but dimme our eies But as such deawes are dried vp quite When Phebus showes his face So are sad fancies put to flight When God doth guide by grace G. Gascoigne Gods mercy gently waighes his iustice downe Th. A●helly So blinds the sharpest counsell of the wise This ouershadowing prouidence on hie And dazeleth the clearest sighted eies That they see not how nakedly they lie There where they little thinke the storme doth rise And ouercast their cleare securitie When man hath stopt all waies saue only that That least suspected ruine enters at S. Daniell When Sathan tempts he leades vs vnto hell But God doth guide whereas no death doth dwell When Sathan tempts he seekes our faith to foyle But God doth seale it neuer to recoyle Sathan suggesteth ill good moues to grace The diuel seekes our baptisme to deface But God doth make our burning zeale to shine Amongst the candels of his Church diuine I. Syl. Transl Gods word Which made the world sustaines and guides it still To diuers ends conducts both good and ill He that preferres not God fore all his race Amongst the sonnes of God deserues no place And he that plowes the furrowes of Gods feeld May not turne backe his fainting face nor yeeld Idem God with eternall bread in time of need His loued Iacob fortie yeares did feed And gaue them water from the solid stone Which of it selfe had neuer moysture none Their caps their coats and shoes that they did weare God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeare Th. Hud Tran. The most iust God when once mans sinnes do grow Beyond the bounds of pardon and of grace Because that men his iudgements best may know Like to his loue to rule on earth doth place Monsters most vile to tyrannize vs so With wrong the right with lust lawes to deface For this said cause were Scylla sent and Marius The Nerons both and filthy minded Varius For this Domitian held in Rome the raigne And Antoninus of that name the last And Messinine a base vnworthy swaine To place mankind in princely throne was plaste For this in Thebes did cruell Creon raigne With other tyrants more in ages past For this of late hath Italy bene wonne By men of Lombardie of Goth and Hunne S. Daniell Good deeds Who wold to God but workes no good who seeketh fame by ease Comes short of both no lesse then maps to very lands and seas VV. VVarner Good deeds in case that they be euil placed Ill deeds are reckoned and soone disgraced That is a good deed that preuents a bad G. Chapman Well doing farre exceedeth well to say G. Turberuile Ill deeds may better the bad words be bore Ed. Spencer Let euery one do all the good they can or sildom commeth harme of doing well Though iust reward it wanteth now and than Yet shame and euill death it doth expell But he that mischieueth an other man Seldome doth carry it to heauen or hell Men say it and we see it come to passe Good turnes in dust and bad turnes writ in glasse S. I. Harrington Transl Wretched is he that thinkes by doing ill His euill deeds long to conceale and hide For though the voyce and tongues of men be still By foules and beasts his sinne shall be discride And God oft worketh by his secret will That sinne it selfe the sinner so doth guide That of his owne accord without request He makes his wicked doings manifest Idem Our bodies buried then our deeds ascend Those deeds in life to worth can not be rated In death with life our fame euen then is dated M. Drayton Greatnesse Great things still orewhelme themselues by waight E. Guilpin Greatnesse like to the sunnes reflecting powers The fier bred vapours naturally

exhailes And is the cause that oft the euening lowers When foggy mists enlarge their duskie sailes That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes And either must extinguish his owne light Or by his vertue cause his proper right M. Drayton To be huge is to be deadly sicke I. Marston O blinded Greatnesse thou with thy turmoile Still selling happy life mak'st life a toile S. Daniel He that striues to manage mightie things Amidst his triumphes beares a troubled minde The greatest hope the greatest haruest brings And poore men in content there glory finde D. L●dge The man that furthereth other men to thriue Of priuate greatnesse doth himselfe depriue Th. Storer Griefe Griefe all in sables sorrowfully clad Downe hanging his dull head with heauie cheare Yet inly beine more then seeming sad A paire of pincers in his hand he had With which he pinched people to the heart That from thenceforth a wretched life they lad In wilfull languor and consuming smart Dying each day with impair'd wounds of dolors dart Ed. Spencer Griefe onely makes his wretched state to see Euen like a toppe which nought but whipping moues This man this talking beast this walking tree Griefe is the stone which finest iudgements proues For who grieues not hath but a blockish braine Since cause of Griefe we cause from life remoues S. Ph. Sydney Griefes deadly sore Vnkindnes breeds vnkindnes fostereth hate Idem Griefe to it selfe most dreadfull doth appeare And neuer yet was sorrow voyd of feare But yet in death they both do hope the best M. Drayton Griefes be long liu'd and sorrowes seldome die Idem Griefe hath two tongues and neuer woman yet Could rule them both without tenne womens wit W. Shakespeare He oft findes medicine who his griefes imparts But double Griefe afflicts concealing harts As raging flames who striueth to suppresse Ed. Spencer Found neuer help who neuer could his griefe impart Idem No greater ease of heart the griefes to tell It daunteth all the dolours of the minde Our carefull hearts thereby great comfort finde I. H. Mir. of Mag. An Ouen that is stopt or Riuer staied Burneth more hotely swelleth with more rage So of concealed Griefe it may be said Free vent of words loues fier doth asswage But when the hearts atturney once is mute The Client breakes as desperate in his sute W. Shakespeare No one thing doth auaile man more To cure a griefe and perfectly to heale it Then if he do vnto some friends reueale it S. I. Harr. Transl Griefe it is inough to vexed wight To feele his fault and not be farther vext Fd. Spencer Some griefe shewes much of loue But much to griefe shewes still some want of wit W. Shakespeare Great griefe can not be told And can more easily be thought then found Ed. Sp. Paine Thou Paine the onely ghuest of loath'd constraint The child of curse mans weaknesse foster child Brother to woe and father of complaint Thou Paine thou loathed paine from heauen exild H. C. The scourge of life and deaths extreame disgrace The smoake of hel that monster 's called paine Idem The thing that grieuous were to do or beare Them to renew I wot breeds no delight Ed. Spencer True griefe is fond and testy as a childe Who wayward once his moode with nought agrees Old woes not infant sorrowes beare them milde Continuance tames the one the other wilde Like an vnpractiz'd swimmer plunging still With too much labour drownes for want of skill W. Shakespeare Paine paies the income of each precious thing W. Sh. Heauen From hence with grace and goodnesse compast round God ruleth blesseth keepeth all he wrought Aboue the aire the fire the sea and ground Our sense our wit our reason and our thought Where persons three with power and glory crownd Are all one God who made all things of nought Vnder whose feete subiected to his grace Sit nature fortune motion time and place This is the place from whence like smoake and dust Of this fraile world the wealth the pompe the power He tosseth humbleth turneth as he lust And guides our life our end our death and hower No eye how euer vertuous pure and iust Can view the brightnes of that glorious bower On euery side the blessed spirirs bee Equall in ioyes though differing in degree E. Fairfax Transl In this great temple richly bewtified Pau'd all with starres disperst on Saphire flower The Clarke is a pure Angell sanctified The Iudge our hie Messias full of power The Apostles his assistance euery hower The Iury Saints the verdit Innocent The Sentence Come ye blessed to my tent The speare that pierst his side the writing Pen Christes bloud the Inke red Inke for Princes name The vailes great breach the miracles for men The sight is shew of them that long dead came From their old graues restor'd to liuing fame And that last signet passing all the rest Our soules discharg'd by Consumatum est Here endlesse ioy is there perpetuall cheare Their exercise sweete songs of many parts Angells the quier whose symphonie to heare Is able to prouoke conceiuing harts To misconceiue of all inticing arts The dirty praise the subiect is the Lord That tunes their gladsome spirit to this accord Th. Storer What so the Heauens in their secret doombe Ordained haue how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast but it must needs to issue come Ed. Spencer What in the heauenly parliament aboue Is written by the finger of the first Mortalls may feele but neuer can remoue For they are subiect to the heauens worst I. Markham By mortall lawe the bond may be diuorced The heauens decrees by no meanes can be forced M. Drarton In vaine doth man contend against the Starres For what he seekes to make his wisedome marres S. Daniell Humane wishes neuer haue the power To hurt or hast the course of heauen one hower Th. Hudson Transl Experience proues and daily it is seene In vaine too vaine man striues against the heauens G. Gascoigne It is most true that eyes are bound to serue The inward part and that th'heauenly part Ought to be King from whose rules who doth swerue Rebelles to nature striue for their owne smart True that true bewtie vertue is indeed Whereof this bewtie can be but a shade Which elements with mortall mixture breed True that on earth we are but pilgrimes made And should in soule vp to our countrey moue S. Ph. Sydney Heauen is our home we are but straungers here M. Drayton The heauens earth and aire and seas and all Taught men to see but not to shunne their fall S. Daniell Things which presage both good and ill there bee Which heauen foreshewes yet will not let vs see M. Drayton From them comes good from them comes also ill That which they made who can them warne to spill Ed. Spencer In vaine be armes when heauen becomes thy foe Idem Looke when the heauens are to iustice bent All things be turn'd to our iust punishment Idem All powers