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A64749	Thalia rediviva the pass-times and diversions of a countrey-muse, in choice poems on several occasions : with some learned remains of the eminent Eugenius Philalethes, never made publick till now.	Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.; J. W.; Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. Viri insignissimi et poetarum.	1678 (1678)	Wing V127; ESTC R1483	43,453	114

Thalia rediviva THE Pass-Times and Diversions OF A COUNTREY-MUSE In Choice POEMS On several Occasions WITH Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes Never made Publick till now Nec erubuit sylvas habitare Thalia Virgil. Licensed Roger L'Estrange London Printed for Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane near Fleetstreet 1678. TO THE Most Honourable and truly Noble HENRY Lord Marquis and Earl of WORCESTER c. My Lord THough Dedications are now become a kind of Tyranny over the Peace and Repose of great Men yet I have confidence I shall so manage the present Address as to entertain your Lordship without much disturbance and because my purposes are govern'd by deep Respect and Veneration I hope to find your Lordship more facile and accessible And I am already absolv'd from a great part of that fulsome and designing guilt being sufficiently remov'd from the causes of it for I consider my Lord that you are already so well known to the World in your several Characters and advantages of Honour it was yours by traduction and the adjunct of your Nativity you were swaddl'd and rock'd in 't bred up and grew in 't to your now wonderful height and eminence that for me under pretence of the inscription to give you the heraldry of your family or to carry your person through the fam'd Topicks of Mind Body or Estate were all one as to perswade the World that Fire and Light were very bright Bodies or that the Luminaries themselves had Glory In point of Protection I beg to fall in with the common wont and to be satisfied by the reasonableness of the thing and abundant worthy precedents and although I should have secret prophecy and assurance that the ensuing Verse would live eternally yet would I as I now do humbly crave it might be fortifi'd with your Patronage for so the Sextile Aspects and Influences are watch'd for and applied to the actions of Life thereby to make the Scheme and good Auguries of the Birth pass into Fate and a success infallible My Lord By a happy obliging Intercession and your own consequent Iudulgence I have now recourse to your Lordship hopeing I shall not much displease by putting these Twin Poets into your Hands The Minion and Vertical Planet of the Roman Lustre and Bravery was never better pleased than when he had a whole Constellation about him not his finishing Five several Wars to the promoting of his own Interest nor particularly the prodigious success at Actium where he held in chase the Wealth Beauty and Prowess of the East not the Triumphs and absolute Dominions which followed all this gave him not half that serene Pride and Satisfaction of Spirit as when he retir'd himself to umpire the different Excellencies of his insipid Friends and to distribute Lawrels among his Poetick Heroes If now upon the Authority of this and several such Examples I had the Ability and Opportunity of drawing the Value and strange Worth of a Poet and withall of applying some of the Lineaments to the following pieces I should then do my self a real Service and attone in a great measure for the present insolence But best of all will it serve my Defence and Interest to appeal to your Lordships own conceptions and image of Genuine Verse with which so just so regular Original if these Copies shall hold proportion and resemblance then am I advanced very far in your Lordships pardon the rest will entirely be supplied me by your Lordships Goodness and my own awful Zeal of being My Lord Your Lordships most obedient most humbly devoted Servant J. W. To the Reader THE Nation of Poets above all Writers 〈◊〉 ever 〈◊〉 perpetuity of Name or as they please by their Charter of Liberty to call it Immortality Nor has the World much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 claim either easily resigning a Patrimony in it self not very substantial or it may be 〈◊〉 of despair to controule the authority of Inspiration and Oracle Howsoevert he price as now quarrell'd for among the Poets themselves is no such rich bargain 't is only a vanishing interest in the Lees and Dreggs of Time in the Rear of those Fathers and 〈◊〉 in the Art who if they know any thing of the heats and fury of their Successors must extreamly pity them I am to assure that the Author has no portion of that aiery happiness to lose by any 〈◊〉 or unkindness which may be done to his Verse his Reputation is better 〈◊〉 in the sentiment of several judicious Persons who know him very well able to give himself a lasting Monument by undertaking any Argument of note in the whole Circle of Learning But even these his Diversions have been valuable with the matchless Orinda and 〈◊〉 they deserv'd 〈◊〉 esteem and commendations who so thinks them not worth the publishing will put himself in the 〈◊〉 Scale where his own arrogance will blow him up I. W. To Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist upon these and his former Poems HAd I ador'd the Multitude and thence Got an Antipathy to wit and sence And hugg'd that Fate in hope the World would grant 'T was good Affection to the Ignorant Yet the least Ray of thy bright fancy seen I had converted or excuseless been For each Birth of thy Muse to after-times Shall expiate for all this Ages Crimes First shines thy 〈◊〉 twice crown'd by thee Once by 〈◊〉 Love next by thy Poetrie Where thou the best of Unions dost dispense Truth cloath'd in Wit and Love in Innocence So that the muddie Lover may learn here No Fountains can be sweet that are not clear There 〈◊〉 by thee reviv'd declares 〈◊〉 flat man's Joys are and how mean his Cares And wisely doth upbraid the World that they Should such a value for their ruine pay But when thy sacred Muse diverts her Quill The Landskip to design of Sions Hill As nothing else was worthy her or thee So we admire almost 〈◊〉 ' Idolatrie What savage Breast would not be rap'd to find Such Jewels in such Cabinets enshrin'd Thou fill'd with joys too great to see or count Descend'st from thence like Moses from the Mount And with a candid yet unquestion'd awe 〈◊〉 the Golden Age when Verse was Law Instructing us thou so secur'st thy Fame That nothing can disturb it but my name Nay I have hopes that standing so near thine 'T will loose its dross and by degrees refine Live till the disabused World consent All Truths of Use of Strength or Ornament Are with such Harmony by thee display'd As the whole World was first by number made And from the charming rigour thy Muse brings Learn there 's no pleasure but in serious things Orinda Upon the Ingenious Poems of his Learned Friend Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist FAirly design'd to charm our Civil Rage With Verse and plant Bayes in an Iron Age. But hath steel'd Mars so ductible a Soul That Love and Poesie may it controule Yes brave Tyrtaeus as we read of old The Grecian Armies

chance to taste of bloud Their rage which slept stirr'd by that food In furious roarings will awake And fiercely for their freedom make No chains nor bars their fury brooks But with inrag'd and bloody looks They will break through and dull'd with fear Their keeper all to pieces tear The Bird which on the Woods tall boughs Sings sweetly if you Cage or house And out of kindest care should think To give her honey with her drink And get her store of pleasant meat Ev'n such as she delights to Eat Yet if from her close prison she The shady-groves doth chance to see Straitway she loaths her pleasant food And with sad looks longs for the Wood. The wood the wood alone she loves And towards it she looks and moves And in sweet notes though distant from Sings to her first and happy home That Plant which of it self doth grow Upwards if forc'd will downwards bow But give it freedom and it will Get up and grow erectly still The Sun which by his prone descent Seems westward in the Evening bent Doth nightly by an unseen way Haste to the East and bring up day Thus all things long for their first State And gladly 〈◊〉 return though late Nor is there here to any thing A Course allow'd but in a Ring Which where it first began must end And to that Point directly tend Metrum 6 Lib. 4. WHo would unclouded see the Laws Of the supreme eternal Cause 〈◊〉 him with careful thoughts and eyes Observe the high and spatious Skyes There in one league of Love the Stars Keep their old peace and shew our wars The Sun though flaming still and hot The cold pale Moon annoyeth not Arcturus with his Sons though they See other stars go a far way And out of sight yet still are found Near the North-pole their noted bound Bright Hesper at set times delights To usher in the dusky nights And in the East again attends To warn us when the day ascends So alternate Love supplys Eternal Courses still and vies Mutual kindness that no Jars Nor discord can disturb the Stars The same sweet Concord here below Makes the fierce Elements to flow And Circle without quarrel still Though temper'd diversly thus will The Hot assist the Cold the Dry Is a friend to Humidity And by the Law of kindness they The like relief to them repay The fire which active is and bright Tends upward and from thence gives light The Earth allows it all that space And makes choice of the lower place For things of weight hast to the Center A fall to them is no adventure From these kind turns and Circulation Seasons proceed and Generation This makes the Spring to yield us flow'rs And melts the Clouds to gentle show'rs The Summer thus matures all seeds And ripens both the Corn and weeds This brings on Autumn which recruits Our old spent store with new fresh fruits And the cold Winters 〈◊〉 Season Hath snow and 〈◊〉 for the same reason This temper and wise mixture breed And bring forth ev'ry living seed And when their strength and substance spend For while they live they drive and tend Still to a change it takes them hence And shifts their dress and to our sense Their Course is over as their birth And hid from us they turn to Earth But all this while the Prince of life Sits without loss or change or strife Holding the Rains by which all move And those his wisdom power Love And Justice are And still what he The first life bids that needs must be And live on for a time that done He calls it back meerly to shun The mischief which his creature might Run into by a further flight For if this dear and tender sense Of his preventing providence Did not restrain and call things back Both heav'n and earth 〈◊〉 go to wrack And from their great preserver part As blood let out forsakes the Heart And perisheth but what returns With fresh and Brighter spirits burns This is the Cause why ev'ry living Creature affects an endless being A grain of this bright love each thing Had giv'n at first by their great King And still they creep drawn on by this And look back towards their first bliss For otherwise it is most sure Nothing that liveth could endure Unless it's Love turn'd retrograde Sought that first life which all things made Metrum 3. Lib. 4. IF old tradition hath not fail'd Ulysses when from Troy he sail'd Was by a tempest forc'd to land Where beauteous Circe did command Circe the daughter of the Sun Which had with Charms and Herbs undone Many poor strangers and could then Turn into Beasts the bravest Men. Such Magic in her potions lay That whosoever past that way And drank his shape was quickly lost Some into Swine she turn'd but most To Lyons arm'd with teeth and claws Others like Wolves with open Jaws Did howl But some more savage took The Tiger's dreadful shape and look But wise Ulysses by the Aid Of Hermes had to him convey'd A Flow'r whose virtue did suppress The force of charms and their success While his Mates drank so deep that they Were turn'd to Swine which fed all day On Mast and humane food had left Of shape and voice at once bereft Only the Mind above all charms Unchang'd did mourn those monstrous harms O worthless herbs and weaker Arts To change their Limbs but not their Hearts Mans life and vigor keep within Lodg'd in the Center not the Skin Those piercing charms and poysons which His inward parts taint and bewitch More fatal are than such which can Outwardly only spoile the man Those change his shape and make it foul But these deform and kill his soul. Metrum 6. Lib. 3. ALL sorts of men that live on Earth Have one beginning and one birth For all things there is one Father Who lays out all and all doth gather He the warm Sun with rays adorns And fils with brightness the Moon ' s horns The azur'd heav'ns with stars he burnish'd And the round world with creatures furnish'd But Men made to inherit all His own Sons he was pleas'd to call And that they might be so indeed He gave them Souls of divine seed A noble Offspring surely then Without distinction are all men O why so vainly do some boast Their Birth and Blood and a great Hoste Of Ancestors whose Coats and Crests Are some rav'nous Birds or Beasts If Extraction they look for And God the great Progenitor No man though of the meanest state Is base or can degenerate Unless to Vice and lewdness bent He leaves and taints his true descent The old man of Verona out of Claudian Faelix qui propriis aevum transegit in arvis Una domus puerum c. MOst happy man who in his own sweet fields Spent all his time to whom one Cottage yields In age and youth a lodging who grown old Walks with his staff on the same soil and mold Where he did creep

Non erat augurium hoc aliud victoria pennis Et dignum vel te gessit Adolphe suis. Moriens Wallenstenium fundit ADsis extrema major Gustave ruinâ Quàm per tot vitae sparsa trophaea tuae Hîc congesta jacent tanti miracula belli Contrahit inque unum se tua fama diem Cedite Romani vobis vicisse triumphus Gustavo plus est quàm superare mori Testatur se Germanorum libertatem sanguine suo sigillare SCripserat hanc hostisque priùs sua dextra cruore Jam signata suo sanguine charta valet Libertas quàm lata tibi Germania magna est Cujus vel mundo tessera major erat Carolus Primus Anglorum Rex EN en Deorum Magnes tracti Numinis Sub sole Thronus Ignium Coeli Silex Ferroque tritus in suas flammas abiens Depressa palma quae veram palmam tulit Crevitque in ipsos oneri non cedens deos Christi suoque sanguine hic unctus fuit Crucisque nemo majus Exemplum dedit Rex ille Regni rex idem vixit sui Legemque quam nec subditi ferrent tulit Jus semper illi summa regalis comes Fidesque sancta dirigens dextram suam Quam sic coercet praesidem agnovit manum Furor rapina caedes dolus malus Unius omnes regium invadunt caput Caditque nôsti coelum tam sanctus parens Ab his peremptus vel quibus vitam daret Secunda ab ipso victima haec Christo fuit Disce Lector NOn semper bona invenit qui bonum quaerit Epitaphium Gulielmi Laud Episcopi Cantuariensis OFida tellus coeli depositum cape Neque illum topho premas sed amplectere Hic jacet Lector serva tu lachrymas malis Ecclesiae pharus Idemque naufragium sibi Repumicator Orbis Coeli pugil Frigentis arae titio haud ignis novus Sed Angelorum flamma Manoae capax Desiste saeclûm majus non potes nefas Lassata crux est martyrum appendix fuit Quotidiana non est talis manus Liberiùs nemo sanguinem patriae daret Si res vocâssent nec confidentiùs dedit Cum non vocabant nempe curavit mori Anteitque istam quam stabiliret fidem Sic ille coelum rapuit vitae tomos Obliteratos maculis adversae manûs Proprio rescripfit sanguine innocuus simul Et condemnatus sic citat testes Deus O festus ille cinis foelix miser Qui probro honores mutat mundi satur Injuriis emit coelos ac Stellas tenet Fecisti probè fidei senex malum Mors est Ereptus vitae pugillus tibi Cum diis acquirit annos omisit diem Palles sceleste non 〈◊〉 sanum sibi Cruorem quisquis sic alienum sitit Sed non in terram fluxit ne bibit lutum Fluentem sitiens sanguinem pulvis suum Pulvere formatus homo est Non periit ergo Laudis tam justae threnos Nec morituras naenias hostes sui Qui habent aures audient Abi jam Lector benè discas mori Mauritius Pontisfracti Castrum ingreditur ARx alta Caroli spes una atque ultima nostri Quâ tria conveniunt hospita regna simul His extrema fides ponet vestigia muris Clarior éque tuis moenibus astra petet Non superesse licet cupio fundamina mortis Ponere hoc nostram condere teste necem Praeside Mauritio tua moenia digna tueri Nec nisi Mauritio praeside digna capi Propositâ ab hoste pactione solus excluditur HAnc mea mors mea vita diem celebrate paresque Et similes habeant utraque fata vices Vita meam mortem celebra tu mors mea vitam Sitque audere mori pactio Mauritii Vivere me trepidant hostes faciamus ipsos Quam petiere meam vel trepidare necem Dedito Castro pactione exclusus per medios hostes erumpit SOl orbis spectator ades curruque represso Mirandum è superis aspice Mauritium Solus in hostiles audet procedere turmas Hac illi oblata est conditione salus Mille refert mille ruit varia arte per hostes Et varios quasi se dividit usque locos Stravit totam aciem dux atque Exercitus ipse Illa dies quod vix postera credat habet Victricem obtinuit morte indignante salutem Credibile est tantum fata timere manum Aliud ARcta est quam tribuis fortuna redemptio vel mors Vel requiem hostilis pervia turma dabit Aut manus haec nobis tutela aut nulla cadamque Hoste semel major me Caroloque minor Par illi exemplum est regem assimulare docemur Fataque inauditis exuperare modis 〈◊〉 levis est vobis nullusque triumphus Non poteram vinci nec dabo posse mori Aliud VEnit summa dies quâ pepigisse perire est Major sum quàm cui sic superesse licet Percutimus pulchrum posito cum funere foedus Sitque haec pro vita pactio velle mori Plebeius vigor hoc quivifque gregarius haud dat Hoc solius habent pectora Mauritii Desiderantur Alcippus Jacintha Poema Heroicum absolutissimum cum multis aliis 〈◊〉 ab Authore relictis FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for and sold by Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery Lane near Fleetstreet VIllare Anglicanum or a view of all Towns Villages c. In England and Wales so that naming any Town or place you may readily find what Shire Hundred Rape or Wapentake it is in Also the number of Bishopricks Counties under their several jurisdictions and the Shire-Towns Burroughs and Parishes in each County by the appointment of the eminent Sir Henry Spelman Kt. The Nuns Complaint against the Friers being the Charge given in the Court of France by the Nuns of St. Katharines near Provence against the Father Fryers their Confessors shewing their abuses in their allowance of undecent Books and Love-letters and Marriages of the Friers and Nuns their Frolicks and Entertainments c. several times printed in French and now faithfully done into English Mary Magdalen's Tears wiped off or the voice of Peace to an unquiet Conscience The Golden Remains of that ever memorable Mr. John Hales of Eaton Colledg c. the second Impression with many additions not before published in Quarto Episcopacy as established by Law in England written by the command of the late King Charles by Robert Saunderson late Lord Bishop of Lincoln in Oct. Incestuous Marriages or Relations of Consanguinity and Affinity hindering and dissolving Marriage as making all Marriages within such Relations to be Incestuous and all Children of such Marriages to be Illegitimate or Bastards to all intents and purposes A Collection of Articles Injunctions Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiastical and other publick Records of the Church of England with a Preface by Anthony Sparrow Lord Bishop of Norwich The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety both by the Author of the whole Duty of Man A Scholastical History of the Canon of Holy Scripture or the certain and indubitable Books thereof as they are received in the Church of England by Dr. Cosin Lord B. of Durham An Historical Vindication of the Church of England as it stands separated from the Roman c. by Sir Roger Twisden Baronet Mr. Chillingsworth's Reasons against Popery perswading his Friend to turn to his Mother the Church of England from the Church of Rome The Book of Homilies appointed to be read in Churches Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical Divine Breathings or a Pious Soul thirsting after Christ in an hundred excellent Meditations Hugo Grotius de Rebus Belgicis or the Annals and History of the Low Countrey Wars A Treatise of English Particles with a Praxis upon the same by William Walker B. D. School-Master of Grantham The Royal Grammar commonly called Lillies 〈◊〉 explained with 〈◊〉 plainness to Children of the meanest capacity by William Walker B. D. Author of the Treatise of English Particles A Rationale on the Book of Common prayer of the Church of England by Anthony Sparrow Lord Bishop of Norwich with his caution to his Diocess against false Doctrines A Treatise proving Spirits Witches and Supernatural operations by pregnant Instances and Evidences by Meric Causabon Octa. A Catalogue of all the Parliaments or reputed Parliaments from the year 1640. A Narrative of some passages in or relating to the long Parliament by a Person of Honour Nemesius Nature of Man in English by George Withers Gent. Inconveniencies of Toleration Toleration intolerable A Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the King by J. Dolbin D. D. Dean of Westminster B. 〈◊〉 Sermons on Gunpowder-Treason A Narrative of the burning of London 1666. with an Account of the Losses and a most remarkable parallel between it and Mosco both as to the Plague and Fire Lluellins three Sermons on the Kings Murther 〈◊〉 Lusitanicum or the Portugal Voyage with what memorable passages 〈◊〉 at the Shipping and Transportation of her sacred Majesty Katharine Queen of Great Britain from Lisbon to England by Dr. Samuel Hind All sorts of Law-Books FINIS 1 S. Mark c. 1. v. 35. 1 S. Mark c. 1. v. 35. Job c. 38. v. 7. Job c. 38. v. 7. Job c. 38. v. 7. O supreme Bliss Muta puellae Ore fluentem Foedere litem Caede cruentos Haec mihi vitam