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Picturæ loquentes. Or Pictures drawne forth in characters VVith a poeme of a maid. By Wye Saltonstall.
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Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
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1631
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STC 21645; ESTC S101219
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Picturae Loquentes OR PICTVRES Drawne forth in CHARACTERS With a Poeme of a MAID By WYE SALTONSTALL Nè Sutor ultra crepidam LONDON Printed by Tho. Cotes and are to be sold by Tho. Slater at his shop in the Blacke Fryars 1631. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suo C. S. S. P. D. THe eye can judge of no object in the darke â—â—en so these Pictures â—eing hidden in teneâ—is could not be disâ—rned untill the Prinâ—r brought them to light and set the forth to the view the world And theâ—fore as they lived darknesse and procâ—ded from a minde 〈◊〉 of darke thoughts have given them darke Dedication since for my self I desire to bee ignotâ— unknowne to other and for you to who I present them I knoâ— no fame can redouâ— unto you by the â—â—eane Essayes which â—ere written Ocium â—agis foventes quà m stuâ—entes gloriae as Sheapâ—eards play upon their â—aten pipes to recreâ—te themselves not to get credit However 〈◊〉 you finde hereafter â—hat these Pictures are â—ot shadowed forth with those lively and exact Lineaments which are required in a Character yet I hope you will pardon the Painter since all I promise is onely this Vt cum agis nihil haec legas ne nihil agas defendas That when you have nothing to doe if you reade them they will keepe you from doing nothing And so I leave them as a testimony of my love presuming of your kind acceptation F. tuus W. S. To the Reader SInce the Title is the first leafe that coÌ„meth under censure some perhaps will dislike the name of Pictures and say I have no colour for it which I confesse for these Pictures are not drawne in colours but in Characters representing to the eye of the minde divers severall professions whith if they appeare more obscure than I could wish yet I would haue you know that it is not the nature of a Character to be as smooth as a bull-rush but to have some fast and loose knots which the ingenious Reader may easily untye The first Picture is the description of a Maide which Youngmen may reade and from thence learne to know that vertue is the truest beauty The next follow in their order being set together in â—his little Booke that in Winter you may reade â—hem ad ignem by the fire side and in Summer ad umbram under some shadie tree and there with passe away the tedious houres So hoping of thy favourable censure knowing that the least judicious are most ready to judge I expose them to thy view with Appelles Motto Ne Sutor ultra crepidam Lastly whether you like them or leave them yet the Author bids you welcome Thine as mine W. S. THE TABLE THe World 1. An Old man 2. A Woman 3. A Widdow 4. A true Lover 5. A Countrey Bride 6. A Ploughman 7. A Melancholy man 8. A young Heire 9. A Scholler in the Vniversity 10. A Lawyers Clarke 11. A Townesman 〈◊〉 Oxford 12. An Vsurer 13. A Wandring Rogue 14. A Waterman 15. A Shepheard 16. A Iealous man 17. A Chamber laine 18. A Mayde 19. A Bayley 20. A petty Countrey Fayre 21. A Countrey Alehouse 22. A Horse race 23. A Farmers Daughter 24. A Keeper 25. A Gentlemans house in the Countrey 26. FINIS The Author On his Poeme of a MAYDE SOme jealous braine may here demand in haste Can this Mayd that 's so vendible be chaste That stands t' allure her Lovers on each Stall Her liberall beauty so expos'd to all I answer not Thy selfe thy selfe deceive 'T is in thy choyce to love to like or leave Yet thus much Should she prove more light than meet She could but thus do penance in a sheet A MAYDE The Argument FIrst a nominall definition of the title of Mayde with the description of that habituated Innocencie which should be in them that challengeâ— at appellation advising the preservation thereof â— also a moderation in their carriage First negaâ—â—vely that they be not too coy nor too kinde Then â—ffirmatively that they be modest curteous conâ—ant And lastly the object and finall cause of this â—idestie which though last in action is first in 〈◊〉 Marriage A MAYDE WHen God this universall world had fram'd He plac'd the Epitomy of his worke therein A virgin Man and Woman both unstaynd â—or Adam knew not Eve till he knew sin Whence those that live a single life are said Still to be Mayds because at first so made The â—ame of Mayd we take not in that sense For that which two may lose but neither win But for a habit of chaste Innocence By time and custome introduc'd within A constant brest which goodnesse doth containe For love of goodnesse not for feare of fame And she in whom this habit we doe finde Comes neerest sure unto her first creation Whose body pure containes a purer minde Whose thoughts ne're fed on ill by speculation Many are guiltlesse of the active part Who yet commit the adulteries of the heart 'T is not enough for to deserve the name Of Mayde because in actâ— she is one Perhaps potentia wanted to 〈◊〉 blame Had that beene granted she had then beene none Or circumstances wanted not her will Of time and place concurrent to be ill Thus forced chastitie no praise yet found There 's no resistancâ— where there 's no temptationâ— Where 's no assault no victory is crownd She merrits most where 's most solicitation Who being tempted makes her lookes speake no Cooling unchast desires like winters snow 'T is no first pleasures of a Maydens bed Which do at once find out their birth and death Which can deserve the name of Maydenhead Whose lives are like our winter mornings breath Thus ridled A blacke lambe with blue feete Here I have 't but yonder now I see 't The name of Maidenhead to Maids assignd For modesty which should in them shine cleere A Maid from modesty may be defind Who rather strives to be so than appeâ—re Whose harmlesse thoughts ne're knew yet to begin To frame or shape out any formes of sin A Maid thus shown I next would have her warnd How she her modesty do lay at stake She that 's forewarn'd may likewise be forearm'd To keepe what none but by exchange can take And from her modesty ne're to make divorce Till 〈◊〉 marriage shall the same enforce For this once lost who can againe repaire Who can call backe the quicke thoughts of the braine Or who can make words trusted to the aire Revert unto their owner backe againe So â—he that once to do this hath begun Can ne're undoe what once she hath undon She then that knows the worth of this chast habit Should still beware of any rash privation Since being totall it can ne're admit Vnto a habit any backe regression Water once spilt who can againe recover And this once lost is lost they say for ever And if this can't the looser thoughts restraine Of some to keepe within their Maiden state
For ease instils a secret close desire And Bacchus helps to kindle Venus fire And much lesse should shee through a gadding mind Converse with women whose suspected fame May her disgrace since that we often find Vices elixar turnes us to the same Ill women oft spoyle Mayds by conversation And in the patient worke assimilation Thus she should still be chast but not enforc'd To keepe this Maiden chastitie for ever Since 't is but kept for to be lost at last And like a flower will if not gatherd wither For 't is the finall cause of Maidens carriage To gaine themselves a fit and timely marriage They have no way advancement to derive Vnto themselves but when they match aright For 't is their marriage must them honour give They shine but with a mutaticious light For womens honours from their husbands come As Cynthia borrowes lustre from the Sunne And sure the fittest time love to engage Is when to youth time doth discretion bring For who can love the winter of her age That ne're enioy'd part of youthfull spring Let them improve their time then least at last The brazen head in them speake time is past And since that marriage is a strickt relation Me thinkes good counsell were not here in vaine That they be sure to make a good foundation Since that they cannot play their cast againe For hence their future good is lost or wonne And once to erre is still to be undone Yet to propound such rules I do not know By which their choyce herein may never faile Since he that feares the winde shall never sowe Nor he yet build that counsell takes of all In somethings we can but advise our best But must commit to fortune all the rest First let not then the love of wealth so sway Their minds to match with age for then they must But sacrifice their youth up as a pray To feed the Vulture of some beastly iust And what can be more horrid thought or said Than aged impotency is unto a Maid For though that beauty can make age turne Lover And like Medeas charmes can youth advance And dead desires againe to life recover Which streight againe are kild with dalliance Yet all this fire is but like sparkes that lye Conceald in ashes lives and so doth dye Nor yet to match with some rich suite of cloaths Some outside being but a man in seeming That can set forth his love with gracefull oathes Protesting that which is not worth beleeving His love is lust fruition to obtaine Which once enioy'd his love turnes haâ—e againe Nor yet with some young beardlesse Heire to lye Who like Adonis would some Venus tyre To prompt his boyish thoughts which stili did flie Her meaning and could raise but quench no fire A shadow there of marriage but appeares When there 's so great disparity of yeares But let her chuse out one that may but be Her iust immediate Senior for 't is ever Observ'd that they doe alwaies best agree Who have both spent their youth age together But that they prosper'd who can e're remember When youthfull May was match't with cold December And much lesse should they be enforc't to love Or swayd to like by some match-making mother But where equality of desires do move First â—et them like and after paire together When that his yeeres her yeeres do equalize And when their natures both do sympathize And if she chuse she must too likewise take Letting her love in one begin and end She must be fixt and but one center make To which the lines of her affection tend For she must be a subject but to one Whose being must consist in her alone If of love she make a deed of gift And before witnesse do confirme the same For to revoke it backe she has no shift Or to reverse her deed thus made againe Her love thus given to one she can't deny Since in loves Court no writs of error lye Her word must here irrevocable stand More fixt than any Chancery decree Which as though written by the Eternall hand Can ne're be alterd by posterity For let her thinke when once she plights her love The same is registred streight in heaven above But such a lover let her still detest Who 'fore the appointed day of resignation Would of her modesty be fore-possest By an old figure of praeoccupation 'T is lust that hunts thus hotly to obtaine When true love seekes but love for love againe For when the Tirian Queene did make her feast She should not then have let Aeneas tasted Those pleasures which she might have wisely gest By their enioying would be soone too wasted For nature can't her actions so suspend But having once begun she hasts to end Let her not then be drawne to make surrender Of that which doth so sweeten expectation That Lovers even joy when they remember The day shall give their hopes full consummation When she with blushes shall unwilling yeeld And weakely striving lose at last the field This day once come she must then understand That marriage is a Tenure not at will But with her heart to one must give her hand To hold for Terme of life for good or ill The Church affoords but witnesse to this act Till both the parties seale to this contract And now 't is time to bid the Bride good-night Having brought her thither where she now must leave The thought of father mother delight In one alone and unto one must cleave Tying their loves with such a Gordian knot None can but death like Alexander cut FINIS Picturae Loquentes OR PICTVRES drawne forth in Characters 1. The World IS a Stage men the Actors who seldome goe off with an applause often are hist at Or it may bee likened to a Scale or Praedicament of Relation wherin the King is the summum genus under whom are many subordinate degrees of men till at last wee descend to the Begger the Infima species of mankind whose misery cannot be subdivided into any lesser fortune The world contemns a Scholler and learning makes a Scholler contemn the world Arts and Sciences are accounted here meere speculations terminated onely in the knowledge of their subjects and therefore the most study the great volume of the world and striue to reduce knavery to practise Poverty is accounted as spreadingly contagious as the Plague he that is infected with it is shun'd of all men and his former friends looke upon him as men looke upon Dials with a skew countenance and so finding him in the afternoone of â—his fortunes passe by him Acquaintance is heere chosen with the bravest not with the wisest and a good shute makes a man good company The cheefest goddesse heere ador'd is riches she might have her Temple as well as Iuno Minerva and the rest but in liew thereof shee takes up every mans heart and for her sacrifice exacts their first morning thoughts so that the most universall government is now a Ploutocracy