the flower called an Emony 18 Niles Heifer Jupiter being in love with Io the daughter of Anachus ravisht her but being surprized by Juno to conceal his theft turned Io into a white Cow which Juno begged and committed to the custody of Argus who being slain by Jove's command poor Io by Juno frighted ran to the banks of the River Nole where Jove commiserating her mis-hap importuning Juno returned her to her former shape Metam lib. 1. De Bove nil superest formae nisi candor in illa nothing now But that pure white retains shee of the Cow Shee after changed her name to Isis and married Osiris in Aegypt where shee was honoured for a Goddesse and after that was deified at Rome Lucan lib. 8. Nos in Templa tuam Romana recipimus I sim Into Romes Temples wee thy Isis took Where shee had a Temple built her in Campo Martio the cause of whose ruine was this A young Gentleman called Mundus when hee could by no means entice the chaste Paulina to satisfie his lust perswaded the Priests of Isis to say that they were warned by Oracle that Anubius the God of Aegypt desired the company of the said Paulina she thinking the Priests would not lye and it being accounted an honour to have to do with a God was stuprated by Mundus in the Temple of Isis under the name of Anubius which hee after confessing the Priests were put to death the Temple beaten down and the Image of Isis thrown into Tyber Lang. Chron. page 250. 19 The Forums there were many Forums in Rome of which chiefly three Forum Romanum Forum Julium and Forum Augustum which first was chief of all and by way of excellency called the Forum as if there were no other Forum Round about this Forum Romanum were built Trades-mens shops here was the Comitium or Hall of Justice the Oratours Pulpit the Sanctuary and several other stately Edifices 20 Appias plac'd here Pallas is meant by Appias but Venus and Pallas are both called Appiades they had a Temple erected to them upon the Appian waters neer to Forum Caesaris 21 Curved Theatres places where Plaies and other Shews were publickly acted in form of a half Moon or Semicircle Martial Spect. Quiequid in Orpheo Rodope Spectasse Theatro dicitur exhibuit Caesar Arena tibi What Orpheus's said on Rodope to see Caesar the stage exhibits unto thee There were also places called Amphitheatres which were in form of two Theatres joyned together in a full circle upon this Amphitheatre did Fencers play their prizes wilde-beasts were baited and the Gladiators to exhilerate the Citizens were miserably forced to butcher one another 22 Romulus devisedst Numitor King of the Albanes in Italy was expelled his Kingdome by his younger Brother Amulius his Son Lausus slain and his Daughter Sylvia to prevent all hopes of off-spring to Numitor consecrate by Amulius a Priest of Vesta but being comprest by Mars shee brought forth Romulus and Remus which were by Amulius command together with their Mother thrown into â—yber but being found by the Shepherd Faustulus were preserved and nursed by his wife Laurentia being grown up they slew Amulius and restored their Grandfather Numitor to his government after whose death the brothers disagreeing fell to arms by which Renaus was slain and Romulus alone obtained the Kingdome Plut. in Rom. ΟΤΙ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rome saith Aelian lib. 7. var. was built by Remus and Romulus but Florus lib. 1. cap. 1. calls Romulus onely the builder of it hee marked the foundation of the City wall with a plough drawn by four white horses according to Propert. lib. 4. de Urbe Rom. Quatuor hinc albos Romulus egit equos Here Romulus did four white horses drive The City being built Senatus centum seniorum qui patres dicti sunt constituitur saith Just lib. 43. Hee constituted a Senate being a hundred of the Elder Citizens which were called Fathers Having thus stated his Government hee desired that his souldiers might marry with the Sabines bordering upon them but was by the Sabines resused whereupon saith Florus lib. 1. Simulatis equestribus virgines quae ad spectaculum venerant praeda fuere hee devised certain shows which when the Virgins came to behold they were made a prey and seized upon by the souldiers 23 Circus of a large the Romans had many places where they exhibited their plaies unto the people the most remarkable was a great Circus or Shew-place called Circus Maximus it was a large peece of ground lying neer that part of the Aventine Mount where Diana's Temple stood It was built by Tarquinius Priscus with divers Galleries called Fori round about it from whence the Senators and Gentlemen of the City did behold the running with great horses at the lists the fire-works tumbling baiting and chasing of wilde-beasts The seats about this Circus were able to contain one hundred and fifty thousand persons There was also another Circus upon the Hill called Collis Hortulorum and this was the Circus or Shew-place of the Strumpet Flora who made the people of Rome heir to those goods shee had gotten by prostituting her body to young Gentlemen God lib. 1. Rom. Hist 24 Arena sought the Amphitheatre called Arena from its being scattered over with Sand â—o Gravel that the blood of such as were slain in the place might not make it too slippery for the combatants Martial Spec. Praeceps Sanguinea dum se rotat ursus arena 25 Utmost Bounds the Eastern Countries subjected to the Romanes Propert. lib. 3. to Augustus parat ultima terra Triumphâ—s Tigris Euphrates sub tua jure fluent Remote Lands Trophies show Tigris Euphrates in thy Empire flow 26 Crassus rejoyce Marcus Crassus a wealthy Roman who being sent with an Army against the Parthians himself his Son with eleven Roman Legions were cut off and slain and all their ensigns taken by Surena General of the Parthian Army whose deaths were fully revenged by Ventidius of whom Corn. Gall. Qui nunc Crassorum manes direptaque signa vindicat Augusti Caesaris auspitiis Who now for Ensigns lost and Crassus slain With Caesars fortune full revenge hath tane 27 Tyrinthius did Hercules so called from the City Tyrinthia where hee was brought up hee was the Son of Jupiter begotten on Alâ—mena whilst hee was in his Cradle Juno sent two Snakes to destroy him both which hee slew hee was famous for performing many dangerous and Heroick enterprizes amongst whose many labours I shall only mention this that hee as yet but a youth comprest the fifty Daughters of Thâ—spius in one night of whom he got filty Sons called Thespiades 28 Thyrsis fear a Spear or Javelin bound about with Ivy which was carried by the Manades or Priests of Bacchus at their Sacrifices which were performed every third year in remembrance of his triennial expedition into India 29 Countries Fathers the Senators which were called Patres or Fathers Cicero calls them Patres conscripti quia Romulus qui Senatores
aemulous of Phoebe chaste The Vitta her neglected hair imbrac't For the borders I take them to be the nether end of the gown which Sigonius calls Stola Cinctura astrictior denoting a modest woman 8 Perseus Andromade Andromade was Daughter to Cepheus and Cassiope who for her Mothers pride comparing her beauty with the Sea-Nymphs Nereides was by the Nymphs taken bound to a Rock and exposed to a merciless Sea-Monster yet notwithstanding was delivered by Perseus who slew the Monster and afterwards married her by the consent of her Parents Metam 4. generumque salutant Auxiliamque domus servatoremque fatentur Cassiope Cepheusque pater Cepheus and Cassiope with joy Salute him for their Son whom now they call The Saviour of their house and of them all Perseus was begot by Jupiter upon Danaë Daughter to Acrisius King of the Argives who being premonisht that his Grandchilde should kill him shut his Daughter Danaë in a strong Tower intending with her body to mure her womb up and consequently avert his foredoomed fate but when Jupiter in the form of a golden showre had begotten Perseus upon her shee with her Infant being in a small boat committed to the Sea in expectation of inevitable destruction were miraculously preserved Perseus grown up returned and unfortunately slew his Grandfather 9 From India brought India tot a serme spectat Orientem minus in latitudinem c. India saith Curtius lib. 8. lieth toward the East containing more in longitude than latitude the North parts bee mountainous and hilly but all the rest of the Land campain It hath many famous Rivers which descending down from Mount Caucasus make a delightful progress thorow the Countries Indus is more cold than any other of the Rivers whose water resembles the colour of the Sea Ganges is the greatest of all which running thorow the Southern Country until meeting with the opposition of many Rocks and Precipeeces his course is turned Eastwards where it is swallowed up of the Red Sea When other Countries be burned with the Sun India is covered over with Snow and when other places be frozen the heat is there intolerable for which appears no natural reason The Elephants in this Country be bigger and stronger than those of Africk The Rivers carry down Gold and run smoothly along and the Sea doth cast upon the shore both pearls and precious stones Stephanus saith the Trees are alwaies green that the ground bears corn twice a year that from hence comes Pepper Calamus Aromaticus and Cynamon Aelian lib. 1. Vari saith their Pigeons are of a yellow colour 10 Rome affords Rome the Metropolis of Italy and most celebrated City of the whole world of which Virgil in his first Egloge makes Tytyrus speak thus Urbem quam dicunt Romam Melibaee putavi Stultus ego huic nostrae simtlem c. Englished by Mr. Ogleby That City they call Rome I did account Fondly like this of ours where Swains are wont Yearly with care to wean their tender Lambs So I conceiv'd Whelps equal to their Dams And judg'd that Kids were as their Mothers tall So us'd I great things to compare with small But shee 'bove other Cities lifts her head As o're the Shrubs the lofty Cedars spread It was called Rome from its founder Romulus who built it on Mount Palatine in a quadrangular form which Mount hath ever since been the Seat of the Romane Emperors It is called Urbs Septi-collis from the seven hills on which it standeth their names are these the Mount Palatine the Capitolian Mount Quirinus Mount the Caelian Mount the Mount Esquilinus the Mount Viminalis and the Mount Aventine Ovid. Trist lib. 1. Sed quae de septem tot um circumspicit orbem Montibus imperii Roma Deumque locus Rome which from seven hills doth over-look The world the Gods have for their Empire took See Romulus infra 11 On Ida a high Mountain that looks towards Troy the North-side of it reaching from the Straits of Abidos to the Cyzycene Fields in the Propontis the Weft-side looks over the Hellespont the South makes a Promontory and the Eastern parts decline towards Missia Hom. lib. 8. Iliad saith that the top of it is called Gargarus where there is a Temple consecrate to Jupiter and that it hath many Springs and multitudes of wilde-beasts 12 Lesbos found in Methimna a Town of Lesbos so called from Methymna the daughter of Macharis are abundance of Vines in this place the famous Harper Orion was born 13 Of her Son of her Son Aeneas who with some Sea-beaten Trojans arrived in Italy where hee van quished Turnus and married Lavinia 14 Leo move the Sun doth annually move through the twelve signs of the Zodiack whereof Leo is the fifth sign in the celestial Globe represented by a Lion into the first degree of which the Sun enters on or about the twelfth of July which then bears twenty degrees eleven minutes North declination from the Aequinexial line It is never seen of us here in England but is fixt in that part of the Ecliptick which extends it self over the Islands Cuba Jamaica and Hispaniola in America It is often called the Nemean and Herculean Lion because Hercules slew a Lion in the Nemean Forrest of an immense and prodigious greatness which the Poets feign to be translated into the sign Leo. 15 Livies Porch the Romans had certain walks on the side of their Delubrum which they called Porticus and in these places it was lawful to trade and confer of worldly occasions amongst which was Livia Porticus or Livies Porch so called from Titus Livius the most famous of all the Roman Historiographers 16 Where Belides the fifty daughters of Danaus so called from their Grandfather Belus with whom Aegistus the Brother to Danaus desired to marry his fifty Sons but Danaus understanding by Oracle that hee should bee slain by his Son-in-law refused yet in the end being compelled thereto by Aegistus hee consummates their marriages but privately plots with his daughters to murder their fifty husbands well steept with Wine in their marriage-beds all which too too obedient to paternal authority cruelly butchered their wretched busbands except Hypermnestra who out of compassion spared her Husband Lynceus who seeing his Brothers miserable destinies slew Danaus and invaded the Kingdome of the Argives 17 Bewais'd Adonis the Son of Cynira King of Crprus and his daughter Myrrha the darling of Venus who whilst he was hunting in the Idalian Forrest was slain by a Boar Bion. Idylium 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I English Adonis fair doth on the Mountains lye A white tush having peirc'd his white thigh Venus laments whilst hee expires black gore Flows from his wound And a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The loving Hounds do howl about the Boy The Mountain-Nymphs lament with Venus cry Whom Venus is said Metam 10. to have turned into
Gives so chain'd That liberty by wonted flight's not gain'd Young Men and Maids will come for to behold And that day many will their minds unfold Then if your Mistress ask a Princes name Or what in 's Country is of chiefest fame All things declare yea though shee ask of none And talk of things unheard of as if known 31 Euphrates this with Reeds edg'd on each side That 31 Tygris which with blewish streams doth glide Call these Armenians those of Persia Say 't is a City in Achaemenia These were Commanders them by right names call If that you can if not feign names for all Banquets preparativcs are and Tables spread But something besides Wine is to be had Oft Bacchus Grapes of all those sweets the best Hath Purple Cupid in his soft hands prest Until with Wine his spreading wings made wet Hee sits him down and sleeps where hee is set Anon the wet from 's dabled wings doth shake But cannot love from 's heart so easily take Wine doth prepare and heat our griefs allay Cares in full cups of wine are washt away It laughter brings and doth the poor man cheer Sorrow expels and clouded looks doth clear It oft-times doth our private thoughts declare And by its means with Arts wee furnisht are Oft-times young men with Love it doth inspire Love joyn'd with Wine is putting fire to fire Chuse not in Wine neither when it is night That injureth your judgement this your sight 32 Paris the Goddesses i' th' day did see When Venus hee the fairest judg'd to be Night imperfection hides no faults doth show Makes them that are not fair seem to bee so Rich Gemms and Purple in the day peruse By th' light of th' Sun a good complexion chuse Why should I mention those that with intent To hunt in numbers do the woods srequent Why any thing of shoars should I relate Or baths which do sulphurious smoaks create Where some being wounded to the heart thus speak This water 's not so good as some would make Loe in the Suburbs Delia's Temple stands And Kingdomes won by sword-supporting bands ' Cause shee 's a Maid and scorns at Cupids bow Hee will his shafts amongst her creatures throw The several places where choice beauties be Hereto hath my Thalia sung to thee That fair one which thou most dost fancy now T' obtain the top of Art I 'se teach thee how Whoere you bee your easie minds incline And every one observe my discipline Assume a courage first think any may Be won and fearless your devices lay First Birds and Locusts shall to sing forbear And the 33 Menalian Hound run from the Hare E're Virgins courted will young men deny The most unwilling yeeld most willingly Stoln pleasure's grateful to a young mans fire Ladies as much do privately desire 'T is fit a Love-sick Maid her mind should show Lest hee shee loves should to another go Heifers do low after a Bull i' th' Mead After ston'd-horses too young Mares have ney'd But lust 's represt in us it rageth not Wee lawful bounds unto our flames allot Of 34 Byblis who incestuous love did make And therefore hang'd her self why should I speak Or 35 Myrrha who did for her Father burn How into bark her tender skin did turn Her tears do us perfume which odours are And Myrrah's name those prccious drops still bear On Ida's leavie plains under the shade A Bull the glory of the herd was laid A hide as white as milk this beast adorns Except a black spot just betwixt his horns 36 Gnossos and Cydon heifers him would gain And gladly on their backs this Bull sustain Lustful 37 Pasiphaë makes him her Mate And therefore doth the lovely heifers hate Known truths I sing which Creet though us'd to be Nor all her 38 hundred Cities can deny Shee with an untaught hand is said to pull Green leaves and mow the Meadows for her Bull. Amongst the droves is in the pastures born Her Husband leaves a Bull doth Minos horn Pasiphaë why dost go in cloaths that are So rich thy Bull doth not for such things care Why in a glass dost feign the herd to see Or that a hairy skin doth cover thee But yet beleeve thy glass for it will show No horns though wisht for on thy fore-head grow Doth Minos please no other take at least Deceive him with a man not with a beast The Queen her bed being left through woods and groves Like an enraged Priest of Bacchus roves How hath shee frown'd when shee did Heifer◠see And said why should my Lord so pleased bee See how shee leaps before him thinking to Please him imagines hee 's delighted so Then shee commands her from that place be brought To draw the undeserved yoak be taught Or her a Sacrifice o th' Altar makes And in her hands the harlots entrails takes How oft she did with such the Gods appease Say thus to th' slain go you my Bull could please 39 Now Io 40 then Europa would shee turn A Heifer that this on a Bull was born The Bull deceiv'd by her cloz'd in a frame The Author of a monstrous birth became 41 Had Cressa to Thyestes bed not gone How hard it is to be content with one Sol i' th' Meridian had not staid nor then Back to Aurora had return'd agen King 42 Nisus daughter stole his Purple Hair And now a Birds form is suppos'd to bear 43 One Scylla Circes made a monster foul Under whose belly furious Sea-dogs howl 44 Atrides from all dangers sav'd his life Yet fell a Victim to his lustful wife 45 The bloody Mother wept not for the breath Of her slain Sons neither Creüsa's death 46 Phoenix Amintors Son no tears doth spare 47 Hippolitus mad horses piece-meal tear 48 Doting Phineus works his childrens ends And the same fate upon himself attends All these sad mischiefs womens lusts have made More raging th' are than ours and more unstaid Doubt not to gain what beauty ere you chuse Mongst many you 'l not finde one to refuse What they grant or deny they love to be Entreated let repulse not trouble thee Be not deceiv'd in change most pleasure finde And a new Love will alienate your minde The Corn is riper in adjacent fields Your neighbours Cow a larger Elder yeelds First let it be your care her Maid to gain For shee an easie entrance can obtain Be sure 't is her that all her secrets knows To whom shee doth her private thoughts disclose With gifts and promises corrupt her shee Can easily with thy wishes furnish thee Shee 'l chuse a time and so Physicians use When her you love is least apt to refuse Shee 's fit'st for such impressions when shee smiles So standing Corn thrives best in fatting soils When mirth shee entertains no griefs molest Venus is soon'st admitted to her breast 49 Ilion when sad with arms defended sits When glad the foe containing horse admits Try when some foe hath crost her for then shee
centum quos ab honore patres appellavit conscripsit 30 Backward fling the Parthians who were most excellent at the use of darts with which they would seem to flye back on purpose to prejudice their enemies 31 Euphrates Tygris Inter Tygrim Euphratem tam uber pinguis soli c. betwixt Tygris and Euphrates saith Curtius lib. 5. the Land is so fat and fertil that the Inhabitants are fain to drive their cattel from pasture for fear they should surfeit Salust saith they both uno fonte manare in Armenia flow from one fountain in Armenia but Curtius going on saith These two Rivers have their beginnings in the Armenian Mountains where they bee distant two thousand five hundred furlongs and so run forwards keeping their distance till they approach the confines of Media and Gordia where they come more neer together they compass round the Country called Mesopotamia and so run through the confines of Babylon into the Red-Sea 32 Paris the Goddesses the three Goddesses Juno Pallas and Venus contending for priority of beauty occasioned by a golden Apple with this inscription upon it This for the fairest meeting with Paris upon Mount Ida chose him for the decider of their controversie who gave his vote for Venus 33 Menalian Hound Arcadian Hound Menalus being a very high Hill in that Country 34 Biblis who shee fell in love with her own brother Caunus whom shee so much importuned that to avoid her hee fled his Country whom shee pursuing was by the wood Nymphs turned into a fountain Met. lib. 9. Sic lachrymis consumpta suis Phoebeia Byblis Vertitur in fontem Phebean Byblis by her tears consum'd Into a fountain turn'd 35 Myrrha the Daughter of Cyniras King of Cyprus who being enamoured on her Father and by the assistance of her Nurse obtaining the satisfaction of her lust conceived and brought forth Adonis for which shee was turned into a Tree from whence distils a gum called Myrrh Metam lib. 10. Flet tamen tepidae manant ex arbore guttae Est honor lachrymis stillataque cortice Myrrha Nomen herile tenet Yet shee doth weep the Tree warm drops doth spill Honour in tears Myrrh from the rinds distill Which bears her name 36 Gnossos and Cydon the two most famous Cities in Creet 37 Pasiphae'â— was the Daughter to Sol and Wife to Minos King of Creet who falling in love with a Bull was by the art of Daedalus inclosed in a woodden Cow covered with a Cow's skin by which means shee injoyed her Bull betwixt whom was begotten that monster called the Minotaure which Daedalus inclosed in the Labyrinth where hee was slain by Theseus 38 Hundred Cities Creet is said to have a hundred Cities in it whence it had the Epithet of Hecatompolis 39 Now Io the daughter of Inachus whom Jupiter turned into a Heifer Vide supra 40 Then Europa shee was the daughter of Agenor with whom Jove being in love transformed himself into the shape of a Bull and carried her on his back through the Sea to Creet where resuming his former shape hee ravished her 41 Had Cressa to Aerope called Cressa from Creet who committing adultery with Thyestes her Husband Atrens brother the children which were born to her by Thyestes were slain by Atreus and given to their Father to eat at which horrid wickedness the Sun is said to have gone back to the morning lib. 2. de Trist Si non Aeropen frater sceleratus amasset Conversos solis non legeremus equos Had not Thyestes for Aerope burn'd Wee had not read how Phebus Carr return'd 42 Nisus daughter Scylla who stole her Fathers purple hair upon which the fate both of himself and Kingdome did depend and carried it to his enemy Minos who besieged him and after whom shee lusted but being by him contemned shee at his departure hung on the keel of his ship where she was turned into a Lark her Father Nisus was also turned into a Hobby betwixt whom hath ever since continued enmity 43 One Scylla Circes the daughter of Phorcus whose nether parts the Witch Circe changed into grinning doggs which shee not knowing how to restore casting her self from a precipeece was turned into a Rock in the Mamertine-Sea betwixt Scicily and Italy destructive to Mariners 44 Atrides from all Agamemnon so called from his Father Atreus who having by Land avoided a thousand dangers in that long and desperate Siege at Troy and afterwards escaping a threatning Shipwrack the Sea being perturbed by an angry Neptune returning safe home was slain at a Banquet by his wife Clitemnestra and her Adulterer Aegistus 45 The bloody Mother Medea who by her charms furnishing Jason with the golden Fleece was by him afterward married to whom shee bore two Sons but hee forsaking her and marrying Crëusa daughter to Creon King of Corinth the inraged Medea consumed Crëusa in her Pallace with inchanted fire of which fact Jason coming to take vengeance shee before his face strangled her two Sons her self flying to Athens 46 Phaenix Amintors Son who by his Mothers advice having to do with his Fathers Concubine was haunted by the Furies and flying from his Fathers presence and coming into Thessalie was made Achilles Tutor 47 Hippolitus mad horses the Son of Theseus and Hippolita the Amazon who constantly resolving to live a single life in his Fathers absence was solicited by his Mother-in-law Phaedra whose lust he repudiating was by her accused to his Father from whose anger flying hee was torn to peeces by the horses that drew his Chariot and was buried in Diana's grove Fast lib. 3. Hic latet Hippolitus loris discerptus equorum Unde nemus nullis illud aditursequis Here lies Hippolitus by horses slain Whence no horse ere came in that grove again 48 Doting Phineus the Father of Orythus and Crambus whose eyes hee put out perswaded thereto by his second wife Idaea for which his own eyes were after pluckt out by the Furies 49 â—ion when sad Troy so called from Ilus the soin of Iros which being begirt with Graecian souldiers and by them reduced to extremities did render them more sorrowful and consequently much more watchful and vigilant but the Greeks feigning a departure left a wooden-horse of an immense and prodigious greatness whose belly was lined with souldiers the Trojans joyful of their departure and beleeving this to be the gift of Minerva with Ropes drew the vast bulk into the City Virg. Aeneid 2. circum pueri iunuptaeque puellae Sacra canunt funemque manus contingere gaudent Boyes Virgins round about Glad touch the Ropes and sacred hymns chant out In the night the souldiers coming out of the horse opened the gates to their confederates which were then returned slew the Trojans and set the City on fire 50 And Pleiades the seven stars feigned to be the seven daughters of Atlas their names are Electra Alcione Celaeno Maia Asterope Taygete and Merope which last is hardly to be discerned the
reason is because six of them married each one a God but Merope married a Mortal for which shee hath ever since absconded her self they are placed betwixt the mouth of Taurus and the tail of Aries and cause Snow in Winter according to Lucan l. 5. jam sparsâ—rat Aemo Bruma nives gelidoq cadens Atlantis Oly mpo Now with Winters Snow The Pleiades did Aemus top bestrow 51 Goat is swallowed Capricornus or the Goat is one of the twelve sings and the watery Tropick being the farthest limit of the Sun's course Southward the Aequator which entring makes the Winter quarter and turns his course again to the Aequinoxial 52 Allia before a River flowing from the Cructumentan Mountains in Hetruria where the Romans were overthrown and slain by Brennus Captain of the Gauls hence they used to call an unlucky day dies alliensis 53 Feast begin the Feast of the Passcover which the Jews kept on the fourteenth of the month Nisan which month containeth part of March and part of April by us now called Easter 54 Man of Palestina Moses by whose mouth the Lord commanded the Feast of Passeover should be kept in remembrance of his passing over the houses of Israel and destroying the first-born of Aegypt Ovid calls him the man of Palestina because hee died on Mount Abarim which is a Hill saith Josephus lib. 4. cap. 8. Antiq. neer Jericho Palestina containeth Judea Samaria and Galiâ—ea 55 Kings request Achilles at the humble request of King Priam did restore the dead body of Hector whom hee had slain and dragged his coarse in Triumph Hom. Iliad 24. 56 A Letter won Cydippe a noble young Lady of transcendent beauty whom young Acontius being in love with and fearing a repulse because hee both in birth and fortune was inferiour to her devised this means to obtain her as shee sate in Diana's Temple hee threw an Apple with this Inscription Aristaen lib. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By Diana I will marry Acontius Which shee taking up and reading at unawares promised her self to him after which time whensoever shee went about to marry another shee was cast into a dangerous disease by the offended Goddess Diana which her friends at last understanding married her to Acontius 57 Pergamus late a high Tower in Troy from which the whole City is called Pergamus which City saith Dares de excidio Tro. after ten years eight months and twelve daies siege was taken by the Grecians 58 Which Cybil did There were saith Aelian lib. 12. Nar. ten Cybils one of which was Phrygian Cybil shee first invented the Tabor and Pipe the Cymbal and Timbrel shee was called Mater Deorum or the Mother of the Gods and was worshipped at Berecynthia a Town in Phrygia of which Catul. 64. Sequimini Phrygiam ad domum Cybelles Phrygia ad nemora deae Ubi Cymbalum sonat vox ubi Tympanareboant Follow To th' Phrygian Grotto Goddesse Cybils shade Where Cymbals sound and where the Timbrels plaid Her Priests were enjoyned to geld themselves with a Fish-shell whose manner of worship was thus A Phrygian man and woman apparrelled in particoloured garments after the manner of their Country carried their Goddess Picture about beating their breasts and miserably howling after whom followed others playing on Tabors Pipes and Cymbals 59 Liber stiles mee Bacchus so called either because as Plutarch saies pro Boeotiae libertate pugnavit hee fought for the liberty of Boeotia or because with Wine hee exhilerates men and frees them from solicitous cares 60 Poor Ariadne the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae whom Theseus taking out of Creet forsook leaving her disconsolate on the shoar of Dia an Island in the Aegean-Sea one of the Cyclades upon whom being gone shee thus complains in Catullus Siccine me patriis abvectam perfide ab oris Perfide deserto liquisti in littore Theseu Siccine discedens c. Which I translate Flase Thesens was I from my Country took Thus on a forein shoar to be forsook Thus all the Gods neglected dar ' st thou go Thy perjuries attending on thee so Alas could nought avert thy cruel mind My sorrow in thee no compassion finde Thy cruel breast not pity my estate Ah! thou before ne're mention'd such a fate Thou bid'st mee never look for such a thing But joyful wedlock and wisht Hymen sing Which of no force sleight winds away do bear Let women ne're beleeve men when they swear 61 Loe Mimalonides the Menades or furious Priests of Bacchus 62 Old Silenns the Foster Father to Bacchus who was alwaies wont to ride upon an Ass 63 The God Bacchus the inventer of Wine who by the Thracians was worshipped for a God it being the custome of old amongst the Heathens to deifie the inventers of things 64 Others Evohe sed an exclamatory noise which the Menades were wont to use in praise of Bacchus 65 Nyctelius Bacchus so called from his seasts which were performed in the night Aeneid 4. Nocturnusque vocat clamore Cytheron 66 Juno's Bird the Peacock whose train shee beautified with her heardsman Argus his hundred eyes Metam lib. 1. Excipit hos volucrisque sua Saturnia pennis Collocat gemmis caudam stellantibus implet Yet that those starry Jewels might remain Saturnia fixt them in her Peacocks train 67 Phoebe and her Phoebe and her sister Elaira the daughters of Leucippus ravished by Castor and Pollux 68 The Aemonian Achilles so called from his Country of Thessaly the Scyrian is meant by Deidamia daughter to Lycomedes King of Scyros an Isle in the Aegean-Sea on whom Achilles habited in womens apparel begot Pyrrhus 69 Promise gave Hellen the fairest of all Greece whom Venus promised to Paris which being given was the ruine of not onely himself but all Troy 70 Daphnis lookt a youth of Sicily the inventer of Bucolick verse in love with the Nymph Nais 71 Pirithous from the son of Ixiox joyned in a firm league of friendship with Theseus whose wife Phaedra soliciting him to lust hee refused out of respect to his friend 72 Hermione Pylades Pylades was so faithful a friend to Orestes that when Theas King of Taurica had designed to sacrifice Orestes hee affirmed himself to be Orestes that hee might dye for his friend whose wife Hermione hee entirely loved because she so nearly related to his friend 73 Proteus used a Sea-deity the Son of Oceanus and Thetis the Poets feign that hee could transform himself into what shape hee pleased Metam 8. Nam modo te Juvenem modo te videre Leonem Nunc violentus aper nunc quem tetigisse timerent Anguis eras modo te faciebant cornuatanrum Sepe lapis poteras arbor quoque saepe videri Which I english One while a youth a Lion then appear Now a fierce Boar a Snake now which they fear To touch now horns shew thee a Bull to bee A Stone th' art oft and oft-times turn'd a tree The second Book OF Publius Ovidius Naso De Arte Amandi The Argument Daedalus
vox exultantium prae gandio est saith Ascensius upon the place whence to sing Iô Paean is to praise or sing hymns to Apollo 2 Maeonian man Homer called also Maeonides from his Father Maeon 3 The Priameian Paris so called from his Father Priam who sailed from Amyclae a City in Peloponnesus with his fair prize Hellen that exquisite piece of beauty of whom Dares Phr. describing Castor and Pollux fuerunt alter alteri similis capillo flavo c. Castor and Pollux were like each other having yellow hair great eyes clear complexions slender and extreamly handsome Hellen was like them beautiful of a winning nature courteous c. 4 Hippodamia the daughter of Oenomaus King of Elis who proposing her a prize to him that could overcome him in a Chariot-race was at last by Pelops who bribed his Charioteer Myrtylus out-run who together with his course won the fair Hippodamia for his Bride 5 Minos doth all means of a King of Crete by whom Daedalus was imprisoned in the Labyrinth which himself had built for assisting his Queen Pasiphae in the satisfaction of her lust Vide supra 6 Boôtes nor Orion Boôtes Orion and the Tegean Maid are three of the celestial constellations the first of which is placed neer ursa Minor the second under the head of Taurus the laft is the sign Virgo by the Poets feigned to be Erigone who was born in Tegea a City of Arcadia a Country in Peloponnesus whereof her Grandfather Oebalus was King after her death translated into the sign Virgo placed in the Zodiack between Leo and Libra 7 Samos and Naxos Samos for its neer site to Thracia called Samothrace Naxos Paros and Delos are Islands in the Aegean Sea 8 The Clarians love Apollo called Clarius from Clarus a City in Ionia where he had a Temple 9 Lebinthus and Lebinthus Calydna and Astipalaea are three Islands of the Sporades in the Mediterranean neer Crete 10 Aemonian Arts Witchcrafts from the many Witches that in antient time practised in Aemonia here dwelt the dire Witch Erictho and here grew all sorts of herbs that were advantagious to their hellish incantations Lucan lib. 6. Thessala quinetiam tellus herbasque nocenteis Rupibus ingenuit sensuraque saxa canentes Arcanum serale Magos ibi plurima surgunt c. Englished by Mr. May. Besides Thessalia's Fields and Rocks do bear Strange killing herbs and plants and stones that hear The charming Witches murmures there arise Plants that have power to force the Deities Medea there a stranger in those fields Gather'd worse herbs than any Cholcos yeelds 11 With Circe an Inchantresse living at Circeum a Promontory in Italy whither Ulysses companions being driven by a storm at Sea were by the Witch transformed into Swine whom Ulysses by his policy perswaded to restore to their pristine forms which she no sooner had done but with them he came away leaving the loathsome habitation of that accursed Inchantresse Hom. Odys 10. Meta. 14. 12 Hylas ravisht the Son of Theodamas King of Scythia who going with Hercules out of the Ship Argo to get an Oar in the Woods of Mysia and lying down to drink on the bank of the River Askanius hee was by the Water-Nymphs called Naides pluckt in and ravished 13 Calypso waile Daughter to Oceanus and Thetys shee governed the Isle Ogygia betwixt the Seas Phoenicium and Syriacum whither the Sea-beaten Ulysses by a storm being driven was by her entertained whom shee falling in love with admitted to her bed and detained the space of seven years till hee was by the destinies commanded thence Hom. Odys 1. 14 Simois a River in Asia rising out of the Mount Ida and running all along by Troy after which meeting with the River Xanthus they together make a great Fen or Marish whence they expatiate themselves into the Hellespont neer the Promontory Sygaeum So in Epist. 1. ad Ulyssem Hac ibat Simois hîc est Segeia tellus Hic steterat Priami regia celsa Senis Here flow'd Simois this is Segeian Land And here did Priams stately Palace stand 15 Dolon's Death a Trojan of admirable celerity who being sent a spy into the Grecian Camp was taken by Ulysses to whom in hope of pardon hee revealed the Trojan Counsels and betrayed Rhesus King of Thrace who was then journeying to Troy with the white horses whereon depended the Trojan fate after all which hee was slain by Ulysses Hom. Iliad 40. 16 Atalanta shun a Lady of superlative beauty averse to Venus but being daily solicited with the many importunities of divers Lovers she promised her self to him that could over-run her in a foot-race which Hippomanes after the vain assaies of many undertaking by casting in her way three golden Apples which shee staid to take up overcame and married her Metam lib. 10. O quoties cum jam posset transire morata est Spectatosque diu vultus invita reliquit How oft she staid when she could have out-gone Unwillingly his face left looking on 17 Melanion cause Hippomanes so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from his throwing Apples out of his hand 18 Dice Players at Dice both by the Elibertine and Constantinopolitan Council under Justinian were punished with Excommunication and Horatius lib. 3. Carm. Ode 24. saith it was by Law then forbidden Sou mavis vetita legibus aleae Quum perjura patris fides Consortem socium fallat hospitem Indignoque pecuniam haeredi properet Or at the Dice by Laws deny'd His Father's perjur'd Faith doth play And cheats his friend so that hee may Wealth for his worthless heir provide But yet Xenophon lib. 3. de dictis Socratis adviseth to play at Tables or Dice to divert from idleness 19 Foe of Glass this game of Chess invented say some by Pyrrhus or as others by Palamedes at the siege of Troy was much practised amongst the Romans their men they made sometimes of Wax but most commonly of Glass Martial lib. 7. Epig. 71. Sic vincas Noviumque Publiumque Mandris vitreo latrone clausos You may of Novius and Publius win With Knights and with your man of glass shut in 20 Her bed The Romans chief time of entertainment was at supper their Tables were round about which were placed three beds whereon the guests did not sit but lye along three usually on a bed each of their feet behinde the others back where they put off their shooes because they would not foul the beds for the most part richly covered Terrent Heautont Accurrunt servi soâ—eâ—s detrahunt Video alios feâ—â— nâ—re lectâ— sternere coenam parare Some servants run away their shooes do bear Some hasting beds do spread supper prepare 21 He before did Hercules whom the Poets feign to sustain Heaven upon his shoulder it being too ponderous for Atlas hee being enamoured on Omphale Queen of Lydia casting away his Club and Lions skin to obtain her love did not refuse to take a basket of wooll and a distaff into his hand which made his