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A11408	Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1625 (1625)	STC 21663; ESTC S116493	251,817	446

called the Mother because shee containes in her wombe as it were diuers other tables seruing for diuers eleuations of the Pole and the back-side whereon are drawne sundrie lines and circles the first of them next the edge shewes the degrees of Altitude whereof there is a double vse for applying them to the numbers in border that exceed not ninety they shew how many degrees the Sunne or other Starre is raised aboue our Horizon with many commodities thereon depending and applying them to the numbers below which goe-on from thirtie to thirtie they shew the degrees of the Zodiake where the Signes are written with their names and characters to know the true place of the Sunne euery day After these you shall finde set downe other circles wherein be the twelue Moneths of the yeare answerable to the Signes with daies vnto each apart or two by two numbred by Fiues or Tens not exceeding 31. which is the quantitie of the greatest Moneth This serues to know in what degree of the Zodiacke the Sunne is euery day Moreouer there are two Diameter-lines crossing each other in Rectangle at the Center of the Astrolabe one called the Noone-line drawne from the Ring by the Center downward and another from East to West which represents the generall Horizon at whose either end indifferently begin the degrees of Altitude aforesaid Six other small lines there are like Arches together with the Skale of heights the Winds and the Rule turning-about on the backside whereof we shall speake anon As for parts of the foreside called the Mother there is first a circle or border diuided into 360. degrees these stand for the Equinoxiall or Eauen night wherein are by iust measure set downe and distributed the 24 houres of the day containing each fifteene degrees and euery degree foure minutes so as euery houre hath threescore minutes The wombe as I said of this Mother is to beare sundry tables according to the Pole height of sundry places these tables haue each about their Centers drawne three concentrike circles whereof the least is the Tropike of Cancer called in the Sphere the Summer Tropike where the dry is at longest about the twelfth of lune the Mid-circle is the Equator passing close by the beginning of Aries and Libra in which two places the Sunne makes day and night equall throughout the whole world to wit about the eleuenth of March and the 13. of September So followes it then that the greatest circle of these three which is towards the edge of each table must be the Tropike of Capricorne where the day is at shortest about the twelfth of December Moreouer in these Tables there are the Almucantaraths by that Arabian word is signified the circle of Pole height vpon our Hemisphere some perfect some imperfect The first of them stands for the slope Horison diuiding the world into two parts whereof the one we see the other is hid from vs. The Center of the least Almucantarath stands for the Zenith or Crowne point from whence to the Horison are ninety degrees euery way drawn-out by Twoes Threes Fiues or Tens according to the capacitie of the Instrument and distance of the lines which are so drawne for the Sunne or other Starre to be thereto applied as often as a man will take their eleuation aboue the Horizon Beside these here are also the Azimuths or crowne circles which doe cut euery Almucantarath by Fiues Tens or Fifteenes into 360 degrees quartered by ninetie and distinguished one quarter from another by the two principall Azimuths which are the Meridian and the Equinoctiall that passeth from the right East-point by our Zenith to the West Where we begin commonly to count the degrees of the Quarters Northward and Southward These are to make knowne in what part of the world the Sun or other Starre riseth and setteth After these doe follow the vnequall houres called the houres of the Planets together with the names and characters of then Planets the lines of twy light noone and mid-night the figures of the twelue houses the line of the Zodiake and consequently the directory or Index which turneth about the Instrument at either side by the brim Lastly there is the Hole of the Net or Cob-web which stands for the Pole of the world and by the pinne that goes thorow the same Hole are all the tables or plates of the Astrolabe ioyned and held fast together Concerning the vse of this Instrument in measuring all heights bulkes lengths breadths thicknesse and depths I. Stoster D. Iaquinot and I. Bassantin haue largely thereon discoursed in their bookes of the Astrolabe And what need I take further paines in Englishing more of this Subiect when the famous Geoffrey Chaucer 233. yeares agoe hath made all so plaine in the best English of his time Somewhat only must be said of that Alhidode as the Poet here calles the Rule it is an Arabian word in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Radius as in Virgil Descripsit radio totum qui gentibus orbem It is the turning Rule on the back-side of the Astrolabe whereon are fastned two square tablets with small sight-holes persed for the height-taking of Sunne or Starre and for measuring of quantities aforesaid or any other vse here specified by the Poet. 46 The pregnant Phaleg yeelds Hauing shewed the excellence of Astronomie he comes now to declare by what meanes the knowledge thereof was deriued vnto vs and saith as it is most likely that from the Hebrues it came to the Chaldeans from them to the Aegyptians from them to the Arabians and so to the Italians and Germans whose names haue beene gathered and set downe by H. Ranzouius in his Treatise of the excellence of Astronomie 47. O right Endymions This is in commendation of the learned Astronomers and their profession The Poets faine that the Moone was so in loue with Endymion that as he slept on a high hill-top shee came thither to kisse and embrace him It is thought he was some great Astronomer At least this fable was ment of Students in Astronomie whom our Author for that cause here termeth Right Endymions The great vse and further commendation of this Art you may reade in Virgil. Georg. 1. Aeneid 1. 3. and almost euery where in Ptolomey but especially in Peucer and such as haue lately written or prefaced vpon Astrologie C'est vous qui parcourez les celestes prouinces En moins d'vn tourne-main qui plus grans que nos Princes Possed z. tout le monde faites demi dieux Tourner entre vos mains les clairs Cercles des cieux Pour vous 4 Il l●●sse l'Astionomie pour consi●erer la quatriesme Image qui est la Musique la quelle il descrit auec ses orneme●● Esprits diuins ma plus diserte-plume Feroit son miel plus doux couler dans ce volume Vous seriez mon subiet si la derniere Soeur Desia ne me trainoit à soy par sa douceur Car i'enten

the bitter and saltnesse of the Sea-water Plutarch hath spoke thereof in his booke of the Philosophers Opinions 3.16 see what he saith there and in the ninth question of his first booke of Table-talke and in the first question of his Naturall causes Aristotle in the 23. Section of his Problemos Pliny in his second booke from the 97. chap. to the 101. where he assoiles the most obiections that are made concerning this point of the Sea but especially in the 110. he ascribes there to the Sunne the Saltnesse of Sea-water at the top not at the bottome With him agrees Mellichius vpon the same Chapter of Plinie Garcaeus in the 36. Chapter of his Meteorologie Danaeus in his Christian Physickes 2.11 And Velcurio in his Comment vpon Aristolles Naturall Philosophie 3.7 7 Of the seuenth Article enough hath beene said in the third and the Terrestriall Globe and Mappes doe make all very plaine 8 There rests for the eight Article a word to be said concerning the forme or shape of the Sea whether it be round or flat That which hath beene afore-said shewes plainly it is round but neither in it whole selfe nor parts how then Only as it is enterlaced with the whole body of the Earth and hath for bed the great deepe If any be so curious as to seeke herein further satisfaction let him reade Scaliger against Card. Exercit. 37. c. So much for these eight Articles touching the Sea 30 Here should th' Aire The Poet goes about here to range in proper place both the Elements and Heauens to wit The Earth lowest the Water next thereupon then the Aire then the Fire next ouer these the seuen Planets and aboue them the Fix-star-heauen embrased with the primouable and ouer that the glorious habitation of Saints This is the common opinion of Christian Astronomie agreed-on by most Winters both of late and former times Some few as Copernicus and his followers gainsay it but the Poet takes after that opinion which is most likely and most receiued 31 Among the greater Six The Terestriall Globe hath Ten Rings or Circles six great ones so called because they diuide the Sphere after the full compasse thereof into equall parts and foure called leste because they diuide it into parts vnequall The first of the great here mined by the Poet is the Equator or Equinoctiall which I tearme The Circl ' of match-Match-day night This Circle in euery part therof is like distant from the Poles of the world diuideth the Globe into two equall parts and is the greatest of all the Circles by reason whereof it comes to passe that the Sunne and other Planets haue vnder this a swifter course than other of those heauenly bodies as contrariwise they runne slower when they come nearer the Poles And when the Sunne is vnder this Line day and night is equall throughout the world and that caused the name There are two such times in the yeare the one called of the Spring the Vernall Equinox about the eleuenth of March the other the Autumnall of that Season and falleth commonly neare the thirteenth of September For when the Sunne first entreth Aries or Libra then is he vnder the Equinoctiall and stayeth as long aboue as vnder euery Horison that is twelue houres a peece halfe the naturall day This and the rest would better be vnderstood with an Armillary Sphere in hand 32 This other The second great Circle is called the Zodiake which diuides the Equator into two equall parts at the beginning of Aries and Libra and the one toward the North is called the Articke halfe and the other toward the South the Antarticke halfe of the Equator The Zodiake hath other Poles or Axelpoints than those of the world and from them also distant 24. degrees which also in the Globes turning draw-out the Tropicke Circles of Cancer and Capricorne whereof hereafter 33 This other passing-through The Astronomers imagine also two other great Circles called the Colures which a man may thinke doe stead the Globe no more than to hold the parts thereof together For the office that some giue them to distinguish the Night-qualles and Sunstaies belongeth more properly to the Equator and Tropickes The Poet here exactly describes the first Colure and saith it is drawne from one of the Tropickes to the other to note the staies of the Sunne who comming thereto neere goes not so fast as afore 34 And this here crossing This is the description of the second Colure that shewes the equall space betwixt the two Equinoxes or Eauen-nights of Spring and Autumne and the two Solstices or Sun-stayes of Summer and Winter The word Colure comes of the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies curtolled or cut off by the taile because onely one part appeares vnto vs and the other is hid and so saith Proclus 35 And this the circl ' of Noon That is the Meridian which passing through the Poles and our Zenith or Crowne-point diuides the Globe into halues the one East the other West It is called the Noon-line or Meridian because alwaies when the Sunne by sway of the Primovable comes thereto at what time or place soeuer then there it is Noone and Noone is nothing else but the midday Naturall or Artificiall Whereupon it followes that all Cities vnder the same Meridian stand alike distant from East and West and contrary-wise if one be neerer East or West then another they haue not the same Meridian but diuers Th'arke then or round parcell of th'Equator reckoning from West to East which is betweene the Meridian of the Fortunate Isles and the noon-point of any place or Citie is colled the longitude or length of that Citie or place and their Latitude or bredth is the Arke of their Noon-circle from th'Equator to the Crowne-point Hence also arises the distinction of Climats implied here in the word Horison which moueth as farre as you will to North or South The Ancient Astionomers saith Appian in the 6. Chapter of his Cosmography diuided the whole Earth into seuen Climats or degrees of heat and cold but we now obserue nine by reason of our late more exact discoueries A Climate is a space of the Earth betweene two paralels or lines of Latitude differing halfe an houre in Sunne-dyall one from other for the Sunne drawing from the Equator toward the Poles must needs make the daies vnequall And so much is one Climat remoued from the Equato as makes the daies there differ halfe an houre from the Equinox from Day-and night-cauen Heere further is to be noted that euery Climate takes 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 en●●keble Citie Riuer Country Isle or Mountaine c. From the ●●qu●●● then to reckon Northward the first Climate is c●lled of M●●● because it runnes thorow the midst of that Citie in d●●●ke 〈◊〉 second of Sie●● a Citie in Egypt vnder the Tropick of Ca●●● the third of Alexandria the fourth of Rhodes the fift of Rome the sixt of Pontus the seuenth of Boristhenes

iourney takes and doth more wightly flit Then any of all the rest who narre the Poles haue leasure Vnto the Lute of God to dance a slower measure And alway when the Sunne his giue day charrot guides Right vnder line thereof and rometh not besides The day and night goe euen and cunning Nature than In eu'ry country metes them out with equall span The Zodiacke 32 This other couched here next vnd'r it ouerth warr Whose poles doe from the poles of th'All warp-out apart Some twenty foure degrees is call'd the Zodiack The race of wandring flames here Phoebus keeps his track To bring-about the yeares and monthly changing Innes Procures the quarter-change of Seasons double twinnes The first Colure 33 This other passing-through the poles both of the world And of the foresaid wheele where Phoebus round is horld And framing angles euen on th'Equinoctiall rote A th'onside thwarts the Crab ath'otherside the Goat The Solsticial Colure is call'd for Phoebus there Runs slow as not along but ath'onside the Sphere The second Colure 34 And this here crossing that in spheryck angles eu'n And running by the Ram the Skoles and Axe of heau'n The second is and call'd the nigh-equall Colure The Meridian 35 And this the circle of Noone that neuer standeth sure But with our Zenith flits as also with our sight The Horizon Th'vnstedfast Horizon takes euery way his flight Now for the lesser foure aside th'Equator lie Foure lesse Circles 36 The winter Tropick low and summer Tropick high The Tropicks And higher then the high is 37 th'Artick circle pight And lower then the low th'Antartick out of sight The North Circle and the South These foure misse common Centr ' and wry-part heau'ns-high wheele Each to th'Equat'r and each vnt ' each is paralleel The Globe of heauen 38 The Ball shee beares in left the portrait is of heau'n For howbeit Arte we finde to Nature match vneuen Good wits yet ner'thelesse thus also take delight To view and maruaile-at the Vault so flamie-bright O what a pleasure 't is that turning softly about This starrie briefe of heau'n we see as 't were come out And with a stately traine before our eyes to coast The bands and banners bright of that all-conquering hoast One hath a quiu'r and bow Shapes giuen by diuers aspects with arrowes quick-to-strike Another swayes a Mace another shakes a pike One lies along anoth'r enthrond in stately chaire Rowles-ore the brasen blew of th'euer-shining Sphaire Behold some march afoot and some on horseback ride Some vp some downe and some before behind beside Her 's ord'r eu'n in disord'r and of this iarre doth come Both vnto Sea and Land a plenty-swelling wombe 39 I neuer see them looke one aft'r anoth'r askance In tryangl in quadrangle or in sextile agglance Sometime with gentle smile and sometime with a frowne But that me thinks I see the braue youth of a towne All dancing on a greene where each sex freely playes And one another leads to foot the country layes Where one darts as he go'th a looke of I elousie Another throwes his Lasse a louely glauncing eye 40 Then Phaleg said Phalegs obiection concerning the strange shapet giuen by the how is' t Sir that the Souerain-faire Who naught vnseemly makes in Sea in earth in ayre Yet on this heau'nly vault which doth all else containe Where ought delight her selfe and grace and beauty raigne Sets many a cruell beast and many a monster fell That meeter were t' abide among the fiends in hell Sonne answers Heb'r indeed the curious hand of God Makes all by rules of Art Astronomers and nothing gracelesse-odde And this especially the world doth beautifie Hebers answer That both aloft and here is such varietie Yet more our ancestors that wisely drew the lines And skoared first the Globe according to the Signes Gaue each a name and shape implying such effects Reason of the names giuen to the Signes As on all vnder-things they worke by their aspects For thy a Ram they made the Sunnes twyhorned Inne His curly-golden signe whereat the yeares begin 1. The Ramme Wherevnd'r is all the land lukewarmed peece by peece And puts on rich attire a flowrie-golden fleece The next they made a Bull 2. The Bull. for there they wont to yoke The softly-drawing steers that in a sweaty smoke Plow-vp the fallow grounds and turning-ore the mould Doe skowre the coult'r againe that rust before had fould Twinnes of the third they made 3. The Twinnes where Loue that angry-sweet The male and female makes in one together meet For eithers perfiture when fruit in cluster growes And all at once are seene both flowr ' and graynie rowes The fourth a Crab 4. The Crab. whereat this prince of wandring fires A coast the South againe vntireably retires And backward like a Crab the way before he trode Reprints with equall steps and keeps his beaten rode The fift a Lyon fierce 5. The Lion for as the Lyons are Of hot-infecting breath so vnder this same starre Our haruest glowes with heat yea on the Sea and streames The Lyon-maned Sun shoots-out his burning beames The sixt by their deuise the title hath of a maid 6. The Virgin Because th' Earth like a Girle therevnd'r is ill apaid To beare the loue-hot looks that Phoebus on her flings And then chast as a maid no fruit at all she brings The next hath of the Scoales 7. The Ballance because it seems to way The silence-louing night and labour-guiding day The Summer and the Wint'r and in the month of Wines Makes either side so eu'n as neither more declines The next because we feele then first the Summer gon And sting of Winter come 8. The Scorpion they call'd a Scorpion The next in name and shape an Archer bow in hand 9. The Archer He shooteth day and night vpon the witherd land Vpon th'embattled towrs vpon the tufted woods His arrowes fethered with Ise and snowie soods The next they made a Goat where as in shaggie locks 10. The Goat The Goat is wont to clime and countermount the rocks Our goldy-locked Sun the fairest wandring starre Remounting vp the Globe begins to come vs narre And in the latter signes because they saw a wet And euer-weeping heau'n our fathers wisely set 11. The Water-bearer One with a water-spout still running o're the brim 12 The Fishes And fishes there apaire which in the water swim But if-so this my sonne not satisfie thy minde Another more subtile reason A man may well thereof some other reason finde As that before the word of God made all of naught Before that breeding voice not only th'Infant wrought But euen the wombe of All th'eterne exampl ' and plot The wondrous print of things now being and then not On heau'nly manner lodg'd in th'Architects foreseeing And thus before it was the world

open and sparkling as the Sunne with an open and vnweariable eye lookes on the round world continually Thus of that Signe though all the rest also are held by good reason agreeable to the nature of the Sunne To begin with the Ram See the great agreement For he during the six moneths of Winter vseth to lye on his left side and all the rest from the Spring to Winter againe on his right as the Sunne also from the Equinox or Euen-night of Spring runs the right side Hemisphere and at the other Euen-night changes to the left and for that cause Iupiter Ammon the supposed Sunne-setting god of Libya is fained to haue the hornes of a Ram wherein lies the force of that beast as the force of the Sunne is in his beames The Greekes also call him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Ram of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a horn Now that the Bull hath some correspondence with the Sunne the Egyptian Idolatry shewes it by diuers instances one that in Heliopolis i. the Citie of the Sunne they chiefely worship a Bull called Netiros consecrate to the Sunne Another because the Citie of Memphis honours the Bullocke Apis for the Sunne a third is that in a stately Temple of Apollo at Herminthi they consecrate to the Sunne and worship a Bull which they call Bacchis there famous for diuers miracles agreeable to the nature of the Sunne for his haire growes backward contrary to the nature of other beasts and therein they hold him like the Sunne striuing against the course of Heauen they say also that he changes his colour euery houre in the day What to make of this I the Translator know not except it imply the same that Hermes Trismegistus noted when he saw in Egypt a beast dedicated to Serapis make-water twelue times of equall distance in a day and thereby gathered that the day should be diuided into twelue houres P. Virg. de Inuent 2.5 and this may haue relation to the Sunne but I come againe to Macrebius The Signe of Twinnes which are taken for Castor and Pollux that were thought to liue and dye by turnes what may it better signifie then one and the same Sunne sometime rising vpon our Hemisphere sometime going downe to the other The side-way crawling of the Crab what better can it meane then the Sunnes neuer straight but side-way passing thorow the Signes and here especially where he begins to turne from aloft downeward Of the Lyon we haue said already The Signe of the Virgin with an care of corne in her hand what meanes it else but the power and vertue of the Sunne whereby that eare and all others are loden with Come therefore also is this Maiden taken for Justice which onely causeth all fruits growing to serue mans vse The Scorpion and the Ballance likewise doth wholly represent the Sunnes Nature which is but cold and starke in Winter and sunke downe as the lower Scoale but afterward stirs-vp againe the sting of his inward force nothing diminished by the late could Th' Archer which is lowest of al the Signes in the Zodiak hath the fore-part of a man and hinder-part of a horse to shew that the Sunne is fallen from his highest place to his lowest as it is a strange abasing of a man to become a beast yet shootes he an arrow to signifie that all creatures on earth be cheered and quickned by the Sunne howeuer farre from them Vnder the Goat the Sunne begins to aduance himselfe againe from below and this is the right manner of that beast who commonly stands on his hinder legges to feed vpon the Rocks aboue him And doth not the Water bearer shew also the right nature of the Sunne For how should we haue raine vpon the earth if the Sunnes hear drew not first the vapours vpward which being turned into water by the cold mid-region of the Aire falls downe againe in plentifull shewers In the last place of the Zodiack are the Fishes These also haue beene consecrated vnto the Sunne not so much for likelihood of nature as to shew the force and vertue of that Planet which maintaines life not onely in the Birds of the Aire and Beasts of the field but euen among those Creatures also which liuing in the water seeme to be vnseene of him So mighty is the Suns operation that with his piercing beames he quickneth such things as man would thinke farre out of his reach So ends the Chapter Now concerning such Countries as are subiect to the sundry Signes looke what Ptolomey saith and what the Poet Manilius in the fouth booke of his Astronomicall Poeme though many toyes he hath not agreeing with Ptolomey Reade also Lucas Gauricus who in his Geometry hath set downe euery particular I tell them not here lest I be too long 41. But if-so this Of the aforesaid shapes in heauen this is the third reason somewhat more curious then the two former to wit that God from all Eternity conceiuing in himselfe the Idea and paterne of the World which he meant to create would haue the models of all earthly things be recorded in the heauens I call this a curious reason because if it bee narrowly examined it will be found but a pretie inuention to embellish a Poeme wherein a man hath leaue to take any matter sauouring of trueth or likelihood to refresh and please the most courteous Readers withall Passant outre pour aneantir les fables des Grees Heber dit que les noms donnez aux estoil les des deux poles contienent les mysteres de l'eglise ce qu'il tasche de prouuer par vne brefue consideration de chascune d'icelles premierement du pole arctique Et vrayement si i'osoy que n'oseray-ie pas Pour arracher du ciel les forcenez combats Les prophanes larcins les nopces detestables Et bref tout l'attirail de ces monstreuses fables Dont ie ne sçay quels Grees à l'auenir voudront Du Ciel glisse-tousiours deshonorer le front Ie te pourroy monstrer que sous ces characteres La Tout-puissante main a descrit les mysteres De sa saincte Cité que ce n'est qu'vn crystal Où du sicele auenir se lit l'ordre fatal Vn publique instrument vne carte authentique Qui sans ordre contient le recit Prephetique Des gestes de l'Eglise O bean Char flamboyant Qui comme vn tourbillon enleues le Voyant Tu roues à l'entour d'vn des Poles du monde Sans mouiller plus les bords de tes iantes dans l'onde Le Chariot Et sans plus establer tes courserots sumans Sous la ronde espesseur des plus bas Elemens Cependant Elisec Bootes attentif te regarde Brule a'vn feu de zele conuoiteux lui tarde Qu'il pique tes cheuaux que sur l'astré mont Il les face tourner dedans vn petit rond A son flanc est Dauid Hercule qui dans sa main guerriere Por

Ici ie voy descrite La Carte des hauteurs Lignes verticales Lignes paralleles du Soleil les Almucantharats Auec les Azimuts les Almadarats Muse pardonne moy si ie pein de grotesques Vn siriche tableau side mots Barbaresques Ie souille mon discours veu qu'en cest argument Il faut pour bien parler parler barbarement Mais dessus l'autrepart se tourne vne visiere Et sous elle vne Table o● se void la carriere Des slambeaux vagabons mais sous certaines loix L'Eschelle des hauteurs les iours les noms de mois Remuant l'Alhidade vn temps il se trauaille Amonstrer L'Vsage de l'Astrelabe comme on doit toiser vne muraille La profondeur d'vn puits la distance des lieux La largeur d'vn pays par la largeur des cieux Chez quel signe estoillé conime par etiquete Le Tout-puissant logea la plus belle Planete En quel est son Nadir comme on peut seurement Trouuer son declin son eleuement Le temps qu'vn Signe entier doit employer à faire Son chemin pour monter dessus nostre Hemisphere Du Pole la hauteur la ligne du Mi-iour Les heures de la nuict les heures du iour Phalec enseigae l'Astronomie à ses enfans qui enri chissent ceste science par nou uelles inuentions Ceste science paruient des Hebre●ux aux Chaldeans L'ingeni●ux Phalec à si doctes merucilles Preste attentinement ses dociles oreilles Alchimiste parfait multiplie cest or Fait courre ce talent presente ce thresor Pour vne riche Estreine à son illustre race Qui mesme son Docteur endoctrine surpasse Mais tout ainsi qu'vn Mars vn Herme vne Venus Vont ores visitant les Troglodytes nus Or ' laue or ' l'Amerique torches vagabondes Muent de garnison pour hanter les deux Mondes Qu'vn Cercle egale-iours egalement mi-part Ainsi ou peu s'en faut l'honneur d'vn si bel art Né cheri éleué chez larace Hebraique Des Chaldeans elle s'en va aux Egyptiens d'eux aux Grees de rechef aux Egyptiens puis aux arabes finalement aux Italiens Alemans Fils adoptif se donne au peuple Chaldaique Puis faisant peu d'estat des sommets sourcilleux De l'antique Babel se retire ●rgueilleux Du Tigre au Nil fecond deuers l'Austre s'en vole Et dresse daus l'Egypte vne fameuse eschole Et puis s'amourachant des Pelasges subtils Commet ●ntre leurs mains soy ses outils Et derechef encor sous le grand Ptolomee De Peluse reuoid la riue bien-aimee Et d'Egypte eschappé se donne aux Musulmans De'ux aux Hesperiens d'eux aux Alemans Louange des doctes Astronomes O vrais Endymions qui sur l'astré Latmi● Caress●z baisotez embrassez vostre amie Qui grand Reine duciel a son lict entouré D'vn miliond ' Archers portans l'escu doré Atlas non-fabuleux colomnes eternelles Du Palais du Seigneur ames doctement belles Las sans vos monumens la doctrine des cieux Vtilitez de la doctrine Astronomique Ruineuse cherriot dans le flot oublieux C'est vous qui ae sbrouillez les mois les anne es Qui cottez au Nocher les heures fortune es Pour couper la commande les iours que la mort Peinte au ciel le se mond d'aller surgir à bord En quel temps le Bouuier doit es mains de la terre Depositerson grain quand vn homine de guerre Doit faire battre aux champs quand tenir garnison Quand forcer vn rempart quand tonduire à foison Leu viures en son camp quelle saison est saine Ou pour purger le corps ou pour ouurir la veine Et comme vn Medecin doctemert curieux Pour ses drogues mester doit regarder les cieux And by the name of Saints giu'n t'eu'ry heau'nly Signe In stead of heathen lyes this Art made all-diuine Now heare we Heb'r againe to Phaleg whose discourse The principall words of this Art Of euery Planet shewes the downing and resours Grau'n on the lasting brasse and what 's the Perigee The Planets learnedly distinguisht Concentrike Excentrike Epicycl ' Apogee And how the bring-day Sun and Venus fond-of-mate Together with the starre of Mars the sow-debate Saturne and Iupiter three circles haue in one And Mercurie only fiue and only foure the Moone For those same heau'nly wits who taught vs first this Art Perceiuing well these Lights now that now this-way start That now alow they stoop and now aloft they reach To banish from aboue th'vnlikely voide the breach And bodie-piercing broile the which their course vneau'n Might cause among the Spheres enclos'd by th'vpper heau'n Vnt'each eternall wheele that round each Planet soops Haue more then manly durst appoint some lesser hoops Who kissing either-oth'r oppose not other-either So well is round to round distinctly set together A lesse one vnd'r a great with bent so close embras'd Euen as the Chesnut is in tender skin encas'd The tender skin ypent within a tanned hyde The tanned hide in huske thick sharp rough brittle-dry'd The lines ver call Parallels of the Sunne Then takes he th'Astrolabe shewes the Sphere in flats The Pole-heights Azimuths Alcanthars Almadrats Ye Muses pardon me if I deface with blots A table of such a price if I with barbarots So soile my faire discourse for why this matt'r of mine In case I speake it right I may not speake it fine But on that other side a Sight-rule turnes about And vnd'r it lyes a tabl ' on which they see set-out The course of wandring starres who keep yet certaine rites The names of eu'ry month the dayes and scale of heights He mouing that same Rule now takes the paine to teach The toysing of a wall Vse of th'Astrolabe and now to know the reach From any place to place the depth of any Well By view of breadth in heau'n a breadth on earth to tell As al 's ' at what-signe Inne by tyquet as it were Th'Almight ' appoints the Sun to lodge all months i'th'yeere And where his Nadir is and how much he declines Or how much he aduanc'd aboue th'Equator shines What time a Signe entire allotted hath to runne Ere on our Hemisphere he mount and how to konne Each countries mid-day-line the Pole-heights euery way All howers of the night all howers of the day Phaleg improues and commends this Art to his posterity The pregnant Phaleg yeelds vnt'all old Heber taught His eu'r attentiue eare and quick-conceiuing thought As perfect Alcumist this gold he multiplies And vsing well the stock bequeaths rich legacies Of learning treasured in his encreasing Casse Vnt ' all his noble race and they their teacher passe But as of Venus Mars and Mercurie the lights Goe visit otherwhile the naked Troglodytes