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A90256	Ovid's Invective or curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. And the histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with natural, moral, poetical, political, mathematical, and some few theological applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double index: one of the proper names herein mentioned; another of the common heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, sex and age, and very useful for grammar schools. / By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford.; Ibis. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Jones, John, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing O678; Thomason E1657_2; ESTC R208994	89,564	191

Christians there is but one God represented under those fictious names He is All in All our Help Wisdom Captain and Comfort To me to me with ears and hearts attend And let my prayers have their weight and end Hear me O Earth hear me O boysterous Main Hear me O skie let me your favours gain O Starres O Sun most glorious in thy rayes O Moon appearing not alike alwayes 75. O Night renown'd for shade O Triple Fate That spin our lives to the appointed rate The Gentiles made Night a Goddess but gave her no Temple nor sacrifice She is painted like a woman because that sex is more fearful and so are men by night more then day She bears a white child in the right hand that is Sleep and a black one in the left that is Death The three fatal Sisters are Clotho that holds the distaff Lachesis that spins the thred of mans life and Atropos that cuts it off 1 There is a three-fold estate of man Birth Life Death Hence the first Fate is called Nona because man is born in the ninth moneth the second Decima because man liveth ten times ten years the third Morta Death They are called Parcae because Death spares none They are the daughters of Jupiter and Themis God of Heaven and Goddess of Justice for Death is Gods just decree for sin Styx whom the Gods do swear by that dost glide With murmuring noise through valleys by Hell side Styx indeed is a Well in Arcadia whose water is strong poison so cold that nothing can contain it but a Mules hoof with this Alexander is thought to be made away by Antipater not without some aspersion upon Aristotle The Poets feign that this is a river in Hell that the Gods did swear by it which oath if any brake he was for certain years debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia the food of Deities 1. Styx signifies Hate because men dying begin to hate their former sins Heathens durst not take the name of Styx in vain but Christians take the name of God in vain what then may such sinners expect but to be debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia life and immortality Furies whose tresses winding snakes do tie 80. Who at the gates of that dark prison lie The three Furies Alecto Megaera and Tisiphone daughters of Pluto and Proserpina were called in heaven Dirae in earth Harpyae in hell Furiae 1 These are taken for the tortures of a guilty conscience where the torments of hell begin or for the commotions of the mind Covetousness Envy Discord or for Gods three judgments Megaera Plague sweeping all away Alecto Famine never satisfied Tisiphone Sword a murtherer and revenger of sin These are worshipped not because they can do good but lest they should do hurt Fawnes Satyres Lares Gods of low degree Rivers and Nymphes and you that half-Gods be 1. Faunus king of the Latins had a wife called Fauna or Fatua from prophecying she read fortunes Hence foretellers of things are called Fatuarii and inconsiderate speakers Fatui The Faunes are thought to have sent the disease called Ephialtes or Night-mare which Pliny terms Faunorum ludibria Faunus was worshipped as a God for teaching Tillage and Religion much more should we worship the true God that giveth all good things These Gods had hornes to fright men to religion whom reason would not draw Primus in orbe Deum fecit timor 2. Satyres were lascivious creatures their descent I find not they were like the Faunes with a m●ns head horned all hairy with Goates feet they were Deified because they should not hurt the catel 1 These are but rude rustick clownes given to drinking wenching and dancing ●acchus is said to be their companion because ●ine provokes lust This conception of Satyes may proceed from savage men discovere● in woods by the civil wearing beasts skins on ●heir tawny bodies with the tail hanging do●n behind and hornes on their heads either for ornament or terrour such are yet amo●g the West-Indians Mr Sandys to these ignorance and ●ar ascribed a celestial Deity 3. Lares ●ere begot of Mercury and Lara Some think the L●rvae and Lemures to be the same they are as Penates Gods of houses and Lar is painted like a dog a good house-keeper which is kind to the houshold fie●e to strangers Men sacrificed to him in the ch●ney hence the house and so the fire is called La. 1 Th●se were Gods of low degree among the ancient Romans and what higher have the new 4. Nymphae quasi Lymphae were Deities of the Waters if sprung from Mountains they were called Oreades if from Woods and Trees Dryades and Hamadryades if from moisture of flowers Napeae if from the Sea Nereides if from Rivers Naiades 1 These Nymphs were daughters of Oceanus because Rivers return into the Sea fro● whence they came So should we return thanks to God from whence comes all These Nymphs are painted spinning It is no sh●me for a Lady to be a Spinster or a ●uswife 2 In Poets there be Gods of Haven Earth Hell Woods Waters c. T● shew that Gods power and providence d● reach unto every place If I climbe to ●eaven thou art there if to Hell thou art t●ere also Enter presenter Deus hic ubiq potenter Gods old and new that do remain till now From the first Chaos listen to my vow 85. While ' gainst this hateful wretch with c●●rms I pray While grief and wrath their several parts di●play Gods of each rank let power my wish att●in And let no jot nor point of it prove vain As I do wish Gods do that all may be 90. Thought by Pasiphäes step-son said ot me Theseus son of Aegeus that took ● wife Ariadne daughter of Pasiphäe whom Bacch● after married being too credulous to the false acusation of his son Hippolitus made by Phoedra ●s Mother-law prayed Neptune to destroy him ●e caused a Sea-calf to startle his Coach-horses they threw him dragg'd him and kill'd him 1 If Theseus his curse prevailed against his own son why not Ovids against his foe 2. Note the malice of a Stepmother 3. Take heed of a parents curse Let him endure those pains which I omit And let his torments far exceed my wit I feign his name but let my vote no lesse Vex him or with the Gods find less success 95. He whom I curse goes now on Ibis score That knows he hath deserv'd these plagues and more I le not delay but speedily proceed To sacred Rites all people hear and heed Utter such dolefull words become a Herse 100. And let your faces overflow with tears Come to him with bad Omens and left feet Put on such robes as be for Mourners meet Ibis put on thy sacrificing weed Here stands the altar for thy death make speed 105. The pomp's prepared for thy Obsequies Hasten lay down thy throat curs'd sacrifice Earth thee no food no water streams allow A prosperous gale wind on thee never blow Let neither

upon a Countrey rich in the plenties of a long peace and full with the surfeit of continual ease it never leaves purging those superfluities till all be wasted and consumed Thus the roaring Lion of hell falls upon a soul being full and secure As to Lycurgus son that climb'd a tree And Idmon bold a Bore thy ruine be 1 Butes whom some authors call Ancaus or Angaeus son of Lycurgus King of Thrasia being fiercely pursued by a Bore climbed a tree but before he was up the Bore pulled him down again and slew him 1 This when we are climbing the tree of knowledge and sublime understanding of divine truth that Bore of the wilderness the Heretick labours to pluck us back into errours Thus when we are ascending the tree of life towards heaven that Serpentine Satan indeavours to draw us back into deadly sin and damned Hell 2. Idmon a southsayer among the Argonauts was in Bythinia slain by a Bore 1 Southsayers and Astrologers can foreshew to others what evils they may shun but cannot prevent what hangeth over their own heads Thales gazing on the Stars fell into a ditch Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit If thou be wise be wise unto thy self The Bell rolls in others to sermon but hears not a word it self Moses brought the Israelites to Canaan but entred not in himself Many I fear shew others the way to heaven and come short themselves Sic vos non vobis mellificatis Apes A Bore thy deaths wound give when he is dead As upon whom fell such a creatures head Thoas a famous hunter in Andragathia was wont to hang on a tree the head and feet of all he caught as a sacrifice to Diana at last having got a mighty Bore he kept the feet and hang'd up onely the head by a string which fell upon him being a sleep under the tree 1 Although the Priests were allowed part of the Jewish sacrifice the whole was offered unto God 2 If so fearful and sudden death befell Ananias and Saphira because they detained part of their own gift devoted to the Church Acts 5. what may sacrilegious latrons expect who never gave to the Church as much as one of the widows mites yet take from it to their own use the most part of that was given to others 3 Offer not to God the blind or the lame serve not God by halfes but give him the honour due unto his name being Holocausts whole presents to him the● ought to be feared God might justly require all yet he accepts the tenths of our means and the seventh of our time shall we grudge him that God forbid 505. Like them be thou whom fruit of Pine-tree kill'd As Phrygia's hunter and Berentius child Atys a Phrygian hunter and Nauclus son of Berentius sleeping under a Pine-tree were both slain by apples falling from the same tree 1 Mille modis morimur mortales nascimur uno By one way we are born by thousands we die As God can save by small means so he can destroy Death is a long sleep and sleep a short death some have fallen into such a deadly sleep they never waked Lie down therefore with the Prophet Davids petition in thy mouth or heart Lord lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death Psal 13. And if to Minos sands thou voyage make Let Cretians thee for a Sicilian take For the death of Minos King of Crete killed in Sicilia by King Cocalus or his daughter in the pursuit after Daedalus the Cretians ever since so hate that people that they put all to death that arrive in those coasts 1 The Aspick pursueth him which hath hurt or killed his mate and knows him among a multitude him he still hunteth and laieth for his life breaking through all difficulties and dangers to come unto him Dall Aph. So is revenge furiously out-ragious and out-ragiously furious Yea for the cause of one single person families cities kingdoms fall at variance and hardly or never be reconciled In revenge of one Dinah Simeon and Levi destroyed all the Sichemits Gen. 34. but cursed was their wrath Gen. 49.7 510. As to Alebas daughter it befell And to her husband let a house thee quell Alcidice daughter of Alebas a Larissean with her husband Lycoris by the fall of their house were slain 1 Whether these persons suffered this punishment for any offence to the Gods for the father Alebas was an oppressour or their house fell by chance I read not But holy Writ reports that while Jobs children were rioting the house fell down and killed them I will wind up this ap●lication with our Saviours caveat unto the Jews and in them to all Thinke ye that those on whom the tower of Shilo fell were greater sinners more then you verily I say unto you except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13. As Tiberinus and Evenus nam'd The streams where they were drown'd be thou so fam'd Tiberinus or Tiberius King of the Albans was drowned in the river Albiola which since is called Tibris or Tiberis after his name So Evenus son of Mars and Marpesse was drowned in the river Lycormas and gave that river his name Evenus 1 The noblest honour the ancients could invent for the dead was a glorious Monument with their Names Titles and Deserts but Auson Mors etiam faxis nominibusque venit Death as well seizeth upon Monuments as Men. 2 Immortal fame was the utmost hope of the Heathen after death And what more doth that Christian expect who takes more care to have houses called of his name then his soul in an heavenly mansion The Lord be pleased to write my name in the book of life then let my fame on earth be as mortal as my body As Hyrtacus his son one fix thee dead Upon a stake let mans food be thy head Nisus son of Hyrtacus adventuring to redeem his friend Eurialus being caught by the army of the Kutilians willingly endured the same death with him their bodies were cast to be eaten by men and their heads put upon stakes 1 He that is a friend to all is a friend to none he that sincerely is a friend to one is truly a friend to himself for a friend is second self Let no man therefore like Janus bear two faces under one hood nor blow hot and cold out of one mouth Let friends like Harpocrates twins laugh and cry together partake and sympathize in every estate Learn of our voluntary friend and undeserved Saviour that freely died not with us but for us not for his friends but enemies 515. As Brotheus did when death was his desire Thy body cast into a flaming fire Brotheus son of Minerva by Vulcan because he was jeered for his deformed body cast himself into the fire and died 1 Vasius that deformed Roman to prevent others would first jeer himself 2 What nature fails in one is recompenced in another part Who more ugly shapen then Aesop who more ingenious

counsel but at last being shipwrack'd he betook himself to a plank and so was saved 1 Ino was called Matuta Goddesse of the sea and the morning perhaps because the morning seems to rise out of the sea she is feign●d to appease the sea because winds that rage by night use to fall in the morning 2 The World is a sea the Church is a ship if we leave this ship we may be drowned eternally when the Church is torn in pieces by schismes and heresie we must not leave it so but hold fast to one plank where two or three are gathered together in the name of Christ keeping the ribband the bond of love and unity And left this kind of death but one should know At two horse tailes in pieces drawn be thou Metius Suffetius General of the Albans stood with his army expecting the event of the battel between the Romans with whom he was in league and the Fidenates on purpose to incline to the prevailing party Tulbus Hostilius having got the day condemned Metius to be drawn in pieces between two horses 1 True valour doth more respect and honour a professed constant foe then an unconstant ambodexter friend Pietas in hoste probatur 2 As Metius being alive was in mind between two so is he in body being dead Thus commonly Jack-on both-sides come to an untimely untoward end 3 Pretend not God and intend the Devil serve not God for Baalams wages of iniquity 4 Too many have fought not so much for the Cross of Christ as of the Coyn. Cruxillos maneat Die thou as he whom Carthage souldiers caught 280. That seorn'd a Roman should be chang'd or bought Marcus Attilius Regulus Consul of Rome was in battel taken captive by the Carthaginians and sent to Rome to return their captives in exchange for him he disswadeth the Romans and returneth to the enemy they cut off his eye-lids that he might not sleep and put him in an hollow tree full of sharp nails there he died 1 One pearle is of more value then Millions of barly cornes One Sun more glorious then a numerous company of Stars One wise and magnanimous Leader is of greater price then a numberless army of common-souldiers such an one will rather indure a torturing death then live that his Countrey may thereby suffer disgrace or damage 2 Heroick valour is more expressed by dying honourably in a good cause then saving his life by a base submission upon dishonourable termes 3 A mature final battel hath been accounted less disadvantagious then frivolous delay by exchange of captives 4 When our enemies take off our eye-lids our eyes are made the more open to behold the heavens 5 Persecutors are as pricks in our sides Lord prick their hearts to repentance Gods thee assist no more then th' Altar did Of Jove Hyrcaeus him that there was hid Priamus King of Troy fled to the Altar of Jupiter Hyrcaeus whence Pyrrhus dragged him by the hair of the head and slew him 1 Princes are subject to mutability and misfortunes as much if not more then subjects 2 Bloud-thirsty Ravilliacks fear neither God nor Man respect a Prince no more then a Peasant regard a Temple as little as a Tavern 3 Smite the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered Fight not against small or great but against the King 2 Chron. 18.30 An Helmet is safer then a Crown to defend the head As from mount Ossa Thessalus was thrown So headlong from a rock be thou cast down Thessalus King of Thessala most courteously entertained a stranger called Euryalus Walking together on the hill Ossa Euryalus thence cast him down and killed him and so possessed his kingdome 1 Some heretofore in the shape of strangers have entertained Angels but some since have in the form of Angels of light entertained worse then Euryalus 2 Cherish not a snake in thy bosome lest it sting thee to death 3 Ambition doth think Aceldama the nearest way to a throne 4 Ingratitude was the first of sins and is the worst Call a man unthankful and then tell him what you will Si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris 285. As of Euryalus th' Usurper let The flesh of thee to greedy snakes be meat Euryalus that kill'd King Thessalus had his head eaten with Snakes 1 Divine justice will not suffer murder chiefly of a kind and noble Thessalus to be unrevenged 2 These snakes may be torments of the soul for sin What joy is it with Damocles to enjoy all things that may content all my senses when the point of a naked sword lies at my throat or which is far worse a sting in my conscience A good conscience is a continual feast and a bad one a perpetual hell From bloud-guiltiness good Lord deliver us Let scalding water poured on thy pate As Minos hasten thy appointed sate Minos King of Crete married Pasiphäe a Bull by means of a wooden Cow made by Daedalus had carnal commerce with the Queen Daedalus fearing the Kings revenge flies to Cocalus King of Cilicia Minos pursueth him and is kindly entertained by Cocalus The daughters of Cocalus pouring water upon his head in the Bath killed him 1 Though Minos for his equity and strict life on earth be feigned to be Judge in hell he had a loose Queen to his wife on earth And indeed the Proverb is as true as trivial The honester man the worse his luck 2 The history of Pasiphae runneth thus A captain named Bull incontinently used the Queen Mars affecteth Venus A souldier aimes at the fairest mark that is no Bull. 2 Many pats have been scalded with the daughters of Venus and live longer then Minos but it was hot service 3 Be not so unhospitable to entertain a stranger and kill him that is the part of a Crocodile Or as Prometheus fierce not free thy bloud 290. To lofty Eagles be continual food Prometheus son of Iapetus and Themis because he made a man of clay and stole fire from heaven to put life into him was by Jupiter bound to a pillar on the hill Caucasus where an Eagle eats his heart which daily reneweth and Pandora's basket of miseries do afflict him 1 Prometheus might be an Astronomer that upon the hil Caucasus continually looked on the Celestial fires that is the Stars and observed the motion of the Sun and so his heart was eaten with cares and studies 2 Man may be called Promethus for of all sublunary creatures Man is most prudent and provident yet none more subject to Pandora's box of miseries then Man none more eaten with the Eagle of cares then Man 3 Prometheus is said to have first found out the use of fire among men therefore after death is honoured with Festivals as Vulcan the God of Fire and Ceres the Goddesse of Corn. To this me thinks alludeth that simple I wish not sinful Ceremony in some parts of England upon St Clements night among Brewers Bakers Smiths and such hot artificers But Morally Prometheus as the word importeth

tower of brass Therefore I say unto all Watch. At Phoebus altar sacrifice thy breath Conquer'd Theodotus suffer'd such a death Theodotus presuming to be called King of Bactrians was overcome by Arsaces King of Persia and after sacrificed by him to Apollo the God of Learning 1 Were all the enemies to Apollo and Learning sacrified upon altars revived Muses would again ascend their own Parnassus pluck down their harps from the mournfull willows and be re-adorned with their wonted joyfull bayes Knowledge hath no worse enemy then impudent ignorance Ahab was punished for sparing Benhadad the enemy of God Amici much more inimici vitia fi feras facis tua Connivance at sin is compliance with sin 465. Thee let Abdera one day vote to dye Let stones upon thy head like hailstones flye People of Abdera a town in Thracia the native place of Democritus the Philosopher and Protagoras at the beginning of each year were wont to vote one man for the Common-wealth to dye and he was stoned 1 The ancient Jewes at the Feast of Expiation used to offer two Goats Godwins Moses and Aaron whereof one was sacrificed on the head of the other called the Scape-Goat the Priest disburdened the sins of the whole congregation and let him scape into the wilderness By the scape Goat is shadowed the impassibility of Ch●ists divine nature by the other his sufferings in his manhood The modern Jews upon the same day the Men take a white Cock and the Women a Hen and thrice swinging it about the Priests head do thus speak This Cock shall be a propitiation for me And why a Cock because say they Gibher hath sinned therefore Gibher shall make satisfaction Now Gibher in Hebrew signifies a man in their Talmud a Cock Hence I conceive came that common saying oftner read then understood Albo Gallo ne manum admoliaris Lay not thy hand upon a white Cock that is Rob not God of his offering The Grecians at the yearly expiation of their Cities tumbled down condemned persons into the sea saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou a propitiation for us So in a great infection they sacrificed men and called them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Apostle useth both these words 1 Cor. 4.13 We are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Filth and off-scouring We are as odious and laden with cursing and reviling as those persons who were offered up by way of publick expiation Christ was made a sin for us sinners and freely offered himself for us the just for the unjust Or l●ke Hippomenes son Jove in his ire With bolts thee kill or like Dosithoes sire 1. Prester son of Hippomenes railed at Jupiter for that he had justly thrown his father out of his kingdome for his cruelty and was therefore killed with a thunder-bolt but Vegetius reports this of Capaneus son of Hipponous 1 To make and not execute laws is to make a private mans offence the sin of the publick For to omit the punishment of it Dal. Aph. is to commit it 2 To take offence at the just punishment of the offender is to disapprove justice and approve the offence Such a reviler should be whipt into good manners and obedience for example lest he breaks forth into like enormities and draw more after him Caesar when his Nobles could not come to his royal Feast for tempests commanded his Archers to shoot up arrows at Jupiter in heaven but they turned back on their own heads No sin of Israel was so grievous to to God as Murmuring Repine not when God doth punish the sins of thy friend lest he dip his arrows in thy bloud too 2. Atrax was slain by a thunder-bolt for destroying his own daughter Dofithoae because she ●ay with Jupiter 1 In the hands of a Parent is the power of correction not destruction of their children Parents should pray that God would give their sinful children grace and time to repent not ungraciously to cut off their time of repentance by untimely death The Magistrate beareth the sword in vain if a private person may execute publick justice 2 Divine vengeance will not leave cruelty unrevenged Therefore if thy brother offend forgive him seventy times seven times considering that if God should call thee to an account thou canst not answer one of a thousand Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat Jupiter c. When the child falls into a gross offence put thy hand into thy own bosome and ask What have I done Autonoes sister Maia's sisters son 470. Or that unskilful Coachman Phaeton 1. Semele sister of Autonoe daughter of Cadmus having too often injoyed the company of Jupiter at last denied him any further approch unless he came to her as to Juno with the ensigns of his deity he embracing her with lightning and thunder killed her 1 Those who too curiously and boldly search into Divine Majestie shall be oppressed with the brightness of his glory 2 Jupiter and Juno are said to couple with thunder and lightning because lightning and thunder proceed from the conjunction of the etherial heat and acrial cold Jupiter had a three-forked thunder-bolt so there be three sorts of lightning the drier dissipates the moister blasts the other melts money in bags and swords in scabbards instantly lifting up liquor in vessels without breach or impair to the thing contained slaying Infants in the womb without mortal prejudice to the mother By the variety of lightning learn that God doth not equally punish all offenders 3 Be not unequally yoked Semele is an unfit match for Jupiter Si qua velis aptè nubere Ovid. nube pari If the Earthen pot swims with the Brazen one touch will break it Pry not peep not into the Ark The Satyr kissing the lightning burned his lips The Flie busie with the Candle burns her wings The common people must not come nigh the Hill where was lightning and thunder lest they die Exod. 19. Be content with things revealed thinking thy self happy that God hath made thee of his court though not of his counsel B. Hall 2. Porphyrion son of Sisyphus by Ops following the wicked example of his father was slain by a thunder-bolt 1 Patris ad exemplum soboles componitur omnis Though original sin be derived by propagation yet actual sins are for the most part committed by imitation and example Patterns work upon us more th●n precepts A good father is like a sweet oyntment perfuming all the house but a wicked one is worse then the fiery serpent he stings the children to death of body and soul Follow not a multitude to sin much less a single person though he be thy father lest like sin draw on like judgment 3. Phaeton son of Sol and Clymene obtained of his father leave to rule his chariot one day but for want of strength and skill the Horses ran so near they had almost burn'd the earth had not Jupiter struck him down with a Thunder-bolt 1 God could not punish a

right heir is preserved and proves the best of all the Kings that ever ruled the Medes and Persians The Prophet Esay calls him the servant of God it was he that caused the Temple of Jerusalem to be reedified Thus Moses was saved from drowning Paul from killing If God be with us who can be against us 545. Be hack'd in pieces by the sword of foes So was Mamerthes as the story goes Mamerthes brother of Sisapon King of Corinth desiring to be King killed the young Prince for which bloudy ambitious fact Sisapon caused him to be torn in pieces Some copies of this part of Ovid for Mamerthes read Nycernus and Mycernus 1 See in Mamerthes the bloudy means and the end of ambition How more noble was that consciencious Heathen Lycurgus though Eunomus his brother the king of Sparta was dead himself by election in his place sollicited by the Queen to marry with her yet when he perceived that she was with child by the King he put her off with sweet delayes until the birth when she was delivered he presented the young Prince unto the Nobles saying This is your King not I. So by common consent the child was named Charilaus that is the grace honour or love of the people Hence it is thought came the renowned name of Carolus This is the heir said the Jews come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours but by killing Christ they like the dog in the fable lost both what they had and what they hoped for As Syracusa 's Poet be thou rop'd So let the passage of thy breath be stop'd Theocritus the worthiest of all the pastoral Poets whom Virgil doth imitate lived at Syracusae where for railing against King Hiero he was brought to the gallows and fixt in a halter in this posture being asked if he would recant and forbear he railed the more so by the Kings command though he were brought thither in jest he was hang'd at last in earnest 1 Poetical licence hath been allowed for quantity of Syllables not for rash liberty of speech against persons of quality and power Saint Jude that forbids to have any persons in admiration forbids also to despise the powers or speak evil of dignities Nero the worst of Emperours ruled when Saint Paul exhorted every soul to be subject to the higher powers Therefore thou shalt not revile the governour of Gods people though he were a Jeroboam for we must obey him for conscience sake Michael the Arch-angel one of the best creatures in a very good cause against the worst enemy of us all the very Devil would use no railing words but said The Lord rebuke thee Jud. 9. Thy skin pluck'd off let naked flesh appear 500. Like his whose name a Phrygian brook doth bear Marsyas a man very skilful in wind-instruments called a Satyre for his rude and lascivious composures presumed to challenge Apollo with his harp being overcome he had his skin stript over his ears The rural deplore their pipers death and raise a river of his own name with their tears The Phrygians did believe that the stream sprung from his bloud See more before 1 Marsyas is feigned to have the tail of a Swine because audacious attempts have shameful ends Curtius reports that the river Marsyas falls from the top of a Mountain on subjacent rocks with a mighty murmur and passing thence glides on in a quiet current feigned a piper to have his skin strip'd off and dissolved into water because murmur of water renders a kind of harmony the river suddenly changed by his abated violence as if uncased of his skin assuming another colour and becoming more Chrystallin 2 Marsyas the Inventer of wind instruments may resemble ambition and vain-glory which delights in shouts and loud applauses but virtue and wisdome have a sweeter touch though they make not so great a noise in popular opinion Look on Medusa's face that turns to stone Men and did many Cipheus kill alone Medusa daughter of Phorcus transformed all that looked upon her into Marble Perseus furnished with the shield of Pallas and falchion of Mercury having got from the Graeae the other two Gorgons the one eye which they both used in common cuts off Medusa's head yet looks not on her but onely sees her deformity in the shield of Pallas 1 We are taught by this fable that no great action should be taken in hand without the advice of Pallas that is wisdome 2 Perseus attempts her alone that of all the rest was mortal So we should pursue such designs that are feisible not vast and endless He striking looks on the shield of Pallas so must we by providence prevent instant dangers 3 Perseus may be the reasonable soul the Graeae knowledge and wisdome got by old experience without whose eye or conduction Medusa Lust and the inchantment of bodily beauty stupifies our senses making us unuseful and converts us as it were into stone 4 Perseus killed Medusa so Reason corporal pleasure he looks not on her but onely in the shield of Pallas as we may safely look upon the Eclipse of the Sun in water It is not safe to behold what our hearts are prone to consent to Therefore Job wisely made a covenant with his eyes Perseus with the sight of Medusa's head killed Cypheus and all his mates that came to take from him his new married wife Andromeda The bite of Potnia Mares with Glaucus feel Into the Sea with th' other Glaucus reel 1. Glaucus a man of Potnia hindred his Mares from the use of Horses they in their madness tore him to pieces 1 Naturam expellas furcâ licèt usque recurret Cross nature with a fork 't will have recourse Art and Education may correct and qualifie nature not confound and nullifie it 2 Custome is another nature When ancient liberties and accustomed immunities are denied and debarred the brutish multitude will use their utmost force and violence against the infringer Naturae sequitur semina quodque suae 2. Glaucus a second of that name a man of Boeotia an excellent swimmer and a fisher coming with a burden of fish to the city Anthedon he sate on the grass to rest and laid his fish by him seeing one of the fishes by biting of an herb revive he ate of the same herb and leaped into the sea and was made a sea-God 1 There is none of so low and mean condition whom extraordinary eminency in commendable arts and faculties cannot make immortal Barbarossa a fisher-mans son made King of Tunis Massinello a fisher-man in few years past was though for no long time commander of all Naples Columbus by his glorious discoveries more justly deserved a place for his ship among the Southern Constellations then ever the Argonauts by their so much honoured Argo Peter and James and John of fisher-men were called to be Apostles here and Saints in Heaven 555. Let Gnossian honey choak thy soul as his Whose name like those two lastly mention'd is Glaucus a third of