was brought Euen so likewise by death was freedome wrought E. of Surrey Nought is immortall vnderneath the Sun All things are subiect to deaths tyrannie Both clownes kings one selfesame course must run And whatsoeuer liues is sure to die Th. Kyd. Death's alwaies readie and our time is knowne To be at heauens dispose and not our owne Idem The brauest are as blossomes and the longest liuer dies And dead the loueliest creature as the lothsoms carion lies W. Warner Our frailties done are written in the flowers Which flourish now and fade away ere many howres S. Daniell All earthly things be borne To die the death for nought long time may last The sunne his beautie yeelds to winters blast I. H. M. of Magist Is' t not gods deed what euer thing is done In heauen and earth Did not he all create To die againe all ends that was begunne Their times in his eternall bookes of fate Are written sure and haue their certaine date Who then can striue with strong necessitie That holds the world in his still chaunging state Or shun the death ordaind by desteny When houre of death is come let none aske whence or why Ed. Spencer Death amongst all deales equally For hee 's impartiall and with one selfe hand Cuts off both good and bad none can withstand Ch. Middleton Death certaine is to all the prouerbe saith Vncertaine is to all the houre of death S. I. Harr. Transl Pale fearefull death with bloudy dart doth strike The wretched caitiffe and the king alike Vntimely neuer comes the lifes last meere In cradle death may rightly claime his debt Straight after birth is due the fatall beere By deaths permission th' aged linger heere Euen in the swath-bands our commission goeth To loose thy breath that yet but yoongly bleweth I. H. Mir. of M. All musicke sleepes where death doth lead the daunce Ed. Spencer Let nature for perfection mould a paragon each way Yet death at last on finest lumps of liuing flesh wil pray For nature neuer framed it that neuer shall decay VV. VVarner Fatall death the emperor of graues I. Markham Death is the key which vnlockes miserie And lets them out to blessed libertie M. Drayton All is but lost that liuing we bestowed If not well ended at our dying day O man haue mind of that last bitter rage For as the tree doth fall so lies it euer lowe Ed. Spencer No feare of death should force vs to do ill Th. Kyd. When for feare of an ensuing ill We seeke to shorten our appointed race Then t is for feare that we our selues do kill So fond we are to feare the worlds disgrace Idem Happie thrice happie who so lost his breath That life he gaineth by his godly death Vnwise and wretched men to weet what 's good or ill We deeme of death as doome of ill desert But know we fooles what it vs brings vntill Die would we daily once it too expert No danger there the shepheard can a start Faire fields and pleasant fields there beene The fields aye fresh the grasse aye greene Ed. Spencer This same Which we call death the soules release from woe The worke which bring our blisse to happie frame Sildome arrests the bodie but we finde Some notice of it written in our minde I. Markham The worth of all men by their end esteeme And then due praise or due reproach them yeeld S. Spencer Death is an euill doome To good and bad the common Inne of rest But after death the triall is to come When best shall be to them that liued best But both alike when death hath both supprest Religious reuerence doth buriall teene Which who so wants wants so much of his rest For all so great shame after death I weene As selfe to dien bad vnburied bad to beene Ed. Spencer Beasts with carelesse steppes to laethe go Where men whose thoughts and honours clime on hie Liuing with fame must learne with fame to die D. Lodge Death but an acted passion doth appeare Where truth giues courage and the conscience cleare M. Drayton Who dies the vtmost dolour must abide But who that liues is left to waile his losse So life is losse and death felicitie Sad life worse then glad death and greater crosse To see friends graue then dead the graue selfe to engrosse Ed. Spencer In wretches sudden death at once There long-some ill is buried with their bones Th. Hudson Transl Death is to him that wretched life doth lead Both grace and gaine but he in hell doth lie That liues a loathed life and wishing cannot die Ed. Spencer Death is most louely sweet and amiable But captiu'd life for foulenesse admirable I. Marston The toongs of dying men Inforce attention like deep harmony Where words are scarce they are sildom spent in vaine For they breath truth that breath their words in paine He that no more must say is lissened more Then they whom youth ease haue taught to glose More are mens ends markt then their liues before The setting sunne and musick at the close As the last tast of sweet is sweetest tast Writ in remembrance more then things long past W. Shakespeare Delaie On the one side doubt on the other sate Delaie Behind the gate that none her might espie Whose manner was all passengers to staie And entertaine with her occasions slie Through which some lost great hope vnheedilie Which neuer they recouer might againe And others quite excluded forth did lie Long languishing there in vnpittied paine And seeking often entrance afterward in vaine Ed. Spencer Daunger growes by lingring till the last And phisicke hath no helpe when life is past Th. Watson Oft things done perhaps do lesse annoy Then may the doing handeled with delay S. Daniell Delaie in close awaite Caught hold on me and thought my steps to stay Faining stil many a fond excuse to prate And time to steale the treasure of mans day Whose smallest minute lost no riches render may Ed. Spencer Times delay new hope of helpe still breeds Idem Fearfull tormenting Is leaden seruitor to dull delay W. Shakespeare He that will stop the brooke must then begin When sommers heat hath dried vp the spring And when his pittering streames are low and thin For let the winter aid vnto them bring He growes to be of watry flouds the king And though you damme him vp with loftie rankes Yet will he quickly ouerflow his bankes R. Greene. Ill newes deferring is a plague as great as an ill newes Ab. Fraunce Delay in loue breeds doubts but sharpe deniall death· W. Shakespeare Intermission suffers men dispute What dangers are and cast with further care Colde doubt cauells with honour scorneth fame And in the end feare waighes downe faith with shame S. Daniel Where hearts be knit what helpes if not in ioy Delay breeds doubts no cunning to be ioy M. D. Delight In things without vs no Delight is sure· G. Chapman A sweete in shape is but a bad Delight D.
dies Loue is all truth lust full of forced lies W. Shakespeare Where whoredome raignes there murder follows fast As falling leaues before the winters blast R. Greene. Lust is a fire and for an houre or twaine Giueth a scorching blaze and then he dies H. C. O deeper sinne then bottomlesse conceit Can comprehend in still imagination Drunken desire must vomit his receit Ere he can see his owne abhomination While lust is in his pride no exclamation Can cure his heate or raigne his rash desire Till like a Iade selfe-will himselfe do tire VV. Shakespeare Lust neuer taketh ioy in what is due But leaues knowne delights to seeke out new S. Daniell In chastitie is euer prostitute Whose trees we loath when we haue pluckt the fruite G. Chapman Eschue vile Venus toyes she cuts off age And learne this lesson of and teach thy friend By pocks death sudden begging harlots end M. of M. The lechars toong is neuer voyd of guile Nor Crocodile wants teares to win his praie The subtillest temptor hath the sweetest stile With rarest musicke Syrens soon'st betraie M. Drayton Lust puts the most vnlawfull things in vre Nor yet in limits euer could be bounded Till he himselfe himselfe hath quite confounded Idem Abandon lust if not for sin yet to auoyd the shame So hogs of Ithacus his men the Latian witch did frame VV. Warner That great Phisition that had liu'd in helth age admirde Did answer askt the cause not he had done as flesh desirde Idem The Spartans war for rapted queene to Ilions ouerthrow The Monarch of Assiria chang'd and Latine kings also For Tarquins lust Idem Each house for lust a harbor and an Inne Each citie is a sanctuary for sinne And all do pitie beautie in distresse If beautie chaste then onely pittilesse M. Drayton Lawes Deriue thy lawes from wisest heads to be vpholden still Not adding or abstracting as conceited tire brains will Encourage good men by thy loue reforme the bad by lawe Reserue an eare for either plea and borrow leaue of awe VV. VVarner In vaine be counsells statutes humaine lawes When chiefe of Councells pleades the iustest cause M. Drayton So constantly the Iudges conster lawes That all agree still with the stronger cause M. of M. Pansamias and Lisander by their swords And warlike vertues made Lacaena rich Fame followed them where they the tents did pitch But graue Licurgus by his lawes and words Did merit more then these renowned Lords D. Lodge Licurgus for good lawes lost his owne libertie And thought it better to prefer common commoditie G. Gascoigne That Lawyer thogh he more by art theÌ„ right doth ouerthrow Consents to sin deceiues the Iudge wroÌ„g right is iustice foe VV. VVarner Libertie Sweete libertie to vs giues leaue to sing What world it was where loue the rule did beare How foolish chaunce by lots rul'd euery thing How errour was maine saile each waue a teare The Mr. loue himselfe deepe sighes weare winde Cares rowd with vowes the ship vnmerry minde False hope as firme oft turn'd the boate about In constant faith stood vp for middle mast Dispaire the cable twisted all with doubt Held griping griefe the piked Anchor fast Bewtie was all the rockes VV. Watson O liberty how much is that man blest Whose happie fortunes do his faâ—es areede That for deserts reioyces to be freede Th. Storer Sweete libertie the lifes best liuing flame I. Markham Our lands may come againe but libertie once lost Can neuer find such recoÌ„pence as counteruails the cost G. Gascoigne Learne freedome and felicitie haukes flying where they list Be kindlier more sound then haukes best tended to the â—ist vv vvarner He liues to die a noble death that life forefreed once spends Idem The name of Libertie The watchword of rebellion euer vsde The idle Eccho of vncertaintie That euermore the simple hath abusde S. Daniell Life All mans life me seemes a Tragedie Full of sad sighes and sore Catastrophes First comming to the world with weeping eie Where all his dayes like dolorous Trophies Are heapt with spoyles of fortune and of feare And he at last laid forth on balefull beare Ed. Spencer Our life is but a step in dustie way S. Phil. Sidney This mortall life as death is tride And death giues life M. Roydon What in this life we haue or can desire Hath time of grow'th and moment of retire D. Lodge Our bodies euery foot-step that they make March toward death vntill at last they die Whether we worke or play or sleep or wake Our life doth passe and with times wings doth flie I. Dauies The life of man a warfare right in body and in soule Resignes his robbed carkasse to be rolled in the mould W. Warner The terme of life is limited Ne may a man prolong or shorten it The souldier may not moue from watchfull stid Nor leaue his stand vntill his captaine bid Ed. Spencer The longer life I wot the greater sin The greater sin the greater punishment Idem Thus passeth with the ouerplus of life The pleasant spring and flower of mortall life The Aprils pompe once subiect to decay Returnes not in the bud that earst was rife Whilest mornings weepe the liuely flower doth bost Then pluck the stalke and let not it be lost D. Lodge The sunne doth set and brings againe the day But when our life is gone we sleepe for aye Th. Ach. Sunne sets and riseth goes downe and quickly reuiueth But mans light once out eternall darknesse abideth Ab. Fraunce All mortall men must from this life be gone Of life and death there are more soules then one The greatest and most glorious thing on ground May often need the helpe of weakest hand So feeble is mans state and life vnsound That in assurance it may neuer stand Till it disordered be from earthly band Ed. Spencer The restlesse life which men here lead May be resembled to the tender plant It springs it sprouts as babes in cradle breed Flourish in May like youthes that wisedome want In Autumne ripe and rots least store waxe scant In winter shrinkes and shrowdes from euery blast Like crooked age when lustie youth is past G. Gascoigne The wicked liuers oftentimes haue wicked ends S. I. H. Life is not lost said she for which is bought Endles renowne that more then death is to be sought Ed. Spencer Better it is for one to liue obscure Then in a publike state to liue vnsure D. Lodge No life is blest that is not grac't with loue B. Ihonson They double life that dead things griefe sustaine They kill that feele not their friends liuing paine G Chapman That life 's ill spar'd that 's spar'd to cast more bloud S. Daniell Loue. Of Loue 's perfection perfectly to speake Or of his nature rightly to define Indeed doth farre surpasse our reasons reach And needs this priest t' expresse his power diuine For long before the world he was yborne And bred aboue in Venus bosome deare For by his
reputed Too learn'd too graue too fine or too conceited Thomas Stouer Who full of wealth and honours blandishment Among great Lords his yoonger yeares hath spent And quaffing deeply of the Court delights Vsde nought but tilts armours and maskes and sights If in his age his Princes angry doome With deepe disgrace daine him to liue at home In homely cottage where continually The bitter smoake exhales aboundantly From his before vnsorrowe-drained braine The brackish vapours of a siluer raine Where vsher lesse both day and night the North South East and West windes enter and go forth Where round about the lower roofte-broke walles In stead of Arras hang with Spider calles Where all at once he reacheth as he stands With brows the roofe both walls with both his hands He weepes and sighes and shunning comforts aye Wisheth pale death a thousand times a day And yet at length falling to worke is glad To bite a browne crust that the mouse hath had And in a dish in stead of Plate or glasse Sups oaten drinke in stead of Hypocrasse I. Syluister Courtesie Of Court it seemes men Courtesie do call For that it there most vseth to abound And well beseemeth that in Princes hall That vertue should be plentifully found Which of all goodly manners is the ground And roote of ciuill conuersation Ed. Spencer Mongst vertues all growes not a fairer flower Then is the bloome of comely Courtesie Which though it on a lowely stalke do bower Yet brauncheth forth in braue nobilitie And spreads it selfe through all ciuilitie Of which though present age doo plentious seeme Yet being matcht with plaine antiquitie Ye will them all but fained shewes esteeme Which carry colours faire which feeble eies misdeem Idem In the triall of true Courtesie It s now so farre from that which once it was That it indeed is nought but forgerie Fashion'd to please the eyes of them that passe Which see not perfect things but in a glasse Yet is that glasse so gay it cannot blinde The wisest sight to thinke that gold is brasse But vertues seate is deepe within the minde And not in outward shew but inward thoughts defind Idem This noble vertue and diuine Doth chiefly make a man so rare and odde As in that one they most resemble God S. I. Harr. Transl Courteous speech vsage milde and kinde Wipes malice out of euery noble minde S. I. Harrington Courtesie ofttimes in simple bowers Is found as great as in the stately towers Idem T is meete a gentle heart should euer showe By Courtesie the fruites of true gentilitie Which will by practice to an habit growe And make men do the same with great facilitie Likewise the dunghill-blood a man shall know By churlish parts and acts of inciuilitie Whose nature apt to take each lewde infection Custome confirmes and makes ill in perfection Idem Crueltie All lay on hands to punish Crueltie M. Drayton Cruell deeds can neuer scape the scourge Of open shame or else some bloody death Repentance selfe that other sinnes may purge Doth flie from this so sore the soule it sleieth Dispaire dissolues the cruell caitiffes breath For vengeance due doth suddenly alight On cruell deeds the mischiefe to requite I. H. Mir. of M. Custome Round headed Custome th'apoplexie is Of bedrid nature and liues led amis And takes away all feeling of offence G. Chapman Custome abusd brings vertue in disdaine Nature with Custome ioyned neuer failes But by her selfe and her selfe preuailes D. Lodge Whereas to nature forward to retaine Lewde obiects are annext and Customes vaine The wounds grow desperate and death doth â—nd Before good counsell can the fault amend Idem Custome the worlds iudgement doth blind so farre That vertue is oft arraign'd at vices barre I. Syl. Transl Danger Danger cloath'd in ragged weede Made of beares skinne that him more dreadfull made Yet his owne face was dreadfull ne did neede Strange horror to deforme his grisly shade A net in th' one hand and a rustie blade â—n th' other was this mischiefe that mishap With th' one his foes he threatned to inuade â—or whom he could not kill he practis'd to intrap Ed. Spencer Danger hath honour great designes their fame S. Dan. The greatest daungers promise greatest blisse M. Drayton Danger deuiseth shifts wit waits on feare W. Shakespeare Daunger 's the chiefest ioy to happinesse And resolution honours fairest ayme Ch. Marlowe The path is smooth that leadeth vnto Daunger VV. Sh. When as we thinke we most in safetie stand The greatest daunger then is neare at hand M. Drayton The Daunger hid the place vnknowne and wilde Breeds dreadfull doubts oft fire is without smoake And perill without shewe Ed. Spencer Ay-me how many perills do enfolde The righteous man to make him daily fall Were not that heaueÌ„ly grace did him behold And steadfast truth acquite him out of all Idem A thousand perills lie in close awaite About vs daily to worke our decay That none except a god or god his guide May them auoyd or remedie prouide Idem In perill we do thinke our selues most sure And oft in death some men are most secure No Danger but in hie estate none enuies mean degreâ— VV. Warner Daungerous things dissembled sildome are Which many eyes attend with busie care M. Drayton The absent danger greater still appeares Lesse feares he who is neare the thing he feares Most strong is he when daungers are at hand That liues prepard ' their furies to withstand Of common sence he is depriued cleane That falles with closed eyes on daunger seene And he that may both paine and hurt eschue Is vaine if he his proper death pursue S. Daniell Dread Next sawe we Dread all trembling how he shooke With foote vncertaine profered here and there Benumbd of speech and with a gastly looke Searcht euery place all pale and dead for feare His cap borne vp with staring of his haire Stoynd and amaz'd at his owne shade for dread And feeling greater daungers then was need M. Sackuill Coward Dread lackes order feare wants art Deafe to attend commaunded or defirde Ed. Fairfax Transl Death A dumbe dead course we â—awe Heauy and cold the shape of death aright That daunts all earthly creatures to his lawes Against whose force in vaine it iâ— to fight Ne Peeres ne Princes nor no mortall wight No Townes ne Realmes Cities ne strongest Tower But all perforce must yeeld vnto his power His dart anon out of his corpes he tooke And in his hand a needfull fight to see With great tryumph eftsoones the same he shooke That most of all my feares affraied me His body dight with nought but bones perdie The naked shape of man there sawe I plaine All saue the flesh the sinew and the vaine M. Sackuill Death is a port whereby we passe to ioy Life is a lake that drowneth all in paine Death is so neare it ceaseth all annoy Life is so leaud that all it yeelds is vaine And as by life to bondage man
her selfe she growes in mutinie To liue or die which of the twaine were better When life is sham'd and deaths reproches better Idem Like as the Snayle whose hornes being once hit Shrinks backward in his shelly caue with paine And there all smoothred vp in shade doth sit Long after fearing to creepe forth againe So at his bloody view her eyes are fled Into the deepe darke cabbins of her head Idem As in the night each little fierie sparke May plainly be discerned with our eyne But when the day doth come we then shall marke That all are dampt and doe no longer shine So kindles feare in minde which doubt made darke Vntill my sunne in my Horizon shine S. I. Harr. So great a terror in theyr minde was bred That straight as if with sprites they had beene skard This way and that confusedly they fled And left the gates without defence or gard As tumults often are at stage plaies bred When false reports of sudden fits are heard Or when the ouer-loaden seates doe cracke One tumbling downe vpon anothers back Idem Like as in time of Spring the water 's warme And crowding frogs like fishes there doe swarme But with the smallest stone that you can cast To stirre the streame theyr crowding staies as fast So while Iudea was in ioyfull dayes The constancie of them was worthy praise For that in euery purpose ye should heare The praise of God resounding euery where So that like burning candles they did shine Among theyr faithfull flock like men diuine But looke how soone they heard of Holoferne Theyr courage quaild and they began to derne T. Hudson Of Flight Looke how a purple flower doth fade and die That painefull ploughman cutteth vp with share Or as the Poppies head aside doth lye When it the body can no longer beare So did the noble Dardanello die And with his death fild all his men with feare As waters runne abroade that breake theyr bay So fled his souldiours breaking theyr aray S. I. Harr. As the swift Vre by Volgaes rolling flood Chasde through the plaine the mastife curres to-forne Flies to the succour of some neighbour wood And often turnes againe his dreadfull horne Against the dogs imbrude in sweat and blood That bite not till the beast to flight returne Or as the Moores at theyr strange tennis runne Defenst the flying balls vnhurt to shunne So ranne Clorinda so her foes pursude Ed. Fairefax Like as a Lyon whose imperiall power A proude rebellious Vnicorne defies To auoyd the rash assault and wrathfull stowre Of his fierce foe him for a tree applies And when in running in full course he spies He slips aside the whilst that furious beast His precious horne sought of his enemies Strikes in the stock ne thence can be releast But to the mighty victor yeelds a bounteous feast With such fayre flight him Guion often foyld Edm. Spencer Errour As when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride aboue th' Egyptian vale His fatty waues doe fertile shine out well And ouer-flow each plaine and lowly dale But when his later ebbe gins to auaile Huge heapes of mud he leaues wherein there breed Ten thousand kinde of creatures partly male And partly female of his fruitfull seede Such vgly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man reâ— Ed. Spen. compard to Errors vomit Of Rage As sauage Bull whom two fierce mastiues bait When rancor doth with rage him once ingore Forgets with warie ward them to await But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore Or flings aloft or treads downe in the floore Breathing out wrath and bellowing disdaine That all the forrest quakes to heare him rore So ragde Prince Arthur twixt his foe-men twaine That neither could his mighty puissance sustaine Edm Spen. Looke what a noyse an heard of sauage swine Doe make when as the Wolfe a pig doth take That doth in all theyr hearings cry and whine Flocking about as nature hath them taught So doe these souldiours murmure and repine To see theyr Captaine thus to mischiefe brought And with great fury they doe set vpon him All with one voyce still crying on him on him I. Harr. As when within the soft and spungie soyle The winde doth pierce the intrailes of the earth Where hurly buâ—ly with a restlesse coyle Shakes all the centre wanting issue forth Tell with the tumour townes mountaines tremble Euen such a meteor doth theyr rage resemble M. Drayton As when a Comet farre and wide descride In scorne of Phaebus midst bright heauen doth shine And tydings sad of death and mischiefe brings So shond the Pagan in bright armour clad And rold his eyes Ed. Fairefax Like as a Bull when prickt with iealousie He spies the riuall of his hote desire Through all the fields doth bellow rore and cry And with his thundring voyce augments his ire And threatning battaile to the emptie skie Teares with his horne each plant each bush each brier And with his foote cast's vp his hand on hight Defying his strong foe to deadly fight Such was the Pagans fury such his cry Idem Like as a Goshauke that in foote doth beare A trembling Culuer hauing spyde on hight An Eagle that with plumy wings doth sheare The subtile ayre stooping with all his might The quarry throwes to ground with fell despight And to the battaile doth herselfe prepare So ranne the Giantesse vnto the fight Her fiery eyes with furious sparks did stare And with blasphemous bans high God in peeces tarâ— Edm. Spencer As Lyons meete or Bulls in pastures greene With teeth and hornes and staine with blood the field Such eager fight these warriours was betweene And eythers speare had peirst the others shield I. Harr. Like as with equall rage and equall might Two aduerse windes combate with billowes proud And neyther yeeld seas skies maintaine like fight Waue against waue opposd and clowde to clowde So warre both sides with obstinate despight With like reuenge and neither partie bowd Fronting each other with confounding blowes No wound one sword vnto the other owes Sam. Daniell With equall rage as when the Southerne-winde Meeteth in battaile through the Northerne blast The sea and ayre to weather is resignde But clowd gainst clowd waue gainst waue they past So from this skirmish neither part declind But fought it out and keepes theyr footings fast And oft with furious shock together rush And shield gainst shield helme gainst helme they crush Ed. Fairefax transl Such was theyr furie as when Boreas teares The shattered crags from Taurus Northerne clift Vpon theyr helmes theyr Launces long they broke And vp to heauen flew splinters sparks smoake Idem As when two Tygers prickt with hungers rage Haue by good fortune found some beasts fresh spoile On which they weene theyr famine to asswage And gaine a feastfull guerdon of theyr toyle Both falling out doe stirre vp strifefull broyle And cruell battaile twixt themselues doe make Whilst neither lets the other touch the soile
were weake and yoong But thrust them forth still as they waxed old And on her head she wore a tyre of gold Adorn'd with Gems and Owches wondrous faire Whose passing price vnneath was to be told And by her side there sate a gentle paire Of Turtle-doues she sitting in an Iuorie chaire Ed. Spencer Due Charitie in louing doth preferre Her neighbours good fore her vtilitie I. Syluister Transl Who may but will not helpe doth hurt we know and curious they That dribling alms by art disband wel meÌ„t froÌ„ wel done pay And he that questions distresse and doth not help endeuour TheÌ„ he that sees nothing saies or cares is lesse deceauour W. Warner It is a worke of Charitie God knowes The reconcilement of two mortall foes Ch. Middleton Charitie brings forrh but barren seeds And hatred still is sowne in so great store That when the fruites of both came to be reaped The tone is scarce the tother ouerheaped S. I. Harr. Chastitie O Chastitie the chiefe of heauenly lights Which mak'st vs most immortall shape to wearâ— S. Ph. Sidney Chastities attire The vnstained vaile which innocents adorne Th'vngather'd rose defended with the thorne S. Daniel O Charitie the gift of blessed soules Comfort in death a crowne vnto the life Which all the passions of the minde controlles Adornes the maide and bewtifies the wife That grace the which nor death nor time attaints Of earthly creatures making heauenly Saints M. Drayton A Woman cannot take vpon her With bewtie riches nor with hie nobilitie To claime the true deserued praise of honour If Chastitie do faile by her fragilitie This is the vertue that defends her honour S I. Harrington Who doth desire that chaste his wife should bee First be he true for truth doth truth deserue Then he be such as he his words may see And alwaies one credit which her preserue Not toying kind nor causlesly vnkinde Not stirring thoughts nor yet denying right Not spying faults nor in plaine errors blinde Neuer â—ard hand nor euer raines to light As farre from want as farre from vaine exspence Th' one doth enforce th' other doth entice All owe good company but driue from thence All filthy mouthes that glory in their vice This done thou hast no more but leaue the rest To nature fortune time and womans brest S. Ph. Sydney Penelope in spending chaste her daies As worthy as Vlisses was of praise S. I. Harrington Of Christ. The brooser of the serpents head the womans promiz'd seed The second in the Trinitie the foode our soules to feed The vine the light the doore the way the shepheard of vs al Whose manhood ioynd to deitie did raunsome vs from thrall That was and is and euermore will be the same to his That sleeps to none that wakes to him that turns our curse to blis WhoÌ„ yet vnseen the Patriarks saw the Prophets had foretold The Apostles preacht the Saints adord Martyrs do behold The same Augustus Emperor in Palestine was born AmoÌ„gst his own yet his own did curse their blis in scorn W. Warner Augustus quailing Anthonie was Emperour alone In whose vnfoed monarchy our common health was knowne The bruizer of the serpents head the womans promisd seed The second in the Trinitie the foode our soules to feede The vine the light the doore the way the shepheard of vs all The same Augustus Emperor in Palestine was borne AmoÌ„gst his own yet his own did curse their blis in scorn Idem Children Riches of children passe a princes throne Which touch the fathers heart with secret ioy When without shame he saith these be mine owne S. Ph. Sidney This patterne good or ill our children get For what they see their parents loue or hate Their first caught sence prefers to teachers blowes The cockerings cockerd we bewaile too late When that we see our ofspring gayly bent Women man-wood and men effeminate Idem What children apprehend The same they like they followe and amend D. Lodge There is no loue may be compa'rd to that The tender mother beares vnto the childe For euen so much the roote it doth encrease As their griefe growes our contentation cease G. Gas Chaunge All is but fained and which oaker died That euery showre will wash and wipe away All things do Chaunge that vnder heauen abide And after death all friendship doth decay Therefore what euer man bear'st worldly sway Liuing on God and on thy selfe relie For when thou diest all shall with thee die Ed. Spencer All suffer Chaunge our selues new borne euen then begin to die W. Warner The euer Chaunging course of things Runne a perpetuall circle euer turning S. Dan. Change liues not long time fainteth and time mourns Solace and sorrow haue their certaine turnes M. Drayton All Chaunge is perillous and all chaunce vnsound Ed. Spencer Seldome Chaunge the better brought Content who liues with tried state Need feare no Chaunge of frowning Fate But will seeke for vnknowne gaine Oft liues by losse and leaues with paine Idem What doth remaine to man that can continue long What sun caÌ„shine so cleare but clouds may rise amoÌ„g G. Gascoigne No flower is so fresh but frost can it deface No man so snre in any seate but he may loose his place Idem Most true it is as we doo daily proue No good nor ill can stand still at one stay S. I. Harrington The man that of himselfe is most secure Shall finde himselfe most fickle and vnsure Ed. Spencer Men change the ayre but seldome change their care M. Drayton Chaunce What should we thinke of signes they are but haps How may they then be signes of after-claps Doth euery Chaunce foreshew or cause some other Or ending of it selfe extend no further As th'ouerflowing flood some mount doth choake But to his guide some othet flood it yoake So if that signes thy sinnes once ioyne beware Else-whereto Chaunces tend do neuer care M. of M. True it is if fortune light by Chaunce There fortune healpes the boldest to aduance G. Gascoigne Counsaile Sacred Counsaile true heart suppling balme Soule-curing plaister true preseruing blis Water of life in euery sudden qualme The heauens rich store-house where all treasure is True guide by whom foule errors due we mis Night burning-beacon watch against mishaps Foresight auoyding many after claps M. Drayton Euery strawe proues fewell to the fire When Counsell doth concurre with our desire Idem What eld hath tried and seeene good counsell is D. Lodge Counsell still is one When fathers friends and worldly goods are gone Idem Counsell that comes when ill hath done his worst Blesseth our ill but makes our good accurst M. Drayton Vaine sounds of pleasure we delight to heare But Counsell iarres as discord in our eare Idem A King that aimes his neighbours crowne to win Before the fruite of open warres begin Corrupts his Counsell with rich recompences For in good Counsell stands the strength of Princes I. Syl. Transl A Kingdomes greatnesse hardly can he
instrument of heauen To call the earth and summon vp our shame By an edict from euerlasting giuen Forbids mortalitie to search the same Where sence is blind and wit of wit bereauen Terror must be our knowledge feare our skill To admire his worke and tremble at his will S. Daniell Howsoeuer things in likely hood discent In birth life death our god is first the middle euent And not what he can do he wil but what he wil he can And that he do or do it not behoues vs not to scan W. Warner God may all that he wills his will is iust God wills all good to them that in him trust Th. Hudson Transl Where the Almighties lightening brand doth light It dimmes the daz'led eies daunts the sences quight Ed. Spencer The Gods are euer iust Our faults excuse their rigour must S. Daniell The Lord law-maker iust and righteous Doth frame his lawes not for himselfe but vs He frees himselfe and flies with his powers wing No where but where his holy will doth bring All that he doth is good because it doth proceed From him that is the roote of good indeed From him that is the spring of righteousnesse From him whose goodnesse nothing can expresse I. Syluester Indeed the euil done Dies not when breath the body first doth leaue But from the gransire to the nephewes sonne And all his seed the curse doth often cleaue Till vengeance vtterly the guilt bereaue So straightly God doth iudge Ed. Spencer There is no strength in armour man or horse Can vaile If Ioue on wronged take remorse For he on whom the deadly dart doth light Can neuer scape by raunsome friend nor flight I. Harr. Mir. of Mag. Eternall prouidence exceeding thought Where none appeares can make her selfe away Ed. Spencer If Gods can their owne excellence excell It 's in pardoning mortalls that rebell M. Drayton God most doth punish whom he most regardeth S. I. Harr. Transl Where Gods do vengeance craue It is not strong deensiue walls that any thing can saue VV. Warner God hath made a salue for euery sore If men would learne the same for to apply S. I. Harr. Transl Man purposeth but all things are disposed By that great God that sits and rules aboue Idem What man is he that boasts of fleshly might And vaine assurance of mortalitie Which all so soone as it doth come to fight Against spirituall foes yeelds by and by Or from the field most cowardly doth flye Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill That though grace hath gained victory If any sleight we haue it is to ill But all the good is Gods both power and eke the will Ed. Spencer God neuer seekes by tryall of temptation To sound mans heart and secret cogitation For well he knowes man and his eye doth see All thoughts of men ere they conceaued bee I. Syluester Transl God Conioynes no lesse our willes then bolds our harts A sure presage that he is on our parts Th. Hudson Tran. Our God is iust whose stroke delaid long Doth light at last with paine more sharpe and strong I. H. M. of Magist The mistie cloudes that fall sometime And ouercast the skies Are like to troubles of our time Which do but dimme our eies But as such deawes are dried vp quite When Phebus showes his face So are sad fancies put to flight When God doth guide by grace G. Gascoigne Gods mercy gently waighes his iustice downe Th. Aâ—helly So blinds the sharpest counsell of the wise This ouershadowing prouidence on hie And dazeleth the clearest sighted eies That they see not how nakedly they lie There where they little thinke the storme doth rise And ouercast their cleare securitie When man hath stopt all waies saue only that That least suspected ruine enters at S. Daniell When Sathan tempts he leades vs vnto hell But God doth guide whereas no death doth dwell When Sathan tempts he seekes our faith to foyle But God doth seale it neuer to recoyle Sathan suggesteth ill good moues to grace The diuel seekes our baptisme to deface But God doth make our burning zeale to shine Amongst the candels of his Church diuine I. Syl. Transl Gods word Which made the world sustaines and guides it still To diuers ends conducts both good and ill He that preferres not God fore all his race Amongst the sonnes of God deserues no place And he that plowes the furrowes of Gods feeld May not turne backe his fainting face nor yeeld Idem God with eternall bread in time of need His loued Iacob fortie yeares did feed And gaue them water from the solid stone Which of it selfe had neuer moysture none Their caps their coats and shoes that they did weare God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeare Th. Hud Tran. The most iust God when once mans sinnes do grow Beyond the bounds of pardon and of grace Because that men his iudgements best may know Like to his loue to rule on earth doth place Monsters most vile to tyrannize vs so With wrong the right with lust lawes to deface For this said cause were Scylla sent and Marius The Nerons both and filthy minded Varius For this Domitian held in Rome the raigne And Antoninus of that name the last And Messinine a base vnworthy swaine To place mankind in princely throne was plaste For this in Thebes did cruell Creon raigne With other tyrants more in ages past For this of late hath Italy bene wonne By men of Lombardie of Goth and Hunne S. Daniell Good deeds Who wold to God but workes no good who seeketh fame by ease Comes short of both no lesse then maps to very lands and seas VV. VVarner Good deeds in case that they be euil placed Ill deeds are reckoned and soone disgraced That is a good deed that preuents a bad G. Chapman Well doing farre exceedeth well to say G. Turberuile Ill deeds may better the bad words be bore Ed. Spencer Let euery one do all the good they can or sildom commeth harme of doing well Though iust reward it wanteth now and than Yet shame and euill death it doth expell But he that mischieueth an other man Seldome doth carry it to heauen or hell Men say it and we see it come to passe Good turnes in dust and bad turnes writ in glasse S. I. Harrington Transl Wretched is he that thinkes by doing ill His euill deeds long to conceale and hide For though the voyce and tongues of men be still By foules and beasts his sinne shall be discride And God oft worketh by his secret will That sinne it selfe the sinner so doth guide That of his owne accord without request He makes his wicked doings manifest Idem Our bodies buried then our deeds ascend Those deeds in life to worth can not be rated In death with life our fame euen then is dated M. Drayton Greatnesse Great things still orewhelme themselues by waight E. Guilpin Greatnesse like to the sunnes reflecting powers The fier bred vapours naturally
are subiect to the power of heauen Nor wrongs passe vnreuenged although excus'd Idem Would heauen her bewtie should be hid from sight Nere would she thus adorne her selfe with light With sparkling Lamps nor would she paint her throne But she delighted to be gaz'd vpon And when the glorious sunne goes downe Would she put on her stary bestudded crowne And in her masking sure the spangled skie Come forth to bride it with her reuellry Heauens gaue this gift to all things in creation That they in this should immitate their fashion Idem M Drayton Heauens influence was neuer constant yet In good or bad as to continue it Th. Kyd. If thou be wise hold this as ominous The heauens not like disposed euery houre The starres be still predominant in vs Fortune not alway forth her bagge doth powre Nor euery cloude doth raine a golden showre M. Drayton Heart Free is the Heart the temple of the minde The sanctuarie sacred from aboue Where nature keepes the keys that loose and binde No mortall hand force open can that doore So close shut vp and lock to all mankinde S. Daniell The bodies wound by medicines may be eased But griefes of heart by salues are not appeased R. Greene. By thought of heart the speech of tongue is carried S. I. Harr. Tran. Happinesse vid. Felicitie Hate Hate is the elder loue the yonger brother Yet is the yonger stronger in his state Then th' elder and him mastereth still in all debate Ed. Spencer Nor Hate nor loue did euer iudge aright Innated hate will hardly be displaste Out of high hearts and chiefly where debate Happeneth amongst great persons of estate I. H. Mirr of M. Hatred must be beguilde by some new course Where states are strong Princes doubt their force S. Daniell Spight bites the dead that liuing neuer darde Ed. Spencer Sildome doth malice want a meane to worke M. Drayton Hate hits the hie and windes force tallest towers Hate is peculiar to a Princes state R. Greene. Hatred accompanies prosperitie For one man greeueth at an others good And so much more we thinke oâ—r miserie The more that fortune hath with others stood So that we seld are seene as wisedome would To bridle time with reason as we should Th. Kyd. Haste Oft times the greatest haste the worser speeds S. I. Harr. Transl As busie braines must beat on tickle toyes As rash inuention breeds a raw deuice So suddein falles do hinder hastie ioyes And as swift baits do fleetest fish intice So haste makes waste and therefore now I say No haste but good where wisedome beares the sway G. Gascoigne The swiftest bitch brings forth the blindest whelpes The hottest feuers coldest crampes ensue The nakedst need hath ouer-latest helpes Idem Hastie respect repents when t is too late I. Markeham Rashnesse sees all but nothing can preuent M. Drayton Fore-iudging puts out one of wisedomes eies If by rashnesse valour haue got honour We blame the rashnesse but reward the valour Ch. Fitz Ieffrey O rash false heat wrapt in repentance cold Thy haste springs still blood and nere growes old W. Sh. Hell An hidious hole all vast withouten shape Of endlesse depth orewhelm'd with ragged stone With ougly mouth and grifly iawes doth gape And to our sight confounds it selfe in one Here entred we and yeeding forth anon An horrible loathly lake we might discerne As blacke as pitch that cleped is Auerne A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbish growes With foule blacke swelth in thickned lumps that lies Which vp in th' aire such stinking vapour throwes That ouer there may fly no fowle but dies Choakt with th'pestilent sauours that arise M. Sackuile Thence come we to the horror and the hell The large great kingdomes and the dreadfull raigne Of Pluto in his throne where he did dwell The wide waste places and the hugie plaine The waylings shrikes and sundry sorts of paine The sighes the sobbes the deep and deadly grone Earth aire and all resounding plaine and mone Idem Then turning backe in silence soft they stole And brought the heauy course with easie pace To yawning gulfe of deep Auernus hole And by that same an entrance darke and base With smoake and Sulphur hiding all the place Descends to hell their creature neuer past That back returned without heauenly grace But dreadfull furies which their chaines haue brast And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men agast Ed. Spencer Darksome den of Auernus Wher 's no path to returne nor starting holes to be scaping Desteny death and hell and howling hidious hell-hound Loathsom streames of Stix that nine times compasse Auernuâ— Ab. Fraunce They passe the bitter waues of Acheron Where many soules sit wayling wofully And come to fiery flood of Phlegeton Whereas the damned ghoasts in torments fry And with sharpe shrilling shrikes do bootlesse cry Cursing high Ioue the which them thither sent Ed. Spencer About the desart parts of Greece there is a vally low To which the roaring waters fall that froÌ„ the mouÌ„tains flowâ— So rocks do ouershadow it that scarse a man may vew The open aire no sun shines there amidst this darkesom creâ— Doth stand a citie to the same belongs one onely gate But one at once may come therto the entrance is so strait Cut out the rough maine stony rocke this citie did belong To Pluto and because that he was doing alwaies wrong And kept a theeuish rable that in mischiefe did excell His citizens were diuels said and citie named hell W. Warner Honour In woods in waues in warres doth honour dwell And will be found with petill and with paine Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Vnto her happie mansion attaine Before her gate hie God did sweat ordaine And wakefull watches euer to abide Ed. Spencer Honour is purchas'de by the deeds we doo Ch. Marlowe Honour is not wonne Vntill some honourable deed be donne Idem Danger bids seeke the softest way one way But what saith honour honour saith not so Neuer retire with shame this honour saith The worst that can befall one is but death S. I. Harr. In braue pursuit of honourable deed There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the common seed Which vnto things of valerous pretence Seemes to be borne by natiue influence As feates of armes and loue to entertaine But chiefly skill to ride doth seeme a science Proper to gentle blood some others faine To manage steed c. Ed. Spencer Euer great imployment for the great Quickens the bloud and honour doth beget S. Daniell Promotion is a puffe These worldly honors are but shades of sweete Who seeke too much before they get enough Before they meet the meane with death they meete With death they meete the hauen of all desire Where will must waâ—ne and pride cannot aspire D. Lodge Honour a thing without vs not our owne S. D. What doth auaile to haue a princely place A name of honour and an high degree To
in her degree And next her self her righteous ballance hanging bee Ed. Spencer Then iustice comes the last of all the gods That left her residence here on the earth For lacke of whom the world grew all at ods And man to man curses each others birth For then vsurping wrong succeeded straight That no man knew how long to hold his right Then calls the world for Iustice back againe Complaining how they now were ouerrunne And they would suffer any scourging paine In pennance for those sinnes themselues had donne For that their wickednesse did force that power To leaue the seate whereas she sate before Whereas the Gods did in their courts decree Iustice should be transformed to the starres There foolish men might euery minute see Her that should helpe these miseries of theirs But stand like Tantalus within those brinkes Where he sees water but yet neuer drinkes Ch. Middleton Faire Astraea of the Titans line Whom equitie and iustice made diuine M. Drayton Well did the Anticke world inuent That Iustice was a God of soueraigne grace And Altars vnto him and temples lent And heauenly honours in the highest place Calling him great Osyris of the race Of th' old Aegyptian Kings that whilome were With fained colours shading a true case For that Osyris whil'st he liued here The iustest man aliue and truest did aspire His wife was Isis whom they likewise made A goddesse of great power and soueraigntie And in her person cunningly did shade That part of Iustice which is equitie Ed. Spencer Vntill the world ftom his perfection fell Into all filth and foule iniquitie Astraea here mongst earthly men did dwell And in the rules of iustice then and stumbled well Idem Where Iustice growes there growes eke quiet grace The which doth quench the brand of hellish smart And that accurst hand-writing doth deface Idem Sparing Iustice feeds iniquitie W. Shakespeare The first was Bacchus that with furious might All th' east before vntam'de did ouerrunne And wrong repressed and establisht right Which lawlesse men had formerly foredone Their iustice forc't her princely rule begunne Next Hercules his like ensample shewed Who all the west with equall conquest wonne And monstrous Tirants with his club subdued The club of Iustice dread with kingly power endued Ed. Spencer Who so vpon himselfe will take the skill And Iustice vnto people to deuide Had need of mightie hands for to fulfill That which he doth with righteous doome decide And for to maister wrong and puissant pride For vaine it is to deeme of things aright And make wrong doers Iustice to deride Vnlesse it be perform'd with dreadlesse might For power is the right-hand of iustice truly hight Idem Offences vrg'd in publike are made worse The shew of Iustice aggrauates despight The multitude that looke not to the cause Rest satsfied so it be done by lawes S. Daniel It often falles in course of common life That right long time is ouerborne of wrong Through auarice or power or guile or strife That weakens her and makes her partie strong But Iustice though her doome she do prolong Yet at the last she will her owne cause right Fd. Spencer Good causes need not curious termes equall Iudges heare The equitie not eloquence W. Warner Who passeth iudgement for his priuate gaine He well may iudge he is adiudg'd to paine R. Greene. Kings Kings are the Gods vicegerents on the earth The Gods haue power Kings from that power haue might Kings should excell in vertue and in birth Gods punish wrongs kings should maintaine right They be the sunnes from which we borrow light And they as Kings should still in iustice striue With Gods from whom their beings they deriue M. Drayton The baser is he comming from a King To shame his hopes with deeds degenerate The mightier man the mightier is the thing That makes him honoured or begets him hate For greater scandall waits on greater state The Moone being clouded presently is mist But litle starres may hide them where they list The Crowe may bathe his cole-blacke wing in mire And vnperceiu'd flie with the filth away But if she like the snow white swan desire The staine vpon his siluer downe will stay Poore groomes are sightles nights kings glorious day Gnats are vnnoted wheresoeuer they flie But Eagles are gaz'd vpon with euery eie VV. Shakespeare Since the heauens strong arms teach Kings to stād Angells are plac't about the glorious throne To gard it from the stroakes of traitrous hand Th. Dekkar When thou becom'st an earthly God mens faults to ouersee Forget not that eternall God that ouerlooketh thee W. Warner The least part of a King is allowing him and none Lesse priuate then a Prince the weale or woe of euery one Idem He and his people make but one a body weake or strong As doth the head the limbs or limbs the head assist or wrōg Idem Kings Lords of times and of occasions May take th' aduantage when and how they list S. Daniell Kings will be alone Competitors must downe Neare death he stands that stands to weare a crowne Idem It is a daungerous thing In rule of loue but once to crosse a King M. Drayton Endles cares concur with crowns a bitter sweeting is raign W. VVarner Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balme from an anoynted King The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputie elected by the Lord. W. Shakespeare He knowes not what it is to be a King That thinkes a Scepter is a pleasant thing R. Greene. A glittering Crowne doth make the haire soone gray Within whose circle a king is but arrested In all his feasts hee 's but with sorrow feasted And when his feete disdaine to touch the mold His head 's a prisoner in a Iaile of Gold M. Drayton Vnhappy Kings that neuer can be taught To know themselues or to discerne their fault S. Daniell No outragious thing From vassall actors can be wipte away The Kings misdeeds can not be hid in clay W. Shakespeare No Scepter serues dishonour to excuse Nor kingly vaile can couer villainie Fame is not subiect to authoritie M. Drayton Thinke not but Kings are men and as the rest miscarry Saue that their fame and infamy continually doth tarry VV. VVarner Kings want no meanes to accomplish what they will M. Drayton Mislikes are silly lets where Kings resolue them Where counsell chasing will hath emperie Deeds are too prest for reason to dissolue them In mightie mindes a grounded vanitie Like springs that ceassesse neuer stoppeth Vntill her neighbour Oake she ouertoppeth D. Lodge Great men too well grac'd much rigor vse Presuming fauorites mischiefe euer bring So that concluding I may boldly speake Minions too great argue a king too weake S. Daniell New kings do feare when old kings farther straine Establisht state to all things will consent Idem Good from kings must not be drawne by force Idem A Scepter like a pillar of great height Whereon
daies in strife And as the heauens do that dispose So shuts and spreads he with the rose D. Lodge Time ouer old and yoong is still reuolued Within it selfe and neuer tasteth end But mankind is to nought for aye reserued The filthy snake her aged coat can mend And getting youth againe in youth doth flourish But vnto man age euer death doth send The very trees with grafting we can cherish So that we can long time produce their time But man which helpeth them helplesse must perish S. Phil. Sidney O trustlesse state of miserable men That build your blisse on hope of earthly thing And vainly thinke your selues halfe happie then When painted faces with smooth flattering Do fawne on you and your wide praises sing And when the courting masker louteth low Him free in heart and trustie too you know Ed. Spencer He that comparde mans body to a hoaste Said that the hands were scouts discouering harmes The feet were horsemen thundering on the coaste The brest and stomacke foe men huge in swarmes But for the head in soueraigntie did boast It captaine was directer of alarmes Whose rashnesse if it hazarded any ill Not he alone but all the hoast did spill I. Markeham Each creature not grudging at mans glorie Vnto his life becomes contributorie Idem Like flouds in sommer or flowing springs in the winter So man consumeth No trust or firmenesse in life that flies like a shadow What then alas is man That so presumeth D. Lodge The shadow of the clocke by motion wends We see it passe yet marke not when it parts So what is mans declines and sudden ends Each thing begins continues and conuerts Idem Man to woman giueth all perfection And as our chiefe Philosophers do say Woman by man is perfect made each way I. VVeeuer Man is loaden with ten thousand languors All other creatures only feele the angors Of fewe diseases as the gleaming quaile Only the falling sicknes doth assaile The turne-about and murraine trouble cattle Madnesse and quincie bid the mastife battle I. Siluester â—t doth exceed mans thought to thinke how hie God hath raisd man since God a man became The Angels do admire this mysterie And are astonisht when they view the same I. Dauies Men do not know what they themselues will bee When as more then themselues themselues they see S. Daniell â—ike as the fatall rauen that in his voyce â—arries the dreadfull summons of our deaths â—ies by the faire Arabian spiceries â—er pleasant gardens and delightfull parts â—eeming to curse them with his hoarse exclaimes â—nd yet doth stoupe with hungry violence â—pon a peece of hatefull carrion So wretched man displeas'd with those delights Would yeeld a quickning sauour to his soule Pursues with eager and vnstanched thirst The greedy longings of his loathsome flesh G. Peele Man is a little world and beares the face And picture of the vniuersitie All but resembleth God all but is glasse All but the picture of his maiestie Man is the little world so we him call The world the little God God the great all Th. Bastard The gallant courser in his full carrire Is made by man to stoppe with slender raine But man himselfe his lust and fond desire Is sildome drawne by reason to refraine T is hard to stop but harder to retire When youthfull course ensueth pleasure vaine As beares do breake the hiues and weake defences When smell of hony commeth to their sences S. I. H. Great Pompey in the midst of victorie All vnexpected happened to his end And Caesar in his greatest maiestie Vntimely murdered by his dearest friend Such are mens best estates more wretched they In greatest pompe most subiect to decay Ch. Midleton What doth make men without the parts of men Or in their manhoods lesse then children But manlesse natures all this world was namd'd A world of him for whom it first was framde Who like a tender cheuerell shrunke with fire Of base ambition and of selfe desire His armes into his shoulders crept for feare Bountie should vse them and fierce rape forbeare His legs into his greedy belly runne The charge of hospitalitie to shunne In him the world is to a lumpe reuerst That shrunke from forme that was by forme disperst And in nought more then thanklesse auarice Not rendring vertue her deserued price G. Chapman Like as rude Painters that contend to showe Beasts fowles or fish all artlesse to bestowe On euery side his natiue counterfet Aboue his head his name had need to set So men that will be men in more then fate As in their forheads should in actions place More perfect characters to proue they be No mockers of their first nobilitie Els may they easily passe for beasts or foules Soules praise our shapes and not our shapes our soules Idem When as men all do know then nothing know S. Daniell The milder passions doth show man For as the leafe doth bewtifie the tree The pleasant flowers bedeck the flourishing spring Euen so in men of greatest reach and power A mild and piteous thought augments renowne D. Lodge No man before his end is truly blest T. Dekkar Man to man as beast to beast holds ciuil duties vain W. Warner Mans inward parts are colder and the nummer When outwardly they feele a boyling sommer Mans voyce in euery ones opinion is but an airie repercussion D. Lodge Marriage Hymen that now is god of nuptiall rights And crownes with honor loue and his delights G. Chapman Before them on an altar he presented Both fire and water which was first inuented Since to ingenerate euery humane creature And euery other birth produc'st by nature Moysture and heate must mix so man and wife For humane race must ioyne in nuptiall life Idem In Athence The custome was that euery mayd did weare During her maydenhead a silken spheare About her waste aboue her inmost weed Knit with Mineruaes knot and that was freed By the faire bridegroome on the mariage night With many ceremonies of delight Idem Shouldst thou but dream what mariage is thou wouldst not liue a maid One hart of two two soules of one by wedlocke is conuaid VV. VVarner Beleeue me man there is no greater blisse Then is the quiet ioy of louing wife Which who so wants halfe of himselfe doth misse Friend without change play-fellow without strife Food without fulnesse counsaile without pride Is this sweet doubling of our single life S. Phil. Sidney In choyce of wife preferre the modest chaste Lillies are faire in shew but foule in smell The sweetest lookes by age are soone defaste Then choose thy wife by wit and louing well Who brings thee wealth and many faults withall Presents thee hony mixt with bitter gall D. Lodge Wild sauages that drinkes of running springs Thinkes water faire exceeds all other things But they that daily taste meate nere despiâ—e it Virginitie al be some highly prise it Compar'd with marriage had you tride them both Differs as much as wine and
is into water cast One circle doth an other circle make Till the last circle touch the banke at last Idem Remēbrance is the life of grief his graue forgetfulnes Ed. Fairfax Remembrance fresh makes weakened sorrows strong Idem Mischiefe The cause once gone th'ffects thereof surcease And mischiefes being preuented whil'st they are yong Cannot braunch forth themselues to do that hurt That time their natures and bad men would worke Ch. Middleton A Mischife seene may easily be preuented But being hapt not helpt yet still lamented M. Drayton Faire goodnesse is foule ill if mischiefes wit Be not represt from leaud corrupting it Idem Mischiefe is oft made good by speeding well S. Daniell Mercie Some Clarkes do doubt in their deuisefull art Whether this heauenly thing whereof I treat To weeten Mercie be of Iustice part Or drawne forth from her by diuine extreat This well I wot that sure she as great And meriteth to haue so hie a place She first was bred and borne of heauenly race From thence powr'd downe of men by influence of grace Ed. Spencer O who shall shew the countenance and gestures Of Mercie and iustice which faire sacred sisters With equall poize do euer ballance euen Th'vnchaunging proiects of the King of heauen Th' one sterne of looke th' other mild aspecting The'one pleasd with teares th' other bloud affecting Th' one beares the sword of vengeance vnrelenting Th' other brings pardon for the true repenting I. Syluicter Still as rage kindleth the fire of wrath Mercie to quench it store of water hath S. I. Harrington This noble vertue and diuine Doth chiefly make a man so rare and od As in that one he most resembleth God Idem Then come we nearest to the Gods on hie When we are farthest from extremitie Giuing forth sentence of our Lawes with Mercie Tho. Achely Mercie may mend whom malice made offend Death giues no thankes but checks authoritie So Rulers mildnesse subiects loue do nourish S. Daniell Soft pittie enters at an Iron gate VV. Sh. Mercie but murders pardoning those that kill Idem Pittie drawes loue bloud-shed as natures griefe Compassion followeth the vnfortunate S. D. VVhen pittie runneth afore loue alwaies followeth after A. Fraunce As it is greater praise to saue then spill So better to reforme then to cut off the ill Ed. Spencer How deare is mercie hauing power and will When pittie helpes where equitie doth kill M. Drayton Minde The Minde hath in it selfe a deitie And in the stretching circle of her eie All things are compast all things present still Will fram'd to power doth make vs what we will G. Chapman It is the minde that maketh good or ill That makes a wretch or happie rich or poore For some that haue a boundance at their will Haue not inough but want in greatest store An other that hath little askes no more But in that little is both rich and wise Ed. Spencer The Minde is free what ere afflict the man A King 's a King do fortune what she can M. Drayton The Minde times enemie obliuions foe Disposer true of each note worthy thing Ed. Fairfax Our mindes discerne where eies could neuer see M. Draiton That Minde most is bewtifull and hie And nearest comes to a diuinitie That farthest is from spots of earthes delight Pleasures that loose their substance with their sight Such one Saturnius rauisheth to loue And fills the cup of all content to Ioue G. Chapman The setled mind is free from fortunes power They need not feare who looke not vp aloft But they that are too carefull euery hower For when they fall they light not very soft M. of M. What plague is greater then the griefe of minde The griefe of mind that eates in euery vaine In euery vaine that leaues such clods behinde Such clods behind as breed such bitter paine So bitter paine that none shall euer finde What plague is greater then the griefe of minde E. of Ox. Ill mind to mind so much of others ill As to become vnmindfull of his owne Ed. Spencer Into our minds let vs a little fall And we shall finde more spots then leopards haue S. Phil. Sidner O vanitie of mans vnstable minde Puft vp with euery blast of friendly winde Ed. Fairfax In base minds no friendship dwels nor emnitie Ed. Spencer Oft times we see that sorrowes of the minde Finde remedie vnsought which seeking cannot finde Ed. Spencer Weak body wel is chang'd for minds redoubled force Idem So moue our minds as motions moue the aire M. of M. Nor is it his our minds that make our natiue homes our graue As we to ours others to theirs like parciall fancie haue Transmut we but our minds and then all one an alien is As if a natiue once resolu'd makes euery country his VV. Warner Monarchs Augustus quailing Anthony was Emperour alone In whose vnfoed Monarchy our common health was knowne W. Warner A mighty monarch must whilest greening youth doth flowe Make one or two or three proofes of his peerles power For valour is the gate of honour beautified The first staire step it is wherby good hap doth guide Our feete to glories mount and nothing hartens so The men of armes to fight as valiant prince we know But afterward he must with wary wisedome warre More often with his wit then with his weapon farre And feeding so his spirit with sweet sharpe easie paine Not keep a souldiers place but captains roome retaine I. Syluester Mildnesse fitteth maiestie hie minds are disalowed VV. Warner No man from the Monarch loue by wealth or weapon flies Idem Mildnesse would better suite with maiestie Then rash reuenge and rough seueritie M. Dray Murder Black hell-bred humor of fier-venging sin By whose inticements murders we commit The end vnthought of rashly we begin Letting our passion ouerwhelme our wit Who may and will not murder in truth committeth S. Phil. Sidney Vnpunisht scapes from hainous crime some one But vnreueng'd in mind and body none Idem The cruell man a cruell death shall tast And blood with blood be venged at the last I. Syl. Those that in blood such violent pleasure haue Seldome descend but bleeding to their graue B. Iohnson Vengeance on minde the fretting furies take The sinfull corps like earth-quake agues shake Their frowning lookes their troubled minds bewray In hast they run and midst their race they stay As gidded Doe amidst their speech they whist At meate they muse no where they may persist But some feare netleth them aye hang they so So neuer wants the wicked murderer woe M. of M. Muses Imps of K. Ioue and Queene remembrance loe The Sisters nine the Poets pleasant pheers Calliope doth stately style bestowe And worthy praises paints of princely peers Clio in sullen songs reneweth all day With present yeares conioyning age by past Delightfull talke loues comicall Thalia In fresh green youth who doth lawrell tast With voyces tragicall sounds Melpomen And as with chaines th' allured eares she binds Her
birth be knowne Ought shine in vertue like his auncestors Gentry consisteth not in lands and townes He is a churle though all the world were his Yea Arthurs heire if that he liu'd amis M. of M. Behold of nobles new the diuerse sourse Some vertue raiseth some climbe by sluttish sorts The first though onely of themselues begunne Yet circle-wise into themselues do runne Within themselues therefore vnited so Both endlesse is and stronger gainst their foe For when ends it that neuer hath begunne Or how may that hath not end be vndone The other as by wicked meanes they grew And raignd by flatterie or violence so soone rue First stumbling step from honours old is vice Which once stept downe some linger none arise To former Type but they catch vertues spray Which raiseth them that climbe by lawfull way Beware to rise by seruing princely lust Surely to stand on mean is rising iust M. of M. The Rose although in thornie shrubs she spread Is still the Rose her bewties waxe not dead And noble mindes although the court be bare Are by resemblance knowne how great they are R. Greeâ—e A noble minde disdaineth seruitude Th. Kyd. True noblenesse neuer doth the thing it should not Idem The noble heart that harbours vertuous thought And is with childe with glories great intent Can neuer rest vntill it forth haue brought Th' eternall broode of glory excellent Ed. Spencer Old Age. Next in order sad old Age we found His beard all hoare his eyes hollow and blinde With drouping cheere still poaring on the ground As on the the place where valour him assign'd To rest when as the sisters had vntwind His vitall thred and ended with their knife The fleeting course of fast declining life M. Sackuill Crookt backt he was tooth-shaken and bleare eide Went on three feete and sometime crept on foure With old lame bones that ratled by his side His scalpe all pild and he with eld forlore His withered fist still knocking at deaths dore Fumbling and driueling as he drawes his breath In breefe the shape and messenger of death G. Gascoigne Transl Old age and winter do accord full nie This chill that cold this crooked that awrie Ed. Spencer He that plies the laps and lips of Ladies all his time And fals to arms when age fails arms then also looseth time As if a beare in Moone-shine shuld attempt the Moone to clime W· VVarner Our infancie is feeble and our lustie youth vnstaid Our manhood carking and our age more loathed then obaid Idem Our heires wax sickish of our health too long our here abode Mean while the nerer to our graues the farther we froÌ„ God Gripple in works testie in words loathsom for most at leÌ„gth And such at foure score as at foure for maners wit and strength Idem Eld is ordaind to counsell youth to fight Age to foresee yoong courage to inact D. Lodge Skill and experience good companions beene Age knoweth whatsoeuet youth hath seene S. I. H. Decrepit age and hoary siluer haires Still craueth helpe of lustie youthfull yeares G. Gascoigne· It is a common point whereon the aged grosly runne Once to haue dared said seene more then was euer done W. Warner The equall age doth equall life desire S. Daniel Small drops God knowes do quench age heatlesse fire When all the strength is onely in desire M. Drayton Opinion O male-content seducing ghuest Contriuer of our greatest woes Which borne of winde and fed with showes Dost nurse thy selfe in thine vnrest Iudging vngotten things the best Or what thou in conceit designest S. Daniell Thou all things in the world dost deeme Not as they are but as they seeme Idem Thou soule of pleasure houres onely substance Great arbitrator vmpire of the earth Whom fleshly Epicures call vertues essence Thou mouing Orator whose powerfull breath Swaies all mens iudgements Great Opinion I. Marston Opinion is as various as light chaunge Now speaking courtlike friendly straight as strange Shee 's any humours perfect parasite Displeasd with her and pleasd with her delight Shee is the Eccho of inconstancie Soothing her no with nay her I with yea E. Guilpin This syren or Opinion wind-borne lame Seeking to ease vs brings vs to vnrest For it adiudgeth nothing it doth see By what it is but what it seemes bee I. Markham We must in matters morall quite reiect Vulgar Opinion euer led amisse And let autenticke reason be our guide The wife of truth and wisedomes gouernesse G. Chapman Opportunitie Opportunitie thy guilt is great T is thou that execut'st the traitors treason Thou setst the wolfe where he the lambe may get Who euer plots the sinne thou points the season T is thou that spurn'st at right at lawiers reason And in thy shady Cell where none may spie him Sits sinne to feare each soule that wanders by him W. Shakespeare Faire Opportunitie can winne the coyest she that is Then he that rules her gamesome vaine teÌ„pers toies with art Brings loue that swimmeth in her eyes to diue into her hart W. Warner When loue hath knit two parts in perfect vnitie They seldome faile to finde th' opportunitie S. I. Harrington Occasion Occasion 's wingd and euer flyeth fast Comming she smiles and frownes once being past M. Drayton Now by the forehead let vs take Occasion Least after all our trauell and expence He hide away his haire and turne his balld And we vnprouident bethought and calld S. I. H. If lust or age doth minde assaile Subdue Occasion so thou shalt preuaile Idem True iudgement sleight regards Opinion I. Marston Opinion how dost thou molest Th' affected mind of restless man Who following thee neuer can Nor euer shall attaine to rest Forgetting what thou saist is best Yet loe that best he findes farre wide Of what thou promisest before For in the same he look't for more Which proues but small when once is tried S. Daniell He onely treads the sure and perfect path To greatnesse who loue and opinion hath Idem Let vs esteeme Opinion as she is Fooles bable Innouations mistris The Proteus Robin good fellow of change Smithfield of iaded fancies and th' exchange Of fleeting censures nurse of heresie Begot by nature on inconstancie It s but the kisse of griefe the peoples noise The tongue of humors and fantastick voice Of haire braind apprehension it respects With all due titles and that due neglects Euen in one instant Ed. Guilpin Patience Patience doth beare a neuer pierced sheeld Whose brightnesse hath enforc'r more monsters yeeld Then that of vgly Gorgons head was made I. Syluister Patience is angers subiect and controll'd With euery fury which men would redresse But cannot do it for she is gentle milde Orecome and kept downe like a strengthlesse childe Ch. Middleton Patience a praise forbearance is a treasure Sufferance an angell a monster rage Ed. Fairfax Let gentle Patience profit thee for Patience is a thing Whereby a begger gaineth of a discontented King VV. Warner Man in
discoursing to and fro Anticipating and comparing things She doth all vniuersall natures know And all effects into their causes bring Our witte is giuen Almightie God to know Our will is giuen to loue him being knowne But God could not bee knowne to vs below But by his works which through the sence are knowne I. Dauis Wit is the mindes cheefe iudge which doth controle Of fancies Court the iudgements false and vaine Will holdes the royall scepter in the soule And on the passions of the heart doth raigne Idem Emulation the proud nurse of witte S. D. Wit and learning are two Angelles wings By which meane men soare vp to mightie things Ch. Middl. Wit is with boldnesse prompt with terror daunted And grace is sooner got of dames then graunted Ed. Spencer Some loose their wit with loue some with ambition Some running to the sea great wealth to get Some following Lords and men of high condition Some in fayre iewelles rich and costly set One hath desire to prooue a rare magician Others with Poetrie their witte forget Another thinkes to bee an Alchimist Till all hee spent and hee his number mist S. I. H. Mans wit is monstrous when the same from vertue doth decline W. Warner Mans witte doth build for time but to deuoure But Vertue 's free from time and fortunes power M. Dr. The wit not hurt because not vsed more Growes dull and farre lesse toward then before Wits ambition longeth to the best For it desires in endlesse blisse to dwell I. Dauis Best loues are lost for wit when men blame fortune G. Chapman Carelesse wit is wanton bewties page D. Lodge The finest wittes are soonest snarde with loue Th. Achellye A setled braine is worth a world of witte Th. Storer Wits want makes men desirous to seeme wise Woe Woe all in blacke within her hands did beare The fatall torches of a funerall Her cheekes were wet dispersed was her hayre Her voyce was shrill yet lothsome therewithal D. Lodge Short time seemes long in sorrowes sharp sustaining Though woe bee heauie yet it seldome sleepes And they that watch see time how slow it creepes W. Shakespeare Fellowship in woe doth woe asswage As palmers that make short their pilgrimage Idem T is double death to drowne in ken of shore He ten times pines that pines behoulding food To see the salue doth make the wound ake more Great griefes greeue most at that would doe it good Deere woes rowle forwarde like a gentle flood Who being stopt the bounden bankes ore flowes Greefe dallied with nor law nor limmit knowes Idem Distresse likes dumps when time is kept with teares Idem For stronger woe we hardly long may wrest The depth of griefe with words is sounded least M. Dra. The Painter VVho thought his colours pale could not declare The speciall woe King Agamemnon bare When sacrificed was his onely rage With bend of blacke he bound the fathers face Th. Hudson Words Words Windie atturnies of our clyent woes Ayery succeeders of intestate ioyes Poore breathing Orators of miseries Let them haue scope though what it doth impart Helpe not at all yet doth it ease the heart VV. Sh. Words are the tennants of an itching toy D. Lodge Allusion of words is no sure ground For one thereon a steddie worke to found One word of woe another after traineth S Ph. Sydney Few words shall fit the trespasse best Where no excuse can giue the fault amending W. Sh. Deepe sounds make better noyse then shallow fords And sorrow ebbes being blown with wind of words W. Sh. Words are but winde why cost they then so much The giltie kicke when they too smartly toâ—ch Idem Forth irreturnable flies the spoken word Bee it in scoffe in earnest or in bourd VVithout returne and vnreceiu'd it hangs And at the takers mercie or rigor stands Which if hee sowrely wrest with wrathfull cheare The shiuering word turnes to the hearers feare If friendly courtesie doe the word expound To th'speakers comfort quickly it doth redound Idem Smoothe words dissolue hard stones faire words inforce Pittie in flintie hearts Ch. Middl. Through the world if it were sought Faire words enow a man should finde They bee good cheape they cost right nought Their substance is but onely winde But well to say and so to meane That sweete accord is seldome seene S. Th. W. Words well plac't moue things were neuer thought G. Chapman Euen as the vapour which the fire repelles Turnes not to earth but in mid-ayre dwelles Where while it hangs if Boreas frostie flawes With rigor rattle it not to raine it thawes But thunder lightning ratling hayle or snow Sends downe to earth whence first it rose below But if faire Phebus with his countenance sweete Resolue it downe the dew or Manna sleete The Manna dew that in the Esterne lands Excelles the labour of the Bees small hands Else for her Memnon gray Auroraes teares On the earth it stilleth the partner of her feares Or sendeth sweet showres to glad their mother earth Whence first they tooke their first in constant birth To those great greefes ill taken words do grow Of words well taken such delights do flow M. of M. Men do foulest when they finest speake S. Daniell They wash a Moore they striue to drie the seas And plaine proude Atlas that intend to please By filthy woords by rayling and detraction Proper to Momus and his hatefull faction For when they thinke they haue deserued most Alas sayth wisedome all the toyle is lost D. Lodge Few words well coucht doe most content the wise R. Greene. Rash words flow from an vnaduised mind Who once hath past the boundes of honestie In earnest deedes may passe it well in words G. G. Haue care to whom of whom and what to speake though speech be true That misse made Phoebus contrarie his raueÌ„s swan-like hue W. W. If so the crow would feast him without prate More meate hee should receiue lesse brawle and hate A foole hee is that comes to preach and prate When men with swords their right wrong debate Words well disposed Haue secret power t' appease inflamed rage Ed. Sp. Women Women bee Framde with the same parts of the mind as we Nay nature triumpht in their beauties birth And women made the glorie of the earth The life of bewtie in whose supple breasts And in her fairest lodging vertue rests VVhose towring thoughts attended with remorse Do make their fairenesse be of greater force I. Weeuer What art so deepe what science is so hie Vnto the which women haue not attain'd Who list in stories old to looke may trie And find my speech herein nor false nor fain'd And though of late they seeme not to come nie The praise their sex in former times haue gain'd Doubtlesse the fault is either in back-biters Or want of skill or iudgement in their writers Idem Among the many rare and speciall gifts That in the female sexe are found to sitte This one is chiefe that
they at meerest shifts Giue best aduise and shew most readie witte But man except hee chewes and thinks and fifts How euerie part may aunswere to their fit By rash aduise doth often ouer-shoote him And doth accept the things that doe noâ—boote him Idem Those vertues that in women merit prayse Are sober showes without chaste thoughts within Truth sayth and due obedience to their make And of their children honest care to take S. I. H. Let woolues and beasts be cruel in their kind But women meeke and haue relenting mindes M. Drayton Not women but our wilfulnesse doth work our woe vnrest Though beautie loue and they beare fault we may abuse the best W. W. Men haue Marble women waxen minds And therefore are they form'd as Marble will The weake opprest th' impression of strange kindes Is form'd in them by force by fraude or skill Then call not them the Authors of their ill No more then waxe shall bee accounted euill Wherein is stampt the semblance of the diuell Their smoothenesse like a goodly champaine plaine Laies open all the little wormes that creepe In men as in a rough growen groue remaine Caue-keeping euilles that obscurely sleepe Through cristall walles each little moule will peepe Though men can couer minds with bold stern looks Pale womens faces are their owne faults Bookes No man inueyes against the withered flower But chides rough winter that the flower hath kild Not that deuourd but that which doth deuour Is woorthie blame O let it not be hild Poore womens faults that they are so fulfil'd With mens abuses those proude lores to blame Make weake-made women tenants to their shame W. Shakespeare Bee not therefore too proude and full of scorne O women-kind that men come of your seede The fragrant Rose growes on the pricking thorne The Lillie sayre comes of a filthie weede In loathsome soyle men sow the wholsome corne The basest mould the fairest flower doth breede Vngratefull false craftie you are and cruell Borne of our burning hell to bee the fuell S. I. H. Base bullion for the stampe sake wee allow Euen so for mens impression doe wee you By which alone our reuerend fathers say Women receiue perfection euerie way Ch. Marlow Their Vertues mount like billowes to the skies And vanish straight out of the gazers eyes Hate and disdaine is painted in theyr eyes Deceit and treason in their bosome lies G. Chapman Women were made for this intent to put vs vnto paine Yet sure I thinke they are a pleasure to the mind A ioy which man can neuer want as nature hath assign'd Idem Extreamely mad the man I surely deeme That weenes with watch and hard restraint to stay A womans will which is dispos'd to goe astray Ed. Spencer In vaine hee feares that which hee cannot shunne For who wots not that womens subtilties Can gnilen Argus when shee list misdoone It is not iron bands nor hundred eyes Nor brazen walles nor many wakefull spyes That can with-hold her wilfull wandring feete But fast good will with gentle curtesies And timely seruice to her pleasures meeke May her perhaps containe that else would algates fleete Idem Such is the crueltie of women-kind When they haue shaken off the shame-fac't band With which wise nature did them strongly bind T' obey the hests of mans wel-ruling hand That then all rule and reason they withstand To purchase a licencious libertie But vertuous women wisely vnderstand That they were borne to base humilitie Vnlesse the heauens them lift to lawfull soueraintie S. Ph. Sydney Why what be women women geld the latter sillable Then are they nothing more then woe their names remaine doth tell W. W. Take away weakenesse and take women too S. D. Women may fall when there 's no strength in men W. Sh. They melt with words as waxe against the sunne So weake is many womens modestie For what somtimes they most would seeme to sheeld Another time vnaskte poore soules they yeeld Ch. Middleton A woman Loues to be woed of a man thou knowst well Thirsis a woman Runs and yet so runs as though she desir'd to be out-run Saies no no yet so as no no seems to be no no Striues yet so striues as though she desird to be vanquisht Woman's like to a shade that flies yet lies by the subiect Like to a Bee that neuer striues if sting be remooued A. Fraunce In womens mouthes no is no negatiue I. W. Their yea or no when as they sweare they loue or loue vs most Beleeue who list soone be they got as sodainely are lost W. W. A womans loue is riuer-like which stopt will ouerflow And when the current finds no let it often falles too low Idem Varietie of men to court a woman is her pride Then which the vanity of men is nothing lesse espide What are to vs but common hurts Those common hopes they giue If then their loue doth die to vs VVhen ours to them doth liue Idem VVomen neuer Loue beautie in their sexe but enuie euer G. Chapman There cannot bee a greater clogge to man Then to be wearie of a wanton woman S. I. H. What more spight can be a woman told Then one should say she looketh foule and old Idem Bee shee base or hie A womans eye doth guide her wit not her wit her eye W. W. Women are most wonne as when men merit least If merit looke not well loue bids stand by Loues proper lesson is to please the eye G. Ch He water plowes and soweth in the sand And hopes the flickering wind with net to hold Who hath his hopes layd on a womans hand S. P. S Women by kind are mutable euer Soone hot and soone cold like and mislike in a moment Change as a weather-cocke and all as light as a fether A. Fr. Women haue tongues of craft and hearts of guile They will they will not fooles that on them lust For in their speech is death hell in their smile Ed. Fairfax One woman with another may do much Th. Ach. Like vntund golden strings all women are Which long time lie vntoucht will harshly iarre Ch. Marlow Discurteous women natures fairest ill The woe of man that first createst curse Base female sexe sprung from blacke Ates loynes Proude disdainefull cruell and vniust Whose words are shaded with inchaunting wiles Worse then Medâ—sâ— mateth all our mindes And in their hearts sits shamelesse trecherie Turning a truthlesse vile circumference O could my fury paint their furies forth For hell no hell compared to their hearts Too simple diuelles to conceiue their arts Borne to be plagues vnto the thoughts of men Brought for eternall pestilence to the worlde R Greene. with womeÌ„ is too vsual now theirs theÌ„selues to sel For iointures by indeÌ„ture with imperious meÌ„ to dwel And hee doth her and she doth him with his and her vpbraid W. VV. Women are kind by kind and coy for fashion H. C. Of Wrath Fierce reuenging wrath Rides on a Lyon loth
with their mother vaile The bright lampe of heauen from Thetis hid Apolloes sister in her starry rayle Along her lower Sphere in triumpeled D. Lodge Cynthia companion of the night With shining brand lighting his eben carre Whose axeltree was iet auchact with starres And roofe with shining rauens feathers cealed Piercing my eye lids as I lie along Awaked me through G. Peele Thus whiles dumb sights their yeelding hearts entaÌ„gled The aire with sparks of liuing fire was spaÌ„gled And night deepe drencht in mistie Acheron Heaued vp her head halfe the world vpon Breath'd darknes forth darke night is Cupids daie Ch. Marlow From deepe of regions vnderneath Nights vaile arose and sunnes bright luster chacde Ed. Fairfax Inuested in her stately vale the night In her kind armes embraced all the round The siluer moone from Sea vprising bright Spred frostie pearle vpon the canded ground Idem Now blacke-browde night plast in her chaire of iet Sat wrapt in cloudes within her cabinet And with her duskie mantle ouer-spread The path the sunnie Palfraies vsde to tread And Cynthia sitting in her Cristall chayre In all her pompe did ride along her Sphere The honyed dew descended in soft showres Drizled in pearle vpon the tender flowers And Zephire husht who with a whispering gale Seemed to harken to the nightingale Which in the thornie brakes with her sweet song Vnto the silent night bewrayde her wrong M. Dra. Noctis concubium Now was the heauenly vault depriude of light With sunnes depart and now the darknes of the night Did light those beamy stars which greater lite did dark Now each thing that inioyd that fierie quickning spark Which life is cald were moud their spirits to repose And wanting vse of eyes their eies began to close A silence sweete each where with one consent imbrast A musicke sweete to one in carefull musing plast And mother earth now clad in morning weed did breathe A dull desire to kisse th' image of our death S. Ph. Sydney It was the time when rest soft sliding downe From heauens height into mans heauie eyes In the forgetfulnesse of sleepe doth drowne The carefull thoughts of mortall miseries Ed. Spencer The sunne alreadie sanke Beyond our world and ere I got my boothe Each wight with maÌ„tle black the night doth scooth Sauing the glow-worm which would courteous be Of that small light oft watching sleepers see The welkin had full niggardly inclosde In coffer of dimme cloudes his siluer groates I cleped starres each thing to rest disposde The caues were full the mountaines voyde of goates The birds eyes closde closed their chirping notes As for the nightingale woods musicke King It August was hee daind not then to sing S. Ph. Sydney Now the sable shade I cleped night had thicke enueloped The sunne in vaile of double darknes made Sleepe eased care rest brought complaint to bed Ed. Fairfax Now from the fresh the soft and tender bed Of her still mother gentle night out-flew The fleeting balme on hilles and dales shee shed With honey drops of pure and precious dew And on the verdure of greene forrests spred The virgin prime rose and the violet blew And sweete-breath Zephire on his spreading wings Sleepe ease repose rest peace and quiet brings The thoughts and troubles of broade waking day They softly dip in milde obliuions lake Idem Intempesta nox Now when Aldeboran was mounted hie Aboue the shinie Cassiopeias chaire And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie Ed. Spencer Midnight was come when euerie vitall thing With sweete sound sleepe their wearie limbs did rest The beasts were still the little birds that sing Now sweetely slept besides their mothers brest The old and all were snrowded in their rest The waters calme the cruell seas did cease The woods the fields and all things held their peace The golden starres were whiâ—ld amidst theyr race And on the earth did laugh with twinckling light VVhen each thing nestled in his resting place Forgat dayes payne with pleasure of the night The hare had no the greedie hounds in sight The fearefull Deare of death stood not in doubt The Partrich dreamd not of the falchens foot The vgly beare now minded not the stake Nor how the cruell mastiffes doe her teare The stagge lay still vnroused from the brake The foamie bore fear'd not the hunters speare All things were still in desart bush and breere The quiet heart now from their trauailes rest Soundly they slept in most of all their rest M. Sackuile The midnights waking starre Sad Cassiopeia with a heauie cheere Pusht forth her forehead to make knowne from farre What time the deadly dole of earth drewe neere I. Markham With falling mists the darkesome night extended Her sable wings and gently ouer-spread Heauens gloomie vaile whence Phoebus lampe was fled Dead time of rest to euerie mortall wight To cheerefull mindes that bringeth wanton sleepe With many a phantasie and deluding toy And pensiue heart it doth delaie and keepe From tedious companie that would annoy Dull Saturnists that haue abiurdall ioy Th. Storer Now spread the night her spangled canopie And summond euerie restlesse soule to sleepe On beds of tender grasse the beasts doe lie The fishes slumbred in the silent deepe Vnheard was Serpents hisse and Dragons crie Birds left to sing and Philomele to weepe Onely that noyse heauens rolling circle kest Sung lullaby to bring the world to rest Ed. Fairfax Noctis initium When low the night with mistie mantle spread Gan darke the day and dimme the azure skies And Venus in her message Hermes sped To bloudy Mars to will him not to rise While shee her selfe approacht in speedie wise And Virgo hiding her disdainfull breast VVith Thetis now had layd her downe to rest While Scorpio dreading Sagitarius dart Whose bow prest bent in fight the string had slipt Downe slid into the Ocean floud a part The beare that in the irish seas had dipt Hs grisly feete with speede from thence he whipt For Thetis hasting from the virgins bed Pursude the beare that ere she came was fled And Phaethon now neere reaching to his race With glistering beames gold streaming where they bent VVas prest to enter in his resting place Enryhius that in the carte first went Had euen now attain'd his iourneyes stent And fast declining hid away his head Where Titan coucht him in his purple bed And now pale Cynthia with her borrowed light Beginning to supplie her brothers place Was past the noone-sted sixe degrees in sight When sparkling starres amidst the heauens face With twinckling light shone on the earth apace That while they brought about the nights chaire The dark had dimd the day ere I was ware M. Sac. Such time as from her mothers tender lap The night arose garded with gentle winds And with hâ—r precious dew refresht the sappe Of bloome and darke whilst that her mantle blinds The vaile of heauen and euery birde was still Saue Philomele that did bemone her ill When in the
vs roare Yet are they not dismai'd one whit therefore One with a whistle hang'd about his necke Shewes by the sound which cord must be vndone And straite the ship-boy ready at a becke Vnto the tops with nimble sleight doth runne The other Marriners vpon the decke Or at the steere the comming vvaues doe shunne And then by turnes they pump the water out By paine and care preuenting euery doubt S. I. Harrington The heauens on euery side inclosed be Black stormes and foggs are blowen vp from farre That now the Pilot can no Load-starre see But skies and Seas doe make most dreadfull warre The billowes striuing to the heauens to reach And th' heauens striuing them for to impeach R. Greene. Of the Spring The soote seasons that blood bloome foorth brings With greene hath clad the hill and eke the vale The Nightingale with feathers new she sings The Turtle to her mate hath told her tale Sommer is come for euery spray now springs The Hart hath hung his old head on the pale The Bucke in brake his Winter-coate he flings The Fishes fleete with new-repared scale The Adder all her sloth away she flings The swift Swallow pursueth the flies small The busie Bee her honey now she mings Winter is worne that was the flowers bale E. of Surrey The Winters wrath begins to quell And pleasant Spring appeareth The grasse now gins to be refresht The Swallow peepes out of her nest And cloudy welkin cleareth E. Spenser Flora now calleth for each flower And bid's make ready Maias bower That new is vp rise from bed Idem The earth late choakt with showres Is now arai'd in greene Her bosome springs with flowers The ayre dissolues her teene The vvoods are deckt with leaues And trees are cloathed gay And Flora crown'd with sheaues With oaken boughs doth play The birds vpon the trees Doe sing with pleasant voyces And chaunt in their degrees Their loues and luckie choyces D. Lodge The tenth of March when Aries receau'd Dan-Phoebus rayes into his horned head In flowry season of the yeare And when the firmament was cleare When Tellus her balls painted were With issue of disparent cheere When the Vsher to the morne did rise Sleepe gaue their vituall liberties To Phillis and to Floraes eyes G. Chapman The ayre was calme the day was cleare Loues wanton winds with wooing breathe Gan greete the sweetest of the yeare The flower forgot his Winters death The earth reuiued by the sunne To let in gay attire begunne The leafe allied vnto the tree By helpe of spring in coate of greene Stole forth my wandring eye to see The beauties of the Sommers Queene D. Lodge The Winter with his grisly stormes no longer dare abide The pleasant grasse with lusty greene the earth hath newly died The trees hath leaues the boughs do spred new changed is the yeare The water brooks are clean sunk down the plesant boughs appeare The Spring is come the goodly Nimphs now dance in euery place Thus hath the yeare most pleasantly of lately chang'd her face E. of Surrey Now each creature ioyes the other Passing happy dayes and howers One bird reports vnto an other In the fall of siluer showers vvhilst the earth our common mother Hath her bosome deckt with flowers Whilst the nearest torch of heauen vvith bright rayes warmes Eloraes lap Making nights and dayes both euen Chearing plants with freshnes sap S. Daniell Of VVinter The wrathfull Winter proching on a pace vvith blustring blasts had all ybard the treene And old Saturnus with his frosty face vvith chilling cold had pearst the tender greene The mantles rent wherein inwrapped beene The gladsome Groues that now lay ouer-throwne The Tapers torne and euery tree downe blowne The soyle that erst so seemely was to seeme vvas all dispoiled of her beauties hewe And stole fresh flowers wher-with the somers Queene Had clad the earth now Boreas blast downe blew And small fowles flocking in their songs did rew The vvinters wrath where-with each thing defast In wofull wise bewayl'd the Sommer past Hawthorne had lost his motly liuerie The naked twigs were shiuering all for cold And dropping downe the teares aboundantlie Each thing me thought with weeping eye me told The cruell season bidding me with-hold My selfe within for I was gotten out Into the fields whereas I walkt about M. Sackuille When ye count ye free from feare Comes the breame Winter with chamfered browes Full of wrinkles and frosty furrowes Shooting his grisly dart Which cruddles the blood and pricks the hart Ed. Spenser Ianuarie Now sad Winter welked hath the day And Phoebus weary of his yearely taske Yshackled hath his steeds in lowly lay And taken vp his Inne in fishes haske Idem Autumnus The wearied nights approached on a pace With darksome shades which somwhat breedeth care The sunne hath take more neere the earth his race In Libra then his greatest sway he bare For pardy then the dayes more colder are Then fades the greene fruite liuely hearbs are done And Winter gins to wast that Sommer wone I. H. Mir. of Mag. Sommer Iulie Now the sunne hath reared vp his siluer footed teame Making his wayte betweene the cup and golden Diademe The rampant Lyon hunts he fast with doggs of noysome breath VVhose balefull barking brings in hast pine plague and drery death Edm. Spencer August That time of yeere when the inamoured sunne Clad in the richest roabes of liuing fires Courted the Virgin signe great Natures Nunne â—vhich barraines earth of all that earth desires â—uen in the month that from Augustus wone His sacred name which vnto heauen aspiâ—es And on the last of his tentrebled dayes W. Shakespeare â—t was the month in which the righteous mayde That for disdaine of sinfull worlds vpbraid â—ed backe to heauen where she was first conceiu'd â—nto her siluer bower the sunne receiu'd And the hote Syrian dog on him awayting After the chafed Lyons cruell bayting â—orrupted had the ayre with noysome breath And powrd on earth plague pestilence dearth Rob. Greene. â—ow was the month that old Sextilis name â—hangd by the Romaine Senates sage degree And glorying so to innouate the same â—o haue himselfe new christned did agree â—oude that Augustus God-father should be 〈◊〉 whilst Ceres clad him in a mantle fayre Of bearded Corne still quauering with the ayre Char. Fitz Ieffrey Iulie VVhat time sleepes Nurse the silent night begun To steale by minutes on the long-liu'd dayes The furious dog-starre chasing of the sunne Whose scorching breath adds flames vnto his raies At whose approch the angry Lyon braies The earth now warm'd in her celestiall fire To coole her heate puts off her rich attire M. Drayton Of Morpheus Morpheus the liuelie sonne of deadly sleepe VVitnes of life to them that liuing die A prophet oft and oft an historie A Poet eke as humors flie or creepe S. Phil. Sid. Hee making speedy way through persed ayre And through the world of waters wide and deepe To Morpheus house doth
soile Lawrel the ornament of Phaebus toile Fresh Rododaphne and the Sabine flowre Matching the wealth of the auncient Frankensence And pallid Ivie building his owne bowre And Boxe yet mindfull of his old offence Red Amaranthus lucklesse paramour Oxeye still greene and bitter patience Ne wants there pale Narcisse that in a well Seeing his beautie in loue with it fell Ed. Spencer Mirtle's due to Venus greene Lawrell due to Apollo Corn to the lady Ceres ripe grapes to the yōg mery Bacchus Poplar to Alcides and Oliues vnto Minerua Gentle Amarāthus thou fairest floure of a thousand Shalt be loues floure hēceforth thogh thou cam'st frō a bleeding Yet blood shalt thou stanch this gift will I giue thee for euer Abr. Fraunce Dead-sleeping Poppy and black Hellebore Cold Coloquintida and Tetra mad Mortall Samnites and Cicuta bad With which th'vniust Athenians made to die Wise Socrates who thereof quaffing glad Powr'd out his life and last Philosophie To the faire Critias his dearest Belamye Ed. Spencer The wholesome Sage and Lauender still gray Ranke-smelling Rue and Comin good for eies The Roses raigning in the pride of May Sharpe Isope good for greene wounds remedies Faire Marygolds and Bees alluring Thime Sweet Marioram and Daizies decking prime Coole Violets and Orpin growing still Embathed Balme and chearfull Galingale Fresh Costmary and breathfull Camomill Dull Poppey and drinke-quickning Setnale Veine-healing Veruin and head-purging Dill Sound Sauory and Bazill harry hale Fat Colworts and comforting Perseline Cold Lettuce and refreshing Rosmarine Idem A soft enflowred banke imbrac'd the fount Of Chloris ensignes an abstracted field Where grew Melanthy great in Bees account Amareus that precious balme doth yeeld Enameld Pansies vsde at nuptialls still Dianaes arrow Cupids crimson sheeld Ope-morne Night-shade and Venus Nauill Sollem Violets hanging heads as shamed And Verdant Calaminth for Odour famed Sacred Nepenthe purgatiue of care And soueraigne Ruberb that doth rancor kill Sia and Hyacinth that Furies weare White and red Iessamines merry Melliphill Faire crowne imperiall emperour of flowres Immortall Amaranth white Aphrodil And cuplike twill pants strewd in Bacchus bowres G. Chapman The Marigold Phaebus beloued friend The Moly which from sorcery doth defend M. Dray Of Beasts The spotted Panther and the tusked Boare The Pardale swift and the Tygre cruell The Antelope and Woolfe both fierce and fell Ed. Spencer There might you see the burly Beare The Lyon king the Elephant The mayden Vnicorne was there So was Acteons horned plant M. Roydon Riuers The fertile Nile which creatures new doth frame Long Rhodams whose sourse springs from the skie Faire Ister flowing from the mountaines hie Diuine Scamander purpled yet with bloud Of Greeks and Troians which therein did lie Pactolus glistering with his golden floud And Tigris fierce whose streams of none may be withstood Ed. Spencer Great Gauges and immortal Euphrates Deepe Indus and Meander intricate Slowe Peneus and tempestuous Phasides Swift Rhene and Alpheus stil immaculate Oraxes feared for great Cyrus fate Tibris renowmed for the Romane fame Idem Fishes Spring-headed Hydraes and sea-shouldring Whales Great Whirpooles which all Fishes make to flie Bright Scholopendraes arm'd with siluer scales Mightie Monoceros with immeasured tailes The dreadfull Fish that doth deserue the name Of death and like him lookes in dreadfull hue The grisly wasserman that makes his game The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursue The horrible sea Satyre that doth shewe His fearful face in time of greatest storme Huge Ziffius whom mariners do eschewe No lesse then rockes as trauailers informe And greedy Rosmarines with visages deforme Ed. Sp. Is the braue Normans courage now forgot Or the bold Britons lost the vse of shot The big bon'd Almains and stout Brabanters Or do the Piccards let the Crosbowes lie Once like the Centaurs of old Thessaly M. Dray Of Birdes The skie-bred Eagle royall bird Percht there vpon an Oake aboue The Turtle by him neuer stird Example of immortall loue The Swan that sings about to die Leauing Meander stood thereby M. Roydon The ill fac'te Owle deaths dreadfull messenger The hoarse night Rauen trompe of dolful dreere The lether winged Bat dayes enemie The ruful Strich stil wayting on the beere The Whistler shril that who so heares doth die The hellish Harpies prophets of sad destenie Ed. Spencer The red-shankt Orcads toucht with no remorse The light-foote Irish which with darts make warre Th'rancke ridin'd Scot his swift running horse The English Archer of a Lyons force The valiant Norman all his troopes among In bloody conquest tryed in armes traind long M. Drayton Of Hounds Grimme Melampus with the Ethiops feete White Leucon and all-eating Pamphagos Sharp-sighted Dorceus wild Oribasus Storme breathing Lelaps and the sauage Theron Wing-footed Pteretas and hind-like Ladon Greedy Harpia and the painted Stycte Fierce Tygris and the thicket searcher Agre The blacke Melaneus and the brisled Lachne Leane-lustfull Cyprius and big chested Aloe G. Chapman Repentance sad Praier sweete charming fasting hairy clad I. Syl. In one consort there sate Cruell reuenge and rancorous despight Disloyall treason and heart-burning hate But gnawing Iealouzie out of their sight Sitting alone his bitter lips did bite And trembling feare still too and fro did flie And found no place where safe he shrowd him might Lamenting sorrowe did in darkenesse lie And shame his vgly face did hide from liuing eie Ed. Sp. Fresh Hyacinthus Phoebus paramoure Foolish Narcisse that likes the watrie shore Sad Amaranthus made a flowre of late Idem Nimphs The wooddy Nymphs faire Hamadryades And all the troupes of lightfoot Naides Ed. Sp. Satires The Fawnes and Satires from the tufted brakes Their brisly armes wreathd all about with snakes Their horned heads with woodbine chaplets crownd With Cypresse Iauelings and about their thies The flaggy haire disordered loosely flies M. Drayton Fresh shadowes fit to shrowd from sunny ray Faire fawnes to take the sunne in season due Sweet springs in which a thousand bubbles play Soft rombling brookes that gentle slomber drew High reared mounts the lands about to vew Low looking dales disioynd from common game Delightful bowres to solace louers true False Labyrinths fond runners eyes to daze All which by nature made did natures selfe amaze Ed. Spencer * Behind Cupid were reproach repentance shame Reproach the first shame next repent behinde Repentance feeble sorrowfull and lame Reproach despightfull carelesse and vnkinde Shame most il-fauoured bestiall and blinde Shame lowrd repentance sighed reproach did scold Reproach sharpe repentance whips entwinde Shame burning Taper in her hand did hold All three to each vnlike yet all made in one mould Idem * Stearne strife and anger stout Vnquiet care and sad vnthriftie head Lewd losse of time and sorrow being dead Inconstant change and false disloyaltie Consuming riotize and guiltie dread Of heauenly vengeance faint Infirmitie Vile pouertie and lastly death with Infamie Idem * His angry steed did chide his frowning bitte Idem Rich Oranochye though but knowne of late