impressions on him then an Arrow on a rock of Adamant More impure then the stable of Augaeus H. C As pensive as the night You as cruell as the Duke of Muscovia named Basilides who commanded from his subjects a tribute of Sweat and of Nightingals in the midst of Winter H Court If thou be as hot as the mount Aetna feign thy self as cold as the hill Caucasus carry two faces in one hood As ingenious Cicero could pick gold out of Ennius's dung so may His Fetters like King Agrippa's golden chain more became him then his Imperiall Dâ—adem Ka meka thee As liberall as the Sun which shines on all like Aesops Crow prankt up in borrowed feathers Descriptions HE was even ravished with contentment in beholding thâ—se goodly Pâ—â—aces where was seen an admirable Consort of Art and Nature so many Hâ—lls so well furnished within such rich hangings such most exquisite pictâ—â—es such marbles such guildings and without mountains which make a naturall Theater tapistred without Art to surpasse all workmanship forrests which seem born with the world hedges and knots curiously cut Alleys and Mazes where both eys and feet are lost Rivers which creep along with silver purlings about gardens enameld with most fragrant flowers caverns replenished with a sacred horror grotts and fountains which gently gliding contend with the warble of birds and so many other spectacles which at first sight astonisht spirits and never satiate H.C. There were Hills which garnished their proud heights with treeâ—s humble valleys whose low estate seemed comforted with refreshing of silver rivers meadows eâ—ameld with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds each pasture stored wâ—th sheep feeding with sober security while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams comfort Here a Shepheards Boy piping as though he should never be old there a young Sheâ—â—â—â—rdesse knitting and withall singing and her hands kept time to her voyces musick a shew as it were of an accompaniable solitariness and of a civill wildeness Neither are the gardens to be omitted which for their largeness have the face of a forrest for their variety of a Paradise Here Cypres Groves there walks with Statues Here a Sea of fountains there Swans Ostriâ—hes and other recreative creatures Mer. Ital. It is a place which now humbling it self in fallowed plains â—ow prouâ— in wel-husbanded hils marries barren woods to cultivated valleys and joyns neat gardens to delicious fountains c. Death DEath is that inconsiderable atome of time that divides the body from the soul c. Scaliger defines Death to be the Cessation of the souls functions When Hadrian asked Secundus what Death was he answered in these severall truths It is a sleep eternall the bodies dissolution the rich mans fear the poor mans wish an event inevitable an uncertain journey a thief that steals away man sleeps father lifes flight the departure of the living and the resolution of all Feltham Death had no sooner absented him from her eyes but forgetfulness drew him out of her heart When we once come in sight of the port of Death to which all winds drive us and when by letting fall that fatall Anchor which can never be weighed again the Navigation of this life takes end Then it is I say that our own cogitations those sad and severe cogitations formerly beaten from us by our health and felicity return again and pay us to the uttermost for all the pleasing passages of our lives past Sir Wa. Rawl Death deprived me of my paradized bliss and not onely made my broken heart the sad habitation of woe but also turned my mind which before was a kingdom to me into a hell of tormenting thoughts Torches made of Aromatique wood cast out their odoriferous exhalations when they are almost wasted So the vertuous A. made all the good odors of her life evaporate in the last instant of her death Thaâ— he is dead As if she now scorn'd life Death lends her cheeks his paleness and her eyes tell down their drops of silver to the earth wishing her tears might rain upon his grave to make the gentle earth produce some flower should bear his name and memory She prostrated on the body of her Lover sought in his eclipsed eyes and dead lips the remnant of her life I shall not be unwilling to suffer a goal-delivery of my soul from the prison of my body when I am called to it Delivered up to the immortality of another world This deadly shaâ—t passing through him so wounded me that I my self was arrived within few paces of the land of darkness In his silent marble the best part of that small portion of joy I had in the world but all my hopes are entombed Wats in Baa Preface Drawing neere to the confines of Deaths kingdom Deathâ—rees â—rees a man from misery and wafts him to the haven of his happiness Her As soon as Death hath played the Midwife to our second birth our soul shall then see all truths more freely then our corporall eys at our first birth see all bodies and colours Sir K.D. Desire IF you desire that I make you a picture of the nature and perquisites of Desire I wil tell you It is a strange Countrey whereunto the prodigall Child sailed when he forsook his Fathers house to undertake a banishment a Countrey where Corn is still in Grass Vines in the Bud Trees perpetually in Blossome and Birds always in the Shell You neither see Corn Fruit nor any thing fully shaped all is there onely in expectation It is a Countrey full of Figures Phantosmes Illusions and hopes which are dreams without sleep A Countrey where the Inhabitants are never without Fevers one is no sooner gone but another comes into its place There dwells Covetousness a great woman meager lean starven having round about her a huge swarm of winged boys of which some are altogether languishing others cast her a thousand smiles as she passeth along upon herself she hath an infinite number of Horse-leeches which suck upon her to the marrow Time looks on her a far off and never comes neer her shewing her an inchanted Looking-glass wherein she sees a thousand and a thousand false colours which amuse her and when she hath sported enough she hath nothing to dinner but smoke Holy Court Albeit you can no ways quench the coals of Desire with forgetfulness yet rake them up in the ashes of modesty As Pharaoh longed to know his dream so desired he to Desire the nurse of perseverance gave him wings to make the more speed Thus wishing my deserts still suitable to my desires and my desires ever pleasing to your deserts More ready in desire then able in power to serve you Then which nothing could shoot righter at the mark of my desires And wish you as full of good Fortune as I am of desire She â—â—aâ—d not 〈…〉 desires Desire is
that I must beg leave to lessen though I cannot hope to have it wholly remitted in saying the justness of your Ladyships cause of stay made me presume none had so little compassion as to deny it and that I might expect the being freed from my ague without danger of losing the opportunity of presenting my humble thanks for so many singall favours undeservedly conferred on me but since that happiness with many others is lost by your Ladyships absence honour this paper so far I beseech you as to suffer it to supply my defects herein and testify how ambitious I shall be by my future observance to merit the title of Madam Your most humble servant A.B. LXXII Vpon the death of a fair Lady Sir AMong other impartments your last tells mee you were to usher a fair Lady to her grave A Corporall work of Mercy it is to bury the Dead I grant but to interr so great a Beauty â—eâ—ms to entrench on Pity and blast the Spring Had she lived till Autumne or even Midsommer the funeralls of many flowers had lamented her Urne yea if but till they had been blown they would have lost their lives to adorn her Hearse and have been ambitious like those Savages to have been buried quick with their Ladie Paragon for her attendance in the other World But she has inverted Nature and the Season too the flower of beauty died when the beauty of flowers should spring and so has not onely left a withered World but dismayed the Blowth of what should garnish it Flowers are disheartened to open their fragrant Colors since their Pattern is so early Cropt and seem to intend being she 's entomb'd under the Earths surface to keep themselves under Earth to accompany her dust yet I will free you of cruelty in this fate you had no hand I am sure in her death though you helpt her to her Grave And who should be a fitter Mourner at the exequies of a fair Lady than so compleat a servant of Ladies Sir I see what grace you are entertained with by them they not only love you living but are loath to part with you dead will carry you as for as they can towards the other life when they goe That if they may not have your company quite through which were a wrong to Survivors they may your funerall tears sighes or prayers for their Vltime Vale you preface a happy imprimis to this sad discourse and say having first done all that might tend to her future happiness Happy News and it ownes you I believe an instrument of good effects and offices Had all fair Ladies such faithfull servants More Idols of beauty would receive impression of the divine Image and become the servants of God And she had much reason to desire your care of her bodies enterrment that had first aided her soul with a saving Viaticum for heaven Long may you live the Author or helper of such good deeds In the interim as here was a double work of mercy Corporall and Spirituall exploited so you I am confident have made your usefull application of the Accident beheld in the blasting of this flower the fate of Fairness the frailties of the fairest Clay that feature and white and red could embelish If she were not Superlative in Beauty in beauty she had many inferiours if in fortunes not the favourite of fortune yet she has had her smiles Many Beauties have faln sooner many may sooner fade yet in her all beauties all fortunes have exprest what fortunes and beauties are what is the Exit of the Fable of this temporary life to wit ugly death eternall deprivation the cold Tomb and deformed dust Fortunate life that so contemplates mortal condition as to be indifferent and ready to change that fraile incertainties and vain glitter may be motives to assure and fix on lasting good that by others death learnes to live and lives the life that feares not death that so accompanies others funeralls as in that sable equipage to behold the mournfull Pomp of the Worlds farewell and their own destiny that reads in that earthy bed of death the Grave of others their own Motto we are dust and all mortall things Momentary Sir pardon this long slip of my pen you see how a fair Ladies death and your living pietie entrances me to the forgetfulness of other subjects I confess I am also now in a dull Mood not apt as to expression Thanks for your News on which the only present comment shall be that I am for ever Sir Your thankfull servant D.W. LXXIII The Reply relating the particulers of that Ladies death Sir SInce you have been pleas'd to sing so sweet a dirge and to make so excellent a comment upon our late funerous text I cannot think the particulers of that sad subject how confusedly soever I deliver them will be unacceptable to you This Lady was 3 moneths continually dying without any hope of recovery and this occasioned by an ulcer in her throat it was my good fortune though others had assai'd it to gain her first assent to bring a spirituall Phisitian to her Dr. G. was next at hand and did act his part exceedingly well after 2 or 3 effective visits the Patient through the comfort and ease of the spirituall Cataplasmes and emplaisters which the Doctor applied was so rapt and piously enamor'd of him as she even embrac'd him at every appearance When shee drew neer the confines of deaths kingdom she did usually ejaculate not only most pious but even eloquent or rather diviniloquent expressions as this amongst many others which heaven grant I may never forget I have said she lived long in the vanity of this World for which God hath placed mee in this bed of sorrow Were it his holy pleasure I should act over one of them again and the choice left to mee I would by the Grace of Jesus rather chose the torments of this bed and malady then have any thing to do with the Worlds vanities c Besides nothing did so much trouble her as that she had lived as she said for fear of Worldly endamagement some yeares in an outward profession that contradicted her inward perswasion The Doctor was no less taken with his Patient then she with him for I heard him say hee was never more satisfied with the manner of any persons death And I confess her exit did more tristitiate mee then did that of my own Sister the manner of it not a little both mortifying and edifying mee For to see her picture in the Anti-chamber and then go in and look upon the originall was subject enough for mortification the one being so incomparable beautifull the other so ghastly In a word the last breath she drew was Je-and in pronouncing sus she expir'd So that we may conclude as she was a great beauty living she was a greater dead For whereas corporall beauty in others dies with the body hers did not so but by a secret transition
swaâ—â—wed If you â—ail upâ—n it it will carry you whereso'ere you will desire but if you drink it it doth not satisfie but increase desires Again for Example Eriphyle and Tarpeia both women in whom nature should govern love and love warrant fidelity were both easily induced to be false with triffling temptations they both betrayed not one friend to another nor the dearness of love for the height of preferment but their most assured lovers to their most deadly enemies for toys jewels and bracelets Eriphyle her husband Amphiaraus the stay of her life to Adrastus his professed enemy Tarpeia the Capitol the defence of her Country to the Sabines that besieged it yet neither can remain as invitation much less a encouragement to Treason For Eriphyle was slain by her son whom nature should have bound to her defence Tarpeia by the Sabines whom her deserts should have obliged to her safe-guard In comparing of two when you would raise the person or thing which you intend to make excellent you must take the meanest parts of a greater example and match them with the best of your purpose and by such partiality you shall amplifie and extol the subject you treat of as Isocrates did in his comparison of Cyrus and Thaagarus Otherwise for impartial comparisons which notwithstanding do amplifie read the matches or encounters of the most famous Grecian and Roman Examples in Plutark Comparisons of things different In the former Comparison is a Composition of the points at first because I presuppose the histories on both sides to be familiar unto you by reading but if you were to marshal histories whereof both or either were not sufficiently known then had you need to begin with single relations As if a man would compare Vascus Gâ—ma with Sir Francis Drake he might say Sir Francis Drake indeed travelled round about the world in two years saw divers Nations endured many perils at sea and returned laden with great Treasure And Vascus Gama first searched the Coast of Quiloa Mozambique and Calicute and opened the passage to the East-Indies But as it was easie for Drake to proceed further in discoveries when he had entrance made by Columbus So was it most dangerous and difficult for Gama to adventure a course without example and direction Drake scoured the Coasts with a sufficient company of ships made pillage of others and thereof furnished himself for his interprize Gama went but weak at first lost most of his small Fleet and met nothing at seas but tempests and famine Drake invaded upon opportunities hazarded but his own fortune and retired to sea upon all advantages Gama had in charge an expedition of his Soveraigns Commandment was constrained to victual himself amongst barbarous Nations and not only buy provision in their continent with the price of his blood but durst not depart without leaving his King proclaimed and possessed in their Territories divers places of strength fortified and established to his use So that if Gama had been to pursue the example of Drake as Drake had the light of Columbus and Magellus Travels Vascus Gama ' s spirit was as like to have conquered the whole world as Drakes fortune was to compass it And where the parts of Collation are most obscure there your narration must be the longer As Cicero in comparing Marcellus and Verres makes a long recitall of the acts of Marcellus to acquaint the hearers with them before comparison In some cases after good confidence of proof your examples may come in more thick and plentiful As If to protract a battell upon advice be cowardize then Phâ—cion then Metellus then Fabius and all the valiantest Captains of all ages were cowards If to displant the rebellious natives of Scotland and to root them out of that kingdom be cruelty then the Colonies translated by the Romans into Sicily into France into the severall coasts of Italy divers other places testifie great cruelty But comparison of things different is most commendable where there seems to be great affinity in the matters conferred As in the King of Spains assisting the Irish and the Queen of Englands aiding the Netherlands The Spaniard gave assistance to a people untrue in their Treaties uncivill in their manners to those who have traiterously rebelled without provocation and fled out contrary to their own submission brake their own peace and wasted their own Countrey The Queen did but lend some few voluntaries to the protection of a Nation peaceable in their lives free by their priviledges a people denying no claim of any true Prince except perpetual servitude of their bodies and importable exactions of their goods Another example of things different compared Is not the marriage of heads of Houses Colledges as lawful as the marriage of the Doctors of the Arches or the Clerks of the Chancery both were interdicted by the same law yet I take it not indifferent that both should by the abrogation of the same Law be equally repealed The one hath his living casuall by his temporall pains the other his maintenance certain by Ecclesiastical provision The one may purchase by the improving his revenues so may lawfully raise a patrimony to maintain his posterity The other can by no thrift upon the common goods gather a living for a wife and children without imbezeling from the poor deducting from Hospitality defeating the intent of the giver or defrauding his succession Lastly the one hath all to the use of his office the other is owner of nothing but to his own behoof and disposition In these two sorts of Amplifications you may insert all Figures as the passion of the matter shall serve Comparison of contraries is the third and most flourishing way of Comparison Contraries are somtimes arranged together by pairs one to one thus Compare the ones impatiency with the others mildness the ones insolency with the others submission the ones humility with the others indignation and tell me whether he that conquered seemed not rather confounded then he that â—yeelded any thing discouraged Compare not mind with mind lest it seem fantasticall and beyond the triall of our senses But set the ones triumph against the others captivity loss against victory feasts against wounds a Crown against fetters misfortune against felicity the majesty of courage will be found in the overthrown More examples of this you have in the figure Contentio which is one of the instruments to aggravate by way of Comparison Yet one example more He that prefers wealthy ignorance before chargeable study prefers contempt before honor darkness before light death before life and earth before heaven This is one way of arranging contrarieties There is another way of ordering them with interchangeable correspondence in sentences that though each touch not other yet it affronts the other As Shall a Souldier for a blow with his hand given in warr to a Captain be disgraced And shall a Lawyer for the Bastinado given in a Court of Justice to his companion be
almost incurable A talkative fellow is the unbrac'd drum which beats a wise man out of his wits Love LOve in the interpretation of the envious is sofâ—ness in the wicked good men suspect it for lust and in the good some spiritual men have given it the name oâ— Charity And these are but terms to this which seems a more considerate defâ—nition That indefinite Love is Lust and Lust when it is determinâ—d to one is Love This definition â—oo does but intrude it self on what I was about to say which is and spoken with soberness though like a Lay-man that Love is the most acceptable imposition of nature the cause and preservation of life and the very healthfulness of the minde as well as of the body But Lust our raging feaver is more dangerous in Cities then the Calenture in ships Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert Love in the most obnoxious interpretation is natures preparative to her greatest works which is the making of life ibid. Love in humane nature is both the source and center of all passionâ— for not only hope fâ—ar and joy but even anger and hatred rise first out of the spring of love Mr. Montagu To be in love is the most intensive appropriaâ—ion of all the powers of our minde to one design ibid. Sensual love is the most fatal plague among all passions It is not a simple malady but one composed of all the evils in the world it hath the shiverings and heats of Feavers the ach and prickings of the Meagrum the rage of Teeth the stupeâ—action of the Virâ—â—go the furies of Frenzie the black vapors of the Hypocondry the disturbances of the Waking the stupidities of the Lethargy the fits of the Falling-sickness the faintness of the Tysick the heavings of the passions of the heart the pangs of the Colick the infections of the Leprosie the venom of Vlcers the malignity of the Plague the putrifaction of the Gangrene and all which is hoâ—rible in nature Holy Court Love Care is thy Court Tyranny thy Raign Slaves thy Subjects Folly thy Attendance Lust thy Law Sin thy Service and Repentance thy Wages Fear breedeth Wit Anger is the cradle of courage Joy opens and enables the Heart Sorrow weakneth it but love is engendred betwixt lust and idleness his companions are unquietness longings fond comforts faint discomforts hopes jâ—alousies ungrounded rages causeless yieldings the highest end it aspires to is a little pleasure with much pain before and great repentance after At that time the flames of his chast love began to burn more forcible then ever He loved her with a love mingled with respect of merit and compassion of her persecuted innocency To love is natural not to love is monstrous H.C. Such was the unresistable force of his unlimitable affection that in spite of reason he was enforced to do homage unto passion Her love was a rich rock of defence against all Syrene songs It received such an impression of that wonderful passion which to be defined is impossible because no words reach to express the strange effects of it they only know it who inwardly feel it it is called Love He besought him not to make account of his speech which if it had been over passionate yet was it to be born withal because it proceeded out of an affection much more vehement Humanity enjoyns you to love me seeing I hold my life an easie sacrifice to enjoy you It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips Worldly loves are the true Gardens of Adonis where wâ— can gather nothing but trivial flowers surrounded with many bryars Christian Diary A silent expression gives the pregnant'st testimony of a deep grounded affection where every look darts forth love Nothing shall have power to alien my love from you Let me draw from your look one blush of love or line of fancy Let me become an abject in the eyes of fame an object oâ— contempt to the world if my faithful devotion and observance supply not all my defects I am he who either you have great cause to love or no cause to hate She loved him as the pledge-bearer of her heart You towards whom I know not whether my love or admiration be greater Your affection hath got a Lordship in my thoughts Love to a yielding heart is a King but to a resisting is a Tyrant Sealing up all thoughts of love under the image of her memory The extream bent of my affection compells me to Love in the heart is an exhalation in a cloud it cannot continue idle there it daily forms a thousand imaginations and brings forth a thousand cares it findes out an infinity of inventions to advance the good of the beloved c. H.C. Death may end my life but not my love which as it is infinite must be immortal Him whose love went beyond the bounds of conceit much more of utterance that in her hands the ballance of his life or death did stand Such a love as mine wedded to vertue can never be so adulterated by any accident no nor yet ravish'd by passion as to bring forth a bastard disobedience whereof my very conscience not being able to accuse my thoughts I come to clear my self The proportion of my love is infinite So perfect a thing my love is to you as it suffers no question so it seems to receive injury by addition of any words unto it The more notable demonstrations you make of the love so far beyond my desert with which it pleaseth you to make me happy the more am I even in course of huâ—anity bâ—und to seek requitals witness Having embarked my careful love in the ship of my desire Good God! what sublimate is made in the lymbeck of Love His eyes were so eager in bâ—â—â—lding her that they were like those of the Bird that â—atches her eggs with her looks Stratonica He expected her at A. with so great impatience of love that he would have willingly hastned the course of the Sun to measure it by his affections He beholding her so accomplished easily felt the glances shot from her eyes were rays from her but arrows for his heart from whence he could receive nought but honorable wounds If you have as much confidence in me as I have love towards you Love is in effect a force pardon the exorbitancy of the word that is unresistable so strong a war is that which the appetite wageth against reason Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradized me in the heaven of your love The rare Idea that thus through the applause of mine eye hath bewitched my heart is the beautious image of your sweet self pardon me if I presume when the extremity of love pricks me forward Faults that grow by affection ought to be forgiven because they come of constraint Then Madam read with favor and censure with mercy Why should not that which is one rest in unity Bacon His bosom was the Cell wherein I hid my secrets