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A85876
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Chartæ scriptæ: or A new game at cards, call'd Play by the booke.
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Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.
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Wing G408; Thomason E309_19; ESTC R200422
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huge new House Which Noah built There was the Rendeavouze A Brace of Lyons were met lovingly And Tygers twaine and Bears both he and she And so of Birds their paires in mighty joy As if they had all been flocking to a Coy Thus while the amused world were wondring at The Beasts procession Not dreaming that A deluge would succeed they merry made And God ore whelm'd 'em ' ere they were afraid SEVENS Septem Planetae IF we may trust divining Mr Booker Our New States Wyzard and old Starre looker From the untoward conjunction of these Starres Ensue results of Peace or bloudy Warres I have not studied Astronomie so farre As to confute this sage Albumazur Yet I remember when our Archiflamen Vpon Prognosticks did the wight examine And ask't him Bonâ fide whether He By art could guesse certaine futuritie He answer'd plainly no he could not tell But put things in to make th' Almanack sell But that these lights have powerfull influence Over inferiour Corps is plaine to sence As in all Plants and waters and mans mind By unequall temperature is much inclin'd Yet the wise men whose number was not eight Controle these seven and overlooke their Fate Who under Saturnes sullen raye are borne Live Melancholy and seeme to be forlorne Who under Mars had their Nativity To Bloud and Rage have a proclivity The generous aspects of Sol and Jove Vnto Heroick actions People move When these in an auspicious posture meet We shortly doe the birth of Princes greet So doe these Rayes appeare i' th royall Plant That we may judge who were predominant For in thy early progresse like the Sun About thy Fathers Kingdome thou hast run While he triumphing like Majestick Jove Shew'd thee the patterne of his state and love This is the Sparkling Diamond of the Sky The Beauty-speck of Heaven and bravery Which for th' illustrious figure and quaint light Is Lady Huisher to the Day and Night Her kind and pleasing Influence doth raise More then Platonick heat and though her wayes Are dark and secret and her fire 's unseene For Mercury a friend to th' stealth hath been Yet Mistrisse Luna in her nightly round Hath heard the cryes of this Platonick wound SIXES Opus sex dicrum IF the same Sixe be truly understood The Reader will perceivd That all were good For need must they be good whom the best best Himselfe made and on the 7th day took rest Gods working dayes were sixe one resting day So must ours be but not a rest to play For when the great Creator finish'd had And saw all good for nothing could be bad Into himselfe he did reflect to see The power and goodnesse of the Trinitie Imitate ô man and though sixe dayes thou spend Vpon thy selfe in Him let the 7th end The first daies Worke. THat there might be a First daies worke the Light Was first Created seperate from Night Night which was nothing but a want of Day And gets a being when that 's gone away Iust such is that in which this blinded Land Doth grope unwillingnesse to understand Naturall privations serve to produce But Voluntary Darknesse's of no use The Second The next daies labour was that Canopy The vulgar usually doe call the skie And is that glorious substance which is spread Like a blue spangled Mantle or'e our head The Seat of God mounted so exceeding high It is not to be reach'd untill we dy The Singer sweet doth it a Curteine call Draw it O Lord and entertaine us all The Third For all that high precedency of Birth The lowest is most courted this base Earth Which when it first was made did freely give All that by which with sweat we now do live 'T was Meadow all and no inclosure then What God made common was inclos'd by men To make a Land like that 'T is my advice Downe with inclosures They 're no Paradise Laying of ground to ground doe none of these The gathering of Waters were the Seas The Fourth Heaven in it selfe was glorious enough Yet as a pallace with rich household stuffe Thou deâ—â—â—est Lord thy dwelling place with lights Of lesse and greater magnitude Our sights Cannot behold their lustre even they Dazle that rule the Night who rules the day Is the great Author of our Heat and Light Yet is not hot nor seen of any sight Let us O Lord on Earth to thee consent To make thy houses full of Ornament And as to worship them 's Idolatry So in thy adorn'd Churches let it be The Fifth The Watry Regions had no people yet But Wave with Wave did play and Nimph Nimph met When great Leviathan no Tyrant than Was made Grand-Signior of the Ocean And Scaly Officers in shoales did presse Vnto his then not dreaded Dreadfullnesse Vnder whose vast demensions safe did lye As in a Trench the Finny Ministry Like Lord like Servants who did execute By signes his will for Both as Fish were mute Farre different were the vast Aires feather'd Peers Where warbling Birds sing to the playing spheres The Sixth This was the great Compleating day God's last And best of workes not hundled up in hast Wherein the species sensitive were made Those wondrous beasts of which we 'r now afraid Whose mutuall kindenesse to each other prove Them all Created by the God of Love So sweet an Innocence fil'd every thing Serpents no poyson had and Bees no sting The Lamb and Wolfe together friendly lay No Sheep-heards then nor Doggs to part a fray Wolves in Sheeps-clothing were and Sheep indeed As quiet as in the Picture they did feed They were so far from injury that they Expected dayly whom they should obey Then sate the Divine Iunto the great Three In consultation who that should be To whom the Soveraignty of Sea and Land Should be committed Such a vast Command Was fit for none but who could represent Himselfe he therefore his owne Image lent And stampt an Impresse of Divinity Into a peice of Clay such as you see And it upstarts a glorious Creature wise And Innocent and meek in his owne eyes The joy of Angels and the Divels hate The Lord ot'h Creatures high and fortunate Who all out of innate Obedience came And knew from him their Essence in their name This solitary Monarch could not see Amongst his Servants fit Society But from himselfe as from the Noblest Earth And choice Materialls Woman had her Birth So all were wonder-struck the Beasts to see The Man He Eve and they the Trinity FIVES Quinque Sensus Seeing THe Diamond Sense the Bodies faithfull guide Is meerly unto Psyches selfe allied Five Senses Soule of the Senses this whose chearfullnesse Even as in death for blindenesse is no lesse Without the sight is dampt He that 's borne blind Walkes in a sleep and only lives in mind That such a one may live he first must dye The Resurrection 's his Nativity Hearing The Soules Intelligence and nimble Scout Iust like the Scout doth truths and tales put
out For at these subtle Port-holes doth not stand A Sentinell who may the word demand Before it passe but every word doth flye Into the Presence chamber instantly The Convoy of our Faith Sciences Clewes The Staple and the Magazine of Newes Touching Tactus has got so great an Excellence That to want it is said to have no Sense I never heard of any thing but one That was insensible and shee Alone But in a just recruite ought to abound With that fine sixth sense which great Scaliger found The Bodies Life-Guard this no little harme But presently the Touch doth give Alarme Tasting Our Victualls garnish Entertainments flourish Without our Palates we like Embryons nourish As much delight the Infant Navell-fed Takes in his meat as when'ts unrelished This is the Sawse of sawse this Salt doth season Our Appetites Second Manciple to Reason Smelling Could you a Face in any wise suppose Handsom without this goodly ridge the Nose Iust such a nonsense Nose as that 's a Face Is that which wants this rare Olfactive grace The Loadstone of the brain the sense magnetick Natures High-chamberlaine and Groome prophetick FOURES Quatuor Elementa Fire THese are the subtle principles 'o th world Foure Elements Which where they 're temper'd well or rashly hurld Doe make their Compounds plausible or loath'd All things in these though undiscern'd are cloth'd In extasie at this the good King said I 'me fearfully and wonderfully made O the art and wisedome of the Deity Which from confused Chaos where did lye These blended Elements in strange disguise Gave them their place and due proprieties And did advance the active Fire so high It 's next unto the throne of Majestie Aire This into severall Regions is decided For Breath for swaggering Winds and Snowes provided The Magazine of Heavens here Artillerie Which oft in dreadfull thundrings rend the skie And gives proud Tyrants check which bravely awe All under powers and guard the Supreme Lawe This like a silken girdle doth surround The moving waters and the fixed ground This is a Proteus which in quaint attire Condens'd is Water Rarified is Fire Earth and Water These two are Inmates to each other friends Checqred together in kind mutuall blends So necessary Neighbours to us that All pleasures are as they are scituate When our fond thoughts are wearied in the sports O' th Earth we dally in the watry Courts This glazen Element unlesse the wind Dimple her surface is most smooth and kind Her numerous Subjects farre the Earth's exceed And are the great supply of humane need What wealth are in their Bowells hid Her Jewells And t'others Gold are all Contentions fuell Quatuor Anni Tempora IT were unseasonable to passe these foure Four Seasons of the yeare In which our life is pass'd Nay count them o're You 'l find in every man even every season So man is but a yeare indued with reason His Child-hood is the Spring when flowry Cheeks And smiling looks a Springall him bespeaks The Summer is his youth which Harvest yeelds Himselfe of Corne a constant standing Field's He hath his fall too and Autumnall change And Snow and Winter on his white haires range They differ thus the Season never failes But oft in Spring and youth death man assailes THREES Virtutes Theologicae Faith HAnd of the Soule and Eye what silly we Nor see Three Theologicall Vertues nor comprehend for Majestie By Faiths attain'd and what the Heathen thought So strange and Papists dangerously have taught Without a Miracle or Ethnick jeere By Faith we feed on God Hee 's Christmasse cheere And as of a good Conscience he profest So we o th' Sacraments it is a Feast A Feast where Angels would kneele downe and eat Where Gods the Entertainer and the meat Away these sinfull Senses get you hence You let in Vice Faith is the Christian sense Hope Wer 't not for thee what commonly we speake Is very true Our very Heart would breake Mother of Patience sweetner of all losse Supply of want miseries Anti-crosse The Anchor of this Floating Island where Our Hope doth live but strait begirt with Feare The Penitents Cordiall Bezar stone of griefe The Parted's internuntius Prisoners reliefe The only Key of Heaven which doth ope When Faith and Charity doe cease to Hope Charity The glew of Earth and Heaven whose new state Is to be now Conjoyn'd not separate So great God's love unto his Creature is That both are joyn'd in one hypostasis Love Borne when name of Duell was not known And with Astraea and the rest hence Flowne Wrapd up in 〈◊〉 Mantle which doth hide And not proclaim the faults that are espied Antipathy of hate keene malice's regret At very name of foule Revenge shee 'l sweat The Centry of my Neighbours Fame and House Salvation's universall Rendevouzâ— TWO's Duo Testamenta THese are God's Magna Charta Two Testaments the ancient Law Which did the Jewes now doth the Christian awe Who for themselves are credited the Ground Of their owne Truth and Rule of what is Found Not both like plausible The letter Red In that and threatning Death appropriated In certaine priviledges unto a Few And hid in types scarce knowne unto the Jew The other 's letter faire and plaine That he That runs may read and for all commers free A Testament of such extent which makes The World Executor He that will partakes Duo Sacramenta THese in their types were bloody Two Sacraments and did fright The Heathen world from their severer Rite The Jew did want his Spectacles in part Nor did the Circumcision see o th' Heart But doted on the outward Formes and 〈◊〉 Became lesse Iew and was but one in 〈◊〉 He saw the Infant bleed but understood No issue of his sinne but only bloud And knew not when he us'd his cruell knife The wound in 's Flesh was ' gainst his sinfull Life So when with bitter herbs the Paschall Lambe Was eaten by the Sonnes of Abraham They look't not throw the Mystery Nor saw in Pharo's Satans Tyranny And so for all their great deliverance Are still asleepe in an Aegyptian trance And feed on shadowes while the Lambe indeed Was slaine by them but they no whit will Feed No more let Superstition them befoole Nor thoughts of Iordan or Bethesdaâ—'â— Poole But give them grace good Lord they may Confide i th' streame of bloud and water from thy Side FINIS