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

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

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

us kill out inordinate affections our bosome-sins though so near and dear as a brother to follow Christ the Physician of our souls If thine eye offend thee pluck it out 435. Let that of old Perillus be thy fate Bulls voice in brasen bull to imitate Perillus in hope of a reward taught Phalaris King of Agrigentum to fry men to death in an Engine of Brasse made like a Bull which Perillus first seasoned with his own death 1 The Water is commonly even till he undermining wind doth force it into surging billows A small sparkle of severity in a Prince hath not seldome been kindled into unexpected flames of Tyranny by the ominous breath of ambitious and covetous spirits but the sparks have often retorted into the faces of those incendiary Boanerges Self-end Timists have brought upon themselves untimely ends When Achitophel saw that his counsell turned to foolishness he foolishly saved the Hangman a labour As cruel Phalaris let thy tongue be cut Then Bull-like rore in brass of Paphos shut Phalaris long practised the torture that Perillus taught and at last suffered the same death in his own Bull. 1 A free horse being pricked runs on till he break his own neck Ill counsel like the Basilisk kils the object with its pestiferous influence 2 Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare Princes that have acted what they would have suffered what they would not The wicked fall themselves into the same pit which they digged for others Hamon shall be hanged on the same gallows he made for Mordecai Or like Admetus father-law that would 440. Return to youthful years when he was old Pelias whose daughter Alceste was married to Admetus in hope by the medicines of Medea to renew his old age was cut in pieces and sod in a Caldron mean time Medea upon her winged serpents fled in the air away 1 Medea was the first that invented Physical baths whereby she cured many diseases especially Consumptions and restored men to their former alacrity and because her Composition was called a decoction she was feigned to effect her cures by boyling of her Patients But Peleas being old and weak is said to have died in the bath through extreme imbecility That is the ground of that fable 2 Thus many are seduced by vain hopes to attempt things impossible with fruitless labour and irrepairable loss So those that by the cuning of impostors are seduced to study that foolish art of Alchymy hoping to turn all metals into gold silver turn themselves out of all 3 We all desire old age but when we have it we are weary of it Ubi ad metam perveneris ne velis reverti When thou art come to thy journeys end 't is madness to return on purpose to begin again I have been young and now am old and would not be young again for I have suffered already enough of misery and acted too much sin Leap into th' earth alive like that stout Roman But let thy act be Chronicled by no man Marcus Curtius when he heard that a great cleft in the midst of Rome presaging the ruine of all could not be shut unless some noble man leaped into it he armed on horsback rid into it so presently the gap was closed and the city saved from sinking hence that place was called Curtius lake 1 Why should Christians tremble at death by which they hope to gain a better life when a Pagan meets and embraceth death whereby he thought his life and all future hopes were lost 2 A good man is a common good The heathen accounted it the greatest honour to sink that so their Countrey might swim in honour What then is that Christian who cares not if his countrey sink so that himself may swim in wealth and pleasure 3 Christ willingly submitted his ●ody to death and the grave that Christians souls might not be swallowed up in hell Perish like those that in the Grecian land Sprung up of teeth sown by Sydonian hand Cadmus that ruled in Sydon sent by his father Agenor to seek his lost daughter Europa killed a Serpent whose teeth being sowed in the earth produced armed souldiers which presently killed each other Cadmus himself was turned into a Serpent and at last sent by Jupiter to the Elysian fields 1 Agenor by interpretation is a valiant man Cadmus his son doth confirm it Europa is immortal glory carried away by Jupiter whom to find is a labour of excessive difficulty therefore Cadmus consulteth with Apollo for divine advice is the best Philosophy and onely guide to noble endeavours By thi● we shall be enabled to kill the serpent of hell and those snakes in our own bosoms Intemperance and all evil desires 2 This history or fable gives me hint of civil war but I dare not touch that string Infandum renovare dolorem lest I drop more tears then ink But to our comfort Christ was the true Cadmus who was sent by his father to seek that which was lost he was the destroyer of the great Dragon the Devil and all his armed teeth his associats the Hereticks and Sch●smaticks 445. As Pentheus Nephew and Medusa 's brother For cross misfortunes be thou such another Menaecius a Theban son of Creon who was grandchild to Pentheus when he heard that the Oracle answered If the last of the posterity of Cadmus were sacrificed to Mars the city Thebes then besieged by the Argives should be saved thinking the matter concerned him with his own sword killed himself As for Medusa's brother I return ignoramus for Medusa one of the Gorgons had no brother perhaps Ovid means Archilochus of whose death read before 1 Pro patria sit dulce mori licet atque decorum Vivere pro patria dulcius esse puto Though for my countrey sweet it is to die To live for it 't is sweeter far say I. I cannot much condemn him that living by the dim candle of Nature did sacrifice himself to Mars by sword to the honour of his God himself and his countrey as him that under the clear sun-shine of the Gospel doth sacrifice himself unto Bacchus by riot to the dishonour of God himself and his countrey Plures n●cat gula quam gladius Such as the bird was doom'd to that did chatter Small secrets and doth wash her plumes in water Coronis informes of the infidelity of Aglauros Pandrosus and concerning Erichthonius given them to keep in secret she is therefore banished the service of Minerva and of a white Nymph turned to a black Crow 1 The Crow is the symbol of Garrulity and therefore rejected by Minerva because much talking interrupts the meditation of the mind and is offensive to wisdome And no Crow comes near Athens called so from Athena the Greek name of Minerva of which city Minerva was Patroness That perhaps may be the ground of this fable 2 Silence is secure when speaking truth is often obnoxious unto danger We have given us by nature two Eyes two Ears and but one tongue

they g●eedily leap and strain themselves and so are taken so do ambitious men that aim at honour too high for their reach and too great for their merit For a heart over-grown with this r●nk poyson neither admits the beams of grace to mollifie the hardness nor the bounds of nature to restrain the swelling but is unnaturally carried on to wrong those of his own bloud 2 Unchast love doth justly turn to revenging hate Thee and thy best things in t ' a bone-fire send 310. Sardanapalus so his life did end Sardanapalus the last King of Assyria was so effeminate that he blushed not to spin with Harlots in a womans habit being conquered in battell he fled to his Palace where he made a fire and therein burnt himself and all that he had 1 Venery is the mother of Misery 2 When the head is weak the body cannot be strong Like King like People 3 Sardanapalus lived basely died nobly but Furor est ne moriare mori It is a desperate madness to avoid death by killing my self 4 Many as Balaam would gladly die the death of the righteous but live not the life of the righteous Qualis vita finis ita Those that live ill seldome die well A good life seldome meets a bad death Let whirle-wind sands thee suffocate as those That Hammons Temple to pluck down arose Cambyses King of the Medes sent an army to demolish the temple of Jupiter Hammon but all the souldiers were destroyed by stormes and sands 1 Jupiter Hammon may be the same with Ham Sandys Met. son of Noah who was the original of Idolatry he on his helmet wore the carved head of a Ram. Or Hamon may be the Sun from Hamah which in Hebrew signifieth heat and because the year begins in March when the Sun enters into Aries he is painted with Rams horns 2 If so fearful judgments fell upon those that sought to destroy the temple of a false God how will those be plagued that demolish the temples of the true God Nay what may they expect that pluck down the Living temples of the holy Ghost their own bodies and souls by riot Hot ashes thee consume as them who thus Died by the fraud of second Darius Ochus who was also called Darius secundus feasted all those that had assisted him in his faction in a room wherein was a trap-door under which were hot ashes the guests being drunk the trap was opened and they all fell into the ashes and were smothered 1 The treason is loved not the Traytor When complices have acted their part and the design is accomplished they smell like a close stool in the nostrils of the projector 2 Sweet meat hath sowre sauce Feast-makers do oftentimes invite their guests to trap them in their words sometimes to undermine their lively-hood perhaps their lives 315. As upon Olive-bearing Sycions King Let cold and hunger death upon thee bring Neocles King of Sycion a city in Laconia abounding with Olive trees for cruelty exaction and oppression was deposed and not long after died with cold and hunger 1 Golden was that Symbol of the prudent Emperour A good shepherd will rather fleece then fley his sheep By the first he will have wooll every year by the other but once Silly was the plot of that covetous woman that in hope of a great treasure killed her hen that laid her every day a golden egge 2 Milk-purse Lawyers so Erasmus termes them are far more tolerable then Cut-purse tyrants 3 Pharisaical oppressors seldome miss their just reward alive after death their souls are feigned to enter into Asses so to be crushed with such burdens as they laid on others As Acarnides that in Bulls-hide lay Be thou so brought unto thy Lord a prey Hermias son of Acarnus taken captive by Memnon was sewed in the hide of a new-slain Bullock and fed under his table till vermin killed him 1 A noble conquest may be too much blemished by ignoble deportment toward the conquered 2 The All-seeing Eye not blind Fortune giveth the victory the Lord of Hosts the All-able hand is stronger then Reason or Means Hodiè mihi cras tibi To day mine to morrow thine Do therefore to others as thou wouldst be done to Renowned Caesar wept on the dead body of Pompey It is inhumane sarcasmically to insult over a captive as a Cat over a Mouse Advancement shews the man the higher the Ape climbs the more she shews her naked parts Or as Pheraeus be thou stabb'd in bed 320. Whom with a sword his new wife murdered Alexander Pheraeus loved his wife Thebe very well yet before he would go in unto her he commanded some of his guard to search if any weapon were in the chamber fearing she would slay him Afterwards suspecting him of Adultery she killed him 1 Jealousie is the daughter of extreme love and mother of extreme hate 2 A wife is an earthly heaven or hell 3 Fear of death is worse then death it self 4 More danger is in an home-bred conspirator then a forreign enemy Injury from a bosome-friend strikes deeper then from any other That stab from Brutus cut Caesar to the heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what thou my son Let those thou thinkest faithful by a wound As to Alebas false to thee be found Alebas King of Larissa ruled with much cruelty and for his safety chose a guard of valiant men who at length slew the King 1 The strongest and safest guard for a Prince next to a good conscience is the free and faithful love of loyal subjects 2 Divine justice so abominates a cruel King that he maketh the best defence wherein he trusted to become most offensive to him and the spils of the staff on which he leaned to run into his hands 3 Man was made to be as a God to man but he becomes a Wolfe a Devil so was Judas to his Lord and Master Pernicies homini quae pessima solus homo alter As Milo that did Pisa long torment Alive into the sea be headlong sent Milo King of Pisa shewed himself most unmerciful in exactions wherefore the people rebelling tied a stone about his neck and drowned him 1 It is a more Princely thing to enrich then to be rich 2 Free subjects are like smooth streams running in their ancient channel if any dam or obstacle stop them from enjoying their wonted liberties and immunities they swell the higher at last they break down carry away and drown all the opposing matter 325. As Adimantus the Philesian King So Jove his thunder-bolts upon thee fling Adimantus King of Philesia scorning to offer sacrifice to Jupiter but braging that he was mightier then he was struck with a thunder-bolt 1 For a man to make comparison with another man is odious with God impious and damnable Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Give him the honour due unto his name Omne sub regno graviore regnum The highest earthly

Sun nor Moon on thee shine clear 110. Let no propitious Star to thee appear Let Fire and Aire deny thee common use To yield thee passage Sea and Land refuse Wander thou poor and banish'd haunt the door Of strangers crusts with trembling mouth implore 115. From grievous pain be soul nor body free Be night than day day worse than night to thee Be fit for pitty but still pittilesse Let man and woman laugh at thy distresse Let tears gain hate be thou thought worthy mo●e 120. To suffer having suffered much before And which is rare instead of favour let The view of thy sad fortune envy get Of pain want store not cause let panting breath Of thy tir'd life miss long desired death 125. Then let thy soul thy tortured corps forsake Yet no great haste in her departure make 'T will be by signes Apollo lately sayd And an unlucky bird on left hand fled That day shall ease me which takes thee away 130. That day shall ease me though it long delay First this my life much envied by thee Shall death cut off which comes too slow to me Before my kindled anger shall decrease Or my deserved hate against thee cease 135. While darts shall Thracians and while bowes shall arm Jazigs while Ister's cold while Ganges warm Thracians and Scythians were of old one nation and were taught by Scythus Apollo to fight with darts Jaziges people neer bordering to Scythia fought with bowes and arrowes Ister is a river in Germany called Danubius it runneth into the Northern seas therefore cold Ganges a river in Scythia it runneth from the East therefore it is luke-warm While Oak in Woods while Grass in Medows grow While Thuscan Tibris shall with water flow I le fight nor shall thy death conclude my rage 140. But with thy ghost fierce skirmishes I le wage And when my breath to aire is chang'd by fate Then my revenging ghost thy ghost shall hate Yea then remembring thy old wrongs I le dare A bony shape into thy face to stare 145. If I by age which Jove forbid shall die If to be murder'd be my destinie If ship wrack'd in the Ocean I shall perish And my drown'd carkass forreign fish shall cherish If ravenous birds shall make my fl●sh their food 150. And greedy wolves shall glut them with my blood If earth I be vouchsaf'd or if some friend Shall to a simple grave my bones commend What e're I be from Styx I le break away And on thy guilty face my cold hands lay 155. Awake thou shalt me see in silent night A ghastly shade I will thy sleep affright Do what thou wilt before thy face I le flie And shreek in no place shalt thou quiet be Smart stripes shall sound before thee hell-brands smoak 160. Tw●sted with snakes thy damned soul to choak These Furies thee alive and dead shall tear Thy life 's too short all thy deserts to bear May'st thou of burial and of mourning fail Cast out with scorn let no man thee bewail 165. The people shouting by the hangmans hand Thou shalt be dragg'd hooks in thy bones shall stand The fire that all consumes shall thee defy Just earth to thy base corps shall room deny Vultures but slow thy guts with beak and claw 170. Shall pluck out dogs thy perjur'd heart shall gnaw And though this honour mak●s thee proud I wish That wolves may strive who first shall taste thy flesh In parts far distant from th' Elysian coast With damned shades shall dwell thy horrid ghost Elysium or the Elysian fields was a pleasant place as some report between Britan and Thule or in the Fortunate Islands here the soules of good men are feigned to converse enjoying all delights whereof the chief was a fruitful tree the way to it was through Acheron Phlegeton and other Hell-rivers 1 The ancient being ignorant of true blisse conceived as the Mahometans do now that reward after death consisted in the fruition of sensuall delights therefore to incite the mind to virtue invented this fiction of happy fields perhaps derived from the Terrestrial Paradise 2 In Jerusalem above our heavenly Paradise is the tree of life and pleasures for evermore Hither we must pass through fire and water persecutions and tribulations 175. There 's Sisyphus whose stone no ease doth feel Ixion bound unto a restlesse wheel 1. Sisyphus son of Aeolus Secretary to Jupiter a great Robber neer the Corinthian Isthmos for his treachery in divulging his Lords secrets and oppression of men was killed by Theseus and cast into hell where he rolls a stone up a hill that still tumbles down again 1. Learn by Sisyphus his torments to keep close the secrets of friends chiefly of Princes 2. Oppresse not now on earth lest you be punished in hell hereafter 3. Trust not in wealth and honour they roll as Sisyphus stone To day a high King to morrow a low Beggar 2. Ixion son of Phlegias King of Thessaly killed his father-in-law and after was a vagabond Jupiter pittied his misery expiated his crime and received him in heaven to his own table but hearing that he had tempted his Queen Juno presented to him a cloud of which he begat the Centaurs after he was thrown to the earth thence because he boasted that he lay with Juno he was cast into hell where he was bound to a wheel that still is whirled about 1 Though God the true Jupiter hath pardoned our sins and received us to mercy we still offend him with spiritual fornication 2 Covetous and ambitious men when they think to enjoy real happinesse they find all like Ixions cloud 3 The spirits of Tyrants as Ixion are wracked on the wheel of restless cares 4 The Heathens perswaded themselves the soul was immortal 5 Ixion having tasted of Nectar could not dye 6 To what insolencies and preposterous humours doth drunkenness provoke Ixion being drunk presently lusts for Juno And Belides that husband-killing crew That pour and pour and still their work renew Belides the fifty daughters of Danaus son of Belus by the command of their father were married to fifty sons of their uncle Aegyptus all whom they killed in one night but Hypermnestra saved her husband Lynceus those murderers in hell draw water in a sieve which is never filled 1 Marriage with too neer of kin is both incestuous unfortunate 2 What trust can we repose in others when friends in our own bosomes shall prove treacherous as these wives unto their husbands 3 Children should obey their Parents but not in evil 4 Covetous voluptuous yea and learned men the more they draw the more they desire 5 Unthankful and hollow-hearted men are like these sieves benefits are lost secrets do run out of them 6 Schoolmasters too oft find boyes like sieves they retain nothing which they learn 7 All humane indeavours are done and demolished like water leaving no impression behind There Tantalus though apples be at hand 180. Doth starve and in a river thirsty

fraudulent mists he endeavours to conceal himself Who brought with Lernian poison di'd the gift 430. And di'd with 's bloud the Euboean sea and clift Licas servant unto Hercules brought his master a garment dipped in the poysonous bloud of Nessus for which cause Hercules being inraged threw him down a clift into the Euboean sea where he was turned into a rock 1 This rock lying against the Caenean Promontory resembles a Man which perhaps gave an argument to this fiction 2 It is almost the highest pitch of Fortune to be a favourite to a Prince but it ofttimes proves unfortunate not by any guilty intent of the servant but innocent ignorance of his masters intention 3 Rash Kings in an hasty passion have killed their dearest friends as Alexander did Clitus and Hercules Lycas It is Hallifax law first to condemn and execute and afterwards examine the cause Or into Tartar from a rock fall dead As he that Platoes book of death had read Cleombrotus a Philosopher of the Academick sect as soon as he had read the book called Phaedon concerning the immortality of the soul compiled by Plato who was scholar of Socrates cast himself down from a rock into the sea hastening to enjoy the happiness he had read of 1 Summum nec metuas diem nec optes No fear nor wish thy latter end Be not ashamed to live nor afraid to die nor hasten thy death in hope of a better life The souldier ought not to move unless the Commander give the word 2 Although our light afflictions are not to be compared to the eternal we●ght of glory immortal though we have a crown of righteousness laid up for us it is rather with patience to be expected then preposterously to be snatched The kingdome of heaven is not to be caught with such kind of violence 3 Those heathen Philosophers may rise up in judgment against these modern Hereticks that do hold that the body and soul die together Or he that Theseus guileful sail did view Or as the boy that one from Troyes wall threw 1. Aegaeus standing on the shore and seeing the black sail on his son Theseus ship at his returne from conquering the Minotaure contrary to his sons promise to put forth a white one threw himself down into the sea which ever since is called by his name the Aegaean sea 1 As well Joy as Fear distracts the faculties 2 Prosperity makes a man forget his own father many times himself 3 Parents are not more carefully mindful of their children then children are carelesly forgetful of their Parents Virgil. Aen. Omnis in Ascanio chari stat cura parentis Rivers never return a streame up to the spring from whence they flow nor children like love unto their parents Wise and true was the ancient saying To the Gods Parents and Teachers equivalent recompence cannot be rendred 2. Astyanax onely son of valiant Prince Hector was by Ulysses thrown headlong from a Turret of Troy lest he might afterwards claime the kingdom and take revenge upon the Greeks 1 A Conqueror if he would securely enjoy what he hath won must pluck up both branch and root of the former stock Caesar will indure no superior nor Pompey admit an equal Herod therefore would not onely have killed Christ whom he heard to be King of the Jews but burnt the ancient Records of the Kings That government whose foundation is laid in bloud and oppression is like a building whose groundsels are rotten it may for a time be under-propped and kept up but once falling no possible means can stay it 495. Or Bacchus Nurse and Aunt or who was sent Headlong because the saw he did invent 1. Ino sister of Semele mother of Bacchus was his Aunt and Nurse she being second wife to Athamas whom Juno did infuriate flying her husbands rage that would have killed her for a Lioness and her son Melicertes for a whelp threw her self and her son into the sea 1 Ino is called among the Greeks Leucothea among Latins Matuta or the Morning Melicertes is in Greek called Palemon in Latin Portunus which signifies the driving force of stormes he is son of Matuta the Morning because a red morning brings forth tempests 2 Learn by the pride of Ino to be moderate in prosperity No man knows what where or when shall be his death 3 Ino a Heathen disdained not to nurse her sisters child but the more shame and pity some Christians refuse to nurse their own thus they shew themselves but half-mothers yea more unnatural to their young ones then savage beasts 2. Perdix cousin and pupil to Daedalus rejoycing at the death of Icarus and because he was very ingenious for at twelve years of age he invented the saw was in envy thrown down by Daedalus from the top of Minerva's tower in Athens but he was supported by the Goddess and turned to a Partridge a bird of his own name 1 There is no envy so great and deadly as that between men of the same profession as Daedalus and Perdix Figulus Figulo invidet Nay some will violate all obligations to remove the rivals of their praise wishing their necks broke that they may not stand in their light But Minerva or admirable Art sustains and giveth life to happy endeavours Or as the Lydian girle whose neck was broke ' Cause against Mars reviling words she spoke Ilice daughter of Ibicus a Lydian being lustfully beloved of Mars by the help of Diana was kept from his violence yet she reviled against him wherewith Mars being much incensed killed her father with which Ilice being much grieved fell mad and threw her self from a rock into the sea 1 Innocent virginity had been too often a prey to the impetuous souldiery of Mars had not preserving providence made a rescue 2 A railing and reviling tongue bespeaketh destruction to it self and friends But why should Ibicus the father suffer when the child offends Perhaps the offence came by him for want of due correction restriction and instruction The Mother in the fable rather deserved to be hanged then her son for that she connived and not whipt him being a boy for stealing a book at school 3 Grief for loss of friends deceased is a sign of love not to them but our selves It is misery enough to lose a father why should I double it in losing my self too Meet in thy field a whelping Lioness 500. Let her thee kill as one did Paphages Paphages King of Ambracia in his walke meeting a Lioness with whelp was killed by her 1 Paphages may be a fat rich Prince the Lioness with her whelps may be a numerous army invading his plenteous kingdome 2 In natural bodies the longer they subsist in perfect health Dal. Aph. the more dangerous is the disease when it cometh and the longer in curing as having none of these humours spent which by distemper give foment and force to the approching malady So it is in the body Politick when war once seiseth

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