for to bee led And in his stand a burning brand hee had The which hee brandished about his head His eyes did hurle foorth sparkles fierie redde And stared sterne on all that him beheld As ashes pale of hew and seeming dead And on his dagger still his hand hee held Trembling through hastie rage when choller in him sweld Ed. Spencer Boyling wrath sterne cruell swift rash That like a boare her teeth doth grinde and gnash Whose hayre dooth stare like bristled poâ—cupine Who sometimes rowles her gastly glowing eyene And sometimes fixly on the ground doth glaunce Now bleake then bloudy in her countenance Rauing and rayling with a hideous sound Clapping her hands stamping against the ground Bearing Bocconi fire and sword to slay And murder all that for her pittie pray Banning her selfe to bane her enemie Disdaining death prouided others die Like falling towres o're-turned by the wind That breake themselues on that they vndergrinde I. Syluester Full many mischiefes follow cruell wrath As horrid bloud-shed and tumultuous strife Vnmanly murther and vnthriftie scath Bitter despight and rancors rustie knife And fretting greefe the enemie of life All these and many euilles more haunt ire The swelling spleene and frenzie raging rife The shaking palsie and Saint Fraunces fire Ed. Spencer When men with wrath and sudden paines of ire Suffer themselues to bee o're-whelm'd and drownd And hot reuenge that burnes lâ—ke flaming fire Mooâ—es hearts to hurt or tongs or hands to wound Though after to a mend if they desire Yet place of pardon seldome can be found S. I. H. What iron band or what sharpe hard-mouth'd bitte What chaine of Diamond if such might bee Can bridle wrathfulnesse and conquer it And keepe him in his bounds and due degree Idem Hastie wrath and heedlesse hazardie Doe breede repentance and lasting infamie Ed. Spencer Poore sillie lambes the Lion neuer teares The feeble Mouse may lie among great Beares But wrath of man his rancour to requite Forgets all reason ruth and mercie quite M. of M. He is a mad man that doth seeke Occasion to wrath and cause of strife She comes vnsought and shunned followes eke Happy who can abstaine when rancor rife Kindles reuenge and threates his cruell knife Woe neuer wants when euery cause is caught And rash occaâ—ion makes vnquiet life Ed. Spencer Be not moody in thy wrath but pawze ere fist be bent Oft Phillips sonne did rashly strike and sodenly repent W. Warner Achilles when with counterfaited crest He saw Patroclus bleeding all the way To kill his killer was not satisfied Except he hald and tare him all beside S. I. H. If fortune helpe whome thou wouldst hurt Fret not at it the more When Aiax stormed them from him The prize Vlisses bore W. Warner Rage wanne and pale vpon a Tygre sat Gnawing vpon the bones of mangled men Nought can he view but he repines thereat His locks were snakes bred forth in Stigian den T. Lodge World The antique world in his first flowring youth Found no defect in his creators grace But with glad thanks and vnreprooued truth The gifts of soueraigne bountie did embrace Like angelles life was then mans happie case But later ages pride like corne-fed steede Abvsde her plentie and fatswoln increase To all licencious lust and gan exceede The measure of her meane and naturall first seede Ed. Spencer VVhen arked Noah and seuen with him the emptie worlds remaine Had left the instrumeÌ„tall means of landing theÌ„ again And that both maÌ„ beast all did multiply with store To Asia Sem to Affrick ChaÌ„ to Europe Iapheth bore Their families thus triple wise the world diuided was VV. VV. I take this world to bee but as a stage VVhere net-maskt men do play their personages T is but a murmur and a pleasant shew Syth ouer all strange vanities do flow I. Syluester The world to the circumference of heauen Is as a small poynt in Geometrie VVhose greatnesse is so little that a lesse Cannot bee made Th. Dekkar The first world blessed was with heauenly fauours And the last curst with painefull hellish labours Ch. Middl. O vaine worlds glorie and vncertaine state Of all that liues on face of sinfull earth VVhich from their first vntill their vtmost date Taste no one howre of happinesse or mirth But like as is the ingate of their birth They crying creepe out of their mothers wombe So wayling backe goe to their carefull tombe Ed. Spencer Ah wretched world the den of wretchednesse Deformd with filth and foule iniquitie Ah wretched world the house of heauinesse Fild with the wreakes of mortall miserie Oh wretched world and all that is therein The vassals of Gods wrath and slaues to sinne Idem O worlds inconstancie That which is firme doth flit and fall away And that is flitting doth abide and stay Idem Must not the world wend in his common course From good and bad and then from bad to wourse From worst vnto that which is worst of all And then returne vnto his former fall Who will not suffer the stormie time Where will hee liue vntill the lustie prime Idem This golden age to yron doth decline As summer vnto winter must resigne D. Lodge The first and riper world of men and skill Yeelds to our latter time for three inuentions Myraculously wee write wee sayle wee kill As neither auncient scrowle nor storie mentions Print The first hath opened learnings old concealed And obscurde arts restored to the light Loadst The second hidden countries hath reueald And sent Christs Gospel to each liuing wight These we commend but oh what needeth more Guns To teach death more skill then he had before Th. Bastard Take moysture from the sea take colour froÌ„ his kind Before the world deuoyd of change thou finde All that in this world is great or gay Doth as a vapour vanish and decay Ed. Spencer This is the rest the vaine world lendes To end in death that all things ends S. Daniell All men are willing with the world to hault But no man takes delight to know his fault D. Lodge A die a drab and filthie broking Knaues Are the worlds wide mouthes al-deuouring graues I. Marston Nothing doth the world so full of mischiefe fill But want of feeling one-anothers will G. Chapman Not by that which is the world now deemeth As it was woont but by that same that seemeth Ed. Spencer There neuer shall bee any age so cleere But in her smoothe face shall some faults appeare Th. Middl. The world must end for men are so accurst Vnlesse God end it sooner men will first Th. Bastard Youth Youth is a bubble blowen vp with a breath VVhose wit is weaknes and whose wage is death Whose way is wildnes and whose Inne penance And stoope gallant age the hoast of greeuance Ed. Spencer If crooked age accounteth youth his spring The spring the fayrest season of the yeere Enricht with flowers and sweetes and many a thing That fayre and glorious to the
faith So in this place we ought not to surrender That deerer part till heauen it selfe commaund it For as they lent vs life to do vs pleasure So looke they for returne of such a treasure Th. Kyd. Farre greater folly is it for to kill Themselues dispairing then is any ill I. H. M. of M. Be resolute not desperate the Gods that made thee poore Can if they will do wait their will thy former state restâ—â—â— W. Warner When last need to desperation driueth Who dareth the most wisest counsell giueth S. I. Harrington We may in warre sometime take truce with foes But in Dispaire we cannot with our woes M. Drayton Dispaire hath euer daunger all contemned Idem Diuell Hells prince sly parent of reuolts and lies I. Syluister O ruthlesse murderer of immortall soules A lasse to pull vs from the happie poales And plunge vs headlong in the yawning hell Thy ceaselesse fraudes and fetches who can tell Thou play'st the Lyon when thou doost ingage Blood-thirstie Neroes barbarous heart with rage While flesht in murders butcherlike he paints The Saint-poore world with the dear blood of Saints Thou plaiest the dog when by the mouth prophane Of some false Prophets thou doest belch thy bane Where from the Pulpet barkingly he rings Bold blasphemies against the King of Kings Thou plai'st the swine when plung'd in pleasures vile Some Epicure doth sober mindes defile Transforming lewdly by his loose impietie Sweete Lacedemon to a soft societie Thou plaiest the Nightingale or else the swan When any famous Rhetorician With captious wit and curious language drawes Seduced hearers and subuerts the lawes Thou play'st the foxe when thou doest faine aright The face and phrase of some deepe Hypocrite True painted tombe dead seeming cole but quicke A scorpion fell whose hidden taile doth pricke Yet this were little if thy spight audacious Spar'd at the least the face of angels gracious And if thou didst not apely immitate Th' almighties workes the wariest wits to mate I. Syl. Transl The ghostly enemie doth not stay Till tempted persons do obay Yeeld to him he a Lyon is Gaine stood a flie his pray doth mis. Ignoto A subtill Pandar with more inticing rights Then sea hath fish or heauen hath twinckling lights I. Syl. As a false Louer that thicke snares hath laide To entrap th' honour of a faire yoong maide When she though listening litle eare affords To his sweete courting deepe affected words Feares some asswaging of his freezing flame And soothes himselfe with hope to gaine his game And wrapt with ioy vpon this point persists That parlying cittie neuer long resists Euen so the serpent that doth counterfet A guilefull call to allure vs to his net Perceiuing Eue his flattering gloze disgest He prosecutes and iocund doth not rest Till he haue tried foote hand head and all Vpon the breach of this new battered wall I. Syl. Transl Discord Hard by the gates of hell her dwelling is There where as all the plagues and harmes abound Which punish wicked men that walke amis It is a darkesome delue far vnder ground And thornes which barren brookes inuirond rounâ— That none the same may easily out win Yet many waies to enter may be found But none to issue forth when one is in For Discord harder is to end then to begin Ed. Spencer Ate mother of debate And all dissention which doth daily grow Amongst fraile men that many a publike state And many a priuate oft it doth oreâ—unne Idem He knew her weed of sundry hew Patched with infinit vnequall lists Her skin in sundry naked places view At diuers rents and cuts he may that lists Her haire was gray and red and black and blew And hard and soft in laces some she twists Some hangeth downe vpright some standeth staring As if each haire with other had bene squaring Her lap was full of writs and of citations Of processes of actions and arrests Of bills of answeres and of replications Greeuing the simple sort with great vexations She had resorting to her as her guests Attending on her circuits and her iournies Suters and Clarkes Lawiers and Atturnies S. I. Harr. Transl Her face most foule and filthy was to see With squinted eyes contrariwise intended And loathly mouth'd vnmeet a mouth to bee That nought but gall and venome comprehended â—nd wicked words that God and man offended Her lying tongue was in two parts diuided â—nd both the parts did speak and both contended â—nd as her tongue so was her heart descided That neuer thought on them but doubly still was guided Ed. Spencer All like as drops ingender mightie flouds And little seeds sprout forth great leaues and buds Euen so small strifes if they be suffered runne Breed wrath and warre and death ere they be donne M. of Magist Concord in kingdomes is great assurance And royall fame lies do neuer fall But where discord doth lead the doubtfull dance With busie brawles and termes of variance Where malice minstrell is the pipe ill report The mask mischiefe and so doth end the sport Idem Fire-brand of hell first tinde in Phlegeton By thousand suries and from thence outthrowne Into this world to worke confusion And set it all on fire by force vnknowne Is wicked discord whose small sparkes once blowne None but a God or godlike man can slake Such as was Orpheus that when strife was growne Amongst those famous Imps of Greece did take His siluer harp in hand shortly friends them makâ— Ed. Spencer O cruell discord food of deadly hate O mortall corsiue to a common-weale Death-lingring consumption to a state A poysoned sore that neuer salue could heale O soule contagion deadly killing feuer Infecting oft but â—o be cured neuer M. Drayton A state diuided cannot firmly stand Two Kings within one realm could neuer rest T. Kyd. Dissimulation Fierce lightening from her eies Did set on fier faire Heroes sacrifice Which was her torne robe and inforced haire And the bright flame became a maid most faire For her aspect her tresses were of wire Knit like a net where harts all set on fire Struggled in pants and could not get releast Her armes were all with golden pincers drest And twentie fashioned knots pullies and brakes And all her body girdled with printed snakes Her downe parts in a scorpion taile combinde Freckled with twenty colours pâ—edwings shinde Out of her shoulders cloth did neuer die Nor sweeter colours euer viewed eie In scorching Turkey Cares Tartarie Then shinde about this spirit notorious Nor was Arachnes web so glorious Of lightning and of shreds she was begot More hold in base dissemblers is there not Her name was Eronusis G. Chapman The colours of dissemblance and deceit Were died deep in graine to seeme like truth Ed. Spencer Better a wretch then a dissembler E. Gilpin Commonly in dissimulations Th' excesse of glauering doth guile â—â—tect Reason refuseth falshood to direct The will therefore for feare of being spied Exceedeth meane because it wanteth guide M. of M.
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
ENGLANDS Parnassus OR The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets with their Poeticall comparisons Descriptions of Bewties Personages Castles Pallaces Mountaines Groues Seas Springs Riuers c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses both pleasaunt and profitable NL Imprinted at London for N.L.C.B. and T.H. 1600. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull Syr Thomas Mounson Knight ENglish Maecenas bounties elder brother The spreading wing whereby my fortune flies Vnto thy wit and vertues and none other I consecrate these sacred Poesies Which whilst they liue as they must liue for euer Shall giue thy honour life and let men know That those to succour vertue who perseuer Shall conquer time and Laethes ouerflow â—pickt these flowers of Learning from their stem Whose heauenly Wits golden Pens haue chac't Dull ignorance that long affronted them In view of whose great glories thou art plac't That whilst their wisdoms in these writings florish Thy fame may liue whose wealth doth wisedome norish Your Worships humbly at commaund R. A. To the Reader I Hang no Iuie out to sell my Wine The Nectar of good witts will sell it selfe I feare not what detraction can define I saile secure from Enuies storme or shelfe I set my picture out to each mans vewe Limd with these colours and so cunning arts That like the Phaenix will their age renewe And conquer Enuie by their good desarts If any Cobler carpe aboue his shoo I rather pittie then repine his action For ignorance stil maketh much adoo And wisdom loues that which offeÌ„ds detraction Go fearles forth my booke hate caÌ„not harm thee Apollo bred thee the Muses arm thee R. A. A Table of all the speciall matters contained in this Booke A ALbion 348 Angels Pag. 1.2 Ambition 3 Affliction 7. vid. pouertie Art 9 Audacitie 8 Auarice 10 August 369 Autumnus 368 Apollo 372 Acheron 504 Assault 375 Adam 372 Astonishment 462.446 Astrologie 345 Arithmeticke 345 B BEautie 13.385.465 Banishment 21 Bashfulnesse 21 Blisse 21 Bountie 23 Battaile 345 Beasts 498.486 Byrds 487 C CAre 24 Charitie 25 Chastitie 26 Children 28 Christ 28 Cyprus 353 Cynthia 355 Cupid 357 Ceremonie 379 Ceston 407 Confusion of languages 384 Clamour 457 Care of children 462 Chaunge 29 Chaunce 30 Counsaile 31 Combat 347 Concord 32 Conscience 33 Craft 36 Country Commonweale 37 Content 38 Court 41 Courtier effeminate 352 Courage 39.448 Courtesie 45.439 Crueltie 46 Custome 47 Calme weather 359 Companie 452 D DAlliance 423 Daunger 47 Dearth 346 Death 49.453.445 Dread 49 Delaie 54 Deluge 352 Desire 56 Destenie 57 Dispaire 60 Discord 64 Dissimulation 67.428 Diuision of the day naturall 324 Diliculum 326 Description of Mammo 256 Diana 555 Discontent 377 Doubt 381 Description of Beautie and Personage 385 Descript of Pall. Cast c. 466 Descrip of seas Riuers c. 478 Drunkards 450.352 Diuell 92 Disdaine 345 E EArth 68 End 68 Enuie 70 Error 73.434 Eden 349 Egypt 349 Echo 503 Eagle 504.505 F FAith 75 Fame 75 Famine 85 Fate 86 Feare 88.431 Feeling 264 Fortitude 91 Felicitie 93 Folly Fooles 94 Fortune 96 Friendship Friends 103 Frugalitie 106 Fury 107 Fight 454 Furies 502 Flight 433 Fishes 487 G GEometrie 343 Gentlenes 109 Gifts 108 Graces 496 Gentrie 110 Gluttony 110 Good name 113 Goodnesse 113 God 114 Good deeds 120 Greatnes 121 Gallicinium 325 H HAte 129 Hargabush 382 Heauen 125 Heart 128 Hearing 262 Haste 132 Horse 382 Hell 133 Honour 133 Hope 136 445 Humilitie 140 Hypocrisie 141 Heate 373 Hoast 376 Hearbes 491 Harpyes 352 Hierusalem 349 I IEalouzie 141 Intempestanox 337 Ignorance 146 Impatience 147 Ioy 458 Infamie 147 Ingratitude 147 Innocencie 148 Inconstancie 150 Ill company 450 Iniustice 151 Iustice 152 Ianuary 368 Iuly 370 K KIngs 155.451 Kingdomes 158 Knowledge 159 Kisses 344 L LAbour 161.460 Learning 162 Leachery 163 Lawes 165 Libertie 166 463 Life 167 Loue 170.429 Louers 380 Logistillaes Castle 466 Logicke 342 M MAgicke 192 Man 193 Marriage 198 Maladie 201 Miserie 203 Melancholy 205 Miscellanea 496 Memorie 205 Mercie 206 Mischiefe 206 Minde 208 Murder 210 Muses 211 Musicke 215.343 Mediae noctis inclinatio 324 Mane 327 Meridies 331 Morpheus 370 Multitude 464 Maiestie 442 N NEpenthe 503 Nature 216 Nobilitie 217 Noctis initium 339.334 Noctis concubium 335 Neptune 371.372 Night 451 Nilus Nilus O OLdage 219 Opinion 221 Opportunitie 222 Occasion 222 P Passion 225 Parents 226 Palmer 352 Peace 227 Pleasure 229 Poesie 231 Poets 234 Poeticall descriptions 340 Plentie 238 Pollicie 239.459 Pouertie 241 Praier 242 Praise 242 Prouidence 243 Pride 244 Paradise 354 Phoebus 372 Poeticall comparisons 420 Phaenix 506 Princes 246 People 344 Proteus 371 Posteritie 385 Proper Epithites c. 482 Q Quietnesse 249 R RAge 439 Reason 294 Renowne 381 Repentance 252 Rest 254 Reuenge 254 Riches  Rhetoricke 345 Rainbowe 353 Rome 373 S Sacriledge 258 Secrecie 259 Silence 259 Sences 260 Sight 260 Smelling 263 Sinne 265 Slaunder 267 Solis ortus 330 Solis occasus 331 Spring 364 Sleepe 269 Solitarinesse 270 Souldiers 271 Soule 271 Sorrow 278.424.426 Suspition 281 Sommer 368 Skirmish 376 Sorrowes 424 Satires 489 T Tasting 26â— Teares 281 Temperance 282 Thoughts 283 Thetis 371 Time 284 Truth 287 Theologie 340 Treason 288 Trees 492 Tyrannie 289 Thirst 347.374 Tempests 35â— V Vacation 379 Vertue 290 Vice 293 Victory 294 Vnderstanding 295 Vowes 295 Virginitie 296 Victory 452 Vse 297 Vesper 333 Venus 356 W Warre 297.461 Will 301 Wit 304 Woe 306 Words 307 VVomem 310 VVrath 316 World 318 Windes 349.493 Winter 367 Y Youth 321. FINIS Errata Which for with 27. eurse curse 28. but will but who will 50 frowne frowning 33. rime time 37. Stouer Storer 38. Prophets Prophet 57 shrid thrid 58. Title of Enuie left out 70. ardeus ardens 78 euesit euexit 7â— angury augury 90 amists mists 90. brine bring 91. guilt gilt 92. aquersitie aduersitie 106. Basis Rasis 112. beine being 122. title of paine 124. for 225. stary starre 128. weare weares 136 tode trode 140 fierer feicer 105 seut set 177 Dictynua Dictynna 181. for natures of magicke 192. shoot-fire shot free floe sloe 233. flay stay 231. quiueâ—'s quire's 24â— presbitie presbitrie â—52 infancie iniurie ibid. paron pardon 253 her hell 257. sosophist sophist 28â— art heart 290 Fitz Griffon Fâ—â—z Ieffrey 304 Murston Maâ—ston 32â— harkenger harbenger 326. chearing checkering 328. Soles solis 330. hunnid humid 334. nidnight midnight 338. dreadly deadly 338. growe growes 352. Camus Cadmus 468. twindring twining 480 Spanie Spaw 465. Gauges Ganges 486. Guylon Gyhon 493. Phyton Physon 493. Hector Nectar 493. neues done Neroes doome 494. THE CHOYSEST FLOWers of our Moderne English Poets Angels FAire is the heauen where happie soules haue place In full enioyment of felicitie Whence they do still behold the glorious face Of the diuine eternall maiestie More faire is that where those Idees on hie Enraunged be which Plato so admirde And pure intelligences from God inspirde Yet fairer is that heauen in which do raigne The soueraigne powers and mightie Potentates Which in
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
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
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.
obtrude Faint feare and doubt still taking his delight In peâ—ills which exceed all perils might Patience perseuerance greatnes and strong trust These Pages are to Fortitude their King Patience that suffers and esteemeth iust What euer we for vertue fortunes brine Perseuerance holds constant what we must Greatnes that effects the guilded thing And armed trust which neuer can dispaire And hopes good happe how euer fatall deare Idem The man that hath of Fortitude and might And thereto hath a Kingdome voyd withall Except he also guide himselfe aright His power and strength preuaileth but a small He cannot scape at length an haplesse fall I. H. M. of M. The Romaine Sergius hauing lost his hand Slew with one hand foure in a single fight A thing all reason euer did withstand But that bright Fortitude spreads forth her light Pompey by shore held from th' Italian Land And all his saylors quaking in his sight First hoysed sailes and cried amidst the strife Ther 's need I goe no need to saue my life I. Markeham Force without wisedome is of little worth G. Gascoigne Greater force there needs to maintain wroÌ„g theÌ„ right Ed. Spencer Agis that guilt the Lacedemon streete Entending one day battaile with his foes By counsell was repeld as thing vnmeete The enemie being ten to one in shoes But he replied t is needfull that his feete With many heads should lead to many blowes And one being good an armie is for ten Foes to Religion and knowne naughtie men To him that told Dineceus how his foes Couered the sunne with darts and armed speares He made replie thy newes is ioy in woes Wee 'le in the shadow fight and conquer foes I. Markham As to loue the life for vertues flame Is the iust act of a true noble will So to contemne it and her hopes exclude Is basenesse rashnesse and no Fortitude Idem Rash Isadas the Lacedemon Lord That naked fought against the Theban power Although they chain'd his valour by a cord Yet was he finde for rashnes in that hower And those which most his carelesse praise afford Did most condemne what folly did deuoure For in attempting prowesse is not ment But wisely doing what we do attempt Idem Felicitie O had Felicitie feeling of woe Or could on meane but moderately feede Or would looke downe the way that he must goe Or could abstaine from what diseases breede To stop the wound before to death it bleede Warre should not fill Kings pallaces with mone Nor perill come when t is least thought vpon M. Drayton Folly Fooles Folly in youth is sinne in age is madnes S. Daniel A greater signe of Folly is not showne Then trusting others force distrust our owne S. I. Harr. Transl Wicked men repine their sinnes to heare And Folly flings if counsell touch him neare D. Lodge Faire fooles delight to be accounted wise Ch. Marlowe Fooles will find fault without the cause discerning And argue most of that they haue no learning S. I. Harr. Transl There is a method time and place Which fooles obseruing do coÌ„mence ere wise meÌ„ haue their grace W. Warner T is better be a foole then be a foxe For Folly is rewarded and respected Where subtiltie is hated and reiected D. Lodge The foolish commmons vse Obey them most who doth them most abuse S. I. Harrington P. A witlesse foole may euery man him gesse That leaues the more and takes him to the lesse G. Gascoigne Flatterer Foule leasings and vile flatterie Two filthy blots in noble genterie Ed. Sp. When as we finely soothe our owne desires Our best conceits do proue the greatest hers M. Drayton Nere was pretence so foule but some would flatter it Nor any thing so pestilent as misapplied wit W. Warner To be officious getteth friends plaine dealing hated is Yet better plainly to reproue then fainedly to kis We cannot also loue our friends Flatter their amis Idem Flattery can neuer want rewards D. Lodge He twice offends who sinne in flattery beares Yet euery houre he dies who euer feares D. Lodge The Lords Ladies ouer rent and cunningly the fine The Parasite doth ouerreach and bears away the gain W. Warner Yee sonnes of craft bearing as many faces As Proteus takes among the marine places And force your natures all the best you can To counterfeit the grace of some great man Chamelion like who takes him in each hew Of blacke or white or yellow greene or blew That comes him next so you that finde the fashion To hurt the poore with many a great taxation You that do prease to haue the princes eare To make your names in prouinces appeare Ye subtill Thurins sell your fumish winde To wicked wights whose sences ye do blinde Th. Hudson Transl Time fawning spaniels Mermaids on the earth Trencher fed flies Base Parasites these elbowe-rubbing mates A plague to all lasciuious wanton states O filthy monkies vile and beastly kind Foule prating Parrats birds of Harpy brood A corasiue to euery noble minde Vipers that sucke your mothers dearest blood Mishapen monster worst of any creature A foe to all an enemie to nature M. Drayton Fortune Fortune as blinde as he whom she doth lead Her feature chaung'd each minute of the houre Her riggish feete fantastickly would tread Now would she smile and suddenly would lowre And with one breath her words are sweete and sowre Vpon her foes she amorously doth glaunce And on her followers coyly looke askaunce About her necke it seem'd as for a chaine Some Princes crownes and broken scepters hung Vpon her arme a lazie youth did leane Which scornfully vnto the ground she flung And with a wanton grace passing alone Great bags of gold from out her bosome drew And to base Pesants and fond Idiots threw A duskie vale which hid her sightlesse-eies Like cloudes which couer our vncertaine liues Painted about with bloodie Tragedies Fooles wearing crowns and wise men clog'd in giueâ— Now how she giues againe how she depriues In this blacke map this she her might discouers In Camps and Courts on souldiers and on louers M. Drayton A hap a chaunce a casuall euent The vulgars Idoll and a childish terror A what man will a silly accident The maske of blindnesse and disguise of error Natures vile nickname follies foolish mirror A terme a by-word by tradition learn'd A hearsay nothing not to be discernd A wanton feare a silly Infants dreame A vaine illusion a meere fantasie A seeming shade a lunaticke mans dreame A fond Aenigma a flat heresie Imaginations doting emperie A folly in it selfe it one selfe loathing A thing that would be and yet can be nothing Disease of time ambitions concubine A minde intrancing snare a slippery yce The bait of death destructions heady wine Vaine-glories patron the fooles paradice Fond hope wherewith confusion doth intice A vile seducing fâ—end which haunts men still To loose them in the errors of their will Idem O fortune the great Amorite of kings Opinions breath thou Epicurian
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
exhailes And is the cause that oft the euening lowers When foggy mists enlarge their duskie sailes That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes And either must extinguish his owne light Or by his vertue cause his proper right M. Drayton To be huge is to be deadly sicke I. Marston O blinded Greatnesse thou with thy turmoile Still selling happy life mak'st life a toile S. Daniel He that striues to manage mightie things Amidst his triumphes beares a troubled minde The greatest hope the greatest haruest brings And poore men in content there glory finde D. Lâ—dge The man that furthereth other men to thriue Of priuate greatnesse doth himselfe depriue Th. Storer Griefe Griefe all in sables sorrowfully clad Downe hanging his dull head with heauie cheare Yet inly beine more then seeming sad A paire of pincers in his hand he had With which he pinched people to the heart That from thenceforth a wretched life they lad In wilfull languor and consuming smart Dying each day with impair'd wounds of dolors dart Ed. Spencer Griefe onely makes his wretched state to see Euen like a toppe which nought but whipping moues This man this talking beast this walking tree Griefe is the stone which finest iudgements proues For who grieues not hath but a blockish braine Since cause of Griefe we cause from life remoues S. Ph. Sydney Griefes deadly sore Vnkindnes breeds vnkindnes fostereth hate Idem Griefe to it selfe most dreadfull doth appeare And neuer yet was sorrow voyd of feare But yet in death they both do hope the best M. Drayton Griefes be long liu'd and sorrowes seldome die Idem Griefe hath two tongues and neuer woman yet Could rule them both without tenne womens wit W. Shakespeare He oft findes medicine who his griefes imparts But double Griefe afflicts concealing harts As raging flames who striueth to suppresse Ed. Spencer Found neuer help who neuer could his griefe impart Idem No greater ease of heart the griefes to tell It daunteth all the dolours of the minde Our carefull hearts thereby great comfort finde I. H. Mir. of Mag. An Ouen that is stopt or Riuer staied Burneth more hotely swelleth with more rage So of concealed Griefe it may be said Free vent of words loues fier doth asswage But when the hearts atturney once is mute The Client breakes as desperate in his sute W. Shakespeare No one thing doth auaile man more To cure a griefe and perfectly to heale it Then if he do vnto some friends reueale it S. I. Harr. Transl Griefe it is inough to vexed wight To feele his fault and not be farther vext Fd. Spencer Some griefe shewes much of loue But much to griefe shewes still some want of wit W. Shakespeare Great griefe can not be told And can more easily be thought then found Ed. Sp. Paine Thou Paine the onely ghuest of loath'd constraint The child of curse mans weaknesse foster child Brother to woe and father of complaint Thou Paine thou loathed paine from heauen exild H. C. The scourge of life and deaths extreame disgrace The smoake of hel that monster 's called paine Idem The thing that grieuous were to do or beare Them to renew I wot breeds no delight Ed. Spencer True griefe is fond and testy as a childe Who wayward once his moode with nought agrees Old woes not infant sorrowes beare them milde Continuance tames the one the other wilde Like an vnpractiz'd swimmer plunging still With too much labour drownes for want of skill W. Shakespeare Paine paies the income of each precious thing W. Sh. Heauen From hence with grace and goodnesse compast round God ruleth blesseth keepeth all he wrought Aboue the aire the fire the sea and ground Our sense our wit our reason and our thought Where persons three with power and glory crownd Are all one God who made all things of nought Vnder whose feete subiected to his grace Sit nature fortune motion time and place This is the place from whence like smoake and dust Of this fraile world the wealth the pompe the power He tosseth humbleth turneth as he lust And guides our life our end our death and hower No eye how euer vertuous pure and iust Can view the brightnes of that glorious bower On euery side the blessed spirirs bee Equall in ioyes though differing in degree E. Fairfax Transl In this great temple richly bewtified Pau'd all with starres disperst on Saphire flower The Clarke is a pure Angell sanctified The Iudge our hie Messias full of power The Apostles his assistance euery hower The Iury Saints the verdit Innocent The Sentence Come ye blessed to my tent The speare that pierst his side the writing Pen Christes bloud the Inke red Inke for Princes name The vailes great breach the miracles for men The sight is shew of them that long dead came From their old graues restor'd to liuing fame And that last signet passing all the rest Our soules discharg'd by Consumatum est Here endlesse ioy is there perpetuall cheare Their exercise sweete songs of many parts Angells the quier whose symphonie to heare Is able to prouoke conceiuing harts To misconceiue of all inticing arts The dirty praise the subiect is the Lord That tunes their gladsome spirit to this accord Th. Storer What so the Heauens in their secret doombe Ordained haue how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast but it must needs to issue come Ed. Spencer What in the heauenly parliament aboue Is written by the finger of the first Mortalls may feele but neuer can remoue For they are subiect to the heauens worst I. Markham By mortall lawe the bond may be diuorced The heauens decrees by no meanes can be forced M. Drarton In vaine doth man contend against the Starres For what he seekes to make his wisedome marres S. Daniell Humane wishes neuer haue the power To hurt or hast the course of heauen one hower Th. Hudson Transl Experience proues and daily it is seene In vaine too vaine man striues against the heauens G. Gascoigne It is most true that eyes are bound to serue The inward part and that th'heauenly part Ought to be King from whose rules who doth swerue Rebelles to nature striue for their owne smart True that true bewtie vertue is indeed Whereof this bewtie can be but a shade Which elements with mortall mixture breed True that on earth we are but pilgrimes made And should in soule vp to our countrey moue S. Ph. Sydney Heauen is our home we are but straungers here M. Drayton The heauens earth and aire and seas and all Taught men to see but not to shunne their fall S. Daniell Things which presage both good and ill there bee Which heauen foreshewes yet will not let vs see M. Drayton From them comes good from them comes also ill That which they made who can them warne to spill Ed. Spencer In vaine be armes when heauen becomes thy foe Idem Looke when the heauens are to iustice bent All things be turn'd to our iust punishment Idem All powers
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
come by kindred of a noble race Except we princely worthy noble bee The fruite declares the goodnesse of the tree Do brag no more of birth or linage than Sith vertue grace and manners make the man M. of M. Search all thy bookes and thou shalt finde therein That honour is more hard to hold then win G. Gascoigne Defeated honour neuer more is to be got againe W. Warner Vile is honour and a little vaine The which true worth and danger do not gaine S. Daniell Vertue can beare what can on vertue fall Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price M. Drayton It most behoues the honourable race Of mightie peeres true wisedome to sustaine And with their noble countenance to grace The learned forheads without gifts or gaine Or rather learnd themselues behoues to bee That is the garland of nobilitie Ed. Spencer If that honour haue one minutes staine An hundred yeares scant can it cleanse againe S. I. H. Transl A shame to fetch our long discent from kings And from great Ioue deriue our pedigree The braue atchiements of an hundred things Breathing vaine boasts the world to terrifie If we our selues do blot with infamie And staine the right and honour that is theirs Men cannot leaue their vertues to their heires M. Drayton Honour is grounded on the tickle yce The purest lawne most apt for euery spot Idem Honors shade thrusts honors substance from his place I. Marston Honour by due right is vertues hire Th. Watson Honours without imployment of estate Are like to sun-beames without heate or light A noble man and not a magistrate Shines halfe eclipsed in his clearest bright Ioyne heauenly gifts to earthly light to light Let these great excellencies make a truce Fortune shall need no wheele-wright for her vse Th. Storer Great is the choise that growes in youthfull minde When honour falles at variance with affection Nor could it yet be knowne or well definde Which passion keeps the other in subiection Both do allure both doth the iudgements blinde Both do corrupt the heart with strong infection Yet loe sometimes these hurts procure our weale Euen as one poyson doth another heale S. I. Harr. Transl The fiery sparkling precious Chrysolite Spangled with gold doth most transplendent shine The pearle grac'd by the ring the ring by it The one the others beautie doth refine And both together beauties do combine The iewell decks the golden haire that weares it Honour decks learning that with honour reares it Ch. Fitz. The inward touch that wounded honour beares Rests closely ranckling and can find no ease Till death of one side cure this great disease S. Daniell Hope Faiths yonger sister that Speranza hight Was clad in blew that her beseemed well Not all so chearfull seemed she of sight As was her sister whether dread did dwell Or anguish in her heart is hard to tell Vpon her arme a siluer anchor lay Whereon she leaned euer as befell And euer vp to heauen as she did pray Her eyes were bent ne swarued other way Ed. Spencer Hope a handsome maide Of chearfull looke and louely to behold In silken Samite she was light araide And her faire locks were wouen vp in gold She alway smilde and in her hand did hold An holy water sprinkle dipt in dewe With which she sprinkled fauours manifold On whom she list and did great liking shewe Great liking vnto many but true loue to fewe Idem True hope is swift and flies with swallowes wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures Kings W. Shakespeare Wan Hope poore soule on broken anchor sits Wringing his armes as robbed of his blisse D. Lodge What better emperor can the body hold Then sacred Hope the element from whence Vertue is drawne fresh looking neuer old Matter most worthy of a strong defence It animates yoong men and makes them bold Arming their hearts with holy influence It like a seale in tender thoughts doth presse The perfect Image of all happinesse L. Markham Hope is double and hath double power As being mortall and immortall fram'de In th' one shee 's mouelesse certaine euery houre In th' other doubtfull and incertaine nam'de Th' immortall Hope raines in a holy bowre In earthy closures is the mortall tam'de And these two contraries where ere they meete Double delight and make our thoughts more sweete Idem He that hopes least leaues not to hope at all But hopes the most hoping so little hope Augmenting of our hope makes hope growe small And taking from it giues it greater scope The desperate man which in dispaire doth fall Hopes by that end ill fortune to reuoke And to this hope belongs a second part Which we call confidence which rules the hart This second part of hope this confidence Doth Tully call a vertue that doth guide The Spirit to an honest residence Without whose aide no pleasure will abide In our world-wearied flesh I. Markeham All men are guests where hope doth hold the feast G. Gascoigne Such is the weakenesse of all mortall hope So tickle is the state of earthly things And brings vs bale and bitter sorrowings That ere they come vnto their aimed scope They fall too short of our fraile reckonings In stead of comfort which we should embrace This is the death of Keysars and of Kings Let none therefore that is in meaner place Too greatly grieue at any vnluckie case Ed. Spencer Vnworthy they of grace whom one deniall Excludes from fairest hope without farther triall Idem Hope like the Hyenna comming to be old Alters his shape is turned to dispaire H. C. Sorrow doth vtter what vs still doth grieue But hope forbids vs sorrow to beleeue Idem Our hopes good deceiues vs But that we would forgoe that seldome leaues vs. Idem None without great hopes will follow such Whose power and honour doth not promise much S. Daniell Who nothing hopes let him dispaire in nought Th. Achelly To liue in hope of that they meane to giue Is to deceiue our selues and not to liue D. Lodge Hope lost breeds griefe griefe paine and paine disease Th. Watson Our haps do turne as chaunces on the die Nor let him from his hope remoue That vnder him hath mou'd the starres aboue M. Drayton Hope and haue in time a man may gaine any woman A. Fraunce Hope well feare not marke this be wise Droupe not for to dispaire is to die twise Ignoto Bad haps are holpe with hap and good beliefe S. I. Harrington Transl O Hope how cunning with our cares to gloze Griefes breathing poynt the true man to desire The rest in sighes the very thoughts repose As thou art milde oh wert thou not a lier Faire speaking flatterie subtill soothing guile Ah Hope in thee our sorrowes sweetly smile M. Drayton Humilitie He was an aged syre hoary gray With lookes full lowly cast and gate full slowe Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay Hight Humilta they passe in stouping lowe For straight and narrow was the way that he
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
differs but the outward fame W. Sha. Seld shall you see the ruine of a prince But that the people eke like brunt do beare And old records of auncient times long since From age to age yea almost euery where With proofe hath glutted euery yeare Thus by the follies of the princes hart The bounden subiect still receiueth smart G. Gascoigne Quietnesse The wind is great vpon the highest hills The quiet life is in the dale below Who tread on yâ—e shall slide against their wills They want not cares that curious arts would know Who liues at ease and can content him so Is perfit wise and sets vs all to schoole Who hates this lore may well be call'd a foole M. of M. Quietnes the onely nurse or ease M. Dray Wellwot I sooth they say that say more quiet nights and daies The shepheard sleeps wakes then he whose cattell he doth graze VV. Warner Reason Logicke reason in a daunce Reson the Cynosure and bright load-starre In this worlds sea t' auoyd the rocke of chaunce For vith close following and continuance Oâ—e reason doth another so ensue A in conclusion still the daunce iâ— true I. Dauies Reason should haue abilitie To hâ—ld these worldly things in such proportion As lethem come or go with euen facilitie S. Phil. Sidney â—uery thing that is begun with reason Will câ—â—e by ready meanes vnto his end But thiâ—gs miscounselled must needs miswend Ed. Spencer Reason by prudence in her function Had wont to tutor all out action Ayding with precepts of Philosophie Our feebled natures imbecillitie But now affection with concupiscence Haue got ore reason chiefe preheminence I. Marston What warre so cruell or what siege so sore As that which strong affections do applie Against the fort of reason euermore To bring the soule into captiuitie Their force is fairer through infirmitie Of the fraile flesh relenting to their rage And exercise most bitter tirannie Vpon the parts brought into their bondage No wretchednesse is like to sinfull villanie Ed. Spencer But in a body which doth freely yeeld His parts to reasons rule obedient And letteth not that ought the scepter weeld All happie peace and goodly gouernment Is setled there in sure establishment Idem He that is of reasons skill bereft And wants the stuffe of wisedome him to stay Is like a subiect midst of tempest left Withouten helme or pilot her to sway Full sad and dreadfull is that ships euent So is the man that wante intendment Idem Reason doth teach vs that the care is vaine For ill once past which cannot turne againe Th. vvatson If reason bandie with opinion Opinion winnes in the conclusion For if a man be once opinionate Millions of reasons will extenuate His forced malice conference Cannot asswage opinions insolence But let opinion once lay batterie To reasons for t she will turne heresie Or superstition wily politist But she will win those rampiâ—es which resist Ed. Gilpin Nought can reason auaile in heauenly matters S. Phil Sid. She whom sauns reason men haue reason hight Since first in â—ire the Lord the aire inclosde In aire the sea in sea the earth disposde Hath with mild faith maintaind continuall fight I. Syluester The eye of reason is with raging ybent Ed. Sp. Religion Sacred Religion mother of forme and feare S. Daniell O that this power from euerlasting giuen The great alliance made twixt God and vs The intelligence that earth doth hold with heauen Sacred Religion O that thou must thus Be made to smooth our vniust vneuin Brought from aboue earths quarrell to discusse Must men beguile our soules to win our wills And make our zeale the furtherer of ills Idem No one quailes religion more then foundring presbitie Each sâ—t impugning order saith and doth his infancie W. Warner What may not mischiefe of mad man abuse Religions cloake some one to vice doth chuse And maketh God protector of his crime O monstrous world well ought we wish thy fine M. of M. English men nay Christian men not only seeme prophane But man to man as beast to beast hold ciuil duties vaine Yea pulpits some like pedlers packs yeeld forth as men affect And what a Synode should conclude a souter doth correct The rude thus bosâ—ing literature one sin begets another And grosly thogh a schisme yet hath ech Schismatick his brother Mean while the learned waÌ„t their meed none with profit hears The tedious dolt whose artlesse tong doth preach to verie eares VV. VVarner Since pure religion doth install Learned professors Prelates of deserts Let them aspire and reac instructed harts Against the base bestowers of church liuings That vse their graunts in tellings not in giuings Th. Storer Repentance Repentance makes two riuers of her eies Her humble face dares scant behold the skies Her broken breast is beaten blew and blacke Her tender fleshis rent wih rugged sacke With sorrowes snowes her hoary waxen head With ashes pale and dust is ouerspread I. Syluister Repentance hope and soft humilitie Do flanke the wings of faiths triumphant carre Idem Repentance A salue a comfort and a cordiall He that hath her the keies of heauen hath This is the guide this is the port the path M. Drayton O happie they that keepe within their measure To turne their course in time and sound retreit Before that wit which late Repentance tought Were better neuer had then so deare bought S. I. H. Sinnes haue their salues repentance can do much R. Greene. To be penitent for faults with it a paron beares W. W. Then hope we health when sinne is left repentantly in hart Adde then new life and we to God God doth to vs conuart Idem Yet stay thy feete in murders vgly gate Ill comes to soone repentance oft too late M. Dr Their liues no man so setled in content That hath not daily whereof to repent D. Lodge We see what 's good and thereto we consent But yet we chuse the worse and soone repent S. Daniell Rest. What so strong But wanting rest will also want of might The sunne that measures heauen all day long At night doth bath his steeds th' Ocean waues among Ed. Spencer Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best Idem Who long hath rested cannot runne apace The fettered horse is hindmost in the chase Reuenge Next within the entrie of the gate Sate fell reuenge gnashing her teeth with ire Deuising meanes how she may vengeance take Neuer in rest till she haue her desire But frets within so farre forth with the fier Of wreaking flames that now determines shee To die by death or vengd by death to bee M. Sackuill O fearefull frowning Nemesis Daughter of iustice most seuere That art the worlds great arbitresse And Queene of causes raigning heere S. Daniell Fierce Nemesis mother of fate and change Sword bearer of th' eternall prouidence Idem Nemesis whose hastie reuenging Hands are euer at hand whose mind is mutable alwaies At miseries laughing at mens felicitie grudging A. Fraunce
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
all tand with scorching sunnie ray As hee had trauaild many a summers day Through boyling sands of Affrica and Inde And in his hand a Iacobs staffe to stay His wearie limbs vpon and eke behind His scrip did hang in which his needmets he did bind Ed. Spencer Of Harpies Seuen of them came together in a knot VVith womens faces wanne with deadly cold So hunger-staru'd as death it selfe might not Be at first sight more hidious to behold Their wings were great but foule black wings god wot Theyr tallents sharp to gripe and strong to hold A large foule panch a filthy tayle and long From whence there came a mighty odour strong S. I. Harr. Of Cyprus With filled sayles in little while They came as farre as Cyprus Venus Ile Heere euery place was full of odours sweet Of gardens fayre of spyce of pleasant tast The people lustfull for dame Venus meete From tender yeeres to doating age doe last With wanton damsels walking in each street Inuiting men to pleasure and repast S. I. Harr. Of the Rainebow Noah lookes vp and in the ayre he viewes A semicircle of an hundred hewes vvhich bright ascending toward th' aetheriall thrones Hath a line drawne betweene two Horizons For iust Diameter an euen bent bow Contriu'd of three whereof the one doth show To be all painted of a golden hew The second greene the third an orient blew Yet so that in this pure blew-golden greene Still ô pall-like some changeable is seene A bow bright shining in th'archers hand Whose subtile string seemes leuell with the land Halfe parting heauen and ouer vs it bends vvithin two seas wetting his horned ends A temporall beautie of the lampfull skyes vvhere powerfull Nature shewes her fresh-red dies And if you onely blew and red perceaue The same as signes of sea and fire conceaue Of both the flowing and the flaming doome The iudgement past and iudgement yet to come I. Siluester Of Paradice Soone after he a christall streame espying From foote to head he washt himselfe therein Then vp he gets him on his courser flying And of the ayre he more and more doth win Ascending heauen all earthly thoughts defying As fishes cut the liquid streame with fin So cutteth he the ayre and doth not stop Till he was come vnto the mountaine top This hill nie toucht the circle of the Moone The top was all a fruitefull pleasant fielde And light at night as ours is heere at noone The sweetest place that euer man beheld There would I dwell if God gaue me my boone The soyle thereof most fragrant flowers doth yeeld Like Rubies gold Saphire pearles Topaze stones Chrisolites Diamonds Iacinths for the nonce The trees that there did grow were euer greene The fruite that thereon grew were neuer fading The sundry coloured birds did sit betweene Singing most sweet the fruitfull boughes theÌ„ shading Riuers more cleere then Christall to be seene The fragrant smell the sence and soule inuading With ayre so temperate and so delightsome As all the place beside was cleere and lightsome Of Diana The first with cloths tuckt vp as Nimphs in woods doe range Tuckt vp eueÌ„ to the knees with bowes arrowes prest Her right arme naked was discouered was her brest But heauy was her pace such a megre cheere As little hunting mind God knows did there appeere S. Phil. Sidney Now great Phoebe in her tryumph came With all the titles of her glorious name Diana Delia Luna Cynthia Virago Hecate and Elythia Prothyria Dictinna Proserpine Latona and Lucina most diuine M. Drayton Cynthia The siluer Moone dread soueraigne of the deepe That with the floods fills vp her horned head And by her waine the waining ebs doth keepe Iar. Markham VVith a brase of siluer hindes 〈◊〉 Iuorie Chariot swifter then the windes 〈◊〉 great Hyperions horned daughter drawne â—nchauntresse like deckt in disparent Lawne Circled with charmes and incantations That ride huge spirits and ouragious passions Musicke and moode she loues but loue she hates As curious Ladies doe their publique cates G. Chapman Natures bright eye-sight and the nights faire soule That with thy triple forhead doost controule Earth seas and hell and art in dignitie The great'st and swiftest Planet in the skie Idem Venus Mounting in the East Faire Venus in her Iuorie coach did hast And towards those pensiue Dames her course addrest Her Doues so plied theyr wauing wings with flight That straight the sacred Goddesse came in sight Vpon her head she bare that gorgious crowne vvherein the poore Amintas is a starre Her louely locks her bosome hanging downe Those nets that first insnard the God of warre Delicious-louely shine her louely eyes And on her cheekes Carnation clowdes arise D. Lodge Of Venus This goddesse had with art more theÌ„ our womeÌ„ knoâ— As stuffe meant for the sale set out to glaring show A wanton womans face with curld knots had twinâ— Her haire which by the help of painters cunning shin'â— S. Phil. Sidney Of Cupid Amongst this gamesome crue is seene The issue of the Cyprian Queene Whose head and shoulders fethered beene And as the starres his countenaunce sheene In his left hand his bow he bare And by his side his quiuer ware In power he sits past all compare And with his flames the world doth dare A scepter in his hand he held With Chloris natiue flowers vntild And Nectars deathlesse odours stild From his bright locks the Sun digild The triple Graces there assist Sustaining with theyr brests commist And knees that Thetis bosome kist The challice of this Amorist G. Chapman transl Him the greatest of the Gods we deeme Borne without sinne or couples of one kind For Vâ—nus selfe doth solie couples seeme Both male and female through commixture ioynd So pure and spotlesse Cupid forth she brought And in the gardens of Adonis nurst Where growing he his owne perfection wrought And shortly was of all the Gods the first Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead In which so fell and puissant he grew That Ioue himselfe his power began to dread And taking vp to heauen him godded new From thence he shoots his arrowes euery where Into the vvorld at random as he will On vs frayle men S. Daniell Venus Now in ire Shee mounts her chariot swifter then the winde Or subtill comprehension of the minde vvhich by two nimble Cock-sparrowes was drawne Caparisond but lightly with the lawne Tooke from the Flowre-deluces inner skin Trapt and imbost with Marigolds within Sits Venus naked holding in her hand A tumbling shelfish with a Mirtle wand Wearing a garland on her wimpled head Compacted of the white Rose and the red None but the blinde boy Cupid durst approch For to be whurried with her in her Coach The snow-white Graces running by theyr sides Were through the heauens theyr wagoners guides Lashing the Sparrowes vnder quiuering wings With whyps of twisted gold and siluer strings A beauie of white Doues still fluttring ouer From the sunnes sight
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