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A05291	Vertue triumphant, or A liuely description of the foure vertues cardinall dedicated to the Kings Maiestie.	Leighton, William, Sir, fl. 1603-1614.	1603 (1603)	STC 15435; ESTC S108435	25,756	64

true vertue knit Doth pierce the very Throne where God doth sit 145 This vertue doth foure other parts dispose Magnificence the first I take to be The next sure Trust which nothing will disclose The third is Patience in extremitie The fourth Perseu'rance in one purpose still And not to rest vntill she worke her will 146 It hath besides a number of effects The first triumpheth ouer all her foes The second keeps to each her true respects The third enricheth with the ware it showes For valiant hand doth gather wealth and store And still increaseth riches more and more 147 The fourth it doth expugne the highest seat And heauens kingdome wherein God doth raigne With violence it suffreth to intreat That glorious state where holy Saints remaine The fift adornes the bodie and the minde With comly robes which Fortitude doth finde 148 The sixt doth make mens hearts to be secure And arm'd with care in all extreme designes With strong defence all danger to endure At no dysast'rous chance it once repines Securitie it breeds to all good hap And nothing doubts malignant thund'ring clap 149 True Fortitude fiue offices doth holde The first attempteth matters of great doubt And in strange obiects difficults most bolde Still to effect the worke she goes about Do manfully with comfort and good cheare Daunt not your hearts with any kinde of feare 150 The second is contempt of things terrene And from the loue of earthly ioyes to runne The trueth whereof by Moyses plaine was seene Deny'ng to be Kings Pharos daughters sonne The third is the induring tribulations With loue as strong as death in alterations 151 The fourth is filthie Temptor to withstand And foule suggesting which the minde offends None shall be crown'd or holde that blessed land But he that curbeth sinne and life amends Appeasing so the wrath of God he giues The world adue Surmounting Sathan liues 152 Mans life is like a warfare on the earth Whose time is spent with troubles toile and cares Subiect to all temptations from his birth In woe he liues and dies at vnwares The surest signe true fortitude to show Is in this life all vice to ouerthrowe 153 The Romanes Monarch Iulius Caesar great Being sickly tender subiect to much griefe Did still the weaknes of his state intreat With warlike labour for his healths reliefe He made a med'cine of his daily toile And exercise to be his sicknes foile 154 Of Marcus Sergius we may likewise note Whose right hand from his body was bereft Yet by continuall vse and practise gote Such perfect skill ih th' other hand was left As he did call fower seu'rall men in sight And ouercame them one by one in fight 155 Fabius Cunctator cometh to my minde Whose mod'rate courage mixt with valour still Did shew himselfe of true and noble kinde When Hanniball his souldiers all did kill He rusheth foorth and puls from him his crowne Wounded to death there dies with great renowne 156 Pompey the great and mightie Prince of power Prepar'de to sea his ships hoist vnder saile There rose a stormie tempest and a shower That all his mariners began to quaile He puts to sea spreds saile and speech doth giue It 's good I goe not fit I stay to liue 157 Agys the Lacedêmons worthie king Resolu'd to fight though oft his counsell tolde His enemies then ten for one would bring Which made his warlike sp'rite to speake more bolde It needs must be whose power commandeth many Should not be fear'd with multitude of any 158 We may not slip with silence in this place Themistocles in whom true woorth appear'd Whom Xerxes mightie fleete could not disgrace Nor whole twelue hundreth ships once make affeard Three hundreth saile he brought with skill to fight Which in that conflict put the twelue to flight 159 Damyndas answer'd being often tolde The danger great the Graecians should endure Vnlesse they did with Phillip concord holde Who had prepar'd an armie strong and sure What euill can he cause vs for to take That no account of death it selfe do'th make 160 Dercyllides from Sparta being sent To Pyrrhus stout his meaning foorth to sound Wherefore he march't and what was his intent To bring his men on borders of their ground If thou be God our faults deserue no care If thou be man thou art but as we are 161 Thundring saith Plato terrifi'th a childe And threatnings are but scar-babes vnto fooles It daunteth none but those are base and vilde And neuer learn'd in this rare vertues schooles They feare not death where fortitude is found Nor care to rot aboue or in the ground 162 A man of wisdome once demaunded was Why he for shame such actions would commit That should his death procure or bring to passe Or end his daies at seasons so vnfit He answer'd Good men put in life no trust But in those things were honest good and iust 163 True proofe by Marcus Crassus we may finde Who shew'd his valour in his later age And lost his dearest sonne to grieue his minde And all his men in furie fight and rage Yet shew'd himselfe more valiant then before And neuer seem'd his losses to deplore 164 Let vs obserue stout Machabaeus fame When fortie thousand men appear'd in sight And being aduis'de not to abide the same But flie away and not endure the fight He thus resolu'd much better was to die Then lose his name and from his foes to flie 165 But stay my Muse And now braue fortitude Which art the part of honestie that reares The minde to heauen and solely do'st include The soule and spirit daunting abiect feares Make haste and to thy reu'rend sisters hie Borne on the wings of sacred Poesie 166 Iustice giues right to whom it appertaines First vnto God next vnto eu'ry man It is a habit in the minde remaines Which doth with care the course of profit scan Preseruing and maintaining common good Which makes true Iustice to be vnderstood 167 It giues to eu'ry one his proper place And dignitie with honour woorth and praise It yeelds desert his true and perfect grace And censures iudgement to the right alwaies It is the vertue that doth comfort bring To all true subiects from a godly king 168 Sixe things to vpright Iustice do pertaine The first Religion which Gods word hath taught The second place doth Piëtie obtaine By which true works of Charitie are wrought The third is Grace or fauour which proceeds From God aboue whose sp'rite works holy deeds 169 The fourth Reuenge of things which are vniust And contrary to Gods most holy will Not in the strength of man or horse to trust But in his word whose truth continues still Which shall not change but rest the same it was Though all the world the earth and heauens passe 170 The

VERTVE TRIVMPHANT OR A LIVELY DESCRIPTION OF THE FOVRE VERTVES CARDINALL Dedicated to the Kings Maiestie Prima canenda venit mater prudentia rerum Ordine tunc sequitur mens moderata suo Pòst animus magnus postremò munera dico Iustitiae per quam nectitur orbis amor AT LONDON Printed by Melchisedech Bradwood for Matthew Lownes 1603. TO THE RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE Prince IAMES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith THe deepe-grounded root most dread Soueraigne of my duteous loue to your famous and memorable Sister my gracious Queene and Mistresse being newly watered with the drops of your Princely fauour spreadeth it selfe into many branches of much loialtie and full desire to bring forth the fruit of my most humble zeale and faithfull seruice to your Maiestie And albeit my best labours being brought into a choise and Princely taste can neither desire nor deserue greater grace than to be held as perfunctorie and triuiall yet vouchsafe most mightie King to giue so fauourable a passage in your gracious consideration that were the stocke answerable to the bud of my deuoted minde or the fruit agreeable to my faith and loialtie it should at least haue carried the relish in your iudiciall allowance of good fruit Kirnels being set at first in time beare fruit but being vn-graft neuer come to perfection So may it please your Highnesse from this tender plant of mine there can appeare nothing woorthie either keeping or gathering but being grasted in the least fauour of your Maiesties protection it may hereafter bring forth matter of more approbation content and consequence I must confesse that this so woorthy a subiect might haue beene written with greater maturitie and deliberation but the golde of my inuention hath prooued too base therein to set the rare-orientall pearles of these roiall vertues onely my much respectiue dutie hath thus dared to vent her greatnesse which though it make no large current from the first head yet is it as pure and vndistained as where it floweth most The God of Heauen indue your Highnesse with all Princely blessings and dayly more and more propagate and spread abroad the glorious lustre of your Maiestie to the which as England Scotland France and Ireland so likewise the whole world may haue regard vnto as their true marke and perfect Cynosure since the vniuersall schoole of the world is the Person the House and Court of a vertuous Prince Your Maiesties humbly deuoted seruant of the honourable band of Pensioners William Leighton VERTVE TRIVMphant to the Kings Maiestie 1 NOw that Hyperion with his chearefull beames Hath cleer'd the troubled skie of cloudie state Since little springs do runne to largest streames And mutuall faith determins feare of hate Oh happie land who such a King do'st gaine By whom are dri'd the teares of sorowes raine 2 Our earth esteem'd halfe dead through Winters spight Grones vnderneath the burden of her spring The fields with natures Tapistrie are dight For ioy whereof the winged consort sing Ech vegetable Plant late nipt with frost Vowes treble hope for all the fruit we lost 3 Our memorable Phoenix now takes rest Her ashes doth a mightie Monarch raise Whom best men loue and God himselfe hath blest For all our good and his eternall praise Chosen by him on highest throne to sit For Wisdome Temperance Iustice Power Wit 4 Our cleerest skies with darke clouds ouer-cast In splendent brightnesse shew their wonted hue Our doubts of death are turn'd to life at last All wounds are cur'd and we reuiu'd anew Twixt present hope ioy past and former feare We scarse know what we are or late we were 5 Elizaes losse made wet the driest eies And spred sad sorow through our state and land But present blisse shone from the glorious skies For mightie Ioue stretcht forth his holy hand In one sad morne by death our hearts were slaine Which at midmorow were reuiu'd againe 6 As Pharoes heart most deeply hard'ned was And would not let Gods chosen people goe Nor suffer them from yoking bondage passe But sought their liues and hopes to ouerthrow Through raging Sea without thought of despaire God made their passage easie drie and faire 7 Yet he with might and maine did still pursue Our Gods elected Nation to confound Till in that Sea himselfe he ouerthrew And all his host were in an instant drou'nd The like God works to those whose hate would bring Death to his elect or his anointed King 8 Our state that liu'd so many months and yeeres Odde weeks and daies with fearfull thoughts of death See how Gods power and mightinesse appeares To giue vs life that gron'd and gaspt for breath And doth defend our countrey state and land As those he loues from cruell Pharoes hand 9 Yet some may seeke by enuie and debate To sow sedition in our fields of peace But they shall reape the sheaues of Pharoes hate That sunke in Seas when they sought to increase God grant all those that grudge our Regall power The Sea may drowne or earth may quicke deuower 10 Our ships of care on dangerous Seas were tost Our hopes of life the waues of death sanke downe Like Ionas in the fishes bellie lost Till God gaue grace where first he gan to frowne Now doe our storm-beat-ships their full sailes spread And we like Ionas liue ere-while thought dead 11 As Sidrach Misach and Abednego Did safely walke amids the burning heat And in the flames aliue themselues did show That force of fire could not them ill intreat So we beset about with flames of fire God quencht the rage and sent our hearts desire 12 What people liu'd more fit for mourning cheere What countrey left in greater griefe and scorne Our fall lookt for by Neighbours far and neere Drownd in despaire we held our selues forlorne Yet see the worke of Mightie Ioue his hand That sent such comfort to a wofull land 13 Our Kingdome cast in dreadfull desolation Our mindes seduc'st with spight and proud sedition Our factions fraught with secret expedition To take our liues and worke vs all perdition How great a debt owe we to him aboue That sends a King to worke vnited loue 14 Pardon dread Lord these harsh and ruder times Vnfitting obiects for a Princes eies The thunder-scorning bird of Ioue sometimes Makes a lowe pitch to earth from loftie skies Enough is me if but your Highnesse daine The smallest approbation of my paine 15 To Maiestie alone belongs my Theame The sure foundation of a Royall state Breaking the boistrous surge of fortunes streame Held vp by Prouidence the Curbe of fate In this as in a Crystall thou shalt see What best befitteth Rule and Emperie 16 Vertue that labours like heauens golden eie To light the world with her admired raies Comes to salute your sacred Maiestie Tendring her ofspring to your happie daies First Prudence next to her comes Temperance Then Fortitude whom