giu'n eyes to you Thou canst at once little of this earth see But with one turne halfe Heau'n obseru'd may bee Since Heau'n is louely why lou'st thou Earth rather Wantons doe loue their Mam more then the father 188 Cor vnum via vna To King Iames the first King of Great Brittaine Two Scepters in thy two hands thou dost hold Thy Subiects languages are iust foure-fold Though Brittaine folke in tongues deuided bee Yet all their hearts vnited are in thee The Diuell it was that first deuided hearts Speach God diuided into many parts 189 A King and a Prophet A King out of his Countrey hath no place A Prophet in his Country hath no grace 190 Vertues Attendance These two like Genij follow Vertue still A good one and a bad Glory Ill-will 192 To a foolish inquisitiue vaine prattler Many fond questions thou dost aske of me To all I answer little vnto thee 'T is not because thy questioning is much But because thy fond questions are such 193 Sleepe is the image of Death When I doe sleep I seeme as I were dead Yet no part of my life 's more sweetned Therefore 't were strange that death should bitter be Since sleep deaths image is so sweet to me 194 How worldly men range their cares First we send for the Lawyer in all haste For our first care is to care for our wealth Next the Physicion with request is graste The second care is to care for our health Diuines that should be first may come at leasure If vnbid they come they may goe at pleasure 206 A Lawyers life To plead thy Clyents cause and please thy wife Little for thy selfe thou dost spend thy life Addition In little quietnesse but in much strife 207 Preachers and Players Preachers like Heraclite mourne for our sinne Prayers like Democrite at our faults grinne One alwaies laughs the other mournes alwaies One tells our faults the other our sinnes wayes 215 Schoole-boyes study When I was young I was a studying boy My study was when 't would be playing Day 216 Euery thing is as it takes If Archy should one foolishly aduise And it speed well he shall be iudged wise If wise aduice should come to an ill passe Though Cato's 't were he should be iudg'd an asse 217 How to handle griefe Grieue onely for those griefes which now thou hast T is too late for to grieue griefes that are past To grieue for griefes to come 't will too long last 223 The Poet of his Maecenas Not words for words good coyne he me affords Maecenas to his Poet. Hauing no coyne for coyne thou coynest words 225 Blind Homer Whe'r it be true that men doe write of thee That thou ne'r saw'st I 'm sure thy writings see 227 To goe about worse then the Goute Thou hast two diffring griefes I vnderstand One in thy feet th' other in thy wiues hand For when thy feet are fett'red with the goute Thy wiues sore nimble hand ferkes thee about 235 Pride is womans Colloquintida Learned neate young faire modest and bening Wert thou not proud thou wert a pretty thing 24 Of King Brute To Master Camden Bookes may be burnt and monuments decay My lines may dye and so in time thine may Yet whil'st some of the Brittaine blood shall liue The story of King Brute some will beleeue 246 To a couetous Carle Wealth thou hast scrap'd vp for a thousand yeares A hundred yeares is more then thou canst liue Yet to scrape vp more wealth thou bendst thy cares And thinkst a short life will long comfort giue Thou say'st If I liue long I shall be rich Liue I long I must dye should bee thy speach 247 Death and life are neere Neighbours One Natures skreene Death and life hang so neere As doth the muddy Earth to waters cleere Of lifes white Death blacke Nature makes one robe Euen as the Earth and Water makes one Globe 248 Moores Eutopia and Mercurius Brittanicus Moore shew'd the best the worst world 's shew'd by thee Thou shew'st what is and he shewes what should be 259. Vide ad Cor. vers HOPE FAITH CHARITY Epist. 1. cap. 13.8 13. We haue three ladders to helpe vs to heau'n One hath foure steps one fiue and one hath seu'n Hope reacheth to the Moone Faith to the Sunne But Charity doth reach vp to Gods Throne Addition Hope as the Moone is alwaies variable Faith as the Sunne more constant yet vnstable When both these with the World shall be consum'd Loue into endlesse ioyes shall be assum'd 249 Of himselfe Some men doe say I am a Poet no way They doe say true because the truth I say 254 The nullity of our Lawes How many lawes are made or rather none Not kept or not made we may count all one That former lawes be kept if an Act were That would be kept as all the others are 257 Besides women and children In holy Bible it is somewhere read Women and children were not reckoned And by the Ciuill and the Common Law Womens and childrens gifts are worth a straw VVomen and children are exempt from warre VVomen and children long-side coates doe weare And on the chins neither of them haue haire VVomen and children shead teares with much ease Faire words and toyes women and children please And last of Loue and Dallyance we may say Venus a VVoman was Cupid a Boy Addition A disparison betweene these Children fondly blab truth and fooles their brothers VVomen haue learn'd more wisdome from their mothers 258 Of those that make the Scripture a Nose of Waxe Doth holy Writ promise vs any good 'T is easily beleeu'd and vnderstood Doth it require ought or reprooue our sinne 'T is a hard speech wee haue no faith therein 262 The Harpe and Harrow of the Court An enuious and a flattering knaue These agree not though in one place they dwell Momus of none Gnatho of all speakes well 263 The foure efficient causes of man What is mans forme Onely a garish toy What is his matter Frailty and annoy â—hough for this cause we may these two neglect Making and finall cause we must respect 64 Deaths sweet and sowre To those that haue their liues in much mirth spent Death's sadnes is to sad men merriment Or thus To those that liue in sinne Death is good night Good morrow 't is to those that liue vpright 266 Death and life One way we liue Death many wayes is had All 's for the best Death is good life is bad 267 An old decrepit man A Builder Old and weake thou build'st many a faire roome What build'st thou now A house or else a Tombe 269 An Envious mans Charity The dead thou spar'st the liuing thou dost bite Yet rather then I 'd dye I 'le beare thy spite 273 Great Brittaine vnited euerlastingly As in beginning 't was is now agen Euer shall be till this world ends Amen FINIS An excellent Anagram on this excellent Poets name with the verses annexed translated Iohannes Audoenus
and amazement bred In me that still I am astonished Yet this request I pray doe not deny Giue me good words for you haue more then I. In recompence one day I le sing a song Of your rich worth with my laste buskins on The admirer of your excellencies the short-breath'd Muse of Robert Hayman A PRAEMONITION TO ALL KINDE OF READERS of these Translations of Iohn Owens EPIGRAMS AS one into a spacious Garden led Which is with rare faire flowers well garnished Where Argus may all his eyes satisfie Centimanus all his hands occupy He will chuse some fine flowers of the best To make himselfe a Poesie at the least Or he will if such fauour may be found Intreate some Slips to set in his owne ground So fares it with me when in Owens booke At leasure times with willing eyes I looke I cannot chuse but choose some of his flowers And to translate them at my leisure howres But as 't is not for this admitted Man Manners at once to gather euery one But mildly to cull a few at a time I pray thee doe so too kinde Reader mine For as a Man may surfet on sweet meates So thou maist ouer-read these quaint conceits Some at one time some at another chuse As Maidens doe their kissing Confects vse Reade therefore these His by translation Mine As some eate Cheese a penny-waight at a time AN ENCOMIASTICK DISTICK ON MY RIGHT WORTHY AVTHOR IOHN OVVEN THe best conceits Owens conceits haue found Short sharp sweet witty vnforc'd neate profound PART OF MASTER IOHN OWENS EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED into ENGLISH THE FIRST BOOKE Epig. 2. To the Reader THou that read'st these if thou commend them all Thou 'st too much milk if none thou 'st too much gall 3 To Master Iohn Hoskins of his Booke My Booke the World is Verses are the Men You 'll finde as few good here as amongst them 8 Know thy selfe Nothing worth knowledge is in thee I trow Seeke some-where else some worthier thing to know 14 Gilberts Opinion that the Earth goes round and that the Heauens stand still Thou sai'st the Earth doth moue that 's a strange tale When thou didst write this thou wert vnder sayle 15 Physicions and Lawyers Our sicknesses breeds our Physicions health Our folly makes wise Lawyers with our wealth 16 O Times O Manners Scaliger did Times computation mend Who to correct ill manners doth intend Or thus to Scaliger Thou mended hast the bad score of old yeares Who dares take old bad manners by the eares 21 To a poore bare beggerly fie on such a Physicion Thou wert a poore bare fye on such a one But now thou art growne a Physicion Thou giuest vs physicke we with gold thee please Thou cur'st not ours but we cure thy disease 26 Cold fire If that Loue be a fire as it is said How cold is thy Loues fire my pretty Maide 27 An impious Atheists pastime I ioy in present things and present time A time will come that will be none of mine Grammarians talke oftimes past and hereafter I spend time present in pastime and laughter 28 An Atheist's Epitaph He liu'd as if he should not feele Deaths paine And died as if he would not liue againe 30 Married Alanaes complaint All day Alana rayleth at Wedlocke And says 't is an vntolerable yoake At night being pleasd shee altereth her rage And sayes that marriage is the merriest age 31 A Prophet and Poet. Of things to come these make true predication These of things present make a false relation 35 Free-will Free-will for which Christs Church is so diuided Though men it lose Wiues will not be deny'd it 39 New Rhetoricke Good arguments without Coyne will not stick To pay and not say is best Rhetorick 52 To an Atheist Each house thou seest here some one doth possesse Yet thou dost thinke the great house masterlesse 53 A trade betwixt Physicions and Patients Physicions receiue gold but giue none backe Physicke they 'll giue but none of it they 'll take Their hands write our health bills ours greaze their fist Thus one mans hand another doth assist 54 Iuris-prudentes Wise men of Law Lawyers are rightly cald wise men of Law Since to themselues they wisely wealth doe draw To the same purpose more largely thus Wise men of Law the Latines Lawyers stile And so they are fooles Clyents are the while Lawyers are wise we see by their affaires Leauing so much land to their happy heires 55 To Courtiers If good thou be at Court thou may'st grow better But I doe feare thou hardly wilt grow greater If great thou be greater thou may'st be made But to grow better is no Courtiers trade 57 A Mortall Conceit To eternize thy fame thou buildst a Tombe As if death could not eat vp such a Roome 58 A Comfort for Baldnes So young and bald take comfort then in this Thy head will ne'r bee whiter then it is 61 On old Alan Old Alan ioynes his couch to his wiues bed And thinkes himselfe thereby most sweetly laid 62 New-yeeres-gifts Some mens pride some mens basenesse Olus giues not to rich to receiue more To poore he cannot giue 'cause he is poore Quintus for gaine giues gift with long low legs And what he would haue giuen by giuing begs 63 A Caueat for Cuckolds When Pontius wish'd all Cuckolds in the Sea His wife replide First learne to swimme I pray 71 Physicions and Lawyers Physicions Lawyers by one meanes doe thriue For others harmes doe both of them relieue By sicknesse one the other by contention Both promise helpe both thriue by this pretention 73 The Bald-pate Trees haue new leaues in fields there growes new graine But thy shed haires will neuer grow againe 76 Gyants and Dwarfes Gyants and Dwarfes are men of differing grouth Dwarfes are shrunke men Gyants are men stretcht forth 80 A Sergeants case To Lawyers If a man with a wench should make a match And in stead of her should his owne wife catch Tell me if a childe borne by this deceit Be a base bastard or Legitimate 84 A begging Poet. I heare thou in thy verses praysest me It is because in mine I should praise thee 89 An old Churle What-euer of this friend I begge or borrow He puts me off and sayes You shall to morrow For this thy promise shall I fit thankes fit To morrow then thee will I thanke for it 93 Double dealing Wherefore loues Venus Mars vnlawfully Vulcan is lame in lawfull venery 94 Much haire little Wit Thy beard growes faire and large thy head grow's thinne Thou hast a light head and a heauy chinne Addition Hence 't is those light conceites thy head doth breed From thy dull heauy mouth so slow proceed 101 A dead Reckoning What death is thou dost often aske of me Come to me when I am dead I 'll tell it thee 103 To selfe applying and fault-finding Zoilus When I finde fault at faults thou carp'st at me It may be therein thou think'st I meane
Sunday Sunday I 'le call that day spite of precise In which the glorious Sonne of God did rise 191 Fashions in Clothes Old out-worne fashions young mens fashion growes And old men weare late strange new fashion clothes 193 The commodity of a silly Sheepe If leather flesh milke compost dice or cords Or wooll you want all this a Sheepe affords An Egge which though it be mine owne I 'le adde to this because it goes to the same tune If flesh or skinne or bones feathers or strings Or blood you want all this one round Egge brings To mine Author a little to be merry with him When I did write this I did thinke vpon The Egge sup't vp by thine owne Countryman 196 Parret and Prater Parret and Prater iumpe iust in their names One to the other are right Anagrams 200 Satyrs and good Lawes haue one originall cause Good Lawes and Satyrs from one cause proceed Wicked behauiour both of them doth breed Addition These ends are alike Tart byting Satyrs haue the selfe-same end That good Lawes haue bad manners to amend 203 A Merchants account Or rich or poore account my selfe I may Whilst with my goods I trust the Bankrout Sea 204 Lust. In the darke foule Sluts are esteemed faire Blind lust is cause thereof not the darke ayre 213 Eccho Caruing nor painting cannot expresse words Yet prating Eccho that quaint-art affords 214 Looking-glasse To expresse Motion Painting is nought worth My Looking-glasse can liuely set it forth 215 Eccho and Looking-glasse Nothing of man but voyce Eccho affords My Looking-glasse wants nothing else but words 217 A good Chapman I gaue thee three books three pounds thou gau'st me No man hath bought my books as deare as thee 218 To the blessed Memory of King Iames the happy Vniter of this so long-diuided Iland of Great Brittaine Great Brittaine seuer'd from the World by Sea Was in it selfe diuided many a day In many Kingdomes and in many parts Which did diuide her people and their harts Vnhappy then was parted Albion Happy in Thee for in Thee All-be-on Addition to King Iames. Oft haue I wish'd O pardon my wishing That thou hadst stil'd thy selfe All-be-ons King PART OF MASTER IOHN OWENS EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED into ENGLISH THE THIRD BOOKE Epig. 4. The happy Virgin-issue of Blessed Queene Elizabeth SCotland with England was twinn'd happily In the blest birth of thy Virginity To vnite is more blessed then to breed From thy not-bearing this birth did proceed 9 To the vertuous Lady Mary Neuil Daughter to the Earle of Dorset his worthy Patronesse Thy glasse presents thee faire Fame Chast thee stiles Neither thy Glasse nor Fame doe lye the whiles Loud-wide-mouth'd Fame swifter then Eagles wing Dares not report against thee any thing 10 To the same right worthy Lady of her little Daughter Cicill To limme soules beauty painting is nought-worth This pretty Image liuely sets thine forth 11 To the white-handed Reader My good excell my bad ones well may passe Such grace white Reader thy kind iudgement has 12 To the black-mouth'd Reader My meane are nought my bad intolerable Thy enuy doth black Reader them disable 18 Diues and Lazarus The rich man hath in Gods Booke but his shame Poore Lazarus in Gods Booke hath his Name 22 The Spirit and Flesh. The Spirit this the Flesh drawes me that way Caesar and Ioue in me beare seuerall sway If there were once a good Peace 'twixt these two In Earth there would not be so much adoe 24 Gods Sight and mans ouer-sight Men few things see God all things doth fore-see God seldome speakes but men still prating bee 25 The broad and narrow Way Heau'ns Way is narrow but Heau'ns Roomes are broad Hells way is large but narrow his aboade Who goes not the straite Way to the broad place The broad will bring him in a narrow case 30 A Catechisme We must beleeue twelue and we must do ten And pray for seuen if we 'll be godly men 31 Rich mens Repentance Why are so many rich men to Hell sent They repent nothing but their Mony spent 35 Wisedome Iustice and Fortitude He 's wise who knowes much iust who iust doth deale He valiant is who knowes and dares doe well 37 To Camber-Brittone Wales Scotland England now are ioynd in one Henceforth Wales is not Brittany alone 41 Christ Iesus God and Man Because the purer God-head could not dye Nor could the impure Man-hood satisfie Therefore our wise God suffered bodily 45 Adams fall was our thrall Since our first Parent Father Adams fall Our bodies goods and soules are thus in thrall Diuines haue got the sway ouer our soules Physicions bodies Lawyers goods controwle 47 A good Preacher The mornings trusty Herauld Chantecleare Before he tells vs that the day is neere Russels himselfe stretching forth euery wing And then his good newes lowdly he doth sing So a good Preacher shoud rouze himselfe then When he intends to stirre vp other men 65 Niggard and prodigall Niggards nothing will giue whil'st they haue breath Vnthrifts haue nothing to giue after death 76 Old Criticks New Phantasticks His enuy is too grosse who likes no new diuice And he that likes nothing but new his enuy is too nice 77 A Christians Death As in a way Death doth vs to life bring Death 's no enterring but an entering 80 Holinesse is better then Learning To reade Saints liues and not liue like them holy Doth not respect but doth neglect them wholly 82 An Atheists godlinesse Thou hast no Faith on any thing that 's past Nor dost thou hope on any thing at last But on the present all thy Loue is plast 84 The diuers effects of praise Praise doth improue the Good man hurts the Bad Infatuates Fooles makes wise the crafty Lad. 86 The Enuious and the Foolish man The foole wants wit the enuious a good mind Whil'st this sees not the other will be blind 96 Diuine Vertue Vertue an act is not an idle breath In workes not words are found Loue Hope and Faith 105 Young Dayes Then now time was when first of all time was When the new world was fram'd out of the masse Now tell me Reader of Antiquities Are these the elder or the newer dayes 106 Desire and haue Would'st thou doe good continue thy good will He that gaue thee desire will giue thee skill 108 Good men are better then wise men Wise men are wiser then good men What then 'T is better to be better then wise men 110 Much Preaching To Preachers 'T is signe of much ill where much preaching needs For what needs preaching where you see good deeds A reply to mine Author Yes preaching may doe good where goodnesse growes T' incourage to confirme to comfort those 112 Eloquence Not he that prates and takes a foule great deale Is eloquent but hee that talketh well As that is not good ground that ranke weeds beares But that which breeds good grasse or great full eares 116 Loue comes by seeing Faith comes
That saying of thy Nature is not ment 95 To an one-eyed Souldier Of thy two eyes thou now hast left but one Which by his moistnesse alway seemes to mone One eye being lost why alway weeps the other Because that in the warres he lost his brother 96 Why there is no peace in Europe Princes make warre and soone their warres doe cease Oft times they warre to haue the better peace Diuines striue and with Venome fill their veines With gall their stomackes and with spite their braines Longer and worse they warre with quills and words Then Princes vse to doe with fire and swords 97 An Antidote lest women should be proud When thou thy faire face see'st in thy fine glasse Be not puft vp because it beauty has Brittle and fraile is thy faire fine neate feature How like thy fine glasse art thou pretty Creature 100 Natures Horizon Two Elements we see not fire and aire Water and Earth wee see 'cause they are neere So wee know men and beasts that are below High Angels highest God we doe not know 105 An ambo dexter A Fencer with a two-hand Scabberd If Pompey ouercome I am his man If Caesar winne I 'm a Caesarian 113 A Kings behauiour To King Iames. All subiects in their manners follow Kings What they doe bids forbearing forbids things A Kings behauiour swayes his subiects lyues As the first moouer all the fixt starres driues 114 The head is worth all the body besides To King Iames. Reason and senses in the head resides Nothing in man worth any thing besides 115 Kings feare Death What Kings feare most what men feare them to tell Fame boldly tells them and the passing Bell. 118 A Losing Gaine Adam did lose a rib to get a wife Poore gaine by her he lost eternall Life 119 Head Tyres Huge high-topt-wyres and tyres with toyes bespred Doe rather build then beautifie the head 121 The East and Westerne Churches The right hand Faith is in the worlds left Coast The right hand of the world hath left faith most 127 To his Reader Thirsty those are that doe eat salt meats first Would my salt lines might cause in thee such thirst 128 How to rule a wife Who begs not nor commands what he would haue His wife is not his Mistresse nor his slaue Addition A Probleme Yet some are so ill-natur'd or ill bred With whom request commands threats haue ill sped What bit is fit for beasts that so take head 131 To Anabaptists and such kind of mealy Brethren You build no Churches Churches you destroy This Zeale doth not heale but Christs Church annoy The Spirit you say doth presse you fiercely on What spirit is your spirit then A-badd-on 132 Alchymists folly God at the first of nothing all things wrought Our Alchymists reduce all things to nought 136 The Crosse in Cheapside ouer against Saint Peters and Pauls Crosse in the Booke-row Why is Saint Peters guilt Pauls crosse of lead Vnder Pauls Crosse are golden Lectures read 140 Seneca the Philosopher Thy writings are fine Epigrams in face They nothing want but Poets cinquepace 141 To the honourable wise iudicious Knight Sir Henry Neuil Sonne and Heire to the Lord of Aberguenny I thinke I heard you once say at your boord That your taste the sharp taste of salt abhord Wise Sir you need not to eat salt Wherefore All your wise talke hath salt in it good store 144 Contention is fit to dwell no where In heauen or Hell is no dissention In Heauen all good in Hell ill euery one In earth mens diuers dispositions Doe cause both long and strong diuisions Therefore the earth shall be quite emptied And heauen and hell be fully peopled 147 The poore mans poore comfort To a rich man Vnconstant Fortune quickly changeth cheare Hence springs my future Hope thy present Feare 149 The Heart Why is the right side of the Heart bereft And on the left plac'd Wisedome it hath left 156 The Worlds blacke Saunts or Musicke for the Deuill The World 's so full of shrill-voyc'd iangling Of deepe repyning and base murmuring The Base so deepe the Treble is so high That Meane and Tenor we cannot discry 159 The world growes worse and worse Our Syres were worse then theirs we worse then they For still the World growes worser eu'ry day If our posterity grow worse then we A worser race then theirs there cannot be 160 Londons Loadstone As Thames deuoures many small brookes and rills Soe smaller Townes with their wealth London fills But though that Thames empts it selfe in the Sea Wealth once at London neuer runnes a way 162 Fooles and Dwarfes Though wit or vertue haue in vs no treasure Yet we are Great mens sports and Great mens pleasure 163 Euery man is full of care Poore men haue care because that they are poore Rich men haue wealth and haue much care therefore Who hath no wife takes great care to haue one Who hath a wife hath more then who hath none 171 The blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of Christ Iesus A blessed Virgin that 's thy common Name Aboue all Women blest that is thy fame Thy Virgins blessed State had me nought wonne Had'st thou not beene the Mother of thy Sonne 173 New fashions in words Old words are new reuiu'd and those shall dye Which now are in discoursing prized high And with bold flights in our set speeches fly Our now new pleasant words will not please long Because they cannot still continue young And other newer words will them out-throng 180 To an Old Churle Thou that did'st neuer doe good any way When wilt begin to doe good Thou dost say When I dye to the poore I le leaue my state Who 's not wise till he dyes is wise too late 182 A fearefull Soules flesh-farewell Why should the immortall soule feare bodies death Feares shee to expire with the bodies breath Or feares she going hence she must resort To long long punishment but iudgement short Cold shaking feare of the hot fire of hell Makes this sad soule loth bid the flesh farewell Addition A good Christians Soules Flesh-farewell A thought so base hath not that soule surpriz'd Who knowes the flesh shall be immortaliz'd He feares no punishment who is assur'd Before he dye his pardon is procur'd Body and soule thus chear'd by Gods grace Part like friends pointing a new meeting place Therefore who hopes for Heauen and feares not Hell May chearefully bid the fraile flesh farewell An Epigram on both these Hee feares not death who hopes for Heauens glory He may feare Death that feareth purgatory Or he that thinkes this life shall end his story A Prayer hereupon Good dreadfull God though I liue fearefully Yet when I dye make me dye cheerefully 183 A woman may be too proud If I should praise thee thou wouldst prouder grow And thou already art too proud I trow 184 A muck-Worme Heau'n still views thee and thou shouldst it still view God gaue Heau'n lights and hath
Why cause you else your Saints to weepe sweate bleed 57. Curious barly Brethren Those that will haue all Names out of Gods booke And hold all other Names in detestâ—tion Poore begging Lazarus Name these neuer tooke They more feare pouerty then Prophanation 58. A Scriuener on a Trotter Scriueners get most by riding trotting horses Copper-Ars and Gall for Inke towards their losses 59 Womens wise Teares Disburthening teares breeds sad hearts some reliefe And that 's one cause few Women dye of griefe 60. To my Reader If breuity my Reader doe displease I vse it more for his then for my ease 62. Youths conceit and Ages knowledge I thought my selfe wise when I was at Schoole But now I know I was and am a Foole. 63. Hearbe-grace commonly called Rewe Chast men with name of Hearbe of Grace this grac't Because thereby they thought they were kept chaste Some women hereupon did name it Rew. Because thereby they thought they lost their Due 64. To Writers of Hereticall and Keepers of false Books When yee before Gods Iudgemen Seat shall come Out of your owne books yee shall read your doome God need not to produce his owne True Booke For He doth daily on your False books looke 65. To a Periwiggian who hopes to gaine by some friends death Thou maist well hope to be some dead-mans heire For thou already wear'st some dead-mens haire 66. Gossipes and Good-wiues Whither goe these Good wiues so neat and trimme They goe a sipping or a gossiping Come hither Boy wipe cleane my Spectacles I shall see none of these Good-women else 67. A young Saint an old Deuill to a Contous old Man Thou changed art of late as I am told Lesse charitable growne as thou grow'st old Thy former good was heate of youth in thee For grace once rooted will grow like a Tree Which neuer can eradicated bee 68. A mad Wenches Iustice. Since not to be thy wiues head thou do'st scorne Thinke this as just The head must weare the Horne 69. Wee are Gods Husbandry or Gods crop out of a fortile Christian Soule A good Soule drest with Zeale plow'd vp with feare Water'd with Gods grace a large crop will beare The roote firme Faith Hope the blade spreading faire From these springs Loue into a large full eare The roote is sure the blade endures the storme With sheaues of Loue we must fill full Gods Barne 70. To a faire Whore When we doe see a woman sweetly faire We say that God hath done his part in her Thou passing faire but passing wicked art In thee therefore Satan hath play'd his part 71. Riches is now a dayes the House vpon Mens heads In elder times good Manners made a Man In our wise age good Mannors maketh one 72. Monyes Etymologie Mony that 's Mone I for when I haue none I pensiue am and sad and sigh and mone 73. The Treasure of the Church or the Popes Exchequor Wert not for the huge large imagin'd chest The Key whereof hangs at the Popes owne brest Where ouer-doers works are rang'd for buyers For prophane Traytors Gripers Leachers Lyers The Popes strong-bard-chest would be lin'd but thinne A bagge would serue to keepe his treasure in 74. A wicked contentious mans Epitaph None liuing lou'd him for his death none grieu'd Saue some say Griefe it was he so long liu'd 75. An Epitaph On euery well meaning man vndone by his kindnesse My rich heart made me Poore comforting Sad My helping Impotent my Goodnes Bad. 76. To one of Fortunes white Sonnes Thou hast liu'd many yeeres in perfect health Great friends thou hast for thou hast got much wealth All things fall pat with thee which thou would'st haue Were it not pitty thou should'st be a Knaue 77. Death and VVarre Warre begets Famine famine Plague plague Death War breathes forth woes but Death stops all woes breath Warre is great A of ills and Death is Z. In warres red Letters Deaths feast-dayes are read 78. The Popish Legend The Iewish Talmoud Mahomets Alcheron The Legend Talmoud and the Alcheron Are differing lyes for one intention They worke for differing works fram'd on one frame Like lewd large lyes fit for the whet-stone game One way they tend though seuerall wayes proceed Hee well beleeues who makes them not his Creed 79. To an Armenian Canary Bird. Thou that think'st good works in Gods nose so sauory What sauour think'st thou smells he in thy knauery 80. Faith without Works Works without Faith To beleeue and liue ill is but to thinke Without Faiths salt Good-works will quickly-stinke 81. Vngirt Vnblest Vngirt vnblest a Prouerbe old and good A true one too if rightly vnderstood Vnblest he shall be euerlastingly Who is not girt with Christian verily 82. True Chastity Not who doth not yet gladly would goe to it Is Chast but he that may and will not doe it 83. From hardnesse of heart good Lord deliuer vs. It s God alone that makes a tender heart To make hearts hard ours and the Deuils part 84. A perswasion to Heauen Where Heauen is all our Diuines agree They cannot well tell where Hells seate should bee Why should we not to knowne Heauen bend our race Rather then by sinne seeke an vnknowne place 85. To a namelesse Religious Friend Why dost thou euery Sermon Gods Word call Since Preachers broach damn'd errors flatter brawle Indeed thou maist Sermons this praise afford It is or should be Gods owne holy Word 86. To King IAMES King of Great Britaine c. of blessed memory Our Ministers in their Euangeling Praying for thee stile thee Great Brittaines King Our Lawyers pleading in Westminster Hall Of England and of Scotland King thee call For what great mystery I cannot see Why Law and Gospell should thus disagree Only I judge that Preachers giue thee thine By their Law it s as lawfull as Diuine 87. The most Catholike King of Spaine The Spanish King is stil'd Most Catholicke In it is hid a quaint mysterious tricke His meaning is not in Religion But he intends it in Dominion 88. What vse old Moones are put to What doth become of old Moones thou dost aske And where her borrowed influence she shades For me to tell thee t were too hard a taske A witty Wagge sayes They fill Womens heads 89. Little Legges and lesse wit At first me thought a wise man thou should'st be For Calfe about thee I could no where see T is thought thy Calfes are walkt into thy braine For all thy talke is in a Caluish vaine 90. Problematically prouing that the City of Rome is not the seat of CHRISTS Vicar Generall Since Christ his old choice Citie ruined 'Cause it despis'd Him and his Saints blood shed Why should He Rome with supreme Grace inable Who kil'd him and of his innumerable 91. I proue it thus Our Lord was Crucifi'd by Pilats doome His death was Roman and his Iudge of Rome And of his death the chiefe pretended cause Was for the breach of Romes Imperiall
obiects the coldnesse of the Winter in Newfound-Land and may serue for all those that haue the like conceit You say that you would liue in Newfound-land Did not this one thing your conceit withstand You feare the Winters cold sharp piercing ayre They loue it best that haue once winterd there Winter is there short wholesome constant cleare Not thicke vnwholesome shuffling as 't is here 82. To the right worshipfull Iohn Slany Treasurer to the Newfound-land Company and to all the rest of that Honorable Corporation I know that wise you are and wise you were So was hee who this Action did preferre Yet some wise men doe argue otherwise And say you were not or you are not wise They say you were not wise to vndertake it Or that you are not wise thus to forsake it 83. Of the same Honorable Company Diuers well-minded men wise rich and able Did vndertake a plot inestimable The hopefull'st easiest healthi'st iust plantation That ere was vndertaken by our Nation When they had wisely worthily begunne For a few errors that athwart did runne As euery action first is full of errors They fell off flat retir'd at the first terrors As it is lamentably strange to me In the next age incredible 't will be 84. To the right Honourable Sir George Calvert Knight late Principall Secretary to King IAMES Baron of Baltomore and Lord of Aualon in Newfound-land Your worrh hath got you Honour in your dayes It is my honour you my verses praise O let your Honour cheerefully goe on End well your well begunne Plantation This holy hopefull worke you haue halfe done For best of any you haue well begunne If you giue ouer what hath so well sped Your sollid wisedome will be questioned 86. To the same Nobleman Yours is a holy just Plantation And not a iustling supplantation 86. To the right worthy learned and wise Master William Vaughan chiefe Vndertaker for the Plantation in Cambrioll the Southermost part of Newfound-Land who with penne purse and Person hath and will proue the worthines of that enterprise It ioy'd my heart when I did vnderstand That your selfe would your Colonie command It greeu'd me much when as I heard it told Sicknes had layd on you an vnkind hold Beleeue me Sir your Colchos Cambrioll Is a sweet pleasant wholesome gainefull soyle You shall find there what you doe want Sweet health And what you doe not want as sweet Sweet wealth 87. To the same industrious Gentleman who in his golden golden-fleece stiles himselfe Orpheus Iunior Your noble humor indefatigable More vertuous constant yet then profitable Striuing to doe good you haue lost your part Whil'st lesser losse hath broke some Tradesmens heart Yet you proceed with person purse and penne Fitly attended with laborious men Goe on wise Sir with your old bold braue Nation To your new Cambriolls rich Plantation Let Dolphins dance before you in the floods And play you Orpheus Iunior in her woods 88. Some Diseases were neuer in Newfound-land To the right worthy Mistres Anne Vaughan wife to Doctor Vaughan who hath an honourable desire to liue in that Land Those that liue here how young or old soeuer Were neuer vext with Cough nor Aguish Feauer Nor euer was the Plague nor small Pox heere The Aire is so salubrious constant cleere Yet scuruy Death stalks heere with theeuish pace Knocks one downe here two in another place 89. To Sir Richard Whitborne Knight my deare friend Sometime Lieutenant to Doctor Vaughan for his Plantation in Newfound-Land who hath since published a worthy booke of that most hopefull Country Who preaching well doth doe and liue as well His doing makes his preaching to excell For your wise well-pend Booke this Land 's your debter Doe as you write you 'le be beleeu'd the better 90. To my good Friend Mr. Thomas Rowley who from the first Plantation hath liu'd in Newfound-Land little to his profit When some demaund Why rich you doe not grow I tell them Your kind nature makes it so They say that heere you might haue gotten wealth Adam in Paradise vndid himselfe 91 There is more gaine in an honest Enemy then in a flattering Friend A flattering Friend in 's Commendations halts An honest Foe will tell me all my faults 92. To the right Honourable Sir Henry Cary Knight Viscount Faukeland Lord Deputy of Ireland I ioy'd when you tooke part of Newfound-Land I grieu'd to see it lye dead in your hand I ioy'd when you sent people to that Coast I grieu'd when I sawe all that great charge lost Yet let your Honor try it once againe With wise stayd carefull honest-harted men I am to blame you boldly to aduise For all that know you know you wondrous wise Yet neere-hand Dull bleare-ey'd may better see Then quicker cleare-ey'd that a farre off bee 93. To the Honourable Knight Sir Perciuall Willoughbie who to his great cost and losse aduentur'd in this action of Newfound-Land Wise men wise Sir doe not the fire abhorre For once being findg'd more wary grow therefore Shall one disaster breed in you a terror With honest meet wise men mend your first error If with such men you would begin againe Honor and profit you would quickly gaine Beleeue him who with griefe hath seene your share 'T would doe you good were such men planted there 94. To my very good Friend Mr. Iohn Poyntz Esquire one of the Planters of Newfound-Land in Doctor Vaughans Plantation 'T is said wise Socrates look't like an Asse Yet he with wondrous sapience filled was So though our Newfound-Land look wild saluage She hath much wealth penn'd in her rustie Cage So haue I seene a leane-cheekes bare and ragged Who of his priuate thousands could haue bragged Indeed she now lookes rude vntowardly She must be decked with neat husbandry So haue I seene a plaine swarth sluttish Ione Looke pretty pert and neat with good cloathes on 95. To the right Honorable Knight Sir William Alexander Principall and prime Planter in New-Scotland To whom the King hath giuen a Royall gift to defray his great charges in that worthy busines Great Alexander wept and made sad mone Because there was but one World to be wonne It ioyes my heart when such wise men as you Conquer new Worlds which that Youth neuer knew The King of Kings assist blesse you from Heauen For our King hath you wise assistance giuen Wisely our King did aide on you bestow Wise are all Kings who all their gifts giue so 'T is well giuen that is giuen to such a One For seruice done or seruice to be done By all that know you 't is well vnderstood You will dispend it for your Countries good Old Scotland you made happy by your birth New-Scotland you will make a happy earth 96. To the same Wise Learned Religious Patriot most Excellent Poet. You are a Poet better ther 's not any You haue one super-vertue 'mongst your many I wish I were your equall in the one And in the other your
by hearing To Princes Now out alas Zeale and the ancient Faith You doe pretend and warme her with your breath Religion you pretend t' increase your honour Not to restore Religions honour on her 117 O Times O Manners With our faults we doe times and manners blame Accusing times and manners with the same Neither in times nor manners is the crime By times we are not viced but in time 118 Knowledge-hunters Philosophers of our time Most would know all little beleeue but such Doe know but little and beleeue too much 120 More Zeale then Godlinesse Diuines striue and their case is in the Iudge Would God till he did bid they would not budge Diuines striue and who 's Iudge they do contend Would God that that were all they did pretend That strife of loue were their intention Not loue of strife and of contention 123 A quiet and a temperate life frees a man from Lawyers and Physicions If men would temperate be in thought and dyet Eating that's good and keeping themselues quiet If men would patient be and not be stird With couetice and euery testy word Those that now pleade in Gownes might then part Lice And Veluet Caps goe poyson Rats and Mice 124 The vicissitude of Marriage One bed can hold a louing man and wife A great house cannot hold them being at strife 125 Death sudden and sure Death hath his day which he will not for-slow To morrow is that day for ought we know 128 A Prayer Good God that dost all wills to thy will tye Giue me a will to liue a will to dye 129 Good Counsell without a Fee If that the Iudge be deafe then heare thou mee Good Counsell I 'll thee giue without a Fee Study thy Iudge more then thou dost thy case So in that case thou shalt haue no disgrace 130 To a Belly-god Fasting was first ordained as a Rod To awe flesh to the spirit the spirit to God But Fasting-dayes most of thy Feast dayes be Thy spirit serues thy flesh both of them thee 132 It is no marueile that we haue no Miracles Is Gods arme short that Miracles are gone No Our short-arm'd Faith now can reach vs none 138 Griefe and Pleasure Bodies and soule-griefes vex till they are past Griefes vex vs first they comfort vs at last But present pleasures please though bought with paine Their present pleasures future sorrowes gaine 140 An argument against sleeping If dying sleeping be sleeping to die Why then the more I sleepe the lesse liue I. 143 Contrary to the Prayer of the Apostles Luk. 17.5 The multiplicitie of beliefes in our dayes doth rather require this prayer Decrease our Faiths Lord 't is increast too farre As many men so many Faithes there are And each one dotes on his fond Misteres Neuer more faiths nor more vnfaithfulnes 146 Vanity of vanities Heraclitus that shed so much salt brine For those few small ills of his better time If hee did see and know the best of our Hee 'd weepe out both his eyes in halfe an houre And did Democritus laugh out his life In his dayes when folly was not so rise If he dip see those parts that we doe play Hee 'd laugh out all his Spleene in halfe a day 148 Works Consequence Their workes doe follow them that still doe well Those that doe ill follow their works to Hell 149 Feare begets zeale We shall desire Heauen if we feare Hell fire Cold feare of Hell inflames heauens hot desire 161 Owens Bracelet Our senses without Reason are nought worth Nor Reason vnlesse Faith doe set it forth Neither is Faith without Loue to be deem'd Nor is Loue without God to be esteem'd 164 Wisdome and Valour Wise men feare harmes but valiant men do beare them So wise men beare them not nor braue men feare them 165 In the sweat of thy browes Our blessed God that bade vs for to get Our daily maintnance by our daily swet Did neuer promise vs without our paine We should our euerlasting maint'nance gaine 170 Retaliation To an ignoble Nobleman Thy Ancestors did many glorious acts But thou ne'r read'st the Record of their facts Iustice 't will be in those who thee succeeds If they reade not thy vile ignoble deeds 173 Iohn against all Though all men argue 'gainst thee in the right Thou hast one answer for them I deny it 174 Iustification Doth Faith or good works iustifie the iust Neither except God iustifie them first 181. A strange wish To a poore friend 'T is bad enough yet worser God thee send For when 't is at the worst then it will mend 182 The Earths division Cosmographers the Earth in foure parts share As many parts so many Creeds there are Addition Asia Affrick America Europe Iewish Mametan Pagan Christian hope 183. The cause of quarrels All sauour their owne sense their reasons sway All will haue their owne will and their owne way This is the cause of quarrels and debate For if will would be still we should not hate 185 A wise Man Who knowes the cause of things can temporize Rule passions order actions he is wise 186 Wisdomes souerainty Fate gouernes fooles wise men o're-rule the starrs Not Fate but their pate orders their affaires 187 A Chrisoms Epitaph Aske not the name of him that here doth lye Namelesse and blamelesse I poore child did dye Without a name O Christ I am ingrau'd That onely in thy Name I might be sau'd 191 Socrates knowledge Nothing thou know'st yet that thing thou dost know Thou know'st some thing and that 's nothing I trow This something 's nothing nothing's something tho 193 A Generall Epitaph Thou wert borne with not one ragge on thy back When thou went'st hence a sheet thou didst not lack Therefore thou carriedst more vnto thy Mother Then thou didst bring with thee when thou cam'st hither 196 The two Eyes of the world Law and Religion doe herein agree Good and bad minds and hands they tye and free 192 Death better then life Wee cry being borne from thence thus argue I If to be borne be bad t is good to dye 197 To Doctor Iohn Gifford a learned Physicion In Physicke still thou art exactly seene Thy selfe thou know'st both without and within Whilst Gallen shewes thee rules for others health Apollo teacheth thee to know thy selfe 200 Saint Pauls in London and Saint Peters in Westminster Saint Peters Church is by the Exchequor plac'd Hard by White-hall with the Kings presence grac'd But by Saint Pauls learned Diuines doe preach And there are sold those bookes which learning teach They 're fitly plac'd Pauls here Saint Peters there Peter the richer Paul the learneder 199 Miserable Iob. God gaue the Deuill leaue to spoyle Iobs wealth To kill his Children and impaire his health His friends vpbray'd him with his wretched life Yet had he one worse plague he had a wife 201 On those Traytors who the fift of Nouember 1605. intended to blow vp the Parliament house with Gunpowder These
like the old fain'd Gyant-Generation Would pluck the Gods out of their habitation With raising Pelion vpon Ossa hill And Babel towre build with a strange new skill Burne Troy to ashes and her peace disquiet And bring all things vnto a second Fiat Addition On this neuer the like heard of Treason and neuer to be forgotten Deliuerance Ne'r did the like report sound in mans eare God blest vs that That sound wee did not heare 202. To the Reader To those Gunpowder Traytors who on a Tuesday intended to blow vp the Parliament House Traytors would you with fire New-Troy destroy 'Cause Trayterous Greekes with fire destroyd old Troy Tuesday is Mars his day the God of Warre A day fit for a plot of Gunpowder 207. To the Reader Thou that readst these shalt find them shor and few Were these few many they would larger grow Thou that read'st these shalt find them few and short Were these few long they 'd be the larger for 't 208 Voice and Writing Though voice be liuing writing a Lead better Yet voice soone dyes writing liues long and etter PART OF MASTER IOHN OWENS EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED into ENGLISH THE FOVRTH BOOKE WHICH HE CALL HIS SOLE BOOKE Epig. 3. To his Booke THou now must passe euen through a world of hands Thy censure vnder diuers iudgements stands Who doth not reade thee may thee discommend More fault-finders then Readers thou wilt find 4 To the Inhabitants of Great Brittaine As bad as mad we well That man may hold Who doth despise needfull free-proferd gold He worthy were to weare a Bedlam fetter You did despise the Vnion that was better 10 The three Dimensions to a prating Iack. In thy talke are but two dimensions found 'T is large 't is long but not at all profound 16 To a great Courtier If the King smile on thee all will doe so As shaddows doe after our bodies goe If the King frowne all the Court will looke black As when the Sunne is set we shaddows Iack. 17 Baldnesse through Vice Though not one haire can on thy head be seene On that white table all may reade thy sinne 18 To Pontilian Calls he thee into Law Pontilian He calls not thee he calls thy mony man Addition He hopes to worke on thee by bribery By thy feare comprimise or forgery 20 Enuies Genealogie To the admirably-vertuous Sir Iohn Harrington then Heire to the Lord Harrington Faire Vertue foule-mouth'd Enuie breeds and feeds From Vertue onely this foule Vice proceeds Wonder not that I this to you indite 'Gainst your rare Vertues Enuie bends her spite 23 A rich Promiser but a poore Performer We should performe more then we promise can For God hath giuen one tongue two hands to man Nothing thou giu'st yet grantest each demand As if thou hadst two tongues but not a hand 26 Euery man flatters himselfe Of all the Planets betwixt vs and Heau'n The Moone though least seemes greatest of the seu'n To best conceits that other wayes doe know Because she 's neerest vs she seemeth so So though I am a Poet small and bad To my neere selfe I seeme the finest Lad. 29 Thy shaddow in thy Looking-glasse When thou dost laugh thy shaddow seemes to smile Whilst thou dost weepe he mourneth all the while Sleeping he winks all postures hee 'l afford Yet when thou speak'st he speaketh not a word 31 To a sleeping talker In sleepe thou speak'st vnfore-thought mysteries And vtt'rest vnfore-seene things with clos'd eies How well would'st thou discourse if thou wert dead Since sleepe Deaths image such fine talke hath bred 33 Mans misery Angels want bodies and are neuer sick Beasts wanting soules their conscience neuer prick Onely poore man of soule and body made Their bodies paines sadnesse their soules inuade Reason that should rule passion is not able She only shewes men they are miserable 35 To an vnmarried friend Good doers deserue Heau'n after this life Thou hast thy deseru'd heau'n thou hast no wife 36 Woe to the alone To a married friend proposing God for an example God made him Angels to attend his Throne And why because God would not liue alone Addition Hauing made Man makes Woman of his bone And why because man should not liue alone 38 An Atheists Inheritance When any man of Heau'n doth talke to thee Thou say'st they vaine and idle prattlers be What 's aboue vs to vs doth not belong Hell is below thee to burne such a tongue 40 To the Readers Dost thou aske me Why I take so much paine To be thus briefe Reader 't is for thy gaine As trauellers find gold lesse cumbersome Then siluer such is breuity to some 41 The New Roman Computation Rome that sayes she holds all points without change Why doth she old feast from the old ranke range 50 To an enuious Momus who found fault with his three first Bookes Had fiue iust men amongst a wicked brood Been found Gomorah to this day had stood For a few bad loose verses thou findst heere My whole booke thou black Reader wouldst casheere 53 The poore Cuckolds Complaint For my wiues close-stolne sports why am I blam'd And of the common vulgar Cuckold nam'd And pointed at For what I did not act But you I know not who call 't not my fact 69 Cardinall Wolseys Ego Rex mens I and my King Grammarians will allow I and my King The Courtier say's it was a saucy thing Grammarians teach words Courtiers words well sort This phrase might passe in Schooles but not at Court 75 Deaths Trouer Death finds some as Vlysses found his wife With care and sorrow spinning out her life Addition To her Vlysses was a welcome guest To some as welcome is Deaths sad arrest 80 A bad Debtor I know thou tak'st great care both night and day Not how thou mayst but how thou mayst not pay Thou payst me nothing that 's thy wickednesse But payst thy Lawyer that 's thy foolishnesse 82 The deriuatiue Church There is but one true Church as one true Faith Which from th' Eternall Spirit hath her breath From Primitiue all would themselues deriue To proue it they strange arguments contriue 84 The good of want If how good things are by want best are knowne I should know mony 's good for I haue none 87 Democrates many Worlds If all those Worlds were those innumerable Which fond Democrates did earst belieue I doe beleeue that amongst all that rabble This world would be the worst wherein we liue 88 Of Epigrams An Epigram that 's new quick tart sharp witty Is like a Wench that 's new faire smooth neate pretty Whilst they are new and fresh they are respected Once commnon though still good they are neglected 91 A couetous mans bounty or a sure marke-man He giues to take takes not to giue againe Giuing his arrowes are his marke is gaine 93 Penelope's Patience Penelope's patient Fidelity Was once a Prouerbe now a Prodigy 94 To Anetta Nature 't is said with little is content