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A11625	The second part of Philomythie, or Philomythologie Containing certaine tales of true libertie. False friendship. Power vnited. Faction and ambition. / By Thomas Scot Gent..; Philomythie. Part 2.	Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 21871A.7; ESTC S116842	14,994	40

THE SECOND PART OF PHILOMYTHIE OR PHILOMYTHOLOGIE CONTAINING certaine Tales OF True Libertie False Friendship Power Vnited Faction and Ambition By THOMAS SCOT Gent. Printed at London for Francis Constable 1616. MONARCHIA Dedicated to all the worthy professors of the Law who make not priuate-wealth but the good and peace of the Common-wealth the end of their studies and practise Though you perhaps be Clyentlesse and few Friendlesse and poore yet 't is to you Isue For kinde acceptance You alone are they Who by example guide vs in our way You looke not on the fee but on the cause And follow truth as truth doth lead the Lawes The rest with vice and wealths ill-gotten load Passe on to death in glories beaten road TH' inhabitants of the I le of Wight did bost No vermin vs'd to harbour in their coast Cambden de Insula vectis This title is giuen them by our vvorthy L. chiefe Iustice of Eng. For they no hooded Monkes nor Foxes had Nor Law ⋆ Retriuers who make fooles run mad With their strife-stirring tongues but liued as free From these as by them others combred be And though our whole land cannot boast so farre That we from all such vermin quitted are Yet happy is our Ile that 's hemd about With water-walles to keepe our enemies out Whilst we as Adam did in Eden dwell And scarce of famine in an age heare tell Where hils are clad with woods and vales with corn Whose laden eares doe listen to be shorne Where shepheards neither Lyon doubt nor Beare Nor rauening Wolfe which sheep shepheard teare But each in safety dwell and sillie sheepe From all but Man doe one the other keepe O happy are we if we know our good And if our state be rightly vnderstood To liue thus free vnder so blest a King Iust Magistrates and Cleargy-men that sing The songs of Syon in the holy tongue Conuerting old men and informing yong No spirit-tyrant Pope state-tyrant Turke Can here their bloudy ends and proiects worke Eut each in safety may his owne possesse More free then Kings because our cares belesse But most vnhappy are those neighbour lands Where Peace and Plentie as two strangers stands Where bloudie war and bloodlesse famine ride Vpon the ruin'd top of thanklesse Pride Where Law destroies Diuinity deceiues And where the crowne the care of kingdome leaues Where men eate men as beast deuourd by beast The strong the weaker kill the great the least Where tyrannie in triumph mounted hie Makes truth and innocence in dungeons lie This tale the difference shewes that we may know How much to God for our good king we owe. An aged Hart vpon mount Carmel bred Hauing as Admirall the Nauy led From Syria through the Seas to Cyprus shore Where all the I le with greene is couered o're Hapt by a Parke to trauaile where he spide A yonger sad Hart standing close beside Th'imprisoning pale and v●ng all his skill To free himselfe from thence to larger ill Good brother quoth the stranger let me know What heauy thoughts they are that vex you so Why do you sadly so your selfe bemone Why hauing friends within come you alone To feed sad melancholly and inuent To doe a rash act which you le soone repent The younger Deere made answer Can ye muse Why I am sad and wherefore I doe vse All meanes to free my selfe from being thus A slaue to him that 's foe to all of vs Know brother I endure more sorrowes here In one halfe day then you in one whole yeere For you haue liberty to come and goe Though forrester and woodman both say no. But I by cruell man imprisond keepe Within this woodden walls where none but sheepe Hares Conyes Cowes and other of my kinne Are my associates simple soules within I haue no beast of worth of birth or wit With whom I may conuerse but faine to fit My lofty spirit to the lowly straine Of base companions sluggish fearefull vaine No Wolues or dogs come here whereby decaies The exercise of valure and the praise The traps for vermin are so thicke beset That oftentimes they some of vs doe get The watchfull keeper euery night and morne Commands me rise and rest with his shrill horne He with his Lymehound rounds the pale about For feare least we be stolne or broken out He feeds vs cheerfully and doth prouide Sufficient meat that 's fit for euery tide But being fat he chooseth which he likes And through our sides deaths forked arrow strikes Thus all he doth is his owne turne to serue And for his owne life doth our liues preserue Then gentle brother helpe to free me hence And my swift thanks shall yeeld you recompence Stay brother mad-brain stay quoth Lightfoot thē If you were out you 'ld wish you in agen I was in Syria borne and euery yeere A dangerous voyage make for what you here Enioy with proud contempt We cannot find Content on earth without a thankfull mind You slight your ease and plenty we alas With toyle seeke that which you with scorn let passe Our meat is grutchd we like to robbers watcht So what we feed on here and there is snatcht The pale you call your prison rather may Be tearmd your Castle Garden Closet Stay To keepe out others from those ioyes of yours Or to preserue you from these woes of ours Whilst we without by Lyons Leopards Beares Wolues Eagles Serpents and a thousand feares Are howrely vext beset besieged so That as our shadowes death doth next vs goe Yet none our deaths reuenge nor craues account How our neglected blood is lauisht out For euen that Man which is your guard to vs Proclaimes himselfe a foe most dangerous He hunts for our destruction cheeres the hound Rides runs whoopes hollowes and at euery sound Rings our shrill deaths bell with so fearefull blast As charmes our ioynts to heare whilst hounds make hast To finish our desired death and glut With our sweet flesh each vermins maw and gut Thus doe we die abroad for euery man Claimes right in vs and labors all they can Our weary feet in toyles nets snares t' inclose When you haue friends to guard you from your foes If therefore you haue told me truth that there You doe no creature but your keeper feare O bring me to this prison shew me how I may obtaine a blessed life with you Direct me to a leape I le soone leape in T is happinesse vnhappy to haue been With that he mounts the pale adue quoth he Vaine wide wild world who serues the law is free Epimythium There hath been long disputation to find out the true freedome The world holds opinion that Libertines vvho doe what they list and lust whatsoeuer is vnlavvfull are onely free men Caine vvas founder of this brotherhood He might doe what he list he was a vagabond exempt from lawes he had a marke of priuiledge set vpon him to keep him from punishment here Our Iesuits and King-killers

being exempt from the temporall sword are free of this company But the child of God whose affections are mortified who obeis law for conscience sake who is a law vnto himselfe is the onely freeman for to him the Magistrate bears the sword in vaine He would be honest without law and wil be honest if the law should forbid him Yet vvould he not resist but submit himselfe to power He is free of that company whereof S. Paul professeth himselfe one when he saith I I haue learned in al estates to be contented How much more happy are they who liue vnder the protection of a good king and wholesome lawes then these are who liuing here like outlawes goe without contradiction out of momentany pleasure liberty into eternal slauery punishmēt The Cony-burrow ¶ Dedicated to the louers of worth and friends of vertue who follow truth with a single heart and speake it with a single tongue Be innocent but circumspect withall The Turtles mate may be the Turtles stall Be wise yet trust not wit The traps we make For others first doe our false fingers take What we delight to vse take pride to weare Takes vs as Absalon hangd with his haire Then walke vpright to neither hand encline There 's nought frees innocence but grace diuine THe Polcat Ferret Lobstar Weasel made A secret match the Cony to inuade Which no way they could compasse whilst he kept Himselfe abroad when as he fed or slept At last the Polcat to the Cony went With this smooth speech Good cousen my intent Hath been long since t' acquaint you with our kin And tell ye how our cousenage came in Your Grandame was my carefull fostermother To your kind sire I was a fosterbrother My education nurture and my foode I from my youth receiued from your sweet brood In recompence whereof my thankfull mind A fitte requitall long desired to finde The time is come for I haue lately found A secret plot wherein the cunning hound The close dissembling Tumbler Lurcher swift With Raynard that knowes many a subtill shift The Eagle and the Goshauke haue agreed Their stomacke with your dainty flesh to feed First they intend the hound shall hunt ye out And by your footing heate ye once about Then shall that hypocrite the Tumbler trie To cheare you of your life with his false eie But if he faile the Lurcher with his speed Will snatch yee vp they hope and doe the deed If not the Eagle Fox and Goshauke sweare To eat no meat till on your lims they teare The harmlesse Cony at this dire report Ready to sound besought in humble sort The wary Polcat him t' instruct and teach A way how he might scape his foes long reach Faith quoth the Polcat you perhaps might hide Your selfe among thicke bushes vnespide But that the Hounds and Lurcher both are there Whose sents will quickly find ye out I feare Againe vpon the rocks you might remaine But that the Eagle Fox and Goshauke saine Thei 'l watch ye there so that no other way Remaines to scape with life but night and day To scrape and grate with your forefeet a den Within the earth where safe from beasts and men And foule and euery bloody foe you shall Your life securely lead in spight of all The simple Cony doubting no deceit Thought treason had not councell for a bait And therefore thanks his foe and glad at heart To dig his owne graue vseth all his art A sandy place he seeks and finding one Free from all clay or flint or other stone He with his forefeet grates and makes a burrow As deepe as if he ment to trauaile thorow The body of the earth and meet the Sunne When it vnto the Antipodes doth run Which hauing finisht he prepares a feast And there the Polcat is the chiefest guest The Lobster Ferret Weasel too must goe To ioy him in his house they loue him so And their great friend the siluer-suited Snake Must needs along with them and merry make He welcomes them and doth before them set What iunckets he with purse or paines could get The Lyons Court hath not a dainty dish But he prouides it euen beyond their wish Yet they that long for blood till blood be shed Cannot be satisfied though fully fed Ingratitude thou monster of the minde Art thou not only proper to mankind Is there a beast that can forget his friend And for his owne ends worke his fellowes end Is there a beast whose lust prouokes him kill The beast that did him good nere wisht him ill Is there a beast who vnder kindnesse can Dissemble hate O then thrice happy man Thou art not only he that kilst thy brother Some beasts there are that murther one another Some foules some fishes Serpents some there are Who pray vpon their kind in open war And some that vnder friendship falsly faind With fellowes murther haue their natures staind Nay there is one who can so couer euill That man may iudge him Angell find him diuell He first with sweetmeats poysond Adams seed Since when of sweet meats wisest men take heed So need not these bould guests they eat and drink And then rise vp to play but neuer thinke Ought fadgeth right till they haue brought to passe The purposde plot for which this meeting was Therefore dissemblingly the Polcat gins To licke and catch the Cony and so wins Hould vnderneath his throat which hauing fast The tragedy begins the sport is past For all assault him then on euery part Some at his sides some at his head and heart Some at his belly but the poisonous Snake Doth at his tayle a deadly issue make The helplesse Cony sues intreats and striues But he must die had he ten thousand liues Each foe his greedy gorge with blood doth glut And with his fweet flesh cram each hollow gut But blood that 's sweet in tast is not so sound To feed vpon as milke that 's easier found The Snake with poisonous touch had venome spred Through all the swelling vaines from taile to head And they had suckt the blacke infection in A fitting vengeance for their crying sinne Straight they their stomackes find not well at ease And something feele that doth their minds displease The Weasel first suspects the Snake for he Can neuer with a Serpent well agree Saies they are poisond all by one base slaue Whose company the Ferret needs would haue The Snake replies he did no more but what He was appointed to performe by plot And if they foolishly had eat their last He could not mend with sorrow what was past They find it true but find it now too late Each rauing dies and yeelds constraind by fate Yet ere they die all doe their farewell take By shaking teeth together on the Snake Who deadly wounded crawles but faintly thence Confounded with the guilt of his offence And heeding not his way by good mishap Became a prisoner to the warriners trap This feast

was ended thus death tooke away And where they did not well we mend it may Epimythium Some are of opinion that wisedome consisteth in the ability to giue good counsell But I think the knowledge how to take good counsell and how to discerne the differencs of aduise is the principall part of wisedome That Frog in AEsope which in a great drought spying water in a deepe pit aduised his fellow to leape downe that they might be satisfied and liue there gaue good counsell and seemed to be a patterne of the first wisedome spoken of But the other Frog that refused his aduise and diued deeper then the present time then the bottome of the pit with this question But if the water faile vs there how shall we then get out or how shall we liue there was a figure of the second wisedome and teacheth vs that it is harder to take good counsell then to giue it Let vs therefore beware in this point and learne to looke a little beyond that good which is first and most apparant in euery proiect The second and third good is that which we must rest on for truth is often most remote and neerest the bottome all that swims vppermost is the froth and false good and fraud The House of Fame Dedicated to all the noble attendants of Royalty in the Campe of Vertue who fight for the honor of the Church and Common-wealth Till now of late we feard that lowd report Of Cressy field Poicters and Agincourt Fought by our Kings and Princes heretofore Had not been true or should be tould no more We wondred if those Nobles euer were Whom fame for armes and bounty did prefer We doubted all our Countries had forgot The deede of Audely or beleeud it not We thought our Nation was of worth bereft When bowes and arrowes and brown bills were left But see occasion now hath turnd our eyes To inward wars where greater wonders rise To see affection conquerd lust chastisd'e Pride humbled Murther slaine all vice despisd'e And all old vertues freshly now reneude By faire examples as the Sun ere vewd In which braue war of wonders passing far All other conflicts that compounded are Of loue and hate each Lord who lends a hand To fight gainst vice for vertue doth this land More honor then his Ancestors before In conquering France and shall be famd for 't more Some for their Prudence who found out and led Others for zeale through whom the enemy fled Others for Art whose skill the squadrons placed Others for Iustice who the enemy chased And some for Constancy who held it out And still vnwearied not vn wounded fought But none more fame attaind then mercies squire Who begd to giue all sauing in desire He Audely-like taught Courtiers how to craue What they might giue away and giuing saue Saue free from feare of forfeiture or losse Or the re-begging or the next yeeres crosse Or enuies eye-sore or the Commons hate Or poores complaint or gre uance of the state To him and to the rest this tale is sent How soeuer taken with a good intent FAme that in Homers time a vagrant was Without a house aud home did after passe In stately structures all the mixed race Of Semdeities and euery place Built her a Court assisted by the Rages Of sundry Poets in succeeding ages For euery one did something ad to frame More space and room for their friends narrow fame Which as they purchast still to her they gaue And that 's the cause themselues so little haue This Fame hath now her house glazde al with eies The rafts beames balkes nerues sinewes arteries The dores wide open eares hangd round about With nimble tongues and couerd so without All things are seene and heard the wide world ore Which touch that place and farthest off the more The House of Fame built vp foure stories hie Stands in an open plaine in which doth lie Foure sister twins True fame and good the first And eldest are false and bad fame the worst And yongest payre yet swiftest are in flight And though last borne yet oft come first to light These last dwell in two darker roomes below Among the thicke Crowdes where all errors grow There keepe they Court where Scandals Libels lies Rumors Reports Suspicions calumnies Are fauorites and Gouernors of State Whose practise 't is true worth to ruinate False fame liues lowest and true Fame aboue Bad Fame next false good fame next true doth moue Yet good fame somtime doth with false fame stay And bad fame sometime doth with true fame play But false and true opposd will neuer meete Nor bad and good fame one the other greete It so fell out as oft strange things befall A gallant Knight ariued at that faire Hall Attended on with such a noble sort Of warlike squires as fild this spatious Court Who curiously enquiring o● the rout Whose Court it was could no waies find it out For contradictions crost each other so As truth from falshood he could no waies know Bad fame did call it hers and said she was A guide to such as vnto glory passe False Fame did call it hers he saw they lide For ' boue their heads two brighter Queens he spide True fame spake to him then and let him know That she and good fame did the building owe Being eldest borne to Titan and the Earth Before the Gyants war when th 'others birth Long since was subiect to their parents sinne And heauens curse which now they liued in For as those Gyants gainst the Gods did war So these to truth professed enemies are Had by strong hand and fraud vsurpd her state And to expresse to vertue vtmost hate Had bard all passage to their houses hie That mortall men might in obliuion die Or haue their memories blasted glories kild By eating time with lies and slanders fild She wisht him then if he his good desired To haue repeated or his spirit aspired To worthy honor as old knights had wont Whose swords not rust but too much vse did blunt That he would vse some meanes to set them free Whereby his blest name might eternizd be Good Fame then told him that the only way How he this enterprize accomplish may Was by the helpe of mercy prudence art Iustice and zeale and Constancy of heart All their knowne friends to summon vp in armes To force the place and to disperse those swarmes Of idle vagabonds who kept below And hated good Fame would not true fame know Then since the stayres of fame were broken downe And dores stopt vp to glory and renowne She wild him make an engine wherewithall He might her lodging and her sisters scale And so himselfe in spite of perill raise Aboue the reach of enuy or dispraise The Knight in spirit rauisht with delight To heare their speech to see their goodly sight Mounts his fierce Coursers backe with which at hand His Squires attend vpon his strict command Wils euery one of them to take