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A57659	Mystagogvs poeticvs, or, The muses interpreter explaining the historicall mysteries and mysticall histories of the ancient Greek and Latine poets : here Apollo's temple is opened, the muses treasures discovered and the gardens of parnassus disclosed whence many flowers of usefull delightfull and rare observations never touched by any other mythologist are collected / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1964; ESTC R1748	187,684	318

w●st●d by Parasites and slatterers not unfitly may be said to be a prey to their owne dogs 7. They who look upon women and lust after them lose their reason and are devoured by their own lusts 8. ●f D●ani's nak●dnesse seen unawares was the occasion of his ●●sfortune how bl●me-worthy are these women who with n●ked br●asts immodest looks light beh●viour phantast●call attire entice m●n to their d●struction and of m●n do metamorphose them unto beasts ADONIS HEe was a beautifully y●uth with wh●m Venus was in love ●ut wh●lest ●ee was 〈◊〉 was killed by a boar or by Mars in the shape of a b●●r and 〈◊〉 Venus was ●u●ned unto a r●d sl●re● called Aner●one h●e w●s k●pt after death by Ceres and Proserpina six m●nths under gro●nd and other six months by V●nus above The INTERPRETER 1. THe Atheni●ns had certain festivall dayes called Adonia in memory of Adonis his untimely death in thes● feasts the women used to carry upon bi●rs or hearses the image of a dead youth to the grave with much mournning and shedding of tears and therefore Venus was wont to be painted in the forme of a mournfull woman shedding of tears with a vail over her head bewailing the losse of Adonis By Venus may be meant the earth for this is the beautifull and 〈◊〉 mother of all living creatures By Adonis may be understood the Sun who in winter is in a sort killed when his hea● and presence is lessened then the earth mourns and loseth her beauty the shedding of tears is the increasing of the springs and rivers by great and continuall rains 2. If by Adonis wee understand wh●at that lodgeth with Proserpina that is lyeth buried in the ground six months in the winter the six summer months it is above in the air with Venus by which the beautie of the year is signifi●d by the boar may be meant the cold frosty and snowy season in which the wheat seems to be killed 3. If with Macrobius by Adonis we understand the San hee may be 〈◊〉 to lodge six months with Proserpina in respect of his 〈◊〉 declination the other six months with Venus for then the creatures give themselves to procreation hee is killed by the boar and lamented by Venus for in winter his beams are of no force to dispell the cold which is the enemy of Adonis and Venus that is of beautie and procreation 4. 〈◊〉 in the form of a bo●r kils him 〈…〉 and hunting are masculine exercises and not fit for weak bodies and eff●minate spirits 5. Adonis is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sing for beauty and musick are friends to Venus 6. Adonis may signifie the good Government of a Common-wealth which is the beauty thereof which is killed by Mars in the form of a boar for Mars and wantonnesse are enemies of all Government 7. Beautifull Adonis is turned into a fading flower to shew that beauty quickly 〈◊〉 8. Young and faire Adonis is killed by a Boar so wantonnesse and letchery are the destroyers of youth and beauty 9. Our resurrection in this may b● typed out for although death kill us it shall not annihilate us but our beauty shall ●●crease and we shall spring out of the ground again like a beautiful flower in the Resurrection 10. Though our bodies die yet our good name shall flourish and like a fair flower shall live and smell when we are gone 11 Myrrha of her owne Father begot this child Adonis which Myrrha flying from her angry Father was turned into a tree and with the blow of her Fathers sword was delivered of this child because the Sun the common Father begot the sweet Gum Myrrhe of that Arabian tree of the same 〈◊〉 which Gum doth cause much delight and pleasure for so in Greek Adonis signifieth In this Gum Venus is much delighted as being a help to decayed beauty to a stinking breath to procreation and the vitiosity of the matrix 12. Let them remember who hunt too much after pleasure that the devil is that great boar who lyeth in wait to kill them ADMETUS HE being a sutor to Alceste carryed her away by the assistance of Apollo and Hercules in a Chariot drawn by a Lyon and a Boar afterward being like to 〈◊〉 was recovered by the voluntary death of his wife whom Hercules delivered out of hell and restored her to Admetus The INTERPRETER 1. ADmetus was King of Thess●lie whose sheep Apollo fed Every King is a shepheard who without Apollo that is wis●dom can never rule and guide his people 2. Admetus was the husband of Alceste which signifieth strength and a King is or should be the husband of his Countrey which is the Kings strength 3. By the means of Apollo and Hercules Admetus procured his wife so by wisdome and power Priaces bring people to subjection 4. He that intends to 〈◊〉 had need take the aid of Apollo and Hercules that i● of wisdom and strength of body 5. A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is one that cannot be tamed as many lusty young men are therefore it is good to marry with Alceste 6. Many foolish women like Alceste refuse many good matches and at last are carryed away by a Lyon and a Boar that is by one that is lasciviously given and who can put on the bold face of a Lyon 7. Fruitful women are like Alceste who cast themselves unto the jawes of death by child-bearing that their husbands may live in the fruit of their womb for parents live in their children But by the means of Hercules that is of the strength of Nature women are delivered from death 8. Alceste is our hope with which we shall marry if first we can subdue the Lyon of pride and the Boar of concupiscence 9. Admetus or the untamed spirit of Satan doth carry away the soul which is the daughter of God in the Chariot of vanity drawn with pride and fleshly pleasures and in hell the soul should have continued for ever if Christ our Al●ides had not delivered it from thence AEACUS MINOS RADAMANTHUS THese were Jupiters s●ns and Judges in hell at the request of Aeacus when the Hand of Ae●ina was depopulated with sickness Jupiter turned the Ants into ●en so was Gra●ia delivered also by the prayers of the same Aeacus The INTERPRETER 1. NOne were admitted into the presence of these three Judges but naked souls destitute of clothes beauty money or any thing else that might move these Judges to partiality in this world we must not look for justice when we are stript of all then shall we have it for here somthing will be found about us that shall corrupt the Judge And is it not a shame that there should be more justice in hell then on earth 2. Just Judges are the sons of God as these three were the sons of Jupiter 3. The good laws of just Judges shall not be forgotten but when they are in hell that is when they are dead their laws shall be still in force 4. These

were fained to be turned into birds the emblemes of celerity and expedition 3. There are two violent affections which make men shake off all humanity the one is impotent lust the other inordinate desire of revenge We see what lust did in Tereus and how desire of revenge prevailed in Progne what was more ba●barous horrid and cruel then for Tereus to cut out his sisters tongue whom he had ravished and for Progne to kill and bo●le her owne and onely child for her husband to eat 4. By th●se two sisters Philomela and Progne may be meant Poetry and Oratory Philomela delights in woods and deserts so doth Poetry Carmina se●essum s●iben●is o●ia quae●unt Progne loves to be in Townes and Cities for the Swallow builds her nests in houses so doth Oratory but as far as the Nightingale exceeds the Swallow in melodious notes so far doth Poetry excel Oratory for the Poet doth all that the Orator can do and much more by adding delight to perswasion Et prodesse volunt delectare Poetae 6. Tereus was the son of Mars we see what the sons of Mars use to do and what be the fruits of war to wit the Muses are ravished Scholars are robbed and plundred their tongues are cut out that they may not complain that is lawes learning and truth are silenced barbarous murthers and cruelties are committed and how many children are by souldiers devoured when their Parents are either banished or murthered and their estates robbed and consumed THESEUS HE was the son of Aeg●us and Aethra his step-m●ther would have poysoned him in his youth he subdued the Am●zones and of Hippolite their queen begot Hippolitus he killed Creon king of the Thebans the un●●●ned bull in Africa the Minolaure in the Labyrinth and carried away the two daughters of king Minos to wit Ariadne and Phaedr● he killed also Procustus Sciron and Schinis great ●obbers in Attica he overcame the Centaures and the Thebes he went down to hell with his friend Perithous to ravish Proserpina where Perithous w●s slaine and he put in chains but was delivered by Hercules at last in his old age was killed by king Lycomedes The INTERPRETER 1. IN Theseus killing of infestuous theeves and subdoing of Monsters is set down a fit example of val●ur and justice for Princes to imitate 2. Theseus was guided by Ariadnes thread to get out of the Labyrinth the word of God is the thread that will direct us through the winding and intricate labyrinths of this life 3. Theseus proved himself to be Neptunes son by leaping into the se● and fetc●ing up from thence the ring which king Min●s●ad ●ad slung into it and for this fact he received a crown from The●i● which he bestowed upon Ariadne and afterward it was placed among the stars the way to prove our selves to be the sons of God is by patient enduring of our afflictions which though they be deep and bitter like the Sea yet shall not drowne us but in that Sea we shall find the ring even eternity which hath no more end then a ring and withall we shall ob●ain the Crowne of righteousnesse which is laid up for us in heaven 4. Theseus and Perithous loved one the other so dearly that they went down to h●ll together by which we see that neither death nor danger can separate true friends or dissolve that friendship which is grounded on vertue 5. Theseus is commanded not to come to his father at Athens until he was able to remove the great ston● under which his father Aegeus his sword lay and till he was of sufficient strength to manage that sword and with it to cleer the high-wayes of theeves and robbers even so we ●●all not be fit to come into the presence of our heavenly father in the Citie of God the new Jerusalem untill we have removed the stony hardnesse of our hearts and with our fathers sword that is the sword of the Spirit wee have destroyed our spiritual enemies that lie in our way and binder our passage 6. His going down to hell to ravish Prose●pina where he was bound ●nd from whence he could not be delivered but by He●cules teacheth us that lust and venery have brought many a man to sicknesse and deaths door as we say and intemperance that way hath bound many by the hands and feet with the Gout worse then fetters of yron where men lie in pain as it were in hell from whence there is no delivery but by the help of Hercules the Physitian be●●des fornication and adultery bring many souls to hell from whence there is no redemption but by Christ the true Hercules 7. As Hercules in honour of Jupi●er his father appointed the Olympick games so did Theseus in honour of his supposed father Neptune insti●ute the Isthmian games to be celebrated every fist yeer also thus we see how great spirits affect immortality and to be honoured after death 8. Theseus after all his victories and brave atchievements yet is murthered in his old age by which we see there is no permanent happinesse in sublunary things Caesar who as the Oratour said domuit gen●es imma●itate barba●os mul●i●udine innumerabiles locis infinitas omni copiarum genere abundantes c. He overcame innumerabl● fierce nations and had throughly as he thought setled himself and the Empire yet at last was stabbed in his old age with 23 wounds hence let no man be secure nescis quid se●us vesper vehat 9. Our blessed Saviour is the true Theseus who was persecu●ed in his infancy and in his life time overcame many monsters but far more in his death be went down to hell and from thence delivered mankinde which had been there detained in everlasting chaines of darknesse if he had not ascended who by his owne and not by any other power delivered man from endlesse captivity THETIS see OCEANUS TITANES see JUPITER SATURNE TITHONUS HEe was the son of Laomedon who for his beauty was beloved of Aurora and by her carried away to Aethio●i● in her chario● where shee bore Memnon of him By her means hee was made immortall but living so long till hee was turned into a grashopper hee grew weary of his life and desired to die The INTERPRETER 1. TIthonus is taken sometimes for the Sun as in that of Virgil Georg. 3. Tithoni prima quot abest ab origine Caesar. And indeed the Sun is the beauty of the world no wonder if Aurora fell in love with him from whom shee bath all her beauty And as the Sun is beautifull so hee is immortall onely in the evening he is turned into a grashopper to shew the weaknesse of his light and heat then Or by Aurora may be meant that all creatures in the morning fall in love with the Sun as delighting to see his light of which they were d●prived a while as the birds by their chee●full chanting then shew hence it is that more do worship the Sun rising then falling 2. By Aurora's falling