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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02475	Visiones rerum. = The visions of things. Or Foure poems 1. Principium & mutabilitas rerum. Or, the beginning and mutabilitie of all things. 2. Cursus & ordo rerum. Or, art and nature. 3. Opineo & ratione rerum. Or, wealth and pouertie. 4. Malum & finis rerum. Or, sinne and vertue, concluding with the last Iudgement and end of all things. Wherein the author expresseth his inuention by way of dreame. By Iohn Hagthorpe Gent.	Hagthorpe, John.	1623 (1623)	STC 12604; ESTC S105951	64,913	148

no Downe could please Here burning beds of Iron is your ease 112 You curious mouthes that nought but sweets could taste Whose great excesse did grutch the poore a share Which on your paunches millions carst did wast And had so many thousands still to care Onely to bring you dishes strange and rare Here Ostrich-like shall swallow in your rage Toads 〈◊〉 or Stones your hungers to asswage 113 Poena damni Then damned soules conceiue what you haue lost How faire a Citie what a Mansion Prouided for yee at anothers cost Enricht with b●…auty and perf●…ction Where 〈◊〉 cares disease or want is none But all with glorie and with wisdome shine Sustain'd and cherisht by that loue diuine 114 On earth while earst you liu'd you deemd the losse Of Pa●…ents fauour was no little paine The losse of Kingdomes an exceeding crosse But most to loose the light and to remaine In dungeon darke This losse doth all containe I he losse of God wh●…se b●…undlesse powre diuine Doth not your plagues in times or tearmes consine 115 Altho ye could like Esau melt to teares Restore like Iudas your accursed gaine Like Ahab mourne in sack cloth many yeares Altho you here could chatter like the Crane Send forth as shrill shrikes as the Pellican Tho ye could weepe whole Seas for euery sinne They 're all but lost no mercy can yee w●…nn 116 But here me thought I felt a sudden ioy Run through my flesh and wing my rauisht spright Feeling my selfe exempt from this anoy Full of coelestiall thoughts and rare delight Amongst the Quires of heauenly Singers sweete With which high ioyes I thinke my soule had scapt From forth her prison if I had not wak●… 1 Herod surnamed the Great tho valiant cruell put to death Mariamne his wife a woman both chaste and beautifull then his owne sons Alexander and Aristobulus the children of Bethlem his salse sonne Antipater the most of his friends and lastly lest he should want teares at his end gaue order for the killing of a great number shut vp in the Hippodrome Ioseph Antiq. 2 Abimelech the base sonne of Gedeon slew threescore and nine of his brethren to vsurpe Iosephus pag. 117. 3 Ptolomeus Philopater slew father mother and wife Ptolomeus Phiscon married his owne sister Cleopatra sometime the wife of their brother the King deceased whom after he cast off and married her Daughter his Neece and fearing the people should set vp his eldest sonne against him he kills him Whereupon they pull 〈◊〉 his images which he interpreting as don●… in fauour of his sister kills also his 〈◊〉 that he had by her sending his hands and feete in a chest as a present to her the day of his birth Iustine lib. 38. Ptolomeus Ceraunos the brother of Lisimachus King of Macedon hauing rescued Queene Arsinoe hi●… owne sister from Antigonus who slew her husband and besieged her in the Citie Cassandria affecting the Kingdome made suit to his sister for marriage hauing no other meanes to get the possession of her and her children but his intentions being suspected by her hee sweares by the Altars and the Gods that he meant to make her son King Ouercome she yeelds marries him inuites him to her Citie which he hauing seized presently causes her children to be slaine euen in the lap of their sorrowfull mother and exiles her selfe Iustin. lib. 24. 4 Numulesinthis caused the parents feede vpon their children Valerius Maximus lib. 9. cap. 2. 5 Mithridates slew seuentie thousand Roman Merchants in one day in time of peace Plutarch 6 Occhus called Darius hauing bound himself●… by oath not to kill any of the conspiracie of the Magi by Sword Poyson Famine or any force deuised a mor●… cruell way for them and as hee thought without infringing his oath he fills a great deepe roome with Ashes vp to the top and ouer the same vpon a rafter places these men giuing them good cheare wherewith being brought into a dead sleepe they fall into this pit-sall Val. Max. Ctesias saith Ochus vsed his brother Secundianus so but this Ochus was long after Darius the sonne of Histaspis that supprest the Magi. 7 Iugurth the sonne of Masthanaball the Base son of Masinissa was brought vp by his Vncle Micipsa the lawfull sonne of the said Masinissa King of Numidia who at his death made him co-heyre with his owne sons Adherball and Hiemp●…all hoping by that meanes to tie him by merit which was already bound by Blood and Kindred to be a stay and defend●…r of his children in their minoritie but Iugurth more cruell then the very Lions which acknowledge benefits after his Vncles death kills Hiempsal warres vpon Adherball and at length makes him also away but enioyes the Kingdome not long the people of Rome punishing his great impieties both with losse of Kingdome and life Salust 8 Cambises hauing sent Prexaspes one of his dearest and most trustie Friends from Memphis into Persia to make away his brother Smerdis At his returne againe after the execution demands what they say and what opinion they had of him in Persia. Prexaspes replies All well onely they thought hee loued Wine more then stood with his health With these words the Tyrant enraged causes Prexaspes sonne to stand as a marke for him to shoote at and at the first shot cloue his heart as before he said he would doe to teach Prexaspes who friendly admonisht him of his excesse that hee was not drunke Whereupon Croesus the Lidian admonishes him hee offers to shoote at him to He made warre so long in Ethiopia till his men through famine 〈◊〉 vp one another tything themselues by lots Another part of his Army sent to destroy the Temple of Ammon were all lost and ouerwhelmed with Sand none returning to bring newes what Mummey their fellowes 〈◊〉 Herodotus in his Thalia page 234 235 and 236. Seneca saith hee caused all the peoples noses of Syria to be cut off 〈◊〉 de Ira. 3. c. 20 9 Astiages being premonisht in a dreame of the translation of his Kingdome to the Persians by meanes of Cyrus his young Nephew gaue command to Herpagus one of his friends to make away the Child But Herpagus abhorring so great crueltie vsed meanes to preserue him a long time secretly til at last the King cōming to knowledge of his life safty ●…aused Herpagus for neglecting hi●… command to eate the flesh of his owne sonne at a supper Herodotus Clyo. pag. 84. 11 Caesar Pompey Alexander Pirrhus whose onely sinne of Ambition was the death of many millions nothing being able to satisfie an insatible mind one diggs for another world another seekes it in the Desarts of India all of them like wilde and sauage beasts enemies of humain society being broke loose run about killing and destroying others till they loose themselues 12 Caius was said to be grieued because in his time there fell no Earthquakes Famines nor Pestilences to destroy the world Hee wisht the people of Rome had but one head

doe take my pen to write The things which did to me in sleepe appeare Which needs I must disclose tho much I feare 2 When sil●…nt Night had couer'd with her cloke The face of Earth and euery thing sought rest Saue harmefull beasts which Nature doth prouoke To prey on weaker things my Soule opprest With heauy thoughts which banisht from my brest All pleasing and delightfull fantasies This Vision thus appear'd before mine eyes 3 A naked Damsell first appear'd whose skin With bleeding wounds ennammeld yet did show The hidden beauties that had dwelt therein She fled from one that gaue her many a blow With seuen-fold Whip whose cause and selues to know Sore did I long and with that thought opprest The wronged Wight this speech to me adrest 4 Mortall quoth she I see thou pittiest sore My wrongs but make the case thine owne And ●…rust not this fals●… Syren cunning whore Who bred in Heauen thence to earth thrown downe As to her prison here attempts to crowne Her selfe on Earth si●…ce Heauen she cannot win And robs my name that 's Vertue but is Sin 5 Trust not her painted brow her blandishment Her beauties but a vizor paisted on A cunning baite to catch th'improuident She 's vnder it an Ethiopian And tho she smoothes her wrincles all she can Shee 's filthy cruell Tygres farre more kind They feed on foes but she deuoures her friend 6 Vnder her Silke and Purple brauerie Vnpartiall eyes shall find with perfit sight Her members spotted with ranck leprosie Her fingers armed with Harpies clawes for fight And rapine clouen beast-like both her feete A Dragons tayle which venombd foynes 〈◊〉 At her fond louers in their deare embraces 7 And tho in pompe she trauell through the world And most adore her and her glittring traine Yet are both they and she fear'd and abhord By those whose perfect sight desernes the same Therefore for thine instruction will I name Briefly her equipage that thou mayst see Both what her selfe and her attendants be 8 First must I shew her Chariot and attire Wherein she makes her progresse with her traine From East to West The Seate is foule Desire The Wheeles whereon it moues are ●…ordid Gaine Selfe Loue and Vnbehefe and Pleasures vaine Her Coach-man Belzabub or Abbaddon Her Mates Megara Alecto Tisiphene 9 Her Iades tha●… drew her on Disdaine they be Pride Enuy Wrath Reuenge Ambition And lastly Feare and Curiositie Deceite and Lies her Lacqueys by her run Still ready for all errands After whom Come her Attendants 〈◊〉 and Dissidence Confusion and tormenting Conscience 10 Follie 's her page which still keepes Reason tide Hypocrisie's her Chaplaine who still thriues VVhile true Zeale pines Her Beadles Ease Lust Pride These from her Gates Repentance farre off driues From whence I Vertue poore these wounds deriue Lastly thou feest her brood that followeth Her Issue Famine Sicknes Warre and Death 11 This said foure Altars then she pointed me All smoking hot with Incence on the same The first to Ambition and to Crueltie Ignorance and Idolatrie retaine The second place the third of these did flame To Auarize and to Oppression last To Luxurie and Iust the fourth was plac't The Altar to AMBITION and CRV●…LTIE 12 And while these things she spoke me thought appear'd A horrid traine of fierce and bloody Wights Flame colour'd Robes they wore with Crimson sme●…rd Their dreadfull lookes euen yet my heart affrights Quoth she all these ioy'd once in dismall ●…ights And to their ends to tract a bloody way Which thus to sinne her first oblations pay 13 But to auoide prolixitie quoth she And to make vp a iust account with time Thy patience and mine owne lost libertie I wish thee note t is no intent of mine Each seuerall storie here for to designe And prosecute but onely such as be By chance most ●…buious vnto mine eie 14 Why should I point thee out accursed Caine Orth ' Hayrie Hunter with his sinew bow Or those on whom iust Ioseph did complaine That frantick faithlesse King why should I show Or 1 He that made the childrens blood streame through Iudeas streetes whyth ' sonne of 2 Gedeon Or that same 〈◊〉 cruell Absalon 15 Behold Bu●…iris Egypts cruell King That fed with humain flesh his Horses full Three cruell 3 〈◊〉 him following 4 Numulisinthis then the Thracian Trull Then Phalleris with 's dreadfull brazen Bull. Loe 5 Pontus King and 6 Occhus false of oath Black Haniball and 7 Iuguri●… here be both 16 Next these obserue the Purple Persian there With Royall tyre 8 〈◊〉 is his name How strange a sacrifice the wretch doth beare To offer cruelties vnhallowed flame With him 9 Astiages and Zerxes came This millions slew to atcheiue his proud desire That cookt the children for their wofull Syre 17 Loe Tulli●… King Ser●…ius gracelesse heyre Who wearie of her long-liu'd Syres delay Slew him perhaps t'anticipate a yeare Perhaps a moneth perhaps not a full day But not con●…ent to take his life away Most ignominiously she causde her Horse That drew her Chariot trample on his corpse 18 She shew'd me then two 11 Romans and two Greekes That with their happy regall states displeasde Halde by Ambition into stra●…ge dislikes Made the world sicke and in their time diseasde Charen with two much labour yet appeasde Nor satisfied a iot their vaine desires Tho shedding seas of blood to quench those 〈◊〉 19 Then as they came in sight she did me show Sylla with purple face and firie eyes The plague of Pontus and Romes ouerthrow By first inducing those sad tragodies And M●…rrius fear'd of friends and enemies Then 12 Cai●…s vile that wisht the world to slay And 13 he that slew's Mother Agrippina 20 Another 14 ●…rew she shew'd me the●… that seem'd To be ●…ome Kingly Romans by their weede But tyrants were or monsters righter deem'd Begot of Tigars broode or Dragons seede So many innocents they causde to bleed Of whom some offerd Armes some Feet Legs thighs Some Eares some Noses others Tongues and eyes 21 And 15 one of these she show'd me mongst the rest A Ro●…aine Prince if true my Author tell Offring a heart with 〈◊〉 fiue imprest Which Iesus made if 〈◊〉 they did spell But surely in the Tyrants heart was Hell With dying life and liuing death who vext Those worthy seules to vertue so conext 22 Next these came one in 26 Polish weed attir'd Whom Rats and Mice had bare anatomizde Then of my faire his story I requir'd Who said 't was one that sometimes Royalizde In P●…lish Throne by Poyson that surprizde His Vncles liues whose flesh by Heauens iust doome Turnd into Rats the Caitife to consume 23 Next him came one that sacrifizde to th'Ghost Of 's angry Syre the cruell 17 Amurath Then he that offerd vp that wofull Host Of Noble Grecian blood fierce 18 Mahumeth Next him Valachia's Prince that put to death So many thousand subiects seuerall waies As did great Tyrant Mahumet amaze 24 In