name is Elmar and you have marred all the Elms in Fulham by lopping them In the dayes of Edward the 6th the Lord Protector march't with a powerful Army into Scotland to demand their young Queen Mary in marriage to our King according to their promises The Scots refusing to do it were beaten by the English in Musleborough-fight One demanding of a Scotch Lord taken prisoner Now Sir how do you like our Kings mariage with your Queen I alwayes quoth he did like the marriage but I do not like the wooing that you should fetch a Bride with fire and sword Theocritus to an ill Poet repeating many of his verses and asking which he liked best Answered Those which he had omitted Castruccio of Luca saying to one that profest himself a Philosopher You are of the condition of dogs that alwayes goe about those who can best give them meat No sayes the party we are like Physicians who visit their houses that have most need of them Castruccio going from Pisa to Ligorn by water and a dangerous storm there arising and thereupon being much perplex'd was reprehended by one of his followers as pusillanimous saying himself was not afraid of any thing To whom Castruccio reply'd That he nothing marvel'd thereat for every one valu'd his life according to it's worth Being asked by one what he should doe to gain a good esteem He answered him See when thou goest to a Feast that a block sit not upon a block When one boasted that he had read many things Said Castruccio It were better thou couldst brag thou hast remembred much Another bragging Though he had â—ppled much he was not drunk Reply'd An Oxe doe the same Castruccio kept a young Lass which he lay with ordinarily and thereupon being reprov'd by a friend telling him that it was a great wrong to him that he had suffer'd himself to be so taken by a wench Thou art mistaken said he I took her not she me Being one night in a house of one of his Gentlemen where there were divers Ladies invited to a Feast and he dancing and sporting with them more than befitted his condition was reproved by a friend Answered He that is held a wise man in the day-time will never be thought a fool in the night When one ask'd him a favour with many and superfluous words Castruccio said to him Hereafter when thou wouldst any thing with me send another Having caus'd a Citizen of Luca to die who had help'd him in his rising to his greatnesse when it was said to him he had ill done to put to death one of his old friends He reply'd You are deceiv'd I have put to death a new enemy He said He wondred much at men that when they bought any vessel of earth or glass they sound it first whether it be good but in taking a wife they are content onely to see her Seeing that one had written upon his house in latine God keep the wicked hence Said The Master then must not enter here Treating with an Embassador of the King of Naples touching some goods of the Borderers whereat he was somewhat angry when then the Embassador said Fear you not the King then Castruccio said Is this your King good or bad And he answering That he was good Castruccio replyed Wherefore then should I be afraid of those that are good The Lord Tinteville said to a great Personage of France that none could write the life of his deceased Master Lewis the 11th so well as he To whom he answered wisely I am too much bound to him to speak the truth King James being invited in a hunting journey to dine with Sir Tho. J. of Barkshire turning short at the corner of a Common hapned near to a Country man sitting by the heels in the stocks who cryed Hosanna unto his Majesty which invited him to ask the reason of his restraint Sir Tho. said It was for stealing a goose from the Common The fellow reply'd I beseech your Majesty be Judge who is the greater thief I for stealing geese from the Common or his Worship for robbing the Common from the geese By my sale Sir said the King to Sir Tho. I se not dine to day on your dishes till you restore the Common for the poor to feed their flocks Which was forthwith granted to them and the witty fellow set free Prince Henry was never heard to swear an oath And it was remembred at his Funeral-Sermon by the Arch-Bishop That he being commended by one for not replying with passion in play or swearing to the truth He should answer That he knew to game or value to be won or lost could be worth an Oath There was a Duel between two eminent Persons of the Turks and one slain The Council of Bashaws reprehended the other thus How durst you undertake to fight one with the other Are there not Christians enough to kill Did you not know that whether of you were slain the loss would be the Great Seigniors King James having made a large and learned Speech to the Parliament the Lord Keeper as Speaker to the Peers whose place there usually adds to the Kings mind and meaning thus excuses himself After the Kings Eloquence to be silent not to enamel a gold ring with studs of iron As one sayes of Nerva That having adopted Trajane he was immediately taken away Ne post divinum immortale factum aliquid mortale faceret So he durst not after his Majesties divinum immortale dictum mortale aliquid addere Alphonsus King of Arragon seeing a young Lady dance with a Gentleman who made love to her said to him Comfort your self this Sybil will quickly render the Oracle you ask Because the Sybils gave no answers but in motion The Monk who ambitious of martyrdom told the Souldan That he was was come into his Court to die for Preaching of the Truth was answered He needed not to have rambled so far for death for he might easily find it among his Princes at home Antigonus being asked by his own son what time he would remove his Camp He said The sound of the trumpet should give them notice The Conspirator had learn'd the lesson of silence well who being asked his knowledge answered If I had known it you had never known it Pyrrhus King of the Epirotes having in two set Battels with great loss of men put the Romans to the worst and hearing by a Favourite of his this his so great good fortune smoothingly congratulated He said unto him That two Victories indeed he had gotten of them but them so dear that should he at the same rate buy a third the purchase would no less than undo him A souldier of Augustus when his enemies throat was in his power hearing the Retreat sounded gave over his violence with these words Malo obedire Duci quà m occidere hostem The Janizaries are very true to a man that trusts himself with them and patient in bearing abuses One of them being strucken
He who had worn a Crown of Gold must now admit a crown of thornes that might fit him for the Crown of Glory They had promised to make him a glorious King and now was the time come Sit divus modo non sit vivus say they His Kingdom was not to be any longer of his world and therefore he prepares himself with humility piety charity and magnanimity to bear this earthly cross that be might attein his heavenly crown His enemies curse him he prays for them they slander him he forgives them they load him with affronts he carries them with patience And now his pious soul is on the wing and makes many a sally to the place where she longed to be at rest and in the fire of an ardent devotion he offers up himself an Holocaust being kindled with the flames of Divine Love and is fill'd with a large measure of celestial joy and holy confidence witnesse that admirable Anagram made by himself on the day before his death Carolus Rex Cras ero Lux. Hermigildus Son of Levigildus King of the Visogoths forsaking the Arrian Heresie which his Father maintain'd and embracing the Catholick truth was threatned by his Father with death unless he returned to his former errors To whom the pious Son Poteris saith he in me statuere pater quod lubet regno privas sed periturae tantum immortale illud eripere non potes In vincula me rapis ad coelum certè patet via ibimus illuc ibimus Vitam eripitis restat melior aeterna Such were the pious resolves of the most Christian Charls You may doe with me what you will ye may deprive me of my Kingdomes alas these are perishing things but mine immortal Crown ye cannot reach If ye confine me to the narrow walls of a prison my soul vvill mount to Heaven thither thither vvill vve goe If ye take avvay this life I shall but exchange it for a better and eternal one Thus prepared he vvith all humility and Christan resignation offers up himself the peoples Martyr to the grief of his friends the shame of his enemies and the amazement of all the world Quis talia fando temperet à lachrymis Many wiped up his blood with their handkercheifs which experience proved afterwards an admirable Collirium to restore the sight even to those I could name some of the recovered patients from whom I received the relation who were almost blind this wants not truth so much as a Roman pen to make it a miracle Sure I am his death opened thousands of eyes which passion and prejudice had blinded and those who whilst he lived wish'd him dead now he was dead wish'd him alive again That so great a Prince who yet chose rather to be good than great to be holy rather than happy might not die unattended many loyal subjects left this life with the very news of His death as it is reported of Hugh Scrimiger servant to S. W. Spotswood beheaded by the Covenanters of Scotland passing by the Scaffold before it was taken down fell into a swound and being carried home died at his own door The truth of this Relation I leave to the credit of the Historian the former I attest upon mine own knowledge my self being assistant at the Funeral of a Kinsman who with divers others died of no other disease than the newes of the Kings death on whom as I then bestowed I here deposite this Epitaph Here lies a loyal member dead Who scorned to survive his Head Thus died Charls Aliorum majori damno quam suo It being hard to determine whether the Church and State were more happy to have had or more miserable to lose so incomparable a King who wanted nothing but to have lived in an Age when it was in fashion to Deifie their Worthies or in a Country where it is a trade to be Sainted But alas He lived in an Age when vices were in fashion and virtues accounted vices Of whom his worst enemies sayes one who was none of his best friends cannot but give this civil yet true Character That he was a Prince of most excellent natural parts an universal Gentleman very few men of any rank or quality exceeding him in his natural endowments and the most accomplished King this Nation had ever since the Conquest FINIS Doloris nullus Oweni Epigr. in Regicidas Si manus offendat te dextra abscindito dextram Offendat si pes abjice Christus ait Corpus in errorem dexter si ducat ocellus Ipse oculus peccans effodiendus erit Quaelibet abscindi pars corporis aegra jubetur Excipiunt medici Theologique Caput An Elegie on Charls the First c. COme saddest Muse tragick Melpomine Help me to weep or sigh an Elegie And from dumb grief recover so much breath As may serve to express my Sovereigns death But that 's not all had Natures oil been spent And all the treasury of life she lent Exhausted had his latest sand been run And the three fatal Sisters thred been spun Or laden with yeares and mellow had he dropt Into our mothers bosome not thus lopt We could have born it But thus hew'd from life B'an Axe more hasty than the cruel knife Of grisly Atropos thus to be torn From us whom loyal death would have sorborn This strikes us dead Hence Nero shall be kind Accounted he but wished and that wish confin'd Within the walls of Rome but here we see Three Kingdoms at one blow beheaded be And instead of the one head of a King Hundreds of Hydra headed Monsters spring Scarce can I think of this and not engage My Muse to muster her Poetick rage To scourge those Gyants whose bold hands haâ—e renâ— This glorious Sun from out our Firmament Put out the light of Israel that they might Act their black deeds securely in the night When none but new and foolish lights appear Not to direct but cheat the traveller But biting births are monstrous Ours must be My Midwife Muse a weeping Elegie Well may we like some of whom Stories write From this Sun-set in mourning spend our night Until we see a second Sun arise That may exhale those vapours from our eyes Since the breath of our nostrils we have lost We are but moaning statues at the most Our wisedome reason justice all are dead As parts that liv'd and died with our Head How can we speak him praise or our loss when Our tongue of language silenc'd is with him Or can our fainter pensils hope to paint Those rayes of Majesty which spake him Saint In mortal weeds not man As great a King Of virtues as of men A sacred thing To such an heighth of eminency rais'd Easier by far to be admir'd than prais'd 'T would puzzle the sage Plutarch now to tell Or finde on earth our Charls 's parallel Let Rome and Greece of Heroes boast no more To make our One would beggar all their store Weep ye three Orphan Kingdoms weep for
to brag of his own Kingdom of France that it far exceeded all other Kingdoms wanting but one thing and being requested to know what that was he answered Truth The great Antiochus brought Hannibal to his treasures and shewed him his gold his silver his wealth and treasures and asked him if all that would not please the Romans Yea said Hannibal it would please the Romans but not satisfie the Romans A Councellor of State said to his Master the King of Spain that now is upon occasion Sir I will tell your Majesty thus much for your comfort your Majesty hath but two enemies whereof the one is all the World and the other is your own Ministers Domitian perceiving many of his Predecessors in the Empire to be hated asked one how he might so rule as not to be hated the party answered Tu fac contra By not doing what they did When M. Cicero stood for the Consulship of Rome Q. Cicero wished him to meditate on this Novus sum Consulatam peto Roma est Alexander having a souldier of his name that was a coward He bad him either leave off the name of Alexander or be a souldier A brave Roman Captain told his souldiers That if they could not conquer Britain yet they would get possession of it by laying their bones in it It was a smart answer which Mr. Durant a witty and learned Minister of the Reformed Church of Paris gave a Lady of suspected chastity and since revolted when she pretended the hadness of the Scripture Why said he Madam What can be more plain then Thou shalt not commit adultery It was the saying of the dying Emperor Julian He that would not die when he must and he that would die when he must not are both of them cowards alike Aristippus told the Sailers that wondred why he was not as well as they afraid in the storms that the odds was much For they feared the torments due to a wicked life and he expected the rewards of a good one It was cold comfort Diogenes gave a lewd liver that banished complained he should die in a forreign soil Be of good cheer man wheresoever thou art the way to hell is the same It was the admonition of dying Otho to Cocceius Neither too much to remember nor altogether to forget that Caesar was his Vncle Isocrates of a Scholar full of words asked a double Fee One he said to learn him to speak well another to teach him to hold his peace Euripides when he brings in any woman in his tragedies makes them alwayes bad Sophocles in his tragedies maketh them alwayes good whereof when Sophocles was asked the reason he made this answer Euripides saith he represents women as they be I represent them as they ought to be Sir Henry Wotton was wont to say of Sir Philip Sydneys wit that it was the very measure of congruity Having in Italy acquaintance with a pleasant Priest who invited him one evening to hear their Vesper musick at Church the Priest seeing Sir Henry standing obscurely in a corner sends to him by a boy this question writ in a small piece of paper Where was your Religion to be found before Luther To which Sir Henry Wotton presently under-writ My Religion was to be found then where yours is not to be found now in the written word of God To another that asked him whether a Papist may be saved He replied You may be saved without knowing that look to your self To another that was still railing against the Papists he gave this advice Pray Sir forbear till you have studied the points better for the wise Italians have this Proverb He that understands amiss concludes worse To one being designed for the office of an Embassador requesting from him some experimental rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his Negotiation Sir Henry Wotton gave this for an infallible Aphorisme That to be in safety himself and serviceable to his Country he should alwayes and upon all occasions speak the truth for said he you shall never be believed and by this meanes your truth will secure your self if you shall ever be called to any account and it will also put your adversaries who will still hunt counter to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings He directed this sentence onely to be inscribed on his Tomb-stone Hic jacet hujus sententiae Author Disputandi pruritus fit Ecclesiarum scabies Bolislaus the 4th King of Poland who bearing the picture of his Father hanged about his neck in a plate of gold when he was to speak or doe any thing of importance he took his picture and kissing it said Dear Father I wish I may not doe any thing remissly unworthy of thy name A gentile spirit said to an old man who caused his grisly hairs to be painted with the lustre of green youth Poor fool although thou couldst deceive the whole world with thy hair yet death well knoweth they are grey Sit te Proserpina canem It is said a French King enquiring one day of a Wise-man after divers instructions to govern himself and guide his Kingdome this Wise-man took a fair large sheet of paper and for an infinite number of precepts which others use to produce upon this subject he onely wrote this word Modus measure or mean One who having lived free from the bonds of mariage caused to be set on his Tomb Vixit sine impedimento He lived without hinderance A mother grieving for the death of her son said That all her evil came from loving too much what she might lose Amabam misera periturum c. An old humourist vapouring once that women had no souls was answered by a modest Lady Sure Sir you are deceived for I can produce a good text to the contrary My soul doth magnifie the Lord and it was a woman that spoke it Isocrates had an excellent wit notwithstanding finding himself destitute of countenance gesture and confidence he never durst to speak in publique contenting himself to teach even to his decrepit dayes and commonly saying He taught Rhetorick for a 1000 Rials but would give more than 10000 to him who would teach him confidence It was the saying of Lewis the French King to Henry the third of England who asking him in those times of implicit faith whether he would goe sooner to the Eucharist or to a Sermon He answered I had rather see my friend than hear him onely spoken of One said that Aristotles School was a great Scold It was not said improperly of him who having passed his grand Climacterique That he was got loose from his unruly passions as from so many lyons and wolves A French Baron not long since meeting two Capuchins going bare-foot in cold frosty weather with their scrips upon their backs a begging and knowing them to be Gentlemen of a good Family he said How grossly are these men cozen'd if there be no heaven An Italian Prince being upon his death-bed and comforted by his friends
touching the joys of the other world whereunto he was going he fetched a deep sigh and said Oh! I know what 's past but I know not what 's to come There is a saying fathered upon Paul 3d. when he lay upon his death-bed that shortly he should be resolved of two things Whether there be a God and Devil or whether there be a heaven and hell When a rare Italian Statuary offered Rh. 2d of Spain that without expence to the King he would set up his Majesties arms and portraicture over the gates of every City in Lombardy the King commending the mans good will answered He had rather have a workman that with any expence whatsoever could set up his image in Heaven When the souldiers demanded a donative of Galba he answered That he used to choose not to buâ— souldiers Vespasian was not moved with the scoffs of Demetrius Cynicus but slighted them saying I use not to kill barking dogs Domitian punished Informers saying That not to punish such was to encourage them Trajan delivered his sword to the Captain of the Guard willing him to use it for him if he did well but against him if otherwise Antonius Pius Emperor comming to see Omulus his house he enquired whence he had his marble pillars Omulus answered that in another mans house he should be both deaf and dumb When Julia Mother-in-law to Caracalla whom he married told him he was too prodigal he laid his hand on his sword saying I shall never lack money so long as this is with me Julian robbed the Church of her Revenues telling the Clergy that they should be the fitter for Heaven because it is written Blessed be the poor Tyberius Constantinus Co-Emperor with Justin when Sophia the Empress reproved him as being too prodigal in his bounty to the poor He answered that he should never want wealth on earth as long as he had laid up treasures on earth by relieving the poor Maximilian the Emperor was wont to say to compel the conscience is to force heaven It was not ill answered of Merope to King Polyphontes who therefore kill'd his brother because he had entertained a purpose to have killed him You should only have done the same injury to him which he did to you you should still have had a purpose to kill him Aquinas was once asked with what compendium a man might best become learned He answered By reading one Book A great Italian General seeing the sudden death of Alphonsus Duke of Ferrara kneeled down instantly saying And shall not this sight make me religious When the Duke of Candia had voluntarily entred into the incommodities of a Religious life and poverty he was one day spied and pitied by a Lord of Italy who out of tenderness wish'd him to be more careful and nutritive of his person The good Duke answered Sir be not troubled and think not that I am ill provided of conveniencies for I send a harbinger before who makes my lodgings ready and takes care that I be royally entertained The Lord asked him who was his harbinger He answered the knowledge of my self and the consideration of what I deserve for my sins which is eternal torments and when with this knowledge I arrive at my lodging how unprovided soever I find it me thinks it is ever better than I deserve 'T was a reasonable answer of Pericles to one that asked him Why he being a severe and Philosophical person came to a Wedding trimmed and adorned like a Paranymph I come adorned to an adorned person trim'd to a Bridegroom The Emperor Ferdinand the 2d had wont to say to those that brought him any ill newes 't is good 't is Gods pleasure I am contented Sir Thomas Moore somewhat before he was made Lord Chancellor built a Chappel in his Parish at Chelsey where the Parish had all ornaments belonging thereunto abundantly supplied at his charge and he bestowed thereon much plate often using these words Good men give it and bad men take it away The King of Sweden to the Dutch Embassador perswading him to a care of his person answered that his hour was written in heaven and could not be altered on earth Sir Jervis Ellwis when executed on Tower-hill for Overburies death left these two Items to Posterity 1. Not to vow any thing but to perform it 2. Not to take a pride in any parts though never so excellent A Lord Mayor of London in K. James his time stopping the Kings carriages as they were going through the streets with a great noise in time of Divine Service and the King being told of it he in a rage swore he thought there had been no more Kings in England but himself sent a warrant to the Lord Mayor to let them pass which he then obeyed with this answer While it was in my power I did my duty but that being taken away by a higher power it is my duty to obey Demodocus said of the Milesians they were no fools but they did the same things that fools did Vincentius Lyrenensis saith of St. Cyprian who had before the Council of Carthage defended re-baptizing the Author of this errour saith he is no doubt in heaven the followers and practisers of it now goe to hell A Gentleman having by fatherly indulgence tolerated the humour of gaming and wenching in his son dis-inherited him for drinking saying of the first If he had wit he would not lose much by it and of the second that in time for his own ease he would leave it but of the third he said he would prove the elder the viler and hardly ever amend it A certain man comming to Athens meeting one of his friends in the street desired him to shew him the rarities of the City His friend carried him to Solon but the man having viewed him some time would have gone farther no said his friend You have seen all Vidisti Solon vidisti omnia It is said of the Germans that they understand more than they can utter and drink more than they can carry A certain old man being asked why he wore his beard so large and long that beholding those grey hairs said he I may doe nothing unbeseeming them Cyrus was wont to say that a good Prince was like a good Shepherd who can by no other means grow rich than by making his flock to thrive under him A maid in Plutarch being to be sold in the Market when a Chapman asked her Wilt thou be faithful if I buy thee Yes said she etiamsi non emeris whether you buy me or no. Demosthenes said to him that objected that his Speech smelt of the candle I know my candle stands in your light The man being suspected for a thief Melansthon was used to say He that dealeth with some men had need to bring a Divine a Lawyer and a Souldier with him to get his right St. Bernard comming to the great Church of Spire in Germany he was no sooner come into the Church but the Image of
high houses of four or five stories wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished Lewis the 9th who in the Catalogue of the French Kings is call'd St. Lewis was Baptized in the little Town of Poyssy and after his return from Aegypt and other places against the Saracens being asked by what Title he would be distinguished from the rest of his Predecessors after his death He answered That he desired to be called Lewis of Poyssy Reply being made That there were divers other places and Cities of Renown where he had performed brave Exploits and obteined famous Victories therefore it was more fitting that some of those places should denominate him No said he I desire to be called Lewis of Poyssy because there I got the most glorious Victory that ever I had for there I overcame the Devil Meaning that he was Christned there Don Beltran de Rosa being to marry a rich Labradors a Yeomans daughter which was much importun'd by her Parents to the match because their Family should be thereby ennobled he being a Cavalier of St. Jago The young Maid having understood that Don Beltran had been in Naples and had that disease about him answered wittily Truly Sir To better my blood I will not hurt my flesh It was the answer of Vespasian to Apollonius desiring entrance and access for Dion and Euphrates two Philosophers My gates are always open to Philosophers but my very breast is open unto thee It is reported of Cosmo de Medici that having built a goodly Church with a Monastery thereunto annex'd and two Hospitals with other monuments of Piety and endow'd them with large Revenues as one did much magnifie him for these extraordinary works he answer'd 'T is true I imploy'd much treasure that way yet when I look over my Leiger-book of accounts I do not find that God Almighty is indebted to me one penny but I am still in the arrear to him It was a brave generous saying of a great Armenian-Merchant who having understood how a vessel of his was cast away wherein there was laden a rich Cargazon upon his sole account he strook his hand upon his breast and said My heart I thank God is still afloat my spirits shall not sink with my ship nor go an inch lower Sir Edward Herbert being Embassador in France there hapned some classings between him and the great French Favourite Luynes whereupon he was told that Luynes was his enemy and that he was not in a place of security there Sir Edward gallantly answered That he held himself to be in a place of Security wheresoever he had his sword by him FINIS Faenestra in Pector OR FAMILIAR LETTERS By THO. FORDE Quid melius desidiosus agam ALTVM 〈…〉 LONDON Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for William Grantham at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard neer the little North Door 1660. To the Reader Reader THe witty Lucian brings in Momus quarrelling at the Master-pieces which the gods had made and the onely fault he found with Man was That he had not a window to look into his breast For this reason I call this Packet of Letters Fenestra in Pectore Letters being the best Casements whereby men disclose themselves Judicium fit per Brachium say the Physicians and I know no better Interpreter of the Heart than the hand especially in Familiar Letters whereby friends mingle souls and make mutual discoveries of and to one another The pen like the pulse discovers our inward condition if it become faint or intermitting like the passing-bell it gives notice of the decay if not the departure of friendship which is the soul of humane Societie For these I have no better Apology than their publication their impudence if it be so bespeaking their innocence They desire to please all to injure none If you find some things in them that appear not calculated for the Meridian of the present times know that they are left but to shew what the whole piece might have been had my time and the times accorded they might then perhaps have given you some remarks of the miracles of our age But the Dutch Proverb tels me Who bringeth himself into needless dangers dieth the Devils martyr Nulli tacuisse nocet nocet esse loquutum And I very well remember that notable Apothegme of the famous though unfortunate Sir W. Raleigh Whosoever shall tell any great man or Magistrate that he is not just the General of an Army that he is not valiant and great Ladies that they are not fair shall never be made a Counsellour a Captain or a Courtier Thou wilt say it may be I had little to do to publish my follies to the world and I am contented thou shouldst think so if it may pass for my Apologie That I had little else to do If it be a crime the number of offenders in this kind is enough to authorize the fact and turn the guilt into a pardon if not a pass-port For they who write because all write have still That excuse for writing and for writing ill At this time I shall use no other nor trouble thee any farther Reader when I have subscribed the Author Thy Friend and Servant T. F. Familiar Letters To Mr. T. C. Sir AT my arrival here I finde all out of order though abounding with orders The King and Queen are departed which makes us all dead for what cause I cannot tell you unless it were for fear of the arrival of a stranger to this Kingdom and one that hath been long since banished from hence Nor durst shee appear now but that 't is Parliament-time She was landed at Westminster by the rout of Water-men when they frighted away the Bishops commig to the House of Commons door it was put to the Vote Whether she should come in or no The better part suspecting by her habit it was Rebellion they having seen her before in forreign parts would not admit her But the Major part carried it in the Affirmative and the five Members were appointed to entertain her which they did and some say she was placed in the Speakers Chair She came not in the Lords House they could not Brook it but I dare Say she had a Conference with some of them in the Painted Chamber Her Lodgings are provided in the City where she goes attired as necessary with a fair new cloak of Religion a Scotch Bonnet a French Doublet and Coats like Dutchmens Slops her hair red like an Irishmans neither Bands nor Cuffs for she indures no Linnen for spight of Lawn Sleeves unless a two or three Night-caps because they are of Holland You would wonder to see in what droves our Citizens flock after her did you not know it is their nature after strargers But I 'll follow her no farther lest you suspect me for one of her followers who am Sir Your Loyal Friend To Mr. T. C. Sir THe Fire is now broken out of the house and the sparks of sedition fly about the City
think You 'l be a miracle of folly if you Don't love me now Car. What small Poet have you hired To make a miracle of my name Dor. Nay I have more yet and better That I found in the Nichodemus Of Complements that 's a sweet book 'T is a very magazine of Poetrie a Store-house of wit do but hear Them Carmila Car. Let 's hear them Doron are they Worth a laughing at Let 's hear Dor. Well well it is no laughing matter but I 'm Sure your laughing ha's made me crie Now Carmila you must imagine that 't is I and only I say this to you and none but you For the unhappy wag ha's so fitted my Fancie as if 't were made for no bodie but me Excellent Mistris brighter than the Moon Than scowred pewter or the silver spoon Fairer than Phoebus or the morning Star Dainty fine Mistris by my troth you are Thine eyes like Diamonds shine most clearly As I 'm an honest man I love thee dearly What think you now Carmila is not this Admirable if these strong lines will Not draw your love I know not what will Car. Had it been your own mother-wit Doron I could have like't it well But for you to father the brat of Another's brain is too ridiculous I like your love much better than your Hackney lines but bought wit's best Dor. If you like not my lines because they are None of mine you will not love my Heart neither for that 's not mine but yours Car. Yes Doron if you have given me your Heart I will not die in your debt but Give you mine in exchange for yours Dor. Than welcome to me my new found heart We 'l live and love and never part Exeunt Scaen. 7. Enter Melecertus Revenge shall soon o're-take this proud boy who Committed hath so bold a rape upon My Samela He had been better to Have lodged snakes in his breast than to steal This spark that shall consume him and his nest Samela Samela that name alone Infuseth spirits into me inflames My soul with vengeance till I recover My dearest love Enter Menaphon Men. Now shall I be reveng'd on Samela And on her Melecertus both at once I 'll make her know neglected love may turn To hate and vengeance take the place of scorn Well met friend Melecertus what alone Mel. I 'm solitarie since my mate is gone Men. Your mate has taken flight she 's on the wing But I can tell thee where she nests and bring Thee guickly where thou shalt retrive the game Mel. If thou wilt do this Menaphon I shall Be studious to requite thy love with mine I pay thee sterling thanks and services Men. I will not sell my favours to my friends My work is all the wages I expect Come follow me I 'll lead thee to the place Where the fresh gamesters have thy love in chase Exeunt Scaen. 8. Enter King Damocles in his Royal robes Plusidippus and Samela prisoners Kin. Now Sir you see the shepherd is become A King and though you have deserved death Yet since you have but acted our commands We here release you and not onely so But entertain you with all due respect At once belonging to our neighbour-Prince And near Allie the King of Thessaly Some secret power doth force me love him so That if I had a daughter to bestow I 'de wish no other Son-in-law but him Now my Sephestia what would I give Thou wert alive I had thee and thou him Sam. He little thinks I am so near or that It is his daughter he would make his wife Kin. Thus Gentlewoman you are once more faln Into my hands I am th' Arcadian King Be sudden therefore to give me your love Or else forfeit your life for your contempt Think on 't and chuse which you 'l rather do Sam. Sir I am still the same I was before My love like to a mighty rock stands fast Disdaining the proud billows of your threats Crowns cannot tempt nor Kings command my love My love is free and cannot be compell'd True love admits no partners is content With one and Cupids statute law forbids Pluralities of loves Kin. Since y' are so stiff You will not bow I 'll make you bend or break Enter Menaphon with Melecertus Mel. I am betray'd by this base Menaphon Kin. Here comes my Rival when I have dispatch'd Him to the other world your plea is spoil'd My sword shall cut your gordian knot in two Your ghosts may wed your bodies never shall I 'll be his Executioner my self I 'll trust no other eyes to see it done Sam. Now is it time t' unmask and let him know He wounds his daughter through her Lovers sides She kneels Father your furie once expos'd me to The greedie jaws of death which yet more kind In pitie sav'd my life you sought to lose I 'm your Sephestia Father know your child Mel. And is it possible Sephestia lives Once more t' enjoy her truest Maximus Sam. My Maximus I 'm thy Sephestia Oh that our Plusidippus too were here Plu. And I am he my name is Plusidippus Seph My dearest son 't is he now were my joys Compleat indeed were but my Uncle here Mel. I am so wrapt with joy I scarce can get Breath to express my thanks unto the gods Men. What will become of me I shall be hang'd Or lose my place at least I 'll get me home Amidst their mirth they will not think on me Exit Kin. My onely daughter Dear Sephestia And you kind Maximus I ask Both of you pardon for your injuries And for requital thus I do create Thee King of Arcadie and may the gods Requite your sufferings and forgive my crimes Long may ye live and happy may your dayes Be sun-shine all and know no clouds nor night Enter Lamedon And that we may not leave one string untun'd My brother comes to make our consort full The best of brothers and the best of friends Thanks for your care of her whom you have made Your daughter by a better claim than mine Now let the whole land swim in mirth and load The altars with their thankful sacrifice Unto the kinder deities who through A sea of woes have sent us happiness Let 's in and hear the strange adventures have Befaln your heaven-protected persons griefs Grow less by telling joyes are multiplied Although against them all things seem to strive At last just men and lovers alwayes thrive FINIS Fragmenta Poetica OR Poetical Diversions WITH A PANEGYRICK UPON HIS SACRED MAJESTIE' 's Most happy Return on the 29. May 1660. By THO. FORDE Philothal LONDON Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for William Grantham and are to sold at the Signe of the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. Poetical Diversions For Christmass-day 1 Shepherd WHat have we slept or doth the hastie Sun Bring back the day before the night be done 2 Shep. What melodie is this that charms our ears Is it the musick of th'harmonious