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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05781	Sir Philip Sydneys ouránia that is, Endimions song and tragedie, containing all philosophie. Written by N.B.	Baxter, Nathaniel, fl. 1606.; Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1606 (1606)	STC 1598; ESTC S101090	56,727	105

Her robes vnmade her Coronet vntwin'd Nor was the quintesence of nature fin'd Neither was yet great Astrophill awake That might her entertainment vndertake Cinthia replyed not as one resolued Her will to put in execution Oftentimes her sacred soule reuolued Which way to make a dissolution Of this her bodies constitution And justly knowing t wa's not in her power Determined to stay her fatall houre And yet to spend in contemplation The better part of her remaining daies Which vow she keepes in veneration Witnesse her learned Poems and her Layes So often crowned with Arcadian Bayes Thus long sitting silent in that place Aurora gan to showe her blushing Face Then all the Ladies hasted to depart And Cinthia turn'd her to E●dimion● With wordes of grace proceeding fr●m her heart She thank'd him for his former ca●tion This Mount quoth she take for thy mansion Here shalt thou dwell and feede thy little flocke I with my Ladies will encrease thy ●●ocke The stately Garland of her blessed 〈◊〉 For beautie matchlesse incomparable With greatest fauours grac'd this co●ntrie Swaine Particulers will be admirable Of esteeme they were vnualuable And out of doubt they had been durable If worldly enuie had been curable He liu'd a while in reputation Expounding Oracles of Theologie His flocke was had in estimation As guided well by his Phylosophy Profoundly could he chaunt that misterie In languages of higest Poetrie Vnfolding riddles of antiquitie I left the Shepheard in this happy st●●e Feeding his lambs in mirth and iolli●ie But it fell out when I return'd of late His mirth was moane his solace mis●●ie Loe heare worlds-glasse of mutabilitie He wrung his hands and made a ru●ull moane His drops of teares might pierce a Marble stone I wondred how his blessed Com●edie Could haue so suddaine alteration I ask'd the cause of this his Tragaedi● Hee answered enuies sophisticat●●● I thought to write the whole narrati●● But ●ith Tragaedies haue a bloody e●d During his life he will not haue 〈…〉 ● B. FINIS To the right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Smith of Olde-Hunger Knight a worthie fauourer of learning YOur ancient loue to him that wrote this Booke Hath made Ourania speake an English verse The Greekish Ladies of Castalion Brooke Entombed are close couch'd in Sable-herse The mourning Cypresse and darke Popler-tree A●e testimonies of their lowe degree Endymion lay's aside his Hebrew Reed And bids Ourania harpe Philosophie Whereof his English Lambs and flocke may feed Till Phoebus rayes dispell obscuritie He will'd her yet such pleasing Musicke sing As might con●ort with Aristotles wing Such as delights Arcadian Cynthia And comforts Schollers at their idle times Viewing the secrets of Ourania As she will chaunt them in her homely Rymes Wonders aboue and all within this round Must be the subiect of her daintie sound Shee sings of Sunne and Moone and wandring starres Of vncouth Elementall Meteors Comets Heraulds of death and dreadfull warres Fire ayre winds vapours Ocean showers And whatsoeuer you can thinke vpon Ourania sings so bids Endymion Read learne and heare trie ponder write digest Words matter song truth arte wit Misterie Commend Ourania take her to your guest Shee 'l teach the yonger Lambs Philosophie Such Mysteries as neuer English Pen Afforded yet vnto the view of men N. B. To my Worshipfull ●ren●h 〈◊〉 Stone Esquire Counsellor at the Law and Secondarie of the Counter in VVoodstreet London NO liquid Oyle proceedes fro● a Pumice-stone Nor Alchimist produce an Oyle from thence T is hard indeed if thou wert such a one As lou'd a Scholler onely for his Pence But since th'enclosing of Endymion He found some Oyle from Secondarie STONE Counsell they say is no commaundement That 's false if counsell be but equitie Whereto a man must be obedient If he aspire vnto faelicitie No wrong had seazed olde Endymion If he had taken counsell of a Stone Things past and things to come be different For they are gone and these are in expect Thinke not on former dayes maleuo●ent The fates to come worke contrarie effect And cause thee blesse the day the place the houre That thou receyued'st Endymions P●ramour Ourania sings obscure Philosophie Like Bats and Owles in silent dark● some night In Olderne times she chanted melodie Of high●er straine And when she comes to light Shee'l● sing thee such a blessed Madrigall As th●● shal● thinke the lay Ca●●●●iall ● B FINIS Vera. Calandra Hastingua Ashebie de la Zouch Agape Wrotha Musophila Herberta Phileta Clara. Candida Ieho●a Elo●●m Theos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ti●or The Deitie written by 4. Letters We call'd that Good which now we call God Abba Father Ben Sonne Ruach Spirit Angels not made before Heauen The Reason Place Circumscrip Definitiue Repletiue Cosmos the world Ten heauens Coelum Empyreum Primum Mob●le Coelum St●ll●ticum 〈◊〉 Hyades Arist. de 〈◊〉 Caster of figures 1022. starres knowne The end why the stars were made Three other heauens or Orbs. Saturne ♄ Iupiter ♃ Mars ♂ Sol. ☉ Day and night before the sun was made Genes 1. Venus ☿ Mercurius ☿ Lun● ☽ Apostrophe ad Her●●nam qu● 〈◊〉 Ma●iam Pemb. The Moone the 39. part of the earth Lympet a round shell which womē lay vpon the nepples of their sore breasts The Element of Fire Fiery meteors What a Meteor is Comets They Signifie want of corn The shortest and longest time that Comets endure Starres of Helena Castor and Pollux When that Comet is called Helena when Castor and Pollux The profit we reape by this Comet Fyerie vapors in Church-yards and about places of ●xecu●ion Colours about or aboue the Moone A circle about the Moone Galaxia a shining white path in the midddest of Heauen in a frosty-night The starres of Note that maketh Calaxia cleere Cassiopeia 13. Cygnus 1● A●uila 4. Ca●da Scorpion●● ● Sagitarius 3. Centaurus 6. Nauis Argol● 23. Gemini 1● A●riga 7. Perseus 1● Sporades Stella dispersa sine or dine 〈◊〉 the rayne-bow Raynebow in the Night Thunder-bolt and lightning whirle windes drie Prester Spoutes of water in the Sea The vse of this point of Phylosophy The Ayre Three Regions of the Ayre The middle Region cold● The highest hot The Ayrie Meteors simple Included Meteors Windes Windes 32. Another cōmoditie by the winds viz. to make raine Earthquake The Profit we get by this Meteor A stormy-winde Thunder Watrie El●ment What are the waters aboue the earth The cause of ebbing and flowing Saltnesse of the Sea Watrie Meteors eight The Mist. Deaw The cause The Hinderance Fittest time for Deaw The effects of Deaw Manna a wōderfull deaw The Frost It killeth wormes and hurtfull humours This Cloude compared to a Spunge Raine Snowe Lime-twigs Snow-water The vtilitie of snow Snow gendreth Cristall Haile The reason of Haile in Summer and not in Winter Sleete Sleet alwayes in Februarie or March and neuer in December A question Answer Earthly Element The Earth Mother of all Creatures therein She hath 7.

great Arte and skill least thou ●e detected Vpon a peece of Brasse as bigge as a house Shall make a peece of golde as bigge as a louse Goodly Mannors and Possessions are solde To make simple Brasse artificial Golde But as a Veluet Ape remaines an Ape Though he be attired in golden shape So shall a peece of Brasse be perfect Brasse Though it be somewhat purer then it was Well this that is spoken proueth euident That this Mettall of Golde is exce●lent For which all states and sexes macerate Themselues and theirs with labours intricate Though Golde it selfe as by creation Is not the cause of such corruption But mans vile infatiable desire To lade themselues with this thicke earthly mire Brasse for vessels and fodder fast our Steele To make Canons whose force our foes doe feele Iron and Steele are mettals of dignitie Of great esteeme vertue and qualitie The one with th' other may so be tempered That by no Arte they may be entered They make mightie instruments of warre Bellona and Pallace with these armed are With these the Captaines of Britannia Beard the proude Monsters of Romania The force of these hath conquered India These fright the Muses and faire Cynthia And all young Ladies that delight in peace Whereby their ioy their loue their sports encrease Praying great Mars no more to manage armes That they might claspe him in their Iuory armes The vse of these for which they were intended Was that our confines might be defended From foe mans force and fierce Inuasion That blessed peace might build her station That there might bee no fell corrasion Death nor bloodie depopulation But out alasse Sacred intent of Pan Is quite peruerted by the minde of man By a malitious disposition That turne these Mettals to pardition They kill destroy and murder one another The Father kils the Sonne the childe the Mother Man killeth man whome he ought to defend Kniues were ordained to a better end Woe worth the man that first the sword inuented Neuer sufficiently to be lamented For since the time these weapons first began In small regard was had the life of man Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes Proud as Lucifer stabbeth whome he meetes Trampling the Guts of men vnder his feete Tryumphing in his brothers winding sheete O blessed region where no Iron growes Where no man Steele nor golde nor siluer knowes Where Guns and swords beene reputed wonder Where roring Cannon is holden thonder Where neuer wonned any martiall Man Where men doon neuer cu●sse nor sweare nor ban For Golde but ledden a contented life Voide of pride Mallice contention strife Giuing a lumpe of Golde for a small Bell A needle or a pinne contents them well Thou Salomon renowned prince of peace How did thy kingdome flourish and increase When Siluer was compared vnto dust Voide of contention malice and distrust Golde was as plenty as stones in the streete Neighbour vsed neighbour solemnlie to greete Saying Shalumleca peace be vnto thee Then was Ierusalem in high degree But after he was dead then warres began Peace was exiled waxed sick and ●an Ciuill sedition and dichostasie Clangor of Trumpets noyse and fearefull crie Trampling of warlike Steedes Banners displaide Beating of Drums Armor rustie Assayed Mightie men at armes raunged in array Townes full of clamor women ran away Lamenting of Mothers wiues wringing hands Blood-breathing Mars at each corner stands Two Kings in one Land each clayming right Souldiours ignorant on which side to fight The whole land full of desolation Expecting nothing but diuastation A lamentable wofull Spectacle When closed was the blessed Tabernacle The lawes worship and Sacrifice d●d cease Exterminated quite with sacred Peace The champing horse vp to the Foot●locks stood In flowing streames of dying Sould●ers blood No reuerence to the aged man at all The wife doth dye to see her husband fall The Children weepe to see their Fathers death The aged Matron yeeldeth vp her breath Young virgins without regard deflowred Studies decayed Students deuoured Merchants spoyled and their goods deuided Iustice dispised Iudges derided The whole Kingdome brought to confusion Thy house thy good 's thy land 's by intrusion Of a godlesse impudent companion Taken by force from thy possession Thy wofull wife rauish'd before thy face And presently thou murther'd in the place Tell me now if thou hast any conscience Yf this in making Steele were Pans pretence The armed Plough-Share in making Furrowes long Our Horses Yron shodd to footen strong Boord's strong nail'd to couch together close Keyes and artificiall locks to shut and lose With other infinite commodities Which by this Mettals principally rise Of these two Mettals shewn vse principall For deadly warres beene thinges accidentall The leaden mines are now in chiefe request For which we riuen sacred Tellus brest And turne them to bad vses contrary Vnto their first created destiny We vse it now to make Bullets round To gorge our Pistols Christians to wound Caliuers Muskets and such Trumpery Executors of humane crueltie Are stuf'd with Bullets of the purest Leade To kill a harmlesse Man vnfurnished Wee vs'd them first holy Church to couer At the charge of many a Christian Louer To couer close the Pallaces of Kings Least raine might enter which corruption brings Glasiers can tell of vses manifold That neede not in our storie bee enrould This proo●'s there is a strange mutation Of all things from their first creation Excepting Tinn formed for Vtensils Which sculleries of Noble Ladies fils This mettall receiueth corruption By Pewterers sophistication Chargers Basens Platters Pots of Tinne Mixed with leade craftily foysted Inne Making them heauie and of colour blew But Tinn's light and white if Substance be trew If otherwise it is adulterated And by Cosonage sophisticated Thus is rich Tellus glorious within In deeper search if thou wilt wisdome winne Stones doon occurre next to be sur●ey'd As nature hath them orderly conue●'d Gems Marble whetstones Flmt's building bones Are ribb's of this Ladie or our Mothers bones Hearken the musicke of mine Oaten Reed As Endymion doth orderly proceed Gems are principally memorable As Iewels of price inestimable In barryne Rocks and mountaines engendred And by great Pan to Ladies tendred To garnish all their Princely Ornaments Tyres for their heads vailes and Abbillements Their caules their haire their neck● their brests their hands Whose price none but the owners vnderstands Of watry substance beene they composed And by the burning heate of Phoeb●● disposed Into diuers colours hard orientall Shining throughout not superficial● The thicker they beene the more of regard So they beene impenetrable and ha●d This watry●substance by colde is congealed And then by Phoebus long time A●ealed Yea hardned so by the heate of the Sunne By continuall Reuerberation So hard compact by Phoebus burning charme That the flaming fire can doe them no harme These beene called precious for their qualities Not for their Maginitude or quantities