transformation for escape Saddles his finny courser and doth fly Followed by all his scaly infantry Doris and her gray daughters shreeking tear From oft their heads their sea-green locks for fear And Mellicertus speedier doth fly Then when he fled his fathers cruelty His snorting sea horse Triton doth bestride Thrusting his shell-spurs in his brawny side c. Temporizers That shake hands with th' unworthy times Running with the current of the Sâ—ate A participle of the Present tense That danceth to the tune of fortune and studieth For nothing more than to keep time Terrour v. Fear Such terrour as when Jove his tresses shake And makes the earth and fixed stars though fixed shakes Such terrour as when Jove did drown the world Or Phaethon it burn Making every one to stand upon his guard And have a continuall larum bell in his ear Thanks v. Forms of Thanking To Thaw v. Melt To unknit unfetter unlock the ice The Pythian Knight Doth strip the mountains of their snowie lawns The crusted snow dissolves and all those veins Which frost had fettered up in Chrystall chains Are now dissolv'd Theseus Aegeus glorious seed Great Narathon resounds his praise For slaughter of the Cretan bull Vulcans seede By him glad Epidaure beheld to bleed Periphetes Savage Procrustes death Cephisia view'd Elusis Cercyons Scinis ill endued With strength so much abus'd who beeches bent And tortur'd bodies twixt their branches rent He slew If we his years should number with his acts His years would prove a cypher to his facts Ariadne's faithlesse spouse Tâ—at slew the monster of the Labyrinth And the Arthenians from their tribute freed Helens first ravisher Theeves Who dayly marke Those houses which they plunder in the darke Thetis v. Sea Waves Doris fair daughter Nereus fair issue The Queen of seas The Goddesse with the silver feet Fair Queen of waves Achilles beauteous mother The faire Queen of the liquid plains The powerful Lady of the sea Queen regent of the waves Out of whose spatious cisterne daily flow Refreshing streams which as they run do fill Earths duggs the hillocks so preserving still The infant grasse Faire pearle and glory of the sea Thighes The alabaster rocks Supporters of the beauteous frame Soft ivory pillars Well proportioned columnes The sister pillars of soft ivory Thinne Thin as burnt aire Thin as the starved chaps Thin as the unsubstantial ghosts Stretcht to an airy thinnesse Thirst v. Draught My tongue wants moysture and my jawes are dry Scarce is there way for speech Water to me were Nectar Such was Latona's when the Lycian clownes Denied her water No greater is the thirst of Tantalus Thought The still borne issue of the mind Silent discourse the quiet creatures of the soul Tenants of the heart Free inhabitants of the breast That know no prison Free borne issue of the mind That are not subject to an human law Nor but of God and conscience stand in aw The souls still language The minds parliament Thunder v. Lightning Joves hitting shafts Inevitable flame Joves trident Cyclopian darts shafts The vengefull flame He thunders and with hands that cannot erre Hurles lightning The three forkt shaft The breaking cloud rackt by the winds Hot from the cyclops anvile Aerial tumults The throwes and shrieking of the childbed cloud Whilst her hot issue from her cloven wombe Tears out a forced passage Loud Artilery of heaven Loud noises that torment the aire The voice Of angry heaven intrancing with its noise That rend th' amazed firmament and makes Th' affrighted rafters of the skie to shake The balling issue of the sulphury cloud That tears in peeces the wide cheeks of aire Joves fire-breathing horse Wherewith dull earth and wandering rivers quake Yea Stygian fens and horrid dwellings shake Of horrid Taenarus and Atlas bounds Heavens cholerick angry chiding language Heavens arrowes shot from the divided cloud The coughing hoarse barking of the skies Heavens chin-cough Clouds roaring conflicts from their breaches throw Darts of inevitable flames To Tie To knot manacle fetter gyve chain infetter lock Time The eternal clock Swift old dotard Which glides away with undiscovered hast And mocks our hopes The nimble aged syre Swift speedy time feathered with flying houres Whose constant course doth every thing devoure That doth unglosse the flourish set on youth And delves the paralels in beauties brow Whose slippery wheele doth play In humane causes with inconstant sway Motions swiftest measure The motion of the ever whirling wheele Devouring cormorant That common arbitratour The general invader That ever flying minute The moth of nature and of aâ—t Natures book worme The shop and mint of change The universal Justice that tries all things Untangler of all knots Who greedy to devoure His own and all that he brings forth Is eating every piece of houre Some object of the rarest worth Truths aged father The most abhorred Stratagems of night Lurking in cavernes from the glorious light By him perforce are from their dungeons hurld And shew'd as monsters to the wondering world Whose absence all the treasury of earth Cannot buy out Iâ—revocable time Not all The wealth or treasures of the earth recall One of his swift-wing'd minutes back The bald unbribed witnesse Timanthes The famous painter that allow'd no place For private sorow in a princes face Yet that his piece might not exceed belief He cast a veile upon supposed grief Tombe v. Grave The solitary vault The marble monument The guilded marble or the brazen leaves A stone to bear Witnesse that once we were The blind dark vault The chest Which harbours the pale ashes sad dust The vault were the sad ashes lie The coole vault The dark silent roome The monumental vault The melancholy chamber of the earth The marble where we are Slaves to the tyrant wormes Cold burthen of our ashes The gloomy cave That glorious trouble ore the grave The gorgeous pallace of the dead Sad entertainment of the grave The dead's embroydered clothes The sacred vault where ashes proudly dwell And dead as living do their pomp expresse In sumptuous tombes like gorgeous pallaces That sever the good fellowship of dust And spoile their meeting Unenvied mansions of the dead The gloomy house of death Deaths silent mansion That often perjur'd stone bearing a lying postscript Where none can bribe impartial wormes to spare Princes corrupt in marble Tongue The hearts Herald The thoughts Embassadour The minds interpreter The legate of the soul The best worst dish Great litle member That shapes the aire to words Mother of speech Toppe Summit crownet Torch Flaming pines sputtering flames oyly pines Pitchy tapers Torment Strapado rack martyr excruciate grate eate Torne Mangled minc'd scatter'd shatter'd shiver'd anatomiz'd Tower Turret arcenal cittadel Tragedian Whose angry muse doth in her buskins rage And her long tragick robe doth brush the stage Whose numbers thunder and whose quills Fresh drops of death at every word distill The 〈◊〉 of Melpomene Traveller The curious exile Expert in all but home Cosmography
do the modern Languages often comparing their Poetry to that of the Greek and Latines and finding it somewhat disconsonant they presently condemne it as savage and barbarous when haply consider'd with relation to the Languages it is much the more excellent To which may be added the advantages in point of Poetry accrewing by Rhime and consequently that the Languages that are enriched by it are the most suscepâ—ible of Poesie But for these and the like controversies arising concerning Poetry we refer those that are desirous of further satisfaction to the defence of Poesie wriâ—ten by Sir Philip Sidney printed at the end of the Arcadia Mr. Sa. Daniel's Apologie for Rhime written in answer to a Pamphlet in his time entituled Observations in the Art of English Poesie and a certain Treatise entituled The Art of English Poesie divided into three Books the first of Poets and Poesie the second of Proportion and the third of Ornament printed in the year 1589. treating of Poesie in generall and exemplifying in the English As to English Poesie we shall lay it down as granted that it may be fortunate in any kind and upon any subject if it meet with a true son of Parnassus and a genius that knowes how to manage it And yet we find by experience that the most considerable and for ought can be found the most fortunate therein were a sort of Chimists men of much leisure and sedentary lives who writ altogether in Stanza's In so much that for some centuries of years the greatest part of English Poetry was spent on those barren and indeed abstruse subjects of Chymistry and the Philosophers stone as I have it from a Gentlemans observation who is excellently well versed in Treatises of that nature and hath a strange and almost incredible collection thereof But the English Language ariving daily to greater perfection and purity Poesie must needs accordingly extend to all subjects and occasions incident to humane life and since it admits of the same division into species as the Greek and Latine we must being obliged to them for their Termes submit to their Method The chiefest of all the species of Poesie is the Heroick or Epick as being a representation of Heroes or great and fortunate men and accordingly requiring a certain state and Majesty suitable to the persons it represents Some in Mr. Johnson's time vainly attempted to write a Heroick poem in imitation of the Greeks and Latines by the measures of Spondey and Dactyl without any regard to rime Of that number was he who sent him a coppy of verses beginning thus BeÌ„njaÌ„miÌ„n iÌ„mmoÌ„rtal JoÌ„hnsoÌ„n moÌ„st hiÌ„ghliÌ„e reÌ„noÌ„wneÌ„d In this kind were written by the Ancients all kind of Historical Poesie performed by most of the Europian Languages till of late by way of Stanza's A second species of Posie is the Lyrick which is of such extent that it may be made use of on any occasion To this head are referred Madrigals Sonnets Hymnes Ballets Odes whereof some are amorous some rural some military some jovial made for drollery and drinking in a word what suits best with the Poets humour To these may be added Epithalamiums written upon occasion of Nuptials Epinicions of Victories Genethliacks of Nativities Congratulatories c. The most eminent of all writers of this kind were among the Latines Horace and Catullus A third species is that of Elegies Threnodies and such like long-breathed Poems on luctiferous subjects To this is reducible what ever may be said on sad and dolefull occasions Of this Ovid in his book de Tristibus is as it were the Grand Exemplar A fourth kind is that which is called Dramatick Poesie divisible into diverse species and comprehending Tragedies Comedies Interludes Masks Entertainments Dialogues Satyres Frolicks Georgicks Pastoralls Piscatories Nauticals which three last passe commonly under the name of Eclogues Memoralls and the like In these the Poet is not strictly obliged to rhime but only to measure being such as are principally intended for the stage the main grace hereof consists in representation and action Of all these the most ancient is the Satyre a kind of writing reproving common and popular abuses so called for the bitternesse and invectives thereof which was such that to regulâ—te and reforme their licentiousresse and exorbitance Tragedies and Comedies were introduc'd A fift is the Epigram a facetious kind of writing full of spirit humour and fancy It is of a vast extent as comprehending Epitaphs Characters Emblems Devices Motto's Hieroglyphicks Definitions Aphorisms Distributions Paradoxes Rebus's Problems It is full of mirth and salt sententious directive as to Morality proverbiall Mythologicall Enigmaticall in a word hath all humane actions and accidents to work upon closing up all with a certain smartnesse of conceit The numerous brood of it are ingenious fallacies in and extra dictionem Encomiasticks Vituperatories Scoffs Sarcasms Jeers Jests Quibbles Clinches Quippes Bulls Anagrams Chronograms Acrosticks Criticismes in a word whatever is of Succinct and concise Poetry on what subject soever handsomly couched and worded To these may lastly be added certain Poeticall Treatises concerning Learning Science or some particular sect of Philosophy such as that of Lucretius Epistolary writings such as those of Ovid wherein he hath been imitated by Mr. Drayton and Historicall as Lucan imitated by the same Drayton and Daniel and translated and supplied by Mr. Thomas May both in Latine and English Having thus made a hasty dissection of Poesie into its severall species it is now time we descend to some few particular instructions which duly observed may contribute something to the ornament and embellishment thereof There is as we hinted before a certain harmony in Prose much more necessary is it in Verse whereof the grace and advantage consists altogether in the Symphony and cadence The first Observation then shall be to endeavour such a disposition of the words as that without much labour to the tongue they make a cerrain melody in the ear which no sooner hears it but she judges whether the words be placed so as to be pronounced without violence by the accent whence this verse though it hath the just number of feet runs harshly to the ear by reason of the misplacing of the accent None think reward rendred worthy his worth The case is the same when by an inconsiderable alteration as haply that of one word makes what was before harsh become smooth and pleasant For instance this Though death doth consume yet verue preserves with a little transposition will run well enough thus Though death doth ruine vertue yet preserves This discovers of what consequence the exact observation of the accent is which like right time in Musick produces harmony the want of it harshnesse and discord In like manner Rhime depends altogether on the accent whence it comes that many words terminating alike yet never rhime well such as wéaknesse and confésse náture and endúre fortune and importune c. This is soon discovered by the ear The second to avoid as much
cheekr Aurora did display Her golden locks and summon up the day Twice twenty times and rests her drowsie head Twice twenty times within old Tithons bed Five times had Hesper Titan warnd away Five times again did Lucifer appear Waving the standard of the glorious day Thrice had the bright surveyor of the heaven Divided out of the day and night by even And equall houres Five morns had cleard the Air with Phoebus light And from the pole remov'd the damps of night Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his Diurnal ring Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quencht his sleepy lamp Or foure and twenty times the Pilots glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass Now fifteen times had Phoebus gone to rest Inning his Chariot in the gloomy West David Kingly Prophet Israels sweet singer Jesses stout son Holy song-man The holy Father of wise Salomon The father of rebellious Absalâ—m That with his sling the mighty champion sâ—â—w The pious O pheus of the Jewâ— Deaf A culvering discharged at his ear would scarcely bore it Deprived of the hearing sence To whom the greatest talkers are as dumb One that enjoyes that benefit that he never hears himself ill spoken of Deaf as remorseless seas Natures drumme lies in his eares unbraiz'd Deaf as th' Icarian rocks Death Natures bold Pursivant The forgetful lake The Eclipse of life The graves purveyour Sleeps younger brother The Stygian bay Eternal sleep within a bed of dust The two-long-joyned lovers sad divorce The dark and common period Tyrant ore tyrants thou which onely dost Clip the lascivious beauty without lust The pale-fac't sergeant that layes us in our â—able chest Natures rude serjeant the moth of natures Art The common extinguisher of natures candles The first Alchyâ—nist to calciâ—e into dust The living bodies Lifes Epilogue The unsparing Pursivant with Eagles wings That knocks at poore mens doors as well as Kings The sad stipend of the first transgression The child of sin Great pale-fac't tyrant Sad message of the â—ullen bâ—ll Death attends Natures pale-fac't baylâ—ffe The parting stirrup at the journeyes end That night Which from the living takes the last of light Hate and terror to prosperity â—e put my eye-bals in thy vaulty browes And ringe these fingers with thy hous-hold worms And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust Come grin on me and I will think thou smilest And kiss thee Miseries love and wish That onely can Measure the true dimensions of a man Which is at best An unexpected and unwelcome guest Grimme executioner to destiny Birth-day to Eternity Unchanged law of Nature The best and last Physitian Vntimely Death To Whom the Fates owe yeares Abortive darkness veils the setting light The crime and sad mistake of destiny The untimely seisure of the greedy grave Th' extortion of the rigorous fares Exacting fate Deaths supererogation to the â—ates Death-bed v. approaching death When the latest sand Of the spent hower-glass is now at hand And as she spake that word her voice did alter Her breath grew cold her speech began to faulter Fain would she utter more but her faint tongue Not able to goe forward faild and câ—â—nge To her dry roof when the drum of death Beats a cold march When deaths pale-slags advanced in his cheeks His eyes turning round in the dance of death Lips trembling as though they kist their neighbour death Ready to take his oaths to be deaths true liege-man Death swims and baths her self within his eyes He gasps for breath as the grave gasps for him That hath â—id the last stage of life Lises candle twinckles within the socket When he hath bid the world and life adieve And set one foot within grimme Charons boaâ— Expecting every minute deaths sad summons Lifes â—wilight When his last testament and grave Is made an icy stifness benums by blood Deformed Her eyes do sink into their holes As if they were afraid to see the light Her breath infects the Aire and sowes a pestilence 'T is known that she hath eyes by the holes onely Which have crept further in than her nose out Her quarrelling teeth Of such a colour are that they themselves Scare one another and do stand at distance Nature made her when she was disposed to just And length of time hath made her more ridiculous Caâ—idia new come from the jawes of hell Natures Errata faulâ—â— escaped natures Print Which who so hath to wife Shall nere be cuckolded unless for spight By some that durst not do 't but in the night For fear of loathing her Never sin was at so high a rate But one nights hell with her might expiate A shape the Poets were afraid to fain For fear the shadow might infect their brain With hollow yellow teeth or none perhaps With stinking breath swart teeth and hanging chaps With wrinckled neck and stooping as she goes With driveling mouch and with a sâ—iveling nose Whose face gives a prospect which might well Give a surphet to a weak stomack Her nose seemed to threaten her chin Her tears like rain upon dirty furrows Disgracing weeping with her countenance Her hands those golden golls Tears in her eyes did seem there to bewail Their own disgrace Like Chaos or an unlickt Bears whelp That carries no impression like the dam The very dogs bark at him as he goes Crusty batch of Nature A face not worth the scorning Notclean enough to spit on Made by one of Natures unskilful and idle prentises A nose at enmity with all others and against which no possible defence but a pair of Spanish gloves That blunders all the rivers he passeth through and avoids thâ— sight of Painters and glasses lest they should shew him the pattern of his visage Goggle-eyed sparrow-mouthed gubber-toorhed canker-eatengummes hook-nosed rotten-teeth Morphew-fact beetle-browed her nose and chinne half meet to make the teeth friends that are fallen out A breath stinking up and down the room a nose dropping Winter and Sâ—mmer A Bavarian poke under her chinne lavâ—-â—ard dugges like two double juggs bloody-fallen-singers scabbed-wrists Cow-wasted tand-skinne splay-footed gouty legs stinking-feer Dowdy Gorgon Blouze Gobrian Mother Fulsome Cavida Mopsa Niso Fustilugs That needs no other proof besides her face To proclaim her witch So far from being faire None could be foule that did with her compare Natures trespass Made up of natures worst deformities She spied her filthyness and fain she would Have blusht if through so much dirt she could Natures Heteroclite with some member defective Or redundant Natures solocisme A naturall vizard like a winters Apple shrunk up together and half rotten The Chaos of a man Aesop Thersites Demagoras The Sun doth almost fear to lend his shine Least the reflection of his purest raies From such a dung-hill as she bears about Might chance to infect the universal Aire So that a general plague should give the world A second deluge and make Aire prevent The Doomesday of
light that takes his morning crown And in the Evening layes his glory dowâ— Phoebus burning throne The dayes bright champion Sols orient shrine Greatest torch of heaven The bright surveyor of the heavens That each day goes his golden pilgrimage Whose flaming hair Doth every day gild either Hemisphere Dayes gloâ—ious Prince the father of the year Fountain of light heavens richest gem Heavens golden headed Charioter Lord of heat viceroy of nature King of lights By whose male force is all we have begor Tâ—e curl'd paâ—e waggoner of heaven â—mperor of light King of Planets Soveraign of the stars Monarch of dayes and years The Persian Deity Father of winged time The worlds surveying lamp Which with his hot steeds guides the winged day He who alone can tame Those Steeds which from their nostrils vomit flame The tardie year I measuâ—e I am he Who see all objects and by whom all see Dâ—yes lofty going flame The King of flames Monarch of light great Hyperions golden throne That opes the pleasant sweets of May. That runs the gloâ—ious round Unweaâ—ied traveller The Soveraign of heavens golden fires That hâ—th his forehead circled in With many clear beams and shâ—rp pointed ray And drives the puâ—ple chariot of the day Who in his flamâ—ng chariot rides And with perpetuall motion time divides Great King of day from whose far darting eye Night wandring stars with fainting splendour flâ—â— The worlds bright eye Careering daily once about the skie The lights bright chariot Heavens burning Axle-tree The prince of planets with his locks of amber The glorious governour of day The bold fac'â— lampe Phaebe's bright brother The illustrious soveraigne of the day That hath the guidance of the day Instated all alone Amidst the planets in his burning throne Distributeth abroad with large extent Light both unto the stars and firmament Whose heat and light Makes creatures warme and bright Great glory of the skie That gilds the streams with heavenly Alchimy That all the world doth lighten with his ray Phe Pythian knight Illustrious officer of day That strips the mountains of their snowie shirts The Ocean of light The Persians shining God Phaebus bright chariot by Vulcan wrought The beam and axle tree of massie gold On silver spokes the golden fellies roll'd Rich gems and chrysolites the harnesse deckt Which Phaebus beams with equall light reflect That eye of day That in twelve measur'd houres doth survey The moity of earth Natures lusty Paramour Who by the clear extension of his light Chaseth from earth the impious sons of night Whose beams the various formes of things display Like multitude of figures wrought in clay Sun Rising v. Morning Sun Set. v. Evening Surgeon That hath some businesse about the building of the litle house of man whereof nature is as it were the tiler and he the plaisterer His gains are very ill got for he lives by the hurts of the common wealth He differs from a physitian as a sore doth fâ—om a disease He is a reasonable cleanly man considering the scabs he hath to deal with Swains v. Shepherds That barb the fields and to their merry teams Thistle their passions â—â—â—ched all day with his own scalding heat â—â—ved with keen sith the glory and delight â—â—motley meadows â—â—ich with their whistling hearten on their team All whose theam â— of their oxen and their team â—â—e piping lads that sound their sprightly strains â—hilst they their fleecy troops drive o'r the plains Swannes VVhich claps her silver wings â—â—d in the sedges of Meander sings VVhich many a day â—n the streams swelling breast hath had its play â—â—d on the panting billows bravely rides â—hilst Countrey lasses walking on the sides â—â—mire her beauty and with clapping hands â—â—ould force her leave the streams and tread the sands â—hat adde harmonious pleasures to the streams â—â—ffling their plumes come gliding on the Lake The air resounds the motions of their wings â—hen over plains they flie in ordered ranks â—o sport themselves upon Caysters banks â—â—at on Caysters bank when death doth come â—â—â—h sweetly sing an Epicedium That sadly sings 〈◊〉 mournfull dirge to the silver springs â—â—hich carelesse of his song glide sleeping by â—â—ithout one murmure of kind Elegiâ— Swear 〈◊〉 if they meant t' unstar the sphears with oaths â—â—at oft names God in oaths and onely then VVhose best of Rhetorick is a full mouth'd oath with a graceâ—e grace V. Forms of protesting Sweat â—ds of sweat stand moist upon thy brow â—ke bubbles in a late disturbed stream â—â—e watry bubbles of the painfull brow â—face froth'd o'r with sweat â—â—ir bosomes bath'd and steep'd in frothy sweat Drown'd in the native deluge of his sweat The sweat came gushing out from every pore And on his head a standing mist he wore Springs of sweat did in his forehead rise Sweat embalms His varnisht forehead Sweet smelling Zephyrus breaths not with a sweetergale Through groves of Sycamore A breath compos'd of odours Sweet as Panchaian fumes As the sweet sweat of tosesin a Still Or that which from chas'd Musk cats pores doth tril As th' Almighty balm of th' early east Like the Sabaean airs which as they fly Perfume with sweets the morning Majesty Like to the Phenix nest when she her wain Of age repairs and sows her self again Or when that balmy load she doth transfer Her cradle and her parents sepulcher To Heliopolis Apollo's Town And on his flamy Altar layes it down A place that breath'd perfumes Her words embalmed in so sweet a breath That made them triumph both on time and death Whose fragrant sweets Since the Cameleon knew And tasted of he to this humour grew Left other elements held this so rare That since he never feeds on ought but air Oh how the flowers prest with their treading on them Strove to cast up their heads to look upon them And jealously the buds that so had seen them Sent out their sweetest smells to come between them As fearing the perfume lodg'd in their powers If known would make men quite neglect the flowers The nard breaths never so nor so the rose when the namour'd spring by kissing blows Soft blushes on her cheeks nor th' early east Vying with Paradise â—'th Phenix nest As it the nard expires Perfuming Phenix like his funerall fiâ—es The winds of Paradise send such a gale More pretious breath than which moves The whispering leaves in the Panchaian groves Arabian wind whose breathing gently blows â—â—le to th' violet blushes to the rose â—â—ever yield an odour rich as this â—hen the Phenix from the flowry east â—â—s the sweet treasure of her perfum'd nest â—â—et as the proudest treasures of the east â—â—et as the Indian Cane As flaming gums â—â—agrant as the morning rose â—â—t as Panchaian gums or Frankincense â—myrrhe nor Cassia nor the choice perfumes â—untouch'd nard or Aromatick fumes â— hot Arabia doth enrich the air 〈◊〉 more delicious sweetnesse 〈◊〉 ever smelt the breath of morinng flowers 〈◊〉 sweetned with the dew of
west indians kine for their tallow V. cruel V. Vale. Valley WHere the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks On whole fresh looks the swart star sparely looks Embroidered o'r with quaint ennamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers And purple all the ground with vernall flowers â—ac'd with silver rills Encompass'd round with gently rising hills V. Pleasant Place Valiant Valour Puissance pâ—owesse fortitude chivalty The souldiers vertue the soul of war A man made all of fire Attemptive spirits â—ndaunted high erected spirits The dead quake in their grave to think of them One that dare prop the sun if it should fall Dares grasp the bolt from thunder And through a Canon leap into a town One that dare die next his heart in cold blood That leads the fight and lets no danger passe Without improvement The flâ—nts he treads upon Sparkle with lustre from his arms As if in love with danger That life can sobetly despise Undaunted spirits that encounter those Sad dangers we to fancy scarce propose That deride Pale death and meet with triumph in a tomb Who to pale fear Whispering danger never lent an ear That sells his life dear to his foes Whom dangers do encourage and invite A spirit scorning justest fears As if incapable of fears Who when a foot is mounted upon an high spirit Flying nothing more than the mention of flying The sweetnesse of life cannot so flatter the palate of the soul as make him swallow the bitternesse of an eternall disgrace As the Indian for his gem doth sound the stood He dives for honour in a sea of blood Glazing his valour in a crimson flood A spirit that hath outgrown his years Trampling depressing fears Under his valiant feet sets bravely on The Front of danger 'Twixt whom an fear there 's an antipathy A spirit that durst war against the fates That dare set his naked breast Against the thunder Giving a Majesty to adversity Making time hast it self to be witnesse of their honours and oâ— place witnesse to another of the truth of their doings Men of such prowesse as not to know fear in themselves aâ— yet to teach it others that had to deal with them A courage apt to climb over any danger Observing few complements in matters of arms but such as proâ— anger did indite to him Giving as many wounds as blows as many deaths as wound That can face the murdering Canon When it blows ranks into the air like chaffe A courage that knows not how to fear As full of spirit as the Moneth of May. A spirit of greater confidence Than can admittance give to thoughts of fear Will fight untill his thighs with dares Be almost like a sharp quill'd porcupine Every gash he receives is a grave for him that made it That being angry doth forget He ever heard the nime of death An unaffrighted mind Didaining fortune with his brandisht steell Which smoakt with bloody execution Like Valours minion carved out his passage Bellona's Bridegroom ushrinking spirit So daring that he would Go on upon the gods kisse lightning wrest The engine from the Cyclops and give fire At face of a full cloud Looks like Apollo rais'd to the worlds view The minute after he the Python slew An heart that scorneth danger With a brain Beating for honour Like Eagles his undazzeled eyes Affront the beams that from the steel arise That looks on his enemies with a kind of noble heavinesse no insultation A spirit that to sullen fear Whispering death ne'r lent a gentle ear Like to the Roman Scevola dothstand Bathing in flames his Salamander hand And with a sober scorn doth laugh to see The worst incensed fates can do Amazing death to see with dying pride In her pale chariot him in triumph ride That wear their lives at their swotds point Whose courage out-brave all fear If he do not live to enjoy the honour he purchaseth with his blood he leaves the world his Executor and to it bequeaths the rich inheritance of his memory Ready to disburse his life upon a good occasion Adventuring upon such designs as have no more probability Than is enough to keep them from being impossible That ne'r saw fear but in the face of the enemy Hands of steel and hearts of diamond His valour like the Fairy Arthurs shield Which but disclos'd awak'd the weaker eyes Of proudest foes and won the doubtfull field A God-like courage which no soft delight Can weaken nor the face of death affright A courage us'd to victory as an inheritance Having the Thracian God tied to their swords More than his body was to Vulcans chain A wise well tempered valour Those gyants death and danger Are but his ministers and serve a master More to be feard than they and the blind Goddesse Is led amongst the captives in his triumphs Veins Twining Mâ—anders of the blood The bloods meandting â—â—sterneâ— The purple channels of the blood The pipes of blood The laces of the skin The purple conduit pipes The crimson brooks Fair rivulets which for the food Of living bodies bear the crimson flood To every part within the liver meet And there with kisses numberlesse do greet Themselves and as they through each other glide Make many knots as if they took a pride In their strange foldings and themselves did please In their admired Apostomoses The airy paths Where ruby fairies dance their liquid rounds The chrystal cases of the blood The azure chaines Purple Labyrinth Those saphyr colour'd brooks Which conduit like with curious crooks Sweet Islands make in that fair land The natural gates and allies of the body The bodies purple lanes A zure rivulets Venus The queen of beauty Cyprian Queen Paphian Goddesse Loves fair Empresse The power that rules in love The Cyprian Deity The Queen of all that 's faire Shee that governs chamber sport Mother of love Loves golden arbitresse Cupids beauteous mother Vulcans lovely wife Mars gamesome mistresse The sea born Queene The fair wife of the sooty blacksmith God Loves sportive mother Loves lascivious dame The rosy Queen of love Fair Erycina Great Queen of Paphos and Cythaera's shrine The blushing Queen of love 's Drawn in a chariot by a team of doves â—ut whips her doves and smiling rides away â—e froth-borne goddesse Laughter loving dame Tho Câ—idos and bright Cyclads holds Tho Paphos with pair'd swans doth view That from the Ocean drawes her pedigree Neptunes Neece â—ormed out of Ambergreece Who in her snowie armes The God of rage confines Her whispers are the charmes Which only can divert his fierce designes The pleasant Queen to Paphos thence retires Where stood her temple there an hundred fires Whose fragrant flame Sabaean gums devoures Blâ—ze on as many altars crown'd with flowers Aged Anchysa's sprightly wife Adonis goddesse Aeneas beauteous mother Idalian Queen Samian goddesse Acidalian mother Bright Cythâ—rea Verse v. Poetry Weighty numbers Victorious rime Revenge their masters death and conquer time Soul-raping numbers
The frail tribe softer sex Fair afflictions Beauteous troubles Frail Corporation Weaker vessels Oversight of nature Mistake of nature Disgrace of reasonablenesse Obstinate cowards slave born tyrants Shops of vanity gilded weathercocks In whom conscience is but peevishnesse chastity Way wardnesse A bad wife is The Hectick feaver not to be be cured but by death Like Falcons stooping to a gaudy lute VVenders of nature when they wrong her not The best of goods or else the worst of evils Glorious angels or else cursed devils None more desire honour or worse keep it That most desire what you most deny And most contemne what comes most easily That carry a pedlars shop about them Names of beauteous women Cynthia Caelia Phebe Phyllis Amarillis Lesbia Chloris Phloe Sirena Coâ—ynna Clarinda Castora Amoret Florimel Claribel Arabella Lucida Belphebe Paeana Aemylia Serena Blandina Gloriana Delia Rosalinda Laura Lucinda Rosaline Portia Cornelia Angelica Angelina Stella Mira Miranda Lucerta Olivia Violetta Lycoris Julia Cytheris Clarinda Calista Irene Leucippe Chariclea Panthea Saccharissa Philumene Valiant women Laurina Tulla Tarpeia Camilla Hippolyta Acca Penthesilea Bâ—â—â—omart Tomyris Artemysia Hipsicratea Candace Voadicea Zenotia Amalasunta Valasca Vnchast women v. VVhores Faustina Thais Lais Helena Clytemnestra Tullia Hippia Catulla Messaline Iberina VVomen of all sorts Heywoods book of VVomen Wolf VVhich infest the night VVith their wild howling at fair Cynthia's light The Mountain dogs that out at midnight stalks And round the quiet sheepfolds closely walk The bitter foe of bleating flock Womb. The winding chambers of the womb Our Mansion where kind nature shews her cunning The secret Mansions where we are VVhilst nature doth our limbs prepare Natures secret cabinet Mans first grave and tomb Wonderfull v. Admirable Wood. v. Arbour Shade A wood untoucht of old was growing there Of thick-set trees whose boughs spreading and fair Meeting obscured the inclosed air And made dark shades exiling Phebus rayes VVhere no rude fawn nor wanton Sylvan playes No nymph disports but cruell deities No bird dares light upon those hallowed boughs No beasts made there their dens no wind there blows VVhere Dryades oft meet The Naiadeâ— and with their nimble feet Soft dances lead although their aierie shape All but a quick poetick sight escape There Faunus and Sylvanus keep their court And thither all the horrid hosts resort A wildernesse of trees Wooll The curled burthen of the ramme The fleecy burthen of the sheep Thriving burthens World The universe The glorious ball The twin globe The universall bower The all-circumference Vast volume The vast amphitheater Mighty orbe The vast rondure A ball of wind A glorious nothing The biggest bubble A ball of ice A slippery bowle The common hall of troubled natures factious court All the World over Where ever Nereus walkes his wavy round From where the morning riseth and the sun To where the even and night their courses run As far as ere heaven-propping Atlas high Bears on his back the beauteous starry skie As far as Phaebus dart s his golden ray Wheresoere the sun doth cast his flaming eye From Alexanders to Alcides bounds From Indian shores unto the setting sun And from the farthest Hyperborean coasts To those whose climes continual summer roasts Where ere the invading sea assaults the land As far As is the Artick from th' antartick star From silver Ganges to Sols watry bed In all the world where Phebus ever showes His glorious face when he his circuit goes From East to West untill in dusky night Unto the lower world he lends his light Within the compasse of the general frame In all the countries which from Gades extend To Ganges where the morning beams ascend Wormes The crawling vermine Dead corps bed-fellowes The wrigling tenants of the grave Crawling Canniballs Wrigling insects That feast upon the dead The unfelt fleas within the winding sheet Wound v. Kill The biting steel's pursued by streams of blood That bâ—th'd her pure white in a crimson flood To warme the reeking steele in blood To sheath the weapon in the flesh To plow the flesh To sluce the blood As from a crack in a strait pipe of lead Conveying water from some fountains head Hissing i' th aire the captive stream doth spin In Chrystal threads her silver humour thin Unseam the skin The gash lies gaping for revenge Wrong No patience can bear no charity pardon An injury beyond all satisfaction Height of injustice Break the lawes of justice W. Xanthus Troy's ancient river which such streams did hold As made the sheepe that drunk of them wear gold Divine Scamanders flood The stream Which men Scamander Gods did Xanthus call The streams wherein young brides did wash their bright And beauteous limbes before the marriage night Xerxes Darius wealthy son That brought the numerous army into Greece 1700000. or as others 1000000 That with his armies drank whole rivers dry That with his ships bridg'd ore the Hellespont That whipt the seas and lasht the winds cause they His threatning commands durst disobey Whose souldiers through the mountains cut their way Persia's luxurious prince Year The year Whose winged car by moneths daies hours is drawn The circle of the moneths The chapters of the booke of Time The serpent rolling in into her selfe Space of Years Thrice seven summers I had seen Deckt in Flora's rich array And as many winters keene Wrapt in suites of silver gray Thrice through the Zodiack had Hyperion pranc't And the fourth time his burning team advanc't When Sol again had brought his team about The sun hath three times parched crab and goat Twelve times the sun Through his twelve signes had run Now he to fifeteen added had a year When summers five he thrice had multiplied By this the sun Conducting time had through 2 3 4 5 6 c. Autumnes run Now through twelve signes the sun had brought his light Now Titan thrice had finished his years In watry Pisces While slowly shding moneths make up the date Of thirty years Now thrice foure heavens have roll'd about The circle of the year Untill Sol thrice the globe hath circled round The quickning sun Had twice six times about the Zodiack run Twice had the glorious sun run through the signes And with his kindly heat improv'd the mines Thrice had Phaebus been In horned Aries taking up his Inne Now when the year had turn'd his course about And fully worne his weary houres out And left his circling travel to his heir That now sets on-set to th' ensuing year Now seventimes Phoebus had his welked wain Upon the top of all the Tropick set As many times descending down again His fiery wheeles had with the fishes wet Three winters cold Have from the forrests shak't the summers pride Three beauteous springs to yellow Autumne turn'd Three Aprill perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd Three summers now have past Thrice hath the painted pride of flora grac't Earths joyfull bosome thrice hath winters rain Bereav'd her of that verdant dresse again The