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 Eâ—dimionâ— With wordes of grace proceeding frâ—m her heart She thank'd him for his former caâ—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 â—â—ocke The stately Garland of her blessed 〈◊〉 For beautie matchlesse incomparable With greatest fauours grac'd this coâ—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 stâ—â—e Feeding his lambs in mirth and iolliâ—ie But it fell out when I return'd of late His mirth was moane his solace misâ—â—ie Loe heare worlds-glasse of mutabilitie He wrung his hands and made a ruâ—ull moane His drops of teares might pierce a Marble stone I wondred how his blessed Comâ—edie Could haue so suddaine alteration I ask'd the cause of this his Tragaediâ— Hee answered enuies sophisticatâ—â—â— I thought to write the whole narratiâ—â— But â—ith Tragaedies haue a bloody eâ—d During his life he will not haue 〈…〉 â— 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 Aâ—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 conâ—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 â—renâ—h 〈◊〉 Stone Esquire Counsellor at the Law and Secondarie of the Counter in VVoodstreet London NO liquid Oyle proceedes froâ— 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 maleuoâ—ent The fates to come worke contrarie effect And cause thee blesse the day the place the houre That thou receyued'st Endymions Pâ—ramour Ourania sings obscure Philosophie Like Bats and Owles in silent darkâ— some night In Olderne times she chanted melodie Of highâ—er straine And when she comes to light Shee'lâ— sing thee such a blessed Madrigall As thâ—â— shalâ— thinke the lay Caâ—â—â—â—iall â— B FINIS Vera. Calandra Hastingua Ashebie de la Zouch Agape Wrotha Musophila Herberta Phileta Clara. Candida Iehoâ—a Eloâ—â—m Theos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tiâ—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 Mobâ—le Coelum Stâ—llâ—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 Herâ—â—nam qu◠〈◊〉 Maâ—iam Pemb. The Moone the 39. part of the earth Lympet a round shell which womeÌ„ 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 â—xecuâ—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 1â— Aâ—uila 4. Caâ—da Scorpionâ—â— â— Sagitarius 3. Centaurus 6. Nauis Argolâ— 23. Gemini 1â— Aâ—riga 7. Perseus 1â— 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 coldâ— The highest hot The Ayrie Meteors simple Included Meteors Windes Windes 32. Another coÌ„moditie by the winds viz. to make raine Earthquake The Profit we get by this Meteor A stormy-winde Thunder Watrie Elâ—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 woÌ„derfull 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.
Pales are soone withered If Phoebus in the Spring doe hide his head Aeternall night shall all the world oppresse If Phoebus doe with-draw his golden Tresse There was a Light before there was a Sunne And Day and Night before Phoebus begunne Yet is the Sunne the cause of Day and Night Shepheards diuine must iudge the reason right They say a glimering light did whirling wend From East to West vnto none other end But to supplie for a time Phoebus place Till he was made to runne his princely race But then this whirling light that Heau'n graced Contracted was and in great Phoebus placed Who euer since was cause of Night and Day As learned Shepheards sounden in their lay Next is the Orbe and Spheare of Cytharaeae Lame Vulcans wife vnconstant Dalâ—la Cupids mother Diana's mortall foe Cause of most warres which Gallants vndergoe When bloodie fight the god of warre hath grieued The ioyes of Venus hath him oft relieued Therefore hath Venus Vulcans bed forsaken And dreadfull Mars his lodging vndertaken But why doth Beauties Queene loue man so well Whose words are wounds whose frowns do death foretell Shee Triumpheth in his Coniunction She 's grieued at his opposition When he is merrie then shee laughes or smiles And with conceits the longest nights beguiles Can there â—e any perfect Sympathie T'wixt bloodie warres and Chamber-melodie Else Pan forbid but let vs vnderstand The matter well that we do take in hand T'wixt warres and peace can be no Sympathie But man and woman are in peace pardie Great Pan ordain'd as Shepheards do relate Contrarie Elements without debate Should altogither in one bodie dwell Louing each other and agreeing well So though Mars be bloodie in his Center Yet is he pacified if Venus enter Againe faire Venus with smyling pleasance Know's how t' asswage his angrie countenance So that there is a perfect harmonie Twixt white and blacke directly contrarie Which being mixed do agree for euer Whom neither Art or Nature can disseuer And this is the reason as shepheards skan Why a faire Ladie loues a Martiall man Next comes to our consideration Mercurie fraught with sophistication Nimble ingenious busie as the Bees Wittie as an Ape to follow what he sees In each thing some skill in full Arte no bodieâ— Thus whirleth about this Mercurial nodie Prate like a Perrot and readie of tongue At dice Cards and gaming all the day long Of wit sharpe and subtile of quicke apprehention Fit to exployte any rare mad inuention VVhy these be Mercurial if thou wouldest weet It 's because Mercurius hath winged feet All designments to put in execution As Planets superior worke reuolution Faithfully keeping his circular Spheere Passing the Zodiak signes in one whole yeere Now must we speake of earths blessed mother The lowest Planet swifter than other Lowest of all and nearest to our view Resplendent Phaebe chaste powerfull and true Glorious Nurse of all this lower frame Infusing moysture to the burning flame Of parching Phoebus whose fierie beames She doth allay and coole with moistning streames The Moone Dyana Phaebe Cynthia Shepheards call hir in Terra Florida One of hir names I doe ascribe to thee In whom her princely vertues seated bee Dee'r Princesse Laureat of Helliâ—on Deigne to accept it from Endymion Since thou participat'st with her in qualitie Her name thy mightinesse shall dignifie I call her Phaebe now for difference Betweene thy selfe and her magnificence All things vpon and all within the round Vnto her Soueraigntie are deepely bound Her greatnesse is the nine and thirtieth part Of all the earth as shepheards finde by Art In eight iust houres and seuen and twentie dayes She runs through the twelue Zodiack signes alwayes She swiftly passeth through the Zodiacke Great Phoebus in his course to ouertake In twelue houres and nine and twentie dayes She ouertak's the Sonne Ptolomâ—e sayes And this is iustly called Heauens wonder That these two Planets distant farre a sonder Once euery month meete in Conjunction To celebrate matrimoniall function O joyfull time when these two â—ouers meet When with sweet Congies one doth th' other greet But when they meete long time they cannot stay Phoebus must part swift time calles him away Phaebe returnes to vndertaken 〈◊〉 No hower granted in idlenesse to maâ—ke Phoebus parting giues her light sufficient T'lluminate th' inferior Continent Which like a faithfull wife she doth dispose Proportionable to the neede of those That high or lowe haue their habitation Capable of her Constellation She waggoneth to Neptunes Pallace than That wonneth in the mightie Ocean She views the Creekes Ports Hauens and Towers And giu's them Floods and Ebbs at certaine houres Which euermore she truly doth obserue Not one momentall minute doth she swerue Which skilfull Mariners aswell 〈◊〉 tell As little babies can their Crosse 〈◊〉 spell Thence she doth seâ—rch the Cauerns of the deepe Where strange and hydeous monsters vse to keepe Hydrippus Balana and Hydra fell Gendred by Cerberus Porter of Hell Hin'dring by vertue their venemous brood Drenching their spawne in the brinish flood That sayling passengers at their leysure Mought safely touch their Porte with pleasure She viewes the bottom of the Ocean Where neuer walked mortall liuing man There beene shell-fishes innumerable Armed with scaly-shields impenetrable There lies Muscles with Pearles replenished Wherewith the Robes of Nymphes beene garnished There growen the Scallop Cockle Welke and Oyster The Tortoyse Creuise and creeping Lobster The Lympet Sea-snaile with infinite moe Which in the treasury of Thetis goe All these shee cherisheth as if they were The noblest creatures in the highest Sphere She giu's them gifts that most of them should yawne At each full Sea for comforting their spawne And to the sea she giues dayly motion To ebbe and flow to voyde corruption She giu's her fertill generation And perfect Meanes of Vegitation So that Thetis hath more prouision of fish and foule in great diuision Then all th'inhabitable Earth can show Or skill of mortall man can know But all that of the Sea is said or done Is to demonstrate the glorie of the Moone For the Seas place and constitution Requireth a speciall discourse alone And is reserued to his proper place So I 'le proceede to speake of Phaebes grace And show how she within her Spherick Globe Cherisheth great Tellus and Flora's Robe Cotchelling all things in their 〈…〉 Till they haue got strength and maturitie There is no man or woman 〈◊〉 or Trade Nor any thing that mightie 〈◊〉 hath made Nor Tree nor Plant nor hearbe nor grasse nor flower But is maintained by her mightie power She shewes the Plowman when to sowe the ground To crop to fell to haue his timber sound She wizeth Surgeons when to ope a veine To ease the sicke and stop it fast againe She showes Physitions times necessarie To purge by Pils drinke or Eâ—ectuarie To cure Rheums fluxes and bodies laxatiue To giue a medicine preparatiue To giue a vomit clister
Tushes of Yuorie long Sharpe solide and of mightie quantitie Wherewith he macerates his enemie With these the haughtie Porus of India Fronted Alexander of Macedonia These breaken rankes of the great Battalia These feare not the Cannons of Romania These carrie mightie Castles of lightest wood Vpon their backes to make their parties good Wherein some twelue or thirteene armed men May vse their Armes and one too good for ten One may rule him with a twisted thread So wise is he and hath his lesson read I say one man this mightie beast may guide Being the King of all the Babes of pride The fierce and warlike horse which Chiron bred And princely Hector often nourished Whose fierie eyes done threaten blood and death Whose furious Nosethrils smoken flaming breath Whose crest is Proude loftie thinne halfe circled Whose Mane with siluer lockes his necke doth spred Whose eares beene short and pricked neere do stand As if some mightie battaile were in hand Little and short and thinne is his visage His nosethrils wide his teeth in equipage Whose foaming mouth bends to his stately brest Scorning the foe-mans Lance in armed rest Champing the Bit and trampling with his feete Crushing the fierie stones amid the streete Broad breast straite backe large and spacious Couragious nymble soone check and gracious Broad-buttocks long-taile cleane-legs Pastorns-shorâ— Like great Bucephalus in Greekish Fort. Round-bellied not grosse nor gaunt footlocks hairiâ— Proude in his trot not cutting faint or wearie Barbed in steele with rich caparison Fit for the God of warre to mount vpon O how he glorieth in the bloodie fight At Trumpetters dreadfull sound to shew his might Looke how he bites and strikes on â—â—erie side To shew the glorie of th' Hippâ—â—an pride But when great Caesar's mounted on his backe He breakes the squadrons like 〈◊〉 thunder-cracke Disordereth rankes Launces knapping in sonder Witnesse Sidneyan-Knight Albaâ—iâ—â— wonder High Ioue bestowed him for an ornament To make a mortall maâ— more excellent He knowes he lou's He markes his masters voice A stranger cannot make him to reioyce But you shall heare him laugh after his kinde If he but chaunce his masters person winde The stately Camell swift Dromedarie That Merchants goods done speedily carrie The Spanish Iennet glorious in his pace Th'Irish Hobbie of a stately grace The Scottish Nagge of ancient Galloway That nimbly knowes to runne and pace his way Englands Paulfrey our English Laâ—ies please To go their iournyes and returne aâ—â—ase The Turkish horse of Pegasus discended Charlemaine hath mightily commended The Mule the Asse the Lawyers doe maintaine Their Clients cause softly to entertaine For coursing Nagges are not for mâ—n of state To mount and mannage causes intricate The Oxe the Cowe the Sheepe the Goat the Cat That murders in the night the Mouse and Rat. The fawning Dog full of sagaâ—iâ—iâ— Excelling in sense and capacitie The hardie Mastife and nimble Greyhound The ornament of Floras blessed round Whose vse we know the Hare doth â—eare his might The squatting Hare doth â—remble at his â—ight The noble chaunting Hound with pleasing throat With bace and treble mâ—ane and 〈◊〉 nâ—at Warbling his voice making the horne to sound Orderly tunes t' immortilize the Hound Quicke â—enting Spannell sit for Princelie game To pearch the Pheasant and rare Birds of name To set the Heath-cocke Partrich and the Quaile The Snype the VVoodcocke and the dainty Raile To serue the Spar-hawke Faulcon and Laneret The Gosse-hawke Ger-faulcon and young Eglet The Marlyon Hobby Hawkes of swiftest wing VVhich many pleasures vnto Ladies bring Deserueth praise of the best fluent Pen That euer wrote the benefits of men The Spannell for the water and the land That all their Maisters rules doon vnderstand To couch to retriue and to range the field Of purpose game to spring and sporte to yeilde And of their Masters seeke none other gaines But comfortable words for wearie paines How may 〈◊〉 pen these Spanniels commend Whose qualities are such as haue no end If thou wilt seeke a constant faithfull friend In life and death thy bodie to defend Walking and running by thy Horses side Scorning all dangers that may thee betide Being a faithfull and true Companion In ioy and wofull desolation Whome neither change or sad calamitie Nor raging famine or aduersitie Nor naked state or pyning pouertie Can make to shunne or leaue thy company Then take thy Dogge or finde thou such another Let him be thy nearest kins-man or Brother Or conuerse with thee all daies of thy life Except thy dearest Mother or thy wife And take for thy paines if I be contrould The fattest Lambe conteyned in my fould The Tumbler a Dogge of rare quallitie To furnish the Kitchin abundantly VVith Connyes in a Warren suddainly Surprising with Arte so cunningly The silly Connyes before they be aware That the beholders thinke it wondrous rare This Dogge deserueth commendation As a wonder of Pans creation The little Spannell in the Ladies lappe Is blest with extraordinarie happe Feeding and lodging in that Princely place That whilom did renowmed Hector grace Young louing Lords doe wish it were their Doome A little while to take their Spannels â—oome Now must Endimion make the world acquainted With Serpents and wormes which Flora painted Vpon the face of Tellus Mansion Where nature shewes her deepe inuention The fearefull Crocadil and Scorpion The flying Dragon from the Dungeon Of Nessus springing the poyzoned viper The Snake the Slowe-worme and the Adder The monstrous Cerberus and Hydra venemous The Cocatrice of sight so perrilous The creeping Dragon and the swelling Toade The Neught the Swift lurking in the Roade The Aspe couering herselfe in high-way dust Whome carefull passengers will hardly trust These Serpents been of great deforâ—â—tie Yet excell all other in Subtilty Of great force and incredible furie Of great fore-sight to preuentiniurie Capitall enemies to Mortall man And he to them by all the meanes he can Except the Lizzard a Serpent admirable Of colour greene to man Amiable Before him running on a little space Delighting herselfe to beholde his fâ—â—e VVell watching the place where a man doth sleepe Guarding his bodie doth him safely keepe From other Serpents which would him deuoure As he carelesse sleepeth in Floras bower The Salamander liuing in the fire The greatest Phylosopher may admire For seely wormes and other creeping things Which of corrupt putryfaction springs By these doth Phisiâ— shew her Deitie In framing them with such varietie In Number infinite and in qualitie Surpassing the Serpents excellency The Oyle of Earth-wormes mightily preuailes Against the Gowte that humane ioynts assailes The shelled Dodman and white and blacke Snaile Ioynt-eating Fellon cureth without fayle The Glowe-worme shining in a frosty night Is an admirable thing in Shepheards sight Twentie of these wormes put in a small Glasse Stopped so close that no issue doe
great Arte and skill least thou â—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 exceâ—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 cuâ—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 â—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 dâ—d cease Exterminated quite with sacred Peace The champing horse vp to the Footâ—locks stood In flowing streames of dying Souldâ—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 prooâ—'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 surâ—ey'd As nature hath them orderly conueâ—'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 neckâ— their brests their hands Whose price none but the owners vnderstands Of watry substance beene they composed And by the burning heate of Phoebâ—â— disposed Into diuers colours hard orientall Shining throughout not superficialâ— The thicker they beene the more of regard So they beene impenetrable and haâ—d This watryâ—substance by colde is congealed And then by Phoebus long time Aâ—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
fitter were his hands to vse a pen Then mannage Armes with any Maâ—shall men But making vertue of necessitie He made a show as if he ment to fight Vpon his feet he started suddenly To shield these Ladies from that manly Knight No question there had beene a noble sight To see him wield a woodden rustie â—ooke That fitter were to mannage sacred â—ooke O how the Shepheard would haue 〈◊〉 his stumps And laid about him with his smoâ—tie Boke His woodden Crooke had giuen such deadly thumps As would haue stricken downe a falling Oxe So would the Knight haue feard the Shepherds knocks As if a Bulrush hit him on the Crest Or if a Gnat had stung his armed bâ—est But all was well no terror was intended The Knight nor car'd nor knew Endymion He rein'd his Steed and lightly downe discended And with a Courtly disposition Lift vp his Beuer whereby euery one Knew him to be the mightie Astrophill Whose prayse is paynted with an Angels quill Prince of all Poets in Acadia Magnanimous of euerlasting Fame Of chiefe regard with famous Cynthia Appollo parted with him halfe his name And gaue him skill darke ignorance to tame Appollo twined with his learned hand The Lawrell Crowne which on his head doth stand But when my Cynthia knew 't was Astrophill She ranne to claspe him in her daintie Armes But out alas it passed mortall skill Inchaunted was the Knight with sacred Charmes His bodie dead of yore the more our harmes O noble Drayton well didst thou rehearse Our Damages in dryrie Sable verse Thrice Cynthia tri'd to folde him in her armes But all in vaine she nothing comprehended Her vitall blood that all the bodie warmes Forsooke her veynes and to her heart ascended For loe she fainting fall's as life were ended Making most wofull lamentation Yet Astrophill still kept his station The worthy Nimphes that circled Cynthia Amazed at her fall made such a crie As wak'd the Satyrs of Syluania And feeding Lambs did greatly terrifie The Shepheard in a mortall trance doth lie The tender Ladies had the better hart Setting all cowardice and feare apart Nymbly they tooke and rubbed Cynthia Till she reuiu'd who lifting vp her â—yes Behelde the Elsin of Arcadia And cri'de deare brother do not â—eâ—porise Nor do thou Ladie Cynthia despise Why speak'st thou not to her that loues thee best What dismall humor hath thy minde possestâ— With that as from a deepe concauâ—tiâ— A siluered voice and words of greaâ— import Proceeded from the Knight with Maiestie Distinct pithie plaine but wondâ—oâ—â— short Yet such as vnto vs gaue great comfort A man a ghost a knight a potentate Humane diuine forcible laureate Dies liues fights not yet mortally doth wound Death life time fortune wisedome learning wit Nature Arte forme languages proâ—ound Glorious earthlie-pompe fame exâ—â—lling it No earthly thing eternally shall siâ— Vertue Pietie and pure Sanctitie Shall weare the Crowne of immortalitie These words the trembling Shepheâ—rd did reuiue They were so full of raritie and choyse Resembling skill of Astrophill aliue The sound he thought was not vnlike his voice Endymion did mightily reioice And said aloud or thou arâ— Astrophill Or thou hast learn'd this Sonnet from his skill Shepheard quoth he I am and am not hee I am not perfect Astrophill but 〈◊〉 The shade which now appeareth â—â—to thee Is substance spirituall framâ—d by Arte What mortall was is slaine by deaâ—ly Dart Of Thanatos corrupt consum'd to â—â—st Such is the end of all this worldly 〈◊〉 But what art thou that sitst among these bayeâ— Vnfold to me for I must needes be gone I was reader quoth he in former daies Vnto great Astrophill but now am one Stripped and naked destitute alone Naught but my Greekish pipe and staffe haue I To keepe my Lambs and me in miserie Art thou quoth he my Tutor Tergaster He answered yea such was my happie chaunce I grieue quoth Astrophill at thy disaster But fates denie me learning to aduaunce Yet Cinthia shall afford thee maintenance My dearest Sister keepe my Tutor well For in his element he doth excell And for thy selfe I bring thee happie newes Thou shalt inioy a long and happie peace Which former bloodie wars and death ensues For ciuill heate in Albion-soyle shall cease And noble blood shall perfectly encrease Church-men heareafter shall agree in one Bannishing sects and superstition Pride shall be turned to humilitie Each man shall keepe himselfe in his degree Discurtesie shall be ciuilitie Wanton Maydes shall modest Matrons bee Noe Man shall seeke the fruite of others tree Noe Rapine swearing or abusion Noe Murder ribauldrie confusion Each man shall seeke to doe his neighbour right Greene grasse shall florish in Westminster Hall You shall discerne a beggar from a Knight Extortion and briberie shall haue a fall Golde exchanged for thinges caelestiall Vertue Truth Honestie Religion Shall Tryumph in the brittish Regyon Caesar shall see his foes subuersion No man shall lift a sword against hâ—s Crowne His issue shall not feare dispersion Christo Mastix shall be tumbled doâ—ne Peace faith loue ioy honor in euery Towne Trumpets shall sound and bels shaâ—l ring for ioy Virgins and boyes shall sing Vine â—â— Roy. Reuerend olde age shall bring thee to thy Herse And glorie shall adorne thy progenie Eternall fame shall blaze in golden verse Thine honorable life and destinie Renowned Poet 's of highest Ingenie Shall decke thy Tombe with euerlasting fame And with goulden pens celebrate thy name And when thy bodie shall consume to dust Resting it selfe in deepe obscuritie With dreadfull Trumpe shall rise againe the iust Thy bodie shall surpasse in dignitie The welkin which thou seest in Maiestie Meane while thy spirit a substance diuine In tryumph rid's in equipage with mine About the Orb 's and Spheares caelestiall Dignified with euer shining light Viewing the majestie imperiall Clad in a vesture of the purest white Which Amnos made before the world was dight Where thou with me and I with thee shall sing Eternall prayses to the immortall king These blessed Nimphs enuironing thee round Thrice noble by their propagation Neeces to Astrophill of honor â—ound Of modest vertuous inclination Happie shall be their generatâ—â—n And blessed they till Ioue haue wâ—ought his will And caus'd them mount the 〈…〉 Astâ—ophill And now my Cinthia time sommons me henee My newes been done I can no longer stay He mounted Pegasus and hy'de from thence Piercing the welkin vanished away Leauing the Ladies in wofull dismay Lifting their heads and gazing on the skies Obseruing the course as Astrophill flies Galaxia tooke him in her splendent armes Sweetely she couch'd him in her Canapie She seal'd the passage with her counter charmes To guard her sleeping Knight from Ieopardie Without regard of impaciency Cinthia would needes ascend Olympus hill To liue or dye with blessed Astrophill Nature perswaded her to stay a while Her time prefixed was not yet assign'd The fatall Sisters would not cut her file
properties of a good Mother or wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The couering of the earth called Tellus-Mantle Flowers A flower a wonder Hearbes The admirable vertues of the Herbe called Oculus Christi Trees Lyon Tygre Hyena Panther Rhinoceres Beare Vnicorne Ermine Leopard Martin Sable Luâ—erns Fox white and blacke Mineueer Elke Bugle Budge Bucke Gemps Shamoys Harte Wolfe Squirrell Conâ—â—y Vrchin Porpeâ—tine Deer Hare Badger Ottâ—â— Apes Monkies Marmezite Babioun Polcat Wild-cat Weezle Stoate Musk-cat Dormouse 〈◊〉 Mice Mold-warpe Not blind Tame beasts Elephant Horse Camell Dromedary Spanish IeÌ„net Ireish Hobby Galloway Nagge Engl Nagge Turkish horse Mule Asse Oxe Cow Sheepe Goate Catte Dogge Mastif Greyhound Hownde Spannell Water-spannell Tumbler The Ladies Spannell Serpents Lyzard Salamandar Wormes Earth-worms Dodman Snailes Glow-worme To catch fish Silke-wormes Doct. Muffets Booke of the Silke-worme Spider Pismire Prou. 6. Butterfly The Pismires head The Pismires burie their dead The Flea the Louse Fowles Eagle The Phaenix The vsâ— Griffin Vulture Ostrich Goss-hawâ—â— Faulcon Ierfaulcon Tersell Lanâ—ret Lanner Muller a bastard Hawke Marlion Hobby Sparhawke Musket Kistrell Kite Buzzard Ringtaile Rauen. Dangerous for the eyes Crow Rooke Chough Daw. Mag-pie Michael Draitons Owle Bat. To see as well by night as by day Kings-fisher Woodspite Cormorant Swan Hearne Crane Goose Duck Widgeon Teale Curlew Dotterell Pewet Bustard Godwet Plouer Heath-cocke Partrich Pheasant Rayle Quaile Larke Ouzle Thrush Nightingale Lynnet Canary birds Redbrecht Wren Parret Parakito Gould-finch Bul-finch Marâ—let Swallow A red stone in the Craw of a Swallow prob Oyle of Swallowes English iayes haue the falling sicknes Peacocks Turkey Cock Turtledoue Doue Stockdoue Storke Iris the basest beggar that liued in his time Pellicane House-cocke The Cocâ—â— loues his wife Titmouse Flyes Bees The Bees body described Euery lodging 〈…〉 Honry Riuers Fishes of the Riuer Carpe Tench Pool Springs Bathes Colde Bathes Whoâ— The Iewels treasure within the earth All thinges within the earth are eyther Metalls Stones or Mixt. 7. Metalls The cause of different Metals No plentye of Golde in Virginia why Gold the Obiect of the world Women forsake their husbands beds for gold and their excuses Pandresse Bankrupt becomes a preacher for gold To be a Puritane Marke his subtiltie Mutabilitie Marke here he subscribeth Mâ—ke his hypocrisie An other excuse A Booke called the Suâ—uâ—y of Discipline An olde wife chosen and made yong by Golde A foule and foolish daughter made faire and wise by Golde Alchimie Brasse Iron and Steele Peace commended Discommodities of warre Leade Tinne Corrupted by Mixture of Leade Stones with their deuisioÌ„s Precious stones How they come to resist the fire yet being endred water Gemmae perspicuae Opâ—caâ— Mâ—xâ—aâ— Perspiâ—â—â— Opâ—â—a â— Mysâ—â— Many stones of more vertue theÌ„ beasts and plants Load-stone Diamond His vertues Carbuncle or Rubie Vertues Emerald Vertues Blew Saphyr Vertues Iacinth Vertâ—eâ— Marble Porphyrie Alablastar Three kindes of Whetstones Touch-stone Damasco Whet-stones of an Aâ—hecolour Indian Whet-stones yellow Flynt-stone Men much bound to God for this Stone especially Students Souldiers Mariners Stones ordinary Load-stone Vertues Mariners Hercules the first inuentor of the Load-stone Smiris for Teeth Pumcâ— for Parchment Taâ—tarum for Spots in the face Lapâ—â— Sectilâ—s Acthites Vertues for womeÌ„ trauelling with child Corall no stone but an Herbe Ieat Mixt mineralls Sal Géma Ammoniacum Salt Peter Sulphur Alume Glasse Looking-glasses Perspectiue glasses Drinking Glasses Glasse for windowes Burning-Glasses Spectacles Limbecks Viols Quickesiluer Quicke siluer may be 〈◊〉 The vse of this philosophiâ— When the Angels were made The fall of Angels and their place Man made and why A perfect man Ephe. 4. A liuing soule Life the effects of the soule The Liuer fountaine of blood The heart principall The head receptacle of senses intellectuall Fantasie in the forehead Memorie in the hinder part of the head VnderstaÌ„ding in the crowne of the head Dura Mater Pâ—a Mater The soule Immortall Simple No part of Gods essence Created that is breathed Not ex tradâ—â—â—â— that is One soule to beget another He saw God as he might behold him He named all things his Mansion Paradice in the middest of the earth Man King of the earth Diuinitie begins where Philosophie doth end WomaÌ„ made The womans soule was not made of 〈◊〉 soule but infused by God Obserue Adam Adamah Nekebah perâ—oratâ— boared as with a wimble of the word Nâ—kab signifying to beare a thing Hollow Iskah a Mannesse as we say a Dutchesse Drayton vpon the death of S.P.S. Galaxia the white path in the firmament