Arist. de an 3. h Vniuersus mundus ex sua tota materia constat materia namque ipsius naturale est at que sensibile corpus Arist. l. 1. c. de Coelo * Preter quatuor primaros humâ—res in sanguine venis contentos tres alios humores ostendunt medici inter quos oleoginosum hunc ponunt humorem sedem natiui caloris et vehiculum vitae Fernelius de spiritu innato calido cap. 6. namsulphur quicunque metallorum naturas perserutantur terrae adipem vel oleum appellant Ibid. cap. 3. i This is true of the inner Mediterrane Sea which neither ebbs nor flowes but not so of the vpper Terrane calld the Gulph of Venice which doth ebbe and flowe Acosta Hist. Indies lib. 3. cap. 14. k Stellarum errantium forsan ducatû in microcosmo desideras En Lunam Cerebrum Mercurium Lingua facies Venerem genitalia Solem cor Iouem epar Martem vesica fellis Saturnum Lien tibi perpulchre referunt Quin imo si modo fas vela pandere nauimque altius in simplicia mixta corpora in quae mundum Parapatetici partiuntur immittere ea quoque in microcosmo adumbrata â—uadantenus esse haud facile quis negatum iuerit cum spiritus humani corporis coelum quintam illam essentiam quatuor vero humores bilis ignem sanguis aerem pituita aquam terram atrabilis exprimant Knobloche institut Anatom XXXVIII An Elegie vpon the Death of the most Illustrious Prince HENRIE I Doe not grieue when some vnwholsome aire Mildewes rich fields nor when the clusters faire Of Claret â—ot through too abundant shovers I grieue not when some gay vasauory Flowers Are nipt and withered by ta'vntimely Frost Onely herein my patience suffers most When the sweet Haruest and expected gaine Of Vertues Vintage ere full ripe is slaine When Time the Wheat with cruell sythe cuts downe But leaues such vulgar weeds as we vnmowne Darnell and Vetches When these â—â—ortall lights Extinguisht be should guide our dimmer sights Then then I weepe and wish the warry clouds Would furnish me with reares to weepe whole flouds Then wish I BOREAS whose killing breath is ne'er perfum'd with sweets of Indian Earth To lend me sighs I wish the Culuers groanes The Pellicans shrill shrikes to expresse my moanes I wish my selâ—e those 〈◊〉 wings To search the glorious Courts of th'Fasterne Kings And a strong Partent seaâ—'d from powerfull IOVE Freely to take all that my thoughts approue First would I then in Indian Forrests â—lit The weeping Plant with Iuorie Knife to get Such pretious liquor vncorrupted cleare As might enbalme herâ—â—â—ck â—enrie here Then would I next to Tauris Gardens pierce For rarest flowers to strew vpon his Hearse Th' Indies should yeeld vs Diamonds China Gold Peâ—â—e the Siluer that her lap doth hold Sylon and Ormus all their Pearle should send The Congian Slaues from secret Caues should rend The Chyan Marble white Cassidonie Greene Lacedemon and red Porpherie The pure white Marble got in Palestine And rare Numidian spotted Serpentine Tuskane should yeeld me then some Architect Whose artfull wit should first these Stones dissect With Sand and toothlesse Saw and then engraue What stories there you memoriz'd would haue Which worke let mine imagination frame So large that the whole Earth might seeme to th'same A fitting Basis whence a lofue Spire Through the triple aiâ—e Regions and much higher Should penetrate so should the whole Earth be His tombe and the faire◠〈◊〉 his Canopie This Piramed a Pharos ferâ—ing right For to direct the storme-lost wandring VVight To saferie for since Fate did's life designe A patterne vnto this Cimmerian time To imitate tho ATROPOS accurst His Clew but new begun in sunder burst Yet that small piece in tables SMARAGDINE I would preserue for light therein to shine From these our Labyrinthian waies vneuen To guide vs iust that way he went to Heauen XXXIX MOrtalls lament for Nature now and Fate Seeme at great odds and both with mutuall hate To crosse each other Else why is it still If ought be faire or good by Natures will Fate cuts it off Your Peach with much adoe Escapes the Frost yet liues the bitter Sloe In spite of Winter Wheate and other Graine These oft are blasted Weeds are seldome slaine A thousand mischiefes and diseases tend The towring Falkon soone to worke her end When Puttocks last and Crowes liue many a yeare Th' Arabian Courâ—er prized so high and deare He 's melted in one day perhaps and dies But th' wretched Asse suruiues all miseries Strokes endlesse toile and faâ—â—ine And we sâ—e The like in men If Natâ—â—â—â—ounteous be Once in an Age and striuâ—â— to make one blest With her rich fauours him before the rest Fate soonest aimes at Let me instance take That Royall hope whom Nature stroue to make The very modell of Perfection How soone Fate cut him off And now is gone O word scarce to be nam'd with fewer teares CANDISHE the Noble Vertuous tho in yeares Younger then ADON yet like NESTOR wise Though greene in blooming youth ripe in aduice Whom Nature as a Cabinet did frame Therein to stow all things that Mortals name Rich faire or good which Death by Fates decree â—â—th broken vp and now quite robd we be Of treasure had enricht this barren time And reduc't plenty Fate these workes of thiâ—â— Are much too deepe for dim eyes to discerne For though some ignorant perchance would terme This Ciuill warre yet farre be such offence From vs to thinke the diuine prouidence Which leades these second causes euer may Be selfe diuided But this right we say That as these mortall Gods on earth doe vse All things or rich or faire themselues to chuse Thinking th' inferiour sort vnworthy such So seeme the Heauens herein to doe as much If Mines of Marle or Coale or such like stuffe Be found the Soueraignes thinke it good enough For the meane people But if Gold or Plate That 's for themselues Wherein they imitate The Heauens so that indeed there seemes to be In their designes a kind of simpathie Both choose vnto themselues what good they deeme Tho men mistaken oft-times most esteeme That which most harmes them But the Heauens which know The natures all of things they frame below With cunning hand in this faire Garden gather Each beautious flower leauing the weedes to wither By time and courses fit for them ordain'd Since these likewise for hidden ends were fram'd Iohn Hagthorppe XL. Teares for Sir THO. O. YOu Culuers of the VVood lend me your grones You Mandrakes shrikeâ— and mournefull Pellicanes You mid-night Birds lend me your dismall tones And all that wrongfull villanie complaines Oh lend me lend me all the dying straines You Snow-white Swans which on Meander swim Doe at your deaths in funerall Dirgessing You Elephants caught in the Peguan Toyle You Nubian Lions that the naked Moore Or wilde Arabian for your ancient spoile Compells in vaine
coldnesse of her melancholie disposition seemes to put out the fires of loue and â—erriment c Shuns the light as the Bat and as it were clothes her selfe in darknesse d Making those shee lookes on with her eyes heauy and lumpish e Her discourse and conference being iust as seasonable and pleasing as the Screech-howles to any but those that haue with her communitie of occasions f Those that are but afflicted with the losse â—f temporarie things as health friends fortunes â—r all these with holy Iob they seeme but to be a litâ—le benumbd only with the chastisment of her whip g But those which loose Gods grace fauour and mercie with Iudas those shee seemes to kill and vtterly to destroy with her Mace of Iron h Plaste at Hel-mouth because she leads either to despaire who kâ—â—pes at 〈◊〉 entrance of hell or â—lse to Repentance by whom we passe 〈◊〉 by the Gates of hell to heauen i Fâ—igned to liue in a Tombstone or Sarchâ—phage because the house where sorrow dâ—th inhâ—â—bit is to this flesh no better then a perpetuall consumption and a graue The stones calld Sarchophagiare found in a Countrie of Asia in a place called Sciros Plinie CHAP. XV. The member of our sorrows which seeme infinite till they be compared with the number of our sinâ—es whose numberlesse number nothing exceeds but the infinite mercies of Aâ—mightie God I Wish I could mans sorrows summe and â—enne Bandied like balls twixt faults and punishments Whose punishments so close succeed his sinne As shadows doe the substance that fore-went Beautie strength wealth and wit the gifts of heauen To be lost at these hazards oft are giuen The miseries and sorrowes cares and feares That here assault him euery day and howre In number like the Russian swarmes appeare In nature like the â—ygers that deuoure Or Nubian Lions feeding on his heart Disfiguring the face and euâ—ry part The poysons wherewith they infest our minds Tormenting more then all the banefull weeds That doe enrage or stupifie The kinds Of Serpents Dipsas Drynas lesse paine breds Man 's owne hart to himselfe so much doth yeeld Of sinnes and sorrowes the most fertill field The number of which sorrowes doth surmount Excepting sinnes all other terren things The grasse the leaues the sand in sinnes account The sâ—alie traine and creatures that haue wings Fall short compared with this Of numbers none Exceeds the number of our sinnes but one Gods mercies which as Heauens bright tapers are Or siluer dewes of Hermons fertill hill More faire then Ormuâ— Pearle or Diamonds farre More sweet then all the Balsams that distill Out of the Plants the Memphyan Gardens hold Richer then Chyna's Mines or Congian Gold Gods mercies are as many as our words And thoughts for euery word and thought is sin Thence since each sinne eternall death affords And by his mercies these so oft forgiu'n Who can Gods mercies infinite expresse For boundlesse woes who giues eternall blesse CHAP. XVI The great comfort in Gods excellent mercies in which we may find rest after all our miseries GOds mercies are the deluge of his loue For as his Iustice once did ouerfloe And sad destruction to the world did proue So doth the deluge of his mercie now Flow freely ouer all men and to all That for the same with constant faith do call Not mightie Volga with her seuentie mouthes Not Greekish Danow on whose sides there stands Those regall Townes not Nyger that by droughts Is twice deuoured of Affricks thirsting sands Zayr Nile and Magnâ—ce all vniâ—ed are Not with this Riuers vastnes to compare Not cleare Maragnon with her siluer waues Not Râ—wleane nor Plate which from the Mine Within Peruuian Mountaines intrals laues Rich Grauel fearing sore the Ocean Queene As emptie handed vassals to appeare These be not halfe so rich nor halfe so cleare The Brammeâ—es and the Heathen Indians who In a Ganges seeke their sinnes to wash and elense The vertues of this Riuer doe not know Nor they that doe themselues in Indus rense But we in this alone perfection find Health Beautie Wealth Bounty all combind The Prophets and the holy Patriarchs Washt in this â—â—urdane and therein found health So did the Saints and Churches great Nauerches And â—o doe we who meâ—â—â— with no lesse wealth All drinke or may for this is neuer drie Because the Fountaine is Eâ—erâ—iâ—ie Some of two Phrygian Fountaines â—eâ—l strange things b Cleon and Gelon th' one exciting teares The other gladnesse But two stranger Springs More opposite in humain flesh appeares Sinne that both teares and death it selfe procures And Merâ—y in Christs blood which life assures a The Indians haue a superstitious conceit of Ganges and thinke themselues much sanctified by washing therein and giue great gifts to the poore when they come on pilgrimage thereto Hier. Xab. and they doe the like to the Riuer Indus b Plin. lib. 30. cap. 2. CHAP. XVII The greatnesse of his Bountie BVt hence appeares another Riuer now Great as the former which doth also spring From the same Fount and doth as largely flow Through all this All bedewing euery thing Gods louing bounty which doth all things cherish Which all things made and all things stil doth nourish Which to expresse an hundred tongues need I Archimides his engines all are vaine a Strabo the hundred part could neuer see Of this great Riuer which seemes such a Mayne That Latitudes and Altitudes preuaile Nothing to measur't all dimensions faile The Macedonian Prince I call to mind That thought not what he gaue but what was meet And diuers Caesars that vnto their friends To part with Kingdomes haue reputed light But humaine bounties all too short they be They giue their friends Heauen giues his enemy For God tho he fore-see and well fore-know That man his vassall will turne enemie And a rebellious refractorie foe Ingratefull fraught with deepe impietie Yet for him frames this fabrick great and high Full stored with blessings crownd with roialtie Oh boundlesse praise of true magnificence That doth not seeke his foes to ouercome By force but to reclaime them and conuince By bounties and by benefits alone And to that end doth euery day vs proue With streames of gifts to win vs to his loue With many a present doth he hourely woe vs From euery danger charie to defend Much like a wounded louer seemes he to vs Tho wretched we neglect our dearest friend Which doth at no peculiar profit aime What 's lost we loose if ought be gaind we gaine a Plinie and Solinus report that one Strabâ— from a promontorie of Sicily could see and count the ships setting forth of Carthage distant eightie miles So Linus lib. 7. cap. 5. Plin. lib. 7. cap. 20. CHAP. XVIII The same bountie further enlarged OH that my Muse could on her nimblest wings Mount you aloâ—t beyond the foggy aire Past the reflection of all terrene things And sublimate your soules to things more faire That touching these terrestriall beauties we Might
light Vnto the prayers of the faithfull wight And makes the Sunne stand still ore Gabaon And Moone against the Vaile of Ayalon At his voyce both the Winds and Seas doe turne From course and nature Fire forbeares to burne The Tygers and the Lions that deuoure All things at th'becke of this transcendent powre Turne tame and gentle The great King of Deepes That euery thing to 's hungry Shambles sweepes When this Powre list must their his Prophet saue The cruell Tyrant that delights to haue His bloody will when God in power commands Puts vp his sword and lends his helping hands The wretched Powres infernall whose curst will Swifter then lightning moue to doe man ill Are yet preuented by the swifter speed Of this Powre who is ready still at need To helpe the faithfull But this Powre most cleare And infinitely powrefull doth appeare In the production of his creatures all For what 's of greater wonder then the small And slender seeds that mightie things produce No man whose vnderstanding's most obtuse Can chuse but wonder how the bole and high Towre topping branches of the Oke should lie Within the little Akornes seed contain'd Those engins wherewith Neptunes force is tam'd I st not as strange that watry substance thin And flewent should be matter to begin The timber-buildings of the mightie Whale The monstrous â— Rhoyder and the poisenous â—ahal Or that the offices of life in Bees And Ants is as accomplisht as in these These haue their stomack liuer heart and gall Their instruments of sence and motion all The parts of generation as compleat As haue those massie buildings huge and great Whose mightie beames and transome few behold Without amazement If it should be told To some that knew it not would they not smile To thinke the bullet-scorning c Crokodile Whose iron sides doe engins force repell Should bring those anuils from the tender shell Of a small egge This Powre no lesse we see In contemplating that varietie Of seuerall formes in earth in sea and aire Of which the cunningst Artists not declare The smaller part of what vnknowne they leaue How various are the seuerall shapes they haue How various is their food and preseruation Their waies of breed and generation Quantities qualities their voyces soundes Their benefits that vnto man redounds This is a Sea which Reason clogd with sence Cannot swim ouer but this power immense Is fairest written in the Heauens aboue With what incessant swiftnes doe they moue Yet measured and obseruing still that time Which first they did before they ere had seene Mans guiltines and if God pleased might be Continued so to all eternitie Bâ—t in how short a moment is the cleare Sunnes light transfused throughout the Hemyspheare To this the lightning's flow and the swift wind And th' ayrie wings to phansies powres assiâ—â—d Nothing 's more strange conterâ—d in Naâ—uâ—â—s store Noâ— that the Deitie resembles more How highly in this Creature are we blest The Sunne that life preserues in man and beast Who by attenuation doth forth call The blew Mists from their Mother Thetis Hall To th'ayres cold region who comprest by th'skie And their lapps fild with young fertilitie Returne thence and bring fruit forth on the ground Before they see their Mother the profound But angry boyling Goddesse of the deepes Whose rage not long at home her Daughters keepes Ere Pilgrims new they turne to clense their staines Within the concaues of Earths secret veynes And for this good washing her dustie face Leaue many a stowrie Meadow as they trace The winding Vallies to returne againe Vnto their Mothers lap from whence they came But Heauens tralucent clearenesse in so wide Extended bodies arguing beside Their Adamantine hardnesse since no losse Of substance doth their speedie motions crosse Nor dissipation This doth well declare His power by whom they fram'd and gouernd are But what speakes more his powre then this he fram'd Both Heauen and Earth and all things there contain'd Of nothing all without precedent stuffe To build on for his owne word was enough The cunning Painter many yeares will stick Vpon some one rare piece and errors pricke Expunge and race before the worke be done A thousand times to giue perfection Onely to shadowes But th'Creator made â—heir substances of nothing and arraide Them all with true perfection with a word His onely Word their essence did afford God did command the Heauens and Earth to be And they were made With like facillitie The Angels â—unne and Moone that guides the night Plants Beasts and Men this Word prodeust to light And as one Word did all this All creaâ—e So must one Word all this All dissipate Tho man thus dissipated in despight Of Death and Hell and of corruptions might In spight of Time and Tyrants that disseuer Our members must vnited be together From thence before the mightie Iudge to goe That giues the doomes of endlesse ioyes or woe a The Rhoyder is a Fish in the Iland Seas one hunderd and thirtie ells long much larger then the largest kind of Whales their flesh good to eate and medicinable The Nahall is fortie ells long and deadly poyson yet he hath a horne in his forehead which is sold sometime in stead of the sea Vnicornes b Crocodilus fluuiatilis oua 60. quam plurimum parit viuit que diu maximumque animal minima hac origins euadit ouum enim non maius quam anseris foetus inde exclusus proportione est attamen crescit ad quindecem cubita Arist Hist. de aâ—â— lib. 5. cap. 33. CHAP. XXXI Man by reason of his sinfull condition the wretchedst and the worst of all creatures OH God how small a thing Is man compared to thee The Heauens all couering To thine immensitie Doe but a center seeme And earth where we remaine A center we esteeme Compard with heauens wide frame But man compard with this Doth seeme a thing more scant Where magnitude none is There must dimensions want Thus man with earth compard As nothing doth appeare And Earth with Heau'n declard As if it nothing were But th' Heauens Oh God to thee Are least of all in sight For lesse then nothing be Finites to Infinite Nothing of nothing's now How bâ—ld are we that dare Such minds Gigantiue show With Heauen to bandy warre The Lions are more stout The Elephants more strong The arm'd Rhynoceret Much more secure from wrong The Crocodiles for warre And Tortoyse fitter be The Congian a Zibraes are And b Dante 's more swift then we The Whales are larger syzed Th' Apodes lesse desire The Vnâ—cornes more prized Piâ—austa safe from fire The Okes liue longer farre The Caâ—dars be more tall The Lillies whiter are The Roses sweeter all Man is the weakest still The wretchedst and the worst Hath least meanes to doe ill Yet then the rest more curst For they to Natures Law Are subiect and confind But nothing keepes in awe His bad vnstable mind The Tyger's not so keene So