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A46427	Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.; Works. English. 1660	Juvenal.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing J1280; ESTC R21081	275,181	643

him whereupon he reconciled himself to Achilles who it seems made the first experiment of the weapon-salve upon Telephus healing his wound saith Pliny with the rust of the Spear that made it Ovid. Telephus aeterna consumptus tabe perisset Si non quae nocuit dextra tulisset opem Consum'd for ever Telephus had dy'd Had not the wounding hand the Cure apply'd Others say that Achilles did this cure by virtue of certain herbs taught him by his Singing-master the Centaur Chiron Claud. Sanus Achilleis remeavit Telephus herbis Cujus pertulerat vires sensit in uno Lethalem placidamque manum medicamen ab hoste Contigit pepulit quos fecerat ipse dolores Achilles that gave Telephus his wound Cur'd him with herbes from one hand death he found And life his Enemy his Surgeon prov'd And he that caus'd the pain the pain remov'd Here was plot enough to make a Play like the Thanks in Terence that were to be sent to Thais more than Great Huge Verse 5. Orestes The Tragedy of Orestes Son to Agamemnon and Clytemnestra that having murdered the King her Husband to make way for her second marriage with Aegistus her next resolution was in order to a settlement to take the life of her young Son Orestes But she was prevented in this designe by the vigilant care of her Daughter Princesse Electra by whom her Brother with his Governour was privately sent to his Uncle by the Father Strophius Prince of the Phocians in whose Court Orestes was educated with the Prince's Son Pylades inseparable Friend and Companion to him in all the sad changes of his fortune When for some years he had remained with his Uncle Orestes sickned dyed as the world was made believe the colourable Ceremonies of his Funeral being over Embassadors from the Prince were sent to Aegistus and Clytemnestra to condole that was to congratulate for the death of Orestes who attended by his Cousin Pylades went himself in their train disguised shrinking his shoulders to disguise his height and being admitted to the presence of his Mother and Father in law Orestes slew them both in revenge of his own Fathers murder With the horror of this committed matricide he fell distracted imagining that his Mothers ghost with a guard of Furies haunted him He likewise slew Pyrrhus the Son of Achilles in the Temple of Apollo for ravishing his Betrothed the fair Herimone the Daughter of Hellen by Menelaus and wandered with Pylades into Taurica Chersonesus where the barbarous Custome of the Europaean Sarmatians was to offer up to Diana the blood of Strangers especially Graecians which of all the World they hated The King of the Country Thoas receiving intelligence that one of the Stranger-Princes was Orestes commanded that he as the better man should be sacrifized but no discovery could be made which of the two was he for Pylades took upon him the name of Orestes and Orestes owned himself their friendship being so strict as they refused not to die for one another Cicero de Amicitia These bloody Rites were superintended by the Lady Iphiginia one that before the Trojan War when the Grecian Fleet lay winde-bound for Agamemnon's offence of killing a Stag in Aulis was brought thither to appease the wrath of Diana as a Sacrifice but the goddesse pittying her innocence sent a Hinde to supply her place at the Altar and conveyed away the Princess to be her Priestesse in Taurica where she now coming to the knowledge of her Brother Orestes saved his life by joyning with him to kill Thoas King of Taurica from whence they fled into Italy carrying along the Image of Diana hid in a Faggot and therefore called Fascilides by the Romans and adored by that Title in the Aricine Wood where the figure was left by these Wanderers Lastly Orestes being told that he should finde rest and be dispossessed of the Furies in Arcadia directed his course thither and there died bit by a Viper His body was afterwards digged up by command from the Oracle and found to be be ten foot and a half high Pliny lib. 7. Verse 8. The Grove of Mars Several Groves were consecrated to Mars one in Pontus another at Athens a third in Alba where the Wolf gave suck to the Twins of Mars Romulus and Rhemus This last I conceive my Author means as a subject on which his Country-men the Romans used to exercise their Muses Verse 8. Vulcan's Grotto near to the Aeolian Rocks By Vulcan's Grotto is meant the concave of the burning Mountain Aetna where Vulcan the god of fire hammered out Thunderbolts as the old World was made believe when the truth of Histories was wrapt up in Fables by the wisedome of the Ancients Right against Aetna lie the 7. Liparen Islands Liparis Tremessa Ericusa Phenicusa Evonyma Hiera and Strongyle the greatest of the seven where Aeolus reigned that was believed to be god of the Windes and blew from his Aeolian Rocks as the Bellowes to Vulcan's great Forge in Aetna who had likewise a little Forge in Hiera the least of these 7. Islands called the Vulcanian Isle and his Liparen Work-house Sat. 13. But Vulcan powr'd Nectar himself and his own fingers scowr'd Foul'd in his Liparen Work-house The cause why this Isle was dedicated to Vulcan was from a little stonie Hill therein continually vomiting up fire Verse 10. What Souls Judg Aeacus torments The three Infernal Judges were Rhadamantus Minos and Aeacus The first commissioned to hear the Charge and judge of matter of fact Virg. Aeneid lib. 5. Gnosius haec Rhadamantus habet durissima regna Castigatque auditque dolos subigitque fateri Here strictest Rhadamant the Gnosian reignes Hears Crimes makes Souls confess and suffer pains The second pronounced Sentence Horace Cum semel occideris de te splendida Minos Fecerit arbitria No sooner shalt thou die and Minos pass Clear sentence on thee The third saw Judgment executed as in the words here commented upon What Souls Judg Aeacus torments Verse 11. Who stole the Golden Fleece The Theef was Jason his Fable Ovid gives you the History of the Fleece Justin lib. 24. Phryxus Prince of Thebes after the death of his Mother Queen Ino when he durst no longer trust his life to the madness of his Father Athamas and the malice of his Step-mother Mephele committed himself to the mercy of the Sea and desperately attempted to pass the Pontick Straits upon the back of the Golden-Ram his Sister Helle riding behinde him but she poor Lady frighted with the roaring of the waves let goe her hold and was drowned in that narrow Sea afterwards called Hellespont Phryxus himself came safe to Aeta King of Cholcos where he sacrificed the golden-Ram to Jupiter some say to Mars The Ram swifter then he stemd the Straits flew up to heaven and was made a Star retaining his former figure The Golden-fleece hung up in the Temple until Medea charmed the Guards for Jason to steal both it and her Verse 11.

with a Signet wherein was ingraved a Lion which dream Aristander Telmisseus thus interpreted No body sets a Seal upon an empty Cabinet the Queen is with Child of a Boy that shall have the courage of a Lion This young Lion Alexander conquered Asia Armenia Iberia Albania Cappadocia Syria Aegypt Taurus and entred upon Caucasus He subdued the Bactrians Medes and Persians possessed himself of the East Indies as far as Bacchus or Hercules had ever marched and as they say wept because there was no more worlds to conquer He was infinitely handsome something in his face shewing him to be more then a man He had a long neck a little inclining to the left shoulder spritely eyes a lovely colour in his cheeks and in every other part of his body a certain Majesty appeared This Conqueror of the World overcome with wine and choler died of a fever at Babylon in the 30 th year of his age and the 12 th of his reign See Solin At his death no body suspected him to be poysoned Six years after Queen Olympias discovered the whole plot executed many for it and made the Executioner dig up and scatter the reliques of Iolaus that gave him the poyson which one Agnothemius reported that he heard King Antiochus say was done by the directions of Aristotle But others hold the story of Alexander's impoisoning for a Fable Plut. in Alex. Polyb. Q. Curtius Arrian Plut. Verse 193. Gyarus See the Comment upon Sat. 1. Seriphus is an other little Isle of the Cyclades Verse 202. Xerxes King of Persia Son to Darius and Granchild to Cyrus by his Daughter Acosa To make preparations for a warre upon Greece in five years he raised 700000 Persians and joyned with them 300000 Auxiliaries his Fleet consisting of 200000 sayle Behold a glorious Army that wanted nothing but a Generall Justin. lib. 2. When he took a view of all his forces the tears fell from his eyes and being asked why he wept he answered because a hundred years hence not one of all these millions of men will be left alive He joyned Asia to Europe covering the Hellespont with Ships and disjoyned the Mountain Athos from the firme Land cutting it into an Island Plin. lib 4. cap. 20. His Army was beaten at Thermopyle by 4000 Lacedaemonians and his Fleet by Themistocles at Salamis from whence advice was sent him seriously by his Lievtenant Generall Mardonius and subtily from the Athenian Admiral Themistocles to fly out of Greece immediately for there was a designe to stop his passage Whereupon he rid post to the Hellespont and finding his Bridge of Ships scattered by a Tempest took a Fisher-boat and escaped 'T was a spectacle to be looked upon with wonder in consideration of mans condition and change of fortune to see him sculk in a little Boat whose Fleet not long before the spacious Sea was scarce able to contain not so much as a man to wait upon him that lately commanded an Army cumbersome to the earth After his return to Persia he would never think of wars again but wholly applyed himself to ease and idleness proposing great rewards to any that could invent new wayes of luxury Val. Max. This brought him into contempt with his Subjects and within a short time he was slain in his Palace by the Captain of his Guard Artabanus that was formerly a faithfull Councellor to him and gave his vote against the warre with Greece He shot arrowes against the Sun and cast fetters into the Sea Laert. In his Army a Mare that creature of undaunted courage brought forth the most timorous of all animals a Hare which undoubtedly portended the cowardly flight of his vast Army and the fall of his high pride that moved him when his Bridge of Boats was first broken to command 300 lashes should be given to the Sea and Irons cast in to fetter Neptune and these words to be spoken to the God by the Executioner Thy Lord inflicts this punishment upon thee because thou hast injured him that never deserved ill of thee and yet King Xerxes shall pass in spight of thee and to thee shall no man at all sacrifice thou art so deceitfull and cruel a Flood And having thus punished the Sea he repaired the Bridge Herod lib. 7. Verse 206. Sostratus A Greek Poet that writ the Persian expedition into Greece He foretold to the Athenians the coming of Xerxes into Greece Herod But he foretold truer then he told in this place quoted by Juvenal where he makes Xerxes drink up whole Rivers for his mornings draught me thinks it should have followed that he meant to eat up all Greece for his supper Verse 209. Aeolus Son to Jupiter and Sergesta or Acesta Daughter to Hippotes the Trojan He reigned as in the Comment upon Sat. 1. in Strongyle the greatest of the 7. Lipparene Islands Some speak of three Aeoli one Sonne to Hippotes and Granchild to Phylantes the other Son to Helenus and Grandchild to Jupiter the third Son to Neptune and Arne See Virg. Plin. Diod. Sic. Eustath Odyss 10. They called him King of the Windes because by the clouds and smoak of Aetna he foretold the quarters where the Winde would hang. According to Isacius he was a man that studied Astronomy especially that part which appertains to the nature of the Windes for the benefit of Navigation He therefore divined when the Sun was coming into Taurus if there would be a Storm at Sea or a Calme and what day or hour of the day or how long the West wind should breathe or what other winde should rise at the rising of the Dogge or any Celestiall Signe and blow again upon Criticall dayes viz. the fifth the seventh day and the like For this reason he was thought to be King of the Winds To which is added by Strab. lib. 1. that he guessed at the Windes by the ebbing and flowing of the Sea and Marriners finding it to be true believed the VVinds to be his Subjects and that he could at his pleasure imprison or release them an opinion more probable then that of some Lapland-Philosophers that tell us if we have the skin of a Dolphin ordered with certain ceremonies we shall have a wind to any place we are bound for and no other wind shall blow upon the water Sure Homer's Age was poisoned with this natural Philosophy otherwise he would not have made Aeolus bestow a wind in a bag upon Vlysses as aforesaid Aeolus as to Morality is a wise man that moderates his passions seasonably and according to the opportunity of time and business speaks angrily when he is pleased and gently when he is offended such a one at his pleasure bridles and lets loose the wind N. Comes Mythol lib. 10. cap. 10. Verse 223. Tabraca A part of Lybia Possidonius tells us in his voyage from Cales to Rome he was driven upon the Lybian Coast where he saw a VVood full of Apes some sitting in trees others upon the ground some

patern of modesty Cornelia Daughter to Scipio Africanus that conquered Hannibal were young men of incomparable wit and elocution but too much addicted to popularity This made them relinquish the Lords and court the People with whom to ingratiate themselves they passed the Lex Agraria for division of the publick lands between the Lords and Commons which Law though grounded upon a fundamentall Right was the firebrand to a sedition quenched in the blood of these two Brothers Tiberius being slain as he was making a Speech to the people by the hand of Publius Nassica the Pontifex Maximus and Caius when he had fortified the Capitoline Mount by the command of the Consul Opimius Plutarch in Caio Tiberio Verse 35. Milo T. Annius Milo from the Papian Family adopted by T. Annius his maternal Grand-father slew Clodius Tribune of the People that had many seditions and dangerous designes against the Republick for which reason Cicero intended to make the people favourable to the Murtherer and spake in his behalf but not that Oration which is at this day to be seen among his works and that afterwards coming to the hand of Milo then banished to Masilia where he lived in extreme want Oh sayes Milo if Cicero had spoke this I had not gathered worms in Masilia Nonn in Romanorum Historiam Verse 36. Verres Caius Verres was first Questor to Cneius Carbo then Legate and Proquestor to Cneius Dolabella both which he betrayed When Lucullus and Cotta were Consuls he was made Praetor Urbanus or Lord chief Justice of Rome and after the discharge of that office Praetor of Sicily where he exercised his authority with so much lust avarice and cruelty that the Sicilians sued him upon the Law De pecuniis repetundis to make him refund and in their favour Cicero managed the accusation against him with so much vigor and art that when Verres saw how his Patron Hortensius was over matched he withdrew into voluntary exile where after he had rested free from any further molestation for twenty six years he was by the Triumviri proscribed and slain Plin. lib. 34. The cause of his proscription was for denying to Mark Antony certain antique pieces of Corynthian plate which that Triumvir much desired Seneca saies he died like a stout man but it seeems he had lived like a thief one that robbed not one man not one City but all Sicily See Cicero in Verrinis Asconius Pedianus and Lactautius lib. 2. Verse 36. Clodius Clodius Cicero's capitall enemy made himself be adopted by a Plebeian only that he might be one of the body of the people to vote Cicero out of Rome Cicero ad Atticum lib. 1. He was an Adulterer most impudent and sacrilegious for he came to the solemnity of the Good Goddess where it was unlawfull for any man to be present in the habit of a singing-Woman Sat. 6. to meet Julius Caesar's wife Plutarch which occasioned the Julian Law that made adultery death He married his own Neece enjoyed three Sisters and corrupted Metella Daughter to the religious Pontifex Maximus that lost his eyes with zealous care to preserve the Temple of Pallas when it was on fire Sat. 3. Or he that sav'd our Pallas from the flame Verse 37. Catiline A Roman for his conspiracy against his Country made famous by the pen of Cicero Catiline's fellow Conspirators were Lentulus Cethegus Statilius Gabinius Ceparius you may read their whole Plot at large in Salust and Cicero's Orat. against Catiline Verse 38. Sylla 's three Scholars Caesar Anthony and Lepidus imitating in the beginning of their Triumvirate the bloody Roll of their Tutor in the Art of Government Sylla See Sylla in the Comment upon the first Satyr Verse 39. One lately married his own Neece This might be Claudius Caesar that after he had put to death his Empress Messalina married Agrippina his own brothers Daughter Mother to Nero the Senate dispensing with the incestuous Marriage and she lest she might bring a Coheir to her Son Nero took potions and receipts to make her part with her conceptions which deformed Embrions or Abortives could not choose but be very like her Uncle their Father for he was as the Mother of Antonius used to call him a monster of men a thing begun by nature but not finished And after the violation of the Law in this marriage with his Neece he revived the Julian Law which made adultery death not only a terrible Law to Men but that would have reached Mars and Venus too if Vulcans Counsell might have pleaded it Others to whose opinion I subscribe understand this One to be Domitian Caesar that was like wise very ugly and married his own Neece Julia here named Daughter to the delight of mankinde his noble Brother Titus forcing her to take so many drugs to prevent the danger of child-bearing that by seeking to preserve he destroyed her Verse 45. Scauran Counterfeits Aemilius Scaurus born of noble but poor parents raised himself by his elocution to the dignity of Consul He having once been so poor that he was forced to trade in Charcoal for a lively-hood In his Consulship he triumphed for his victory over the Ligurians and Cantisci when he was Censor he made the Aemilian Way and built the Aemilian Bridge He commanded his Son Scaurus for giving ground to an enemy never to come into his sight again the sense of which ignominy made so deep an impression in the bashfull youth that he slew himself Plin. But as the best interpretation of Scauran Counterfeits Salust in his Jugurthines gives this character of Aemilius Scaurus He was a person noble active factious and bold but he had the art of concealing his vices After the expiration of his Consulship when he was Consular and Prince of the Senate the House sent him Ambassador to King Jugurth to diswade him from assaulting Cirra and besieging Adherbal Verse 48. Laronia A wanton but a witty Lady that tells the sowre Philosophy-monger that Cato Major Censor by his office and his Nephew whose constancy was admired by the Romans being now in their ashes it seems a third Cato was come from heaven meaning this censorious Stoick but whilest she thus looks upon him as upon a kinde of God she takes notice that he is in something lesse then a Man for she findes that he weares a perfume and desires to know his Drugster that she might buy at the same Shop such essences being as proper for her sex as contrary to his severe profession Verse 54. The Law Scantinian Caius Scantinius being accused by Caius Marcellus for offering to force his Son a Law passed in Senate that set a Fine of 10000 H.S. upon the like attempt and the foul Offender was either to pay the whole summe or his life Verse 66. Arachne Idmon's Daughter a Lydian Maid that had the vanity to challenge the Goddess Pallas to weave with her and being disgraced by the Goddess despaired and had hanged her self but that Pallas as a monument of

VVife Tacit. Annal. lib. 12. c. 1. VVhen he had married her she made him betroath his Daughter Octavia to her Son Domitius and soon after by the help of her Favourite Pallas got him to adopt her Son Domitius by the name of Nero and then she had no further service to command him in this world therefore making Locusta poison one of his beloved Mushromes Sat. 5. she sent him into the next world and so he descended into Heaven Sat 6. See Seneca in his Drollery upon the death of Claudius Caesar where he sayes he went up to Heaven but by a Decree of the Gods was thrust down to Hell Verse 180. Hesperides The three Daughters of Hesperus Brother to King Atlas their names were Aegle Arethusa and Hesperethusa The Poets tell us these Sisters had an Orchard where the trees bore golden fruit which was guarded by a Dragon till Hercules slew him and carried the golden Apples for a Present to his Stepfather Eurysttheus Some say this Dragon was only the doubling of a point at Sea the shore winding and foaming like a Dragon which landed Hercules in a Country full of Olive trees with fruit upon them as yellow as Gold Plin. Solin See Vir. and N. Comes lib. 7. Mythol cap. 7. Verse 194. Hetrurian Bubbles Golden Bullaes or Bubbles worn about the necks of Noble-mens Children by the appointment of Tullus Hostilius imitating the great Persons in this fashion poor people hung about their Childrens necks a leathern Bubble Figura Sexta POsthume 1 dic quid agis seris an ineptus in annis Ambis tu teneram juvenili in flore puellam Quae lasciva fugit ducens hâc fraude sequacem At tu si sapias 2 Juvenali attende monenti En Capitolinus stat 3 mons ibi cautibus horrens Inde fluit 4 Tiber hinc abituram cernis 5 Amicam Elige de tribus hisce tibi vel saxa vel undas Et te praecipitans canorum consule famae Credêris demens nisi vincla jugalia vites 6 Urbicus emulget cum vaccam pauperis Aeliae Et cantat Mimus 7 Paris irritátque Tragoedus Troiadas Proceres ubi magno agit histrio plausu Adde quod ad Phariam lippū comitata 8 Lanistam Nupta Senatoris properaverit 9 Hippia cymbam Ursidium exemplis absterret talibus Autor Conjugii vetulus nè porrigat ora capistro Non quod femineum Satyrâ perstringat honorē Paucarum ob maculas quas ipso in sole notâris Nec tamen eclipsin faciunt hae sed neque splendet Vt radiat coelo muliebris fama Latino Astruit Vxorum Lucretia morte pudorem Portiá que abserptis Viduarum est gloria flammis The sixth Designe HOW 1 Posthumus thou wilt not sure engage To this young Beauty in thy drooping age She 's coy and shuns thee only to entice But follow thy friend 2 Juvenal's advice Here hangs the steep 3 Tarpeian Rock here flowes Swift 4 Tiber there thy 5 Iberina goes Chuse two of three a precipice or wave Casting thy self away thy credit save We shall conclude thee mad to marry now When 6 Urbicus the Clown milks Aelia's Cow And 7 Paris the young Player gains the hearts Of Ladies How with acting great mens parts Whil'st th' ill-look'd Fencer 8 Sergius steals aboard Fair 9 Hippia marri'd to an ancient Lord. By th' Author such examples are pickt out To cross her marriage whom th' old man 's about Not to defame her sex for these few blots Ev'n in the Sun we have discover'd spots Yet still he shines in heav'n and not more fair Then Ladies fames flie in the Roman aire Where Lucrece seal'd the faith of Wives in blood Portia the constancy of Widowhood The Manners of Men. THE SIXTH SATYR OF JUVENAL The ARGUMENT The Roman Women full of Taints And Blemishes the Poet paints And sends them represented thus To old Ursidius Posthumus Of whom he does compassion take And counsels him his choice to make Of any death ere such a Life As he must look for with a Wife I Grant that Chastity when SATURN reign'd Was seen on earth when one cold Cave contain'd A little Houshold fire and Lar and made For Shepherds and their Flocks a common Shade When first the Mountain-wife leaves sedges spread And skins of neighb'ring beasts to make her bed Not like thee CYNTHIA nor her that cry'd And swel'd her fair eyes when her Sparrow dy'd But whil'st man Acorns belcht his wife more wilde Had her full breasts drunk up by her great childe For in th' earth's nonage under heavn's new Frame No vice they knew that from th' Oak's rupture came Or clay-born had no Parents and yet much Old virtue might remain at least some touch Ev'n under JOVE but ere JOVE had a beard Ere Greeks by others heads swore when none fear'd A thief would rob him of his hearbs or trees But liv'd without inclosure by degrees To Heav'n then Chastity ASTRAEA led And so together the two Sisters fled POSTHUME 't is old to steal anothers sweets To slight the Genius of the sacred sheets The Iron Age brought forth all other crimes Adultery was in the Silver times Yet Meetings Contracts Joyntures motion'st thou In our Age Nay the Master-barber now Trims thee perhaps thy Pledge her finger fits Wilt thou wive POSTHUME sure thou hadst thy wits What snake-hair'd Fury haunts thee canst obey A Wife so many halters in thy way So many windows open those so high The opportune Aemilian Bridge so nigh If in this choice of deaths none pleasing be Think is 't not better thy Boy sleep with thee Thy Boy that reads no curtain-Lecture fains No coyness till presented nor complains Because thou spar'st thy back or that so oft As he commands thou dost not come aloft But URSID likes the Julian Law intends To get an Heir and lose the gifts he sends That courts him with the Shambles rarest things The Mullet and great Turtle without wings What is not possible if URSID wed If this old Stallion thrust his foolish head Into the Marriage halter that lay prest So oft half smother'd in LATINU'S Chest Besides his Wife must be of th' old chaste strain He 's mad good Surgeon strike his median vein Adore JOVE prostrate on 's Tarpeian hill Nice man to JUNO a guilt Heifer kill If thou hast luck to Nun's flesh so few are Fit to touch CERE'S Veil their Fathers dare Not kiss them Thy dore-posts with Garlands crown Thick Ivy to thy threshold hanging down One man thy IBERINA satisfie She 'll sooner be contented with one eye But she 's cry'd up lives at her Father's Grange Let her live next a Village-maid then change To be a Town-maid and the Grange may pass But who swears nothing done in Mountains was Or Caves are JOVE and MARS so wondrous old In all our Gardens do'st one Maid behold Worthy thy choice our Play-house Boxes prove Can'st pick out one thou maist securely love BATHYLLUS acting LAEDA THUSCIA leaks At 's Gambolls APULA as

Souldiers call These the Greek Roman Barb'rous Gen'rals sought And with so many wounds and dangers bought Virtue is so much less belov'd then Fame For bate reward who will at Virtue aime Hence have some few sunk Nations with their pride That glorious titles might there ashes hide Which the wild fig-tree springing breaks away For tombes themselves the pow'r of Fate obey Weigh HANNIBAL how many pounds canst find In that great Gen'rall's body now whose mind Not Africa wash't with th' Atlantick Main Nor where warm Nilus bounds it could contain He to his Elephants and Aethiops Joyn'd Spain pass'd o're the Pyrene Mountain tops Though Nature th' Alps and Snow as barrs had laid Through Rocks with Vinegar his way he made Now Italy is his he 'll yet march on There is saith his proud Souldier nothing done Unless my Carthaginians storm the Town And i th' Suburra set my Standard down O! how would th' one-ey'd Gen'ral's picture took Riding on his Getulian Monster look What 's th' end O glory he that so far spread His conquests vanquisht into exile fled Must great strange Waiter part o' th' Presence make Till the Bythinian Tyrant please to wake That life which threatn'd th' earth with change of States Nor sword nor dart nor rocky mountain dates But the revenge of Cannae for that Spring Of Roman blood was a poor little Ring Go climb the horrid Alpes vain-glorious fool To please the boyes and be their Theam at School The Youth that honour'd PELLA with his birth Vext at one world coop't up i' th narrow earth As if the rocks of GYARUS wall'd him in Or as he had in closs Seriphus bin When he a Conqu'rours entrance had compell'd To brick-wall'd Babilon one Coffin held Death doth alone deal plainly and declare What things of nothing humane bodies are We may believe what was believ'd of old That ships put in at Athos and what bold And lying Greece on history impos'd XERXES that Mountain with his Fleet inclos'd That or'e the sollid Sea by Coach he past Drank up whole Rivers when he broke his fast And all that hov'ring with her drunken wings The Muse of SOSTRATUS the Poet sings But how from Salamin return'd he shipt Whose barb'rous pride the East and Northwest whipt Never in AEOLUS his jayle so paid That fetters on th' Earth-shaker NEPTUNE laid And 't was done gently that he spar'd his brand What God would not serve under his command But how return'd he in a bark he fled Sayling in blood retarded by the dead Whose bodies to arrest his flight did swim Thus so much courted Glory punisht him Grant health O JUPITER grant length of dayes Thus the fresh youth thus th' old and sickly prayes But how great constant ills doe old men brook How ugly how unlike themselves they look Instead of skin they have a nasty hide Sagg'd cheeks wherein such wrinkles are descry'd As when through Tabraca's thick woods we shape Our course we see scratcht in an old she-Ape There 's somthing still that diff'rences the young This then that fairer He then he more strong The old have one face the same Palsie makes Their voices tremble which their body shakes Their Heads an aged fall o' th Leafe disclose And th' infancy of a still-dropping Nose Disarm'd of Teeth this chawes with only Gums And to Wife Children and himself becomes So loathsome as the sight turns COSSUS blood That brings him presents of the rarest food Nor in his meat or Wine does th' ancient gust Rejoyce his duller Pallat and for lust A long Oblivion cancells those Essayes A Nerve lyes couchant which no art can raise Indeed what faith a comfortable effect From weak gray-hair'd PRIAPUS can expect Besides though he may lust he cannot love Shall VENUS without strength to please her move The suff'ring of another part now see In rarely well-set Ayres what joy takes he Although SELEUCUS sing them to his Lute Or the fine Player in his golden Sute What matter where o' th' Stage he sits whose eare Can scarce the Cornets or the trumpets hear Whose loud-tongu'd Boy the very house must rock To make him know who 's come or what 's a Clock A Fever only warming the no blood In his cold body which hath such a flood Of all kinde of diseases that to tell Their very names I might sum up as well How many Youths got OPPIA'S good will What Patients THEMISON did one Autumn kill What friends to Rome by BASIL cheated were Abroad by HIRRUS what poor Orphans here What men long MAURA in one day enjoyes Or the base School-master HAMILLUS boyes Sooner might my Arithmetick avow How many Manors he is Lord of now That when my youthfull beard did trimming crave Correction with his nimble Sizzers gave This loses th' use of shoulders that of thighes He of his hips and he of both his eyes Envy'ng the pur-blind the fresh colour 's fled From 's lips and those with other's hands are fed He at the sight of supper wont to fall A yawning gapes and gapes and that is all So gape young Swallows to bring whose supplies With her mouth full their fasting Mother flyes But losse of all his members equalls not His losse of senses that hath quite forgot His servants names nor his friend's count'nance knows Nor who 't was supt with him last night nor those He got and bred though now his Will declare Them strangers making PHIALE his heir For her warm breath a trick that she did use For many years together in the Stewes But if he have his senses yet he must Be forc't to lay his Children in the dust With his fair Sister's ashes fill an Urn Give order for the fire too that must burn His Brother's body and his dearest Wife This penance all must doe that have long life They must new fun'rals of their house behold And in perpetuall grief and blacks grow old King NESTOR did if faith to thee we give Great HOMER neerest to the Raven live Blest sure to be so many ages old That he his years upon his right hand told And drank so oft wine in the Must but stay A while before you judge and mark I pray How he complain's of Fates too kinde decrees Of too much thread they spun him when he sees His son ANTILOCHUS his beard on fire He then of all about him did inquire What 't was should him to so long life ingage What he had ever done deserv'd that age So PELEUS raves for his ACHILLES slain He for ULYSSES wandring on the main PRIAM Troy safe had his last progresse made In state unto ASSARACUS his shade HECTOR his subjects weeping and forlorn With all his brothers had the body born CASSANDRA first her fun'ral tears had spent And then POLIXENA her garments rent If he had dy'd before his son's foule guilt Ere wanton Paris his bold ships had built What did long life conferre a sight o th' fall Of Asia fire and sword destroying all Then for his