tush t is not for both at once to win Ho. Good faith sir I commend your resolution The dice no doubt will make you restitution I see t is not for love of gaine you play But rather so to drive the time away Co. Mine Host t is true for my part I protest That let the dice run which way they thinke best Hu. Fore heav'ns I thinke t is I must take the care To stay the dice unlesse they ran more square Besides you scramble up the dice so fast You will not give me leave to see my cast I thinke you need not shaddow what is throwne My chance is not so lucky when t is knowne Well sure the dice are false or else in chanted Or I that throw them by some witch am haunted Or else they could not prove so much accurst That every chance should prove thus at the worst Ho. Have patience Master rest content a while The dice will turne and frowning fortune smile Expect the best and let your anger fall The end I trust will make a meanes for all Hu. The end thou asse hast thou so little wit To thinke these dealings or these dice are fit I le burne them if they doe no better runne And then for sweare such gamesters and have done Co. Such gamesters sir such words as those I scorn I wrong'd you not an ace I may be sworne And herein if you doe suppose I lye T is you that doe the wrong sir and not I I thought you had beene temperate before But since you say so much I le play no more Hu. What have you got my money in this way And now will offer not to hold me play Co. Fore heav'ns I care not use your greatest skill You shall not make me play against my will Ho. In wrath what meane you Gentlemen I pray Such old acquaintance and fall out at play You shall not Gallants come be patient now I le spend my quart of Sacke to see you throw Runne Drawer Masters it doth vex my heart That friends from my house should in anger part Here Noble sir this quart I doe present Upon condition you shall be content Hu. Come Richard come thy thetoricke is such To yeeld to thee who living can thinke much Well sir when you and I shall meet agen You le give me leave to try my fortunes then Co. Sir heavens forbid that I should say you nay Or seeke to doe you any wrong at play Hu. So then here sir but ere we doe begin Whose love shall we commemorate herein Protest a speciall friends of thine and mine That Ladyes which would have us stay and dine And sir you le pledge this health I dare be bold Co. I le try my braines if that my guts will hold But that I le pledge that heavenly creature sure What punishment soever I endure Hu. Ah how this Nectar vivifies my heart And addes fresh courage unto every part Now what man underneath the Coopes of Heaven Will answer me upon occasion given Mars here I stand who dares except at this But sir before my heart you doe amisse You did not drinke so much as I I see Co. Sir but I did though you mistaken be Hu. Who I mistaken by the devill no Come take your due you shall not gull me so Co. I did you right and I le not be your gull Hu. T is false protest you did not drink 't so full Co. Protest t is false whats'ere you doe reply Hu. Why then it seemes you will be sworne I lye What lye thou slave give me the lye away Co. What you will stab yes stab y 'had best but stay Ho. Oh heav'ns my masters what d' ye meane in spight Beseech you be content what friends fight Regard your reputations more forbeare I le part you come you shall not fight I sweare Hu. Who thou thou asse thou slave away stand by I le be reveng'd a slave give me the lye Sdeath is he gone what art thou such an asse Or such a knave to let the cheater passe If that I live I le be reveng'd by hell The meane time this shall teach me wit farewell Ho. What are you angry and will so begone You have small reason for the same or none But there 's a reckoning left for you to pay Before you part or else your horse shall stay I meane not to be thus abus'd my friend And lose my reckoning by you in the end I tooke you to be better rul'd and so I doe intend to make you ere you goe Discretion SEe here deare selfe yea I beseech thee see What the hard happes of wilfull children be Who will not parents wholsome rules obey How justly heav'ns doe suffer them to stray And leave them to the force of disposition Who did refuse most gentle admonition As if affections lawes were better farre Then either reasons rules or duties are But mine owne heart thou must not thus conclude Such grounds are false and propositions rude For duties fruite is blessednesse insuing But disobedience fore-tells death or ruine Ruine indeed the worst we can relate As of all goodnesse body and estate As doth appeare by the precedent part Where buitish Passion is describ'd by art Whose rude description such abuse declares As is offencive to all modest eares Such impudence as I deare selfe indeed Both shake to write and am asham'd to read And therefore never should have beene indented To foule my pen nor yet by me invented But that deare selfe my onely purpose here In making of these Passions thus appeare Is thereby to detaine thee from the same Which thus fore-seen thou mayst forbeare for shame Least failing in these Passions thus made knowne Thine owne hand writing be against thee showne Which would be shame as great as the abuse And serve to leave thee without all excuse In which respect the chastest eare I hope Will both excuse my purpose and my scope Know then deare selfe thou dost thy selfe expose Both to the sight and censure of thy foes Thou therefore now must be exceeding wary That in this nature thou dost not miscarry For if thou dost the eyes of other men Will be thy cruell over-seers then But hast thou but that measure of Discretion So wisely to unmaske this drunken Passion As to discerne it as it is indeed With sober eyes sevillity and heed It will appeare so odious in thy sight So most inhumane such a monster right That ev'n the very shape of it I trust Will make thee to abhorre it as unjust To loath and shun it as thou dost the devill Because like him t is absolutely evill Besides deare selfe the ruine shame and care Which are the fruites that drunkennesse doth beare May justly move thee to detest the thing Which in conclusion doth confusion bring First it confounds the Legacy of fate Consumes and undoes men in their estate Moves them to venture their possessions large And drinke downe all remembrance of the charge
art thou subject to such error To give most honour to the most inferiour To let those parts meere sensitive beare sway Which should to reasons just commands obey Thy reason is deluded by thy sense And so thy judgement proves corrupted thence Which makes thee to thinke best of that condition Which is most pleasing to thy disposition Thus far meere beasts and savage creatures goe They are as stayd and moderate as so They which of reason wholly are deny'd And have but onely appetite for guide But thou must passe the savage creatures guise Because indu'd with reasons faculties Or else the beast without these powers of mind May be preferd before thee in his kind Yea mine owne heart which dost by reason scan Thou must by reason shew thy selfe a man And alwayes unto reason yeeld subjection Both in thy understanding and affection Besides thy youth is subject to obey Affection which in youth will run astray And therefore thou must use the greatest ayd Now in thy Youth to keepe affection stayd But here I doe not goe about to prove That thou in Youth shouldst disalow of love So it be lawfull but the thing admit As in thy Youth most absolutely fit For love in Youth united proves most pure And is againe most likely to indure Besides it serves to settle the desire Which otherwise Youth could not so retire What then deare selfe why this must be thy care Not so much when to place thy love as where Not so much sway'd by sensuall delight To rule thy reason by thy appetite Thou seest affection fetters like a chaine It plac'd is hard to be displac'd againe And like the seale which leaves the print behind It makes a deepe impression in the mind And therefore doubtlesse it behooves thee much That in thy Youth thy providence be such That thou hereafter dost not find this true I had my will but willfulnesse I rue Yea be resolved mine owne tender heart Youth which are wilfull often feele this smart And therefore be deare selfe herein discerning Let others sad experience give thee warning Be well advis'd stay thy affections ponder And for a while let reason keepe them under What art thou to confirme a league in love Which once confirmed must not then remove But like those lawes unchangeable abides Till death the parties joyned thus divides Art thou to doe this weighty thing indeed Sure it requires the dilligentest heed The deepest meditation and the best Because the chiefest thing of all the rest For if thy choyce be bad thy joyes are done If otherwise they are but then begun For in thy choyce consisteth peace or strife In it remaines the issues of thy life For that whereto thou now thy selfe dost binde That is the portion thou must looke to find T is so deare selfe then ere this knot be ty'd Consider well let counsell be thy guide Such can instruct thee best directions frame As have had just experience of the same But above all these thou must have respect Unto the way thy Parents doe direct For their consent and blessing in this thing Doth with their owne Gods blessing also bring And where the Parents fit consent is missing There for the most part God affords no blessing This is a rule in generall most fit And thou in duty must acknowledge it But yet there are some Parents in this kind Which are so much unto the earth inclind That if their children will not have their blame They must like them be marryed to the same For earth and earthly things is all their ayme Those are the onely heritage they clayme Without the least regard of what is fit Either in vertue breeding shape or wit Now such as these which onely doe belay To basely mould their children up in clay And thinke them then in heav'n when they poore soules In earth possest ly scrambling like moules Such men as these must not be too unkind Although their children beare a better mind Nor are their children to be blam'd although They stead of duty doe their wisdome show And rather follow reason for their guide Than duty which would lead them thus aside This freedome may in modesty be us'd And upon such necessity excus'd But my deare selfe make thou not this a snare Upon this freedome cast not off all care But to thy parents willingly incline So far as reason doth with duty joyne But above all things aym'd at in thy choyce Let vertue please thee make thee most rejoyce For vertue herein must be valu'd higher Than either Parents or thine owne desire Parents are to be reverenc'd as due Riches may be respected too t is true Good breeding's to be honour'd in election And beauty seemeth to command affection Yet beauty riches breeding or good birth All without vertue are but little worth And though these outward things cannot be had If vertue may the choyce cannot be bad Besides if in thy choyce thou hast the grace To ayme at vertue in the chiefest place Then needst thou use no apish imitation In thy attire by following the fashion Devising fondly to new forme each part As if thy skill exceed Natures art No these are fruitlesse and accounted vaine Within that brest where vertue doth remaine And rather serves thy weakenesse to discover Then any way delight a vertuous Lover To be thus fond or vaine in this condition Doth but ingender or beget suspicion Because immodesty in the attire Doth note immoderation in desire Imports a want of wit and doth impart A shrewd presumption of a wanton heart That all such fondnesse or as vaine expence Are lost where vertue hath its residence For vertue stoups to no such baites as they But soares a pitch is far above such prey Like as the precious Diamond which but By Diamond or nothing can be cut So love in vertues brest will take no print But onely that which vertue doth indent That vertue is the onely way to wooe And eke to win where vertue hath to doe Let vertue then be first thine owne and sure Thou shalt prevaile where vertuē doth indure For like to like most willingly incline And vertues met most readily doe joyne Which joyn'd what tongue is able to expresse The joy such vertuous bosomes doe possesse No change can turne their honey into gall Because that vertuē makes good use of all Resembling much though in a lower kind The heavenly highest marriage of the mind Passion VVHat strange harsh strictnes is here urged still As if that Love could be confin'd at will My love is settl'd where I hope to finde Those vertues which are pleasing to my minde Shall Parents then whose sight is not so cleare To see the Truth before it doth appeare Condemne my choyce as wonderfull to blame Before they know the tryall of the same Deare friends I know you wish me not amisse But you may erre as well as I in this In this my choyce may blessings hidden lye Which deepest insight cannot
Strength is counted vaine Beauty deceitfull wit affords no gaine Art 's little usefull Learning 's lesse regarded Thus things most good becomes most ill rewarded And all because the Authours hand doth place them Where wealth affords not countenance to grace them Oh precious riches whatsoere men say Wealth is the chiefest earthly god beares sway Concludes most cases of the wise approv'd Of most desired and is best belov'd All this is true and yet for my part know I take no care to gaine such riches though My sublime thoughts fly higher and have wings Which carry my desires above such things And in my heart I count such doters vaine As for such trifles doe molest their braine As earthly riches which are gain'd with care And being gotten are possest in feare The sad imployments of such fretting cares Are much unfitting for my tender yeares And quite against my nature which I finde Is unto sweeter liberty inclin'd My Parents they their youthfull time have spent And in their youth tooke part of youths content But now growne staid and wanton thoughts supprest More weighty studyes doe become them best Let them take care for getting gaine not I Their saving wisedome must my want supply The elder for the younger doth provide As by a Law in Nature strictly ty'd Especiall the Parent for the Childe It is the care of creatures bruite and wilde To feede and foster up their young but then Much more the care of reasonable men And afterward if I a Parent be I le doe for mine as Parents doe for me I le then be carefull of these outward things And slip no meanes that show of profit brings But count it duty as it is indeed To make provision for my tender seed The meane time Parents will I hope be won To give me lēave to doe as they have done To seeke to fit my selfe unto the time And like to all things flourish in my prime Now in my youth be youthfully inclin'd With youthfull pleasures satisfie my minde And take those freedomes due unto my state Youth justly pleades its liberties are great Which if my Parents labour to restraine Injustice will appeare therein so plaine That Parents shall be pleased to give way Or I excus'd if I doe not obey Discretion BUt stay mad Passion whether dost thou run Fond and mistaken sense what hast thou done By what illusions hast thou showne thy skill To make my reason subject to my will Thy motives and thy Rhetoricke are such As may perswade and doe perswade too much But soothing Passion whatsoere is past I now resolve to answer thee at last All things created doe observe their time And doe by nature flourish in their prime From whence thou labourst to infer for truth That I by nature should rejoyce in youth All which in part I doe acknowledge true And Nature seemes to challenge it as due And therefore may not be deny'd by me In ought where sense with reason doth agree But if my nature would beare all the sway And make my reason to my sense obey I doe in reason no such justice see To let my reason so subjected be Besides I doe my youthfull nature finde So much unto the worlds delights inclin'd That my estate in this respect requires The greatest care to bridle my desires Then restlesse Passion keepe thy selfe retir'd I with thy Fury need not be inspir'd Nor will I if I can the same prevent I trust without thee to reape best content Come then Oh! come then be advis'd by reason Mine owne deare selfe this is the onely season The fruitfull earth doth afterward make knowne What seed was in it in the Spring time sowne The stocke with what t is grafted in the Spring Such fruite doth forth for ever after bring And with what scent the vessell first is fild The savour of it is not soone expeld Such is thy apt and youthfull nature know What now is sowne in thee is like to grow What habite now is got will prove the strongest What custome now is learn'd will last the longest And therefore it doth now concerne thee sure To have most care to keepe thy selfe secure To seeke content where reason doth admit To settle thy desires in what is fit That thou hereafter maist not cry in vaine I learn'd what now I would unlearne againe Thou then my selfe whose safety is mine owne And favour mine that unto thee is showne As thou hast a respect unto Discretion I doe advise thee to be ware of Passion And labour to discover those deceites Whose gall lyes hidden in most pleasant baites Yea though most neare and deare unto thee seated In thine owne bosome let them be defeated If thine owne heart which is to the most deare Would fall in love with any creature here Before thou dar'st to render thy consent Thou must take heed there be no danger in 't Or if that any more inferiour part Of body or of mind would plead desert As if they were some excellence allow'd Which vainely might induce thee to be proud Here it behooves thee to have speciall care To arme thy selfe against this inbred snare This bosome brat which will not be excluded That by thy selfe thou be'st not selfe-deluded It as in Youth it often comes to passe Thy wanton eye views beauty in thy glasse Whose beames reflecting would thy thoughts inflame With any admiration of the same Trust not thine eye nor yet thy glasse too farre They both deceitfull both uncertaine are But say thy beauty be the same indeed That it appeares yea though it doth exceed Yet weigh the honey of it with the gall And thou shalt see the vantage of it small It gaines much savour and is most alluring T is true but favour gain'd by its procuring Is sometimes such as yeelds a present friend But seldome chaste and constant to the end For looke as beauty fades and weares away So doth such friendship vanish and decay It tis alluring t is indeed but how To that which modest vertue doth allow Sure no the nature of it doth intice In humaine faces rather unto vice Againe t is beauty that doth beare the praise And oft doth unto much preferment raise Indeed t is so upon the sudden oft It from the dunghill doth draw up a loft But what this Sun-shine doth exhale like raine Falls for the most part in a cloud againe And for the praise and vertue on 't suspition So often brings the truth of it in question That all the comfort which doth in it lye As it appeares is but to feed the eye Whiles it doth glister whiles it doth indure Which every little shaddow doth obscure But if thou wouldst give beauty an excuse Then of thy beauty strive to make this use That as thy Youthfull face is faire as cleere Thy vertues may unto the world appeare That so thy face this outward grace assign'd May shew the inward beauties of thy mind Or hast thou strength and in thy bosome
necessary creature And therefore it to be reveng'd ere long Will witnesse beare how he hath done it wrong When as the Judge who doth in truth delight Will heare the case and do the creature right Deare selfe t is so then set not thou thy love On such a friend as if thou dost will prove Thy greatest foe and for thy kindnesse showne Unkindly plead to have thee overthrowne But if thou must as needs thou must indeed Make use of earth or earthly wealth at need Then labour to imploy it in that kinde Which by the Author of it was injoyn'd In doing good extending of thy store To pious uses and unto the poore And then unto thy comfort in the end Thy wealth in earnest will become thy friend And witnesse for thee when thy case is try'd How justly by thee it hath beene imploy'd This is deare selfe the onely sweet of all That may in wealth extracted be from gall For worldly riches are a sugred baite Wherein lyes poyson hidden by deceit Then be thou heedfull mine owne tender heart And in this nature shew thou hast some art Who like a skilfull Alchymist and try'd Can'st here the silver from the drosse divide Observe that rule which hath beene long forgot To use thy wealth as if thou us'd it not That so if such an accident should be As ere thou dy'st should part thy wealth and thee Thou mayst with patients free from discontent Restore the Owner what he freely lent Or at the least when death at last shall strike Thou mayst with joy doe willingly the like Passion MIne owne deare heart why tak'st thou not thy rest Why art thou thus disquieted in my brest As if I priz'd this world at such a rate That I were carelesse of my future state No feare it not it is not so I trust For I desire the portion of the Just And have a hope as well as a desire As to rise here to rise hereafter higher And to that end I am in hope t is knowne My good endeavours to the world are showne My purse is still as ready as my minde To be a helpefull worker in this kind My part is alwayes call'd for as the chiefe When Charity is calling for reliefe And whatsoever idle spend goods prate I am much helpefull to uphold the state Thus whiles I live I doe my wealth imploy And have a resolution when I dye To be a further friend unto the poore They then may blesse me as they did before And if I thought he would these things report I then would well requite a Preacher for 't The meane time it must first be understood I must have wherewithall to doe this good And therefore things thus needfull I am ty'd In reason and in Conscience to provide Besides it is my duty and I finde A duty too that strictly is enjoyn'd That here I should be provident and wise And use all lawfull meanes I can devise That such as doe upon my ayde rely May feele no want of what I should supply But further yet I find within my brest A Law by oddes more powerfull than the rest Which is the Law of Nature in my minde Which doth by Nature move me to be kinde And carefull that my children which I grant Are neare and deare unto me may not want If Lightnings meteors threate to scorch the skies Straight as inrag'd distemper'd Thunder cryes Or any other neare united twaine If one fares ill the other doth complaine Mine owne deare children whom I tender much T is fit that my affection should be such What heart would not dissolve to see you misse What tender bowels would not burst at this Sweet Babes who like to Birds before they flye For food doe onely to the Old ones cry Me thinkes I heare you pittifully call Father be carefull of your Children small And as your substance did us substance give So of your substance Father let us live We are your off-spring issu'd from your loynes What nearenesse more respective care injoynes Let pitty move you to respect your owne Compassion fitly first at home is showne We wholly yet upon your hand are staid We onely doe relye upon your ayde If you have not a Fatherly respect If you deare Father doe our caseneglect What kindnesse or what comfort may we then Expect to finde from any other men Deare Father let affection then beare sway Prevent your Childrens ruine and decay And as our teares you doe in pitty tender Be as you are our Father our defender That so the tender seed that you have sowne May be preserv'd and flourish when t is growne These are the voyces which me thinkes I heare Unto which voyces who can but give eare What Father living can refraine from teares That thus his Children sad complaining heares But doubtlesse double cruell is that swine Which gives his child this reason to repine For my part as it is my duty so It shall be my endeavour thereunto Whiles with my children here I have my stay To doe my children all the good I may The working Pysmire and the labouring Bee As if they did insuing wants fore-see Doe aptly teach us in the time we may To get in store against another day Lest we or those that we are bound to feed Should stand in want in time of greatest-need Yea as t is said all Creatures teach the same Both Birds and Beasts then were it not a shame If I who should have reason for my guide Should not with prudence for mine owne provide Besides I seeing earthly wealth is such That nought else earthly is esteem'd so much And men without it are accounted base What other gifts soever doe them grace If I have any true desire to see My tender children here respected be Or when I shall surcease to be and leave them Would have the world respect and honour give them It doth behove me whiles I here remaine To heedfull be and slip no meanes of gaine But use my best endeavour in this kinde To leave them credite that I leave behinde That so when I shall cease or fall asleepe My wealth which then I shall no longer keepe May grace my issue which shall then survive That so my credit may be kept alive In my posterity in that my seed Shall live and flourish when I shall be dead When otherwise if I shall waste my store And through my folly leave my issue poore They shall be sure to feele the irksome want That doth attend the state where things are scant With the disdaine reproachfull titles shame And miseries that waite upon the same Besides my children shall have cause to curse Their fate if not their Father which is worse Their fate for frowning but their Father I Not for meere frowning but for cruelty Who when I ought and might have purchas'd here Hard heart was carelesse of my children deare Thus if I be not provident t is plaine Both I and mine whiles here I doe remaine Must