* Fortune * Deaths eloqueÌ„ce is harsh to the eare of flesh blood * That which cures one may kill another * â—ouetousnes is lâ—ke the Dropsie the more it drinks the more 〈◊〉 may * The more interest wee haue in this world the more loath we are to leaue it * â—hen life is at the best thâ—n Death iâ— better * A custome among the Germaneâ— * Which had makes death the more irksome * Men in fortunate estate had rather go with life to the Diueâ— then by death to God * It s a double death to die when we haue attained the highest happinesse of life * Death yeeldeth double terrour * Where the Carcases are the Eagles resort Matth. 28. * Gaine take away the thought of paine * All coueâ— all lose * Lest hee would plague him for plaging others with racking * Wrackt for those that will rather racke then any waie relieue them * The soldiers sword cuts out the Portions of Kings * Of blowes * Audacâ—s fortuna iuuat * A Squire of low Degree is a Squire of no degree * Not remembring who or what they were * A venial sin at most as these â—imes esteeme it * A Hangerblade in a green scabbard * Changed their Countenance with artificiall complexions * That which is deerely bought must be deerely sold * All is not golde that glisters * The iniurious offer * They had Iacobs voice and Esaus hands * Truth * For their raritie * Such dependencie is as ful of difficulty as vncertaintie Enuyings among the seruants cause of the first mutabilitie of those great mens mindes occasioneth the last * In their own not in their Lords right for many get mony in their Lords seruice to buy their Lords lands to do them seruice * London measure * Who are wise in their owne eies there is more hope of a fool then of such Prou. 26.125 * Meere Scholers * Men lerned without iugement whome the Prouerbe The greatest Clarkes are not the wisest men concerneth * Genus and Species * Misuse that little learning they catch * Mathematitians * The Mathematiques are most pleasing and alluring knowledges iâ—l rewarded yet they steale the studierâ— thereof from themselues * â—or little * Magiâ—ians * Coniurers and Witches are alwaies Beggars * Distillators Extracters of Quintessences * Of liquoâ—s * Subtil Sophisterâ— Orators * Fortune doth wel most commonly by men that do speake well Astronomers Prognosticators Musitions Linguists * Many golden Linguâ—sts haue leaden inuention * Penne-men or faire writers It is a badde bargaine to giue aught for nought * They shame the 〈…〉 vtterly * For their recompence * Fencers * In straite prison * Stage plaiers * Shewing the vices of the time * W.S.R.B. Sui cuique mâ—râ—s fingunt fortunam * When men haue gotten wealth they are said to be made Panders * They liue like flesh flies vpon the sorts of men Land-badgers Drouers Lawyers Gold sets an edge on an Orators tongue and makes it cut like a razor * Gold is the God of this world thâ—t â—uines and windes the same as it listeth * Hire Mercenary Swizers and Souldiers to maintaine all vniust quarels euen with Monarches * So saith the rich miser Riches gather many friends but the poore is seperate froÌ„ his neighbor Prou. 19.4 The worlde in his vniust Ballance weighs men accordidg to their Wealth not by any other worthinesse * No wisemaÌ„ comparable to the golden Asse But it is meere madnesse not to bâ—â—re with insensible creatures blessed are those that in this inâ—â—â—ious world possesse their Souleâ— in patience Better is a litle with the feare of God then great treasure 〈◊〉 trouble 〈…〉 15 16. * The touchstone trieth gold and gold trieth men Beâ—rer is a dry morsell with peace then an house full of sacrifices with strife Prou. 17.1 That that is to be desired of a man is his goodnesse Pâ— 19 22. which seldom is fouÌ„d among much goodes * Head and Muse * Praise * As farre froÌ„ want as from too much * Mindes alwaies conuersant with these meâ—talls are dull make the bodies dead to all goodnesse wherein they are * Diuinity * Die eternally in both The world is like nothing sith by sinâ—◠〈◊〉 was mâ—rreâ— after it 〈◊〉 made 〈◊〉 is nothing becauseâ— he 〈◊〉 that made aâ—l things made it not Simile * Euery â—â—nger as good as â— lime twiâ—ge Prouerb * Harmelesse recreation * It makes the number appeaâ—e as it is Philosophers and Poets furthest off Fortune * They affect misery much more then Diuinitie * Flesh-pineing Praise * Men like the deuill great and nought * If thou be wise thou shalt be wiâ—e for thy selfe Prou. 9.12 * The more we loue the world the more wee feare death * â—â—are is a stranger to great hearts * No courage 〈◊〉 the dâ—sperate Cowards Iupiters Sentence * Scripture Parables containe trueth in their moralitie though not in the Letter * Therefore haâ—h the curse deuoured the Land and the inhabâ—tantes therof are desolate Isai 24 6. * Who among you shall harken to this and take heed and heaâ—e for afterwards Isai 42.23 * Now goe write it before them in a Table and note it in a booke that it may be for the last day for euer and euer Isai 30.8 * I am the man that hath seene afflictioÌ„ in the rod of his indâ—gnatioÌ„ Lament 3.1 * Heare yee deafe and yee blinde regard that ye may see Isa 42 18 Thou hast for sakeÌ„ mee saith the Lord and gone backeward therfore will I stretch out mine hand against thee and destroy thee for I am weary with repenting Ierem. 15.6 * Feare the pit the snare are vpon thee O inhabitant of the earth Isai 24.17 * Phisitions * Vniuersities * Then said I Lord howe long and he answered vntill the Cities bee wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the Land be vtterly desolate Isai 6 11 * And the Cities that are inhabited shal be left void the land shall be desolate ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezech. 12.20 * Zephon 2.2 * Euen the mouse shal be consumed together saith the Lord Isa 66.17 * Tame Pigeons Cockes Hennes Capons c. * Arise and depart for this is not your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy you euen with a sore destruction Michah 2.10 * And he that flieth from the noise of the feare shall fall into the pit c. Isa 24.18 * Yee shall coÌ„ceiue chaffe bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you Isai 33.11 * Aske now among the Heathen who hath heard such things the virgine of Israel hath done very filthily Ierem. 18 13. * A mountain in Thesâ—alâ—e * Auernus a lake in Italie where they say this sinne is frequent * Pride the cause of Adams fall and so of all sinne
* They are waxen fat and shining they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked c. Iere 5 2â— * Strawberies Cherries c. when they first come in * Shillings Crownes or Pounds * Then will I turne mine haÌ„d vpoÌ„ thee and burne out thy drosse till it be pure and take away thy Tinne Isai 1.25 * And euery one will deceiue his friâ—d and wil not speake the truth for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies and take great paines to doe wickedly Ierem 9 5. * â—s a Cage is full of Birds so are their houses full of deceit thereby they are become great waxen â—ich Ierem. 5.27 * For all their Tables are full of filthy vomitings no place is cleane Isai 28.8 * Their Bill of Sale * And they lie downe vpon cloths laide to pledge by euery Altar and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their God Amos 2.8 * And death shall be desired rather theÌ„ life of all the residue that râ—maâ—n of this wicked family Iere 8 3. * Thy Sonnes haue fainted â—e at head of al the streets as a wild Bull in a net and are full of the wrath of the Lord and rebuke of thy God Isa 51.20 * I will dâ—sh them one against another euen the â—athers and the sons together saith the lord I wil not spare I will not pitty not haue compassion vpon them but destroy them â—erem 13.14 * â—herefore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moaâ—h and to the house of Iuda as a rottennes Hosea 5.12 * Neither their siluer nor their golde shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the lords wrath c Zepha 1.18 * Her filthinesse is in her skiâ—â—s she remembred not her last end therefore shee came downe wonderâ—ully she had no coÌ„forter c. Lament 1.9 * The mirâ—h of tabâ—ets ceaseth the noiâ—e of them that reiâ—â—ceendeth the ioy of the harpe ceaseth Isaâ— 24.8 * Libra September * A Beast neuer but feeding and when he hath eaten as much as his 〈…〉 hold goe to a forâ—ed tâ—ee and there straines out his fonde vndigested betweane the twist of the â—â—ee and so agâ—ine presently falles to seâ—ue and being full againe to the tree and so eftsoones to feede * Isai 57.15 * The world is diuided into twelue partes and ten partes of it are gone already and halfe of the tenth part there remaineth that which is after the halfe of the tenth part 2. Esd 14.10 11 * Neuertheles saith the lord at those dâ—ys I will not make a full end of you Ier 4.18 * For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the veâ—eâ—â— reâ—â—rence for the iâ—dgement of 〈◊〉 Isai 34.8 * Dung-cribs * They shall die of deaths and diseases they shall not be lamented neither shall they be buried but they shall be as dung vpon the earth c. Ier. 16.4 * They haue compassed her about as the witchmen of the field because she hath prouoked me to wrath saith the Lord Iere. 4.17 * If the botch breake not the Patient liueth not * It killes others with breaking * They that feed delicately perish in the streetes they that were brought vp in scarlet embrace the dâ—â—g Lament 4.5 * And their corpes shall lie in the streetes of the great citie c. Reuel 11.8 * Because of their pride the Cities shall be troubled the houses shall be afraid men shall feare 2. Esd 15.18 * Destruction vpon destruction is cried for the whole Land is wasted c. Iere. 4.20 * Iob 41.20 Simil. * Plagues are sent vnto youâ— and who can driue them away 2. Esd 16.4 Simil. * Many dead Bodies shal be in euery place they shall cast them foorth with silence Amos 8.3 * This no fiction nor inserted by poeticall licence But this verily was performed in the borough of Leominster in the county of Hereford the one at the commandement of sir Herbert Crost knight one of the Councell of the Marches of Wales the other by the instigation of Sathan and prococation of the disease * Torments deuised by infinite wisedome are infiite in paine * Mortall life is no more at the most compared to Eternitie * So fares it with sensuall Epicures and Libertines * The conuersion of a sinner is most miraculous * Man is Microcosmos * As appeareth by the Plague bills euerie weeke Simil. * Micah 7.4 * Psal 14 2.4 * Ephes 5.12
And He for wisedome that had greatest fame Loue so with Lust inflam'd his coldest blood That He a thousand had to quench the same For no Age Wisedome Pow'r or Policie Haue pow'r t' impugne diuine Formositie 32 Aske Mars the sterne and stubberne god of warre How much frail Beuty made him crouchiÌ„g bow Nay aske if men may aske the Thunderer The high'st of gods by lordly Loue brought low Why he did make his mansion in a Starre Yet fell from heau'n an earthly Dame to know But that both Gods and Men most lowlily By nature serue diuine Formositie 33 Giue me a Wench that hath the skill and wit To let me loue-sicke bloud in Lustes right vaine And can with pleasure ease me in the fit Yet ease me so that Loue may still complaine Of heate that is for Lusts life onely fit Which to the life of Loue yeelds pleasant paine That can so humour me and what I feele That she may hurt me still my hurt to heale 34 Such a Crafts-mistris in the Arte of Loue Doth crowne the Touch with an imperiall kisse For she makes Touching tast ioy farre aboue The reach of Arte to tell men what it is For feelinglie she can both staie and moue About the Center of Loues boundlesse blisse Then boundlesse is the Touches excellence That by a Lasse can so beheau'n the sense 35 Thus did this Orator of Lechery Dilate the shortsweete of his liues delight Which Hyselophronus did not deny As though quite opposit but bent his might To proue high'st blisse was borne of Maiesty Begot by Potency right or vnright The greatest ioy to Greatnesse appertaines For ioy doth raign quoth he in that which raigns 36 A roiall Robe a Scepter Mound and Crowne Are the true Signals of the truest ioy They neede not feare the threat of Sorrows frown That can confound all causers of anoy The hand of Maiesty puts vp and downe The meanes of mirth and those that mirth destroy Hee 's a rare Clarke that Râ—gnum can declyne And Meus Mea Meum ad in fine 37 What Hart is not enlarg'd with ioy as much As it can hold when pow'r is more enlarg'd Then Earth can hold or on the same none such When all by him and he by none is charg'd No not so much as with the smallest touch Touching his life lest such be life-discharg'd It is the greatest glorie of Mans state When man like God doth raigne in spite of Hate 38 To eate and drinke and do the acts of lust Is common vnto Beasts as well as Men What praise get they that do what needs they must But such as shames the praised now and then For so may men be praisd for deedes vniust Sith Men by nature wrong their Bretheren But to correct Men with directing Rods Is proper vnto none but Demi-gods 39 The Spheare of Greatnes like the highest sphere That turnes the neather with resistlessesway Is the high'st step to his Throne without Peere And to the Sunne that makes eternall day Where Blisse abounds an euerlasting yeare For which the most deuout doe inly pray Then Greatnes is the great'st good vnder heau'n Which vnto none but Gods on Earth is giu'n 40 O! how it rapts the Eie of Maiestie To see all downe-cast vnderneath her feete That may if please her march vpon the Hie Till she with none but with the Lowly meete Then Wisedomes reach doth tend to Emperie And none but fooles neglect it as vnmeete It is the highest Note that Arte can reach To rule the voice when Sou'raigntie doth preach 41 And what a glorie is 't to mortall Man That when he bends his high-erected front Death in the foldes doth play the Artezan And kill but with alooke the highest Count Yet with a word like Him that all things can To create others making them to mount Then who hath pow'r all men to marre or make Must be a God that life doth giue and take 42 A Seepter's Circes Rod which Men and Beasts Doth easlie tame how wilde so ere they bee For Birds that in the Stars doe build their neasts Farre farre aboue all Birds of prey doe flee To which pitch if they mount they scorch their crests For heat so high is in extreame degree Highnesse is sacred and the sacred Hie With their pow'rs wing aboue all perills flie 43 O! t is a blisfull glitt'ring glorious state Able to make Mortalitie diuine Which with inspection binds the hands of Fate And like the Sunne among the Stars doth shine Till Nature doth the Flesh inanimate And in the mouthes of Men mens fames enshrine Then if in Earth be any diuine thing It 's more then God if it be not a King 44 Poliphagus though he his Intralls seru'd As if they were his Fancies Soueraignes Or rather Gods by which he was preseru'd Yet hee allowance to their fancie faines That so fraternitie might be conseru'd Which concord in conceit together chaines And thus immod'rately doth moderate The diffrence of the doubtfull Questions state 57 But now as wak'ned from a tedious sleepe * Logus chiefe guide of * Psyche their chiefe guide While they were plunged in all pleasures deepe Thus gan their sensuall-senslesse Soules to chide Whither O whither runne ye ye lost sheepe Not weying in what danger ye abide The Blinde eates many a flie and so doe you That chew sweet poyson which ye should eschue 58 But ere wee further prosecute her speach We will describe their Garments as we may For as we said the Coate and Cut do teach Sight to discerne what mood the mind doth sway Logus was clad as could no State impeach Sith she was cloth'd with mean thogh cleane aray For she with Garments farre more fit then faire But sauegard sought from Passions of the Aire 59 But Psyche whom she guided like a Quâ—â—ne Was richly deckt with ornaments diuine Who liu'd so closely that she scarce was seene Yet through her Pallace did her glory shine As if at least she had a Goddesse beene Whose virtues were apparant to the Eine Her Ornaments were Wit Will Memory Which richly roab'd her with Regality 60 Vpon her sacred Head she ware a Crowne Like that of Ariadnes all of Starres To light her feete in darke waies and vnknowne And keepe the safest way in Passions warres Those Starres were royall vertues of her owne Which some call Cardinall her gard in Iarres Who was deckt inly with Pow'r Grace and Arte Being wholy in the whole and in each Part. 61 Her Vnderstandings Pow'r that Pow'r did line Which Heau'n and Earth religiously adore And in her Will she ware Grace most diuine But in her Memory she Artes did store That made the Whole most gloriously to shine But most diuinely did those three decore Affects and Fantasies her Seruants were Which were all cloakt with Good how ill so ere 62 Hir priÌ„cely train which was of works wel
A Gowne with Potions stain'd he girded ware Who panted as he went and went with care 118 Foure paire of Stockings did his Legs comprize And yet his Shancks God wot but little were Although the vpper Stockings were of Frize Thicke Frize or Rugge or else of warmer geare Whose Slippers were with Cotton lin'd likewise And yet of taking cold he still did feare Who lookt as he had not an houre to liue And eu'ry steppe he trode his Soule did grieue 119 His Face was of the colour of that clowt That did his head inuolue saue that his Face Did looke more white his Eies both seemed out For they were sunck shrunke out of their place His Nose was sharper then an Adders snowt His Tong Teeth were furr'd in lothsome case His Lips were chapp'd his Beard was driueld ore And euer breath'd as he should breathe no more 120 And therewithall he was so waiward still That none might please him but he fault wold find With the best words deeds of meere good-will His bodies paines so peruerse made his mind His wozen whez'd when his breath it did fill As through the straitest passage doth the wind And when he spake his tong was furr'd so thicke That oft his words within the same did sticke 121 Yet ne'rthelesse to these must Phusis hie For Logus held her to 't by strong perswasion Which thus she prest Go or thy Sonnes must die Thou needes must do it there is no euasion Herein their life or death alone doth lie Then of their perill if thou haue compassion Thou must to These that they may be secure Then liuely go for Loue can Hell endure 122 Phusis though while-ere somewhat weakned By reason of these vncouth Accidents Yet thus by Logus being comforted To his direction and aduice assents And now all heart she holdeth high the Head Scorning her wonted dread and dririments And in her loue to her Sonnes thither goes Their case to Aletheia to disclose 123 A wearie iorney had she and a foule But what paine is 't a mothers loue will shunne Who almost will forsake her deerest Soule Yer once forsake her deere-bought deerer Sonne By Logus helpe she doth her feares controule And to these houses goes not but doth runne And as she hies she more and more doth learne This Ladies Lodging rightly to discerne 124 When to the House of Chronus neere she drew Which was a Caue in Rocke of Flint cut out It to the sense more horride was in shew For it with Mosse was inlaid all about And ore the Gate Harts-tongue BraÌ„bles grew As on the top did Okes old stiffe and stout Which rocks rogh sides huge mossie Beeches bare As if the Flint the weathers threats did feare 125 This antique Top where these trees did not shade A kind of Mosse ore-sprad as hard as hore Which ne'rthelesse did softly seeme to vade And grew farre shorter then it was before Ore which strange vermin prety Paths had made Which there did still increase in needlesse store For in those Places where men least frequent There vilest vermine are most resident 126 About the groundsills of this hideous house Without grew Nettles Hemlocks and the like Mongst whoÌ„ were Snakes and vermin venomous Which vnawares th'vnwarie foote do strike Within the Caue was nought for Natures vse Saue water which ther leakt throgh many a creek Where nought was seene but Darknes nought was heard But holow Ecchoes making Noise afeard 127 Neere to this vncouth Caue is scituate As t' were a vault digg'd vnderneath the same The House of Thanatus which all do hate For none came euer thence that thither came Then Chronus house it s much more desolate More deadly too in nature and in name For flesh doth faint when but b'imagination She sees this fearefull vgly Habitation 128 The Roofe whereof with Sculles is seeled quite Whereon in frets hang shin-bones here there The walls are hung with Mantles of the night Which all with vermine vile imbrod'red were If it through any Chinke receiued light T was soone stopt vp with feet which it did beare It paued was with Ioynts and Knuckle-bones Set in no order but like scatt'red stones 129 The Gate whereof is made of mans iust size Which yet receiues all men that euer were Vpon whose Pauement all flesh rotting lies And to the sense most odious doth appeare For here lie Armes and there lie Legs and Thies Hete rotten Teeth and ragged Iaw-bones there Within whose pores the worms do keep their hold Vntill they all conuert to perfect mould 130 No one here keepes this grim Lord company But sullen Silence dust and nastie mud And yet he seekes all mens societie For still he feedeth on their flesh and bloud Hard at the Gate do mournefull mourners crie And teare their haire too like the Fury-brood Which yet is neuer heard that house within For Thanatus is deafe and heares no din. 131 Rotten Corruption here doth reuell keepe Where Worms her Minions out of mesure dance For all about they trace they turne and creepe And merry make with Fleshes fowle mischance Who all the while lies drown'd in puddle deepe As full of Soile as full of Sufferance Where Irksomnesse sits on a dustie Throne As if he were Lord of that Earth alone 132 For Beauty comes no sooner to the Gate Of this true earthly Hell but she doth looke As if she were in worse then damned state And all her Graces had her quite forsooke The Lures of Loue here turne to Hoods of Hate Hate that no Loue thogh Loue it selfe can brook For Loue itselfe which once three days lay there Fled from the same as if it hatefull were 133 Here Zijm and Iim do loue alone to be Grimme Desolaâ—ions sterne Consociates The vale of Visions this doth seeme to me Where Sense may see what Sense quite ruinates Whose Organs here lie in varietie Of transformation which Sense deadly hates Where lie all Obiects which the sight annoy Yet t is the entrance to all griefe or ioy 134 Here Sense saith Sense lies in a Lethargie Whose powres are quite supprest with Earth and Stones Here Rest of Labour hath the victorie And Sorrows here surcease their sighs and grones Where lasting sleepe beguiles Calamitie For Flesh feeles not if rotten to the bones This is the Lake which Men most loathe and yet It is the Lethe where they griefe forget 136 Downe a darke staire the passage to this house On eu'ry step sits all the impes of Feare Confronted with Chymaeraes hideous Which maks all men to hate their comming there Saue such as daily do that passage vse And with feete-mortifide those steps do weare To them it seemes not strange how euer strange Those Monsters do their vgly fashions change 137 The Elements whereof all Flesh is made Do with their Children the foure Humors lie Confused there