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A57657	Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1962; ESTC R21749	84,753	182

'l woorry you before you feel their wounds Look to their teeth shun these Actaeons hounds ADONIS HE was a beautiful youth with whom Venus was in love but whilst he was hunting was killed by a boare or by Mars in the shape of a boare and by Venus was turned unto a red flower called Anemone hee was kept after death by Ceres or Proserpina six months under ground and other six months by Venus above THE MYSTERIES IF by Adonis we understand wheat that lodgeth with Proserpina that is lyeth buried in the ground six months in the winter the six summer months it is above in the aire with Venus by which the beautie of the yeare is signified by the boare may be meant the cold frosty and snowy season in which the wheat seemes to be killed 2. If with Macrobius by Adonis we understand the Sun he may be sayd to lodge six months with Proserpina in respect of his southerly declination the other six months with Venus for then the creatures give themselves to procreation he is killed by the boare and lamented by Venus for in winter his beames are of no force to dispell the cold which is the enemie of Adonis and Venus that is of beautie and procreation 3. Mars in the forme of a boare kils him because wars and hunting are maculine exercises and not fit for weak bodies and effeminate spirits 4. Adonis is from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to sing for beauty and musick are friends to Venus 5. Adonis may signifie the good government of a Common-wealth which is the beauty thereof which is killed by Mars in the form of a Boar for Mars and wantonnesse are enemies of all government 6. Beautifull Adonic is turned into a fading flower to shew that beauty quickly perisheth 7. Yong and fair Adonis is killed by a Boare so wantonnesse and leachery are the destroyers of youth and beauty 8. Our Resurrection in this may be typed out for although death kill us it shall not annihilate us but our beauty shall increase and wee shall spring out of the ground again like a beautifull flower in the Resurrection 9. Though our bodies dye yet our good name shall flourish and like a fair flower shall live and smell when wee are gone 10. Myrrha of her own Father begot this childe Adonis which Myrrha flying from her angry Father was turned into a tree and with the blow of her Fathers sword was delivered of this childe because the Sun the common Father begot the sweet Gum Myrrhe of that Arabian tree of the same name which Gum doth cause much delight and pleasure for so in Greek Adonis signifieth In this Gum Venus is much delighted as being a help to decayed beauty to a stinking breath to procreation and the vitiosity of the matrix 11. Let them remember who hunt too much after pleasure that the Devil is that great Boare who lyeth in wait to kill them You that hunt after pleasures eye that Boare Who would your health and wealth and souls devour Dote not on beauty beauty 's but a flower Whose pride and lustre fadeth in an hour Strive that your names may flourish after death Let them out-live Adonis flower yeeld a fragrant breath ADMETUS HE being a sutor to Alceste carryed her away by the assistance of Apollo and Hercules in a Chariot drawn by a Lyon and a Boare afterward being like to dye was recoverd by the voluntary death of his wife whom Hercules delivered out of hell and restored her to Admetus THE MYSTERIES HE that intends to marry had need take the aid of Apollo and Hercules that is of wisdom and strength of body 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is one that cannot be tamed as many lusty yong men are therfore it is good for such to marry with a Alceste 3. Many foolish women like Alceste refuse many good matches and at last are carryed away by a Lyon and a Boare that is by one that is lasciviously given and who can put on the bold face of a Lyon 4. Fruitfull women are like Alceste who cast themselves unto the jaws of death by childe-bearing that their husbands may live in the fruit of their womb for parents live in their children But by the means of Hercules that is of the strength of Nature women are delivered from death 5. Alceste is our hope with which we shall marry if first we can subdue the Lyon of pride and the Boare of concupiscence 6. Admetus or the untamed spirit of Satan doth carry away the soul which is the daughter of God in the Chariot of vanity drawn with pride and fleshly pleasures and in hell the soul should have continued for ever if Christ our Alcides had not delivered it from thence Let not Man think on Hymen till he finde What is Apollo's and Alcides minde And you weak Maids and Widows too before You marry shun the Lyon and the Boare Think not to carry Hope and Confidence Till you subdue pride and concupiscence By Hope lay hold on Christ he will sustain Your souls in death and them restore again AEACUS MINOS RHAD AMANTHUS THese were Iupiters sons and Judges in hell at the request of Aeacus when the Iland Aegina was depopulated with sicknesse Iupiter turned the Ants unto men so was Graecia delivered also by the prayers of the same Aeacus THE MYSTERIES IUst Judges are the sons of God 2. The good laws of just Judges shal not be forgotten but when they are in Hell that is when they are dead their lawes shall be still in force 3. These three Judges are the three effects of a wicked mans conscience to wit to accuse condemne and torment the sinner and in this sense a man may be said to be in hell whilst he is on earth 4. Aeacus by his wisdome causing the barbarous inhabitants to forsake their caves and holes wherin they dwelt and to build houses to leave their diet of roots and fruits and to sow corne in teaching of them civilitie and military discipline whereby they overcame the Pirats which used to molest them for these respects he was said to turne them from Ants unto men 5. In relieving Graecia by his prayers from the plague doth shew us That the prayers of the just availeth much 6. Before Christ came the Gentiles were but Ants men of earthly conversation being fed with roots of superstition molested with spirituall pirates but by the preaching and intercession of Christ the wisdome of the Father and the Iudge of all the world they were made men taught to forsake the dark holes of Idolatry and to build them an house in heaven to feed upon the bread of Gods Word and to fight against their spirituall enemies Consider Judges though you be but dust Gods sons you are yea Gods if you be just Let no man sin securely though alone For each man hath three Judges in a Throne Within his brest these Judges will torment thee Here and in

veneration so neither have they accesse unto the minds of good men which are the temples of the holy Ghost 3. Gods three judgements which he sends to punish us to wit plague famine and sword are the three furies a Megaera is the 〈…〉 t sweeps and takes away multitudes the fa 〈…〉 lecto which is never satisfied and the 〈…〉 Tisiphone a revenger of sin and a murtherer ●●●se have their seat in hell as they are sent from 〈…〉 ed by Satan and in heaven also as they are 〈…〉 y God without whose permission Satan can 〈◊〉 nothing they may be called b Harpies as the furies were because they snatch and carry all things h●ad-long with them and Dirae quasi dei irae being the effects of Gods anger they are Iupiters dogs the ●●●cutioners of Gods wrath and devourers of sinn●●s they come swiftly with wings and tread hard with their brasen feet the plague is the snake that poysoneth the famine is the torch that consumeth and burneth the sword is the whip that draweth blood 4. Ministers should be c Eumenides that is gracious benevolent of a good minde as the word signifieth being properly taken they should have the wisdom of Serpents in their heads the torch of Gods Word in one hand the whip of Discipline in the other the wings of contemplation and the brasen feet of a constant and shining conversation See how the grim-fac'd hags from Hells black lake Ascend and all their hissing tresses shake They look as fearfull as their mother night Their black flam'd torches yeeld a dismall light Who rais'd these monsters from hot Phlegeton These ghastly daughters of sad Acharon To torture men hark how their lashes sound See how they poyson men and burn and wound Alas we can accuse none but our selves We are the raisers of these dreadfull elves And we 'r the cause of all the misery That fals on us and our posterity Our sin alas procures us all our woe Sin makes our dearest friend our greatest foe Almighty God whose high-born progeny We are is now become our enemy And he gives way to these infernall hounds To roame abroad and rage beyond their bounds Gold-fingred avarice with yawning jaws And piercing eyes and ever-scraping claws Whose heart like bird-lime clings to every thing It sees and still is poor in coveting Flyes over all and which the more 's the pitie Hath poyson'd both the Country and the City A greedy dog that 's never fill'd with store But eating still and barking still for more The cryes and grones of poor men wrong'd can tell That this devouring fury came from hell Then pale-fac'd squint-ey'd black-mouth'd envie flyes And with her sable wings beats out mens eyes That they cannot on vertues glitt'ring gold Look cheerfully nor good mens works behold Like Owls they see by night black spots they spy Then run their tongues on wheels of obloquy But have not eyes to see the shining day Of goodnesse nor good words have they to say This fury is the bane of each good action And is the spightfull mother of detraction She blasts the bads and blossomes of true worth And chokes all brave atchievements in their birth Her pestilentiall breath her murth'ring eye Her slandring tongue which goodnesse doth belye Her whip and torch and crawling looks can tell That she 's one of those hags that came from hell Then raging anger with a scarlet face And flaming eyes and feet that run apace To shed mans blood who for a harmlesse word Will make thy heart a scabberd for her sword Whose heart is alwayes boyling in her brest And whose revengefull thoughts are ne're at rest The panting breath the trembling lip the eyes Sparkling with fire the grones and hideous cryes The stammering tongue the stamping foot of those That are possess'd with these infernall foes May let us see that when there 's so much ire Without the heart within is set on fire By that sulphurious torch of Tisiphon Kindled with flames of fiery Phlegeton The cry of so much blood shed in this age Doth shew how much these hellish monsters rage These are the hellish furies but from them Swarm multitudes which now I cannot name As pride theft lust bribes rapes ambition And sacriledge drunkennesse oppression And thousands more which I cannot rehearse And if I could I would not put in verse This damned crue these furies causes are That we are scourg'd with famine plague and war Famine with meagre cheeks and hollow eyes Lank belly feeble knees and withred thighs Doth often by th' Almighties just command Rage roare and domineer within our land The wasting plague with sudden unseen darts Invades the stourest and assaults their hearts And with a secret fire dryes up the bloud And carries all before her like a flood How often doth this spotted fury rage With pale-fac'd horrour on this mortall stage And makes our Towns and Cities desolate And doth whole countries too depopulate But War the barbarous mistresse of disorders How doth she rage within our Christian borders Good God who can without a briny flood Of tears behold the losse of so much bloud Who can but such whose hearts are made of stones Hear with dry eyes the mournfull sighs and grones The screechings yellings roarings of all ages Weltring in blood where this grim monster rages Temples profan'd maids ravish'd Cities raz'd And glory of Christs kingdom thus defac'd Where ought to raign peace and tranquillity With love and goodnesse truth and civility And then to see the Turk that barbarous Lord Inlarge his horned Moon by our discord And daily to insult on Christs poor sheep These things would make a Niobe to weep O turn for shame your fratricidall swords Into the sides of those proud Scythian Lords Who rais'd themselves by our unhappy fall And now aim at the ruine of us all Recover once again your ancient glories And make your valour Themes of future stories Alas I may with tears expresse my grief Which hath a tongue to speak but no relief Except O thou that art the God of wars Compose in time our too too civill jars We grant O Lord thy plagues we have deserved Who have so often from thy precepts swerved And that of thee we should be quite sorlorn And be the objects of contempt and scorn But Lord let not thy wrath for ever burn Remember those that now in Sion mourn And save us though we have deserv'd thy stroke And keep us from the proud imperious yoke Of Ottomans who like dogs lap our blood And take our flesh like Canibals for food And Lord preserve in constant union The little world of this our Albion Inlarge his life who doth inlarge our peace And make his glory with his life increase That being mounted on the wings of fame This age may see his worth the next admire his name CHAP. VI F FORTUNA SHee was the daughter of Oceanus and servant of the gods a great goddesse her self in sublunarie things but