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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08316	Vicissitudo rerum An elegiacall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world. The first part.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1600 (1600)	STC 18642; ESTC S113308	17,364	48

Vicissitudo rerum AN Elegiacall Poeme of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world The first Part. Omnia tempore producuntur mutantur consumuntur AVT NVNC AVT NVNQVAM Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill neere Carterlane 1600. To the Right honorable Sir VVilliam Howard knight the Lord Howard of Effingham Sonne and heyre apparent to the Right Honorable Earle of Nottingham Lord high Admirall of England MInerua fained goddesse of best skill Seem'd friendles to my sad feeble Muse The Sisters nine bar'd me Parnassus hill Mount Helicon where praised Poets vse Therefore my Lord my pen deserues no praise But pardon Honor pardons weake essayes The Change of things in slender verse I sing A weighty subiect common yet to all From lowest creature to the loftiest thing Nature her workes doth tosse like Tennis ball Now rayz'd by force then downe again by poyze Rising ne falling she showes not by noyze But when sterne Time eche thing created sees She fawnes a while and tenters it on Pride And soone she frownes and then forthwith decrees To pull it downe and lay that thing aside Yet as a mother she againe doth beare Some new and that a while she doth vpreare Thus Time by turnes turnes all things out of date And will preuaile till she her selfe haue end For sure things changes proue time terminate And times exchanges doth her turne portend This time once gone a timelesse time shall bee Till then in things a changing state wee see This mooues my Muse erst silent now to sing Though slenderly the swift exchange of things And this to you my Lord I fearfull bring Wishing that time that plants puls downe Kings Would daigne long time to her that still is one By whome we here enioy true Helicon At your Honors command Io. Norden The Preface SYth Time applaudes to see Varieties And nought more alters then Times chāging dayes It fits the Time to sing sad Eligies Of Things exchanges florish and decayes And how Things past rest now as things forgot And Things that are exchange and come to end How Time begins to solue the fatall Knot VVhereon the World and worldly things depend Yea Things aloft of th'mouing Firmament Are seene to alter by Times swaying hest The Heauens Spheres Bodies circumferent Are not as earst but in their course opprest The Elements and elementall things Do change and by silent degrees decay The Sea and Land Riuers and water Springs Stay not at one but oft exchange their way And Man himselfe stands as a wauing Twig Bent to and fro or broken with the wind In no state constant be he base or big Ech thing comes diuers in his proper kind As by this first part these are partly seene The second showes the alterations That in the world by course of Time haue beene In Men in Cities Kings and Nations Ouid. Metam lib. 15. Sic tempora verti Cernimus atque alias assumere robora gentes Concidere has Mar. lib. 9. Quid non longa dies quid non consumitis anni 1. SOme sing the Regall actes of worthy Kings Some of fell Warres some of a publique State Some praise haut Beawty some praise baser things Wittes haue their change Will stāds in highest rate Will yet doth wauer Pennes paint Loue Hate Therfore my pen shal publish change in all One onely Essence standing firme from fall 2. The Heauens in their peereles pryde may bost That they in their orbiculer figure Are farre the freest and by change vntost Keeping by turne their Reuolutions sure Though still reuoluing yet alike endure As Orbes and Circles figures perfectest Held by all Artistes to excell the rest 3. The Heauens seeme of most admired might Fixed on nothing yet stand firme and fast Prouidence Diuine them hath so set aright Worldes may not waue them nor vnprop their bast Who then essayes to prooue they will not last Syth from creating they are as they were Not changed by chace nor alter'd by their stere 4. These Figures then form'd of most perfect mold Shaped by Science farre exceeding Wit If they haue change how may the baser hold That haue their Vigors b'influence of it A powre more potent boue this Powre doth sit That giues and guides and swayes all as it list In whome the Heauens and the rest consist 5. And all the mouers and the voluing sphere He first created and disposed so As to haue progresse and againe reuere To tell the Times and seasons as they go Mouing in Circles daily to and fro Ginning and ending as their Circles bee Greater or lesser distinct by degree 6. Ten Spheres in one Astronomers do hold The tenth reuoluing in his fixed tide Twenty foure houres and then his circle rold Againe reuolues powers infinite her guide From East to West still on the dexter side And by her course most swift and impetous The rest she moueth most miraculous 7. For in the selfe same time she moues the rest Although their mouings contrary to her Be on sinister part from West to East And that the ninth Astrologers auerre Hath forty nine thousand yeeres thus to erre Thirty thousand to the eighth assign'd Againe seuen thousand as the learned find 8. The Sphere of Saturne in her thirty yeeres Returnes and Iupiter in twelue they sayne Doth runne his race Fell Mars in two appeares To end his course reuoluing backe againe Sol Venus Mercury haue one yeere to raigne The Moone the lowest soone her circle rounds Twice foureteene daies then againe rebounds 9. This comely course and order of this frame May challenge most if ilke Perfection be Or State not changing but as still the same The Heauens yet a body as wee see In all her parts from Change cannot be free Nor still perseuer as they first were set Though none haue power but Power diuine to let 10. Let Time bee testie in this cause of doubt That did begin when Heauens and Lights were made She was and is and shall remaine throughout But not alike shee flourish'd gins to fade Dayes Weekes and Months and Yeeres she makes by trade All these doe change none doth alike abide Summer nor Winter Autumne or Spring-tide 11. The dayly moouing of this Firmament Distinguyes frowning Nights from fawning Dayes And either by such entercourses pent As they ne passe due time nor make delayes None checks the Sunne to shade or send her rayes To banish Darkenes and to fill with Light What was eclipsed with the shade of Night 12. Yet neither Day nor Night continues one But by reciprocall exchange imparts Each to the other Time as Time is gone Time turnes the Yeere into his aptest parts And Yeere to Yeere lends time likewise by arts Rising and falling changing by degree The present vnlike the preter yeere wee see 13. The first and greatest Mouer of the rest Imparts her moouing to the lesser Spheres To men and beasts and creatures as the Test And tries