Tayle Sagitarius the Archer bringeth Three And the Centaur twise as many as hee Twentie three starres the noble ship of Greece Bring 's in as Lamp's to spie the golden fleece The Twinn's eighteene The Wagâ—â—er seauen Perseus seauenteen to lighten this heauen All these Starres maken one hundred and eight Bright and conspicuous without deceite Sporades also dispersed Starres been Confusedly mixing their glimmering Sheem These beene the starres that maken so bright The welkins broad way which seemeth so white Yet not in any sort colour verament For no colours hath the starrie Firmament Nor is the Rayne-bowe a firie Meteor Though there appeare in it colours store But is a mystie exhallation By great Phoebus without inflamation After a Shower appearing in the ayre Shewing the weather thence foorth to be fayre And euer appeareth halfe circlewise Opposâ—te to Phoebus alwayes doth rise Hauing three colours seeming in our eye Red Yellowe Greene in the low Region Aerie Red highest as neerest th' Elementall Fyre A white waterish Yeallow next place doth require The lowest like Emeraulde greene as the grasse Reflecting such colours to vs like a Glasse Taking the forme as it is obiected Presently sending the same forme reflected Backe to the Author and doth not containe Any such forme till you showe it againe Sometimes a Rayne-Bow sheweth in the night After a shower of Colour watrish white Not red nor greene to the Moone opposite Thus glorious Pan discouereth his Mighte But diuine Shepheards soothly sayen In their high Layes with wordes plaine That though it be one thing by generation Yt's another thing in contemplation Representing to vs all sickerly A sealed eternall Testimonie That this center of the vniuersall round As once it was should not againe be drownde Nor cloudy waterâ— hi◠〈…〉 belowe Should dare presume the earth to ouer-flowe But should them holde in their habitation That man and beast should haâ—â— a quiet Station Thus blessed glorious euerlasting Pan Safely prouided for the life of man Some other things the Philosopers haue named That Firie beene and are not yet inflamed The burning Thunderbolt the lightning flash That Trees Beasts and buildings in peeces dash Wreaking by fell spite on the world this injurie Confounding all things in their spightfull fury That mortall wights takne them for Fiends of Hell That in a moment simple creatures quell Of so swift and forceable penetration Of so sudden motion and operation Yea of so wonderfull a qualitie By reason of their hotte agilitie That things incredible by them been done As sowring the Wine and sauing the Tonne Breaking the sword not hurting the sheath The stemme of an Oke in peeces they wreath And vpon the world bring desolation Seeming to spoyle the frame of creation The fiery whirle-windes which we Prester call Of fearefull wonders exceeden All. VVhich beene hote dry vapours whirled together From th' earth to heauen no man knowes whither In forme of a circled Piller they wend And through our Region of thâ— Ayre ascend with violent motion making a praye Of each loose parcell that stands in their waye Gyring and whirling it vp to the skie Some Laundresses seene their â—ynnen so â—lye Brute beasts at the comming thereof doe crye As fearing their immynent ieopardy These taken ships out of the Ocean And caryen them beyonde the skill of man Letting them fall from the Ayrie region To their vtter Ruine and Subuersion Whole Flouds of waters from the brynish-store Of Thetis they sucke vp for euermore Carrying them to the Ayers middle region The coldnes whereof stoppeth them Anon. Driuing them downe headlong to the Center Not suffering them that Region to enter So all at once they fall downe suddainly As a great Mountaine by extremitie Drowning whole ships vnder-sayle in their Rage For nothing but death may their furie asswage The profit we get by this consideration Is to haue Gods workes in Admiration And to bethinke vs with what facilitie Pan can destroy all humane Hostilitie And so to humble vs vnder his hand That free from dangers wee may safely stand Stedfastly hoping to stand vnreprooueable As mightie Mountaines vnremooueable Now hence must we proceed incontinent To discant of the Ayery Element Being simple and subtile thinne rare and quicke Pierced by grose substance heauie and thicke Capable of all formes and Figures jniected VVhererby her body is often jnfected Scituate next to the fire in degree By reason of his transparant Leuitee Receiuing Meteors elementarie According as ascending vapours varie Affording breath to euery earthly thing That openeth mouth or flyes with feathered wing Yea the Fishes in the Ocean were dead If colde thicke-yce the Ocean ouer-spread Which ioyeth in Ayres respiration To keepe the waters from corruption For Fishes in the deepe beene murdered If Ayers refreshing Gales been hindered Hotte and moyst by essentiall qualitie Yet hath a coole-refreshing propertie By reason of the waters vicinitie Sending forth vapours colde continuallie VVhich by the Ayers Agitation Are made a temperate respiration Ayded by the cooling of the breathing winde VVhereby this Element is oft refin'de And man and beast and euery thing that liu's Is nourished by the temperature it giu's And Wormes abandoned from budding trees And extreme heate allayed by degrees Thus was this splendent Ayrie Element Placed by Pan with perfect Complement Distinguished into Regions three As bookish shepheards euidently see The highest next the firie Element The middle second 's it incontinent The lowest is that space wherein we dwell VVhereof great Philosophers wonders tell The first is hotte the middle extreme colde The third is temperate for reasons tolde The lowest Orbe the Fowles â—oon glorifie And with sweet Notes great 〈◊〉 doe magnifie The Eagle Griffin Falcon Marlion The Nightingale and turtle Pidgeon The Thrush the Lynnet and mounting Larke Besides the Fowles that flyen in the darke The Bittour pyping in a Syrinâ— Reede VVayling that virgins losse in mourning weede VVith Fowles of Price and worth Innumerable VVhere-with great states garâ—ishen their Table These take delight to sporte them in their Ayre Cheefely if Phoebus make the Region fayre The middle Region's coldest in his Place For Phoebus there yet neuer shewed his Face VVhich is the cause of Sleeâ—e of Hayle of Snowe All which by vertue of this Region growe The highest Region of the Ayre is hot Where all the fiery Meteors are begot Being placed next the fiery Element VVhich doth inflame with heate that Regiment The Meteors to the Ayre destinated Are simply windes and Earth-quakes nominated Included in a vapor others there be Which yet are Meteors in their degree As stormes whirl-windes and the mightie Thunder Rumbling as if heauen would cleaue a sunder Windes are vapors included in a Caue Whence by Phoebus force they issue haue And drawne by heate to the mid Region Which is all colde by constitution There they would enter but being expelled To be dispersed they
be defin'd by mortall man Some call him Ioua for his Existence Some Eloâ—ym for his excellence Some call him Theos for his burning light Some call him Deus for his fearefull might Some call him mightie Tetragrammaton Of letters fower in composition There is no Region vnderneath the skie But by foure letters write the Deitie For fower is a perfect number square And aequall sides in euerie part doth beare And God is that which sometime Good we nam'd Before our English Tongue was shorter fram'd Pan in the Greeke the Shepheards doe him call Which we doe tearme the whole vniuersall All in himself All one All euerie where All in the Center All out All in the Spheare All seeing all All comprehending all All blessed Almightie All aeternall Comprehended in no circumference Of no beginning nor ending essence Not capable of composition Qualitie accident diuision Passion forme or alteration All permanent without Mutation Principall Mouer alwaies in action Without wearinesse or intermission Immortall and without infirmitie Of euerlasting splendent Maiestie One in Essence not to be deuided Yet into Trinitie distinguished Three in one essence one essence in three A wonder I confesse too hard for mee Yet diuine Poets innumerable With strong Arguments vnresistable As Theorems and Demonstrations Deliuer it to our Contemplations The Father Sonne and holy Ghost these three Are subsistent persons in the Deitie Abba Ben Ruach blessed Poets sing Are the true Names of Pan coelestiall King This may suffice to shewe a mysterie That passeth mortall Mans Capacitie Now to proceed Blessed immortall Pan Was not alone before this world began Yet were no Angels as then created Nor Angels Offices destinated Nor could their attendance doe him pleasure In whom consisted all blessed treasure All comprehending Pan was then no where A certaine place must euery Angel beare Not circumscriptiue but definitiue Pan fils eache place in manner repletiue But Abbae Ben Ruach in Trinitie Making one Pan in perfect vnitie Whole Pan in eache and each of these in Pan A mystery that passeth reach of Man These were sufficient of themselues to frame This glorious Engine which we Cosmos name Who when he pleas'd to make his glory know'n And haue his power manifestly show'n He putteth on triumphant Maiestie That all his creatures might him glorifie And at one instant with his onely word As a most mightie and imperiall Lord This wondrous frame of Heauen and Earth we sâ—e At once were made in substance as they bee Yet was this frame a Masse vnpolished Void of all forme rude and vngarnished Water Earth Ayre Fire togither blended As if Confusion were the thing intended But mightie Ruach spread his powerfull wings Vpon this Masse of all confused things And kept it warme making it apt to take Such different forme as pleased Pan to make So mightie Ioue commaunded separation Twixt light and heauie things for generation And of light Bodies made a Circumference In circle wise from th' earth for difference And made the earth both fast and permanent The Center of th' vniuersall continent And all these light bodies did he then dispose Into ten Heauens the rest to enclose The Imperiall Heauen first and principall Most large and beautifull glorious eternall Where Pan himselfe doth vsually rest Where Angels dwel and sacred soules are blest The second the first mouing heauen is Not Christaline as many thinke amisse Whereby all other Orbs doe chiefly moue According to the will of Pan aboue The third is call'd the starrie Firmament which to our view is alwayes eminent Packt full of starres as Goulden Nailes in Poast To giue a luster vnto euery coast To giue direction to them that saile From port to port for their Countries auaile To bring sweete shewers to Tellus excellence As they arise by blessed influence One shepheard thought this Orbe the first that moued But false it is by many reasons proued In order then doe follow 〈…〉 Knowne to each Figure-stinger vnder heauen That wize from thence many aâ— vncouâ—h-tale As if great â—an were closed in their Male With fierie Trigons and watrie Tripliciâ—â—â— They dazell the mindes of humane simplicitie Turning the true nature of Astâ—onomie Into iudiciall Egyptian Sophistrie For Planets shew by their opposition Trine Quartile Sextile or Coniunction Whereto the weather and bodies doe encline By Natures course not prophecie diuine Nor can they shew by any secret starre Whether thou shalt die in prisâ—n or in warre Yet doubt we not the Starres haue operation Working a secret inclination But what and how many of these Starres there bâ—â— Of that infinite number which we see Whether the thousand and two and twentie Which Shepheards single out of that plentie Or all the starres togither in the Skie Can shew when and where thou and I shall die Or al the vertues of the Planets seauen Can proue thee damn'd or bring thee vnto heauen Sith iudgement of the starres can all things shew They can vnfold this Mysterie I trow The end of starres as seely shepheards saine Was to illuminate this darkesome plaine And to demonstrate to men of reason Spring Sommer Haruest and Winter season Not to foreshew what certaine shall befall To euerie part of this vniuersall But to conclud I say as I began A modest wisdome well beseemes a man Yet these are the names of the Planets seuen As neere as simple shepheards 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 Saturne Iupiter and Mars are three Next to the starrie Welken in degree Much slower than the rest in motion Because of their loftie Constitution Phoebus is next which we call Sol the Sunne Without whose light the world were cleane vndone Without whose heate nothing that liu's could liue For Light and Heate No Planet else doth giue He is the Fost'rer of this earthly Round And all the creatures that therein be found Piercing all things belowe with powerfull Raies Harke how the chirping Birds do chaunt his praise He swiftly runnes ouer th' vniuersall In twentie foure howres a day naturall And yet he keepes a station diuine Staying one Month in euerie Zodiake Signe Producing creatures of such varietie As mou's all men t' admire his Deitie No Starre within the VVelkin taketh place But borrowes light of his resplendent grace The mightie Ocean is nourished by him Phaebe her selfe without his light is dim Ioues winged messenger sweete Mercurie Is fed by Phoebus blessed harmonie Venus the darling to the god of warre Doth neuer rest if Phoebus be too farre The bottom of the Sea the fish the sand Receiue their comfort from his blessed hand Tellus her selfe and Flora in her pride Die and consume if Phoebus looke aside The Diamond Saphyr and Rubie red By Phoebus scorching heate are ingendred The golden mettals in the deepest Mine Do consecrate their being to his Shrine Ceres that Queene doth fade and pine away If mightie Phoebus hide his golden ray Yea Bacchus and
or gargaâ—ise Marking the signe wherein faire Phaebe lyes These sacred vertues qualities diuine Do make her wonderfull in shepheards eine And straine the world to celebrate her name With louely Hymnes and euerlasting fame Thus were the heauens orderly disposed By glorious Pan as you haue heard disclosed Yet is Endymions taske but now begonne When one would think his webbe were wholly sponne Vnfold he must an other Mysterie And anatomize diuine Philosophie How the vast space t'wixt heauen and earth was fil'd With elementall Spheares as Ioua wil'd That Emptinesse might haue no habitation Amongst the workes of Gods creation O you Caelestiall euer-liuing fires That done inflame our hearts with high desires Our Spokes beene blunt rude haâ—â—â—ish vncooth Vnable in Mysteries to know the sooth Vnkempt vnpolished ignorant lewde Vneth with one drop of Nectar bedewde High are the Mysteries we take 〈◊〉 hand To discussâ— of fire aier sea and land With euery thing therein contained And by the wisdome of Pan ordeyned On bended knee therefore with humble prostration Endymion maketh his supplication To illuminate th' Eyes of his blinded minde The secrets of this lower world to finde To discouer them to men vnlettered Whose knowledge with Ignorance is fettered And hee will sacrifice vnto your shrine The fat of Lambes and sweetest Eglantine With Garlands of Roses and Gilliflowers Hee 'l decke and garnishe all your sacred Bowers And with his choycest Notes and Roundelayes Cause Hil's and Dales to celebrate your praise And all the bordring Shepheards shall admyre The strange effects of your Coelestiall Fyre The force whereof doth make me to entreat Of that which doth adioyne to Phoebus seate Which is thought to bee the firy Element Aboue the rest for lightnes excellent Most rare and thinne most hot yet doth not shine Of no colour yet of qualitie Diuine Rounde in Fygure yet most swiftly moues Not of it selfe as Aristotle proues But by the mightie Agitation Of Planets superior in operation Next to the Moone in constitution Speedie and swifte in reuolution Giuing heate to euery thing compounde That hath his being in the lower round Not Conspicuous to any mortall Eye Because of his Thinnes and Raritie Yet burneth and consumeth vtterly What so resisteth his flaming Furie Hee worketh straunge Meteors in the Night Which shepheards hau'n often in their sight By vapors drawne from the heate of the Sunne From out the Earthe to Aâ—rs high Region Which vapours once by this Fyre oâ— flamed Expresse strange formes which Meteorâ— are named Such as be Comets and the blaâ—â—ing Staâ—s By which some shepheards progâ—â—sticate wars But certaine they signifie stiriliâ—iâ— By reason of the Earth's great â—iceity For want of Shewers and sweet moystening Rayne The cause of springing and growing of Grayne For Comets alwayes in Summer appeere When Ceres calleth Aquarius for â—eere The shortest Time that blasing starres remayne Is seuen dayes as Phylosophers â—ayne The longest time is dayes foure-score Too long by so long for Piercâ— Plâ—m-mans store And then they disolue into Ayrâ— or fire As the substance of the vapors require Starres of false Helena and Starres flying Knowne to Marriners in their long sayling Are within the Comets comprehended And from th' Elemental fire descended So Castor and Pollux are to Saylers knowne By these their Ruine or safetie is showen This Comet sometime lighteth on the Mast Thence flyeth to the Sayl's and â—acklings in hast Skipping heere and there without certaine byding The matter 's vnctuous and must needs be glyding And if it appeare before the storme beginne It foretels the perrils that the Ship is In. Then they call it the starre of Helena Hell's Furie Deaths messenger fierce Megara They waile and wring their wofull hands for greife They looke for death expecting no reliefe But if such Comets fall when stormes are ended They say that Castor and Pollux them defended They ioy and reuell vowing Sacrifize For life is esteemed the richest prize This Comet constraineth the greatest wight To magnifie Pans maiestie and might Who forewarn's them of dangers imminent To make the Saylers wise and prouident All meanes within board carefully t' aduise For dreadfull stormes shall presently arise If stormes be ended when they see it fall It is a Messenger vnto them All His glorious Name on knees to magnifie That hath preserued them so gratiouslie Such firie vapors often-times are seene In Church-yards and places where dead bodyes beene Buryed or executed in Summer-time In time of pestilence or for some cryme Which Idiot's say'n bin dead-mens Ghosts or Sprighâ—s Walking those places in the Irke-some Nights When as no mortall man can be able To prooue or defend such ridiculous Fable For Shepheards sayne by naturall reason That from Bodyes buried in Sommer season An vnctuos vapour hot and dry doth rise Which Phoebus seazeth according to his guise And doth inflame it in a little space Making it tumble vp and downe the place Such fiery vapours sometime do abide Vpon the bodyes of men that lightly ride Or on their horses-bodyes as they nimbly pace Daftly remoouing seat from place to place For when men post lightly they getten heate VVhich being turned to an Oyly-sweate Sends forth dry vapours which the Sunne doth 〈◊〉 VVhereof he doth a skipping fire make For colours which oft in the Welkin seeme VVhich been firie Meteors as men doe deeme They be not very colours in the Skie Our eye-sight fayl's vs looking so high These haue not the Sunnes Inflamation Nor any firy Generation But mightie vapours drawne from the Sunne aloft Which to vs representen colours oft A circling garland compasseth the Moone Presaging windes and Tempests â—â—sing soonâ— Blackish in colour of thicke composition Shewing the weather by foule disposition This is no inflamed fiery Meteoâ— But a cloudy moysty darke thicâ—â— vapor One bright shining circle greatest of All VVhich learned Spephards Galaâ—â—a call A beaten high-way to the Gods Palace Glorious beautifull full of Solace Shyning most cleare in a Frostie Night And in the starrie firmament is pâ—ght Yet is not a vapour nor meteor we know Nor drawne from the Sunne which is farre below But shineth most bright by respleâ—dant grace By the beautie of starres that furnish the place Besides starres dispersed one hundred and eight Starres of Note of high regard and weight With glorious beames their shining display And hence it 's called the milky-white waye And if you will weet what starreâ— they hight That maken the Welkin in that place so bright Lysten you Shepheards I le set them in order As they done garnish that circulare Border Cassiopeia hath thirteene starres of Note VVherewith she frettizeth her purple Cote The siluered Swan that dying sweetly sings Adorn's with twelue starres her beautifull wings The soaring Eagle bearing Ioues Ganymed VVith foure Orientall Starres garnished The hatefull Scorpion doth neuer fayle Of fiue bright Torches in her poysoned