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A16884	Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.	Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 378; ESTC S100113	209,794	528

hastily repaire Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe And lowe where dawning day doth neuer peepe His dwelling is there Thetis her wet bed Doth euer wash and Cynthia still doth steepe In siluer dew her euer-dropping head vvhile sad night ouer him her mantle black doth spread Edm. Spencer VVhose double gates he findeth locked fast The one faire fram'd of burnish'd Iuorie The other all with siluer ouer-cast And wakefull dogs before them fa●re doe lie Watching to banish Care theyr enemie vvho oft is wont to trouble gentle Sleepe Idem Of Neptune First came great Neptune with his three-forkt mace That rules the seas and makes them rise or fall His dewey locks did drop with brine a pace Vnder his diademe imperiall And by his side his Queene with Coronall Fayre Amphitrite most diuinely fayre vvhose Iuory shoulders were couered all As with a robe with her owne siluer hayre And deckt with pearles which the Indian seas for her prepare Edm. Spencer Of Proteus Proteus is shepheard of the Seas of yore And hath the charge of Neptunes mightie heard An aged Sire with head all frothy hoare And sprinckled frost vpon his dewie beard Idem Of Thetis Thetis the Mother of the pleasant springs Grandome of all the Riuers in the world To whome earths vaines a moystning tribute brings Nowe with a mad disturbed passion hurl'd About her Caue the worlds great treasure flings And with wreath'd armes long wet haire vncu●l'd Within herselfe laments a losse vnlost And mones her wrongs before her ioyes be crost I. Markham Of Phoebus The golden ofspring of Latona pure And ornament of great Ioues progenie Phoebus Edm. Spencer Dayes King God of vndaunted verse G. Chapman Of Neptune O Neptune neuer like thy selfe in shew Inconstant variable mutable How doost thou Proteus like thy forme renewe O whereto is thy change impurable Or whereunto art thou bent sutable Rightly the Moone predominateth thee For thou art all as changeable as shee Ch. Fitz Ieffray Of Apollo Sacred Apollo God of Archerie Of Arts of pleasure and of Poetrie Ioues faire haird sonne whose yellow tresses shine Like curled flames hurling a most diuine And dazeling splendour in those lesser fires Which from thy guilt beames when thy Car retires Kindle those Tapers that lend eyes to night O thou that art the Land-lord of all light Birdegroome of morning dayes eternall King To whom nine Muses in a sacred ring In daunces sphericall trip hand in hand Whilst thy seauen-stringed Lute theyr feete cōmaund vvhose motion such proportioned measure beares That to the musicke daunce nine heauenly spheares Great Delian Priest we to adore thy name Haue burnt fat thighes of Bulls in hallowed flame vvhose sauour wrapt in smoake and clowdes of fire To thy starre-spangled Pallace did aspire Tho. Dekkar Of Rome O thou worlds Queene ô towne that didst extend Thy conquering armes beyond the Ocean And througdst thy conquests from the Libian shore Downe to the Scythian swift-foote fearelesse porters Thou art debasd and at this instant yeelds Thy proude necke to a miserable yoke Tho. Kyd. Of Heate VVhen Phoebus rose he left his golden weede And dond attire in deepest pulple dyed His sanguine beames about his forhead spred A sad presage of ill that should betide ●ith vermile drops at euen his tresses bleed ●or shewes of future heate from th' Ocean wide ●hilst thus he bent gainst earth his scorching raies He burnt the flowers and burnt his Clitia deare The leaues grew wan vpon the withered spraies The grasse and growing hearbes all parched were Earth cleft in rifts in floods theyr streames decaies The barren clowdes with lightning bright appeare And mankind feard least Clymens child againe Had driuen away his Syers ill-guided vvaine As from a fornace flew the smoake to skies Such smoake as that when damned Sodome brent Within his Caue sweete Zephyre silent lyes Still was the ayre the racke nor came nor went But ore the lands with luke-warme breathing flies The Southerne winde from sun-bright Affrique sent vvith thicke and warme his interrupted blasts Vpon theyr bosoms throates and faces casts Nor yet more comfort brought the gloomy night In her thicke shade was burning heate vprold Her sable mantle was imbrodered bright vvith blazing starres and gliding fires of gold Nor to refresh sad earth thy thirsty spirit The niggard Moone let fall her May-dewes cold And dried vp the vitall moisture was In trees in plants in hearbs in flowers in grasse Ed. Fairefax Of Thirst. VVhen wells grew dry the Commons ran in rage And sought out euery sincke their thirst t' asswage And dranke with lothsome draught the pooles in has● To quench theyr thirst with ill-contented tast vvhich poysoned ayre infect theyr purest breath vvhereby the drinker dranke his present death O wretched folke who felt so hard a strife Drinke or not drinke both waies must lose theyr life For he that dranke and he that did refraine Had of theyr enemies both an equall paine For why the water vile slew them throughout No lesse then did theyr enemies them about That wretched towne had neuer a street nor vew But Parcaes there had fram'd some fashions new To murder men or martyr them with feares As mou'd the most indurate hart to teares If so much water in theyr braines had beene As might forbeare a drop to wet theyr eyne One while he spake his hart for thirst did faint And life him left which frustrate his complaint The souldiour braue oh hart-breake for to tell His proper vrine dranke thirst to expell The woful mother with her spettle fed Her little child halfe dead in cradle-bed The Lady with her Lord at poynt of death Embracing falls and yeelds theyr latest breath Thom. Hudson Of an Assault They no lesse prouided are within With rampires bulwarks and with doubled dikes And where theyr foes to clime doe once begin They push thē down with bills with staues with pikes If one be kild another steppeth in No man his place for feare of hurt mislikes Some throw downe blocks some stones some scalding water Greeuing them much with all most with the latter Some throw among them newly slaked Lime That burneth most when most it seemes to quench vvith pots of Brimstone Pitch and Turpentime Annoying them with heate with smoake stench The rest are still imployd and loose no time vvith wreathed stakes to fortifie the Trench Thus all within are busie all without Fortune on both sides standing still in doubt S. I. Harr. Of an Hoast Their hoast with arrowes pykes and standards stood As bristle-poynted as a thornie wood Theyr multitude of men the riuers died vvhich through the wealthy Iuda swift did slide So that flood Iordan finding dry his banke For shame he blusht and downe his head he shrank For woe that he his credite could not keepe To pay one waue for tribute to the deepe Tho. Hudson Of a Skirmish Then grew the fight on both sides firme and stable Both sides defend both sides alike inuade

their hie protections do containe All mortall Princes and imperiall states And fairer yet whereas the royall seats And heauenly Dominations are set From whom all earthly gouernance is fet Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins Which all with golden wings are ouer dight And those eternall burning Seraphins Which from their faces dart out fiery light Yet fairer then they both and much more bright Be th' Angels and Archangels which attend On Gods owne person without rest or end Ed. Spencer The first composing of the number nine Which of all numbers is the most diuine From orders of the Angels doth arise Which be contained in three Hierarchies And each of these three Hierarchies in three The perfect forme of true felicitie And of the Hierarchies I spake of erst The glorious Epiphania is the first In which the hie celestiall orders bin Of Thrones of Cherubs and of Seraphin The second holds the mightie Principates The Ephionia the third Hierarchie With Vertues Angels and Archangels bee And thus by threes we aptly do define And do compose this sacred number nine Yet each of these nine orders grounded be Vpon some one particularitie M. Drayton Out of the Hierarchies of Angels sheene The gentle Gabriell God cald from the rest Twixt God and soules of men that righteous beene Embassador he is for euery blest The iust commands of heauens eternall king Twixt skies and earth he vp and downe doth bring Ed. Fairfax Transl Our walls of flesh that close our soules God knew how weak and gaue A further gard euen euery man an Angell guide to saue And men for vs be angels while they work our souls to saue VV. VVarner If Angels fight Weake men must fall for heauen stil gards the right W. Shakespeare Ambition Ambition is a Vultur vile That feedeth on the heart of pride And finds no rest when all is tride For worlds cannot confine the one Th' other lists and bounds hath none And both subuert the mind the state Procure destruction enuy hate S. Daniell Ambition fie vpon thy painted cheeke Woe worth the beautie sleepes not with the face For thou art hatefull foule vnfaire vnmeete A poyson-painted pleasure mads men chase Thou reasonlesse desire that makes men seeke To kisse the same whilest fire doth thee imbrace Thou onely strong disordered rulest passion Thou marst mens minds and pu●st them out of fashiō I. Markham The golden chaine of Homers hie deuise Ambition is or cursed auarice Which all gods haling being tied to Ioue Him from his setled height could neuer moue Intending this that though that powerfull chaine Of most Herculean vigor to constraine Men from true vertue or their present states Attempt a man that manlesse changes hates And is enobled with a deathlesse loue Of things eternall dignified aboue Nothing shall stirre him from adorning still This shape with vertue and his power with will G. Chapman The greedy thirst of royall crowne That knowes no kindred nor regards no right Stird Porrex vp to pluck his brother downe Who vnto him assembling forraine might Made warre on him and fell himselfe in fight Whose death to auenge his mother mercilesse Most merciles of women Eden hight Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse Ed. Spencer A diademe once dazeling the eie The day too darke to see affinitie And where the arme is stretcht to reach a crowne Friendship is broke the dearest things thrown downe M. Drayton Realme-rape spareth neither kin nor friend I. Higgins Mir. of Ma. Who fight for crownes set life set all to light Who aime so hie wil die or hit the white Doctor Lodge One riseth by an others fall and some do clime so fast That in the clouds they do forget what climats they haue past W. Warner The Eagle minded minds that nestle in the sun Their lofty heads haue leaden heeles and end where they begun Idem O fatall is the ascent vnto a crowne From whēce men come not down but tumble downe S. Daniell Like as the heauen two Sunnes cannot containe So in the earth two Kings cannot remaine Of equall state so doth Ambition craue One King will not another equall haue Tho. Hudson Transl Whom so the mindes vnquiet state vpheaues Be it for loue or feare when fancie reaues Reason her right by mocking of the wit If once the cause of this affection flit Reason preuailing on the vnbrideled thought Downe falls he who by fancie climbd aloft I. H. M. of Magist Desire of rule within a climbing brest To breake a vowe may beare the buckler best G. Gascoigne In some courts shall you see Ambition Sit peecing Dedalus old waxen wings But being clapt on and they about to flie Euen when their hopes are busied in the cloudes They melt against the sunne of maiestie And downe they tumble to destruction Tho. Dekkar Better sit still men say then rise and fall High state the bed wherein misfortune lies Mars most vnfriendly when most kind he seemes Who climeth hie on earth he hardest lights And lowest falles attends the highest flights Ed. Fairfax Transl As highest hils with tempest be most touched And tops of trees most subiect vnto winde And as great Towers with stone strongly couched Haue many falles when they be vnderminde Euen so by proofe in worldly things we finde That such as climbe the top of hie degree From feare of falling neuer can be free I. H. M. of Magist Ambition with the Eagle loues to build Nor on the mountaine dreads the winter blast But with selfe soothing doth the humour guild With arguments correcting what is past Forecasting kingdomes dangers vnforecast Leauing this poore word of content to such Whose earthly spirits haue not fiery tuch M. Drayton The ambitious once inur'd to raigne Can neuer brooke a priuate state againe S. Daniell Warlike Caesar tempted with the name Of this sweet Island neuer conquered And enuying the Britons blazed fame O hideous hunger of dominion hither came Ed. Spencer Ambition In princely pallace and in stately townes Doth often creep and close within conuaies To leaue behind it damage and decaies By it be loue and amitie destroid It breakes the lawes and common concord beates Kingdomes and realmes it topsie turuy turnes G. Gascoigne Be not ambitiously a king nor grudgingly decline One God did roote out Cis his stock and raise vp Iesses line VV. Warner The aspirer once attain'd vnto the toppe Cuts off those meanes by which himselfe got vp S. Daniel Haughtie Ambition makes a breach in hills Runs drie by sea amongst the raging scills Th. Hud Affection Affection is a coale that must be coolde Else suffered it will set the heart on fire The fire hath bounds but deepe desire hath none VV. Shakespeare Affection by the countenance is descri'de The light of hidden fier it selfe discouers And loue that is conceal'd betraies poore Louers Th. Marlowe Most wretched man That to affections doth the bridle lend In their beginning they are

blind God whose force can no man shunne Sits in her eyes and thence his darts doth fling Bathing his wings in her bright christal streames And sunning them in her rare beauties beames In these he heads his golden-headed dart In those he cooleth it and tempereth so He leuels thence at good Obertos hart And to the head he drawes it in his bow S. I. Harr. Olympias beauty was so rare As well might moue a man the same to note Her hayre her cheekes her eyes most amorous are Her nose her mouth her shoulders and her throat As for her other parts that then were bare Which she was wont to couer with her coate Were made in such a mould as might haue moued The chast Hippolitus her to haue loued A man would thinke them framd by Phidias arts Theyr colour and proportion good was such And vnto them her shamefastnes imparts A greater grace to that before was much I cease to praise those other secret parts Nothing so fit to talke of as to touch In generall all was as white as milk As smooth as Iuory and as soft as silke Had shee in vally of Idea beene vvhen Pastor Paris hap did so befall To be a Iudge three goddesses betweene She should haue got and they forgone the ball Had she but once of him beene naked seene For Helena he had not card at all Nor broke the bonds of sacred hospitalitie That bred his country wars and great mortalitie Had she but then been in Crotona towne When Zeuxis for the Goddesse Iunos sake To paint a picture of most rare renowne Did many of the fayrest damsels make To stand before him bare from foote to crowne A patterne of theyr perfect parts to take No doubt he would haue all the rest refused And her alone in sted of all haue chused S. I. Harr. Faire is my loue for Aprill in her face Her louely breasts September claimes his part And lordly Iuly in her eyes hath place But cold December dwelleth in her hart Blest be the months that sets my hart on fire Accurst that month that hindreth my desire Like Phaebus fire so sparkles both her eyes As ayre perfum'd with Amber is her breath Like swelling waues her louely teates doe rise As earth her hart cold dateth me to death In pompe sits mercy seated in her face Loue twixt her breasts his trophies doth imprint Her eyes shines fauour curtesie and grace But touch her hart oh that is made of flint R. Greene. Her hayre not trust but scattered on her brow Surpassing Hyblaes honney for the view Or softened golden wyers Within these snares first was my hart intrapped Till through those golden shrouds mine eye did see An Iuory shadowed front wherein was wrapped Those prety bowers where graces couched be Next which her cheekes appeard like Crimson silke Or ruddy rose bespred in whitest milke Twixt which the nose in louely tenor bends Two traces prety for a louers view Next which her lips like violets commends By true proportion that which doth ensue Which when they smile present vnto the eyes The Oceans pride and Iuory paradize Her pollisht necke of milke where snows doe shine As when the Moone in winter night beholds them Her breast of Alablaster cleere and fine vvhereon two rising apples fayre vnfold them Like Cynthias face when in her full she shineth And blushing to her loue-mates bower declineth From whence in length her armes doe sweetly spread Like two rare branchie Saples in the spring Yeelding fiue louely sprigs from euery head Proportioned alike in euery thing which featly sprout in length like spring borne friends vvhose prety tops with fiue sweet roses ends But why alas should I that marble hide That doth adorne that one and other flanck From whence a mount of quickned snow doth glide Or else the vaile that bounds this milk-white banke vvhere Venus and her sisters hide the fount vvhose louely Nectar doth all sweetes surmount D. Lodge Whilst thus she meant vnseene away to slide Her pearles and iewels causde her to be spide The muske and ciuet amber as she past Long after her a sweet perfume did cast A Carbuncle on her christall brow she pight vvhose fierie gleames expeld the shady night Vpon her head a siluer crispe she pind Loose wauing on her shoulders with the wind Gold band her golden hayre her Iuory neck The Rubies rich and Saphires blew did deck And at her eare a pearle of greater valew There hung then that the Egyptian Queene did swallow And through her coller showd her snowy brest Her vtmost robe was colour blew celest Benetted all with twist of perfect gold Beseeming well her comly corps t' enfold What els she ware might wel be seene vpon That Queene who built the towers of Babylon Her wauering hayre disparpling flew apart In seemely shed the rest with recklesse art vvith many a curling ring decord her face And gaue her ghastly browes a greater grace Two bending bowes of Eben coupled right Two lucent starres that were of heauenly light Two ietty sparks where Cupid chastly hides His subtile shafts that from his quiuer glides Tweene those two sunnes and front of equall size A comly figure formally did rise vvhich draught vnleuell to her lip descend vvhere Momus selfe could nothing discommend Her pittid cheekes appeard to bee depaint vvith mixed rose and lillies sweet and saint Her dulcet mouth with precious breath repleat Exceld the Saben Queene in sauour sweet Her corrall lips discouered as it were Two ranks of orient pearles with smyling cheere Her Iuory necke and breast of Alablaster Made heathen men of her more Idolastre Vpon her hand no wrinckled knot was seene But as each nayle of Mother of pearle had beene In short this Iudith was so passing faire As if the learned Zeuxis had beene there And seene this dame when he with pensill drew The Croton dames to forme the picture true Of her for whom both Greece and Asia fought This onely patterne chiefe he would haue sought Tho. Hudson Her words were like a streame of honny fleeting The which doth softly trickle from the hiue Able to melt the hearers hart vnweeting And eke to make the dead againe to liue Her deedes were like great clusters of ripe grapes Which loade the bunches of the fruitfull Vine Offering to fall into each mouth that gapes And fill the same with store of timely wine Her breast two hills ore-spread with purest snow Sweet smooth and supple soft and gently swelling Betweene them lyes a milkie dale below vvhere loue youth gladnes whitenes make their dwelling Her enuious vesture greedy sight expelling So was the wanton clad as if thus much Should please the eye the rest vnseene they touch As when the sunne-beames diue through Tagus waue To spy the store-house of his springing gold Loue persing thought so through her mantle draue And in their gentle bosome wandred bold It viewd the wondrous beautie Virgins haue And all to finde desire with vantage bold Alas what

Hudson There quakes the plant which in Pudefetan Is call'd the shamefac't for asham'd of man If toward it one do approach too much It shrinkes the boughes to shun our hatefull touch As if it had a soule a sense and sight Subiect to shame feare sorow and despight I. Syluester Of Acheron Rude Acheron a loathsome lake to hell That boiles and bubs vp swelth as blacke as hell Where grisly Charon at their fixed tide Still ferries ghosts vnto the farther side M. Sackuile Echidna Echidna is a monster direfull dread Whom Gods do hate and heauens abhorre to see So hidious is her shape so huge her head That euen the hellish fiends affrighted bee At sight thereof and from her presence flie Yet did her faire and former parts professe A faire young maiden full of comely glee But all her hinder parts did plaine expresse A monstrous Dragon full of fearefull vglinesse Ed. Spencer 4. Cardinall vertues Andronica that wisely sees before And Phronesis the Iudge and chaste Drucilla And she that boldly fights for vertues lore Descending from the Romine race Camilla S. I. Harrington Of the Eagle The Cedar-building Eagle beares the winde And not the Falchon though both Haukes by kinde That Kingly bird doth from the clouds command The fearefull fowle that moues but nere the land M. Dray Phoenix The bird of fame That still renewes it selfe and neuer dies And onely one in all the world there flies S. I. Harrington * Of all chast birds the Phaenix doth excell Of all strong beasts the Lyon beares the bell Of all sweete flowers the Rose doth sweetest smell Of all pure mettalls gold is onely purest Of all the trees the Pine hath highest crest Of all proud birds the Eagle pleaseth Ioue Of pretie fowles kind Venus likes the Doue Of trees Minerua doth the Oliue moue T. Lodge * Who holdeth league with Neptune and the winde S. Dan. The Phaenix gazeth on the sunnes bright beames The Echinaeus swims against the streames R. Greene. Impossibilities He that the number of the leaues could cast That in Nouember falles by winters blast He that could tell the drops of raine and sleete That Hyad Orion or Pleyiades weete Sheds on the ground that man might onely tell What teares from Iudiths eies incestant fell Th. Hudson Like Coruiue who forgate His Proper name or like George Trapezunce Learned in youth and in his age a dunce I. Syl. The firmament shall retrograde his course Swift Euphrates go hide him in his sourse Firme mountains skip like lambes beneath the deepe Eagles shall diue whales in the aire shall keepe Ere I presume with fingers end to touch Much lesse with lippes the fruite forbid too much I. Syluester Flie from thy channell Thames forsake thy streames Leaue the Adamant Iron Phoebus lay thy beames Cease heauenly spheres at last your watrie warke Betray your charge returne to Chaos darke At least some ruthlesse Tigre hang her whelpe My Catisbye so with some excuse to helpe M. M. Ceston That girdle gaue the vertue of chast loue And wiuehood true to all that did it beare But whosoeuer contrary doth proue Might not the same about her middle weare But it would loose or else asunder teare Whilom it was as Faieries wont report Dame Venus girdle by her esteemd deare What time she vsde to liue in wiuely sort But laid aside when so she vsde her sport Her husband Vulcan whilome for her sake When first he loued her with heart intire This precious ornament they say did make And wrought in Lemnos with vnquenched fire And afterward did for her first loues hire Giue it to her for euer to remaine Therewith to bind lasciuious desire And loose affections straightly to restraine Which vertue it for euer did retaine This goodly Belt was Ceston call'd by name Ed. Spencer * The noble Lyon neuer slaies the least But alwaies praies vpon some worthy beast The thunder throwes his sulphured shafts adowne On Atlas high or cold Riphins crowne The tempest fell more feruently doth fall On houses high then on the homely hall Th. Hudson * Saturn taught men vntaught before to eare the lusty land And how to pierce the pathlesse aire with shafts from bowmans hand God Dis did quaile to see his gold so fast conuaid from hell And fishes quakt when men in ships amidst their flouds did dwell VV. VVarner Twelue foule faults A wise man liuing like a drone an old man not deuout Youth disobedient rich men that are charitie without A shameles womā vicious Lords a poore man proudly stout Cōtentious Christiās Pastors that their functiōs do neglect A wicked King no discipline no lawes men to direct Are twelue the foulest faults that most all common-wealths infect W. Warner Engines of warre The Inginers haue the Trepan drest And reared vp the Ramme for battery best Here bends the Briccoll while the Cable crackes There Crosbowes were vprent with yron Rackes Here crooked Coruies fleing Bridges tall Their scathfull Scorpions that ruines the wall On euery side they raise with ioynture meete The timber Towres for to commaund the streete The painfull Pioners wrought against their will With fleakes and Faggots ditches vp to fill Th. Hudson * The happie Arabs those that builds In thatched Wagons wandring through the fields The subtil Tirians they who first were Clarkes That staid the wandring words in leaues and barkes Idem * At Babell first confused toongs of euery language grew W. Warner Idolatry did growe * From Ninus first he first a Monarchy did frame Idem * Lord Dane the same was called thē to thē a pleasing name Now odiously Lordan say we when idle mates we blame Idem * The Turtle that is true and chaste in loue Shewes by her mate something the spirit doth moue The Arabian byrd that neuer is but one Is only chaste because she is alone But had our mother Nature made them two They would haue done as Doues and Sparrowes do But therefore made a Martyr in desire And doth her pennance lastly in the fire M. Drayton * I cast not with fooles suffer Saints let mighty fooles be mad Note Seneca by newes done for precepts pennance had VV. Warner * The Romane widow dide when she beheld Her sonne whom erst she counted slaine in feeld G. Gascoigne Riuers Faire Danubie is praisde for being wide Nilus commended for the seuen-fold head Euphrates for the swiftnesse of the tide And for the garden whence his course is led The bankes of Rhine with Vines are ouerspred Take Loyre and Po yet all may not compare With English Thamesis for buildings rare Th. Storer FINIS FAmes windy trump blew up this haughty mind To do or wish to do what here you find T was ne're held error yet in errant Knights Which priviledge he claims to dress their fights In high hyperbolies for youths example To make their minds as they grow men grow ample Thus such atchievements are assaid and done As pass the common power and sence of man Then let high spirits strive to imitate Not what he did but what he doth relate