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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

Neptune built the wals of Troy to shew that without Gods assistance no City or State can stād or be built His love which he bare to the flower Hyacinthus is to shew that flowers do bud and prosper by the Sun and die with cold winds therefore Zephirus was the cause of his death and perhaps Apollo and Neptune were said to build Troys walls because morter and brick are made by the helpe of heat and water or because Laomedon either stole or borrowed some treasure out of the Temples of Apollo and Neptune 2. Our Saviour Christ is the true Apollo both a destroyer of Satans kingdom and a saver of his people for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is as much as to lose by paying the price of redemption hee is the Sunne of Righteousnesse by whose beams and arrows that is his word Python the devil is subdued he is the Son of God and the God of Wisdome the great Prophet the Son of Latona that is of an obseure maid the true God of physick who cureth all our infirmities and the God of Musick too for that harmony of affections and communion of Saints in the Church is from him he hath subdued our Giants that is our spirituall foes by whose malice the thunder of Gods wrath was kindled against us He is immortal and the good Shepherd who hath laid down his life for his sheep having for his sheeps sake forsaken his Fathers glory and he it is who hath built the wals of Jerusalem Apollo was never so much in love with Hyacinthus as Christ was with the sons of men 3. As the Sunne amongst the Planets so is a King amongst his subjects a King is Apollo the destroyer of the wicked and a preserver of good men the light and life and beauty of his people a God of wisdome amongst them to guide them with good Lawes a God of physick to cut off rotten and hurtfull members to purge out all grosse humors that is bad maners with the pills of justice and to cheere up with cordialls our rewards the sound and solid parts of the politick body he is a God of musick also for where there is no King or head there can be no harmony nor concord he is a Prophet to fore-see and prevent those dangers which the people cannot he is a subduer of Pythons and Giants that is of all pestiferous disturbers and oppressors of the State his arrows are his Lawes and power which reacheth thorow all the parts of his dominiō he is a good shepherd Kings are a so called and a King thus qualified shall be like the Sun still glorious immortall youthfull and green like the Palm Olive Bay-tree but if he doth degenerat unto a tyrant then he is the cause of mortality as the Sun is when he inflames the aire with excessive heat When God out of rude Chaos drew the light Which chas'd away the long confused night O're all this All it did display Its golden beams and made the day So when mankinde did in the Chaos lye Of ignorance and grosse idolatry There did arise a light a Star Brighter then Sun or Moon by far Who with his fulgent beams did soon disperse The vapours of this little universe Till then no morning did arise Nor sparkling Stars to paint the skies This is that Sun this is the womans seed Who with her arrows wounded Pythons head It s he who kill'd the Gyants all Which were the causes of our fall He is that shepherd which in flowry Meads Doth feed his wandring flock and then he leads Them to the brook that softly glides And with his shepherds-crook them guides It s he that did Jerusalem immure And made it strong that it might stand secure Against all forrein enemies Against assaults and batteries He 's Wisdom he that Prophet which displaid What was before in darknesse bosome laid Whose Oracles did never fail Whose Miracles made all men quail He is the Sun that rides triumphantly On the blew Chariot of the spangled sky Whose Chariot's drawn with horses four Justice and Truth Mercie and Power He is the God of all sweet harmony Without whose word there is no melody He 's sweeter to a pensive minde Then any musick we can finde He is the God of physick he can ease The soule of sin thy body of disease He only helps the heavie heart He only cures the inward smart But sometime he his winged shafts le ts fly Amongst his foes and wounds them mortally Who can unbend his reaching Bow Who can avoid his piercing blow Then seeing Christ is this resplendant Sun Which Gyant-like about the world doth run Who shew'd to Jews his rosie face And to all Gentiles offers grace Let us at last with reverence admire This great Apollo heavens greatest fire Come let us Palms and Laurels bring And to him Io Paeans sing Apollo and a King parallel'd Like as Apollo's sparkling flame Doth cherish with his beams the frame Of this round Globe we see So Kings extend on us the light Of their just Laws and with their might Keep us from injury They let their Arrows flye at those Who dares their Rules and Laws oppose And vex the innocent A King the plaguey Python slayes And Gyants that will Thunder raise Within his firmament He is a good Physitian That bitter Pills and Cordialls can Prescribe when he thinks cause He makes a sweeter harmony Then Harp or Lute or Psaltery With his well tuned Laws He holds his bow with his left hand And at his right the graces stand As white as driven snow To let us see that by his raign More good we have and much more gain Then damage by his bow The Muses in a grove of Bayes About him dance and sing sweet layes Each hath her instrument To shew that under such a King All things do flourish Schoolers sing With comfort and content He hath the Ravens piercing eye He 's a white Swan in purity And hath the Bullocks strength He shall out-live the Palm and Bay His Name and Laws shall not decay But conquer all at length His head doth shine with golden locks He is a shepherd of great flocks Whom in the fragrant Meads He feeds and guides them with his crook And drives them to the silver Brook And to the shades them leads He wears a Tripos on his Crown A Triple Monster trampled down Before him prostrate lyes Now if this Sun shines anywhere He shines sure in our Northern sphaere And moves in British skies ARACHNE SHee was a Lydian Maid skilfull in weaving and spinning and by Minerva for her insolencie in provoking a goddesse was turned into a Spider THE MYSTERIES THis Arachne did learne of the Spider to spin and weave for the beasts are in many things our schoole-masters 2. It is not good to be proud and insolent of any art or knowledge 3. Subtill and trifling sophisters who with intricacies and querks intangle men are no better than Spiders whose

Hell where no man shall lament thee Now we are men which heretofore were Ants Then let us live like men and not like Wants Still digging leave your holes and fix your eyes Upon your starry-house the spangled skies Where Christ your head and Lord and Judge doth dwell The onely Judge of Heaven Earth and Hell AEGAEON HE was begotten of the Heaven and Earth or of the Sea he assisted Iupiter when Iuno Pallas and Neptune made insurrection against him and would have bound him for whose good service he was made keeper of Hell gates but afterwards rebelling against Iupiter he was over-throwne with his thunder and laid under the hill Aetna which alwayes bursts out with smoake and flames when hee turnes himselfe about he had an hundred hands and fiftie heads he is also called Briareus and Enceladus THE MYSTERIES BY this many-handed and many-headed mōster is meant the Wind the power and vertues whereof are many and wonderfull it is begot of the vapors of the earth and sea by the heat and influence of heaven when Iupiter that is the heaven is obscured and as it were bound up from us with thicke mists extracted by Minerva that is the Sun out of Neptun or the Sea and received by Iuno or the Aire these three are said to conspire against Iupiter then comes the wind and blowes away these mists and so Iupiter is relieved and the Heavens cleered Aegaeon is said to keep Hell gates because the winds are often inclosed in the bowels of the Earth and Sea 2. Aegaeon fights against Iupiter when the South-wind obscures the Heaven with clouds then with his Sun beames or thunder the Aire is cleared and the wind setled and because Aetna never vomits out fire but when there is wind generated in the hollow holes and cavernosities thereof therefore Aegaeon is said to lye and move there 3. God hath made our stomack and belly to be the receptacle of naughtie vapors which notwithstanding sometimes rebell and obnubilate the heaven of our braine and fight against our Iupiter that is our judgement and reason but oftentimes are overcome and beate backe by the strength of nature and property of the braine 4. Iuno that is vapors Neptune that is too much moisture and Pallas that is too much study oftentimes molest the brain assault judgment and reason but the helpe of Aegaeon or the strength of the animal spirits doe releeve the braine and make peace 5. In 88. the Spanish Iuno that is their wealth Minerva their policie and Neptune their sea-god I mean their great Fleet which affrighted the Ocean conspired to invade our heaven that is our Church and State but Aegaeon the stormie wind sent by Thetis but by the power of the Almighty scattered their forces and releeved our Iupiter 6. Every piratical ship robbing honest men of their goods may be called Aegaeon for they fight against God himselfe and their end for the most part is fearfull 7. Arius and other hereticks opposing Christs divinity with Aegaeon fight against God and being struck with the thunder of Gods Word without repentance they are sent to hell 8. All seditious persons rebelling against the Church and State are Aegaeons fighting against God and they must look for this reward As he who did against great Jove rebell Was struck with Thunder and knockt down to Hell So God will all you Monsters over-turn Who gainst the King the Church the State dare spurn Your glory shall be shame black Hell your mansion Furies your fellows brimstone and fire your pension Your motion 's like Aegaeons when he turns Aetna doth shake and for a while it burns But when you move you shake the world asunder Whose bowels smoke and burn and roare till you be struck with Thunder AENAEAS HE was a Trojan Prince son of Venus by whose help he was delivered from being killed by the Graecians he carried his old father on his shoulders out of Troy with his houshold gods he was seven yeares by the malice of Iuno tost upon the seas and kept back from Italy who when he arrived thither was molested by a long warre caused by Iuno and Alecto having at last killed Turnus ended his dayes in peace and honour he went downe to Hell to visit his father in the Elisian fields who by the help of Sybilla and the golden Branch overcame all the dangers of Hell his acts are eternised by the Prince of Poets THE MYSTERIES HE was called the son of Venus because that planet was mistresse of his horoscop or because of his beauty and comely proportion and to shew that love is the chiefest guard of Princes and that which doth most subdue and keepe people in subjection 2. Iuno and Aeolus the aire and wind conspired against him to drowne him so sometimes Princes are oftentimes vexed and endangered by the stormes of civill dissention 3. Neptune was his friend both in the Trojan warre and to help him forward to Italy Vulcan made him armour Mercury was his counsellor and spokes-man Cupid made way with Queen Dido to entertain him to shew that a Prince cannot be fortunate and powerful without shipping armour eloquence and love 4. The golden Branch made way for him to Proserpina and brought him to hell and so doth the inordinate love of gold bring many unto hell again gold maketh way through the strongest gates and overcommeth the greatest difficulties besides gold is the symbole of wisdome without which no man can overcome difficulties Lastly he that will goe through the dangers of hell that is the pangs of death with cheerefulnesse must carry with him a golden branch that is a good conscience and perhaps this golden branch may be the symbole of a Kings Scepter the ensigne of government wherein a King is happy if his Scepter bee streight and of gold that is if wealth and justice and wisdome go together 5. Aenaeas had not found the branch without the Doves his mothers birds so without love innocencie and chastity we cannot attain to true wisdome 6. He that would attain unto the true Branch that is Christ the righteous Branch and wisdome of the Father must follow the guide of the two Doves the Old and the New Testament they will shew us where he is 7. Aenaeas by the help of Sibyl went safely thorow Hell so shal we by the assistance of Gods counsell for a Sibyl signifieth so much we shall overcome all difficulties 8. His companion was Achates for great Princes are never without much care and sollicitude as the b word signifieth 9. Aenaeas went thorow the dangers of hel sea and land before he could have quiet possession in Italy so we must thorow many dangers enter into the Kingdome of heaven 10. Aenaeas is the Idea of a perfect Prince and Governour in whom wee see piety towards his gods in carrying them with him having rescued them from the fire of Troy in worshipping the gods of the places still where he came in going to

is the name of him who first found out the knowledge of Astronomy and invented the Spheare which some think was Henoch and for this knowledge was said to support heaven 3. This is the name of a king in Mauritania who perhaps from the bignesse and strength of his body was called a mountain and was said to have a garden of golden apples because of the plenty of golden mines in his Kingdom 4. God is the true Atlas by whose Word and power the world is sustained that mountain on which we may securely rest who only hath golden apples and true riches to bestow on us 5. The Church is the true Atlas a supporter of a Kingdom the child of heaven the hill on which God will rest on which there is continuall light and day a rock against which hell gates cannot prevaile where is the garden of golden apples the Word and Sacraments 6. A King is the Atlas of his Common-wealth both for strength and greatnesse there is the day and light of knowledge in him which the people cannot see a Prometheus that is Providence is his brother by the meanes of his knowledge and providence the Kingdome is supported and his gardens are filled with golden apples that is his treasures with mony 7. He deserves not to be called a man but a monster who wil not be hospitable for homo ab humanitate and b Iupiter is the god of hospitality who punisheth the violation of it 8. As Perseus the son of Iupiter sought lodging from Atlas but could have none and therfore turned him into a senselesse hill So Christ the Son of God knocks at the doors of our hearts whom if wee refuse to let in wee shew our selves to bee more senselesse and stupid then hill Atlas Go too my soul thy doors unlock Behold the Son of God doth knock And offers to come in O suffer not to go from hence So great a God so just a Prince That were a grievous sin Refuse not then to intertain So great a guest who would so fain Come lodge and sup with thee If thou refuse he can command The Gorgon which is in his hand Thy soul to terrifie His word the Gorgon is which can Turn unto senslesse stones that man Whose gates will not display Themselves to him who still intreats To come unto our Cabinets And yet wee 'll not give way O Lord whose word doth me sustain And all that 's in the earth and main And in the painted skies Let me those goodly fruits of gold Which in thy gardens shine behold With these my feeble eyes Lord give the King a lasting name And strength that he may bear the frame Of this great Monarchy From whom if Prudence do not part Nor light of Knowledge from his heart Wee 'll fear no Anarchy Make thou his golden splendor shine As far as did King Atlas Mine To earths remotest bound And let his head ascend as high As Atlas did above the sky With light and glory crown'd AURORA THe daughter of Hiperion and Thia or as others write of Titan and the Earth the sister of Sol and Luna drawne in a chariot sometimes with four horses sometimes with two only she useth to leave her husband Tithonus with her son Memnon abed in Delos shee made old Tithonus young againe by means of herbs and physick THE MYSTERIES AUrora is the daughter of Hiperion which signifieth to go above for it is from above that we have the light of the a Sun and every other good thing even from the Father of lights her mother is Thia for it is by divine gift we enjoy light and nothing doth more lively represent the Divinity then the light as Dionys. Areopagit sheweth at large she is the daughter of Titan that is the Sun who is the fountain of light and of the earth because the light of the morning seemes to arise out of the earth The leaving of her husband abed with her son is only to shew that all parts of the earth doe not enjoy the morning at one time but when it is morning with us it is evening with those of the remotest Eastcountries from us whom she leaves abed when she riseth on us and leaves us abed when she riseth on them for all parts are East and West and all people may be called her husbands and sons for shee loves all and shines on all and by her absence leaves them all abed by turns Her chariot signifieth her motion the purple and rose colour do paint out the colours that we see in the morning in the aire caused by the light and vapors Shee hath sometime two sometimes four horses because she riseth somtime slower sometime sooner The making of old Tithonus young with physick may shew that the physicall simples which come from the Eastern countryes are powerfull for the preserving of health and vigour in the body Again faire Aurora leaving old Tithon abed doth shew that beautifull young women delight not in an old mans bed or by this may be signified a vertuous woman whom Salomon describes who riseth whilst it is night is clothed with scarlet and purple who doth her husband good c. a Last our Saviour is the true Aurora who was in love with mankind whom he hath healed from al infirmities and hath bestow'd on him a lasting life which knoweth not old-age his light from the chariot of his word drawen by the foure Evangelists shineth over all the world As fair Aurora from old Tithons bed Flyes out with painted wings and them doth spred Upon the firmament So from the heavens golden Cabinet Out flyes a morning all with Roses set Of graces redolent Whose presence did revive the hearts of those Whom night of sin and errour did inclose Within her darkest Cell This morning on a purple Chariot rides Drawn by four milk-white Steeds the reins he guides In spight of death and hell Christ is this morning who triumphantly On the bright Chariot of his Word doth flye The four white horses are The four Evangelists whose light doth run As swift as doth Aurora or the Sun Or Moon or any Star It s he that Eagle-like our youth renews And in us all infirmities subdues It s he whose radiant wings Displaid abroad hath chas'd away the night And usher'd in the day which mentall light And true contentment brings O thou whose face doth guild the Canopy Which doth infold fire air and earth and sea Extend thy glorious rayes On me Oh let me see that countenance Which may dispell the night of ignorance So shall I sing thy praise CHAP. II. B BACCHUS HEe was the sonne of Iupiter and Semele who was saved out of his mothers ashes after that Iupiter had burnt her with his thunder and was preserved alive in Iupiters thigh he was bred in Aegypt and nursed by the Hyades and Nymphs he subdued the Indians and other nations was the first who wore a Diadem and triumphed and found out the

this pilgrimage When wilt thou ope this fleshly cage This prison and this house of clay That hence my soul may fly away Untye the chains with which so fast I 'm bound and make me free at last And draw aside this Canopie Which keeps me from the sight of thee Lord let me first see thee by grace Here then hereafter face to face ENDYMEON HE was a fair shepherd who falling in love with Iuno who was presented to him in the forme of a cloud was thrust down from heaven into a cave where he slept 30 years with whom the Moon being in love came down oftentimes to visit and kisse him THE MYSTERIES IT is thought that Endymeon being an Astronomer and one that first observed the divers motions of the Moon gave occasion to this fiction that the Moon loved him but I think these uses may be made of this fiction 1. Endymeon is a rich man and riches make men fair though never so deformed and with such the Moon that is the world as unconstant as the Moon is in love these are the men whom the world kisses and honoreth but when these rich Endymeons set their affections upon wealth for Iuno is the goddesse of wealth then do they lose heaven and fall into the sleep of securitie saying Soul take thy rest thou hast store layd up for many years with that rich farmer in the Gospell and so they lose their souls for a shadow for such is wealth and this shadow brings upon them spirituall stupiditie they that cannot be roused from their cave though Gods word should shine on them as cleer as the Moon 2. By Endymeon Adam may be meant who was fair whilst Gods image continued with him but when he fell in love with Iuno Iupiters wife that is affected equalitie with his maker he was thrust out of Paradise into this world as unto a cave where he was cast into a dead sleep or the sleep of death from which he shall not be awaked though the Moon so often visit him that is so long as the Moon shall shine and visit the earth which shall be till the dissolution of all things man shall sleep in the grave 3. By Endymeon may be meant these over whom the Moon hath dominion for Astrologers observe that every man is subject to one Planet or other more or lesse such men then over whom the Moon ruleth are instable subject to many changes nimble bodied quick in apprehension desirous of glory and such a one perhaps was Endymeon therefore the Moon was sayd to love them and such because they affect hohour and popular applause which is but air may be sayd to be in love with Iuno which is the air and indeed honour is but air or a cloud 4. Every man may be called Endymeon for we are all in love with air and emptie clouds with toyes and vanities which makes us so sleepie and dull in heavenly things and the Moon is in love with us changes and inconstancie still accompanie mans life to signifie which instabilitie of human affaires the feast of new Moons was kept among the Iews and the Roman Nobilitie used to weare little pictures of the Moon on their shooes to shew that we are never in one stay for which cause I thinke the Turks have the half Moon for their Armes 5. When Endymeon that is mankinde slept in sin the Moon that is our Saviour Christ whose flesh is compared to the Moon a by S. Augustin as his divinitie to the Sun in his flesh visited us and dwelt amongst us this Moon was eclipsed in the passion and this Moon slept in the cave with Adam and the full of this Moon was seen in the resurrection this is he who hath kissed us with the kisses of his mouth whose love is better then wine whose light shined in darknesse and the darknesse comprehended it not 6. The Moon fals in love with sleepie Endymeons that is carnall and sensuall pleasures and earthly thoughts invade those that give themselves to idlenesse securitie and lazinesse for the Moon in regard of her vicinitie to the earth may be the Symboll of earthly mindes and because she is the mistris of the night and of darknesse the time when carnall delights are most exercised she may be the Symboll of such delights and because of her often changing she may represent to us the nature of fooles which delight in idlenesse as the Moon did in Endymeon 7. Endymeon in this may signifie the Sun with whom the Moon is in love rejoycing and as it were laughing in her full light when she hath the whole veiw of him and every month running to him and overtaking him whose motion is slow and therefore he seems to sleep in regard of her velocitie What means the Moon to dote so much upon The fair Endymeon Or why should man forsake his Soveraign good To catch an empty cloud From heaven shall any man for riches fall And lose his soul and all How can we sleep in such security As that we cannot see Our dangers nor that lamp whose silver ray Drives black-fac'd night away What madnesse is 't for thee to lose thy share Of heaven for bubling air Of honour or of popular applause Which doth but envie cause And which is nothing but an empty winde That cannot fill the minde How changable is man in all his wayes Now grows anon decayes Now cleere then dark now hates anon affects Still changing his aspects Much like the Moon who runs a wandring race And still doth change her face But Lord give me strait paths and grant to me The gift of constancie And quench in me I pray the sinfull fire Of lust and vain desire Be thou the onely object of my soul And free me from the hole Of ignorance and dead security O when shall I once see The never fading lustre of thy light To chace away my night The golden beauty of thy countenance To clear my conscience O Lord thou cam'st to rouze Endymeon Out of his dungeon Wrapp'd in the black vail of Chimerian night Who could not see the light Of Moon or Star untill thou didst display Thy all-victorious ray Brighter then is fair Phoebe's glitt'ring face Which is the nights chief grace Whose silver light as sometimes it does wain And then it primes again So was thy flesh eclipsed from it's light By Pluto's horrid night And muffled for a while from that bright eye Of thy Divinity But when black deaths interposition Was overcome and gone The silver orb of thy humanity Did shine more gloriously Then when the white-fac'd empresse of the night Shines by her brothers light O rouze me from my drousinesse that I May see thy radient eye Which pierceth all hearts with its golden beams From which such glory streams That all the winged Legions admire Lord warm me with thy fire And stamp the favour of thy lips on mine Whose love exceeds new wine Then will I sing uncessantly thy praise And to