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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

thoughts aspiring to eternall fame Ed. Spencer In friendship soueraigne 't is as Mithridate Thy friend to loue as one whom thou maist hate M. of M. Ne certes can that friendship long endure How euer gay and goodly be the style That doth ill cause or euill end endure For vertue is the band which bindeth hearts most sure Ed. Spencer Enmitie that of no ill proceeds But of occasion with the occasion ends And friendship which a faint affection breeds Without regard of good lies like ill grounded seed Ed. Spencer With vertue chuse thy friend with vertue him retaine Let vertue be the ground so shall it not be vaine S. Th. VViat Try frends by touch a feeble frēd may proue thy strōgest foe Great Pompeys head to Caesars hand it was betraied so VV. VVarner In perfect friendship no suspect for two in one are all Communitie or doubling ioy or making griefe more small Idem The truest friendship in miserie is tride For then will none but faithfull friends abide G. Turberuile Right true it is and said full yore agoe Take heed of him that by the backe thee claweth For none is worse then is the friendly foe Though thee seeme good all things y t thee delighteth Yet know it well that in thy bosome creepeth For many a man such fiers oft times hee kindleth That with the blaze his beard himselfe he singeth E. of Surrey None can deeme right who faithfull friends do rest While they beare sway and rule in hie degree For then both fast and fained friends are prest Whose faiths seeme both of one effect to bee But then reuolts the first and fained guest When wealth vnwindes and fortune seemes to flie But he that loues indeed remaineth fast And loues and serues when life and all is past S. I. Harr. Transl Oft times we see in house of meane estate In fortunes bad and chances ouerthwart That men do sooner laie away debate And ioyne in sound accord with hand and hart Then Princes courts where riches genders hate And vile suspect that louing minds doth part Where charitie is cleane consumde and vanished And friendship firme is quite cast out and banished Idem Who so wants friends to backe what he begins In lands farre off gets not although he wins S. Daniell If fortune friendly fawne and lend thee wealthy store Thy frends conioined ioy doth make thy ioy the more If frowardly she frowne and driueth to distresse His aide releeues thy ruth and makes thy solace lesse S. Th. Wiat. They are not alwaies surest friends on whō we most do spend W. VVarner True friends haue feeling of each others wo And when ones hart is sad all theirs is so Ch. Middleion A golden treasure is the ●ried friend But who may gold from counterfeits defend Trust not to soone nor yet to soone mistrust With th' one thy selfe with th' other thy friend thou hurtst Who twines betwixt stears the goldē mean Nor rashly loueth nor mistrusts in vaine Mir. of M. Friends are geason now a daies And growe to fume before they taste the fier Aquersitie bereauing mans auailes They flie like feathers dallying in the winde They rise like bubbles in a stormy raine Swelling in words and flying faith and deeds D. Lodge Faint friends when they fall out most cruel foemen be Ed. Spencer Better a new friend then an old foe is said Idem Frugalitie He that will thriue must thinke no courses vile B. Iohnson No hurt but good who meanes to multiplie Bought wit is deare and drest with sower sauce Repentance comes too late and then say I Who spares the first and keepes the last vnspent Shall find that sparing yeelds a goodly rent G. Gascoigne Let first thine owne hand hold fast all that comes But let the other learne his letting flie Idem Furie Furie furiously mans life assailes With thousand cannons sooner felt then seene Where weakest strongest fraught with deadly teene Blind crooked blisterd melancholy sad Many-nam'd poyson minister of death Which from vs creepes but to vs gallopeth Foule trouble rest phantasticke greedy-gut Bloud sweating hearts-theefe wretched filthy-slut The childe of surfait and aires-temper vicious Perillous knowne but vnknowne most pernicious I. Syluister Furie cruell cursed wight That vnto Knighthood workes much shame and woe And that same hag his aged mother hight Occasion the roote of all wrath and dispight With her who so will raging Furie tame Must first begin and welther amenage First her restraine from her reproachfull blame And euill meanes with which she doth enrage Her franticke sonne and kindles his courage Then when she is withdrawne or strong withstood Is eath his Idle Furie to asswage And calme this tempest of his passion wood The bankes are ouerflowne when so sped is the flood Ed. Spencer Furie was red with rage his eyes did glowe While flakes of fier from forth his mouth did flowe His hands and armes y bath'd in bloud of those Whom fortune sinne or fate made countries foes T. Lodge This fell fury for forerunner sends Manie and phrenzie to subborne her frends Whereof the one drying th' other ouerwarming The feeble brain the edge of iudgement harming Within the soule phantastickly they faine A confus'd hoast of strange Chimeraes vaine I. Syluister Gifts T is wisedome to giue much a Gift preuailes When deepe perswading Oratorie failes Ch. Marlowe A giuing hand though foule shall haue faire praise S. Daniell The greatest Gifts whereof we boast Are those which do attempt and tire vs most T. Lodge Onely wisedome graue and iudgements cleere Gifts giu'n from heauen that are not common heere S. I. H. Transl Goods Gifts are often giuen to men past good G. Chapman Good Gifts abus'd to mans confusion turne Th. Dekkar Testators and Executors so giue and so receaue As doubtful whethers ioy or griefe is more to take or leaue For as do hogs their troghs to hoūds so these giue get place Death not the Dier giues bequests and therfore but graue grace W. Warner To loiter well deserued Gifts is not to giue but sell When to requite ingratitude were to do euill well Idem Gentlenesse The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne For a man by nothing is so well bewraide As by his maners in which plaine is showne Of what degree and what race he is growne Ed. Spencer Sweete gentlenesse is Bewties waiting maide Th. VVatson In gentle thoughts Relenting thoughts remorse and pittie rests Ch. Marlowe All like as Phoebus with his chearefull beames Doth freshly force the fragrant flowers to flourish So gentle rulers subiects loue do nourish I. H. Mir. of M. Like as the gentle heart it selfe bewraies In doing gentle deeds with francke delight Euen so the baser minde it selfe displaies In canckered malice and reuenge for spight W. Shakespeare O what an easie thing is' t to discrie The gentle bloud how euer it be wrapt In sad misfortunes foule deformitie And wretched sorrowes which haue often hapt For howsoeuer it may grow mishapt That to

daies in strife And as the heauens do that dispose So shuts and spreads he with the rose D. Lodge Time ouer old and yoong is still reuolued Within it selfe and neuer tasteth end But mankind is to nought for aye reserued The filthy snake her aged coat can mend And getting youth againe in youth doth flourish But vnto man age euer death doth send The very trees with grafting we can cherish So that we can long time produce their time But man which helpeth them helplesse must perish S. Phil. Sidney O trustlesse state of miserable men That build your blisse on hope of earthly thing And vainly thinke your selues halfe happie then When painted faces with smooth flattering Do fawne on you and your wide praises sing And when the courting masker louteth low Him free in heart and trustie too you know Ed. Spencer He that comparde mans body to a hoaste Said that the hands were scouts discouering harmes The feet were horsemen thundering on the coaste The brest and stomacke foe men huge in swarmes But for the head in soueraigntie did boast It captaine was directer of alarmes Whose rashnesse if it hazarded any ill Not he alone but all the hoast did spill I. Markeham Each creature not grudging at mans glorie Vnto his life becomes contributorie Idem Like flouds in sommer or flowing springs in the winter So man consumeth No trust or firmenesse in life that flies like a shadow What then alas is man That so presumeth D. Lodge The shadow of the clocke by motion wends We see it passe yet marke not when it parts So what is mans declines and sudden ends Each thing begins continues and conuerts Idem Man to woman giueth all perfection And as our chiefe Philosophers do say Woman by man is perfect made each way I. VVeeuer Man is loaden with ten thousand languors All other creatures only feele the angors Of fewe diseases as the gleaming quaile Only the falling sicknes doth assaile The turne-about and murraine trouble cattle Madnesse and quincie bid the mastife battle I. Siluester ●t doth exceed mans thought to thinke how hie God hath raisd man since God a man became The Angels do admire this mysterie And are astonisht when they view the same I. Dauies Men do not know what they themselues will bee When as more then themselues themselues they see S. Daniell ●ike as the fatall rauen that in his voyce ●arries the dreadfull summons of our deaths ●ies by the faire Arabian spiceries ●er pleasant gardens and delightfull parts ●eeming to curse them with his hoarse exclaimes ●nd yet doth stoupe with hungry violence ●pon a peece of hatefull carrion So wretched man displeas'd with those delights Would yeeld a quickning sauour to his soule Pursues with eager and vnstanched thirst The greedy longings of his loathsome flesh G. Peele Man is a little world and beares the face And picture of the vniuersitie All but resembleth God all but is glasse All but the picture of his maiestie Man is the little world so we him call The world the little God God the great all Th. Bastard The gallant courser in his full carrire Is made by man to stoppe with slender raine But man himselfe his lust and fond desire Is sildome drawne by reason to refraine T is hard to stop but harder to retire When youthfull course ensueth pleasure vaine As beares do breake the hiues and weake defences When smell of hony commeth to their sences S. I. H. Great Pompey in the midst of victorie All vnexpected happened to his end And Caesar in his greatest maiestie Vntimely murdered by his dearest friend Such are mens best estates more wretched they In greatest pompe most subiect to decay Ch. Midleton What doth make men without the parts of men Or in their manhoods lesse then children But manlesse natures all this world was namd'd A world of him for whom it first was framde Who like a tender cheuerell shrunke with fire Of base ambition and of selfe desire His armes into his shoulders crept for feare Bountie should vse them and fierce rape forbeare His legs into his greedy belly runne The charge of hospitalitie to shunne In him the world is to a lumpe reuerst That shrunke from forme that was by forme disperst And in nought more then thanklesse auarice Not rendring vertue her deserued price G. Chapman Like as rude Painters that contend to showe Beasts fowles or fish all artlesse to bestowe On euery side his natiue counterfet Aboue his head his name had need to set So men that will be men in more then fate As in their forheads should in actions place More perfect characters to proue they be No mockers of their first nobilitie Els may they easily passe for beasts or foules Soules praise our shapes and not our shapes our soules Idem When as men all do know then nothing know S. Daniell The milder passions doth show man For as the leafe doth bewtifie the tree The pleasant flowers bedeck the flourishing spring Euen so in men of greatest reach and power A mild and piteous thought augments renowne D. Lodge No man before his end is truly blest T. Dekkar Man to man as beast to beast holds ciuil duties vain W. Warner Mans inward parts are colder and the nummer When outwardly they feele a boyling sommer Mans voyce in euery ones opinion is but an airie repercussion D. Lodge Marriage Hymen that now is god of nuptiall rights And crownes with honor loue and his delights G. Chapman Before them on an altar he presented Both fire and water which was first inuented Since to ingenerate euery humane creature And euery other birth produc'st by nature Moysture and heate must mix so man and wife For humane race must ioyne in nuptiall life Idem In Athence The custome was that euery mayd did weare During her maydenhead a silken spheare About her waste aboue her inmost weed Knit with Mineruaes knot and that was freed By the faire bridegroome on the mariage night With many ceremonies of delight Idem Shouldst thou but dream what mariage is thou wouldst not liue a maid One hart of two two soules of one by wedlocke is conuaid VV. VVarner Beleeue me man there is no greater blisse Then is the quiet ioy of louing wife Which who so wants halfe of himselfe doth misse Friend without change play-fellow without strife Food without fulnesse counsaile without pride Is this sweet doubling of our single life S. Phil. Sidney In choyce of wife preferre the modest chaste Lillies are faire in shew but foule in smell The sweetest lookes by age are soone defaste Then choose thy wife by wit and louing well Who brings thee wealth and many faults withall Presents thee hony mixt with bitter gall D. Lodge Wild sauages that drinkes of running springs Thinkes water faire exceeds all other things But they that daily taste meate nere despi●e it Virginitie al be some highly prise it Compar'd with marriage had you tride them both Differs as much as wine and