Truth supply And if nought else a Calumny will bear At least lay Luxury unto their share Rail and out-face them but what e're befalls Name not the Riots of our Cardinals Nor e're the Lazy Gluttony reveal With which our stupid Monasteries swell Thoughtful and dull according to his use Stood Bavius proling for his barren Muse Hoording what others prodigally spend When mention of the Clergy did his silence end And thus he rav'd that Task my Mind doth fit My Foes shall feel the lashes of my Wit. A Phlegmatick dull Gown-man is a Theam Doth Rage and Malice o're my Fancy stream Uneasie at the sight o' th' loathed brood Their Coat I hare as Elephants do Blood. 'T is true l once 't is an unwelcome thought But what their odious Race hath dearly bought Such is the fate of Poets press'd with want Did seek among their Train my Seâ—t to plant And would you think the Gourmands the request would grant I that among the Stars my Head did place Familiar grew with Gods and all the God-like Race And scorned down-ward on the Crowd to gaze Did op'e the Graves of all before me tear Insulted over each Inferior Could no Superior nor an Equal bear Curse on my rigid Fate at last that I By the dull Clergy should affronted be That breath'd and grasp'd at Immortality No Reverence paid to my exalted Name No deep Attention to my Trump of Fame That they my Life should into question call Rip up my Morals my Employment gall Till I below th' Contempt of those I scorn'd did fall Deeply the Wound doth bleed nor can be cur'd Till I 've return'd the Wrongs I have indur'd Let Conscience Honesty Religion go Rather then not be ' avenged of my Foe I 'l call them Smell feasts that attend for fare I that like Flies to ' every Board repair And vex the weary Thresholds find them there The Sense of Vultures is but dull to mine At farthest distance I know where they dine I 've rob'd them of their Fame and if I cou'd Such is my hate I would substract their Food Nor shall their Marriage scape it is a state That I for Reasons too well known do hate I have been bit that which experience knows Is the best Satyr and can best expose I 'll tax their Constancy and say 't is gain Not Conscience their buoy'd Spirits doth sustain And he that bids the highest sways the Train Tho' we to our Confusion have found Not all our Arts or force could make them quit their Ground Truth is a narrow bound the daring Mind Doth hidden Coasts and unknown Regions find New Rarities do in Impostures ly Affect the Mind and chear the drooping Eye 'T is tiresome still to walk i' th' road of Verity What is most fit not what 's most true I 'll use The only way of bashfulness I choose And naked Truth will modestly refuse Much more Advice was ready to be spoke And Bavius more of his Design had broke When one with great surprize brought the report Of an unusual Joy in the Atlantian Court Imperfect Rumours all about did fly Some did affirm what others did decry Some with design to ' amuse did falshood tell And some even Truth did into falshood swell But that which list'ning Bavius most did chill Was th' News that every Tongue and Ear did fill Of an old Law was reinforc'd of late By Plato made for the Atlantian State By which that Coast must never Poets hide But severe Mulcts and Sanctions do provide None of the chiming Tribe do there abide Various the Rumours as the Men nor coo'd By th' wisest Heads the Truth be understood Till a swift Courier brought into the Court With low Obeisance thus made his Report Last Night while the devout Atlantians pray'd And high Devotions at their Altars pay'd With earnest and redoubled Crys implor'd The mighty Aid of their Indulgent Lord An unknown Musick ravish'd every Ear Inspir'd bless'd Joy and did dispell all Fear No Mists could stay when th' Sun of Righteousness was near Each Note tun'd up the Soul calcin'd the Mind Commenc'd them something more than humane kind Their very Bodies into Souls refin'd Not quite in Heaven yet then the Earth more high Above the Earth and but below the Sky Half Men half Saints 'twixt Heaven and Earth they try The very Line 'twixt Men and Immortality Scarce more exalted Joy doth Saints possess When they by Angels borne to Heaven do press Ravish'd with Halelujahs so they ly Embalm'd in Bliss and swallow'd up in Joy. Long was the Rapture till their wondring Eyes Saw a new glorious Light adorn the Skies As thô among the shades another Sun would rise But greater was the Light more bright the Rays Than ever yet adorn'd the best of Days Since the World did her head above the Chaos raise Did other common Days as far exceed As the first Infant-Light the Chaos did Till opening Heaven her strict embraces loos'd And the vast Treasure to the World disclos'd A numerous Host their Banners did display Myriads of Angels deck'd the sparkling way Each brighter than the Sun who blushing fled And in the briny Depths did hide his head Such lustre their united Rays display'd You 'd think the Earth a part of Heaven was made Glorious the Rays but so benign and kind While other common ones do onely blind They fill the Eyes with wonder and with Joy the Mind Before them all but brighter far than they From which each did reflect his borrow'd Ray And with veil'd Faces did low Adoration pay An heavenly Form appear'd in whom there strove A mixed War of Majesty and Love In whose pure Essence wonders do intwine Finite and Infinite in one do join Short Time and long Eternity combine His Body for he is to Earth ally'd The lower World and honour'd Mankinds Pride Pure as unmixed Light was glorifi'd Thro' which the brightness of the God head shone And all with Glory ' Ineffable did Crown Matter did not the Deity annoy Nor yet the Man the God-head did destroy Mercy and Pity grac'd his Look and Mind Tender and to Compassion inclin'd And his Embraces ever soft and kind Wide Arms to cherish and a list'ning Ear That bows to hear and grant a Wretches prayer With double Glory were his VVounds beset If Heaven degrees of Glory doth admit Wounds he did for his Enemies safety get Crowned Attendants did Obeysance pay Martyrs and Confessors led on the way And Robes of Glory did for future Conquerors stay When on a sudden e're the fixed Eye That view'd with Sacred earnestness the Sky Could move the glorious heavenly Guest drew nigh Mov'd not as Men that by gradation go But swift as Sun-beams thro' their progress flow He came and all the Court with Glory fill'd And balmy Ivy on every Soul instill'd No shades of Grief remain where Heaven doth gild But who can tell the Glorys of the Day What his Immaculate Spouses rich array How she did with redoubled glory shine Spotless without and Beauteous all within What zealous haste inspir'd her joyful feet When her beloved She went out to meet VVhat eager Love did sparkle in her Eye VVhat passionate Zeal what decent Majesty VVhat chast Embraces given and what return'd In equal flames how both the Lovers burn'd Tho' more of Majesty in him did dwell And she the more of tenderness did feel VVhat charming Talk the glorious meeting grac'd VVhat tender words and sighs for dangers past VVhat mutual Vows of everlasting Love What promise of Protection from Above How the great Brides-groom's glory thro' her shone Met like two joyned Stars that seem'd but one What a Seraphick Love all bosoms mov'd That savv the sight even Angels savv and lov'd How show'ring Joys did on Atlantis fall The Canopy of Heaven did shade it all In Blessings Heaven dissolv'd did it a Goshen call How a new Edict was proclaimed there That under Heaven's displeasure none should dare Against her setled endless Peace to vvar No Mortal the great Task can undertake It onely fits a Cherubim to speak Fly fly the fatal Land my Eyes beheld The mountains all with heavenly Armys fill'd Not greater the Judean Regions swell'd When the great Prophet open'd faithless eyes And shew'd th' Aethereal Guard against their Enemies Th' Advice was weighty but it was not took For malice cannot upon Concord look Nor can Ambition Peace and Quiet brook Restless for Rage and Envy 's such they stood While bless'd Atlantis guarded by a God Safe underneath his Wing made her aboad FINIS The Author living remote from the Press some few Errata's have pass'd in the Printing these Sheets but being most Literals the Reader is desir'd to mend them with his Pen. Hind and Panth. p. 5. p. 37. p. 37. p. 41. p. 43. p. 44. p. 44. p. 41. p. 53. p. 50. p. 6. p. 8. p. 6. p. 19. p. 20. p. 122. p. 134. p. 127. p. 127. p. 21. p. 86.
THE NEW ATLANTIS A POEM IN THREE BOOKS With some Reflections upon the HIND and the PANTHER Semper Ego Auditor tantum Printed for the Author 1687. To the Reader WHEN the Pamphlet of the Hind and the Panther came out under so celebrated a Name and was blown about by some interessed little Fellows I read it with as much eager desire as Curiosity could possibly create reasonably supposing the utmost could be said for the Cause of the Hind was there and if Troy was to be defended it would be by the Hand of such an Hero. But it cannot be imagined what a surprize I was in to find that all the seemingly dreadful Host prov'd no more than that ridiculous Army drawn up upon the Mountains which once made even Alexander stand but was afterwards with laughter found to be but Troops of Apes It was very surprising at first sight as Ostriches in the Desarts are said to be to the Caravans of Merchants appearing a far off like Horsemen yet are discern'd upon a nearer approach to be the most stupid and senceless of all Fowls Indeed for its bulk it imitated one of the mock Elephants Semiramis made use of in her Indian Expedition all Straw within and covered with Beasts Hides without The Author whatever he may otherwise have attain'd hath got sure little credit by it except he intended it religiously as a piece of mortification or politickly design'd to annex the Fame of a Prophet to that of a Poet by making out what he so long since foretold his fumbling Age of Poetry The Cause he pretends to vindicate he hath much revil'd by defending it so ill and it hath made not a few think he plaid booty or at least took his measures from that Graecian Orator and Politician who intending in a great danger to perswade his Countrymen to Arms made his Declamation for Peace but he brought such weak Arguments that according to his design they prov'd the greatest Incitements to a War. The Person that vindicates the Hind and the manner of it makes men naturally reflect upon the Religion of Ancient Rome whose chief Propagators and Defenders were their Poets This is sure whether the Religion of Antient and Modern Times differ or no the Policy and Discipline doth for the Ancient Romans never reserv'd their Velites to the last To the following Poem I shall say little such as it is you have it it is my comfort the Justice of my Cause supplies my Defects Yet I am bold to say that there is not the least part said against the Cause of the Hind of what might have been and was ready and even those things which are said are softned over and over many things left out in point of Prudence but many more out of good Manners I have been as cool and moderate as Truth would let me and if there remains any bitterness I had it from the Author of the Hind and Panther in his Preface and Poem of Religio Laici which indeed is a Confutation of his Hind and Panther before hand I have took no Poetical Licence in any of my Allegations they may abundantly be prov'd out of the Writings of the Hinds own Party So that there is this difference between the Task of my Adversary and me That what I assert is truth and ready proved to my hand and what my Adversary accuses the Panther of is perfect Invention and Calumny which he drudg'd hard for and therein I give him the better I have done as good Sportsmen do who will not destroy all the Game but reserve them for their future Recreation and Sport. THE NEW ATLANTIS THE FIRST PART WHEN Great Columbus a discovery made Of a New World in distant Climates spread Behind a Scene of Seas beneath a shade Unknown to Ages that did uselessly He half creates that doth a Coast descry The News with doubtful wonder was receiv'd Men list'ned out for what they scarce believ'd Would hear tho' at the cost of being deceiv'd But when each day did with new Wonders swell And fresh discoveries did the truth reveal Mens Minds did rove to each far distant shore I' th' widened World their Souls extended more Confin'd within too narrow bounds before Yet for so great Attempts Columbus found But some dark Stories an uncertain Ground Some scatter'd Papers of a Sea-man tost By chance or Tempest on an unknown Coast. Brave daring Soul and sharp judicious Eye That at such distance could new Worlds descry And from such Hints the great Attempt durst try To thee th' old World doth her chief Treasures owe Whether the new one is oblig'd or no 'T would be too daring hopes to pleasure two Thy great Example may brave Spirits bind The same desire of knowledge swells the Mind And Curiosity is unconfin'd News is as welcome and doth fly as fast As various too as 't did in Ages past Nature has left for each succeeding Age Something that may their warm pursuit engage Something yet undiscover'd that may be Reward to Art and Spur to Industry A new Discovery of a World is made Grounds of Belief more than Columbus had Ignoble Souls may sleep at home the brave And those that dare th' expected prize may have The yet concealed Treasures wide may ope And stretch their Conquests beyond bounds of hope In farthest Climes for so my Charts advise But where not known the New Atlantis lies The Pride of Earth and Favourite of the Skies Secure as India lyes the blessed Isle E're cursed Spaniard press'd the Virgin Soil And did th' unstained Earth with gore defile E're he with arrogant Rage insulting stood Trampling upon th' unpittied suppliant Crowd And Romes Foundation once more laid in Blood. Safe and untouch'd she prides in Native Joys Bless'd in her self doth foreign help despise Her self a World that World a Paradise Fruitfulness crowns her bosom Peace her head Elizean fields below and Heaven above is spread Sweetly she sleeps nor doth dread angry Fate She knows no fear and so she knows no hate Her Virgin Breast no Strangers Love admits At once deaf to their Courtship and their Threats Oft do they storm and oft do undermine Unwearied Valour do with cunning joyn Now show rank Malice now pretended Love But guarded by an unseen Power above Like her own Cliffs she doth the Seas command Fix'd as the Rocks on which the World doth stand Undaunted doth the dreadful Prospect take And smiles upon the Waves that on her Basis break Her Wondrous Situation's yet unknown Whether i' th' torrid or the temperate Zone Whether i' th' unknown Southern Coasts she 's laid Or i' th' Pacifick Sea her bosome 's spread Whether she be the floting Isle of old Or Solomon's Ophir whence he fetch'd his Gold Or whether she i' th' middle Regions lyes An Entercourse between the Earth and Skies Where some wild Heads do place the seat of Paradice Or whether she be situate in the Star That late appear'd in Cassiopeia's chair Few are the Charts
of the Mysterious Land Few the Discoveries of the Antick strand Some few blest Chance hath cast upon the shore Few with design the hidden Coast explore Rude stories of the Mystick Land are made No Sea-marks seen no guiding Isles are spread No certain Blasts or Trade-winds thither lead Wondrous the site more wondrous yet the Soil The Creatures Customs and the Fruits o th' Isle Strange as Chimaeras and surprizing more Than did the Rarities o th' Indian shore When first admiring Europe saw the store Strange as th' Earth did to new made Adam look Or Heaven to ' a Soul just into Glory took The fruitful Soil with living Palmes is set Which grow by storms flourish beneath the weight The more they are depress'd the more they rise And lift their labouring Branches to the Skies O'er which a Pelican yet bleeding flies She and her Brood in holy Incense flame Love and are lov'd and ever are the same A Love and tenderness that wants a Name A Warlike Off-spring fills the Region round For Loyal Courage and Devotion crown'd No need that Cadmus Serpents teeth should sow For armed men in every Furrow grow Her Off-springs bosoms her defence do boast Not Citadels and Forts or foreign Host Even wooden Castles do secure her Coast Her sailing Ships the Oceans Breast do plow And fruitful Harvests from the Labour grow Each swelling Tyde the vast increase doth show A fairer Prospect than the watry Field Spread with Sargossa to the Eye doth yield When flowry Plants thick set bedeck the Main And the deluded Eye believ 't a Plain Perpetual Light doth o'er her borders shine Not borrow'd but Aethereal and Divine While other Nations grope in shades of Night This Blessed Goshen ever hath a Light. Wonders and Rarities the Land do bless Her Truths out-do the fabulous Lyes of Greece Without are golden Mines within the Golden Fleece Here if the Annals of the Place be true Which faithful Eyes with Care did lately view Down the dark Roads of long Antiquity Even from Times Cradle and first Infancy While other Nations under Rubbish lay No leading Clue to guide the untrack'd way Successive Kings this glorious Realm did sway A God-like Race whose Line extends so high They seem the Partners of Eternity And as the Sons of God an heavenly Line Once with mens Daughters did in marriage Joine And so a Warlike Valiant Issue made That o'er the World with boundless Empire sway'd The true Heroick stamp i' th' Composition laid So these to Neighbour Earthly Kings ally'd As Heathen Gods oft chose a Mortal Bride Begot a Race in ancient Ages known Gigantick Heroes Men of high Renown The Pride of Earth and Heaven i' th' mixture thrown Thro' Times Abyss th' uninterrupted Line With sparkling Steps and Characters doth shine Brighter in every Age the lustre grows Accession of new Rays new Light compose So when the Sun breaks from th' Abyss of Night Each moment gives a more resplendent Light Brighter and brighter still the shades do clear Till the Sun 's beauteous Chariot doth appear Each nearer Age new growth of Fame doth get Until in one Time's dispers'd Wonders met Do crown that Glorious Prince now fills the Throne As Stars united make a Constellation So spacious Nile whose secret Head 's unknown Lost in vast Lakes or Mountains of the Moon Great in his Extract yet doth greater grow By Tributary Screams that to him flow As by vast Realms his fruitful Waters glide The humbler Rivers all with comely pride Mix with his mighty waves and in the same Do willingly lose their ignoble name Till swell'd too great for his vast Banks to hold With new supplies grown vigorous and hold O're the wide Land his rowling Waves are tost Which with Prolifick heat inrich the barren Coast. Nor came the Glorys of his Line alone Him do all the united Virtues crown E're scatter'd did his Mighty Predecessors own One fam'd for Arts of Peace and this for War Valour did this and Justice that prefer A single Virtue could a Monarch's Glory rear All things below an Infinite are poor And despicable is confined store Compar'd to him alas how low they fall They 'r priz'd for single Vertues He for all So the weak scatter'd Rays of doubtful Light While o'er the Chaos hung black shades of Night Mix'd with the Mass onely th' Abyss could show As Lightning makes the Night more dreadful grow Till rallying their united Rayes in one The distant parts into one Center run Did make that glorious Light we call the Sun. Beneath this mighty Monarch's Princely shade The greatest Trust that e're on Man was laid An high-born Native Princess safely lyes Caesar is her Defender Heaven is His. Humbly on Earth she makes her low aboad Heaven is her Right there married to a God Pure is her Mind and Beauteous is her Face Her look bespeaks an high Aethereal Race Ancient yet Youth and Beauty still i' th' Prime As Seraphims that know not the decays of Time. A charming Modesty dwells in her Eye Eternal Truth from her blest Lips doth fly And her extended Arms shew boundless Charity Plain and yet rich her comely Garments flow Rich in Intrinsick value not in show Grave and severe as modest Matrons use Not such as Strumpets to their Lust abuse No tawdry Gallantry th' effects of Pride Affected Garbs and Motions set aside No Paint nor Patches which lost Beauty hide Order and Symmetry each part doth show No Spots upon her Milk-white Face do grow Onely what bold-fac'd Lyes and Envy throw Lies that even Greece out-do whose fruitful Brain The Beauteous Heaven with monstrous Shapes did stain And fill'd with Beasts and Snakes th' Aethereal Plain Unshaken Loyalty her Breast doth fill No Jealousies can move 't nor Injury kill Reviled and contemned yet She 's true And Vertue doth for Vertues sake pursue Rewards mean Souls may unto Actions train They 'r truely generous that great Deeds maintain No prospect laid of Interest and Gain When Rebels force at Majesty did aim And spurious Blood Inheritance did claim With Loyal Rage and Fury up She rose Expos'd her beauteous Bosom to her Foes Beauteous as Truth She rose whose awful sight Dispels the Mists of Error Shades and Night And makes the Fiends betake themselves to flight Powerful as Heaven she rose when all around The Orbs with Martial Noises did rebound And th' Musick of the Sphears no more did sound When hostile Troops thro' frighted Sphears did haste And th' road to Heavens high Empyraeum past When Michael o'er the conquer'd Rebels stood And Lucifer and all his Train sunk in the fiery flood Alone she rose no friendly help was nigh Alone she did the doubtful Battel try And bore the Wounds were struck at Majesty Her Martial Sons stop'd Hells impetuous Course And her devout ones took even Heaven by force Brought humane help and heavenly Aid call'd down Dispell'd the Foe and doubly fix'd the Crown Loyalty is her Essence Truth her Soul Fix'd as
Remove Implicit Faith the Structure all falls down Beauteous far off her gawdy Pageants seem For ostentation made and vile esteem Rich at a distance they their Plumes display But to near Eyes their Poverty betray Onely with Paint with Gilt and Varnish gay Distance her Friend that Lies and Cheats doth vent Can wild Impostures with Advantage paint But seldom Truth doth fairly represent Doth various Objects in one Mass confound As all things at a distance do seem round Deformity and wrinkles doth make fair And shows things as they seem not as they are Ancient she 's granted but like Ovid's Dame That endless Life o' th' lustful God did claim But lasting Youth forgot t' insert too late Tir'd with old Age bewayl'd her luckless Fate She doth no blessing of old Age retain The Inconveniencies alone remain Dotage the Vice of ancient years delights In trifling Follies and in childish sights In outside Pomp and empty Pageantry In Paint and Varnish that attract the Eye Credulity each open Cheat doth own And greedily Impostures doth drink down Listens to ' each Fabulous Legend every story Of Relicks Exorcisms and Purgatory Of Fairy Elves and Goblins wakeful Sprights That rouze the drowsie Monks to Beads at Nights Of Beasts converted at an Abbot's Prayer And holy Nunns appearing in the Air Of Virgins Milk and still renewing blood Wonder 's o' th' Mass and of the sacred Rood Of Images that speak lament and weep Of Wounds by Angels given to Saints asleep Of Prophesies and Works of th' holy Maid And all the Tricks were e're on Jetzer plaid The wildest Ravings are by her receiv'd And she 'd have all she doth invent believ'd Laugh'd at and scorn'd she doth her thread pursue For Old Age to Tautology is true Baffled contemn'd a bold Face doth put on And tires with Nauseous Repetition Forsook of Native Beauty she by Art By Paint and Dress a forc'd one doth impart Doth loudly brag of what she long hath lost And doth of Fame in former Ages boast Her self to others Beauty but a foile She what she cannot equal doth defile As old-cast Beauties young ones do revile Reason and Sence with Laughter she forsakes And what she doth not own from others takes The fate of Age she robbed of her sight Perswades the rest o' th' World to love the Night Blindfolds the stumbling Crowds and then replies The way to see is to put out their Eyes The holy Precepts of her early Youth And shining Tracts and Paths of Sacred Truth Untrod in long successive Times are grown The Seats of Monsters and of Desolation Forgot for such Misfortunes Age doth own Or mix'd with Childish Rites debas'd they 'r grown Th' Extreames of Age and Childhood met in one Yet much of Truth beneath the Rubbish lies And real Worth beneath the Fopperies Could she her Silver from her Dross refine The rust of Age and worldly Taint decline How glorious would the polish'd Diamond shine Too good for Hell and yet too base for Glory Not purely Truth and yet not all a Story A mixt Religion fitting Purgatory Beside these two to neither yet ally'd Not real Friends or Foes to either side But who do by success of each their Actions guide A mungrel Race doth dwell such Africk sees When the mix'd Herd from burning Deserts flies To cool their Thirst at shady Fountains grown From a Promiscuous Copulation From different mixtures different Natures rise A double heart a changeable disguise Now they the Wolfe and now the Boar put on And now the cunning of the Fox is shown The true Samaritans who when the Fame Of Sion did exalt Judaea's Name Did kindred claim did i' th' Alliance pride But when her Glory found an ebbing tide Did with th' invading conquering Heathen side Discord their various Nature doth put on As mixtures make a Fermentation Restless they move their own and others curse Cadmaean race that endless quarrels nurse Ignorant of their Extraction all they hate With the same Fury Friends and Foes do bait With bloody Rage their Brethren they pursue And in their Parents blood their hands imbrue So Janizaries do unnatural grow To their own Parents the most mischief do So the Lycisca is the Wolfs worst Foe These and a numerous Spawn of lesser fame To which Heavens Nomenclator ne're gave name Beneath great Caesar's Princely shadow stood Caesar renown'd beneficent and good All do the common good his Favour share Fenc'd by his Word and bulwark'd by his Care As Insects in the Sun-beams sing and play And obscene Beasts are bred from Phoebus golden Ray. Beasts have Heavens general Protection Enjoy the common use of Light and Sun But Men and Angels are admitted near his Throne The Native Princess in her genuine right Envying none but ravish'd in delight In Joyes not to be blasted by malicious sight From Rapine free ignorant of Martial Art Was ever upon the Defensive part The Foreign Princess with an envious Eye Bless'd Canaan view'd and fain would Battel try But Caesar had forbad Hostility From open violence barr'd by great command She kept the Peace but yet with Arms in Hand So doth the hungry Wolf behold his Prey Bounds and with eager haste devours the way But th' Lion seen makes an astonish'd stay Summons her Troops hoping e're long she might Have some pretence to ease her ranker'd spight That Time which she had by Experience known To have remov'd her own Foundation Her Enemies Forts might undermine or batter down At least she hop'd when open force did fail To win by fraud what she durst not assail They all approach and yet unseen draw nigh Invisible to every common Eye Till mystick Charms and many a secret rite Hath clear'd the scales and purifi'd the sight Now deep in shades below the Moles do lurk In secret Caves forge out the destin'd work So low they by the Counsel may be led If of no other Beings yet o' th' dead Sometimes they 'r hid beneath a specious Flow'r And while they do attract the Snakes devour With gawdy looks and pleasing baits betray And dart from far upon the cheated prey From secret Holts and Cells the Javelins fly Ignobly still in Ambushments they ly And dare not bravely face the Enemy Behind they stab or else surprize i' th' Night For as Truth loves so falshood hates the Light. Strange and amazing is their Form and Mien Their Orders Rites Habits and Discipline 'T was thought an host of wild Barbarians rose Purposely horrid to affright their Foes Or that Cambyses brought his shatter'd Host Pick'd stragling up from every distant Coast And from a thousand Realms and Lands ingrost Or Hannibal's confused Troops were come Of various hues and shapes to change the doom Not to demolish but to set up Rome Some from their various Mimick actions thought They were a Race of Apes and Monkeys got As once the Spaniards did the Indians blot Some thought that conquer'd India sent her store And by oppressive Spain of Treasure
poor Ransack'd the Andes and Vales had rob'd each Coast And from the different Monsters made the Host Sent each dire Savage that e're wildly ran Twixt farthest Northern Frith and Straights of Megallan Some thin and meager upon Air do dine Others full fed like the plump God of Wine Some in deep Cells horrid and meager grow Like luckless Daemons of the Mines below Whose dire appearance doth the damp foreshow Some like the God of Youth are fresh and gay Dance in the Sun beams frolick all the Day And their swell'd necks and pamper'd sides display So wide their Lives distant their Looks do show They seem besides themselves to need no Foe Hard Fate no shelter from their Fury's found That walk in mists and burrow under ground No Shibboleth their Treachery can defeat That have their Salvo to Equivocate Nor Spies from those the Avenues can keep That in such various Names and Shapes do creep The World before ne're such an Empire saw Or to the Field did such an Army draw That claims a Right to every Prince's State And Monarch's can depose or can create With secret Chains their Subjects Conscience binds And lays inchanted Fetters on their Minds A Monarchs Throne can without fighting shake By private scrues the firm foundation break As hidden Vapors do the Earthquakes make Grows rich yet without watching care or pain Fights yet with Hosts that others do maintain Makes Paper shields and Pens the Sword controul And makes Geese once more save the Capitol Amply rewards yet doth not poorer grow For others Wealth who freely won't bestow Unwearied Bees who from each flower do drain From others Follies from their Sins do gain And Honey from each poysonous Simple strain Numerous from far the growing Troops appear And where the Sight is terminated there Still swelling numbers rise so could we see The Cave whence th' race of Infant Time doth fly The Scheme of Hatching Days how all along The endless Off-spring to the Birth-place throng Unlike in Colour Habit Face and Miene Monstrous and strange that little seem a kin Some days would foul appear with Clouds o'recast Some smiling fair the storms all overpast Some with Misfortunes chequer'd o're and some A monstrous Mass of all deform'd would come Such Troops but more alike doth Africk breed When Caterpillers do the Ground o'respread And upon every thing that 's green do feed With unrestrained Fury all devour And Desert leave what was a Paradice before Dreadful their Numbers nor less resolute Prompt to Obedience swift to execute Desperate in all Attempts devoid of fear They leap o're Rocks and through dread Tempests steer Out-do Romes Ancient Heroes who their Line Did sacrifice unto their Discipline Witness it the two Henries whose dear Life Fell Victims to their consecrated Knife Witness it the bless'd Souls late trampled down Doom'd by their Rage or their Ambition The foreign Princess over-look'd the show But something sullen sate upon her Brow. Whether hopes long defer'd had made her sick Or disappointments touch'd her to the quick Or that her presence aw'd and she did fear They'd not so freely speak if she was there Or that she with the long Fatigue was tir'd She call'd a Council and in state retir'd The summons soon were nois'd the Members met And th' heads of every Order in the Junto set The President such 't was his right to be When desperate Ills must desperate Counsels try His Order form'd t' uphold the tott'ring See Was writ in bloody Characters of Fame Yet had his Title from the holiest Name Fierce in his Look and savage in his Mind To Wars to Cruelty and Rage inclin'd With fiery Eye-balls on the Prey did look Vented his Spleen and thus the silence broke THE NEW ATLANTIS THE SECOND PART OUR Golden Age and happy Times are gone When undisputed All our Power did own And suppliant Monarchs at our feet fell down When flowing Tides of Wealth came rowling in The sale of Vice and easie price of Sin. When blindfold Ignorance did Devotion give The less men knew the more they did believe The Blind and Credulous will all receive When Croisades for an holy War did come And Princes in far distant Coasts did roam While our Great Queen usurp'd upon their Rights at home When every one on what She said rely'd Clos'd up her Eyes and took her for their guide Nor sneering Heretick the Consequence deny'd When with full Power the World did her invest Implicitely subscribing to her Test That She alone is Christ's Immaculate Bride Harlots and Sorceresses all beside That her Communion all th' Elect doth hold Heaven though 't is Infinite confined to her fold That the Sun rises onely in the West Forgets his Bridal Chamber in the East And black Damnation shades o'er all the rest That she doth hold Eternal Truth alone And what she doth is Truth because by her 't is done That she the powerful Keys of Heaven doth hold The Wards unchang'd and what she hath inroll'd In Books below in those above are writ And Heaven to ' her grant of Saintship doth submit And whom by fatal Sentence she doth doom Heaven must exclude and Hell for them make room That th' charge of Souls is Hers and therefore she Hath over all a boundless Sovereignty As great Precedence over earthly Kings As have Immortal over Mortal things And since the End the Mediums must command And Heaven the Butt of all our Aims must stand She the great Guide of the Eternal state Must act must alter counsel and debate All things Supream and all Subordinate May plant root out establish and depose May alter and dispence may bind and loose All that may fix the Churches sure defence At least all that may merit that pretence That all that her unbridled Power withstand Are stigmatiz'd with an Heretick Brand Not Cain's for safety but a mark for Death Happy the Saint that can the blow bequeath That all the World by Conscience bound must bring Their help to ' extirpate th' accursed thing To stab the hated Race and to root out With Fire and Sword the Pestilential Rout. These the Precarious grounds are we have laid And th' Superstructure's equal to them made Our claim of heavenly right the ground of all With which the gawdy Edifice will fall Is prov'd or wholly forg'd or much debas'd And in the Room a Prior Title 's plac'd Our shatter'd Evidence our Foes deride Expose the blots and falshoods we would hide And bring Authentick Witness on their side Our narrow Thoughts of Heaven experience finds The fault of purblind Eyes and narrow Minds To whom as t' men in Vales it doth befall They see some part of Heaven and think 't is all Heavens Mercy and his Goodness these restore The Priviledge we had rob'd him of before Our claim to ' Infallibility they laughing own As they do Constantine's Donation Show the Eccentrick Dances it hath mov'd The various Epicycles thro' which 't hath rov'd How it hath