This is the cause why Rome such paines doth take Her braine is lymbeck't for some queint deuice Her search doth diue into the Stygian lake Her broken strength she musters in a trice As flyes on sores or waters in a breach So are her troopes this Ile to ouer-reach AmoÌ„gst those lands which haue disclaim'd her power This land hath still maintain'd most worthy spirits Whose valour wisdom truth aloft did towre And challeng'd fame and glory for their merits As farre as Titan sends his lightsome rayes So farre the world resoundeth Englands praise How oft haue th' English curb'd the Spanish pride And vanquisht them in their owne seas and lands Who still did hope all Europe to diuide By colonies for Austria's line to stand But England onely hath them ouer-throwne And euer since their powre hath backward grown The Mid-earth sea the Indies East and West Haue seene and felt their prowesse and their force Their policie hath made them safely rest Within their bowres though Rome did them diuorce Though Spanish force and Romish curse agreed Yet England hath it selfe from bondage freed For since the Welsh all former hate did bury And loyall loue did vow to new made friends All Englands foes since that haue felt their fury And Wales like walls the English coast defends That now the Church and Vniuersities Do triumph dayly in these firme allies So now the English haue a new increase Of Northren friends in vallour like the rest So that all broyles of bordering warres must cease And now this I le may more aduance her crest What power so euer dares her Lions wake T is in their power a due reuenge to take Their bloud shall with the English bloud be matcht New bonds of loue shall cancell former hate They shall not now by fearfull eye be watcht All scorne shall dye the fuell of debate Like Gerion they shall their force vnite And loue with loue and faith with faith requite Thus from the world this once diuided I le Is now become a famous monarchie Though long it did it selfe with bloud defile Now is it crown'd with peacefull amitie Thus by the Lord of hoasts her stormes are calmed Thus are her wounds by his owne hand embaulmed Shal then earths wormes contend with heauens great king Shall flitting vagrants breake a setled peace Who for themselues a weake defence do bring Who see their Patrons power still to decrease Shall Rome declining to that height aspire To set a world within it selfe on fire Who cannot quench a flame so neere begun But yeeld to time and temporize for feare Shall others to her wayning power be wonne And on their necks this helplesse idoll beare Like to the Rocks whereon the waues do beat So are all those whom Romane curse doth threat The birds of th' aire and those caelestiall legions Which ouer vertuous Kings do alwayes houer These heare the speeches of the lower regions And to the highest will these wrongs discouer All power 's from heauen heauen will it defend And ill shall be to those that ill intend CHAP. 2. Inducement to vnitie WHen vapours moist and exhalations hotte Into the ayres mid regiment are hail'd The fierie fume cloud smoothered scornes his lott And breakes the prison where it was inthral'd Then ayery Cannons in such sort do thunder As if the firmament would cleaue a sunder So different humours on this earthly stage Send from their fantasies such store of vollies As if the world in his old wayward age Should make a rendz-vous of all his follies Yet their assaults the truth can no way scarre Nor fruitlesse passions reasons strenght can marre For Vnitie from heauen her selfe deriues And there her truest image doth remaine Who seekes her breach against himselfe doth striue And on his head his shafts returne againe Yet selfe-conceit strange paradoxes houlds As wandring Goates delight in change of foulds The first reason from the Trinity THe onely One distinct in persons three In glorious essence neuer is diuided Three Tapers light in one doe all agree And by this light th'elect to blisse are guided For mans dull thoughts heauens mysteries cannot see Except faiths windowes thence tralucent be Where quintessence of all perfections dwels How can there any difference arise Man blinde and fraile with sullen enuie swels His minde doth varie as his bodies guise Which is the cause that vnderneath the sunne There 's nothing soundly or in order done The generall Councels of the worlds great Clearkes Where publick good so fairely is pretended They are but pageants of some priuate querkes Where vice is masked and no fault amended The world growes weake and art must now sustaine What natures strength and vigor did maintaine When motions are on foote though neu'r so good And though propounders often merit praise Yet still by factions they are so with-stood That truth and right them-selues can hardly raise Some witts consent though somewhat they will adde Some witts triumph to make good causes bad But with Iehouah the true square of right The eye of truth the arme of strength and force Which sees all falshood in the darkest night And doth vprightly iudge without remorce How can their odds by any weaknesse be As man with man in strife too oft we see The second reason from the Heauens HEre is the perfect view of Vnitie To which the worthiest creatures do aspire The Heauens and Elements do mooue hereby Else to their Chaos they would soone retire If these should not their place and order keepe Men should not here on earth so soundly sleepe The circled motion of the spangled wheeles Which primum mobile about doth carry Proou's heau'ns great concord for ther 's none that reeles Out of his place or that maine course doth varie The changing Moone which earthly things presents Her course with other starres no whit preuents As maskers when they heare sweet Musick 's sound They tread their Measures by so perfect Art As if their bodies were by trauise bound Or that they were all guided by one heart So heau'ns great Orbs together runne their rings As they are charged by the King of Kings From th' Empyreall heau'n which doth imbrace The other heau'ns and all the elements All keepe true quarter teaching Adams race That they so leâ—rne to order their intents That lawfull concord they do neuer crosse Least ciuill discord bring a fatall losse The third reason from the Elements IF fire and water should their armies bring Into earths vallies they would all deuoure If ayre should from his triple station fling No creature could retaine his vitall power The earth would then her deluge plaints renew As once the borders Britaines strife did row The happiest gouernment they do obserue Which is the preseruation of the whole From this decree they neuer yet did swerue Since glistering starres carreer'd about the pole Twixt fire and water which are deadly foes The onely-wise
the ayre did interpose The earth and ayre true correspondence keepe The sunne is arbitrator twixt them both Some-times he lets the spongie clowds to weepe On earths drye face and then as being lothe To offer wrong from flouds and briny seas He paies that moisture which the ayre doth please The fourth reason from Man BVt if Man list not pierce into the skies To search the formall motion of the sphaeres Let Man but set himselfe before his eyes And hee shall see what gouernment he beares For great Iehouah gaue him comly feature And made him lord of euery liuing creature And as a King to counterpoise his cares Hath oft recourse from profit to delight So with this Monarch of the earth it fares Some creatures serue his tast and some his sight Some carry him into what coast he please And some are Phisick for his bodies ease This is the modell of the greater All Which like the eye it selfe cannot behold And though he tread vpon this earthly ball Yet is he grac't with beauties manifold For of a soule and body he is framed So that he is the Kingly creature named The soule of man a glimpse of heau'nly light Conueys it selfe to all the bodi 's members Yet it affoords a view and perfect sight Whereby man vnderstands foâ—esees remembers Whose swift discourse and motions are so strange That through the world this little world doth range And as a Captaine of besieged howlds Suruayes the Ports and weakenesse of the walls Then his aduice to others he vnfoulds And to the watch the Corps du gard hee calls So doth the soule preuent the bodies danger Least it should be surprised by a stranger Hereby he is Gods Viceroy here below O're whom heau'ns starry canopie is spread On whom by day the sunne doth light bestow Whom in the night the other starres haue lead Who holds all of the great Lord Paramont That he his praises daily may recounâ— None can recount his boundlesse regiment To whom no part of earth hath beene forbidden Whose body doth vnite each element And in the same a soule diuine is hidden Which so conioynes with th' elementall frame That Man th' vnited mirrour we may name If we shall view right reason at the length Which is a choice perfection of the soule Christianity will shew her powerfull strength And will obtaine praecedence in this rowle For with faiths hand we hould our mediator And as a toy neglect the worlds Theater So that the world is for his creatures made The creatures for man's body dayly serue The body is vnto the soule a shade The soule likewise true reason to preserue Right reason doth containe religious bounds Whose Anchor 's cast far from these earthly mounds This is the chaine which heau'n to earth doth linke The golden bracelet of mans greatest blisse Yet must not man of his weake merits thinke But of his grace which all sufficient is For Man is not thus happy by his fact But by Iehouah's onely free compact Thus is the earthly Church heau'ns dearest spouse Not by emissiue but attractiue beames This bounty great should our dull spirits rowse To make his praises be our onely theames Whose charge maintaines vs on this earthly globe And couers vs with his all-righteous robe O happy creature of so kinde a founder Whose power creat's whose prouidence maintaines Of thy great glory who shall be the sounder Poore man is weake to chaunt such lofty straines Let Angel's trumpets of thy glory ring Let heau'nly saints thine Aleluias sing Let earths low vallies her faint ecchoes lend And to this heau'nly quier make some report The harshest voice heau'ns artick will attend And with his grace mans weaknesse will support Nay he accepts the meaning for the deed And with supplies our drouping faith doth feed The disuniting practise of Sathan BVt as the highest doth th'elect vphould From sad dispaire by th' vnion of his sonne So Lucifer makes other rebels bould To run that course that Adam had begun For still he compasseth both seas and lands To ioyne one souldier to his trayterous bands As Pride was first the pro-scaene of his fall And of that crew which with him did conspire So now he vents his mallice and his gall Gainst man which hath a sparke of heau'nly fire For since he cannot wrong the strong of strongs He sâ—ares no seruant which to him belongs Yet doth he not professe hostilitie But on each folly sâ—ts a varnisht glosse By which poore man with all agilitie Doth eagerly pursue his greatest losse Hee takes aduantage of mens seuerall age That into dangers he may them ingage In prime of youth when heat of lust abounds He blowes the coales of selfe-consuming pleasures And afterward with auarice he drownes The vitall spirits with carke of worldly treasures Then late repentance time and death consent To end that life which was in folly spent Yet he suggest's lust but a youthfull trick And couetosnesse an honest thrifty care The Maecchiauillians to be pollitick And those most valiant which no sex do spare That to be cleanlinesse when in great pride Men robbe all creatures their true shapes to hide Hee 's first a slaue and prentise for some yeares A perfect humorist for all assayes At last he tyrant turnes and ouer-peeres All humaine comfort and himselfe displayes As Vsurers first get the bonds of heyres And then their lands and tenements are theirs But as the Salamander which doth liue In suites of law and quarrels with his betters Is soone discerned and the Iudge doth giue No place to him but with the fond barretters So is mans foe by th' highest iudge disclaimed And he is hurt which would haue others maimed Thus mans arch-enemy pursues with hate The breach of vnion with his Mediator Thus hath he euer striu'd to make debate Twixt th' earthly Monarch and his great Creator And alwayes where a vertuous concord failes This busie make-bate by his slights preuailes The body of Man BVt now to leaue Mans soule with his first maker Which by faiths conduct climes heau'ns battlements Where once inrowl'd it is with him partaker Farre from the danger of all sad euents Let Man but thinke of his weake bodies masse And he shall see true Vnions liuely glasse For though it be a prison to the soule A rotten barke such treasure to 〈◊〉 Yet this poore frame the best state doth controule In prudent care each member to maintaine The toe scarce feeles the gowte or any greefe But euery part doth feele and seeke reliefe The senses window's see and shunne the ill Which may insue and ayme at all things good The heart from beating neuer standeth still It sends the spirits where dead palsie stood The baser parts food to the maw doe bring Whence vnto them it flowes as from a spring The stomack like a Cooke each messe doth boyle And from the Port-vaine sends it to the liuer Then turn'd
Vnitie contend Let euery voice which mooues this westerne ayre Extroll his vertue which thus farre hath gone The Church of due regard shall not despaire Whilst He or His this throne shall sit vpon Then for my Iames shall warie wisedome plead Beyond those kings which th'infant Church did lead Now for his iustice shew'd in former rimes Amongst a people which were Eagle ey'd Which soone could see and iudge vnballanc't crimes If weight or measure euer were deni'd These free as ayre as yet could neuer say That spite or fauour did his iudgement sway His magnanimitie is daily seene In slight contempt of what the world admires Which prooues a mind which hath not tainted beene By vaine ambition which high fortunes fires Yet honour and all maiestie attends That mind which least these earthly toyes intends Who doth both fortunes equally esteeme Not rais'd by one nor ought depress'd by th' other In him th' affections conquer'd we may deem Which reasons strength with their great weight would smother No victorie with this may make compare This fight is single none with him may share Those which by bloodie fights aduance their names With many wrongs their victories they staine If any act or conquest purchase fame A part thereof each souldier will retaine For these are instruments to bring to passe What by their Generall enterprised was But he which doth all mutinies keepe vnder Which both himselfe and others would betray Who at the worlds great treasures doth not wonder Whose wronglesse conquest vertue doth display He is true champion in this Christian weale And he alone true valour doth reueale In peace this vertue most triumphant is Her victories no drop of bloud do spill Here rest the Trophees of another blisse Which with a lasting good the world doth fill This vertue cures the wounds which others make Yet keepes the field which others do forsake Too much the Christian world hath beene imbru'd With Christian blood which Iames doth striue to stint Their malice they like Tygers haue pursu'de And Rome hath beene of many broyles the mint Whilst kings contend their subiects feele the smart For euery one of losse doth feele his part Some States though weake reuenge will vndertake Oâ—t wronging many for the fault of few Oft to their foes themselues a prey they make And great expence no way they can eschew But Iames whose power might offer Europe wrong Forbeares all those which vnto Christ belong So Temperance in such a boundlesse power Which is so rare on Honors highest stage And Liberalitie which shines each hower Which many wrong in this base-crauing age All these and other vertues most compleat In Britains King haue their abiding seat Since then the Truth such champions doth enioy As know their strength and Romans force do scorne Since Romes delusions all estates do cloy And of all hopes shee 'le quickly be forlorne Let Britaine be from her in one vnited By heau'n aire earth and sea thereto inuited CHAP. 4. The daunger of Diuision BVt now to leaue this Iles renowned heyre Whose blood is grac'd with high discent of kings Whose auncestors haue kept the kingly chaire Well-neare two thousand yeares whose mariage brings A fresh alliance from that Nor-east coast Whose Kings did once of Englands scepter boast A briefe recapitulation of the former Chapter TO leaue his vertues matching herauldrie And all those titles which that skill affoords To passe from that high reaching policie Which with the heauens and elements accords To passe the imaâ—e of the worlds creator Vnited with so great a mediator To leaue that Vnion where Iehouahs spirit Vouchsafeth residence in an earthly masse Which motion sense and reason doth inherit With zeale and faith which doth mans reason passe To passe th'arch-enemie of humaine blisse Which to good concord still repugnant is To leaue the Romist his confederate Which thinkes by Britaines idle iarres to thriue Whose malice gainst al. peace inueterate Doth dangerous plots against this state contriue These things are plaine and how great states did rise Now will we set their falls before our eyes For heau'ns great glory and the earths true light Whose words more sure then Oracles doe prooue Whose wisdome alwayes clearly sees the right To Vnitie his deare elect doth mooue And this auerrs that kingdoms needs must faile Where Ruines nurce Diuision doth preuaile Who euer did conuerse with times record Who sacred stories or prophane hath seene His obseruation will here-with accord That Vnion strong Diuision weake hath beene By concord smallest things haue great increase By discord greatest things do wane and cease For as a ship which doth on billowes ride Though Eolus and Neptune both agree To doe their worst yet safe it doth abide Whilst of great leakes and ruptures it is free But when the plankes do once begin to spring Iust feare and certaine danger it doth bring So kingdoms whole and in themselues intire May well hold out gainst strength of forreine force When they in settled Vnitie conspire A late repentance will not breed remorce When postern-gates and back-doores all are fast Assaults are with the first incounters pass'd The ouer-throw of the Iewes THe twelue Tribes of that once most happy race Which were the darlings of the heauens great king How were they fear'd whilst loue they did imbrace How did they to their neighbours terrour bring But when dissention did their kingdom seuer How were they subiect to all bondage euer Th' Assyrians some-times haue them captiue lead Some-times the Greekes haue spoil'd their Cittie faire And lastly Romaines with their fruits were fed So that they did of all reliefe dispaire Till hope of their Messias did preuaile Which made them Romaine garrisons assaile A while they freed themselues from Romaine power And put those enemies often-times to flight But home-bred iarres their strength did so deuoure That finall misery on them did light For frantick Iuda Iuda's bloud did spill Their slaughters did their streets and temples fill For when the Romaine Prince Vespatians sonne Ierusalem with thousands had besieged Three factions soone their bloudy broiles begun Which with one truth and promise were obliged They onely ioyn'd when foes assaults were giuen And then the Romaines back with losse were driuen But when the Romaine battery did cease When by delayes they thought the Iewes to starue Meane while the Iewes would not themselues release But with their swords the Romaines turne did serue For on themselues they did inflict more harmes Then could haue chanc'd by all the Romaine armes The hate of brethren doth all hate exceed Which euer did the brest of man infect For many iealosies this spite do feed Diuine nor humaine lawes can this correct Yet must they know that for their foes they fight When on themselues they spend their force might As in a sluce where dammes the waters curbe Till they vnto the top of bankes do swell No little let their current doth disturbe When
right with wrong contends 't is often seene The house of Lancaster gainst Yorke held out Till either house preseru'd but one poore sprout Rest rest in happines most happie soules Which did ingraft my York and Me in one Earth counts them fathers heau'n as heires inroules Those which preuent so many thousands mone Let others vaunt of victories in Fraunce True wisedome will this sacred knot aduance This mariage vnto England did procure Long peace good gouernement riches and renowne Warres lawes neglect and losse it did indure These were the weights which kept pore England down For all these mischiefes will that land disturbe Which peacefull lawes of concord do not courbe Too long I should Iehouah's presence loose Which in it selfe all happines containes If long discourse of Discord I should choose Or speake of halfe her selfe-inflicted paines Almost three thousand yeares this â—e did waile Whilst Britaines Peeres did Britaines Peeres assaile Both Wales and Scotland stood as lookers on Whilst bloudie Tragedies were on this stage Sometimes they tooke aduantage hereupon To shew the furie of a brothers rage But now their Vnion former hate must banish And all remembrance of old grudge must vanish My selfe haue Wales my Iames hath Scotland brought To ioyne with England in an endlesse loue The great Iehouah this for Britaines wrought That to themselues they should most faithfull prooue And that they should forbeare the least contempt Least from this league the heau'ns should them exeÌ„pt This is the act of Prouidence diuine Which hath decreed that this should be effected The world vnto such weaknesse doth decline That all had fail'd if this had beene neglected Such pride disdaine and enuie rules the hart That now the world must be maintain'd by Art Art Nature Heau'ns the elements and man Both home and forraine cares for Concord plead These all conclude do Romists what they can That slights no longer th' English shall mislead As iuggling trickes are nought when they are known So cunning slights when they abroad are blowne Let Henry Bourbon heire of Honours wreath Who forraine and domesticke iarres supprest Let him and th' other Henries death bequeath A warie caution to each loyall breast Oh let their blood a detestation breed Of Canibals which do on Princes feed Beware My Iames since thy great friend is slaine Who warn'd thee oft of daungers eminent Beware of Rome and others which would traine Thy royall thoughts vnto their priuate bent The Iuiâ— doth that tree of sappe bereaue To which by close embracements it doth cleaue But now me thinkes I heare high trumpets sound For some great good which t' England shall betide Her plaints in heau'nly parlament are found And right in earthly Sessions shall be tride This said he vanish'd promising supply When malecontents against this truth reply FINIS Errata pag. 12. in the Margent for creanto read creanti pag. 13. l. 27. for Artick read Artist pag. 15. l. 17. for maintaine read containe Polydâ— Virgiâ— hist. l◠〈◊〉 de q. cap. 1 â—arel in â—ife of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 cap 3 a Plutarch in the life of Pompey b Parsons and Tortus wronging the late Queene Elizabeth and King Iames. c Elizabeth the daughter of Edward the 4. d The arms of Yorke and Lancaster e Philip Conâ—â—â—es hist. lib. 4. cap. 7. f K. 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