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The mirror of martyrs, or The life and death of that thrice valiant capitaine, and most godly martyre Sir Iohn Old-castle knight Lord Cobham
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Weever, John, 1576-1632.
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lady-woing eloquence The fetcher of Euridice from hell The cowards courage to vphold his armes The valiant mans encountring fresh alarmes The ioy to griefe-accloyd calamitie Thebes singing Syren to display her banners Prisoners comfort in cold miserie Cares cosoner reformer of the manners In sorrow smart exilement hunger anguish An helper least we faint despaire or languish Wench-wanton Ioue and faire Electraes daughter Of seauen starres the seauenth not appearing Empresse of solace greatest Queene of laughter Venus white doue and Mars his onely dearing Why am I thus in thy remembrance rotten And in thy sweete saint-pleasing songs forgotten Had some feirce Lionesse by the Libian so untaines Or blacke-mouth'd barking Scilla brought thee forth On flintie Etnaes sulphur-flaming mountaines By Tygres nurs'd in th'ice congealed north Thou couldst not be more frozen harted hatefull Injurious more lesse louing more vngratefull Neptune obtayning but his Amphitrite By the Dolphins meanes in heauens azure frame In the remembrance of this benefite Ten starâ— compacted by the Dolphins name Nor Gods nor men but Clownes illiterate rude Would thus be poisned with ingratitude O but I heare thy notes Angelicall On Orpheus siluer-sounding Harp excuse thee Whose strayned ditties most melodicall Tell me the world in dotage doth abuse me The world is old and I more old in name Old age by youth's preseru'd not by the same The time 's in dotage and the world in yeares This organ-aged litle world man Which cradle-witted infant-waxen peares Gray coated fond pale hoarie feeble wan Bald drie diseased rheumaticke and cold Therefore the world is earthlie doting old He that lyes well doth well this ill age fit Hee 's a bare foole which speakes the naked Truth The one wise follie th' other foolish wit This stripling world is alwaies thus in youth Such wisdome's doting doting's frostie cold Therefore the world is foolish doting old Old age within her hart a Fox doth hold A Kyte in hand a Bee within her brest Fox false deceaues Kyte greedie catch thee wold Bee angrie stings beleev'd come neare deprest These signes all shew within this world I could Therefore the world is crooked dooting old Shee builds high roofes with ruines of the Church Sels lyes for nothing Nothing for too much Faith for three farthings t' haue thee in the lurch Shee 's meale mouth'd simple scarse abiding tuch First shee is greedie next her craft behold Therefore the world is wylie doting old When for a looke shee will be in the lawe To take the wall is by the wall to dye At a great word she will her poynard draw Looke for the pincke if once thou giue the lye Is she not angry hot audacious bold Therefore the world is testie doting old T is greedie first which vsurers will nourish T is craftie Lawers lie not to the truth T is angry Fencers euery where do flourish Craft anger vsury neuer seene in youth In crabbed age these vices we behold Doubtlesse the world is wonderous doting old But all the world in question is not cald For art can varnish o're decayed nature Old men haue haire and many yong men bald Yet perriwigs and painting helpe their feature In nature weake in art the world's strong The world in age againe thus waxeth yong When great Apollo shewes his threefold might And by his issue dayly's made the yonger Keeping his vertue influence and light May not man thinke thereby to liue the longer No he 's a father though his chin be bare But man's a monster if he want his haire Time was of old when all of vs were yong Then we learn'd much for litle were we knowing When riper yeares and manhoode made vs strong Then we knew much and more still would be showing Age knowes all well do nothing well it would In vertue yong the world in knowledge old Our fixed stars a pur-blind old mans eyes The aire 's a gnastie old mans breath ill smelling Water a rhume in dropsie when he lyes Valleyes rough wrinckles mountaines gowtie swelling The earth a sleepy old mans long-kept dregs Men now a feeble old mans windie egs Let vs but looke into the giants age Danske Corioneus English Albion Or Titans broode which gainst the heauens did rage Fierce Lentesmophius Effra Gration These were the worlds first youthfull progenie To these our men are an Epitomie Whose dig'd vp reliques if we but behold Do we not wonder at their ribs or teeth Like props and milstones so our issue old Will wonder at our greatnesse which she seeth Now are we dwarfs they will be pismires then This is the fumbling of our ageâ— men Nor thou faire frame with azure lines thicke quoted Bright heauen thy swift orbicular round motion As Linceus-eyde Astronomers haue noted From East to West keepes not thy reuolution Seauen stars their seates haue left and lost some light The world is old when heauen is dimme of sight Ioue's gone to Libra from his amorous maide And Mercurie thou' rt fled to Scorpio then From Scorpio Saturne to the Shooters straide Mars loaths the crab lie's in the lions den How can the course of this our world go euen When all this ods and jarring is in heauen Pure thin and pleasing was the aires first breath Now thick grosse noysome t is whereon we feede A vile contagious mist which can vnneath But pestilence or worse diseases breede If sicknes thus infect her from the skies Then the world 's old and on her death bed lies The water famous by a Nimphs faire name Of some foule-leprous body now 's the lees The sea a sinke and riuers to the same Are rotten pipes so fountaines in degrees The world o'reworne vnwholesome for new birth Shee must returne needes to her grandame earth Our grandame earth whose for-head is o're thwarted With high-wayes bald whose backe huge buildings sway Whose bellie's stuft with piles of men departed Boweld puld out and garbisht euery day Heauen earth aire water man the world and all Are doting old and must to ruine fall Deceiptfull world blood-thirsty couetous Bleare-eyde mishapt vntoward impious Three-legd treble-tong'd bifronted traiterous Backe-broken bald enuie-swolne obliuious Aire water putriside heauen earth infectious To gods to men and to thy selfe injurious Wax old and die what dost thou want a toombe Into thy Chaos backe againe returne And thus twise child perhappes thou maist becoome Wax old a new the sooner to be borne Meane while encrease thou maist decrease thereby At length wax old and last for euer die Die thou for euer with thy harmonie Extenuate no more worth's matchlesse deedes Rochester blot me out of memorie Let Cobham haue disdaine for worthie meedes For slaue-borne pesants are for worthies deemed And worthies worse then pesants are esteemed Ioues Purfiuant nimble Mercurius The proloquutor of my worlds wonne glorie Swift as Medusaes flying Pegasus Heare now O heare the processe of my storie Greiu'd at the world in anger ouer-shot My iust complaint I almost had forgot Looke when the sun