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A13277 Panthea: or, Diuine vvishes and meditations: vvritten by Io. Siluester: reuised by I.M. Master of Arts. Whereunto is added an appendix, containing an excellent elegy, written by the L. Viscount St. Albans, late Lord High Chancelour of England. &c. Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Martin, James, fl. 1615-1630.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1630 (1630) STC 23580; ESTC S118074 13,759 32

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the Iudge of all the World for these blacke Deeds and execrable Enormities yet certainely these artificiall Villanies are Vulnera in capite canis such mortall Wounds to their inward-bleeding Soules as those Saluages shall neuer licke whole with a generall and superficiall Confession of their sinnes nor be once admitted to Gods sacred ſ Obserue well what our Sauiour saith touching this point Matth. 5. v. 23 24. Altar to make their peace with him till they be first reconciled to their offended Brother and haue to their vtmost Ability made due Repaire of Honour and Restitution of Liuelyhood to the Parties so hamously wronged And albeit this Canting Fraternity seeme to haue made a League with Satan and are yet insensible of the Horrour of the Fact notwithstanding as that which is written with the juice of a LIMON apreares not at first till you hold it to the Fire So when these dis-gallanted t See Act. 14 from the 11. v. to the 20. Lycaonians shal one day without speedy and effectuall Repentance haue the full Vialls of Gods Vengeance powred and prest on them roaring in Hell-fire with u In an old Manuscript lately found at Chester it is recorded that Pilate was called Pontius à Ponte of a Bridge and not of the I le Pontas Howeuer he is generally held a damned miscreant PONTIVS Pilate Barabbas and other Infernall Monsters then shall they cleerely reade in the blacke Bookes of their vast Consciences their Barbarous Acts and Deuilish Complots written in the hugest Capitals But to returne where WE BEGAN and to leaue these mercilesse Wretches to the Judgement of God whom from the Center of my Soule I beseech to giue them the Grace of x The proper ●ct of Peni●nce in this Case is Restiution or Sa●efaction without which ●t nothing a●aileth the Delinquent ●hough he ●hould hang ●imselfe with Judas Repentance J haue here Most Honor'd Sir presum'd in lieu of your many signall Fauours to present you this small Manual of Meditations in Verse published vnder the Coniunction and sweet Aspect of most eminent STARS and written as I am credibly certified by a Diuine Laureat deceased whose maine Drift is to eleuate the Soule to Heauen from these bewitching Vanities of the y The Earth was made for Man 〈◊〉 Man for Earth Earth A Noble and Coelestiall Theme and neuer more seasonable then now In which regard I was confident it would be no vnwelcome Newyeeres-gift to your Noble-spirited Selfe whose Heroicke Disposition and pious Affection to Diuine Exercises and Composures accompanied with a liberall Hand to learned and Orthodox Ecclesiasticks and a piercing Iudgement wisely to discerne betwixt an accomplisht Scholler and a popular Parakito or Skip-Iacke-Fellow of empty Boldnesse as also your frequent Largesses to the Peore and Donatiues to the Distressed your graue Moderation and prudent Dispensation of Iustice your generous Hospitaelity rare Affability and vnexampled Humanity your resplendent Dignity Illustrious Family and Honourable Deportment haue purchas'd you the singular Loue and Obseruance of all good Patriots Your Magnifique Entertainement of his late z King Iames In his Return from Scotland Maiestie of Sacred Memory at your Basilicall TOWER one of the brauest Seates in Europe was no small Renowne to your Selfe and your most Nobly-accomplisht a Sir Gilbert Honghton Sonne But your Munificence to the oppressed and afflicted members of Iesus Christ seasoned with true Faith and b Contritio est extremitas doloris Contrition and sugred with Holinesse without d Reu. 2.10 which no man shall see the Lord will gaine you at last Coronam Amarantinam an Imperiall Diadem c Hebrewes chap. 12 v. 14. of Blisse with your peerelesse Lady deceased in the Empyréall Heauen Thrice Happy O! and most Heauenly Soules whom the blessed Angels shall so beare in Triumph to that Glorious Ierusalem To which Soueraigne Felicity that your euer-honor'd Selfe your Worthy Sonnes and Excellent Daughters the Crystall Mirrors of Modesty may arriue at the end of this Span-long Life is the hearty Prayer of Augustae Trinobantum Festo Theogonias Your Noble Vertues most affectionate Obseruer IAMES MARTIN One of his late Maiesties Preachers and Commissioners Ecclesiasticall in the Prouince of Yorke To the most resplendent Diamonds of the North and singular Glories of their Sex The Lady IVLIANA WALMISLEY Sister to the Right Honorable and Excellent Peere RICHARD Lord MOLINEVX Viscount Marbrugh Mistris Mary Walmissey Sister to the Heroicke Knight and Baronet Sir Richard Houghton of Houghton-Tower Mistris Grace Houghton Wife to the thrice-Worthy Gentleman William Houghton Esquire and Daughter to the euer-renowned Knight Sir Richard Sherborne of Stonihurst The Lady ANNE OSBORNE and Mistris Elizabeth Sherborne Daughters to the perfect-Honorable Gent. Tho. Walmisley Esquire and Neeces to the most Illustrious Lord HENRY Earle of Danby Mistris Frances Houghton Mistris Gillebert Houghton Mistris Anne Houghton Mistris Katherine Houghton Mistris Margaret Anderton Neece to the Generous and Iudicious Gentleman Roger Bradshagh of Hagh Esquire I. M. the Publisher of these Soliloquies consecrates them deuotes himselfe wishes all imaginable Happinesse LADIE IVLIANA WALMISLEY Her Anagram I am a Lilly Diana's Iewell LOoke as the LILLY doth each Flower excell In Milke-white Lustre and in Purple Dy So in your Heauenly Face combined dwell Pure spotlesse Candor Roseat Modesty Fame take thy Golden Trumpe and her proclaime DIANA'S IEVVELL Glory of her Name To the same Noble HEROINES WIt 's Honor's Beautie 's Angelized Frames Vertue 's faire Temples Wonders of your Names Which gild that Climate with your Glorious Beames Beyond the Lustre of Starres twinckling gleames Crowne with your Fauors these Diuiner Laies Which tune your Soules to sound your Makers Praise So may you shine more bright in true renowne Than Golden Starres in Ariadne's Crowne I. M. A Muzzle for a Hylax in limine latrat Momus IF any like the b Iohn the second great Duke of Moscouia so abhor'd Women that he swoonded at the very sight of them Bodin de Repub. Moscouiticke Duke Ressent the other Sex and their iust Praise Whose Natiue Splendor needs no other Raies May no such Basiliske dart vpon this Booke His poisonous Eies such c A most virulent Sycophāt See Aristophan Equites and Thucydides lib. 4. exquisitly rendered by that Worthy learned Gentleman Mr. The. Hobs Secretary to the late Excellent Earle of Deuon Cleon's silenc'd best By Noble Scorne So set I vp my rest I. M. A Panegyre To the Author OFt haue I wisht thy Worth that Wish did moue My Seat neere to the Muses Bay-tree Groue Or by that Spring for Poesie most admir'd That being by some Sacred Power inspir'd I from those Bankes might haue selected Flowers Water'd with sweet Castaliaes siluer Showres Then should my Hand thy Brow a Wreath haue made But since I sit not in the Laurell-shade I cannot giue what thy Deserts doe claime Far short be my Desires of their high Ayme So stands a Shepheard
mourning Habit that my sad Soule weares This the Impresa that my Sorrow beares If This not feelingly define my Smart 'T is not defect of Woe but Want of skilful Art Within the Center of my trouble Soule A Monument vnto thy Name I le build And there with Teare fil'd Characters inroule Those bright Perfections that thy Life did guild The Gracefull Good that all thy Actions fil'd There shall my Loue thy sad Losse memorize Whē all the World shall cease to mind thy Obsequies Then daigne to take of the obsecurest hand These weldeserued attributes of Praise I know thy Trophies not the higher stād Because my hand desir'd thy Name to raile Faire Angelized Soule these humble Laies And worth-lesse Numbers giue thy light no luster But show those shapeles Woes that in my Bosom muster ERECTED to the Honor of that rare-vertuous Gentlewoman now in Glory Mrs ELIZABITH GREY Daughter to Richard Grey Esquire and sometime Wife to I. M. Master of Arts. BY her Sister Mistris Mary Drayton allyed to the Prince of English Poesie MICHAEL DRAYTON Esquire Interred at Atherston where she departed this life calling on the Lord IESVS to the last Anno 1614. Ætat 24. Sir Tho. More sometime L. Chancelor of England On his owne and his Wiues Tombe Ah! societ Tumulus societ nos obsecro Coelum Sic Mors non potuit quod dare Vita dabit Thus rendred O may one Tombe and Heauen vs re-vnite So Death shall riohly my GRBAT LOSSE requite I.M. MORIERIS RESVRGES IVDICABERE APPENDIX TO PANTHEA Plump Epigram Ad PONTILIANVM Sunt mala quae culpas fateor mala Tempora sed tu Temporibus pejor Pontiliane malis TIT. 1.13 Jncrepa illos dure Anno Dionysiano 1630. To the Nobly-descended and Vertuously-accomplisht Sr RICHARD GARGRAVE Knight Worthy Sir BEing moued to adioyne to the precedent Canzonets th' ensuing Nectarines of the late Excellent Viscount St-Albans the Prince of English Oratory J presum'd to inscribe them cum super-pondio to your Noble Selfe whom for your honorable Quality rare Skill in Antiquities exquisite Iudgement and generous Loue to Learning I may iustly stil● sine parpurismo Dulce Camaenarum decus Fax aurea Phoebi The Muses Darling and bright Phoebus Flame The Subiect is ponderous and Diuine being a graphicall Delineation of Humane Misery And well it were with men of Merit if in this World of Vanity so full of changes and counter-changes as it seems a very Field of Flint sowne with Teares they were not ouerpressed with those myoparones a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vid. Baysium de Re Nauali piratici or Land-pirates which b Orat. in Timarchum Æschines speakes of nor by the combination of prodigious Rakehels surrounded with an Ocean of Villany Such Monsters of Humanity and Demi-Deuils are the Lares et Lemures the Ghosts and Goblins of this gloomy Age. I remember I haue read in the c Digested into 2 Bookes The 1. Diabolus infulatus or Plutoes Perambula●iō in the North Dedicated to the pious vses of Guzman d'Alfarache The 2. Diabolus infatuatus or A Spectacle of Bribery and Beggery Ded. to Mat. Dodsw of Corke Workes of Sir Io. CRAG a famous Kn. in Cumberland this memorable Distich ONGE walkt the Vrchin and the Elfe But NOW the Great Deuill himselfe For the Illustration whereof ●●●y is please you to reflect a little on the ancient Poets Description of HELL the Grand-Deuils HALL which they say is moated round and for want of a BRIDGE Charon Plutoes MAN ferries ouer poore Soules in white Sheets sometime d A 〈…〉 of ● at once in ●●●an Church seene not long since 17 at a clap Vnder which curious Emblem for it is no vaine Fiction is mantled a dainty Morall well knowne to learned Mythologists the Reserch whereof I referre to intelligent Readers studious of Antique Matters Certes Saint Paul not without cause term'd Poets e See Titus 1.12 and the Gene●● Note there Prophets for by the Attestation of profound Theologians there is indeed a Crim-Tartar Mogul or Captaine-Deuill of that Tartarean Region stiled in Scripture Belzebub and misnamed by Exoterick Diuines f Contrary to the iudgement of Antiquity for in the Primitiue Church diuers were baptized by that Name as Lucifer Caralitanus c. Lucifer which Mille-artifex and Master-Fiend bath at his becke Legions of vnder-ministers and as I may say Rurall Dromedaries and Diabolitinoes which incessantly sharke and ramble abroad for his Prouant whiles the Great Machiauilian Cacus or Cacodaemon himselfe ORDINARILY resides in his Vulcanian Forge and dismall Den whetting his grisly-griping Tallons But to adjourne the further Elucidation hereof to some other Opportunity and to returne to your Honor'd Selfe If Crispinillus Momax take occasion hereby for it is not in my power to stop laxatiue Lips to hisse-out his Bane-spitting Murmures and detracting Spels Qualia credibile est rictu ructâsse trifauci Cerberon Stygij Monstra tremenda Canis I trust you will in a sacred Fury bandite the scandalous Baboune ad Insulas fustitudinas or rather to Mount-Falcon Thus commending th' Addresse of these Delicatezze to your Generous Acceptance whose vnparalleld Worth Noble Esteeme vndaunted Valour and Daring yet Suffering Spirit suteable to the g 1. Gaudet Patientia duris 2. Seruire Dea regnare est 3. De Gouernour E. Vent Grace Mottoes of your Ancient and Renowned Family deserue to bee recorded to After-Ages I recommend you to the Highest MAIESTY resting Your Eminent Vertues Votary h Anagrammatismus Magua summa Artie BONVS AMICVS ARTI Vtriusque Academiae Magister Humane Life characterized By the Right Noble Peere FRANCIS Viscount St. Albans late L. High Chancelor of England THe World 's a Bubble and the Life of Man Lesse then a Span In his Conception wretched from the Wombe So to the Tombe Curst from the Cradle and brought vpto Yeares With eares and feares Who then to fraile Mortality shall trust But limmes the Water or but writes in Dust. Yet since with Sorrow here we liue opprest What Life is best Courts are but only superficiall Schooles To dandle Fooles The Rurall parts are turn'd into a Den Of sauage Men And where 's a City from all Vice so free But may be term'd the worst of all the three Domesticke Cares afflict the Husbands Bed Or paines his Head Those that liue single take it for a Curse Or doe things worse Some would haue Children those that haue thē none Or wish them gone What is it then to haue or haue no Wife But single Thraldome or a double Strife Our owne Affections still at home to please Is a Disease To crosse the Sea to any forraigne Soile Perils and Toile Warres with their noyse affright vs when they cease W' are worse in Peace What then remaines but that we still should eny Not to be borne or being berne to dye A select Epigram written by a Noble Knight deceased and now inscribed as followeth Honoratissimae et Nobiliss Ciuitati CESTRIÆ Sacrū Of the Pillars of the Church IN old time They were held the Churches Pillars That did excell in Learning and in Piety And were to ALL Examples of Sobriety Of Christs faire Field the true and painfull Tillers But where are now the Men of that Society Are all those Tillers dead those Pillars broken No God forbid such Blasphemy be spoken I say to stop the mouthes of all ill-willers Gods Field hath Harrowers still his Church hath * Read P●o● c. 28 v. 1● and the Geneua Note there Certumest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quedam Clereborum Crumenimule Demoborum his depin Pillers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Elogie and Epitome of the Bible To the Right Noble Religious excellent Heroldes The Lady Rumney Mrs. Alablaster and Mrs. Esther Webbe THis sacred Volume in whose precious Leaues The Mysteries of Heauen entreasur'd lye Is a cleere Mirror which no forme deceaues Th' Obiect and Subiect of each Christian Eye Who liues by This by Death can neuer dye Here shines the Sun of GRACE diffusing wide His quickning Raies on All from side to side Here God and Man do's Both embrace each other Met in one Person Heauen and Earth do's kisse Here a pure Virgin do's become a Mother And bare that SON who the Worlds Father is And Maker of his Mother Here true Blisse Comes flying from the Bosome of the High And clothes it selfe in naked Misery To drag Man out of Hels darke Empery Dens se Tibi Tu te Deo CORONIS A Character of the Diuine Graces and Beauties of a Vertuous Woman To all Noble Ladies and Gentlewomen of Honor. THat which makes Women beautifull and faire Is not the plarting * 1 Pet. 3. 〈…〉 of their Haire Iewels or precious Stones sparkling like Fire Or putting on of braue Attire But a rich Tablet hidden in the Brest With Heauenly Zeale like Rubies drest The Amethyst of Temperance enchac't In Flowers of Gold with Saphire chast Th'absequious * Plin. Hist lib. 37. cap. 30. Helintrope wilde Iasper stone And Opal of all Worthe in One Pure Crystall glittering with immortall Light Shewing a rare-sweet-Christian Spright The Lilly-Robe of Innocence put on Richer then that of Salomon Thus deckt you rauish Angels with your Lones This is the Beauty GOD approues FINIS
Place Nor Fauour Wealth or Worldly Grace Nor trouble Patience with a hope Of ought beyond my onely Scope Nor sooth nor flatter lye nor sweare Nor stand in Danger nor in Feare Of him of her of this of that Nor hunt I know not after what But loue the Measure and the Meane That keepes the Soule and Body cleane Then should I finde this Life but Breath That Sinne hath subiect made to Death For from the greatest to the least No Soule but liues at some vnrest The soundest and the deepest Wit Sometimes in idle Thoughts doth sit The fairest and the sweetest Face Is sometime subiect to Disgrace The Noblest and the valiant'st Minde Sometime may hap goe downe the Winde The richest Hand and proudest Heart May chance to play the Beggers part The valiant'st Arme and strongest Hand Sometime at Mercies Gate may stand The purest Soule that would not sinne May chance to fall in Satans Ginne Then since I see there is no state But that sometime or soone or late Is subiect to so hard a course As leaues the Better for the Worse Though I be not so wise as Hee That made me This to know and see Yet will I ioyne with him in this Vpon this Earth to build no Blisse But with the Wings of Faith to flye Vnto my Glorious God on high And in his Mercy only proue The Blessings for my Soules behoofe From Sorrow Sinne and Satan free And loue the World that list for me III. Wish or Meditation OH that I had that Patience That is the Spirits Excellence That Io●n in all his paines did proue Vnto the Lord to shew his Loue Then should no Losse of Lands or Goods Bring in such Flotes of Sorrowes Floods Nor Childrens Death nor dogged Wife Nor wounded Heart nor weary Life Nor Scoffs of Friends nor words of Griefe Nor Hearts Despaire of Hopes Reliefe Should make me once which God forbid Offend his Grace what ere he did But say with Iob If he will kill My heart yet will I loue him still And in his sight my Waies reproue That is the God of gracious Loue. That then when All were at the worst And that my Heart were almost burst My Soule might feele that Comfort sweet Did tread all sorrow vnder Feet But Iob was iust so am not I His God did but his Patience try And made his Faith in Mercy finde The Comfort of a constant Minde But my Soule hath so wicked bin That I am scourged for my Sinne In Iustice but with Mercy such As I can neuer praise too much For had not Mercy heal'd my Sore I had bin slaine for euermore But my good GOD is euer One His Hand is not to me alone But vnto All that in distresse Doe in his Mercy seeke redresse And whose true Patience Faith and Lone Doe in his Iustice Mercy proue IIII. Wish or Meditation OH that I had that Gracious Call That from the Heauens had blessed Paul That chosen Saint of sacred Blisse Where only Saints true blessing is Who from the way of wicked Thought Vnto the gates of Grace was brought And when his Eyes were stricken blinde Had such an insight of the Minde As made him see through Mercies light That is the Soules eternall sight How blinde is Reasons ruthfull Eye Where Errour leads the Heart awry Whilst Conscience thinking to doe well Doth carry Misconceit to Hell Till Mercy meeting on the way Brings home the Sheepe that went astray Then should no Office Power nor Place Make me to secke my Soules Disgrace To take a Tyrants powerfull Rod To persecute the Saints of God But I should more in soule reioyce In Mercies Gracious-Glorious Choice All Persecutions to abide Where Patience Feith and Loue is tride Of the sweet Lord of Heauens Blisse Than persecute one Saint of his But all my Loue and Loues Delight My Meditation day and night Should onely all and euer be Of Mercy that so called me No Griefe no Paine no Want nor Woe That I should euer liue to know But I should thinke too little all In Loue to answer Mercies Call For all the World I would not care Nor K●nor Kesar would I feare No threats nor thraldome scourge nor death To speake his Praise should stop my breath But I should plainely speake and write My knowledge of the Lord of Light And to the Glory of his Name Throughout the World divulge the same My Walke should be but in his Wayes My Talke but only in his Praise My Life a Death but in his Loue My Death a Life for him to proue My Care to keepe a Conscience cleane My Will from wicked thoughts to weane My Prayers for the Good of all That Mercy vnto Grace doth call My Labour for the loue of Truth To leade the life of Age and Youth My Comfort truely to conuert The Soules which Satan did peruert My Health to labour for their Loue That seeke their blessing from aboue My greatest Ease to worke for those Whom Mercy to Saluation chose My Paine and Pleasure Trauell Ease My God thus in his Saints to please Then should I this base World despise With all Earths idle Vanities And gouerne mine Affections so That Sin should neuer ouerthrow This wounded wofull Soule of mine But still in Mercies loue diuine My Soule should finde that life of Grace As should all Earthly loue deface And I should onely wish to liue All Glory to my God to giue And all in all my loy to bee His seruant that so called mee V. Wish or Meditation OH that my Soule might liue to proue Some part of that sweet blessed Loue Which IOHN th'Enangelist possest When he lean'd on our Sunours Brest When Wisdome Vertue Grace and Truth Embrac'd the blessed dayes of Youth Then should I fly with Eagles wings Vnto the Glorious King of Kings And see that Heauenly Court of his The Beauty of the Angels Blisse Where Goodnesse Grace and Glory dwels And Lone and Lise and nothing else But Holinesse and Heauenly Light All onely in my Sauiours sight Then should I loath this World of Woe That doth bewitch the Worldling so And seeke but at my Sauiours feet To find my Soules eternall Sweet Till Mercy will vouchsafe me Grace To haue a glimpse of his sweet Face In whose least sweetest Looke of Loue A Sea of Ioy the Heart doth proue And swimming in the Soules Deligh Is rauisht with that Glorious Sight But though I cannot be so blest To leane vpon my Sauiours Brest As all vnworthy of such Grace To looke on his Coelestiall Face Yet let me beg at Mercies Feet That I may but receiue this Sweet That when his Saints and Angels sing Their Haleluiahs to their King My Soule in Ioy all-sounding then May haue but leaue to sing AMEN FINIS A Funerall PYRAMID TO the deare Memorie of the Most deare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I consecrate this Threne these Funerall Teares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These are the Cypresse Branches that I beare The