grown Refin'd from Dross disdain'd a Pressure down It mounted like Aethereal Matter high To visit and inhabit in the Sky Augustus almost had with Grief expir'd Yea for a while his mighty Soul retir'd And on the wing with hers was half ways gone So everlasting was the Union Fate interpos'd and urg'd it down below To finish its Illustrious Stages thro' Who rightly can this Publick Loss disclose Too vast for Verse and too sublime for Prose Yet Burnet's Pen her wondrous Vertues told In his immortal Lines her deathless Fame 's enroll'd 'T was sure to punish murm'ring Albion's Land Albion that 's cloy'd with Manna that descends That Heav'n this Star from our Horizon calls And leaves no Copy of th' Original Or that she was a Master-piece Divine And Nature must fall short or end the Line Augustus still his Warlike Race pursues In Foreign Fields seeks out and meets his Foes No Plots Domestick cou'd his Life invade Th' Assassines all and their Designs betray'd Gallia at length fatigu'd does Peace implore And to the World its ravish'd Spoils restores Augustus rides in Triumph o'er the Main And sees Britannia bless'd with Peace again FINIS Books printed for and sold by J. Sprint at the Bell in Little Britain SYnopsis Medicinae Or A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Physick In Seven Books Containing I. The Elements or Principles of the Art II. The Cure of Infants Diseases III. The Cure of Diseases in the Head IV. The Cure of Diseases in the Breast V. The Cure of Diseases in the Belly VI. 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Written in Latin by John Sleidan sometime Ambassador in England from the Protestant States of Germany Deputy for the City of Strasburgh in the Council of Trent and Author of The History of the Reformation of Religion in Germany Now newly Englished With his Life Innocent Diversion for the Ladies Gentlewomen and Maidens Being a Looking-glass for the Fair Sex wherein by a curious Book of Fortune they may find out Answers to their most doubtful Questions which can be proposed With a large Interpretation of Dreams and Visions incident to the Fair Sex Translated from the French The Pious Man's Directions Shewing how to walk with God all his Days By a Well-wisher of the Whole Duty of Man The Third Edition An Explicatory Catechism Or An Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism Wherein all the Answers in the Assemblies Catechism are taken abroad in Under-Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved by Reason and Scripture several Cases of Conscience resolved some chief Controversies in Religion stated with Arguments against divers Errors Useful to be read in Private Families after Examination in the Catechism it self for the more clear and thorow understanding of what is therein learned By Thomas Vincent sometimes Minister of Maudlin Milk-street in London A Treatise concerning the Lord's Supper With Three Dialogues for the more full Information of the Weak in the Nature and Use of this Sacrament By Tho. Doolittle The Nineteenth Edition Time and the End of Time In Two Discourses The First about Redemption of Time The Second about Consideration of our Latter End By John Fox A Spark from the Altar Or A Sure Guide to Communicants before at and after Receiving the Lord's Supper Consisting of Meditations Hymns and Prayers for every Day in the Week To which is added Directions for Holy Living and Dying With a Pathetick Discourse on Death Judgment Heaven and Hell Cookery Refin'd Or The Lady Gentlewoman and Servant-Maids useful Companion I. Containing the curious Arts of Dressing all sorts of Flesh Fish and Fowl various Ways after the newest Mode with their proper Seasonings Sauces Garnishes Serving up and Carving II. The Experienced Pastry Cook in all Particulars To which is added The Art of Pickling Fruits Buds Herbs Flowers Roots Stalks c. By Mrs. A. M. a long Practiser in this Curious Art Arts Master-piece Or A Companion for the Ingenious of either Sex Containing I. 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Cant prevails the kindl'd Beacons blaze A specious Harangue spoken w th a Patriots grace But now a loftier Flight their Pinions soar They 'l claw their Conscience as their Chests before How can the Christians mute and stupid stand View such Pollutions stain the Holy Land What uncouth Gods at Court they now adore More hideous far than late at Rome before They 've laid a Basis for a Babels Pile And scatter sad Confusion thro' the Isle Was e'er Religion in Contempt like this They 've shot a Random-Bolt and aim'd amiss With Grief the Land will this Devotion mourn Already ev'n to Rome they now return The murm'ring Tribes of Desart-Wilds complain And covet Egypts Onyons once again They backwards look with a relenting Eye Once more desirous of their Slavery Some Pious Souls in this wild Breach must stand And stop impending Ruine from the Land They vainly of a Reformation boast If we reform no more the Nation 's lost Their Hierarchy's an undigested Thing As loose its Canons as in Vice its King Ah! where 's its Purity its Primitive Force They 're as before or chang'd from bad to worse They 're not enough from impious Rome remov'd This Zeal by you must further be improv'd Or Christian Piety will soon decay Or they 'll to Antichrist become an easie Prey You as the Stars i' th' Galaxy must shine You the true Puritans you all Divine Go to let 's set our Shoulders to the Lead Let 's cultivate this Vineyard of the Lord. It 's ominous they say when Wolves unfold Strange Mysteries and teach the trembling Fold What will not Interest with mistaken Zeal Affect or dare The Bait does seldom fail This Holy Gloss fair Entertainment finds And sows Dissenting Seeds in wav'ring Minds The baneful Hemlock scatters o'er the Shore Which still an impious Race of Fools devour Their undiscerning Heads begin to stray And in Confusion quit the beaten Way Thus crafty Gen'rals when they 'd storm a Town And make the stubborn Citadel their own With cunning Feints draw off the potent Foe Divide their Arms then give the conq'ring Blow Oh foolish Albion whither dost thou run Eager for Fate and hot to be undone To thy Destruction and unguarded Tool Cully'd to Foreign Streams thy Thirst to cool Ev'n Manna cloys and such Celestial Food Thou tempt'st the very Patience of a God And into Serpents turn'st thy Moses Rod. Shoals of unthinking Fry these Anglers caught And reap an Harvest larger than their Thought They wave their Sickles in the burden'd Field New Barns and new Repositories build They join their Voices with the giddy Crowd And ' midst the noisie Mobb they bellow'd loud This Game secur'd sublimer Flights they take Our Gentry and our Nobles they infect These where a Court-Preferment is deny'd Or any other Curb that checks their Pride Disgusts to Persons or in private Things Turn them to Malecontents against the King Besides of Parties to be stil'd an Head Surnam'd a Champion and their Force to lead There 's something in 't that courts ambitious Eye A Shade or Emblem it 's of Majesty Desire of Rule 's the Birthright of the Mind The Load-stone that attracts all Humane Kind They need no more the Rockets mount the Air High as they fly they build their Castles there How quick these Machins with the Wyre-works move They curse the King with Blasphemies to Jove Impiety and Treason now they bawl The Goverment of Church and State must fall There 's no Reprieve the Malefactors die Severe enough their Crimes no Remedy Not Gileads Balm cou'd give Relief in this Together both must suffer both remiss For Arms the pregnant Multitude prepare Dissenting Nobles head the Beasts to War Alike their Cause a woful Ruine comes Alike they 're both prepar'd to sign each others Dooms And now Romes Musick rattles thro' the Isle Our Albions Blood does Albions Fields defile The Britans meet each other in the Field Make Death familiar but untaught to yield The fertile Plains manur'd with English Gore Produce a tinctur'd Crop unknown before Heroes on either Side for War they stood And bid Definance to each others Blood Pity such Souls resolv'd shou'd thus engage A Curse on Rome for this and this Phanatic Rage The Royal Party does at last retire Makes its Retreat in Dust and Smoak and Fire So after Twelve laborious noble Toils Th' Olympic Heroe raves and raving falls On Oetas Mount his fatal Hour he found He fell with ruin'd Oaks and stately Trees around But stay my Muse relate the blackest Scene That yet the World e'er saw or must again The Best of Kings of Men ignobly slain So the retreating Sun does disappear And gilds with bloody Streaks the Hemisphere The drowsie Poppy shrivel'd up his Head Droop'd at the Sight and in a Sleep fell dead Th' astonish'd Herds o'er all the Plains did rove And in disorder'd Terrors told their Love The Echo's moan'd and sigh'd in ev'ry Grove No Laurels now wou'd in Britannia stand But Woods of Cypress crowd in ev'ry Hand Heav'ns Eye as tho' asham'd to see the Sight In Royal Azure mourn'd and skreen'd the Light The Christian Heroe fell their Sacrifice What Expiatory Off'ring can suffice A Train of captiv'd Martyrs now succeed A Loyal Guard does with their Sov'reign bleed So Days bright Lord does from our Sight retire Sinks in Abyss of Night and all its Beams expire Too brave too just for Crimes these Nobles fall And on that barb'rous Age a Blush entail Our Prelates hurry'd to untimely End Their injur'd Lord and these great Minds attend They stain with flowing Blood the guilty Stage And Stephen-like forgive the impious Age. One Victim's slaughter'd from the Eagle's Nest Daring and as Heroick as the Best Too noble Thoughts possess'd his Warlike Soul To join the Scepter with the Brewer's Bowl He fell bemoan'd in an unhallow'd Town Like the Great Martyr he his Blood laid down One Worthy let our Numbers recommend True to his King his Country and his Friend This Christian Soldier in the Heat of War Was both to Mars and to Apollo dear His Learning and his Courage did afford An equal Aid he fought with Pen and Sword Rome and Geneva were alike to him The Foes were adequate alike the Theme Let Latham be a Witness of his Fame And Bolton tremble at his awful Name The surly Foe besieg'd a Country-house A Heroine and Heroe they enclose The Walls were slender and the Works but young But all within was Proof and all was strong They shelter'd all beneath his Warlike Care The Garrison ne'er trembl'd at the War The Soldiers few yet faithful to their Head They knew no Odds when his great Conduct led A noisie Mortar did loud Ruine threat And in the Air proclaim'd approaching Fate No known Defence cou'd guard th' impending Blow It scatter'd sure Destruction all below He sallies and the bold Invader flies Within the Gates he bears the ravish'd Prize Succeeding actions still advance his Fame He in
Throne To close Cabals his active Friends resort They palm unjust Decrees upon the Court Through all the Land their wild Chimera's fly And court each lift'ning Ear each eager Eye Luxurious Vice corrupts the Fountain head O'er all the Plains the troubl'd Waters spread Nature with Largess gives abundant Store We with voracious Lusts the Stock devour Affront the very Blessings Heav'n bestows Press on and Sin and antidate our Woes No thoughts of Native Greatness court the Mind Alter'd we 're grown a strange degenerate kind In bold Debauch contending to outvie Whilst useful Arts and Arms neglected lie So Vice and Ruine rag'd thro' Israel's Sons Till Phinchas with bold Justice did atone Achates ey'd the Mischiefs of the Times A Friend to Caesar he a Foe to Crimes He did not tamely with the Torrent glide But with wise Conduct bore against the Tide He now well read in all the Crafts of State Essays Rome's Inundation to divert And like a careful Pilot steady Steers The Sails are manag'd with each Gale to veer And tho' oppos'd by Storms he 's distant bore He aims his Port and urges to the Shore He saw how Caesar was dissolv'd in Ease No other but Caesario's Counsels please The Land compleat in Libertinism grown Drew aukard Patterns from the erring Throne That ev'ry Day our Rival's gather head And by our own Contrivance potent made The Gallic strength to an amazing height Of Greatness grown despis'd each neighbouring State At pleasure stoop'd and seiz'd th' unequal Prey Thro' many conquer'd Countries cut its way The Kingdom to unruly Ferment's grown Forms different Parties ev'ry where at home Caesario's courted as the rising Sun By his all other Factions were outdone He saw a Belgic War severely rage Knew on what slender Grounds we did engage Too well he knew the origine and rise To Rome and Gaul a grateful Sacrifice The latter plays an Ambodexter's Game Yet seems t'espouse the Quarrel on the Main Views our Engagements and retreats again Now Wars abroad and Pestilence at home Rage as if Heav'n it self had sign'd our Doom Heaps upon heaps of putrid Corps lay dead In ev'ry Street a gastly Landskip spread Malignant Atoms in the Air abound Invisible the Fates they silent wound Yet angry Vengeance does pursue us higher Punish'd by Sickness first and then by Fire A Tawny'd Light enfsam'd the kindl'd Air And all the Stars in Blushes did appear Vast Globes of rowling Flame ascend on high You 'd think the Cyclops had engag'd the Sky And from their scalding loud Aetnaean Forge Did all their large Artillery disgorge An Heap confus'd the City now appear'd Not e'en the Temples with their Altars spar'd But once again more stately it revives And from its Ashes Phoenix like it lives Achates to the War procures a Date And strives by Leagues to buttress up the State To check the Grandeur of insulting Gaul For this he founds and rearsa triple Wall Now Rome it self in Politicks outdone Curses the Day and this strong Union mourns Too well she knew her darling Son too weak By force of Arms this solemn Pact to break Nor he nor she nor her Caesario more Cou'd with dilated Pinions farther soar This Gordian Knot too firm and closely ty'd She cou'd not loose nor knew she to divide She curst the subtile Authors of this League The close Projectors of this dark Intrigue Now ev'ry Head was sill'd with large employ Vast were their Aims this Union to destroy This Triple League they sludy to confound This League cemented with so strict a Bond. Close were these Arts of Rome and deeply laid ' If e'er Infallible in this she 's made She to Caesario comes and summons all Her Missionaries to a dark Cabal Then thus began Too well my Pious Son you know the Fate That calls us hither to this grand Debate Too well the subtile Machines we disclose That thwart our Ends and our Designs oppose Thus far our great Endeavours have been vain To bring lost Albion to our selves again The Hereticks out-wing us with Design And with their impious Force Confederate join A Triple Bulwark of the Northern Crowns Checks all the Holy Measures we laid down Who knows how soon Invasion may be made Encourag'd with Success they will proceed Urge Caesar to revoke the Prize they 've won Or you and I and Gallia are undone Caesario answers with a Statesman's Smile Their Steps I will obstruct their Arts beguile Let Caesar's Change be my peculiar Care I 'll whisper new Instructions in his Ear And since the Britain's rashly stem my Aim I 'll own and will avow for Rome my flame Thro' Neptune's wide Commands our Fleets shall go And ferret our Confederate Northern Foe And when these Pow'rs thus twisted are destroy'd Albion can ne'er her dated Doom avoid Thro' these forbidden Alps we 'll cut our way And late Posterity shall bless the Day They rise and to their Dividends resort Try all prevailing Parties at the Court Achates was essay'd too just to yield He cou'd not be perswaded nor compel'd Caesario courts Achates he denies From hence his Indignation did arise They 're baffl'd and ignobly quit the Ground Their vain Efforts but small Impression found Caesar unmov'd wou'd no Remonstrance hear To Winds they argu'd all and courted Air. Oh! had he but his Honour thus maintain'd His Name succeeding Errors ne'er had stain'd His wond'rous Deeds all Pandects wou'd rehearse He 'd challeng'd an Eternity in Verse But one important Cast they 've yet to play A strong reserve remains to win the Day A splendid Feast prepar'd adorns the Board Julia to this invites her Captiv'd Lord. Nature and Art profusely met combine To manage well this last and great Design All Delicacies brought by Land or Seas Or Air invite each Sense and learn to please They ravish clusters from the generous Vine And press the blushing Grapes to yield their Wine All India's Aromaticks grace the Feast And Odours gather'd from remotest East The Minstrels with soft Musick strike the Ear Melodious Lays resound in trembling Air. Now Julia enters all adorn'd with Gem A Fabrick worthy the World's Diadem If Beauty was the Birthright of a Throne Julia might challenge all the World her own If Conduct be to Government a Pride Julia had that securely on her side Her Arts succeeded where the Statesmen fail'd Where they despair'd her crafty Lures prevail'd Caesar Resolves her conquering Graces quell For Beauty is a Charm invincible It 's only hers to think to Ask and have She leads the easie Monarch as her Slave Roxana's wonderous Charms did thus conspire To set the fam'd Persepolis on Fire Thus Anthony the slighted World defies A Martyr falls to Cleopatra's Eyes Thus Judah's Champion in th' unequal Strife Loses his Hair and Strength and Eyes and Life Achates found his toil'd Endeavours vain The Structure he had rear'd destroy'd again A thousand wild Disorders now come on A strange confusion rattles round the Throne Contemn'd abroad and hated