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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01375	The mirrour of maiestie: or, The badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded.	H. G., fl. 1618.; Goodyere, Henry, Sir, 1551 or 2-1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 11496; ESTC S102778	12,143	74

THE MIRROVR OF MAIESTIE OR THE BADGES OF HONOVR CONCEITEDLY EMBLAZONED WITH EMBLEMES ANNEXED POETICALLY VNFOLDED Nec his Plebecula gaudet LONDON Printed by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1619. TO THOSE NOBLE Personages rancked in the CATALOGVE MY feebler Muse farre too too weake to sing Ha's got your Honours on her flaggring wing And borne them to the loftiest pitch she may Therefore submissiue she do's humbly pray That when her tongue reeles or Inuention haults Your Fauours will giue crutches to her faults Your LORDSHIPS in all dutifull obseruancie H. G. ❧ A CATALOGVE OF THOSE NAMES VNTO WHOM this worke is appropriated THE Kings Maiestie The Queene The Prince The Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie The Lord Chancellor The Lord Treasurer The Lord Priuie Seale The Lord Admirall The Duke of Lenox The Marquesse of Buckinghame The Lord Chamberlaine The Earle of Arundell The Earle of South-hampton The Earle of Hertford The Earle of Essex The Earle of Dorset The Earle of Mountgomerie The Viscount Lisle The Viscount Wallingford The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Lord Zouch The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord Darcie The Lord Wootton The Lord Stanhope The Lord Carew The Lord Hay The Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Kings-Bench The Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common-Pleas The Lord Chiefe Baron of the Excheaquer FINIS TO THE KING I R QVI MAL Y PENSE HONI SOIT THose mighty Soueraigne are your Graces text Right King of Heralds not to any next You might their mysticke learning blazon best But you reserue your knowledge vnexprest As being most peculiar to you And yet because the people may allow That which concernes your selfe Let me to them Vnlocke the value of this prizelesse Iem The Lyons trebled thus may represent Your equall fitnes for the Regiment Of this faire Monarchie Brittaine then Which euer ha's bin stuft with valiant men May fittest beare a Lyon vrg'd to spoile Your Irish Kernes who neuer vs'd to toyle Are in their silver-studded Harpe explain'd These Splendent Beauties limm'd by Natures hand By grace of Ancient Kings made Royall flow'rs But now thrice Royall made by being Yours EMBLEME 1 REX ✚ ET ✚ SACERDOS ✚ DEI ✚ VVHy be these marshal'd equall as you see Are they dis-rankt or not No they should be Thus plac'd for Common-weales doe tottering stand Not vnder-propt thus by the mutuall hand Of King and Priest by Gods and humane lawes Divine assistance most effectuall drawes Kings to confesse that t'heav'n they homage owe Which consequently leads a King to knowe That that Ambition's by dead Embers fir'd Which ha's no beyond earth to heav'n aspir'd Earth can but make a King of earth partaker But Knowledge makes him neerest like his maker For mans meere power not built on Wisdomes for t Dos rather pluck downe kingdomes than support Perfectly mixt thus Power and Knowledge moue About thy iust designes ensphear'd with loue Which as a glasse serue neighbour-Kings to see How best to follow though not equall thee EMBLEME 2 NVLLVM BONVM INREMVNERATVM SEated on this three-headed Mountaine high Which represents Great Brytaines Monarchie Thus stand I furnisht t' entertaine the noise Of thronging clamours with an equall poyse And thus addrest to giue a constant weight To formall shewes of Vertue or Deceit Thus arm'd with Pow'r to punnish or protect When I haue weigh'd each scruple and defect Thus plentifully rich in parts and place To giue Aboundance or a poore disgrace But how to make these in iust circle moue Heav'n crownes my head with Wisedome from aboue Thus Merit on each part to whom 't is due With God-like power disbursed is by you TO THE QVEENE OF all proportions Madam diuers dare Conclude that absolute which is most square Well may they proue that Theoreme for I know Square Bodies doe the most perfection show Perfection still consisting in this best To stand more sure the more it is supprest Which speciall vertue chiefly doth belong Vnto square bodies or right do's them wrong Your Scutchion therefore and the Honours due May constantly support your Worth and You Whose life 's drawne out vnsoild with subiects hate By such a Samplar none can imitate EMBLEME 3. ❀ VNICA ✚ ETERNA ✚ AL ✚ MONDO ✚ HEre aboue number doth one wonder sit But One yet in her owne an infinit Being simply rare no Second can she beare Two Sunnes were neuer seene stalke in one Spheare From old Eliza's Vrne enricht with fire Of glorious wonders did your worth suspire So must from your dead life-infusing flame Your Multiplyed-selfe rise thence the Same She whose faire Memories by Thespian Swaines Are sung on Rheins greene banks and flowrie plaines Thus Time alternates in its single turnes One Phaenix borne another Phaenix burnes Your rare worths matchlesse Queene in you alone Liue free vnparalle'd entirely One. TO THE PRINCE C P ICH● DIEN YOur Princedome's Ensigne here Right-Royall Sir May pinion your vp-soaring thoughts and stirre Them to a pitch of loftier eminence Then can be reached by base vulgar sense These Plumes charact'red liuely signifie Valour in warre ioyn'd with velocitie The blacke Prince bearing Plumes approues this true When through the French he like win'gd-lightning flue And pull'd downe liues about him to the ground Till he himselfe with death had circled round His very looke did threaten publicke death With every stroke fell from him fled a breath Arm'd in the confidence of his iust cause Thus freely fearelesse his foes overthrowes Those high-borne acts which from his valour flue With new-additions are impress't in you EMBLEME 4. POST ✚ NVBILA ✚ PHEBVS ✚ VVHen Peace suspecting he would warre inferre Tooke Henry hence to liue aboue with her She bade Ioues Bird returne from 's quicke convoy Of his faire soule left in Heav'ns lasting Ioy And mildly offer to your Princely hands This Embleme of soft Peace and Warlike bands Both vvhich vs'd rightly their large cares extend To gaine o're others and their owne defend Though all bright Honours did their Beauties shroud In his Ecclipse like Phoebus in a cloud Yet at your Rising they more cleare againe Peept-forth like Sun-shine after clouds and raine And in your worth their worthinesse displayes To worthiest Princes as the Sun his rayes TO THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBVRY HOw well these sacred Ornaments become One who by earth walkes t' his celestiall home The Staffe of Comfort this to leane vpon This Pall of peace these Crosses vndergone How easily good men knowne well by this Lodge at the Inne of their eternall Blisse These Fruits are workes from Bounty springing found Perfuming Heau'n with Heau'ns bounties crown'd These shadow'd fruits but by a figure shew The Ioyes of Paradise prepar'd for you Saile thither with good speede then yet make stay Good Angels guide you y' are i' th Abbots way EMBLEME 5. MORIR ✚ PIV ✚ TOSTO ✚ CHE ✚ MANCAR ✚ DI ✚ FEDE THese Hands connext engird Religion Deciphring th' holy Concords vnison

Of faiths full harmony this spiny pale Sharpe conflicts are who still the Truth assaile This Heart the Church is th' holy Ghost being Center Afflictions may surround but cannot enter You are the prime linke of this manuall chaine Whereby Religion do's its strengthmaintaine O! may the Reuerend Rest to you sticke fast That Truth though long yet conquer may at last TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR THe North and Southerne Poles the two fix'd Starres Of worth and dignitie which all iust warres Should still maintaine together be here met And in your selfe as in your Scutchion set The halfe Moone 'twixt threatens as yet no change Or if she doe she promises to range Till she againe recouer what she lost Your endlesse fame so gaines your Bounties cost EMBLEME 6. SVB ✚ VMBRA ✚ ALARVM ✚ TVARVM ✚ NEuer should any thinke himselfe so sure Of friends assistance that he dares procure New enemies for vnprouok'd they will Spring out of forg'd or causelesse malice still Else why should this poore creature be pursu'd Too simple to offend a beast so rude Therefore prouide for malice danger brings House-roome to find vnder an Eagles wings You are this Eagle whcih ore-shades the sheepe Pursu'de by humane wolues and safe doth keepe The poore mans honest though might-wronged cause From being crushed by oppressions pawes Faire Port you are where euery Goodnesse findes Safe shelter from swolne Greatnesse stubborne winds Eager to drench it but that fearelesse rest Dwels in your harbour to all good distrest I bid not you prouide you are compleate The good for to protect or bad defeate TO THE LORD TREASVRER HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE YOur sable Crescent might to some whose lips Speake ignorance portend a blacke Ecclipse I rather thus discerne how Time would shroud Your radiant Crescent in a sable Cloud And hold those enuious ignorant or dull That cannot see your Crescent growing full EMBLEME 7. QVI ✚ CVRAT ✚ VIGILANS ✚ DORMIT THe carefull States-man who the Key doth carie Of a a Kings Treasury must not partiall varie But to iust causes compasse still be ti'de For Iustice vniust shutting opens wide And lets in hard Opinion to disgrace His Soueraignes selfe his Person and his place Nor must he carelesse slumber but thus keepe His lids vnshut-vp by soft-fingred Sleepe And hold a Counsell with the saddest howres Of silent Night and spend his purest powers In care to render to whom dues belong That Subiects may haue right and Kings no wrong But you Great Lord beare vp this waight of Trust. With a most easie Care because most iust TO THE LORD PRIVY SEALE HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE THose dressings that adorne both parts of Nature First is exprest in this Maiesticke Creature Next in these Flowres of Light both which present Your Honours at full height of complement And Clearnesse which runnes through your noble Blood Mixt with this two-fold tincture Great and Good What 's here but shadow'd then by outward kind Bedeckes the ●nner Roomes of your braue mind EMBLEME 12. ET ✚ DEO ✚ ET ✚ PATRIAE ✚ VVHen ere thou draw'st out thy reuenging rod Let be for Countrey and the cause of God Else thy Oblations will thy curses be When thou encountrest with thine enemy Nor is it sacrifice that can appease Gods wrath vnlesse the mans obedience please More then his offering for if his dull heart Thinkes he inricheth God in any part By offering Hecatombs he looseth all Nay further yet he giues a sword with all To Heau'ns high Iustice by inuoking downe Reuenge in lieu of Guerdon or a Crowne Such as were sacrifices once such bee Our prayers still and our true Sanctitie Which is your In-mate and familiar guest More clearely seene in You then here exprest TO THE LORD ADMIRALL HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE YOur sable mullet like a Starre in blacke Shewes what our honour'd Admirall doth lacke And shewes as if that Starre of Effingham Were thus bemourn'd in a briefe Epigram This may your Pole-starre be most noble Lord And guide you vnto that so much abhorr'd The mournfull yet the blessed Port of death Blowne by the prayers of all good mens breath EMBLEME 9. QVEL CHE DRITTO DA IL CIEL ✚ TORCER NON PVOSSI ✚ SVppose a Globe were fast'ned in the skie With cordes depending on it quarterly And men should striue by violence to wrest That cordage to what crooked forme they list All wise men would conceiue them madly bent Why should they else impossibles attempt And we may thinke it as absurd a drift In him who craftily shall hope to shift When Fate forbids him or shall hope to thwart The good intentions of an honest heart For that which heau'n directs all ages see May iniured but not diuerted be Seeke then no further honest meanings can Make a plaine minde best policy in man TO THE DVKE OF LENOX HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VVHat neede I further striue to amplifie Your high-borne worths and noble dignitie Then by these beautious flowres which declare Your mind 's faire puritie vnstain'd and bare These golden Buckles bordring them about A Palizado to keepe Foulenesse out EMBLEME 10. NON MANCA AL FIN SE BEN TARDA A VENIRE THe Wolfe and Lyon once together met And by agreement they their purpose set To hunt together when they had obtainde Their bootie long pursude the Wolfe refrainde No more then formerly from greedinesse The Lyon apprehending that much lesse Might satisfie a beast no bigger growne Thought all the purchase rather was his owne And thought suppression of a beast so base Was Iustice to preserue the common race Of harmlesse beasts then speedily he teares The Wolfe to take away their vsuall feares Eu'n thus when our great Monarch clearely saw How that insatiate Wolfe of Rome did draw More riches to his coffers then deare soules To Heau'n he like this Lyon then controules His vsurpation deeming him a slaue Who more intended to deuoure then saue But you know best to follow in free course The Best in best things and passe by the worse TO THE MARQVESSE OF BVCKINOHAM HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ALL that we see is comely and delights The eyes which still are pleas'd with pretious sights And as your golden Scallops You appeare To promise that which we may value deare More then a glorious out-side which containes Meate not to be disclos'd without due paines Thus is it scarce to be imagin'd how Desert should paralell your worth or You. EMBLEME 11. INVIDIA ✚ SVVM ✚ TORQVET ✚ AVTHOREM THis glorious Starre attending on the Sunne Having from this low world iust wonder wonne For brightnes Envie that foule Stygian brand T' extinguish it thrusts forth her greedie hand To catch it from it s mounted moving place And hurle it lower to obscur'd Disgrace But while she snatches to put out the flame Foolishly fiers her fingers with the same Who others glories striuet ' eclipse poore