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lord_n	earl_n	seal_n	viscount_n	10,226	5	11.6775	5	false

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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

warblings imitate the Spheares This sings the Treble that the Tenour beares Beasts haue with listning to a Shepheards lay Forgot to feed and so haue pin'd away Brookes that creepe through each flowr-befretted field In their harmonious murmurs musicke yeeld Yea senselesse stones at the old Poets song Themselues in heapes did so together throng That to high beauteous structures they did swell Without the helpe of hand or vse of skill This Harmony in t'humane Fabricke steales And is the sinewes of all Common-weales In you this Concord's so diuinely placed That it by you not you by it is graced TO THE LORD VISCOVNT LIS●E HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LEt there be no addition this alone Will make an Embleme and a perfect one Conceiue it thus then A Darts forked head Apt to endanger though not striking dead Such is or should be every noble mind Prepar'd like this in most resolued kind To wound or kill offensiue iniury And though vnurg'd yet threatens dangers nie EMBLEME 19. ORDINE ✚ TEMPO ✚ NVMERO ✚ EMISVRA ✚ HEre Sience do's in contemplation sit Distinguishing by formes the soule of wit Knowing perfection ha's no proper grace If wanting Order Number Time or Place The Theoricke and Practicke part must be As heate and fire the Sunne and Claritie Such twins they are and such Correlatiues As the'one without the other seldome thriues How can a man the feates of Armes well doe If not a Scholler and a Souldiour too If either then be missing in 's due place Defect steps in and steales from all their grace On good acts you employ the practicke part The Theory lies lodg'd within your heart TO THE LORD VISCOVNT WALLINGFORD HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE VVEll may you neuer find the want or loss Of that most hallowed and instructing Crosse On which our Saviour di'de for these will shew The many blessed thoughts of that in few Heere you may over-looke the world and see Nothing so plentifull as crosses be Thence you may take occasion to prepare Your soule to beare those that worse crosses are These are the badges of Your noble brest That will conduct You to heave'ns quiet rest EMBLEME 20. SOTT ✚ HVMANO ✚ SEMBIANTE ✚ EMPIO ✚ VENENO ✚ THus playes the Courtly Sycophant and thus Selfe-pleasing Sinne which poysons all of vs Thus playd the whore whome the wise King describes Thus he who rayles at and yet pockets bribes Thus playes the Polititian who will smile Yet like this Serpent sting your heart the while Bung vp thyne eares then or suspect the harme When sweete Cyllenian words begin to charme But you can these vnmask by knowing best How to keepe such from lurking neere your breast TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON TWo swords there be which all Diuines should take E're they this victory can perfect make Preuailing Language is a powerfull one Zeale for the truth the other these haue done More noble acts then warre could euer boast Both are in your Field found though else-where lost EMBLEME 21. ME thinkes Right Reuerend here you silence Viewing this Embleme it thus bespeake breake Ride on Triumphing make a glorious shew Catch those who onely but thy Out-side know Hold forth thy witching Cup aduance thy Crowne And ' Mounted thinke thy selfe past pulling downe Yet after all thou canst be prou'd no more Then a deluding and deluded whore TO THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER THe Sword and Keyes to Church-men beene bequeathed Since Paul and Peter were of life bereaued The Keyes a type of Prayers which unlocke Heau'ns glorious gates to let in those that knocke The Spirits zealous and soule-sauing Word Is shadow'd by the sinne-subduing Sword Of Word and Sword th'incorporate qualitie Ha's power to heaue base earth aboue the skie Your powerfull and victorious elegance Which ouercomes bold vice and arrogance Do's proue no weapons to the Church belong But such as Heau'n makes to encounter wrong Nor do's your Gentry differ Lozenges Are curing Cordials Gentrous thoughts like these EMBLEME 22. SERO ✚ IVPITER ✚ DIPHTHERAM ✚ INSPEXIT ✚ BEhold on what the Romaine Faith consists So tost by Errours winds so lapt in Mists That their Arch-pilot scarse can rule the sterne He lackes foundation therefore still to learne How to make 's Ship his Harbour O I wonder Th'ore burden'd Vessell crackes not quite asunder And sinkes not downe opprest by its owne weight With sinfull soules so stuft and over-freight The high Auenger though he seemes to faile With winged wrath will split their proudest saile Heau'ns yron-hand most slowly heau'd aloft Falls quicke dead-sure and home although not oft All wish for their sakes of Romes simpler sort That you might steere their vessell to the Port TO THE BISHOP OF ELY HOw much more better may you challenge these Then all your Predecessors who in ease And sloath you being consider'd did neglect That which deserues a Crowne or good respect These then the Heralds may thinke rather due Not to your place of state but vnto you EMBLEME 23. VNVM ✚ ET ✚ ALTERVM ✚ DIVINVM ✚ REligion still its owne cannot be lost Nor from it selfe diuorc'd though to the most Who iudge by guesse and slight formality There might appeare schisme in Diuinity When not Diuinity which cannot change But humane reason to schismes vild doth range For so the fruites of diuers plants may seeme Diuers in quality and men may deeme Nature hath err'd in such a serious course When both consider'd be the same in force You that best iudge of Schismes can clearely see Error term'd Truth and Truth term'd Heresie TO THE LORD ZOVCU SEe how a worthy spirit not imployde May seeme to lookers on or vaine or voyd These golden peeces thus vnshap't vncoin'd Seeme as if worth and they were quite disioyn'd When brasse or copper being stamp't or fram'd Into the shape of plate is oft misnam'd And oft mistaken for the purest gold But you are ever actiue and vnfold Your pretious substance that your selfe may take Honours true stampe what 's counterfeite forsake EMBLEME 24. CHIARO ✚ QVIETO ✚ PROFONDO ✚ E. ✚ DIVINO HEere Phoebus and the Sacred Sisters sit Chiefely attending Harmonie and Wit Who stay to heare the dying Swans to sing Sad Epods riding on the Thespian Spring Heere the Wingd-Horses hoofe digs vp that Well Whence gurgle streames of Art and sacred Skill Divines like Pegasus divinely mooue In Man springs of profound and precious loue To heav'nly Wisedome who t'ech passing by Poynts out the path-way to Eternitie And whilst You doe your noble thoughts confine To what Divines preach You become Divine TO THE LORD WINDSOR ME thinkes I see in this the true estate Of man still subiect to a lucklesse fate As if the greatest Crosse did represent The generall curse which even all over went From Adam to his wretched progeny The lesser Crosses which accompany The greater be each severall haplesse chance And all together shew that ignorance Is irrecoverably blind where none Prevents