seemes Not to beleeue and yet too credulous Thy weale and woe are both of them extreames Dispaire and hope makes thee ridiculous The one doth flatter the inthoughts vnlikely The likely thoughts the other killeth quickly W. Sha. Loue goes towards loue as schoole boyes from their bookes But loue from loue toward schoole with heauy lookes Idem Loue can comment vpon euery woe Idem Cupids deep riuers haue their shallow fordes His griefe bring ioyes his losse recompences He breeds the sore and cures vs of the paine Achilles launce that wounds and heales againe Ed. Fairfax Wonder it is to see in diuers mindes How diuersly loue doth his pageant play And shewes his power in variable kindes The baser wit whose idle thoughts alway Are wont to cleaue vnto the lowly clay It stirreth vp to sensuall desire And in leaud sloth to waste his carelesse day But in braue spirits it kindles goodly fire That to all hie desert and honour doth aspire Ed. Spencer Such ones ill iudge of loue that cannot loue Ne in their frozen hearts feele kindly flame For thy they ought nothing vnknowne reproue Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame For it of honor and all vertue is The roote and brings forth glorious fruites of fame That crowne true louers with immortall blisse The meed of them that loue and do not liue amisse Idem The persons must in passions iumpe else loue is but a game Nor thinke I of a womans graunt but as a wooers game VV. Warner Pure loue said she the purest grace pursues And there is contract not by application Of lippes or bodies but of bodies vertues As in our elementall motion Starres by their powers which are their heat and light Do heauenly workes and that which hath probation By vertue all contract hath the noblest plight Both for the lasting and affinitie It hath with naturall diuinitie G. Chapman Loue is a lord of truth and loyaltie Lifting himselfe out of the lowly dust On golden plumes vp to the purest skie Aboue the reach of loathly sinfull lust Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weake wings dare not to heauens flie But like a mold warpe in the earth doth lie Ed. Spencer One louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence A dramme of sweet is worth a pound of sowre Idem Loue and maiestie dwell ill together S. Daniell The ioyes of loue if they should euer last Without affliction or disquietnes That worldly chaunces do among them cast Would be on earth too great a blessednes Liker to heauen then mortall wretchednes Therefore the winged God to let men weet That here on earth is no sure happines A thousand sowres hath tempered with one sweet To make it seeme more deare and daintie as is meet Ed. Spencer True it is said what euer man it said That loue with gall and hony doth abound But if the one be with the other waid For euery dramme of hony therein found A pound of gall doth ouer it abound Idem Loue hath delight in sweet delicious fruite Loue neuer takes good counsell for his friend Loue author is and cause of idle care Loue is destraught of wit he hath no end Loue shooteth shafts of burning hot desire Loue burneth more then either flame or fire Loue doth much harme through Iealousies assault Loue once imbrac't will hardly part againe Loue thinkes in breach of faith there is no fault Loue makes a sport of others deadly paine Loue is a wanton childe and loues to brall Loue with his warre brings many soules to thrall Th. Watson Gods themselues are chaung'd by Loue Ioue steales from skies to lie by Laedaes side Arcas descends for faire Aglauraes sake And Sol so soone as Daphne is espide To follow his chariot doth forsake Idem The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his owne deliciousnesse And in the tast confounds the appetite Therefore Loue moderately long loue doth so Too swift arriues as tardie as too slowe W. Shakespeare The rights In which Loues beautious empresse most delights Are banquets Doricke musicke midnight reuelling Plaies maskes and all that sterne age counteth euill Ch. Marlowe Those easily men credit whom they loue S. Daniell Play with the fire yet die not in the flame Shew passion in thy words but not in hart Least whē thou think'st to bring thy thoughts in frame Thou proue thy selfe a prisoner by thy art Play with these babes of loue as Apes with glasses And put no trust in feathers wind or lasses D. Lodge The greedie moone along her giddie spheare Boads not such change in her inconstant course No crinite comet in the waine of yeare No rising rage nor swelling of sourse As Loue in shape in substance and effect But Gods and men with fury doth infect A morning starre that peereth from the pride Of siluer floate bedew'd and sparkling bright Borne from the second forme of waters glide The queene of Loue the mistresse of delight Aye such is loue in semblance at the first But his effects are cruell and accurst D· Lod Albeit bewtie moues to loue and loue doth make thee sue Better at first be nonsuite then at length not to subdue W. Warner It hath bene when as heartie loue did treat and tie the knot Though now if gold but lacking be the wedding fadgeth not Idem Loue learnes rural wits and base borne brats to be reading Heartburning secrets and wonders daintily written In faire flaming eyes by the hand of louely Cupido A. Fraunce Loue nill consent that bewties fiel◠lie waste Ed. Fairfax T is often seene Loue workes a man a weake deiected minde For euer seene a womans loue doth alter as the winde W· VVarner No stile is held for base where loue well named is Each eare suckes vp the words a true loue scattereth S. Ph. Sydney All losse is lesse and lesse the infamy Then losse of loue to him that loues but one Ne may loue be compeld by maisterie For as soone as maisterie comes sweete loue anon Taketh his nimble wings and soone is gone Ed. Spencer For euery pleasure that in loue is found A thousand woes and more therein abound Th. Watson Like as a nibling fish that halfe mistrusts The golden shew of an enticing baite Makes many offers for the thing she lusts Daring to deale with that she deemes deceite So plaies the amorous God with his faire prize Whom loue and lust bids board but shame denies Ch. Middleton From these hie hills as when a spring doth fall It thrilleth downe with still and subtill course Of this and that it gathereth aide and shall Till wit haue iust done flowed to streame and force Then at the foote it rageth ouer all So fareth Loue when he hath tane a course Rage is vaine resistance vaileth none The first issue is remedie alone E. of Surrey Not all the writs Diana hath can Cupids plaint remoue W. Warnaer Lordly Loue is such a Tyrant fell That where he rules all power he doth expell Ed. Sp. If Loue
they at meerest shifts Giue best aduise and shew most readie witte But man except hee chewes and thinks and fifts How euerie part may aunswere to their fit By rash aduise doth often ouer-shoote him And doth accept the things that doe noâ—boote him Idem Those vertues that in women merit prayse Are sober showes without chaste thoughts within Truth sayth and due obedience to their make And of their children honest care to take S. I. H. Let woolues and beasts be cruel in their kind But women meeke and haue relenting mindes M. Drayton Not women but our wilfulnesse doth work our woe vnrest Though beautie loue and they beare fault we may abuse the best W. W. Men haue Marble women waxen minds And therefore are they form'd as Marble will The weake opprest th' impression of strange kindes Is form'd in them by force by fraude or skill Then call not them the Authors of their ill No more then waxe shall bee accounted euill Wherein is stampt the semblance of the diuell Their smoothenesse like a goodly champaine plaine Laies open all the little wormes that creepe In men as in a rough growen groue remaine Caue-keeping euilles that obscurely sleepe Through cristall walles each little moule will peepe Though men can couer minds with bold stern looks Pale womens faces are their owne faults Bookes No man inueyes against the withered flower But chides rough winter that the flower hath kild Not that deuourd but that which doth deuour Is woorthie blame O let it not be hild Poore womens faults that they are so fulfil'd With mens abuses those proude lores to blame Make weake-made women tenants to their shame W. Shakespeare Bee not therefore too proude and full of scorne O women-kind that men come of your seede The fragrant Rose growes on the pricking thorne The Lillie sayre comes of a filthie weede In loathsome soyle men sow the wholsome corne The basest mould the fairest flower doth breede Vngratefull false craftie you are and cruell Borne of our burning hell to bee the fuell S. I. H. Base bullion for the stampe sake wee allow Euen so for mens impression doe wee you By which alone our reuerend fathers say Women receiue perfection euerie way Ch. Marlow Their Vertues mount like billowes to the skies And vanish straight out of the gazers eyes Hate and disdaine is painted in theyr eyes Deceit and treason in their bosome lies G. Chapman Women were made for this intent to put vs vnto paine Yet sure I thinke they are a pleasure to the mind A ioy which man can neuer want as nature hath assign'd Idem Extreamely mad the man I surely deeme That weenes with watch and hard restraint to stay A womans will which is dispos'd to goe astray Ed. Spencer In vaine hee feares that which hee cannot shunne For who wots not that womens subtilties Can gnilen Argus when shee list misdoone It is not iron bands nor hundred eyes Nor brazen walles nor many wakefull spyes That can with-hold her wilfull wandring feete But fast good will with gentle curtesies And timely seruice to her pleasures meeke May her perhaps containe that else would algates fleete Idem Such is the crueltie of women-kind When they haue shaken off the shame-fac't band With which wise nature did them strongly bind T' obey the hests of mans wel-ruling hand That then all rule and reason they withstand To purchase a licencious libertie But vertuous women wisely vnderstand That they were borne to base humilitie Vnlesse the heauens them lift to lawfull soueraintie S. Ph. Sydney Why what be women women geld the latter sillable Then are they nothing more then woe their names remaine doth tell W. W. Take away weakenesse and take women too S. D. Women may fall when there 's no strength in men W. Sh. They melt with words as waxe against the sunne So weake is many womens modestie For what somtimes they most would seeme to sheeld Another time vnaskte poore soules they yeeld Ch. Middleton A woman Loues to be woed of a man thou knowst well Thirsis a woman Runs and yet so runs as though she desir'd to be out-run Saies no no yet so as no no seems to be no no Striues yet so striues as though she desird to be vanquisht Woman's like to a shade that flies yet lies by the subiect Like to a Bee that neuer striues if sting be remooued A. Fraunce In womens mouthes no is no negatiue I. W. Their yea or no when as they sweare they loue or loue vs most Beleeue who list soone be they got as sodainely are lost W. W. A womans loue is riuer-like which stopt will ouerflow And when the current finds no let it often falles too low Idem Varietie of men to court a woman is her pride Then which the vanity of men is nothing lesse espide What are to vs but common hurts Those common hopes they giue If then their loue doth die to vs VVhen ours to them doth liue Idem VVomen neuer Loue beautie in their sexe but enuie euer G. Chapman There cannot bee a greater clogge to man Then to be wearie of a wanton woman S. I. H. What more spight can be a woman told Then one should say she looketh foule and old Idem Bee shee base or hie A womans eye doth guide her wit not her wit her eye W. W. Women are most wonne as when men merit least If merit looke not well loue bids stand by Loues proper lesson is to please the eye G. Ch He water plowes and soweth in the sand And hopes the flickering wind with net to hold Who hath his hopes layd on a womans hand S. P. S Women by kind are mutable euer Soone hot and soone cold like and mislike in a moment Change as a weather-cocke and all as light as a fether A. Fr. Women haue tongues of craft and hearts of guile They will they will not fooles that on them lust For in their speech is death hell in their smile Ed. Fairfax One woman with another may do much Th. Ach. Like vntund golden strings all women are Which long time lie vntoucht will harshly iarre Ch. Marlow Discurteous women natures fairest ill The woe of man that first createst curse Base female sexe sprung from blacke Ates loynes Proude disdainefull cruell and vniust Whose words are shaded with inchaunting wiles Worse then Medâ—sâ— mateth all our mindes And in their hearts sits shamelesse trecherie Turning a truthlesse vile circumference O could my fury paint their furies forth For hell no hell compared to their hearts Too simple diuelles to conceiue their arts Borne to be plagues vnto the thoughts of men Brought for eternall pestilence to the worlde R Greene. with womeÌ„ is too vsual now theirs theÌ„selues to sel For iointures by indeÌ„ture with imperious meÌ„ to dwel And hee doth her and she doth him with his and her vpbraid W. VV. Women are kind by kind and coy for fashion H. C. Of Wrath Fierce reuenging wrath Rides on a Lyon loth
weake and wan But soone through sufferance growe to fearefull end Whil'st they are weake betime with them contend For when they once to perfect strength do growe Strong warres they make and cruell battrie bend Gainst fort of reason it to ouerthrowe Ed. Sp. Affliction If so Affliction once her warre begin And threat the feeble sense with sword and fire The mind contracts her selfe and shrinketh in And to her selfe she gladly doth retire As Spiders toucht seeke their webbes in most part As Bees in stormes vnto their hiues returne As bloud in daunger gathers to the hart As men seeke townes when foes the country burne I. Dauies If ought can touch vs ought afflictions lookes Make vs to looke into our selues so neare Teach vs to know our selues beyond all bookes Or all the learned schooles that euer were Idem This makes our senses quicke and reason cleare Resolues our will and rectifies our thought So do the winds and thunder clense the aire So working seas settle and purge the wine So lopt and pruned trees do flourish faire So doth the fire the drossie gold refine I. Dauies Audacitie What need we creepe the crosse to giue vnto a begging saint Tush tush a fig for booke loue none be fortunate that faint W. Warner Things out of hope are compast oft with ventering Chiefly in loue whose leaue exceeds commission Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then woes best when most his choice is froward W. Shakespeare Blushing and sighing Theseus neuer stroue To wooe and winne Antiope his loue I. Weeuer VVhen all is done that do we may Labour we sorrowing all the night and suing all the day The female faultie custome yeelds lesse merit greatest pay And ventrous more then vertuous means doth bear the bel away W. Warner Art Art hath a world of secrets in her powers M. Drayton Art curbeth nature nature guildeth Art I. Marston Things sencelesse liue by Art and rationall die By rude contempt of Art and industrie G. Chapman Art hath an enemy cald ignorance B. Iohnson Arts perish wanting honour and applause D. Lodge Arts best nurse is honours chast desire And glory sets all studious hearts on fire Tho. Storer Art must be wonne by art and not by might S. I. Harr. Transl Valour and Art are both the sonnes of Ioue Both brethren by the father not the mother Both peeres without compare both liue in loue But Art doth seeme to be the elder brother Because he first gaue life vnto the other Who afterward gaue life to him againe Thus each by other doth his life retaine Ch. Fitz. Ieffery Art is nobilities true register Nobilitie Arts champion still is said Learning is fortitudes right calender And fortitude is Learnings saint and aide Thus if the ballances twixt both bewaide Honour sheelds Learning from all iniurie And Learning honour from blacke infamie Idem Vaine is the Art that seeks it selfe for to deceiue Ed. Spencer Auarice Greedie Auarice by him did ride Vpon a Camell loaden all with gold Two iron coffers hung on either side With precious mettall full as they might hold And in his lap a heape of coyne he tolde For of his wicked pelfe his god he made And vnto hell himselfe for money solde Accursed vsurie was all his trade And right and wrong alike in equall ballance waied Ed. Spencer Forth of a Desart wood an vgly beast There seem'd to come whose shape was thus defined Eares of an Asse a Wolfe in head and breast A carkasse all with pinching famine pined A Lyons grisly iawe but all the rest To fox-like shape did seeme to be enclined In England France in Italy and Spaeine Yea all the world this monster seem'd to raine Where ere this cruell monster set his foote He kild and spoyld of euery sort and state No height of birth or state with him did boote He conquered Kings and crownes all in like rate Yea this beasts power had tane so deep a roote It entred in Christs Vicars sacred gate And vexed Cardinalls and Bishops chiefe And bred a scandall euen in our beliefe S. I. Harr. Python whom Phoebus kil'd with thousand darts Was monster lesse then this by thousand parts Idem Eriphilaes Armor In vaine it were for to declare in Verse How sumptuously her armour all was wrought All set with stones and set with Indian Gold Perfect for vse and pleasant to behold Mounted she was but not vpon a steede In stead whereof she on a Wolfe did sit A Wolfe whose match Apulia doth not breede Taught to obey although she vs'de no bit And all of sandy colour was her weede Her armes were this for such a Champion fit An vgly toade was painted on her shield With poyson swolne and in a sable field Idem Auarice all arm'd in hooking â—enters All clad in birdlime without bridge she venters Through fell Charibdis and false Syrtes Nesse The more her wealth the more her wretchednesse Cruell respectlesse friendlesse faithlesse else Those foule base figures in each dunghill poole Like Tantalus staru'd in the midst of store Not that she hath but what she wants she counts A well-wing'd Bird that neuer loftie mounts I. Syluister Transl Regard of worldly mucke doth fowly blend And lowe abase the hie heroike spirit That ioyes for crownes and kingdomes to contend Ed. Spencer We aged carke to liue and leaue an ouerplus in store Perhaps for spend-alls so amidst abundance liue we pore W. Warner Those which much couet are with gaine so fond That what they haue not that which they possesse They scatter and vnloose from their bond And so by hoping more they haue but lesse Or gaining more the profit of excesse Is but to surfet and such griefes sustaine That they proue banckrout in this pore rich vaine VV. Shakespeare Those that will all deuour must all forgoe Tho. Dekkar CoÌ„tent thee with vnthreatned mean play not Aesops dog The gold that geÌ„tle Bacchus gaue did greedy Mydas clog Commit not treasure with thy child to greedy minded men Thou leauest Polydor a spoile to Polymnestor then VV. VVarner Beautie Sacred Beautie is the fruit of sight That curtesie that speakes before the toong The feast of soules the glory of the light Enuy of age and euerlasting yoong Pitties commaunder Cupids richest throne Musicke entraunced neuer duly sung The summe and court of all proportion And that I may dull speeches least afford All Rhethorickes Flowers in lesse then in a word G. Chapman Bewtie borne of heauenly race Bewtie daughter of maruaile ô see how Thou canst disgracing sorrowes sweetly grace What power thou shew'st in a distressed browe That mak'st affliction faire giu'st teares their grace What can vntressed locks can torne rent haire A weeping eye a wailing face be faire I see then artlesse feature can content And that true Bewtie needs no ornament S. Daniell Bewtie is the bait which with delight Doth man allure for to enlarge his kinde Bewtie the burning lampe of heauens light Darting her beames into
exhailes And is the cause that oft the euening lowers When foggy mists enlarge their duskie sailes That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes And either must extinguish his owne light Or by his vertue cause his proper right M. Drayton To be huge is to be deadly sicke I. Marston O blinded Greatnesse thou with thy turmoile Still selling happy life mak'st life a toile S. Daniel He that striues to manage mightie things Amidst his triumphes beares a troubled minde The greatest hope the greatest haruest brings And poore men in content there glory finde D. Lâ—dge The man that furthereth other men to thriue Of priuate greatnesse doth himselfe depriue Th. Storer Griefe Griefe all in sables sorrowfully clad Downe hanging his dull head with heauie cheare Yet inly beine more then seeming sad A paire of pincers in his hand he had With which he pinched people to the heart That from thenceforth a wretched life they lad In wilfull languor and consuming smart Dying each day with impair'd wounds of dolors dart Ed. Spencer Griefe onely makes his wretched state to see Euen like a toppe which nought but whipping moues This man this talking beast this walking tree Griefe is the stone which finest iudgements proues For who grieues not hath but a blockish braine Since cause of Griefe we cause from life remoues S. Ph. Sydney Griefes deadly sore Vnkindnes breeds vnkindnes fostereth hate Idem Griefe to it selfe most dreadfull doth appeare And neuer yet was sorrow voyd of feare But yet in death they both do hope the best M. Drayton Griefes be long liu'd and sorrowes seldome die Idem Griefe hath two tongues and neuer woman yet Could rule them both without tenne womens wit W. Shakespeare He oft findes medicine who his griefes imparts But double Griefe afflicts concealing harts As raging flames who striueth to suppresse Ed. Spencer Found neuer help who neuer could his griefe impart Idem No greater ease of heart the griefes to tell It daunteth all the dolours of the minde Our carefull hearts thereby great comfort finde I. H. Mir. of Mag. An Ouen that is stopt or Riuer staied Burneth more hotely swelleth with more rage So of concealed Griefe it may be said Free vent of words loues fier doth asswage But when the hearts atturney once is mute The Client breakes as desperate in his sute W. Shakespeare No one thing doth auaile man more To cure a griefe and perfectly to heale it Then if he do vnto some friends reueale it S. I. Harr. Transl Griefe it is inough to vexed wight To feele his fault and not be farther vext Fd. Spencer Some griefe shewes much of loue But much to griefe shewes still some want of wit W. Shakespeare Great griefe can not be told And can more easily be thought then found Ed. Sp. Paine Thou Paine the onely ghuest of loath'd constraint The child of curse mans weaknesse foster child Brother to woe and father of complaint Thou Paine thou loathed paine from heauen exild H. C. The scourge of life and deaths extreame disgrace The smoake of hel that monster 's called paine Idem The thing that grieuous were to do or beare Them to renew I wot breeds no delight Ed. Spencer True griefe is fond and testy as a childe Who wayward once his moode with nought agrees Old woes not infant sorrowes beare them milde Continuance tames the one the other wilde Like an vnpractiz'd swimmer plunging still With too much labour drownes for want of skill W. Shakespeare Paine paies the income of each precious thing W. Sh. Heauen From hence with grace and goodnesse compast round God ruleth blesseth keepeth all he wrought Aboue the aire the fire the sea and ground Our sense our wit our reason and our thought Where persons three with power and glory crownd Are all one God who made all things of nought Vnder whose feete subiected to his grace Sit nature fortune motion time and place This is the place from whence like smoake and dust Of this fraile world the wealth the pompe the power He tosseth humbleth turneth as he lust And guides our life our end our death and hower No eye how euer vertuous pure and iust Can view the brightnes of that glorious bower On euery side the blessed spirirs bee Equall in ioyes though differing in degree E. Fairfax Transl In this great temple richly bewtified Pau'd all with starres disperst on Saphire flower The Clarke is a pure Angell sanctified The Iudge our hie Messias full of power The Apostles his assistance euery hower The Iury Saints the verdit Innocent The Sentence Come ye blessed to my tent The speare that pierst his side the writing Pen Christes bloud the Inke red Inke for Princes name The vailes great breach the miracles for men The sight is shew of them that long dead came From their old graues restor'd to liuing fame And that last signet passing all the rest Our soules discharg'd by Consumatum est Here endlesse ioy is there perpetuall cheare Their exercise sweete songs of many parts Angells the quier whose symphonie to heare Is able to prouoke conceiuing harts To misconceiue of all inticing arts The dirty praise the subiect is the Lord That tunes their gladsome spirit to this accord Th. Storer What so the Heauens in their secret doombe Ordained haue how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast but it must needs to issue come Ed. Spencer What in the heauenly parliament aboue Is written by the finger of the first Mortalls may feele but neuer can remoue For they are subiect to the heauens worst I. Markham By mortall lawe the bond may be diuorced The heauens decrees by no meanes can be forced M. Drarton In vaine doth man contend against the Starres For what he seekes to make his wisedome marres S. Daniell Humane wishes neuer haue the power To hurt or hast the course of heauen one hower Th. Hudson Transl Experience proues and daily it is seene In vaine too vaine man striues against the heauens G. Gascoigne It is most true that eyes are bound to serue The inward part and that th'heauenly part Ought to be King from whose rules who doth swerue Rebelles to nature striue for their owne smart True that true bewtie vertue is indeed Whereof this bewtie can be but a shade Which elements with mortall mixture breed True that on earth we are but pilgrimes made And should in soule vp to our countrey moue S. Ph. Sydney Heauen is our home we are but straungers here M. Drayton The heauens earth and aire and seas and all Taught men to see but not to shunne their fall S. Daniell Things which presage both good and ill there bee Which heauen foreshewes yet will not let vs see M. Drayton From them comes good from them comes also ill That which they made who can them warne to spill Ed. Spencer In vaine be armes when heauen becomes thy foe Idem Looke when the heauens are to iustice bent All things be turn'd to our iust punishment Idem All powers
are subiect to the power of heauen Nor wrongs passe vnreuenged although excus'd Idem Would heauen her bewtie should be hid from sight Nere would she thus adorne her selfe with light With sparkling Lamps nor would she paint her throne But she delighted to be gaz'd vpon And when the glorious sunne goes downe Would she put on her stary bestudded crowne And in her masking sure the spangled skie Come forth to bride it with her reuellry Heauens gaue this gift to all things in creation That they in this should immitate their fashion Idem M Drayton Heauens influence was neuer constant yet In good or bad as to continue it Th. Kyd. If thou be wise hold this as ominous The heauens not like disposed euery houre The starres be still predominant in vs Fortune not alway forth her bagge doth powre Nor euery cloude doth raine a golden showre M. Drayton Heart Free is the Heart the temple of the minde The sanctuarie sacred from aboue Where nature keepes the keys that loose and binde No mortall hand force open can that doore So close shut vp and lock to all mankinde S. Daniell The bodies wound by medicines may be eased But griefes of heart by salues are not appeased R. Greene. By thought of heart the speech of tongue is carried S. I. Harr. Tran. Happinesse vid. Felicitie Hate Hate is the elder loue the yonger brother Yet is the yonger stronger in his state Then th' elder and him mastereth still in all debate Ed. Spencer Nor Hate nor loue did euer iudge aright Innated hate will hardly be displaste Out of high hearts and chiefly where debate Happeneth amongst great persons of estate I. H. Mirr of M. Hatred must be beguilde by some new course Where states are strong Princes doubt their force S. Daniell Spight bites the dead that liuing neuer darde Ed. Spencer Sildome doth malice want a meane to worke M. Drayton Hate hits the hie and windes force tallest towers Hate is peculiar to a Princes state R. Greene. Hatred accompanies prosperitie For one man greeueth at an others good And so much more we thinke oâ—r miserie The more that fortune hath with others stood So that we seld are seene as wisedome would To bridle time with reason as we should Th. Kyd. Haste Oft times the greatest haste the worser speeds S. I. Harr. Transl As busie braines must beat on tickle toyes As rash inuention breeds a raw deuice So suddein falles do hinder hastie ioyes And as swift baits do fleetest fish intice So haste makes waste and therefore now I say No haste but good where wisedome beares the sway G. Gascoigne The swiftest bitch brings forth the blindest whelpes The hottest feuers coldest crampes ensue The nakedst need hath ouer-latest helpes Idem Hastie respect repents when t is too late I. Markeham Rashnesse sees all but nothing can preuent M. Drayton Fore-iudging puts out one of wisedomes eies If by rashnesse valour haue got honour We blame the rashnesse but reward the valour Ch. Fitz Ieffrey O rash false heat wrapt in repentance cold Thy haste springs still blood and nere growes old W. Sh. Hell An hidious hole all vast withouten shape Of endlesse depth orewhelm'd with ragged stone With ougly mouth and grifly iawes doth gape And to our sight confounds it selfe in one Here entred we and yeeding forth anon An horrible loathly lake we might discerne As blacke as pitch that cleped is Auerne A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbish growes With foule blacke swelth in thickned lumps that lies Which vp in th' aire such stinking vapour throwes That ouer there may fly no fowle but dies Choakt with th'pestilent sauours that arise M. Sackuile Thence come we to the horror and the hell The large great kingdomes and the dreadfull raigne Of Pluto in his throne where he did dwell The wide waste places and the hugie plaine The waylings shrikes and sundry sorts of paine The sighes the sobbes the deep and deadly grone Earth aire and all resounding plaine and mone Idem Then turning backe in silence soft they stole And brought the heauy course with easie pace To yawning gulfe of deep Auernus hole And by that same an entrance darke and base With smoake and Sulphur hiding all the place Descends to hell their creature neuer past That back returned without heauenly grace But dreadfull furies which their chaines haue brast And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men agast Ed. Spencer Darksome den of Auernus Wher 's no path to returne nor starting holes to be scaping Desteny death and hell and howling hidious hell-hound Loathsom streames of Stix that nine times compasse Auernuâ— Ab. Fraunce They passe the bitter waues of Acheron Where many soules sit wayling wofully And come to fiery flood of Phlegeton Whereas the damned ghoasts in torments fry And with sharpe shrilling shrikes do bootlesse cry Cursing high Ioue the which them thither sent Ed. Spencer About the desart parts of Greece there is a vally low To which the roaring waters fall that froÌ„ the mouÌ„tains flowâ— So rocks do ouershadow it that scarse a man may vew The open aire no sun shines there amidst this darkesom creâ— Doth stand a citie to the same belongs one onely gate But one at once may come therto the entrance is so strait Cut out the rough maine stony rocke this citie did belong To Pluto and because that he was doing alwaies wrong And kept a theeuish rable that in mischiefe did excell His citizens were diuels said and citie named hell W. Warner Honour In woods in waues in warres doth honour dwell And will be found with petill and with paine Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Vnto her happie mansion attaine Before her gate hie God did sweat ordaine And wakefull watches euer to abide Ed. Spencer Honour is purchas'de by the deeds we doo Ch. Marlowe Honour is not wonne Vntill some honourable deed be donne Idem Danger bids seeke the softest way one way But what saith honour honour saith not so Neuer retire with shame this honour saith The worst that can befall one is but death S. I. Harr. In braue pursuit of honourable deed There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the common seed Which vnto things of valerous pretence Seemes to be borne by natiue influence As feates of armes and loue to entertaine But chiefly skill to ride doth seeme a science Proper to gentle blood some others faine To manage steed c. Ed. Spencer Euer great imployment for the great Quickens the bloud and honour doth beget S. Daniell Promotion is a puffe These worldly honors are but shades of sweete Who seeke too much before they get enough Before they meet the meane with death they meete With death they meete the hauen of all desire Where will must waâ—ne and pride cannot aspire D. Lodge Honour a thing without vs not our owne S. D. What doth auaile to haue a princely place A name of honour and an high degree To
did showe Ed. Spencer Humilitie to heauen the step the staire Is for deuotion sacrifice and praier M. Drayton The bending knee in safetie still doth goe When others stumble as too stiffe to bowe Idem As on the vnsauourie stocke the Lillie is borne And as the Rose growes on the pricking thorne So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart And cries deuout comes from an humble hart Th. Hudson Transl More honour in Humilitie then safetie in walles Proud liuers proue not monuments saue onely in their falles VV. Warner Ah God shield man that I should clime and learne to looke aloft This reed is ripe that oftentime great climers fall vnsoft In humble dale is footing fast the trode is not so fickle And though one fall through heedlesse haste yet is his misse not mickle Ed. Spencer The lowly heart doth win the loue of all But pride at last is sure of shamefull fall G. Tur. Hypocrisie Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike diuels store That speake to serue that serue to shift that shift to spare by guile And smoothe and soothe and yet deceiue with scriptum est meane while W. Warner But let thē heaue their hāds to heauē they show they 'r here in hell That seeme deuout to cloake deceit and say but do not well Idem Who cloakes their mindes in hoods of holinesse Are double villaines and the Hypocrite Is most odious in Gods glorious sight That takes his name to couer wickednesse I. Syl. Many vse temples to set godly faces On impious hearts those sinnes vse most excesse That seeke their shrowdes in fained holinesse G. Chapman Vide Dissimulation Iealousie Shee seem'd of womans shape but in her head A thousand eyes she had that watch did keepe As many eares with which she harkened Her eyes want lids and therefore neuer sleepe In stead of haire her crowne snakes ouerspred Thus marched she forth of the darknes deepe Her tayle one serpent bigger then the rest Which she with knots fastened about her brest S. I. Harrington Transl A monster others harme selfe miserie Bewties plague vertues scourge succour of lies Who since he hath by natures speciall grace So piercing pawes as spoile when they embrace So nimble feete as stirre though still on thornes So many men seeking their owne woe So ample eares that neuer good newes kowes Is it not ill that such a beast want hotnes S. Ph. Sydney O hatefull hellish snake what furie first Broughr thee from balefull house of Proserpine Where in her bosome she the long had nurst And fostered vp with bitter milke of time Foule iealousie that turnest loue diuine To day lesse dread and mak'st the liuing hart With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine And feed it selfe with selfe consuming smart Of all the passions in the minde thou viler art Ed. Spencer O Iealousie daughter of Enuie and loue Most wayward issue of a gentle sire Fostred with feares thy fathers ioies to proue Mirth marring monster borne in subtiltie Hatefull vnto thy selfe flying thy owne desire Feeding vpon suspect that doth renew thee Happie were Louers if they neuer knew thee Thou hast a thousand gates thou entrest by Condemning trembling passions to our hart Hundred eyed Argus euer making spy Pale hagge infernall furie pleasures smart Enuious obseruer prying in euery part Suspitions fearefull gazing still about the hart O would to God that loue could be without thee S. Daniell A new disease I know not new or old But it may well be term'd poore mortall plaine For like the pestilence it doth infect The houses of the braine first it begins Solely to worke vpon the phantasie Filling her seat with such pestiferous aire As soone corrupts the iudgement and from thence Sends like contagion to the memorie Still each of other taking like infection Which as a searching vapour spreads it selfe Confusedly through euery sensiue part Till not a thought or motion in the minde Be farre from the blacke poyson of suspect B. Iohnson Where loue doth raigne disturbing iealousie Doth call himselfe affections Centinell And in a peacefull houre dooth crye kill kill Distempering gentle loue with his desire As ayre and water dooth abate the fire This sound informer this bare-breeding spie This cancker that eates vp this tender spring This carry-tale discentio's iealousie W. Shakespeare Fowle weatherd iealousie to a forward spring Makes weeds growe ranke but spoiles a better thing Sowes tares gainst haruest in the fields of loue And dogged humor dogdayes like doth prooue Scorching loues glorious world with glowing tong A serpent by which loue to death is stonge A foe to waste his pleasant summer bowers Ruine his mansions and deface his bowers E. Guilpin Pale Iealousie childe of insatiat loue Of heartsicke thoughts which melancholy bred A hell tormenting feare no faith can moue By discontent with deadly poyson fed With heedlesse youth and error vainly led A mortall plague a vertue drowing floud A hellish fier not quenched but with bloud M. Drayton What state of life more pleasant can we finde Then these that true and heartie loue do beare Whom that sweet yoake doth fast together binde That man in Paradice first learnd to weare Were not some so tormented in their minde With that same vile suspect that filthy feare That torture great that foolish phrenezie That raging madnes called Iealousie For euery other sower that gets a place To seate it selfe amidst this pleasant sweete Helpes in the end to giue a greater grace And make loues ioies more gracious then they were He that abstaines from sustenance a space Shall finde both bread and water relish sweete S. I. Harr. Transl Iealousie is Cupids foode For the swift steed runnes not so fast alone As when some other striue him to out goe Ed. Fairfax Transl Loue wakes the iealous eye least then it moues The iealous eye the more it lookes it loues S. Ph. Sydney No iealousie can that preuent Whereas two parties once be full content Idem Impatience changeth smoake to flame but iealousie to hell W. Warner On loue saies some waits iealouzie but iealousie wants loue When curiously the ouerplus doth idle quarels moue Idem Where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse then hornes in the hed B. Iohnson That canker-worme that monster iealousie Which eates the heart and feeds vpon the gall Turning all loues delight to miserie Through feare of loosing his felicitie Ed. Spencer Shun iealousie that hart-breake loue if cat will go to kinde Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blinde VV. Warner True loue doth looke with pale suspicious eie Take away loue if you take iealousie M. Drayton No beast is fierer then a iealous woman S. Daniell Idlenesse Prides coach was drawne of sixe vnequall beasts On which her sixe sage counsellours did ride Taught to obey her bestiall beheasts With like conditions to their kindes applide Of which the first that all the rest did guide Was sluggish Idlenesse the nurse of sinne Vpon a slothfull Asse
power the world was made of yore And all that therein wondrous doth appeare Ed. Spencer Loue is the Lord of all the world by right And rules the creatures by his powerfull saw All being made the vassalls of his might Through secret sence which thereto doth them draw Idem Vapour eterne in man in beast in tree In plant and flower is loue and so of might For in the world may not contained bee Without accord and Loues imperiall right Yet wends the foxe in holy hood full oft And craft in stead of truth beares crest aloft D. Lodge That true Loue which dauncing did inuent Is he that tun'd the worlds whole harmonie And link't all men in sweete societie He first exaulted from th' earth mingled minde That heauenly fier or quintessence diuine Which doth such sympathy in bewtie finde As is betwixt the Elme and fruitfull Vine And so to beautie euer doth encline Lifes life it is and cordiall to the hart And of our better part the better part I. Dauies Sweete loue is a celestiall harmonie Of likely hearts compos'd of hearts consent Which ioy together in sweete sympathie To worke each others kind and true content Which they haue harboured since their first discent Out of these heauenly bowers where they do see And know each other here belou'd to bee Ed. Spencer Iron with wearing shines rust wasteth treasure On earth but Loue there is no other pleasure H. Constable Loue a continuall fornace doth maintaine Idem Wealth maister is and porter of the gate That lets in loue when want shall come too late Th. Churchyard Loue to heauen is fled Since swearing lust on earth vsurpt his name Vnder whose simple semblance he hath fled Vpon fresh bewtie blotting it with blame Which the hot tyrant staines and soone berâ—aues As caterpillers do the tender leaues W. Sh. Loue is a spirit all compact of fier Not grosse to sinke but light and will aspire Idem Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames That waking breakes and fills vs with extreames G. Chapman Loue is a discord and a strange diuorce Betwixt our sence and rest by whose power As mad with reason we admit that force Which wit or labour neuer may diuorce It is a will that brooketh no consent It would refuse yet neuer may repent Loue 's a desire which for to waight a time Doth loose an age of yeares and so doth passe As doth the shadow seuerd from his prime Seeming as though it were yet neuer was Leauing behind nought but repentant thoughts Of dayes ill spent of that which profits noughts It 's now a peace and then a sudden warre A hope consumde before it is conceiu'd At hand it feares and menaceth a farre And he that gaines is most of all deceiu'd Loue whets the dullest wits his plagues be such But makes the wise by pleasing dote as much E. O. Loue is a brain-sicke boy and fierce by kind A wilfull thought which reason cannot moue A flattering Sycophant a murdering theefe A poysoned choaking baite a ticing greefe A Tyrant in his lawes in speech vnknowne A blindfold guide a feather in the winde A right Chamelion for change of hew A lame-lime-lust a tempest of the minde A breach of charitie all vertues foe A priuate warre a toilsome web of woe A fearefull iealousie a vaine desire A labyrinth a pleasing miserie A shipwracke of mans life a smoakelesse fier A ship of teares a lasting lunacie A heauie seruitude a dropsie thirst A hellish Iaile whose captiues are accurst Th. Watson A sugred harme a poyson full of pleasure A painted shrine ful-fill'd with rotten treasure An heauen in shew a hell to them that proue A broken staffe which fully doth vphold A flower that fades with euery frostie cold An Orient rose sprung from a withered plant A game in seeming shadowed still with want A minutes ioy to gaine a world of griefe A subtill net to snare the idle minde A seeing scorpion yet in seeing blinde A poore reioyce a plague without teliefe D. Lodge Loue is a smoake made with fume of sighes Being purg'd a fier sparkling in Louers eies Being vext a sea nourisht with louing teares What is it else a madnesse most distrest A choaking gall and a preseruing sweet W. Shakespeare It is a doubled griefe a sparke of pleasure Begot by vaine desire and this his loue Whom in our youth we count our chiefest treasure In age for want of power we do reproue Yea such a power is Loue whose losse is paine And hauing got him we repent againe D. Lodge Loue the Idle bodies worke and surfet of the eye W. Warner Loue is but a terme like as is Eccho but a voice That this doth babble that doth breed or not is ours the choice W. Warner Loue is a subtill influence Whose finall force still hangeth in suspence D. Lodge Loue is a wanton famine rich in foode But with a riper appetite controlled An argument in figure and in moode Yet hates all arguments disputing still For sence against reason with a sencelesse will G. Chapman Of euery ill the hatefull father vile That doth the world with sorceries beguile Cunningly mad religiously prophane Wits monster reasons canker sences bane Loue taught the mother that vnkind desire To wash her hands in her owne Infants blood Loue taught the daughter to betray her fire Into most base and worthy seruitude Loue taught the brother to prepare such foode To feast his brothers that all seeing sunne Wrapt in a cloude that wicked sight did shunne I. Dauies Loue is a sowre delight a sugred griefe A liuing death an euer dying life A breach of reasons law a secret theefe A sea of teares an euerlasting strife A baite for fooles a scourge of noble wits A deadly wound a shot which euer hits Loue is a blinded god and angry boy A labyrinth of doubts an idle lust A slaue to bewties will a witlesse toy A rauening bird a tyrant most vniust A burning heate a cold a flattering ioy A priuate hell a very world of woe Th. VVatson Loue bewitcher of the wit The scorne of vertue vices parasite The slaue to weakenesse friendships false bewraier Reasons rebell fortitudes betraier The churchmeÌ„s staffe court camp countries guider Arts infection chaste thoughts and youths defiler I. VVeeuer Controlling Loue proud fortunes busie factor The gall of wit sad melancholies schoole Heart-killing corsiue golden times detractor Life-fretting canker mischiefes poysoned toole The Ideots ydle brother wise mens foole A foe to friendship enemie to truth The wrong misleader of our pleasing youth M. Drayton Loue is roote and onely crop of care The bodies foe the hearts annoy cause of pleasures rare The sicknesse of the minde the fountaine of vnrest The gulfe of guile the pit of paine of griefe the hollow chest A fiery frost a flame that frozen is with Ice A heauie burden light to beare a vertue fraught with vice It is a worldlike peace a safetie seeing dread A deepe
dispaire annext to hope a fancie that is fed Sweete poyson for his taste a port Charibdis like Ascylla for his safetie though a Lyon that is meeke Th. Turberuile O brawling loue O louing hate O any thing of nothing first created O heauie lightnesse serious vanitie Mishapen Chaos of well seeing formes Feather of lead bright smoke cold fier sicknes helth Still waking sleepe that is not what it is W. Shakespeare Sight is his roote in thought is his progression His childhood wonder prentiship attention His youth delight his age the soules opression Doubt is his sleepe he waketh in inuention Fancie his foode his cloathing carefulnesse Beautie his booke his play Louers discention His eies are curious search but vaild with warefulnesse His wings desire oft clipt with desperation Largesse his hands could neuer skill of sparefulnesse But how he doth by might or by perswasion To conquer and his conquest how to ratifie Experience doubts and schooles had disputation S. Ph. Sidney Loue hath two shafts the one of beaten gold By stroake whereof a sweete effect is wrought The other is of lumpish leaden mold And worketh no effect but what is nought Th. Watson At Venus intreatie for Cupid her sonne These arrowes by Vulcan were cunningly done The first is Loue as here you may behold His feathers head and body are of gold The second shaft is Hate a foe to loue And bitter are his torments for to proue The third is Hope from whence our comfort springs His feathers are puld from Fortunes wings Fourth Iealousie in basest mindes doth dwell This mettall Vulcans Cyclops sent from hell G. Peele Hard is the doubt and difficult to deeme When all three kinds of loue together meet And do dispart the heart with power extreame Whether shall waigh the ballance downe to weet The deare affection vnto kindred sweet Or raging fier of loue to woman kinde Or zeale of friends combinde with vertues meet But of them all the band of vertues minde Me seemes the gentle heart should most assured finde Ed. Spencer Of vertue onely perfect loue doth grow Whose first beginning though it be more slow Then that of lust and quickens not so fast Yet sure it is and longer time doth last The strawe inkindles soone and slakes againe But yron is slow and long will heat retaine Th. Hudson Most true it is that true loue hath no power To looken back his eyes be fixt before W. Sha. Loue alwaies doth bring forth most bounteous deeds And in each gentle heart desire of honor breeds True loue is free and led with selfe delight Ne will inforced be with masterdome or might Idem Loue naked boy hath nothing on his backe And though he wanteth neither arme nor legge Yet maim'd he is sith he his sight doth lacke And yet though blind he bewtie can behold And yet though nak'd he feeles more heat then cold H. C. Loue staies not long it is but one yeares bird Th. Churchyard Loue must haue change to season sweet delight Idem Loue lawes and Iudges hath in fee Nature and vse his iudges bee To whom his whole course censures flee Since past and things to come they see G. Chapman Loue is in power felt of all in person found of none Or rather is not reall but some fancie If not then Fantasticall in women but essentiall in men W. Warner Loues eyes in viewing neuer haue their fill W. Marlowe This is the least effect of Cupids dart To change the mind by wounding of the hart Th. Watson Vnto the woods runs loue as well as rides to the pallace Neither he beares reuerence to a prince nor pitie to beggere But like a point amidst of a circle still of an euennesse All to a lesson he drawes neither hills nor caues can auoyd him S. Phil. Sidney The throne of Cupid hath an easie staire His barke is fit to saile with euery winde The breach he makes no wise man can repaire Ed. Fairfax Loue will haue his godhead seene In famous queenes and highest princes hearts S. I. H. Loue wants his eyes yet shootes he passing right His shafts our thoughts his bowe he makes our sight His deadly pilles are tempered with such art As still directs the arrow to the hart M. Drayton Loue doth raigne In stoutest minds and maketh monstrous warre He maketh warre he maketh peace againe And yet his peace is but continuall warre O miserable men that to him subiect are Ed. Spencer First loue is firme and toucheth very neare W. Warner Loue vnto life this cognizance doth giue This badge this marke to euery man that minds it Loue lendeth life which liuing cannot die Nor liuing loue G. Gascoigne Loue is too full of faith too credulous With folly and false hope deluding vs. Ch. Marlowe Loue is not full of mercy as men say But deafe and cruell where he meanes to pray Idem Loue paints his longings in sweet virgins eyes G. Chapman Loue gainsaid growes madder then before Th. Watson Loue findeth meane but hatred knowes no measure Ed. Spencer As Bacchus opes dissembled harts So loue sets out our better parts M. Roydon As loue hath wreathes his pretie eyes to seare So louers must keep secret what they feare D. Lodge Loue keeps his reuels where there are but twaine W. Shakespeare As Iris coate in sundry taints doth showe So loue is clad in weale and strait in woe D. Lodge Loue can abide no law loue alwaies loues to be lawlesse Loue altereth nature rules reason mastereth Olympus Lawes edicts deerees contemnes Ioue mightily thundring Ioue that rules and raigns that with beck bendeth Olympus Loue caried Hyppolitus with briars thorns to be mangled For that he had the faire foule lusting Phedra refused Loue made Absyrtus with sisters hands to be murdred And in peeces torne and here and there to be scattered Loue forst Pasiphae mans company long to be loathing And for a while bulls flesh bulls company long to be taking Loue and luring lookes of louely Polixena caused Greekish Achilles death when he came to the church to be wedded Loue made Alcides that most inuincible Heros Maister of all monsters at length to be whipt of a monster Loue drownd Leander swimming to the beautifull Heâ—o Vnto the towne Cestos from towne of cursed Abydos Loue made Ioue that 's ruler of earth and ruler of heauen Like to a silly shepheard and like to the fruitfull Echidua Like to a fish to a swan a spawne to a bull to an eagle Sometimes Amphitrio sometimes Dictinua resembling Ab. Fraunce Trifling attempts no serious acts aduance The fier of loue is blowne by dalliance G. Chapman Where there growes a sympathy of harts Each passion in the one the other paineth And by euen carryage of the outward parts Wherein the actuall worke of loue remaineth The inward griefes mislikes and ioyes are taught And euery signe bewraies a secret thought D. Lodge Loue deeply grounded hardly is dissembled Ch. Marlowe O bold beleeuing loue how hote it
compelled be and cannot chuse How can it gratefull or thanke worthy proue Loue must free harted be and voluntary And not enchaunted or by fate constrain'd Nor like that loue which did Vlisses carry To Circes Ile with mightie charmes I. Dauies Where heate of Loue doth once possesse the hart There cares oppresse the minde with wondrous ill Wit runnes awrie not fearing subtill smart And fond desire doth euer maister will The belly neither cares for meate nor drinke Nor ouerwatched eyes desite to winke Footesteps are false and wauering too and fro The brightsome flower of beautie fades away Reason retires and pleasure brings in woe And wisedome yeeldeth place to blacke decay Councell and fame and friendship are condemned And bashful shame and Gods themselues conteÌ„ned Watchfull suspect is kindled with dispaire Inconstant hope is often drownd in feares What folly hurts not fortune can repaire And miserie doth swim in seas of teares Long vse of life is but a liuing foe As gentle death is onely end of woe Th. Watson Vnlawfull meanes doth make loue lawfull gaine He speakes most true when he the most doth faine M. Drayton As many bees as Hybla daily sheelds As many frie as fleet in Oceans face As many heards as on the earth do trace As many flowers as deckt the fragrant fields As many starres as glorious heauen containes As many cloudes as wayward winter weepes As many plagues as hell enclosed keepes So many griefes in Loue so many paines Suspicions thoughts desires opinions praiers Mislikes misdeeds fond ioyes and fained peace Illusions dreames great paines and small encrease Vowes hope acceptance scornes and deepe dispaires D. Lodge The gnawing enuie the heartfretting feare The vaine surmises the distinctfull shewes The false reports that flying tales do beare The doubts the dangers the delaies the woes The fained friends the vnexpected foes With thousand more then any tongue can tell Do make a Louers life a wretches hell Ed. Spencer T is folly by our wisest worldlings prou'd If not to gaine by loue to be belou'd B. Ihonson Against Loues fier feares frost hath dissolution W. Shakespeare Greater conquest of hard Loue he gaines That workes it to his will then he that it constraines Ed. Spencer â—nto a Knight there is no greater shame â—hen lightnes and inconstancie in loue Idem â—oues weeping flames by reason do subdue â—efore their rage grow to so great vnrest â—s miserable louers vse to rue â—hich stil wax old in woes whil'st woe stil waxeth new Ed. Spencer Old Loue is litle worth when new is more preferd Idem Who can shew all his loue can loue but lightly S. Daniell No man from the monarch loue by wit or weapoÌ„ flies W. Warner Loftie Loue doth loathe a lowly eye Ed. Spencer Loue thriues not in the heart that shadowes dreadeth W. Shakespeare Gather I say the Rose while it is time For soone comes age that will her pride deflame Gather the Rose of Loue while yet is time Whil'st louing thou mai'st loued be with equall aime Ed. Sp. O learne to loue the lesson is but plaine And once made perfect neuer lost againe VV. Shakespeare Louers their loued Ladies loues to gaine Promise protest and sweare without regard That God doth see and know their falshood still And can and shall reuenge it at his will Their oathes but words their words are all but wind Vttered in heart and with like heart forgotten As bundles are trust vp coards all rotten Coinesse is nought but worst to be too kind Men care not for the good that soone is gotten But women of their wits may chiefly boast That are made wiser by an others cost S. I. H. He that bindes himselfe in worthy bands Although his shew but grace him small Although he finde no fauour at her hands Sharp words coy lookes small thanks hope none at all Though more and more aloofe from him she stands Yet for his heart and thoughts be highly placed He must not mourne although he die disgraced Idem Dumbe Swans not chattering Pies do Louers proue They loue indeed who dare not say they loue S. Ph. Sydney The Louer and beloued are not tied to one Loue. VV. Sh. He that on Loues blind snares once sets his foote Seemeth to draw it backe but findes it caught And madnesse meere in Loue to ouershoote The foole hath felt the wise hath euer taught And though in all alike it take not roote Yet all shall finde Loue is a thing of nought For sure it is an open signe of madnesse To haue an others pleasure breed thy sadnesse S. I. Harrington The birds their beake the lion hath his taile And louers nought but sighes and bitter moane The spotlesse force of fancie to assaile D. Lodge Sweete are the kisses the embracements sweete When like desires and affections meete For from the earth to heauen is Cupid raised Where fancie is in equall ballance peized Ch. Marlowe Foule words and frownes must not repell a Louer What though the Rose hath prickles yet t is pluckt Were bewtie vnder twentie locks kept fast Yet Loue breakes through and breakes them all at last W. Shakespeare Louers houres are long though seeming short If pleasde themselues others they delight In such like circumstance with such like sport Their copious stories oftentimes begun End without audience and are neuer done Idem A Louer may bestride the Gossamours That Idles in the wanton sommer aire And yet not full so light is vanitie Idem The Dutch in loue is proude Italians enuious The French man full of mirth the Spanyard furious Magicke Three kindes there are for natures skill The first they naturall do name In which by hearbes and stones they will Worke wondrous things and worthy fame The next is Mathematicall Where Magicke workes by nature so That brazen heads make speake it shall Of woods birds bodies flie and go The third Veneficall by right Is named for by it they make The shape of bodies chang'd in sight And their formes on them to take M. of M. Oh who can tell The hidden power of hearbes and might of magicke skill Ed. Spencer Man In time conuenient this world Almightie created And it a large theater to behold his glory appointed Which wheÌ„ he had with store of treasures richly replenisht And with aboundant grace causd euery part to be furnisht Man was made at length Adam was quickly created Most perfect creature and like to the mightie Creator Good wit immortall of mankind only beginner But proud ambition the serpent craftily cloaking With curst and bitter sweete his cankred poyson abounding Adam dispossest of pleasant beautifull harbors Adams heart possest with most vnspeakable horrors Man was mard at length Adam was fouly defaced Last worke and lost worke Adam was filthily fowled Most cursed creature vnlike to the mightie Creator Bad foolish mortall of mankind only the murderer A. France Vile man begot of clay and borne of dust Ed. Fairfax Man composed first of slime Doth liue to lead his
is into water cast One circle doth an other circle make Till the last circle touch the banke at last Idem Remēbrance is the life of grief his graue forgetfulnes Ed. Fairfax Remembrance fresh makes weakened sorrows strong Idem Mischiefe The cause once gone th'ffects thereof surcease And mischiefes being preuented whil'st they are yong Cannot braunch forth themselues to do that hurt That time their natures and bad men would worke Ch. Middleton A Mischife seene may easily be preuented But being hapt not helpt yet still lamented M. Drayton Faire goodnesse is foule ill if mischiefes wit Be not represt from leaud corrupting it Idem Mischiefe is oft made good by speeding well S. Daniell Mercie Some Clarkes do doubt in their deuisefull art Whether this heauenly thing whereof I treat To weeten Mercie be of Iustice part Or drawne forth from her by diuine extreat This well I wot that sure she as great And meriteth to haue so hie a place She first was bred and borne of heauenly race From thence powr'd downe of men by influence of grace Ed. Spencer O who shall shew the countenance and gestures Of Mercie and iustice which faire sacred sisters With equall poize do euer ballance euen Th'vnchaunging proiects of the King of heauen Th' one sterne of looke th' other mild aspecting The'one pleasd with teares th' other bloud affecting Th' one beares the sword of vengeance vnrelenting Th' other brings pardon for the true repenting I. Syluicter Still as rage kindleth the fire of wrath Mercie to quench it store of water hath S. I. Harrington This noble vertue and diuine Doth chiefly make a man so rare and od As in that one he most resembleth God Idem Then come we nearest to the Gods on hie When we are farthest from extremitie Giuing forth sentence of our Lawes with Mercie Tho. Achely Mercie may mend whom malice made offend Death giues no thankes but checks authoritie So Rulers mildnesse subiects loue do nourish S. Daniell Soft pittie enters at an Iron gate VV. Sh. Mercie but murders pardoning those that kill Idem Pittie drawes loue bloud-shed as natures griefe Compassion followeth the vnfortunate S. D. VVhen pittie runneth afore loue alwaies followeth after A. Fraunce As it is greater praise to saue then spill So better to reforme then to cut off the ill Ed. Spencer How deare is mercie hauing power and will When pittie helpes where equitie doth kill M. Drayton Minde The Minde hath in it selfe a deitie And in the stretching circle of her eie All things are compast all things present still Will fram'd to power doth make vs what we will G. Chapman It is the minde that maketh good or ill That makes a wretch or happie rich or poore For some that haue a boundance at their will Haue not inough but want in greatest store An other that hath little askes no more But in that little is both rich and wise Ed. Spencer The Minde is free what ere afflict the man A King 's a King do fortune what she can M. Drayton The Minde times enemie obliuions foe Disposer true of each note worthy thing Ed. Fairfax Our mindes discerne where eies could neuer see M. Draiton That Minde most is bewtifull and hie And nearest comes to a diuinitie That farthest is from spots of earthes delight Pleasures that loose their substance with their sight Such one Saturnius rauisheth to loue And fills the cup of all content to Ioue G. Chapman The setled mind is free from fortunes power They need not feare who looke not vp aloft But they that are too carefull euery hower For when they fall they light not very soft M. of M. What plague is greater then the griefe of minde The griefe of mind that eates in euery vaine In euery vaine that leaues such clods behinde Such clods behind as breed such bitter paine So bitter paine that none shall euer finde What plague is greater then the griefe of minde E. of Ox. Ill mind to mind so much of others ill As to become vnmindfull of his owne Ed. Spencer Into our minds let vs a little fall And we shall finde more spots then leopards haue S. Phil. Sidner O vanitie of mans vnstable minde Puft vp with euery blast of friendly winde Ed. Fairfax In base minds no friendship dwels nor emnitie Ed. Spencer Oft times we see that sorrowes of the minde Finde remedie vnsought which seeking cannot finde Ed. Spencer Weak body wel is chang'd for minds redoubled force Idem So moue our minds as motions moue the aire M. of M. Nor is it his our minds that make our natiue homes our graue As we to ours others to theirs like parciall fancie haue Transmut we but our minds and then all one an alien is As if a natiue once resolu'd makes euery country his VV. Warner Monarchs Augustus quailing Anthony was Emperour alone In whose vnfoed Monarchy our common health was knowne W. Warner A mighty monarch must whilest greening youth doth flowe Make one or two or three proofes of his peerles power For valour is the gate of honour beautified The first staire step it is wherby good hap doth guide Our feete to glories mount and nothing hartens so The men of armes to fight as valiant prince we know But afterward he must with wary wisedome warre More often with his wit then with his weapon farre And feeding so his spirit with sweet sharpe easie paine Not keep a souldiers place but captains roome retaine I. Syluester Mildnesse fitteth maiestie hie minds are disalowed VV. Warner No man from the Monarch loue by wealth or weapon flies Idem Mildnesse would better suite with maiestie Then rash reuenge and rough seueritie M. Dray Murder Black hell-bred humor of fier-venging sin By whose inticements murders we commit The end vnthought of rashly we begin Letting our passion ouerwhelme our wit Who may and will not murder in truth committeth S. Phil. Sidney Vnpunisht scapes from hainous crime some one But vnreueng'd in mind and body none Idem The cruell man a cruell death shall tast And blood with blood be venged at the last I. Syl. Those that in blood such violent pleasure haue Seldome descend but bleeding to their graue B. Iohnson Vengeance on minde the fretting furies take The sinfull corps like earth-quake agues shake Their frowning lookes their troubled minds bewray In hast they run and midst their race they stay As gidded Doe amidst their speech they whist At meate they muse no where they may persist But some feare netleth them aye hang they so So neuer wants the wicked murderer woe M. of M. Muses Imps of K. Ioue and Queene remembrance loe The Sisters nine the Poets pleasant pheers Calliope doth stately style bestowe And worthy praises paints of princely peers Clio in sullen songs reneweth all day With present yeares conioyning age by past Delightfull talke loues comicall Thalia In fresh green youth who doth lawrell tast With voyces tragicall sounds Melpomen And as with chaines th' allured eares she binds Her
Be as thou art not as thou wouldst it will be as it is Learne then to lack and learn to liue for crosses neuer misse Idem Prayer Prayers heart and sides and feet are full of wings Like to th' Arcadian which Ioues arrand brings Her body burning from her lips doth come The smoake of Incense and of sweet Amome I. Syluester Heauens are propitious vnto fearfull prayers R. Greene. Fasting though faint her face with ioy she cheares In weaknes strong and young in aged yeares Quicke health preseruer curbing Cupids fits Watchfull purge humors and refining wits I. Syl. Praise This false painted deitie called Laude Which makes vs thirst for vaine eternitie Twixt our desires and hope a cunning baud Vshers the soule vnto extremitie And helpt by slye insinuating fraud Couers her deeds in scrowles of pietie I. Markham The hope of praise makes men no trauell shunne To say an other day this haue we donne S. I. H. Who rightly climes the top of endlesse praise Regards not what the wise discourser saies Th. Storer From praise takes enuie cause W. W. The chiefest praise is to imbrace the man In wealth and woe with whom our loue began G. Turb The greatest praise in greatest perils wonne Ed. Fairfax The looser wantons sild are praisde of many Vice oft findes friends but vertue sildome any M. Dray In Athence where Themistocles remaind Though much he conquered by his regiments Yet Solon was more praised for his intents D. Lodge Praise not the bewty of thy wife though she of fame be spred For Gyges moued so did graft on Caudales his hed VV. Warner Prouidence O Prouidence the conduct to our life The ground of vertue hostile foe to sin That reâ—â—est Towers and appeasest strife Thou gatherest all dispearsed exiles in Thou that inuentest lawes gainst man and wife Thou mistresse vnto auncient discipline Thou that bear'st heauen and nature round about thee That makest all things nothing being without thee I. Markham Pride Of grisly Pluto she the daughter was And sad Proserpina the queene of hell Yet doth she thinke her peerlesse worth to passe That parentage with pride so doth she swell And thundering Ioue that high in heauen doth dwell And weeld the world she claimed for her sire Or if that any els doth Ioue excell For to the highest she doth still aspire Or if ought higher were then that doth it desire And proud Lucifera men did her call Ed. Spencer O pride the shelfe close shrowded in the port Of this lifes Ocean drowning all resort D. Lodge Pride makes her rownds for she hath neuer end And sonnets for she neuer leaues her noyse She makes her dumps if any thing offend And to her Idoll-selfe with warbling voyce Sings Hymnes and Anthems of especiall choyce And yet prides quiuer's put to silence cleane Wanting a base a tenor and a meane Th. Storer The winged giant loftie staring pride That in the cloudes her brauing brest doth hide I. Syl. Pride is the roote of ill in euery state The sourse of sin the very fiend his fee The head of hell the bough the braunch the tree From which do spring and sprout such fleshly seeds As nothing els but moane and mischiefe breeds G. Gascoigne Pride drawes on vengeance vengeance hath no mean Nemesis hath euery howre reseru'd A plague for pride that hath from iustice sweru'd D. Lodge Such is the nature still of hautie pride Can nothing lesse then others praise abide M. of M. When once pride but pointeth toward his fall He beares a sword to wound himselfe withall M. Drayton Loftie pride that dwells In towred courts is oft in shepheards cells Ch. Marlowe A proud man may his owne musition bee His heads deuise makes pauins to his hart This heart with lippes and pleasures daunceth free All but the measures framing euery part Like organis worthy of so sweet an art His thoughts plaies marches to his vaulting minde And memorie his Recorder stands behinde Th. Storer Gay without good is good hearts greatest loathing Ed. Spencer Princes The very place wherein a Prince appeares Discernes his presence makes his chamber blest Like Planets are they knowne within their spheares Or as Halcion with her luring brest Demonstrates winde from winde and East from West This is a certaine nature of estate It cannot masked be nor chaunge his gate Th. Storer A Princes safetie lies in louing people His fort is Iustice free from stratageme Without the which strong citadels are feeble The subiects loue is wonne by louing them Of louing them no oppression is the tryall And no oppression makes them euer loyall I. Syl. To be a Prince is more then be a man S. Daniell Princes are the glasse the schoole the booke vvhere subiects eies do liue do read do looke vv vvarner Howbeit subiects falsly iudge their Princes blessed are vvhen both of peace perils they contain the common care And yet for this they grudgingly from pounds a penny spare Idem Princes in subiects wroÌ„gs must deem themselues abusd S. Phil. Sidney Priuate men sound not the hearts of Princes Whose actions oft beare contrary pretences S. Daniell Princes like Lyons neuer will be tamde A priuate man may yeeld and care not howe But greater hearts will breake before they bowe Idem The Princes armes are stretcht from shore to shore M. Drayton As the pawnce doth circle with the Sunne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne W. Warner Good Princes sorrow more in punishing Then euil subiects in committing sin Ch. Mid. Euen as defaults will more conspicuous be How much th' offender greater is esteemd So vertue in a princely body seene Lamp-like and far more excellently deemd That in such vinitie it s seldome seene In mutuall approach of highest blisse Whether more graced each by other is Th. Storer O happie Princes whose foresight and care Can winne the loue of writers in such sort As Caesars did so as you need not dread The lake of Laethe after ye be dead S. I.H. Princes neuer do themselues more wrong Then when they hinder iustice or prolong Idem In whose high brest may Iustice build her bower When Princes hearts wide open lye to wrong G. Gascoigne We imitate the greater powers The princes manners fashion ours The example of their light regarding Vulgar loosenes much incenses Vice vncontroll'd growes wide inlarging Kings small faults be great offences S. Daniell Oft for the pleasure of a prince go many things awry VV. Warner Princes like sinnes be euermore in sight Ill see the clouds which do eclips their light Yet they which light all downe from their skies See not the cloudes offending others eies And deeme their noonetide is desirde of all When all exspect cleare changes by their fall M. Dray Princes haue but their titles for their glories An outward honor for an inward toyle And for vnfelt imagination They often feele a world of restlesse cares So that betwixt their titles and low names Their 's nothing
discoursing to and fro Anticipating and comparing things She doth all vniuersall natures know And all effects into their causes bring Our witte is giuen Almightie God to know Our will is giuen to loue him being knowne But God could not bee knowne to vs below But by his works which through the sence are knowne I. Dauis Wit is the mindes cheefe iudge which doth controle Of fancies Court the iudgements false and vaine Will holdes the royall scepter in the soule And on the passions of the heart doth raigne Idem Emulation the proud nurse of witte S. D. Wit and learning are two Angelles wings By which meane men soare vp to mightie things Ch. Middl. Wit is with boldnesse prompt with terror daunted And grace is sooner got of dames then graunted Ed. Spencer Some loose their wit with loue some with ambition Some running to the sea great wealth to get Some following Lords and men of high condition Some in fayre iewelles rich and costly set One hath desire to prooue a rare magician Others with Poetrie their witte forget Another thinkes to bee an Alchimist Till all hee spent and hee his number mist S. I. H. Mans wit is monstrous when the same from vertue doth decline W. Warner Mans witte doth build for time but to deuoure But Vertue 's free from time and fortunes power M. Dr. The wit not hurt because not vsed more Growes dull and farre lesse toward then before Wits ambition longeth to the best For it desires in endlesse blisse to dwell I. Dauis Best loues are lost for wit when men blame fortune G. Chapman Carelesse wit is wanton bewties page D. Lodge The finest wittes are soonest snarde with loue Th. Achellye A setled braine is worth a world of witte Th. Storer Wits want makes men desirous to seeme wise Woe Woe all in blacke within her hands did beare The fatall torches of a funerall Her cheekes were wet dispersed was her hayre Her voyce was shrill yet lothsome therewithal D. Lodge Short time seemes long in sorrowes sharp sustaining Though woe bee heauie yet it seldome sleepes And they that watch see time how slow it creepes W. Shakespeare Fellowship in woe doth woe asswage As palmers that make short their pilgrimage Idem T is double death to drowne in ken of shore He ten times pines that pines behoulding food To see the salue doth make the wound ake more Great griefes greeue most at that would doe it good Deere woes rowle forwarde like a gentle flood Who being stopt the bounden bankes ore flowes Greefe dallied with nor law nor limmit knowes Idem Distresse likes dumps when time is kept with teares Idem For stronger woe we hardly long may wrest The depth of griefe with words is sounded least M. Dra. The Painter VVho thought his colours pale could not declare The speciall woe King Agamemnon bare When sacrificed was his onely rage With bend of blacke he bound the fathers face Th. Hudson Words Words Windie atturnies of our clyent woes Ayery succeeders of intestate ioyes Poore breathing Orators of miseries Let them haue scope though what it doth impart Helpe not at all yet doth it ease the heart VV. Sh. Words are the tennants of an itching toy D. Lodge Allusion of words is no sure ground For one thereon a steddie worke to found One word of woe another after traineth S Ph. Sydney Few words shall fit the trespasse best Where no excuse can giue the fault amending W. Sh. Deepe sounds make better noyse then shallow fords And sorrow ebbes being blown with wind of words W. Sh. Words are but winde why cost they then so much The giltie kicke when they too smartly toâ—ch Idem Forth irreturnable flies the spoken word Bee it in scoffe in earnest or in bourd VVithout returne and vnreceiu'd it hangs And at the takers mercie or rigor stands Which if hee sowrely wrest with wrathfull cheare The shiuering word turnes to the hearers feare If friendly courtesie doe the word expound To th'speakers comfort quickly it doth redound Idem Smoothe words dissolue hard stones faire words inforce Pittie in flintie hearts Ch. Middl. Through the world if it were sought Faire words enow a man should finde They bee good cheape they cost right nought Their substance is but onely winde But well to say and so to meane That sweete accord is seldome seene S. Th. W. Words well plac't moue things were neuer thought G. Chapman Euen as the vapour which the fire repelles Turnes not to earth but in mid-ayre dwelles Where while it hangs if Boreas frostie flawes With rigor rattle it not to raine it thawes But thunder lightning ratling hayle or snow Sends downe to earth whence first it rose below But if faire Phebus with his countenance sweete Resolue it downe the dew or Manna sleete The Manna dew that in the Esterne lands Excelles the labour of the Bees small hands Else for her Memnon gray Auroraes teares On the earth it stilleth the partner of her feares Or sendeth sweet showres to glad their mother earth Whence first they tooke their first in constant birth To those great greefes ill taken words do grow Of words well taken such delights do flow M. of M. Men do foulest when they finest speake S. Daniell They wash a Moore they striue to drie the seas And plaine proude Atlas that intend to please By filthy woords by rayling and detraction Proper to Momus and his hatefull faction For when they thinke they haue deserued most Alas sayth wisedome all the toyle is lost D. Lodge Few words well coucht doe most content the wise R. Greene. Rash words flow from an vnaduised mind Who once hath past the boundes of honestie In earnest deedes may passe it well in words G. G. Haue care to whom of whom and what to speake though speech be true That misse made Phoebus contrarie his raueÌ„s swan-like hue W. W. If so the crow would feast him without prate More meate hee should receiue lesse brawle and hate A foole hee is that comes to preach and prate When men with swords their right wrong debate Words well disposed Haue secret power t' appease inflamed rage Ed. Sp. Women Women bee Framde with the same parts of the mind as we Nay nature triumpht in their beauties birth And women made the glorie of the earth The life of bewtie in whose supple breasts And in her fairest lodging vertue rests VVhose towring thoughts attended with remorse Do make their fairenesse be of greater force I. Weeuer What art so deepe what science is so hie Vnto the which women haue not attain'd Who list in stories old to looke may trie And find my speech herein nor false nor fain'd And though of late they seeme not to come nie The praise their sex in former times haue gain'd Doubtlesse the fault is either in back-biters Or want of skill or iudgement in their writers Idem Among the many rare and speciall gifts That in the female sexe are found to sitte This one is chiefe that
gan sing To welcome home the bride-groome of the sea G. Peele The gray-eyde morne smiles on the frowning night Cheering the easterne cloudes with streams of light And darkenesse flected like a drunkard reeles From forth dayes path-way made by Titans wheels W. Sh. Now had the morne espide her louers steedes VVhereat shee starts puts on her purple weede And red for anger that hee stayd so long All headlong throwes her selfe the cloudes among Ch. Marlow As soon as morning her shining haires fro the mountains Had shewen forth driuen all star-light quite fro the heauens A. Fraunce Faire Aurora betimes by the daies break rose from her husband Husband old cold draue back clouds froÌ„ Olympas Making way to the sun taking her way to the younker Braue yonker Cephalus whom faire Aurora desired Idem Now was the time when as Aurora faire Began to shew the world her golden head And looke abroade to take the coole fresh ayre Iealous Tithono lying still in bedde S. I. H. The sable night dislodgd and now beganne Auroraes vsher with a windie fanne Sweetely to shake the woods on euerie side The whilst his mistresse like a stately bride With flowers with gemmes and Indian gold doth spangle Her louely locks her louers looks to tangle VVhen passing through the aire in mantle blue With siluer fringe shee drops the pearlie dew With her goes Abram out I. Syluester The rosie fringed morne with gladsome ray Rose to her taske from old Tithonas lap Ed. Fairfax The night beginnes bee angrie when shee sees She can distill no sleepe in louers eyes Tossing her selfe among the cloudes now hath Sent the red morne as harauld of her wrath VVhose louer Phebus rising from his bed VVith dewie mantle hath the world or'e-spread Shaking his tresses our Neptunes ebbe And giuing tincture to the spiders webbe These fayre nimphs rose seeing the light did call I. Weeuer Aurora bright her cristall gates vnbatr'd And bridegroome like stept forth the glorious sunne Ed. Fairfax The dewie tressie morning newly wake With golden tinsell scarse had crownd her brow Riding in triumph on the Ocean lake Embellishing the hony-fringed bowes M. Drayton The purple morning left her crimsin bed And dond her robes of pure vermillion hue Her amber locks shee crownd with roses red In Edens flowry gardens gathered new Ed. Fairfax Soles Ortus At last the golden Orientall gate Of greatest heauen gan to open fayre And Phoebus fresh as bridegroome to her mate Came dauncing forth shaking his dewie haire And hurles his glistering beames through gloomie ayre Ed. Spencer The fierie sunne was mounted vp on hight Vp to the heauenly towres and shot each where Out of his golden chariot glistering light And faire Aurora with her rosie hayre The hatefull darknesse now had put to flight Idem The golden sunne rose from the siluer waue And with his beames enameld euerie grene Ed. Fairfax The snoring snout of restlesse Phlegon blew Hot on the Indes which did the day renew With scarlet skie Th. Hadson Meridies Hyperion throwing forth his beames full oft Into the highest toppe of heauen gan clime And the world parting by an equall lot Did shed his whirling flames on either side As the great Ocean doth himselfe diuide Ed. Spencer When as the sunne towred in heauens head Downe from the siluer mountaines of the skie Bent his bright chariot on the glassie bed Fayre Cristall gilded with his glorious eye Fearing some vsurpation in his sted Or least his loue should too long dalliance spie Tweene him and Virgo whose attractiue face Had newly made him leaue the Lions chace In that same middayes hower c. I· Markham Golden Phoebus now that mounted hie From fierie wheeles of his fayre chariot Hurled his beames so scorching cruell hot That liuing creature mote it not abide Ed. Spencer In highest way of heauen the sunne did ryde Progressing from fayre twins in golden place Hauing no maske of cloudes before his face But streaming forth his heate in cheefest pride S. Ph. Sydney Solis Occasus Now gan the golden Phoebus for to steepe His fierie face in billowes of the west And his faint Steedes watred in Ocean deepe Whilst from their iournall labours they doe rest Ed. Spencer Loe the great Automedon of day In Isis streame his golden locks doth steepe Sad euen her dusky mantle doth display Light flying fouls the posts of night doe sport them And cheerefull looking Phoebe doth comfort them D. Lodge By this the welked Phoebus gan auaile His wearie waine and now the frostie night Her mantle blacke through heauen gan ouerhaile Ed. Spencer Such loue as Phoebus from the coloured skie Did headlong driue his horses toward the west To suffer horned Luna for ro prye Amidst the dusky darke D. Lodge When as the Sun hales towaâ—ds the westerne slade And the tree shadowes three times greater made M. Dr. And now the Sunne was past his middleway Leaning more louely to his lemmons bed And the Moones third howre had attacht the day I. Markham By this the sunne had spred his golden locks Vpon the pale greene carpet of the sea And opened wide the scarlet doore which locks The easefull euening from the labouring day Now night beganne to leape from yron rocks And whippes her rustie waggon through the way Idem The blushing sunne plucks in his smiling beames â—aking his steedes to mend their woonted pace Till plunging downe into the ocean streames There in the froathie waues hee hides his face Then raines them in more then his vsuall space And leaues foule darknesse to possesse the skie A time most fit for foulest tragedie M.D. Now the sunne is mounted vp on hie And pawseth in the midst of all the skie His fierie face vpon the earth doth beate And bakes it with intollerable heate I. Authoris Vesper Now the golden Hesperus Was mounted bie in toppe of heauens sheene And warned had his brethren ioyous To light their blessed lamps in Ioues eternall house Ed. Spencer 〈◊〉 â—his the night from forth the darksome bower 〈◊〉 â—â—bus her teemed steedes gan call 〈…〉 Vâ—sper in his timely howre From golden Oeta gan proceede withall R. Greene. About the time when Vesper in the West 〈…〉 â—ing watch and silent night 〈…〉 â—is twinckling traine 〈…〉 to possesse the world And fantasie to hauzen idle heades Vnder the stately Canopie of heauen I layd me downe laden with many cares G. Peele Now the worlds comforter with wearie gate His dayes hot taske hath ended in the VVest The owle nights harauld shreekes t is verie late The sheepe are gone to fold the birds to nest The cole-blacke cloudes that shadow heauens light Do summon vs to parte and bid good night W. Sh. Noctis initium Now gan the hunni'd vapour shed the ground With pearlie dew and th' earths gloomie shade Did dimme the brightnesse of the welkin round That euerie beast and bird awarned made To shrowde themselues while sleep their senses did inuade Ed. Spencer The silent shadowes
too much hast And with the striuing oft is in such taking As scant a man may yet it out with shaking Idem Sorrow As one that saw in Aprill or in May A pleasant garden full of fragrant flowers Then when the earth new clad in garments gay Decks euery wood and groue with pleasant bowers Comming againe on some Decembers day And sees it mard with winters stormes and showers So did the Court to Bradamant appeare When as she saw Rogero was not there I. Harr. As gorgious Phaebus in his first vprise Discouering now his scarlet-coloured head By troublous motions of the lowring skies His glorious beames with fogs are ouer-spred So are his cheerfull browes ecclipst with sorrow which clowd the shine of his youths smiling morrow M. Drayton Like as when Phaebus darting forth his rayes Glydeth along the swelling Ocean streames And whilst one billow with another playes Reflecteth backe his bright translucent beames Such was the conflict then betwixt our eyes Sending forth lookes as teares do fall and rise Idem Like to a vessell with a narrow vent Which is fild vp with licour to the top Although the mouth be after downeward bent Yet is it seene not to distill a drop Euen thus our breast brimful with pensiue care Stopping our tongues with greefe we silent are Idem As the high Elme when his deare Vine hath twind Fast in her hundred armes and holds imbrast Beares downe to earth his spouse and darling kind If storme or cruell steele the tree downe cast And her full grapes to nought doth bruze and grind Spoyles his own leaues faints withers dies at last And seemes to mourne and die not for his owne But for the death of her that lyes orethrowne So fell he mourning mourning for the dame Whom life and death had made for euer his E. Fairefax As when a foggy mist hath ouer-cast The face of heauen and the cleere ayre ingrost The world in darknes dwells till that at last The watry South-wind from the Sea-bord coast Vp blowing doth disperse the vapours lost And powres it selfe forth in a stormie showre So the fayre Britomart hauing disclost Her cloudy care into a wrathfull stowre The midst of greefe dissolued into vengeance powre Edm. Spen. As a stroke giuen on the righter eye Offends the left euen so by simpathy Her husbands dolours made her hart vnglad And Iudiths sorrowes made her husband sad T. Hudson Dissimulation As when a wearie trauailer that straies By muddy shore of broad seauen-mouthed Nile Vnwitting of the perilous wandring wayes Doth meete a cruell craftie Crocodile vvhich in false greefe hiding his harmefull guile Doth weepe full sore and sheddeth tender teares The foolish man that pitties all the while His mournfull plight is swallowed vp vnwares Forgetfull of his owne that minds anothers cares So wept Duessa vntill euentide Edm. Spencer As cunning singers ere they straine on hie In loude melodious tunes theyr gentle voyce Prepare the hearers eares to harmonie With fainings sweet low notes and warbles choyce So she not hauing yet forgot pardie Her wonted shifts and sleights in Cupids toyes A sequence first of sighes and sobs forth cast To breede compassion deere then spake at last Ed. Fairefax As guilefull Goldsmith that by secret skill vvith golden foyle doth finely ouer-spred Some baser mettle which commend he will Vnto the vulgar for good gold indeed He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood then if it were true So hard this Idole was to be ared That Florimell her selfe in all mens view Shee seemd to passe so forged things do fairest shew Edm. Spencer As when two sunnes appeare in th' azure skie Mounted in Phaebus Chariot fierie bright Both darting forth faire beames to each mans eye And both adornd with lamps of flaming light All that behold so strange prodigious sight Nor natures work them gesse nor what to weene Are rapt with wonder and with rare affright So stoode Sir Marinell when he had seene The semblance of this false by this faire beauties queene Idem Loue. As men tormented with a burning feauer Dreame that with drinke they swage their greeuous thirst But when they wake they feele theyr thirst perseuer And to be greater then it was at first So shee whose thoughts frō loue sleepe could not seuer Dreamt of that thing for which she wake did thirst But waking felt and found it as before Her hope still lesse and her desire still more S. I. Harr. The man that dwells farre North hath sildome harme With blast of winters winde or nypping frost The Negro sildome feeles himselfe too warme If he abide within his natiue coast So loue in mee a second nature is And custome makes me thinke my woes are blisse Tho. Watson The Harpie byrds that did in such despight Greeue and annoy old Phineus so sore Were chasde away by Calais in fight And by his brother Zeth for euermore vvho followed vntill they heard on hie A voyce that said ye twins no farther flie Phineus I am that so tormented was My Laura heere I may a Harpie name My thoughts and lusts be sonnes to Boreas Which neuer ceast in following my dame Till heauenly grace sayd vnto me at last Leaue fond delights and say thy loue is past Idem All as the greedy fisher layes his hookes Alongst the coast to catch some mighty fish More for his gaine then wholsome for the dish Of him that buies euen so these sisters braue Haue louers more then honest maydens haue Tho. Hudson As when mightie Macedon had wonne The Monarchie of earth yet when he fainted Greeu'd that no greater action could be done And that there no more worlds was to subdue So loues defects loues conquerour did rue Edm. Spencer Looke as the faire and fiery-poynted sunne Rushing from forth a clowde bereaues our sight Euen so the curtaine drawne his eyes begun To winke beeing blinded with a greater light W. Shakespeare Like as in furie of a dreadfull fight Theyr fellowes being slaine or put to flight Poore souldiours stand with feare of death dead strooken So at her presence all surprizd and tooken Await the sentence of her scornefull eyes He whom she fauours liues the other dies C. Marlow Feare Like as a Hinde forth singled from the heard That hath escaped from a rauenous beast Yet flies away of her owne feete afrayd And euery leafe that shaketh with the least Murmure of windes her terror hath increast So fled fayre Florimell from her vaine feare Edm. Spencer He shakes aloft his Romaine blade Which like a Faulchon towring in the skies Coucheth the foule below with his wings shade Whose crooked beake threats if he mount he dies So vnder his insulting Fauchion lyes Harmelesse Lucretia marking what he tells With trembling feare as foule heares Faulchons bells W. Shakespeare As the poore frighted Deere that stands at gaze Wildly determining which way to flie Or one incompast with a winding maze That cannot tread the way out readily So with