Choler if too little little steeds And if too much too much doth make vs fret But being meane it many Vertues breeds And with an actiue warmth the blood it feeds For to be angery and not to sinne Is an obligatorie Heast divine For whiles we are that holy anger in Not wholly angery it is a signe We flame with that which doth our soules refine For in our Soules the iry-pow'r it is That makes vs at vnhallowed thoughts repine And sober soules are zealous made by this Then zealous soules can hardly Anger misseâ— Thus Ire I pleade for thee but thou hurt'st mee O be propitious therefore hurt me not Then Volumes large â—le write concerning thee Which without blott of blame I al wil blott VVith blacke that shal thy bright make bright as hott So leaue I thee and would thou me would'st leaue Yet leaue me not as one thou hast forgott But mind me stil when I should thee conceaue Gainst ill that would my soule of good bereaue For so thou didst possesse Gods patient Soule When he as God and Man the Temple clear'd With VVhipps of money-Changers who did proule For filthie Pelfe in place to him endear'd Where most of al he should be serv'd and fear'd So be with me deere Ire till thou and I Must part or â— by thee no further steer'd Then may agree with perfect pietie And well may stand with true felicitie NOw from vnloving Ire doth Hatred spring Which is more Hellish for its lasting Ire As some suppoâ—e which is a damned thing Like to the Devill her prodigious Sire VVho Loues to hate as Loue hates that desire Sith God and Nature hath made Man in loue To loue God and his like with loue intire VVhat Vice can Vertue in man more reproue Then that which Man to misse his Ende doth move Yet Ire from Hatred must distinguisht be For Ire proceeds froÌ„ some wrong done to vs But Hatred is conceav'd as soone as we Suppose a Creature to be odious Though to vs it were nere iniurious And Time can Ire aswage but hardly Hate Ire would but vex but Hatred's murderous Revenge cooles Ire but cannot Hate abate Ires hart can melte but Hates is obdurate Loue is the Linck that lincks maÌ„ kind by kind Louing and kinde in perfect Vnion This Statute sans defesance men doth bind To succour one another woe-begon As if they were not diverse but al one But Hatred is the Hatchet which doth cleeve Mankinde to peeces in confusion Releefe refusing and â—ake to releeve Yet giues more daÌ„mage theÌ„ it would receave None harbreth Hatred but men like the Devill The Proud Envious which are ful of hate These hateful Hell-hounds loue this lothsome Evill Because it seekes mankinde to ruinate VVhat can the Devill worse excogitate It is the Toade that swells with Venome such That no force can resist much lesse abate The Moath of MaÌ„-kind worse theÌ„ nought by much Yet most indiff'rent to the Poore and Rich. But hate inhabits Man to good effect VVhen he loues nought that is not perfect good For he through Hate doth Evill still reiect VVhich would corrupt his Nature Mind Moode And make it like it selfe a Nihilhood Such hate is happie holy and divine By which the force of Ill is stil withstood This Hate we ought to loue which doth repine At al which doth not Loue aright refine Then sacred Hate let my Loue thee embrace And to an Habit grow'n inhabit mee Sith thou flow'st from the Fountes of Loue Grace O let my love be ever backt by thee Then Ill from Loue so backt wil ever flee It is a feaver of the Minde to hate That 's hate to Loue but wheÌ„ they both agree They doe preserve the Soule in perfect state Whilst Ill of Ills they quite annihilate TheÌ„ hate my Soule that thou maist ever love That which this Hate doth loue with loue intire That is al good below much more aboue Wherto this hate through loue would faine aspire For perfect Love inflames iust Hates desire No otherwise then VVater hott or cold Though in some sorte it doth oppung the fire Yet makes the flames thereof more manifold VVhen it is cast thereon so as it should Thus Ire and Hatred may be good or ill According to their obiects And Envy Their aie familier doth follow still Hatred and Ire to make a Trinity Which may be vs'd well ill or neut'rally It is well vs'd for Gods foes good successe But ill when it anothers good doth eye And neut'rally when it doth not transgresse The boundes of Love for loving more or lesse Shee is to Mercie alwaies opposit In her true kinde for Mercy stil doth grieue At others harmes but envi's glad of it And pines with paine when others wel doe thriueâ— Yea liues in death when others liue to liue Some envy others gains that hinder theirs Some others weale wheÌ„ they cannot arriue Vnto the like some other that aspires To that they sought but faild of their desires But some there are that envy others good Without respect of their owne benefit Only because they think their fate 's withstoode When others on the least good fortune hit Or doe the least good getting praise for it This is the envie than which none is worse Ev'n that of Sathan for Men most vnfit This is the envie that incurres his curse That from Heav'n for the like did Angels force For envies eies pry most of al on praise The noblest goods goods of the noblest Minde They most envie and stil themselues they raise To highest vertue where they fixt it finde Heereat the teeth of envie most doe grinde For looke how much the Minde the Corpes excels And the Mindes riches are of rarer kinde So much the more the hart of envie swels At those that haue these goods then any els Shee is Prides second selfe or other name Monsters distinct yet vndiuiduall In heav'n and earth hath wel appeer'd the same For both made heau'nly Lucifer to fall So doe they Lucifers terrestrial Pride 's more apparaÌ„t for it needs must swel But envy euer lines Prides Pectorall Pride 's as the high'st envie the lowest hell Worse Hags theÌ„ either can in neither dwel Pride before all desires to be preferr'd If anie therefore be preferr'd before Shee instantly is with fel envie stirr'd And the more rise her envie is the more Though Meeknes mount prids hart doth ake therfore For shee thinkes only shee doth al excel Then others excellence her heart must gore As others heav'n on earth is Envies hell So others rising makes Pride still to swell For where there is no sunne no shadow is And where 's no weale or glory envi's not Shee feedes on her owne hart and others blisse Shee skornes to looke so low as to their lot That are of Fortune or the world forgot Therefore shee lurkes about the Courtes
deforme VVithout constraint for Hee Her freedome gaue And did with vnderstanding her informe That voluntarie service hee might haue As that his nature most doth loue and crave For as himselfe doth nothing by constraint So he constraines not those that him obay Lest that their vvil might haue cause of complaint For want of libertie it selfe to sway Those praiers please him not Constraint doth say But true obedience flowing from the vvill Then vvill should force her selfe for so shee may His gratious good will freely to fulfiil Sith good he made hir loue and loath the Ill. Then Iustice would that God mans will should doe When Man doth Gods vvill this exchang is iust And Gods free-wil must needes subscribe thereto Sith it is free to doe that needes itmust VVhich cannot doe the thing that is vniust For that were bondage free or freedome bound Sith ro doe evill but to haue a lust VVere Vassallage to Sathan that Hel-hound VVhich fredome to doe good would quite confound But yet the vvill hath many motions else Diverse degrees therein doe plaine appeare Some haue such open harts and wilful vvills As that they loue and hate through passion meere So Reason their Mindes Sterne in vaine doth steere For sense they serve and have no patience The seemeing neerest pleasure to forbeare For further good but forth-with please their sense As sensuall appetite doth them incense But vvill in others so hir selfe commaunds And those Pow'rs to her pow'r subordinate That being free shee bindeth both in bands And vnto Reason all doth captivate As many Dropsy-drie forbeare to drincke Because they know their ill t' would aggravate So vvill herein from her owne selfe doth shrinke And cleaves to that that Reason best doth thinke The Heau'ns and Earth and all the Elements And what besides Man is of them compos'd Doo GOD obay in his commaundements For as Hee wils so are they al dispos'd Yet never he himselfe to them disclos'd Then not from knowledge their obedience springes But from the nature in their kinds inclos'd Yet Men he made to know and doe the things That be of him which grace and Knowledge bringes And that he should with more heede doe the same A VVill he giues him ioyn'd wirh griefe and Ioy Which vvill might ioy when she doth passion tame And in the contrary might feele annoy All as shee doth her natiue powres imploy Here hence we know the odds twixt Ioy and Griefe For in extreames they comfort or destroy Such as leade here a good or evil life Both flowing from the vvill their fountaine chiefe This pow'r hath highest vertue of Desire And Caesarizeth ore each Appetite Shee rules being taught with libertie intire VVhose actions are to vvill and nill aright VVhose Obiect 's real good or so in sight In nature shee hates ill in deede or show And in the true or false good doth delight If ill for good shee choose hence it doth gro Because ill seeming good shee takes it so Shee nought can loue but hath some show of good Nor ought can loath but hath like show of ill Desire of good by her may be with-stoode But it shee cannot loath or leave it still So may shee choose to execute her will VVhen ill is tendred her indeede or sho Bnt cannot lâ—aue it or her wil fulfill Because to ill shee is a mortall foe And lothes it as sole worker of her woe Then must shee needs be ever vnconstrain'd Sith her Creators Wil would haue it so Shee could not be her selfe were shee restrain'd And though shee waites on Reason to and fro Yet shee makes Reason waite her will to kno For touching her her Lord confines his powre Which cannot take that he did once besto Namely arbiterment her richest dowre Except Not-beeing should her quite devoure For shee hath powre to obiect to the Minde What pleaseth her or not the same obiect And while the Thoughts the same do turne winde Shee may oreturne those Thoughts or them neglect And turne the Minde to what shee shal direct Yea when as Iudgments final doome is giv'n Shee may or may refuse the same t' effect For Men are not as Beasts by Nature driv'n Vnlesse of Reason they are quite bereav'n About shee goes when Iudgements doome is past And re-examines what it hath decreed Which done perhaps the same shee will distast Although the sentence be direct indeede And runnes another course lesse right with speed Which second search yet aimes at greater right Though shee mistakes the same for want of heede Which want proceeds froÌ„ Sins extreame dispight That blindes our Mindes eies in extreamest light Wherefore it vs behoues Grace to invoke Whereby wit vprightly may weld the will For as ill Sprites our fantazies provoke So on our wils they may the like fulfill And make her scorne to rule by Reasons skill For shee 's ambitious and delights to raigne Without controle how euer well or ill And beeing free shee runneth on amaine To ioy if wel if otherwise to paine This liberty of Monarchizing thus Shee deemeth good what ill so ere ensues Which libertie is bondage base to vs And free we were if our will could not chuse But vse His will that gaue vs wils to vse Whose only service only freedome is And only they are Slaues that it refuse Sith they are Sathans servants if not his Which please him most when they do most amisse For in this great commerce of terrene things The bad whereof exceeding so the good And that so fast the one to other clings That twixt them both there is great likelyhood Hardly by will can they be vnderstood And sith Men Bodies haue aswel as Soules Things bodily best like the bodies moode Which often so the Minde and VVill controules That as it lusts it rules and over-rules Herehence it is some mortall life doe prize Aboue eternal and their guts aboue The highest God that doth their guts suffize And though the will herein may rigor proue Yea may be forc'd to leaue what it doth loue Yet nought can her resistlesse powre constraine For nothing can desire from her remoue Although shee cannot doe what she would faine So maugre force shee freedome doth retaine Sith Reason then the VVils desires should sway And bring th' Affections to obedience It s requisite they should accorde alway To mainetaine warres against rebelling Sense Which is the rule of Reasons consequence Wherefore we may wel iudge of Reasons rule By the Affections and VVils continence As a good Prince or Master of a Schoole Make them they governe hate and shun misrule And for th' Affections from the hart proceede Which is the Seate of loue to God and Men If then the hart and Minde be wel agreed The hart with flames of lasting loue will bren And fire out froward Passions from their den Then wil the Tongue from harts aboundance speake Gods highest laudes till
fulfill And leave the Reader to thinke what he will NOw may we range next to the Ranke of loue Other Affections and to doe it right We must place Favoure there by which w'approve Of some thing wherein we conceave delight For that it 's good in deede or so in sight Herein Loues obligation doth commence Yet favoure may haue force where loue lacks might But without Favoure Loue is a non ENS For Favoure waites vpon Loves excellence Then Reverence with Favour we may Ranke Bredd by comparing some high Dignitie With some inferior State that Fortune sanck Which then is in it's right especially When extreame feare and Hatred come not ny For though in Rev'rence Feare and Shamefastnesse VVith moderation doe obscurely lye Yet Feare by some Ill caus'd Good doth suppresse Still seene in that which breedes our humblenesse True rev'rence therefore beare we vnto God Who is allâ—good as he almightie is For fear'd we nought but his revenging Rodd Our Rev'rence would be turn'd to hate by this Then Rev'rence growes from pow'r and grace of his And whosoere with them he most endowes Of Rev'rence from lesse Rev'rend cannot misse For Rev'rence Pow'r and Goodnesse still ensues And the lesse worthie to the better bowes For when we eie the vertue pow'r and grace Of the most Noble truely called so And looke vpon our selves and weigh how base VVe are compar'd with them then bend we lo As vnto them that vs in Good out-go For as selfe-liking doth enlarge the Hart Or puffe it vp like Bladders which we blo So it contracts it selfe in ev'ry part When we see others passe vs in desart Then as we rev'rence God for goodnesse more Then for his might and awfull Maiesty So if we would be rev'renc't of the Low'r We must surmount them in that ex'lency That makes vs most resemble Dëity For whereas Goodnesse doth associate Might There the most Insolent most rev'rently Though otherwise repleat with al Dispight VVill doe their Homage freely with delight For homage fealty and honor are To sacred Vertue due by Natures Law Honor we owe to Vertue though but bare And Vertue matcht with might doth Rev'rence draw Then Honor Reverence and loving awe Are due to Maiestie and that is due To Magistrats that Men froÌ„ Vice with-draw And make them Vertue eagerly ensue Themselues therin be'ng Leaders of the Crue The last Affects to Love subordinate Are Mercy and Compassion These are they VVhich make vs like God to commiserate The miseries of those that still decay Or are at point to perish without stay These these bewraie that we are Members quick Of that same Bodie whose Head doth bewray That they are Members mortifide or sick VVhich feele no paines that fellow members prick These make vs make the hand of the distrest Our Mucke and Earthly Mammons continent Yea make vs make the Orphanes home our Brest And our right Arme the VVeedowes Sustinent And all that want our All them to content O that these were more frequent then they are With those that doe our Churches so frequent For damn'ds Devotion that will nothing spare But for selfe-comfort altogither care These Colledges and Hospitals erect And both endow with copious maintenance These are so prevalent in their effect That they vnto the Heav'ns doe Earth advance Wherein there is no want or sufferance These doe forgiue as gladly as they giue Vnto their foes miscarried by Mischance These good and bad like God in lacke relieue For Mercies Bowels melt when anie grieue These Bridges builde ore Rivers semi-Seas And turne deepe VVaies though endlesse in extent To Cawseis firme for Man and Beasts more ease And ev'ry waie provide for bothes content Through fellow-feeling of their dryriment These make their VVaredrops and the Needies one And their owne Limbes limbes of the impotent Ioy with the ioiefull mone with them that mone And sigh in soule when they in Bodie grone O that my soule could as it gladly would It selfe infuse into each worde or line That tendes to Mercies glorie then it should So as it ought at least like Phoebus shine If not at most bee more then most divine For Mercie and Iustice are Gods mightie Armes But he most might to Mercie doth assigne As bee'ng the right Arme holding all from harmes Though All do fall through Frailties least Alarmes Mercie 's the true Idea of Gods Soule Wherein his matchlesse glorie glitters most Which is of force his Iustice to controule For when in Iustice all that are were lost Then Mercie them redeem'd to Iustice cost The Lord of Iustice was vniustly slaine That Mercie might triumph and iustly boast As Loue first made so Mercie made againe Man-kind that sin had marr'd with monstrous stain Sith Mercie then is of so high account Shee should bee most familier with the Hy For God in mercy doth himselfe surmount That is it doth himselfe most glorify So they that eie the Poore with Pitties eie And haue most mercie seated in their soule Draw neer'st the nature of his Dëity Whose names engrossed are in his Check-role And next him ought the VNIVERS to rule THus having toucht th' Affections most humane That humane nature doe consociate Now follow those that are most inhumane Bred by Opinion of Ill which wee hate Which make vs savage or in worse estate The vnrest of our soules the while they rest Within our Bodies and predominate Proceedes from fowre chiefe causes of vnrest Which thus by Natures searchers are exprest Desire Feare Griefe Ioy all immoderate Which perturbations be from these proceede Al Passions which the soule excruciate Which the Mindes ignorance doth fatting feede As knowing not what 's good or Ill indeede Desire and Ioie those goods accompany Which be not good further then Natures neede And that a little God wot doth supply For overmuch doth her soone mortifie Aske peace and plenty what fell fights they haue With these three Monsters Pride Strife Excesse Hardly themselues if they at all doe saue From their fell force they eas'ly wil confesse Yet God with Peace and Plentie Man doth blesse That Man might blesse God both in word and deede Not take occasion from thence to transgresse But from these Fountaines pure doe oft proceede By their abuse Abuses which exceede For sinne in peace and plentie is so arm'd VVith all that may allure the simple sense That sense by those allurements is so charm'd That soone it yeeldes to sinne obedience As it were forc'd by some Omnipotence When sinne so sweetly doth intreate and pray And promise Flesh Heav'n in Incontinence To which prosperity doth Flesh betray How can fraile Flesh and Bloud say sweet sinne nay If Tast would tast what might her Pallate please Sinne offers Manna Nectar and what not VVould touching feele sinne opens pleasures Seas To plunge the sense therein it to besot The smell shee ioies with sents as sweete as
MICROCOSMOS THE DISCOVERY OF THE LITTLE World with the government thereof Manilius An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro Exemplumque Dei quisque est sub imagine paruâ By IOHN DAVIES At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee solde in Fleetestreete at the signe of the Turkes head by Iohn Barnes 1603. TO MY MOST DEERE AND dread Soveraigne IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland be all heavenly and earthly happinesse THoughts fight no more but now with Wits accord Yeeld al obedience to Arts rightest rule Then like a constant treble-twisted cord Binde vp the sweet'st affections of my Soule And in a Poesy giue them to O no They are too base for such high Excellence Yet prostrate giue them to him and say so So I may shunne dislike you insolence Great ó too narrow is this name for thee King yet too straite a stile for thy great worth And Monarch this with it doth best agree Deigne to accept a Base base Wit brought forth And base it is great Highnesse in each line Because indeede it is too rightly mine His Maiesties lesse then least and most vnworthy Subiect IOHN DAVIES To the sacred Queene of Englands most excellent Maiestie IF those VVombs blessed be from whom proceedes A world of blessings to the VVorld accurst Or if that gracious be that Graces breedes To make Men gracious being at the worst O then how blest and gracious is thy VVombe Deere Daughter Sister VVife vnto a King Wherein Heaven wrought as in a sacred roome Strong Props of peace which blest Time forth did bring Vnto a Mother-maide we all are bound For bringing forth our Soules preservatiue Who for the same is Queene in Heaven Crownd And sith thou bring'st our Corpes conservatiue We must crown thee in Earth or els we should Doe otherwise then Saints Angels would Your Highnesse most humbly devoted Vassall IOHN DAVIES The vvhole I le of greate Brittaine vvas of yore divided into 13. Kingdoms as by Monuments of antiquity and Historie the vvitnesses of time appeareth viz. England into 8. namelie Kent South-Saxons East-Saxons VVest-Saxons Bernnicia aliàs Northumberland Deira or Southumberland Est-Angles Mercia Scotland into 2. viz. Scottes Picts The Scottes on the VVestside the Picts on the East called Pictlād as the other Scotland VVales into 3. viz. North-wales Southwales and Povvys-land Vppon vvhich Plaine-songe thus I descant AN Articke I le there is most famous found In the great Lavor of this lesser Round Which Neptunes hand as most esteemd infolds And in his vnsweet-sweating bozome holdes On whom at once Heavens providence begate Thirteene Kinges ' which did her participate Shee fedd them sweetlie made them fatte to grow For from her Brest did Milke and Hony flow Who being pampred so ambitious made Gainst Nature gan each other to invade Shee greatly griv'd they quited so her loue And ay to make them one shee oft did proue But froward at the least they would be Twoo So lived long in strife with much adoo Yet like a tender Mother vext to see That hir deere children could no better gree Shee laboured night and day with Tyme to doe That which shee tride but could not bring them to Who both togither ioyn'd did them attone So Tyme and shee at last haue made them One. Then if in One Thirteene vnited be How great how glorious and how good is hee IOHN DAVIES AENIGMA A Treble paire doth our late wracke repaire And sextiplies our mirth for one mishappe These six as hopes to keepe vs from dispaire When clappes wee feard were sent vs at a clappe That we might clapp our hands in his high praise That made vs by our Heads losse much more faire And vs beheaded so our Head to raise One headlesse made all looke as blacke as Hel◠All headlesse makes the Head and all looke well SPHINX IF this a Riddle be then so be it Yet Truth approues what therein hid doth lie And Truth 's most louelie in the Eye of VVit When she is rob'd with richest misterie In few by losse we haue gott benefitt That 's six for one by lawfull vserie Then if we gaine by losse our losse is gaine So saith France Flāders Scotland Irelād Spaine To the iudicious Reader THou seest this great VVorld Reader perchāce Thine Eie is cloid with often seeing it Then see the Lesse with noe lesse circumstance Aud with VVittes Eie that Monarchy of VVitte The Heav'ns and Earth do make the greater VVorld And Soule and Bodie make the Lesse we prove The Heav'ns doe moue the Earth they are whirld By Him that makes the Soule the Body moue Who conquers it at least are Monarchs great Greater then those that conquered the greater For from their goodnesse Men their greatnes gette And they are best that doe subdue the better The great VVorld's good but better is the least Then view it to subdue it thou wert best IOHN DAVIS A Request to the Cittie of Hereford Deere Mother in whose Wombe my vitall flame Was kindled first by the Almighties breath Lend me thy name to adde vnto my name That one with other may keepe both from death Vnto thy conscience I poore I appeale Whether or no I haue deserved it My conscience telles me I haue sought thy weale With al my skill my will my woorth my witte Iudge God iudge good men iudge my truth herein Impartiall Iudges you shall iudge for me If so my soule is sear'd or I haue bin Deere Mother what I now would seeme to thee And doe confesse though vnkinde Parents proue Yet are their children bound to seeke their loue Iohn Davies of Hereford In Microcosmon IOH. DAVIS II Herefordiensis EN tibi Pythagorae sacram diamque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Almae Naturae scatebram fontemque perennem Cuius quis pandet mysteria quisve profundos Audebit timidogressu tentare recessus Audet Davisius nec magnis excidit ausis Non is Daedaleâ per coelum remigat alâ Nec Phaetontaeo raptatus in aethera curru Stellarum inspector stupet aut Iovis atria lustrat In se conversus Divinae particulam aurae Non lippo aut lusco solers rimatur ocello Hunc lege quisquis aves Animani tam nobile germen Noscere decerptum delibatumque supremi Quod de mente Dei quisque hoc in corpore gestat Non te AEgyptiacus teneat tardetve character Nulla Syracusij Senis arte inventa morentur Suspensus coeli fornix vitreus orbis AEdibus in proprijs quae recta aut prava gerantur Inspicias haustamque polo vigil excute mentem Coelitùs emissum descendit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IO. SANFORDVS Charissimo Iohanni Davisio Salutem OXoniae vates cum sis Herefordia quare Davisi in titulo pristina scripta tuo Crede mihi doctam non vrbem tale pigebit Ingenium in numero nomen habere
one selfe-wombe that both should be the same In Spirite in vertue nature and in name This World beginnes to cotton now for thee For whom the World sometimes was much to blame Vertue deere Sidney now advaunc'd shal be Sith Vertue knowes no partialitee Thou virgin Knight that dost thy selfe obscure From Worlds vnequall eies and faine wouldst dy Er ' thy name should be knowne to Worlds impure Now shew thy selfe thou canst not hidden lie From our newâ— Worlds desert â—out-searching Eie Great Sidneies loue true proofe of thy great worth Liue now for now thou maist not living die Vertue must vse thee then Dyer Knight come forth To haile thy vertues Loadstarre from the North. And Albions Scaeva whose crosse-wounded Corse Like t' an imbalmed dead-Corpse in aspect Twenty times dead yet still hast vitall force And so dost cousin death through deaths defect Yet scornst nay hat'st thy life in Fames respect Vp with thy Coate of Steele its time for thee No foe is now in field and in effect Thy Veines are drie thine eies do dimmely see Then ioy in peace with life at last agree Great Maiestie last let the least of all Thy Subiects least send from his hart a signe Of that it holds and whiles it is it shall That is that loue thou only mai'st define By that vnbounded loue to vs of thine I haile thee happy Sov'raigne from a farre Vnworthy to approach thy view of Eine Saying blest be him that blessed thee from warre To be our peace in whom we blessed are And be thine owne though others praise come short O sacred Sou'raigne Soule of Englandes ioy Let matchlesse vertues Vertues praise report VVhich thou alone dost questionlesse enioy The Vulgars laudes thine Eares doe nought but cloy The Concaue of a Crowne may cause that winde VVhich froward Fates haue power to destroy But that pure praise that 's due to thy pure Minde From Fates is free'd being of immortall kinde VVell wott'st thou Princes liues haue much more force Then purest Lawes their Subiects to refine For Subiects follow still their Sov'raignes course As Sunne-like Marigolds doe Sol divine VVho lose their grace when hee doth ceasse to shine This makes thee shun what may ecclipse thy light Because thou lead'st all by that light of thine And striv'st to glitter in all vertue bright That all might haue thereby direction right Though at thy becke be all sons-pleasing sweetes Yet art thou pleas'd with what thy sense containes In Straightes where Abstinence with Reason meetes Which head-strong Appetite Synne-spurred raignes And binds thy Passions in Soule-staying chaines Thus Reason strictly ruleth thee we see VVhich over thee as thou raign'st ore vs raignes If Reason thou obai'st much more should wee That are borne to obey Reason and thee How came I with thee to bee so acquainted That so I should discribe each part of thee Thy Booke wherin so liuely thou art painted Deere Liege I once ioy-ravished did see For which I shall till death the better bee Then saw I thee and then I heard thy VVordes VVhich with Gods and thy glory did agree And Charity beliefe to them affords Sith â—hee knowes nothing that with them discords And if the Bookes compil'd by vs do beare The Image of our Mindes as thou do'st say Then in that Booke that Image doth appeare Bright as the Sunne in Vertues best araye To light all Kinges to keepe their Kinges high Way No Sentence Line Clause VVord or Syllable Therein contain'd but doth pure thoughts bewraie Then sith thy Minde is to it semblable No Earthly King is to thee sutable Never was Piety with Policy So well componnded in the Head of State The Serpents wisedome many Snakes apply To Sores of Kinges Simplicity but hate The Doue-like innocence as out of date If Piety and Policy doe iarre As some suppose then can we bee s'ingrate As not to crowne him that did end the warre Nor be compos'd by such a Temperer For if from Hartes abundance Mouthes disperse Vertue or Vices Mammon all abroade What may we deeme thee theÌ„ that did'st reherse Such precepts as beseem'd a Semi-God How best the Sonne should beare an Empires Lode Which weakenesse oft back-broken vndergoes We needes must weene that Vertue makes abode As in her home in thy Hart sith it floes VVith goodnesse like Gods to thy Friends Foes How like a Lord of thy selfe do'st thou striue To conquer Passion Princes great'st disease In him that likely is thee to survive And as an oldâ—tride Sea-man tells at Seas VVhat Rocks and â—latts a yong one may displease Ere â—irst he setts out that he them may shunne So from thy proofe for thy Succeeders ease Thou tell'st him ere to rule he hath begune What Compasse he should keep safe Course to run For Empire is a Sea most faire to see But perillous to proue as they best kno That all their life-long to it bounden be Subiect each Tyde to be orewhelm'd with woe If not to wracke and finall overthro Wherein thou dost thy course so wisely guide That like a skilful Pilot thou dost sho By demonstration how this Sea t' abide And safely saile or else at Ancor ride Then ô how blessed is this blisful Ile VVhose God is Loue whose King is Vertues Host VVhose Grace and VVisdome with an holy guile Doth catch the Least and binds them to him most As to their Piller and vpholding Post VVho makes his Subiects great as good as great By his example without Checke or cost And to vnequalls equal Law doth meate With Loues right haÌ„d which stil doth hate defeate The Fire as be'ng the noblest Element Is plac'd by Natures hand aboue the rest That by it's actiue vertue prevalent It might repurifie the worst and best That be inferior or in lesse request So thou art iustly plac'd in Natures right Aboue the great'st that with thy vertue least Canst purge them from their greatest vices quight And make them shine through thy high vertues light Such Kings should be obaid and glory-cround Because their Vertues al mens else exceede For they that are in all abundance drownd Yet set no more in then may Nature feede And spare the rest for those that haue more need O! these are rightly Fames Superlatiues Gods vpon Earth that 's Kings like Gods in deede From whom the subiect vertue high derives VVhose liues are Lights to lead obscurer liues And Vertue in a King is more of price Then in a poore man though most vertuous For Kings haue more meanes to be drawn to Vice And may without controle be vicious But poore-men not for Want and Summumius If Sol would Venus vse what Starre comes not At becke wel-neere too neere to him to vse But if a naked poore Snake be so hott He may be coold but so be coold cannot VVhat glory gettes constrain'd Sobrietie If glorie gotten be by Vertue right Constrain'd b'imperious Necessitie Other then to be chast for want of might In
thou in vs we hope shalt shortly proue For with thy becke thou shalt vs stay or moue If thou wilt come to vs thou well shalt see Wee le spare no paine that may effect thy pleasure For each one will be busie as a Bee To yeeld thee honied ioie by waight and measure And shunne as Hell the cause of thy displeasure Wee le plant our Mountaines with the rarest Trees That may be culled from Pomonas Treasure And all our hedge-roâ—s shall be ranckt with these To please thine eie with what with taste agrees Wee le root vp all our roughes our heath's our furs And in their place make grasse cowslips gro VVe will remoue what thy dislike incurs And with the Mountaines fill the Vales below If by Mans powre and paine they may be so Nought shall offend thee be it what it will Be it but mortall if we it may know For vvee le bring downe the prowdest He or Hill That thou shalt doome to be scarse good or ill Then liue with vs deere Prince and we vvill make Our wildest Wasts Iett-coulored Garden-Plots So Flora will her flowred Meades forsake To set flowres there in many curious knots To please thee and our other selues the Scots VVee le turne our Villages to Citties faire And share them twixt the Scots and vs by lots VVhereto both one and other may repaire To interchange Commodities or Aire VVee le cleeue the Mountaines Neptune to let in That Ships may floate where now our Sheepe do feedeâ— And whatso-ere industrious hands may win Shall not be lost that may thy pleasure breede Or richer make our intermixed Seede And whereas now two Townes doe scarse appeere Within the largest Prospect then with speede They shall be built as if one Towne they were That we may be to each as neere as deere Those pleasant Plots where erst the Romaines built Faire Citties for their Legions to liue in VVhose gorgeous Architecture was oreguilt That by the civill Sword haue ruin'd bin Which Ruines are the Monuments of sinne These will we now repaire faire as before That Scots and Brittaines may mixt liue therein Caerleon where king Arthure liu'd of yore Shall be rebuilt and double gilt once more And all along her gaudy gallant Streetes VVee le go in Triumph singing once a day God and our Princes praises sweete of sweetes Vpon our Harpes like Angels all the way For that our Prince is pleasd with vs to stay VVhat i st that loiall thankefull Harts can doe But we will doe nay do much more then thay Thus doe we Brittaines our Prince kindly woo To rule vs ere misrule doth vsâ— vndoo If prowde we be as Pride perhaps vvill say How can wee choose now we haue such a Prince Yet shall we prowder be him to obey Then prowde of our dominion long since VVhen with our Swordes we did the Land convince Wee were a People free and freely fought For glorie freedome and preheminence But now our totall glory shall be sought In this that we will serue thee as we ought Beleeue not Envy Prince that vs pursues Because shee knowes our Race is halfe divine That will perhaps say we our selues misuse And to contention over-much incline This may be put on any mortall line By Envies malice but thou shalt perceaue Our vice is Wit and Courage-masculine With constant kindnesse mixt which Brute did leaue To Camber from whom we did it receiue Nor may it be harmonious to thine Eares To heare our stocke deprau'd by Iniurie For thy deer'st bloud as to the World appeares Is soild thereby with odious obloquie Then stop their mouthes that breath such blasphemie Let not our plainenesse be their common-place To make them sport in bitter foolery For we hold planenesse to be no disgrace How ere false-harted Fiends may deeme it base I doe confesse vvee open-harted are Scorning Italian-hollow-hartednesse Where we dislike there shew the same we dare And where we loue we loue for nothing lesse Then that which tasts of base vnworthinesse Troy had no Sinen though the Greekes had store Nor can her Ofspring their croâ—fe fortunes blesse VVith creeping to a Devill or adore A senslesse Blocke â—hough double-gilt or more VVe like Civilitie when it is dide In coulor which vvill take no hue but one That 's Blacke which still vvill like it selfe abide Aswell in raging stormes as shining Sunne Till it doth change by dissolution VVe hate as Hell the fovvle bi-formed face Because it alters its creation And thinke that glorie hath her greatest grace In vniformitie and keeping place VVe are whole chested and our Breastes doe hold A single Hart that is as good as great And that doth make vs in our actions bold For Innocence with feare doth never sweate How ill so ere the World doth her intreate Our Kith Kinne and Aliance with our friends VVe by the measure of kinde nature meate If so we needs must loue thee for these ends And for our happinesse on thee depends O could I tune my Tongue vnto thine Eare â— That so my Words might musicke seeme to it That so thou might'st alone the Burden beare VVhich it requires as it is requisit Then should my Note be noted to be fit I speake for those whose Tongues are strange to thee In thine owne Tongue if my words be vnfit That blame be mine but if Wales better be By my disgraâ—e I hold that grace to me And better shall it be if my weake lines Shall draw thee but one furlong thetherward For as when in the Morne Sol farre-off shines Yet cheeres vs with approaching hetherward But makes vs heavie going from-vs-ward So Wales will much reioice vvhen thy svveete face Doth though farre off with favour her regard Thine only countenance shall giue her grace And make her deeme her seâ—fe in blessed case But ten times blest if shee might thee embrace None otherwise then as a widow poore Vext with oppressions and adversity If some great Prince doo match with hir therfore To shield hir so from woes and iniuries Shee 'l kisse his feete in loues humility So shee that like a widow long hath liv'd VVithout a Prince our Principalitie VVill kisse thy feete and be halfe dead reviv'd If such an honyed Husband she had wiv'd Shee good old Ladie then with youth renew'd VVould foote it finely in blith Roundâ—laies No Bellamoure should then be better hu'd For hir Harts mirth in hir face bloud would raise That would deserue thy Loue thy grace thy praise And as inspired with a courtly Spright Vpon the soddaine would spend Nights daies As Dido entertain'd the Troian Knight In all that should or thee or thine delight Thou shalt perceave though she be far froÌ„ Courts Clos'd in a Cantone of this blessed Land Yet shee hath in hir Trayne some of all sorts Of either Sex whereof some vnderstand The Dialect of Court and Courts command To whom shee giues most royall Maintenance For pettie Kiâ—gdoms some Squires haue in hand VVho will
the glory of thy Court advance Sith they theÌ„selues keepe Demi Courts perchaÌ„ce Then come sweet Prince Wales woeth thee by me By me hir sorrie Tongs-man to be pleas'd To liue with hir that so shee may by thee Bee rul'd in loue and ruled so be eas'd Of what in former times hath hir displeas'd The Sheepe their Owners keeping most approue For he will cure them when they are diseas'd With Loues right hand But Hirelings Truth doth prove Doo keepe the Flocke for Lucre more then Loue. Wales hir most vnworthie Solicitor IOHN DAVIâ—â— MICROCOSMOS THE DISCOVERY OF THE LITTLE VVORLD VVITH the government thereof SIth that thou hast so soundly slept my Muse Dreaming on that which thou before had'st doÌ„e Being awake againe thy Spirits rowze To make an end of what thou hast begun Be'ng rest-refresht therefore now forwards run With bright Apollo pray him be thy guide Vntill thou touch the Tropicke of Reason Where VVisdome puts Plus vltra there abide For past that point to passe is passing pride For our VVill's Baiard blind yet bold and free And had she way made in hir maine Carreere sh'would runne into that Light that none can see Saue light of Lights to feele the secrets there Which Angells wonder at yet not come neere But Reas'ns conduct is nothing safe herein Therefore the VVill hath too iust cause of feare Lest shee should runne into presumptuous sinne For which divinest Angells damn'd haue bin For since our Proto-parents lowest fall Our wisdoms highest pitch God wot is low But had they stood Hee had infus'd in all His VVord selfe VVisdome which alone to know Is to know all that VVisdomes selfe can showe But since the state of things is so vnstay'd That humane vvisedome stands it wotts not howe Vnsure in all for Iudgment 's oft betrai'd In that which proofe before had well assai'd But having toucht the Braine the Soule the VVill All which saue of the soule can brooke no touch It rests that Reasons heasts wee doe fulfil To prosecute much more or more then much That VVitt for VVill wil willingly avouch Th'al-giving Giver giveth al that liue His Creatures such desires and Natures such As for their good with good wil stil should striue And shun what ere should them of it depriue Beasts more theÌ„ Men the more Beasts meÌ„ the while Pursue that good that doth their natures fitt To them for that though they be nere so vile Is highest knowledge giv'n and they vse it Thereby condemning both mans VVill and VVitt And yet hath Man a synn-peruerted will To seeke that good he knowes most â—requizit Who knowes loues the good yet takes the ill Oft for the good but for the evill stil. Yet as he was ordain'd to greater good So greater knowledge was in him infus'd With no lesse will were it not sinn withstood To seeke that Good yet the will witt-abus'd When it hath found it is oft witt refus'd Vnhallowed sense drown'd in that damned iuyce Synnes Syder from Eaues fatall Apple bruiz'd Be'ing deadly drunck makes stil the worser choise Wherein like Sow in mire it doth reioyceâ— Among the hoast of Natures creatures bee Three kindes of Appetites there ay consorts Naturall sensitive and Voluntarie The first divided is into two sortes One found in all that to the VVorld resortes That 's inclination voide of Sense or Soule To doe what the owne nature most importes As light things mount and heavy downwards roule Which nature Natures selfe cannot controule The other with this vertue action haue Which nerthelesse proceedeth not from sense To Vegetatiue Soules this Nature gaue Which in Trees Plants and Grasse hath residence Who doe desire to sucke that influence That feedes them and avoides the contrary A plant will thirst for moistures confluence And draw to it all kinde humidity Retayning that it liues and proâ—pers by The like in our owne members we obserue Who wanting nutriment doe sucke the vaines The vaines doe sucke the bloud themselues to serue Thus each attracteth foode when neede constraines And all things living seeke the same with paines Hence we devide this naturall desire Into two kindes the one each plant retaines The other things which life doth sense-inspire As Man and Beast and what doth els respire The Seate of this desire stands on two feete Which fixt are in two places That 's to say The liver and the Stomacke there doe meete The forces of this Appetite to slay With famine or with foode fraile life to stay The sensitiue desire is two-fold too From sense the first the last comes not that way The first to ioy and griefe is fixed so That no force can it from the same vndoe For in the sinewes Feelings instruments This pow'r is plac'd or in the Synewy skin And that the Synewes ioyes or discontents That wel or ill affecteth them within By heate or cold they paine or pleasure wyn As they to them are wel or ill applied For sense and motion synewes made haue bin That by them paine or pleasure should be tride And make our Bodies moue on ev'ry side Nor doe these Appetites wait on the will Ne from the Phantazie doe they proceede For wil we nil we we shal hunger stil WheÌ„ food 's with-drawn that should our Bodies feed And we shal feele what sense affects with speede How ere the will or Phantazy impung We may abstaine from nurrishment in deede But then thereby much more for it we long And Flesh wil pine with paine if hunger-stung But th' other Appetites bredd without touch Are forged by the thoughts or Phantazie These discreete Nature in the hart doth couch Which be Affectes that lurke in secresie Be'ng motions of the hartes Hart properlie These wait on witt and choose or else reiect What it holds deerest or doth most defie So VVitt's the cause and they are the effect That loue or loath as witt doth them direct This vvitt and vvill the Beasts doe not possesse For their most knowledge is most sensuall Guided by Nature in their Brutishnesse Onely by inclination naturall Which moues their sense vn-intellectual Or this or that way without Reasons sway Then vvitt and vvill their sense wee cannot cal Though sensuall will and witt we cal it may For man alone hath both to guide his way The Voluntary Appetite we finde Is gott by Reason and produc'd by vvill By it we are to good or ill inclin'd As Reason doomes of them by Iudgments skill Two actions hath the vvill in reason still By which we good embrace and ill refuse Reason revealing what is good or ill Who rules hir not as though will could not choose But as one teaching Hirâ— hir pow'r to vse As in the Vnderstanding and the Minde Of Men and Angells God hath fixt his forme So to Mannes will his loue was no lesse kinde That to Gods wil he might his vvill conforme Ah woe that sinne should since the same
by our Flesh too lustie yet too fraile Too luâ—tie in desire of its owne shame But fraile in that wherein it should prevaile Yet when its weak'st the Soule doth most assaile It not suffiz'd that nere-suffized Loue That al things made to make Man only Bee But to Be vvell as wel some men doe proue VVho though of Beeing they desirous be Yet not being wel they end ill sith they see Their being VVell and Being disagree Then Being was not Manns creations end But to be happy in a high degree And therfore al men al their forces bend T' inioy that Good that Beeing doth coÌ„mend Which good desire of Good in Man is knitt To a detesting of the contrary But for that sinne hood-wincks Mans Eie of VVitt He gropes for Good but feeles the Evill by From this desire of Good th' affections flie Which with their motion swiftâ— draw that desire Heere there and where soere they please to hy In pursuâ—e of that Good which they require To which though base they bee they would aspire Yet they were good kindly lov'd their like But they are ill and loue Ill seeming good Yet they by Natures instinct Ill dislike And yet by nature evil is their moode Basely obaying the sinne-soiled Blood At first they were Truthes other selfe for friends Yet now by them shee 's too too much with-stoode Adhering to her foe while shee pretends To blesse the Sense though to accursed endes The motiues of the Soule these motions are Whos 's other names are called the Affects â— By foll'wing good and flying ill they ARE Consisting so of these two good Effects Though Syn their sense with error oft infects Some vsher Iudgment some on her attend The later take or leaue as shee directs The Former naturally cannot offend For they desire but Nature to defend As when the Body Nature to suffize Desires to eate or drinke as neede requires Or when good happe or ill doth it surprize Then Ioy or sorrow moueth our desire These stil fore-run our Iudgment conspire With Nature to vsurpe her highest Throne For nature runneth on or doth retire As shee is mov'd by iudgment of her owne And so doe these that Nature wait vpon But those Affects that follow IudgmeÌ„ts Traine Wait hard as long as Hart is wel dispos'd Then lasts the League betweene the Hart Braine For al their iarres by Reason are compos'd But when the Hart against the Brain 's oppos'd Which oft proceeds of too much pampering Out flie th' Affections that were erst repos'd And from their neckes the Raines of Reason â—ling Impatient of slow Iudgments tarrying Yet true it is that Hart cannot be mov'd Ere Iudgment doomes what 's good or badd for it Then Hartes desires by her must be approv'd Or els the Hart cannot desire a whit For what she holds vnmeet it thinks vnfitt But for the motions of the Minde are free And neede not stay as it is requisit So before Iudgment doe they seeme to Bee Although they follow her as bond and free But though th' Affections cannot moue at all If Iudgment wing them not and make them flee Yet sound advice which heere we Iudgment call May be at rest when they too busy bee Mov'd by the iudgment of the Fantazee This Iudgment 's blinde yet is it most mens Guide And no lesse rash yet ruleth each degree This makes th' Affects from Rights straight Pathes to slide For Fantazy doth fancie waies too wide This skipp-braine Fancy moves these easie Movers To loue what ere hath but a glimpse of good Then straight she makes theÌ„ like vnconstant lovers To chaÌ„ge their Loues as she doth change her moode VVhich swimmeth with the current of the Bloud For as the body 's well or ill compos'd VVhich followes oft the nature of its foode So Fancy and these Fondlings are dispos'd Though in the Soule and Minde they be inclos'd And yet the body 's but the Instrument VVheron the soule doth play what she doth please But if the stringes thereof doe not concent The harmony doth but the soule displease Then tune the body Soule or playing cease And when a String is out straight put it in With Phisickes helpe which Passion may appease By humbling that which hath too lowd a dyn And put the Parts on a Soule-pleasing Pyn. These Partes though many yet of three consist That 's Humors Elements and Qualities Which three doe of fow'r partes a part subsist For from Earth VVater Aire and Fire doth rise All that the Heav'nly Cope doth circulize These are the Elements from whom proceede The Humors with their foresaid qualities For Bloud Flegme Choller Melancholy breede Hott Cold Moist Dry a fowr-fold vital Seede An Element is the most simple part VVhereof a thing is made and in its wracke Is last resolved And in Phisicks Art There are but tvvo which two of those doe lack That al the Elemental bodies make These two are tearmed Simples CoÌ„pounds The first is borne on Speculations back The last is bredd by Practize which coÌ„fouÌ„ds Two or moe Simples in each others bounds The Elements of Natures famelies Produce the Elementals temprament VVhich is a mixture of the Qualities Or composition of each Element As these doe bend so are their bodies bent VVhich we Complexion cal wherof are two VVell and ill tempred And the Aliment That feeds the Body herein much can doe For that can make marre Complexion too VVell-tempred is an equal counterpoise Of th' Elements fore-mention'd qualities Whereof ther 's but one thing of Natures choise VVherein shee made the mixture thus precise As Galens tract of Tempers testifies VVhich of each hand is the interior skin And hence we may thus fitly moralize That Nature to the Hand so good hath bin That it might temper what the Mouth takes in Ill tempred's that where some one Element Hath more dominion then it ought to haue For they rule ill that haue more regiment Then nature wisdome right or reason gaue So doth this Element it selfe behaue Yet each ill temper doth not so exceede As that it spils what better tempers saue For some surpasse the temperate in deede In some small ods whereof no harmes succeede Fiue waies the Bodies temperature is knowne By Constitution Operation Clime Coulor and Age by these the same is showne As Dials by an Index shew the time The Body fat is cold for fat doth clime By cold degrees and that full-flesht is hot For heate proceedes from bloud as doth my rime From braines where no heate were if bloud were not And bee'ing too cold they would my sense besot By Operation too the temper 's found For when a creature Man Beast Hearbe or Plant Doth that which they by right of kinde are bound Then no good temprature those bodies want The Clyme in shewing this is nothing skant For South-ward Men are cruell moody madd Hot blacke
with wakfull thoughts they meete That make their sleepes vnsweet and yet as short Which must perforce make Nature all amort Yet as they were all Minde and Body none That had noe feeling of the Bodies hurt That Minde all mind though Corpes the while doth grone Makes flesh all hardnesse brooke as it were Stone Such force hath worldly glory though but vaine To make men for her love themselueâ— to hate Who for desire of her their strength doe straine Farre farre aboue the pitch of mortall state And paine in sense to sense doe captivate Though pains wake seÌ„se yet sense doth waking sleep Dreaming on Glory in the lapp of Fate So paine froÌ„ sense doth paine with pleasure keepe While sense is mouÌ„ting Honors Mountaine steepe VVhere Glory sitts enthron'd Coelestial Dame Surrounded with a Ring of Diadems VVith face whose beaming-beautie seemes to flaÌ„e Darting in simling wise those blissefull beames On those that for her loue brooke all extreames VVhat Sense hath sense being so beheavened And carried from it selfe on pleasures Streames But as entranc'd with ioy it must seeme deade And feele no paine in Minde or Body bredd If then Vaine-glories loue shall so subdue The sense to sense that feeling all annoy It s arm'd to brooke the same by glories view And the more griefe is felt the greater ioy Yea though the grife the seÌ„se doth quight destroy VVhat shall the loue of Glory infinite Make sense endure if sense her powers imploie To apprehend it as its requisite Such love should hold the paines of Hell too light When vnconceaved Ioy dilates the Hart To th' vtmost reach of his capacitie When sense no leasure hath to thinke on smart Being so busied with felicity That soule and sense are ravished thereby What marvell then though fire doth comfort such Although with queÌ„chlesse flames their flesh it fry Sith that much pain their ioy makes more theÌ„ much And paine that sense can feele no sense can touch This made a woodden Sawe sweete to the flesh wherewith it sundred was in savage wise This makes the burning Grediorne flesh refresh That on the same in hellish manner fries This makes paine pleasure and Hell Paradise Then give me ô good giver of all good An Hart that may ore paine thus signiorize For thy deere love then with my deerest blood I le wash the Earth and make more Saints to budd When Stones as thicke as haile from hellish hands Battr'd that blessed Proto-Martyres braine The sight he saw his senses so commands That as the Stones did fal the sense to paine It deem'd that Grace on it did pleasure raine And that deere blood like-worthlesse water shedd Did make the springing Church to sprout amaine For that no sooner was this Martyr dead But many as from him came in his steede And that the Elements doe loose their force â—hat by such losse their Lord might lovers win It wel appeares for did he not divorce The heate from fire which his deere Saints were in Some too wel knew that this perform'd hath bin For out it flew and brent their enemies And where it first began it did begin The powre thereof with powre to exercise To shew his powre that loth'd their sacrifice NOw to retire from whence our Rimes doe range And touch the soule minds mind at the soule We see the bodies state the minde may change So may the minde the bodies state controule Thus they the state of one another rule The soules soule is the minde and the mindes minde Is that where Reason doth her lawes enrowle Yet fuming Passions both of them may blinde When body with them both are ill inclin'd Phillipides that comedies compil'd Orecoming one that with him did contend In that light Art when hope was quite exil'd A suddaine ioy wrought his as suddaine end Like fate did one Diagoras attend Who see'ng his three sonnes at Olimpus crown'd For deedes there done which All did much coÌ„mend He them embracing straite fell dead to ground Because his ioy was more then hart could bound As extreame suddaine ioy doth kill the hart Leaving it bloudlesse which is ioies effect For ioy sends bloud amaine to ev'ry part So extreame griefe the hart may so affect Or suddaine feare that life may it reiect For both revoke the sp'rites bloud and kind heate And to hartes Center doe the same direct Which place bee'ng little and their throng so great Expels the Vitall spirits from their seate Marc Lepidus divorced from his wife Whom he intirely lou'd with extreame griefe For it conceav'd he quickly lost his life So loue reft life that erst was lifes reliefe For loue of that his woe was fountaine chiefe So with a suddaine feare haue many died Which name I neede not sith I would be briefe By it the haires haue suddainely bin died As by graue writers is exemplifide Of no lesse force though lesse the reason be Is shamefastnesse in some of mighty minde One Diodorus died because that hee Could not assoile a Question him assign'd The like of Homer we recorded finde Who died with shame for being so vnsound Not to be able like one double blinde To answere that base Fishers did propound So sense of shame did sense and life confound These Passions are the suffrings of the soule That make the Inne to suffer with the Ghest For Perturbations both togither rowle Here there and ev'ry where as they thinke best Kinde-heate they fire or quench with their vnrest For some as all obserue haue died with ioy And some with griese haue bin life-dispossest For in extreames they Nature so annoy As being suddaine her they quite destroy Yet Mirth in measure kindly warmes the bloud And spreads the Sp'rits b'inlarging of the hart This mirth in measure is the only moode That cuts the throat of Physicke and her Art And makes her Captaines from her coulors start It makes our yeares as many as our haires Then on earths stage who play a meery part Shall much more more theÌ„ much offend their heires By overlong pâ—olonging their desires Then should I liue by Nature overlong For I to mirth by nature am too prone But Accident in me doth nature wrong By whom vntimely shee 'l be overthrone For Melancholy in my Soule inthrones Herselfe gainst Nature through crosse Accident Where shee vsurpeth that is not her owne And Nature makes to pine with discontent That shee should so be reft her regiment Thus as the Corpes the qualities compound So are th' Affections moist dry hot and cold The last are humor'd as the first abound Ioy hot and moist the Sanguine most doth hold As sorrow cold and dry possesse the Olde Meane ioie's a meane to make men moist and hot In which two qualities Health hath her Hold But griefe the heat consumes and bloud doth rot Which health impaires and cuts lifes Gordian knot And as meane mirth mans
with our blood may be so druÌ„ck That doome she cannot better froÌ„ the worse But reeling too and fro is reft of force The higher therfore she her selfe doth reare Aboue base Flesh Blood 's declining course The more Affections basenesse wil forbeare And neerer draw to that that first they were For Passions passing ore that break-neck Hill Of Rashnesse ledd by Ignorance their guide By false-Opinions Hold of Good and Ill Taking their course at last with vs abide While froÌ„ our selves they make our selues to slide So that we seeke not that sole sov'raigne Good But many Goods we seeke which being tride Doe but torment the Minde with irefull moode Because they were by her mis-vnderstoode Had we the prudence of the brutish kinde We would preveÌ„t these Passions Stormes with ease For ere a Storme appeares they shelter finde Like providence haue Sea-men on the Seas VVho see them farre off and provide for these So ought we when we see a Passion rise That may the Soule and Body much disease VVith Moderations pow'r the same surprize Before it gather head to tyrannize But so farre off are we from curbing Passion That wilfully we mount it and so ride On it a gallopp spurr'd with Indignation To all Extreames where Vices all abide The Divell being extreame Passions guide For once wheÌ„ Reasonâ—s driven froÌ„ the Helme And we twixt Scylla and Charibdis glide Ther is no hope but one should overwhelme And send vs straight to the infernal Realme But with a prudent Man it fares not so He keeps himself without th' AffectioÌ„s sway He seekes no good but he it wel doth kno And knowing it seekes it the rightest way VVe say and misse because we mis-asay VVisdom chalks out the way her selfe to find So that Men cannot erre if it they waie Except they be as many wilfull blinde For it is straight though strict in easie kinde VVisedome the VVell of ev'ry perfect good Is that which wise men onely seeking finde VVhich constant good they seeke in constaÌ„t moode And being found most constant makes the Minde For to the same it selfe it selfe doth binde Heerehence it is the clowds of Ignorance That erst the same did naturally blinde Away are chased without tarriance For VVisedomes Sonne himselfe doth there advance Thus good and ill as erst we said procure The Mindes Affects or Moodes so cald by some Which good or evill pure or most impure Is either past or present or to come To be attain'd or not be overcome And as we deeme the absence of good ill So absent Ill wee deeme doth good become Either of which affecteth so our VVill That by their meanes it is in motion still When any good 's propounded to the soule Shee notes shee likes and lastly it doth loueâ— But in her Mouth shee often it doth rowle That so her Pallate may thereof approue Before it can her Soules affection moue This motion of possessed good is Ioy But good to come which we doe long to proue Is call'd Desire which loue doth still imploy To seeke that good which it would faine enioie If Ill proposed be it s call'd Offence Because the soule offended is thereby If it abides Hate doth her soule incense For shee a lasting ill hates mortally As that which most her soule doth damnifie And as from present Ill Griefe doth aspire So Feare proceedes from Ill farre off or ny The moode gainst present Ill is sinnelesse Ire And Faâ—th and Hope gainst future Ill conspire All which Affects haue others vnder them For Rev'rence Pitty and Benevolence Spring out of Loue as Braunches from the Stemme From Ioy Delight Dislike from sorrowes sense And in Desire Hope hath her residence But Prid 's a Monster for shee is compos'd Of Self-conceit Desire Ioy Impudence These and such like in Pride are oft disclos'd For in her wombe they restlesse are repos'd And as Affections one another breede By one another so are they restrain'd Ioy woundeth Griefe Griefe makes Ioy to bleede And so the rest are by the rest refrain'd As by the Stronge the vveaker are constrain'd As when curst Thetis chiding knitts the Brow Her Billowes proud that eithers pride disdaine Thrusts out each other So when Passions flow The greater doe the lesser overthrow And oft it fares in our Mindes Common-weale As in a Civill-warre the case doth stande Where no mann 's careful of his Countries heale Or who of right should al the rest commaund But follow him that hath the strongest hand So in Affections fight ther 's no respect To the Mindes good or how it should be scand But inconsiderate they both reiect And doe as strongest Passion doth direct The Hart the Hold where these Pow'res are inclos'd Heereby is vext for if it doe incline To those Affections that are worst dispos'd It s inly griv'd els Ioy the same doth line And with the same doth face the Face in fine But if sadd sorrow doe the Hart surprise It doth deface the face and make it pyne Looking like Languishment through both the Eyes For through the Eyes our Eye the Hart espies This direct Index of the Minde the Eyes Doth oft bewraie what Reason doth conceale For wil yee nil yee we shal see thereby What 's well or ill in the Mindes common-weale Our Lookes our Falshoode truely doe reveale Whereby oft lives and liberties are lost Examin'd Theeves confesse that they did steale By their confused lookes with horror tost Thus Count'naunce oft putts vs to double cost It Lyvings costs to hold it beeing hy It costs our lives when we it cannot hold We cannot hold it when through it we dye And two Proppes hold it high Silver and Gold For which oure lives and livinges oft are sold For too lowe State too false doth make the hands Which in the Countenance wee oft behold Through which we die and State that highly stands Lands must vphold So it costs life and lands Thus Ioy and Sorrowe send with equal pace True tokens of their presence in the Hart By Natures force conducted to the Face Where they the powr's convince of Reasons Arte And in the Front with force they play their part If in the Hart Griefe be predominant The browes wil bend as if they felt the smart If Ioy the face wil seeme therefore to vant Then how Hart fares Fooles are not ignorant That Man is truely wise as Man may bee That can beare weale woe with like aspect There may be such but such I nere could see Yet good mens countenance I much respect But of their goodnes nere saw that effect Let Stoicks giue for praecepts what they list This vertue may perhapps be their defect For though Affections force they can resist Yet they 'l prevaile wheÌ„ Natures powres assist And weakling that I am how apt am I To martial al my Passions in my face I oft haue tride and yet I doe
of such consequence Wherein there is such depth of Misterie That it wil blunt the sharpest Senses sence Of the acut'st and swift'st Intelligence Ne shall Deliberation be assur'd Of their effect vntill their evidence Tyme doth produce or triall hath procur'd Wherein rash Iudgment must not be endur'd The heav'nlyest Hav'ns m'haue Hellish entries Therefore wise Pilots keepe them in the Maine And rather brooke rough Tempests miseries Then by vnknowen perrils rest to gaine They shunne the flats by their experience plaine For in all perils such experience Must guide the course els perillous is paine Nay death may follow double diligence Not set on worke by single Sapience Experience is the guide of Policie Whose nere-deceaved eie sees all in all Shee can make light the darkest mistery Then her at all assaies to councell call Especially in matters mysticall Realmes haue a world of crannies where doe lurke Ten thousand mysteries from view of eie VVhich nerethelesse vncessantly doe worke And often giue the state a deadly Iurke Shee would haue Kings to haue such Councellors That might be learn'd in state-Philosophies For Kingdomes govern'd by Philosophers No Constellations feare nor Destinies They know what should the Soveraigne suffice And what the Subiect bending al their might T' accomplish both their long felicities By seeing that each one may haue his right Preventing forraine and domesticke spight As when a Shippe that liues vpon the Downes Of Neptune â—ightie Monarch of those Plaines Is neere at point to perish if hee frownes Without a sterne and one that it sustaines For maine is perill els vpon those Maines So fares that state that hath nor Lordes nor Lawes Wherewith the Liege the State from ruine raines In stormes of troubles and Contentions flawes VVherein wise Councels calme effectes doe cause They are the VVatch-men that stand Sentinell T' examine all that may impeach the state They make the Common-wealth a Paralell To that of Rome when shee was fortunate And Caesar make of a meane Magistrate VVho Baracado vp with Lawes strong Barres All that lies ope for Vice to ruinate And stoppe the Passages of Civill VVarres VVith martiall law which Male-contents deterres Nor neede the Statesman gage Philosophie Deeper then well to know how well to liue In Peace and VVealth this worldes felicitie And Rules of Life to that effect to giue They diue too deepe if they doe deeper diue VVhat is the knowledge of the Transcendents To him that learnes men onlie how to thriue Though he nere red such wilde Artes Rudiments Hee 's fitter farre for civill governments The Mathematickes and the Metaphysickes Haue no necessitie in government But Ethickes Politickes and Oeconomicks These to good Governours are incident VVhere morrall vertue sitteth President To bee well red in all good Historie VVhich makes the sp'rite much more intelligent Doth stand with state and perfit policie And maketh dexterous Authoritie The boundes of knowledge are the highest spheares For all is knowne in their circumference And what soere this Nurse of Earthlings beares Is subiect to humane intelligence Then knowledge is vnknowne by consequence In which respect Men doe their wits apply To this or that Arte with all diligence Vnable to know al Philosophie Because it stands not with mortality In all things as it s sedd are three degrees To weet Greate Small and the Indifferent And that which doth participate of these Is in perfection held most excellent Which is the Councellor in government For hee twixt Prince and People beeing plac'd Best sees what is for both convenient And for his vertue is of both embrac'd For vertue from the midst is nere displac'd If any one supply that vertuous place And is not vertuous he a Monster is For in the midst can nothing sit that 's base Sith Vertue there as in her Heav'n of blisse Her selfe enthrones to all eternities Physitions labour aimes at nought but health Sailors good passage Captaines victories So Councellors should for the Common-wealth Which iustly to her limbes her dowry dealth He had neede be more then honest yea much more Then vertuous that is vertuous past compare Who wheÌ„ his King 's with-drawn may ope the dore And in a Closet diue into his eare To put into his Head how all things are This if ill Sp'rits perceiue and hee will bee Corrupted with pure gold or what soere Some Fiend will say all this wil I giue thee Shewing him VVorldes if thou wilt honor mee Then how behouefull t is for Kinge and state To make such Minnions if he must haue such That in their Soules corruption deadly hate And having much desire not overmuch But to finde such an one were more then much For to be neere and deere vnto a Kinge Fils hart with pride and pride doth empt the pouch TheÌ„ for supply sowre sweete a sweete-sowre thing Which may the Sov'raign wrest the subiect wring Call'd Lieges-loue abus'd the same must bring But where shall Princes then bestow their loue Sith loue they must and ought where it is due On any one that still his grace wil moue For Common-good and private doth ensue But for that good This Minion in a Mew Had neede be kept for if he flie abrode Divels-incarnate will him still pursue Till they haue made a Divell of a God Or if hee scape t is with temptations lode An Hart that 's truely humbled and is dead For loue of Heav'n to all the earth holds deere Yet serpents wisedome hath in his doues head And from all spots of pride is purged cleere And stil would fast to make the rest good-cheere This were a Minion for a God or King Worthy to weld the VVorld and who drawes neere In nature to this Man or divine Thing A Prince should vse with all deere cherishing For Vertue onely makes good Councellors Who in great wisedome hold the State vpright No Halles orehang'd with Armes of Ancestors Haue in their right creation any might But if they haue them too they are most right Yet Vertue found not Tully nobly borne But made him Noble by his wisedomes weight Vertue respects not fortune nor doth scorne To dwell with those whose fortunes are forlorne Kinges come from slaues and slaues froÌ„ Kings desceÌ„d Bloud 's but the water wat'ring Fleshes dust Which by its nature ever doth descend And makes fraile Flesh to fall to things vniust For t is but Blood in the vniust and iust And al alike it is in high and lowe Not halfe so ful of life as ful of lust Making vs rather abiect then to growe To high accoumpt for ought that from it flowes Yet some times evil men make Rulers good As good Musitions oft in life are badd These last make discords ioyne in pleasant moode The first the like in Common-weales have made So either may be vertuous in his Trade How ever vitious in their lives they are But Policy the Prince doth still disswade
Richard Monster not a Man Vpon the Royal Throne that reeling stood Now Rule doth end when he to rule began VVho being perfect ill destroi'd the Good And like an Horseleech liv'd by sucking blood Now as desire of Rule more bloody was In Yorke then Lancaster so did the flud Of Divine Vengeance more in Yorke surpasse For to maine Seas of blood Blood-Brookes repasseâ— Bloud-sucking Richard swolâ—e with sucking Bloud When Horsleech-like he had his bloody pray Away fals hee in bloud bemir'd with Mud Making his Nephewes vsher him the way For from his crowne the crowne was cut away Henrie the sevenths keene-edg'd victorious Sword Slipt twixt both Crownes vnto his Crownes decay And got the Crowne that was much more assur'd VVhich hee to his and his to theirs affoord God amongst Men no King but demi God Henrie the seventh the Scâ—pter takes in hand Who with it as with Moises powrefull Rod Turn'd streames of civill bloud that soakt this land To silver streames that ran on Golden sand He turned Swords to Mattockes Speares to Spades And bound vp all vnbound in peaces Band Who draâ—e the erst long idle to their Trades And chang'd iniurious Swords to Iustice-Blades No more Plantagenet but Thewdor now Sits in the Kingdomes late vnstable Seate Plow-men praise God and God doth speed the Plow For such a King that makes their Crops compleate And multiplies their heardes of sheepe and Neate Vpon Ambitions Necke hee sets his foote Keeping her vnder And amongst the VVheate He puls vp Darnell dulie by the roote And nought neglects that may his Kingdome boote This Salomon lookt into High and Low And knew all from the Cedar to the shrub He bare the sworde that gaue a bitter blow Aswell to Cedars as the lowest stub That in the course of Iustice prou'd a Rub VVisedome and Prowesse did exalt his Throne Iustice and Mercie propt it which did curb Those that would shake it so that he alone Did rule the Roast that all did liue vpon He vertuous King still fear'd the King of Kings With louing feare that made him Lion-bold He ordred things as pleas'd the Thing of Things Like David that of him his Crowne did hold That on his Throne his Ofspring doth vphold Laden with happinesse and blessed daies His Realme repleat with blessings manifold This prosp'rous Prince to his immortall praise Left Life Realme Children all at happy staies Then no lesse fear'd then famous Henry That had a sacred Caesar in his pay With some-what more then mortall Maiestie Sits on the Throne that hands divine did stay As Heire apparant and the state doth sway He weilds the sword with his victorious hands That the whole Continent doth sore affray Wherewith he makes to crouch the Neighbor lands Which in a manner lie at his commands Hee was as circumspect as provident And by his Fathers observation Did right well know what kinde of government Was fitt'st for this vnkinde revolting Nation Well knew hee how to part a Combination That stood not with the state or his availe And if he were severe for reformation T' was Emperik-like that knew what it did aile So kill the cause lest all the VVhole should faile His forâ—aine VVarres and famous Victories More glorious wereâ— then for our Contrie good For such VVars haue these inconveniences They make vs spend our Treasures with our bloud Where both are cast away in likelyhood When wars abroad drinke vp our wealth at home The fire must out when spent is all the wood And if nought from without come in the wombe The Body needes must die by Natures dombe The wealth hee prest from Monastries supprest VVith the Revennues which to them pertain'd The Crowne possest but hee it dispossest With open Hand which had they still remain'd T 'had bin aloft for lesse hath Crownes sustain'd Lone Reliefe Subsedie and such as these Might for the subiects ease haue bin refrain'd The crownes Revennues such might well release And haue maintain'd the state in warre and peace If these had still bin adiuncts of the crowne And all that hold them hold as of the same Our Kings might warre with Tenants of their owne Who would vnprest haue yet bin prest for shame To follow their Liege-land-lords by that name The Crowne then like a Condite neuer dry Stil might haue stream'd to th' owners endles fame Rivers of Riches vnto Low and hy That well deserv'd of King or Contery Those harts whose life their Liege should thus maintain No lesse then bodies to their souls are bound Should haue bin tied vnto their Soveraigne To goe with him at ev'ry needfull Sound And in their service bin most faithful found But that that shal be shal be That high hand That all disposeth thus did it confound For purposes which hardly can be scand But for the Crowne ill how ere for the Land Hee Caesar-like in 's fortunes confident Ere first he crost the Seas to warre with France The Marquesse of Exceter made Regent And Heire apparant but no ill by chance Ensu'd till he did him quite disadvance Hee had forgot the direfull Tragedie Of the sixth Henry and like heires apparance But more advis'd he held it policie To spare that heire till more necessitie When he had cleer'd the coast and clensd the waie Of all that lay in either to molest And having put the state in perfect staie He with his Fathers laid him downe to rest And left a Sonne in whom the Land was blest VVho being yong could not yet stirre the sterne But rul'd by those his sire esteemed best And while the vertuous King to rule did learne His Realme misrul'd in vp-rore did discerne Heere raign'd Ambition like Obedience clad There rul'd Sedition in Concordes coate And here and there Rebellion rag'd as mad And ev'ry where the Common-wealth did floate Like to an halfe-suncke tempest-beaten Boate Each for him selfe no one for King or Sate Vpon the VVedge of Gold the best did doate All stood as falling still in each estate Knights giving Earles Earles giving Dukes the Mate Many a Demas then forsooke poore Paule In Summe the Summe of all was out of square And yet strange Paradox at square was all None Compasse kept yet compassing they are And Circumvention held discretions care Thus whilst the Sov'raign's in minoritie Each would be sov'raigne that about him were The smal in grace strave for maiority And Youth with Age for Seniority Disorder thus dividing the whole State And subdividing those divisions The Lord of Love to show his vrged Hate Tooke the wrong'd Kinge from his Dominions And left the Land fir'd with seditions By Angells hands this Kinge Angelicall Aâ— one of high Iehovahs Minions Was borne from this Nation vnnaturall That vengeance on it so might freely fall No sooner had the Heavens seis'd his Soule But a left hand began to seize
the Crowne Which seisure a right hand did soone controule And VVrong that would aspire Right straight putts downe Which fatally in fine was overthrone Yet was that VVronge made Right by their consents That were to see that each one had his owne But Heau'n disposeth Earth and her intents And Earth gainst Heav'n oppos'd too late repents Who trusts in Men in whome was never trust Except they were at warre with VVealth and State Few Statesmen such shal see how much distrust Doth Men advantage and prolongs their date Treason's in Trust Repentance comes to late When Powr's deriv'd from those that are but weake VVeake ev'ry way it stands in desprate state Frailty sticks not fidelity to breake VVhen it doth favoure and advantage seeke In case of Crownes when it our Crownes may cost If we misse holding when at them we catch It 's deadly dangerous at al to trust Much more to trust all that advantage watch By thy losse from losse themselves to dispatch Religion cannot dwell in double harts Such Harts haue All that with al states doe match Then where Religion slideth promise starts And feare of perill worldly frendshippe parts Queene Mary for she was that which shee was Namely our Queene and neere to our late Queene Her faults in silence we will overpasse Let them be buried with her sith I weene Sh' hath bin well taxt whose memorie is greene Shee now is Crown'd and Crown'd to others cost VVith Spaine shee matches being overseene Her Kinge forsakes her Calis quite is lost All goes awry which makes her yeeld the Ghost Now sacred Cynthia girt with silver Orbe From out Cimerian Clouds of Prisonment Faire Queene of Chastity appear'd to curbe Contention which oreranne this Continent And ioyn'd the same with peacefull government VVhich we doe yet enioy and long may wee The cause of it possesse in all Content Amen say I and all that peacefull bee In him that saith Amen when all agree Pray for thy King ble'st Ile lest that a Change A five-fold change to Desolation tend Or thou made subiect to a Subiect strange Which may thy publike-weale in peeces rend And make it private onely to the frend Gods Mill grindes slowly but small meale it makes Then praise him for thy peace and lesse offend Be not as one that stil occasion takes To sin the more the more he peace pertakes Farre be it from Religion to pretend Obedience whil'st it aymes at Princes spoile It s not Religion Soveraignty to end That Servitude thereby may keepe a coile And for her freedome covett Freedoms foile If Kings Commands do crosse the Divine will In their discharge Religion must recoile But not confound the Charger for its ill And ill can never good Commands fulfill Now brifly t'recollect what we haue sedd Touching the ActioÌ„s of these PoteÌ„tates In VVilliam Conquerer's considered How soone are conquered devided Statâ—s ,For force disioynedâ— small force ruinates He being desirous to reteyne the Pray His Sword had purchas'd it quite dissipates And like a Chaos at his feete it lay To forme it as he listed ev'ry way With the new Kinge he gaue new Lords and Laws Which curb'd the Head-stroÌ„g did yoke the VVild Till Disobedience with obedience drawes And all as one to one and all did yeeld That with and for that One did winne the field VVho finding his possession to bee sure Did ease the thralldome wherein they were held And that which erst he wounded he did cure And ev'ry waie their loves did then alure Now are the Kinge and the Nobility True freinds and fathers to the Common-weale The Commons now obay vnfeynedly The Victors and the Vanquished doe feele How much these Corsiues deadly hatred heale Now all being whole and sound are made intire And all aboute their Liege doth Larges deale By meanes whereof he hath his harts desire Whilst with his love he thus setts Harts on â—ire If he to mercy had the Peeres receav'd Or trusted to their Oathes true Fallacies And so departed when hee had perceav'd The State well settled leaving Deputies H 'had lost the value of his Victories Ne had the Land bin free from vvarrs and woes That doe consort divided Monarchies Ireland a woefull wittnesse is of those That for a Conquests want wracks Friends and Foes Omitting other Princes to descend To the first Edward that did first refine This Common-weale and made the same ascend VVhen through mis-swaying it seem'd to decline In whom we see the Providence divine VVorke by his VVisedome Valor Industrie Glorious effects which in the State doe shine For Hee it made an intire Monarchie Which now remaines so to Posteritie Edward and Richard second of their names VVith the sixth Henry and the Infant King By these bee 't spoken not without their blames Is seene the dire and diverse altering Of kingly state through evill managing These beeing childish fraile improvident Laie open to Ambitions canvasing VVho spâ—ing time vsurpt their government Making them Mirrors for Kings negligent The faults fore-mention'd in these haplesse Kings The vniust rule of those that ruled them The subiects strength which Sov'raignes weaknesse brings A fatall Potion made for King and Realme Whereof they dranke a deadly draught extreme Kings must be Kings indeede and not in show Like as the Sunne is Actiue with his Beame For if they suffer Subiects Kings to grow Kings must bee slaues and to their Subiects bow Edward the third and Henrie Bullenbrooke Henry the fift and the fourth Edward These Princes were of Fortune nere forsooke Because they governed with due regard And whilst they watcht they made the rest to warde By others errors they did rule aright Who made their subiects loving feare their guarde Ambition durst be dam'd ere come in sight Or but once moue her head to looke vpright Kings cannot safely raigne without mistrust Because no state without Ambition is Which ever hath her Trainâ— for so shee must To helpe to guide her when shee guids amisse For shee is blind and oft the way doth misse Impatient of delay in her desire Now running that waie and streight trying this Like to a restlesse ventlesse Flame of fire That faine would finde the way streight to aspire Ther 's no perfection without some defect Yet may 't be cur'd or tolerable made Onely Ambition doth all cure reiect VVealth doth augment it want makes it not fade And into deepes vnknowne in both t' will wade In doing well it is most insolent And no lesse impudent in doing bad Too wil'd to tame and violently bent With Tooth and Naile to catch at government The Conquests which these Kings in France obtain'd As those in Scotland were by others lost For Vice will lose what is by vertue gain'd Their keeping put the state to ceaslesse cost VVhich â—ost the Commons
states deepe misteries And now directly prosecute the rest Touching the soules yet vntoucht faculties VVee varied where we toucht varieties Of dispositions of the soule and sp'rite In touching which vvee toucht these Policies Wherein the worldlie wise so much delight Because they tend to rule the VVorld aright The pleasures of the Minde as erst vvas said As farre surmount all pleasures corporall As the Minde doth the Bodie which is swai'd But by the Minde with svvaie Monarchicall Yet some base bodies keepe the Minde in thrall VVho doe s'extremely doate on fleshly ioies That they doe wish they had no minde at all That so they might not feele the Mindes annoies For those delights which Flesh and Sprite destroies These Men-beastes are as if they never were They burden but the Earth yet are too light VVho liue to lust yet streight away they weare Like Dew against the sunne in highest height With flesh-consuming fleshly fraile delight These senslesse spunges of Improbity Are full of pleasure but it is vnright For Gods hand squizeth out their iollitie And filâ— their Mindes with reall miserie The Minde her pleasures needs not intermit And then retake them as the senses must But changeth them as shee thinkes requisit Sometimes the iust for pleasures most vniust So changing Loue too oft to lothsome Lust Except the powre from whence the motion springs Be hindred by and so betrai'd in trust Some let in th' Organs vsd in her workings Which VVines excesse and sicknesse often brings But those impediments bee'ng tane away Shee like a River keepes her wonted course In motion still tiâ—l shee bee at a stay By some strong Damme yet doth her selfe enforce Stil gath'ring strength courage from her Sourse To breake away through all Impediments That so shee may imploy her wonted force Vpon the pleasures which her most contents Be they vaine Ioies or divine ravishments It then behoves vs to be wel advis'd What matter we propose vnto our minde Or good or ill or ill with good disguiz'd For if shee should therein a liking finde Shee will thereto be evermore inclin'de Like some pure virgins that nere knew the sport That men doe yeeld them in the kindest kinde Having once tasted it are all amort But when though damn'd they aâ—e at that disport If then we would cheere this ay-moving mind We must haue care that that be perfect good Which shee doth chew how different e're in kynd For corrupt Aliments breede corrupt blood And blood corrupted is Confusions flood But sensuall pleasures cannot please the Sense Without being cloied though they change their mood For SeÌ„se sometimes must hold theÌ„ in suspeÌ„ce To sett an edge the while on her dull'd sence Likewise the pleasures which we doe receave From Natures works haue much more force then those That we from Artificiall things conceaue For lett all Artes vnto our view expose What Arte it selfe in each kinde can disclose They bring satiety soone with the sight But who is cloi'd to see a flowred Close Hills Dales Brooks Meads VVoods Groues all daintie dight Sunne Moone and Starrs al in perfect plight For we being naturall doe best agree With things in nature no lesse naturall Yet to confesse a wel-know'n veritee Our often seeing these faire Creatures all Doth make the pleasure much lesse Cordial Herehence it is that we doe lesse admire The pow'r of that Hand supernaturall Which did this al with al these Faires attire And so not praise him as his workes require Yet if a Child confin'de t' a Dungeon deepe Vntil he had attained Manhoods yeares Should on a SoÌ„mers-day froÌ„ some high steepe Vpon a suddaine see these glorious Fayres His Eyes would ravisht be how ere his Eares For Eares should solac'd be aswell as Eyes With the melodious nimble-winged Quiers Nay I suppose such ioy would him surprise As he were plung'd in ioyes of Paradize But while he 's Dungeon'd let the expert'st Tonge yonge That able were to create Living wordes Paint out the Earth with quicke words great with And though that Fry againe like Spawne affords And ev'ry one had pow'r to pierce like Swords Into the nature of these Rarities To make him compreheÌ„d the highest Lords Inferior'st workes he could not well coÌ„prize The thousaÌ„dth part of grace which in theÌ„ lies As when a Man though with an Angells tongue Whilst we are Dungeon'd in this VVorld of vvo Tels vs of Heau'n and all that doth belonge Vnto the state of those that thitherâ— go With words that from a well of VVisdome flo Yet tells he not the hundred thousandth part Of that rare blisse which none on Earth can kno As good Soules wel perceave wheÌ„ heÌ„ce they part VVhich farr surmouÌ„ts the highest thoughts of Hart. But herein's faulty this Comparison To Mundane things is fixt satiety But those blest Things that are aboue the Sun Are priviledg'd from such deficiency For they are ful of all felicity The more they are beheld the more they may For they content Desires best-sighted Eye And please the more because that still they stay For true ioyes are compleate by their delay Aske that same third Heau'n-rapt Saint what hee saw Or what he heard when he was ravisht so Hee 'l tell you though most learn'd in sacred Law And no lesse learn'd each way he doth not kno The ioye thereof his Sense did so oreflo If then so great a Clark so pure a Saint Being but in the Heau'n two lofts belo Wants words the ioye there of aright to paint Who can the highest Heavens blisse depaint Thus the Affects of ioy and Griefe are giv'n By him that giues all onely to one end To weet his Glorie and desire of Heau'n Ioye to alure and Griefe th' Affects to bend From that which doth to Griefe and Horror tend Now then to runne through other strong Affects And to descend to Love that doth descend Which is a Passion powrefull in effects And chiefely the chief good by kinde respects When Iudgment hath alow'd a thing for good Shee foorth-with tenders it vnto the VVill Which doth embrace the same in ioyful moode Because it doth hir Soules desire fulfill And when that ioy conceav'd doth tarry still It s called Loue which doth the wil incline To simple good or good scarce toucht with ill Thus Loue is bredd or humane or divine Which in the soule like a faire Flame doth shine But Loue that hath respect to any thing Besides the goodnes of the thing belov'd Is rather doating which doth loathing bring WheÌ„ things therby desir'd are wel approv'd If God himselfe bee for his bounty lov'd And onely therefore who doth loue him so Doth loue him for his goodnes by him prov'd Yea for that goodnes which to him doth flo Not for that good which he cannot forego Who loveth vs for his owne goodnesse sake And for no good in vs for we have none We should
loue him not for he did vs make But for his goodnesse onely and alone And loue al goodnesse for and in that One A father loues his sonne not in regard Of any gaine but for he is his owne Nor should a Sonne his Sire loue for reward But for he is his Sire in Nature dear'd For if we loue ought for the good we have From it we loue our selves more then the same Or loue it for our selves our selues to save From want of that which from it to vs came So such loue is selfe-loue which Love doth blame But we must loue the Lord of Love for love Nay though he hate vs we must love his name Sith to make man Loue onely did him move But to loue him againe for Mannes behove If then we weigh by vvhat degrees wee mount To him from vvhom our soules did first descend We finde that as through loue which doth surmouÌ„t They came from him so to him they ascende The selfe-same way as to their proper end For comming from him they must know him needs Aud knowing him they needes must to him tend But so they cannot but by loues good deedes For what is not of loue from sinne proceedes The order then of the degrees to loue Is first vvee at things corporall beginne For our birth to that Steppe vs streight doth moue Vnto our outward senses then wee rinne To Fancie next and so wee never linne Till through Reas'n Iudgement Contemplation VVe come to loue and so wee rest therein But to descend by the selfe same gradation And there to rest descendeth to damnation For to dismount from true loues loftie pitch Loue of the High'st so lowe as to selfe-loue Is Sow-like to lie mired in the ditch Of lowest Hell where we all Sorowes proue And cannot for our soules from thence remoue Without kinde heav'nly loues all-helping hand Which onely and alone hath powre to moue Our Mindes from Earth vnto the Livings Land And breake the linckes of selfe-loues mortall Band. Loue makes an Vnion of Diversitie If then wee loue God hee and wee are One One although diverse through true amitie VVee loue him and our selues for him alone So may we loue our selues as wee loue none Likenesse breedes loue which makes him loue vs so Who made vs to his Image and his Sonne Assum'd our shape which makes his loue the mo Then by like reason wee should loue him to The more his Image is renew'd in vs The more he loues vs and wee loue the more Then to deforme the same 's most odious And he detesteth vs alone therefore VVhich makes vs likewise loath him and his loâ—e All which proceedes from dissimilitude For God and Beliall are foes evermore Then sith wee are with his faire Forme indu'd Let it by vs bee euermore renew'd For Beauty is an vrgent cause of Loue If so wee should embrace the fairest Faire With loue that should be farre all loue aboue Yea die for loue that Loue might life repaire And glorifie the same as Beauties Heire See wee an hue that mortall beauty staines As doth the Sunne the Moone by his repaire This sov'raigne Beauty all the glorie gaines Sith but a sparke thereof the same sustaines Then Beauty blush to glorie in thy Blaze And much more blush to blaze thy glorie vaine With coulors fresh to make fraile eies to gaze And such as cannot iudge of coulors faine No coulor hast thou so thy selfe to staine The best is too too bad and bad 's the Best That without coulor doe their face ingraine In earnest such I thinke doe loue to Iest As Chaucer but my Muse will owe the rest But outward beauty loue procures because It argues th' inward beauty of the Minde For goodnes is th' effect Beauty the Cause And both togither commonly we finde For Nature both togither stil doth binde A good Complexions disposition Is for the most part vertuously inclinde But VVeomens beauty by permission Being often tempted breedes suspition For hardly is that kept that many craues And chastitie with beautie 's stil at strife For much more beautiful are Frailties slaues TheÌ„ for the most part they of vertuous life And aske a man that hath a beautious wife How much he fears the fowle fal of his faire Because that nothing in the world 's more rife Then at faire beauties byding mens repaire And where they hauÌ„t they do not stil repaire But this by accident is rather thus Then any waie to beauty naturall For it by Nature is most vertuous Sith Tempers good to Ill are seldome thrall For bodies meerely are Organicall Wheron the mind doth play al parts in one If then they be in tune most cordiall Their motioÌ„s must be needs sith there is none That moues theÌ„ but the minde or God alone But for that beauty stil alures the eie The â—ie the hart the hart the soule Sp'rite Of those that on the same do chance to pry Because it doth beheau'n them with delight This makes them instantly the same incite To yeeld to loue or lust and their desire Then being subiect thus to restlesse fight It oft enflames and is ensâ—am'd with fire That Flesh and Sprite makes but one flame intire How many may wee see distracted quight Or pyning liue or rather dy with paine Yea some to spill themselues with all despight For others beautie which they cannot gaine If beauty then so ore fraile sense doth raigne Sense being subiect to her sov'raigntie Doth sue and serue her favour to obtaine VVith most impetuous importunitie Till shee as subiect to her Subiect lie And never times except the times of old For whose corruption al the world was drown'd But these curst times of ours durst be so bold To make it common with estates renown'd To couâ—t bright beauty match'd as t' were vnbound Call yee it Courtshippe cal it what yee please Though it be in request it was not found In chaster times â—or oft it doth disease The head with swellings which nought can appease Mee thinkes I see as I haue often seene A well-made Male as male-content to stand In silke or silver clad right well-beseene VVringing a match'd faire Female by the hand VVhil'st in her eare he lets her vnderstand How much shee ought to loue him â—or his loue Meane while hard by stands Patience the Husband And lets Temptation his weake vessell proue VVhich in his sight her vnseene Spright doth moue It s prettie pastime so to passe the time It savoures of good breeding and good VVitt The Howres are made more pleasant by this Chime Who would not stil to here the same stil sitt Although a man transformed were by it O t is a iolly matter to give eare Nay to give leaue to Musicke in her fitt He is a Beast that wil not then forbeare Though he thereby be made a Beast to beare Foure kinds of
divine fury are obseru'd The first and first by right Propheticall Which by Apollo is rul'd and conserv'd The next by Bacchus called Misticall The third by Muses hight Poeticall The fourth and last by Venus governed Is call'd the Fury Amatoriall Which doe inferre that Love is borne and bredd Without the breach of Natures Maidenhedd What force it hath is better felt then showne For VVords cannot expresse the force of loue Call we it Love or Lust it is well known It hath the force of both the Heart to move Which these can testifie that it did prove Semiramis whose Vertue past compare This furious Passion her did so remoue From that shee was that lusting to reshare Hir Sonne her Sonne her Threed of Life did share The Macedonian Philipps peerelesse Sonne That over-ranne the VVorld with Sword and Fire This flaming fury yet did so ore runne That for his Thais that kindled his desire He burnt Persepolis sans cause of ire Yea did not onely that fowle fact command But with his Hands he lab'red as for hire To burne the buildings which as yet did stand Till he had laid al level with the Land A VVonder worthy of all wonderment That he that foil'd what ere his force withstood Should bee thus foil'd and made a President Of Lusts fell force which so enflam'd his Blood That made his Flesh Wild Fire in likelyhood A Man by woman a King by a Queane To be so overcome through Lustfull moode Being so effeminate and most obscene Argues in Loue and Lust there is no meane Strange are th' effects of Lust. For Men with Men Nay Man with Beast A Sinne not to be toucht So much as with the Tongue much lesse with Pen And least of all with that too oft bewitcht With loue of that which is by Nature grutcht Lust is so blinde that it cannot discerne A Man from Beast how ever beastly coucht But doth a Man-beast moue though Nature yerne The tricks of Beasts with lothsome Beasts to learne Graue Xenephon lov'd Clinias in this kinde So as hee crav'd of Ioue when Clinias di'de That if he might see him and still be blinde Or not see him and still be perfect Eyde He rather mought the want of sight abide To see him once then still to haue his sight And not see him See see how blinde a Guide Is lothsome Lust that leades men so vnright As for her pleasure so themselues to spight Semiramis an Horse ô brutish Lust Did lust to haue ô moÌ„strous Mare humane Pasiphaë long'd for a Bull to thrust Her from a woman to a Cow vncleane And Cyparissus made an Hynde the meane To coole his courage Aristomâ—chus A silly Bee would haue to be his Queane Lust whither wilt wilt be so monstrous To long for Bees that be but moates to vs Publius Pilatus fell in lusting loue With Hellens Image and Pigmalion For his owne Picture did like passion prove Damn'd Lust what pleasure provd'st thou in a stone That 's cold by kind as Snow on Libanon To tell the Mischiefes Spoiles Masacres By hate effected though through loue begun Were but to tell the number of the Starrs For Lust and Mischeife are ioynt passengers Troy might perhappes haue stoode vnto this Age Had Lust not laid it levell with the plaines And seas of Blood spent in that ten yeares Siege Might still haue kept the Chanells of the Vaynes But lewde Lust is so loose that shee restraines Her will in nought though it bringes all to nought Shee pleasure takes in pleasure causing paines For by her painfull pleasures such are wrought Yet on such pleasures shee doth fixe her thought Shee will not let the Thoughts so much as prie A minutes space on ought but what shee loues Shee Tirant captivates the Fantasy So that it cannot stirre till shee it moves Or if it doe shee forth-with it removes My Fancies Mistris saith some slaue to Lust Is my Thoughts Heau'n So swallowed with his Loues Are all his Thoughts and though as dry as Dust He lusts to please his loue with loue vniust For this al that pertaines must be in print VVeeds VVords Lookes Loks in print not one awry Whose Motions must be currant for the Mynt His glances must keepe iust time with her Eye And seeme to die se'ng her rich beauties dye Yet with a carefull carelessenesse he must Avoide the hate which too much loue doth buy And loue no more then may provoke to lust These are their loue tricks trickes of loue vniust One makes an Idoll of his Mistris Glove And offers thrice a day at least a Kisse Vnto each finger so to show his loue Another her Haire-Bracelett makes his blisse And Night and Day t' adore it wil not misse These Fancies fancie doe with kindnes cloy VVitt nere in loue taught Pupill so of his As saith the Book but doth his powres imploy With kindnesse coy to winne his witty Toy Whist Muse be mute wilt thou like Naso proue And interlace thy Lynes with levity Wilt thou add Precepts to the Arte of Loue And show thy vertue in such vanity So to polute thy purer Poesy No more no more ynough if not too much Is sedd already of this Mistery My Conscience at the same doth grieving grutch But let it goe this once with but this Touch. And how-soere Beauty may bee abus'd It promiseth more good then shapelesnesse If it proue otherwise it s thus excus'd The High'st to shew that good-guifts more or lesse Proceede from him and not from Natures largesse Le ts beauty fal and soile it selfe with sinne VVhich is more dam'd if beauty it doth blesse As Vertue is most faire that blest hath bin VVith beauty being resident therein But loue that Beautie breedeth is threefold According to three obiects of that loue All faire some good which thus we may vnfold The Pleasant and the Profitable mooue As doth the Honest true loue which vve proue The first concerneth things that please the Sense As beautie and at what the sense doth roue The second hath to welfare reference The third and last to Iustice and Prudence The first and second kinds of lust or loue Among the Perturbations may be put Sith they so many ill affections moue That make mans life to be in Sorrow shut VVhich like a Razor off the same doth cut But loue of honest things is vertuous And from mans praises takes away the But It shows the Minde is right magnanimous ' For that 's most great that is most gracious This loue is kindled by that heav'nly Flame That like fine Gold doth purifie the Sp'rite And like it selfe transmuted maks the same Good gratious holy wise iust clear bright Glory'ng in him that makes her glory right This is the loue of beauty most extreame VVherein celestial soules doe most delight Of loue that feedes the Sp'rite it is the creame Infus'd by Iustice Sonnes inlightning Beame This
loue resembles that of Seraphins VVho burne in loue of the extremest Good And makes Men like the sacred Cherubins Still priviledg'd from outward charge whose moode Is stil t' attend on LOVES Trin-vnion-hood This loue this beauty Loue of vertuous thiâ—gs Whose beauty flowes from divine beauties Flud Doth make Men Gods among the mighti'st Kings And Kings with highest God in high'st dwellings Goodnesse is Beauties Mother and true Loues Beauty and loue are both bred in one VVombe Then loue and beautie stil it much behoues To tend to Goodnesse as vnto the Tombe That must at last for ever them enwombe But there are diverse loues and beauties mo According to the creatures all or some Proceeding from that LOVE and BEAVTY who Sheds both on things aboue and things belo Fowre special beauties Goodnesse hath created The first is that whereby the Minde and sp'rite Hath VVit and Vnderstanding in them seated The second them adornes with Knowledge bright That mounts the Minde to Contemplations height The third in seede preserving mortall things The last in corp'rall things that sense delight Science the Soule to Contemplation brings But her to things materiall Fancie flings Yet did the soule but weigh hovv shee is bound To her Creator for his matchlesse loue Shee would from thence by Reason soone rebound And wholy stil contemplate things aboue For this his loue requitlesse doth approue He gaue her beeing meerely of free grace Before shee VVas or could his mercie moue Then if shee loue him her loue is but base Compar'd with his that made her what shee waâ— VVho giues a Guift much more affection shoes Then the Receaver for it can bewray The giver giues beeing free to giue or choose But the Receaver's bound to loue alway Yet if the giver giues to th' end to pray It s not of Loue but Lucre loth'd of Loue GOD cannot giue so in whom all doth stay But Men giue thanks for Blessings which they proue And God thereby to giue them more doe moue Such loue in giver and receiver both Is meerely merc'nary corrupt and base VVhich hatefull loue the Lord of loue doth loth And from such lovers turnes his loving face As from false Hypocrites abusing grace But true loves scope is in a gracious moode To loue all those that Mercie shoulde embrace Respecting nought but to streame foorth the flud Of goodnesse which it hath for others good For loue is free and freely would be lov'd It s actiue like a Flame in operation Saue that like fire it is not vpwardes mou'd But doth descende by Reasons computation For such descent on Reason hath foundationâ— The Sire doth loue the Sonne more then the Sonne Doth loue the Sire because by generation Part of the Sire into the Sonne doth runne But no part of the Sonne in Sire doth wonne Sith loue in nature stil doth thus descende God loues man more then Man his God can loue For Man proceedes from God who is his ende But God from Man likewise cannot remoue For Man is finite and in God doth moue This made him loue Men when they were his foes And for their loues a world of woe did proue Therefore hee 's Fount of Loue whence all loue floes Which loues for hate and hate doth loue-dispose Now how to loue this VVell of loue the more Loue doth direct by kindling the Desire Truely to know and minde it evermore Both which so sets the soules frame all on fire That it is made one flame of loue intire The more wee know it it the more wee minde The more wee minde it it wee more require The more we seeke the more wee it doe finde And being found it quite doth lose the Minde For then the Mindes no more that which it was For to this loue it 's transubstantiate To weeteâ— as neere as loue can bring to passe It s ev'n the selfe-same thing immaculate And like this LOVE this loue doth contemplate Reiecting all that would inveagle it To loue ought els and stil doth meditate To loue nought els and bends all powres of wit To make it selfe for this Loue onely fit Thus Sinners may turne Seraphins by Loue wounding with Loue-shafts Gods hart pure alone So as the ones hart so the others moue As twixt them aâ— there were no Hart but one This is to lye next the chiefe Corner-stone In the Church-militant Triumphant rather For God and man this Loue doth â—o attone As doth nay more then loue doth Sonne and Father For loue makes both intire still altogether For Loue doth graue though in an Hart of Brasse The forme of the Beloued in the Hart So that a Lovers Hart is like a Glasse Where the Belou'd is seene in ev'râ— part So in Gods Hart w' are graven by Loves Arte And in our harts Loue doth his forme ingrave Thus interchang'd we eithers forme impart To others liking by the Loue we have And make the Hart the Lodge it to receave The ende or scope of loue is to vnite The faster therefore it conglutinates Two harts or of them makes an vnion right So much the more her vertue shee elates And perfectly her kinde effectuates Then Loue in God in whom Love perfect is His vertue so to man participates That they become one through that loue of his For Man partakes his Image and his Blisse But man meere Chaos of extreame Defect Doth loue but loveth onely in desire He longs perhapps to loue with al effect That God and he thereby might be intire Whereto his leaden loue would faine aspire From which desire proceeds a pleasant paine Pleasant in that it setts the soule on fire With loue so good And paine it breeds again For that it hath not what it would haue fain But what is lacking in Mans loue the same God doth supply out of his boundlesse loue And makes MaÌ„s loue therby a working flame Which to presse through al Pressures stil doth prove And towards God her Spheare doth ever move This Flame doth melt the marrow of the Sp'rite Making it liquid sooner to remove In 't Mercies Mould where it s reform'd aright And made intire with LOVE true loues delight For when the lover loues himselfe no more But the Beloved in whom he abides Or if he loue himselfe it is therefore To weet for that he in his loue resides Then Loue is pure at high'st pitch besides But such high Raptures are too rarely found In fraile humanity that on Earth bides Though loue the Soule therfore perhaps may wound Yet stil t' wil be to the owne Body bound How shal I end with everlasting Loue To ease my Reader tir'd with heavy lines Vnto this Labarinth of Loue I prove The Author LOVE no comming out assignes Yet rest I may though it my Muse confines As Zeuxis drue a vaile with curious skill Ore that hee wanted skill t' expresse by Lines So I the like in Loue must now
hot The eare shee tickles with such wordes and Notes That Hearing ravisht hath her selfe forgot With eie bewitching Faires the eie shee dotes And thus each sense in pleasures seas shee flotes These senses thus bewitch'd Fancie allures To share the sweetnesse which they say they finde Fancie consents and Iudgement soone procures T' approue their pleasure which betraies the Minde Betrai'd and quite misled by Iudgement blind Thus in prosperitie sinne domineers VVho vvith strong cordes of Vanity doth biâ—de The soule and body as it vvel appeeres By those whom welfare to the world endeeres O Flesh didst thou but know how suger-svveete The pleasures vvere proceeding from the Crosse Th'wouldst runne amaine the coÌ„ming crosse to meet And count al gaine saue that alone but losse All sensual Ioies doe thee but turne and tosse With restlesse proofes of false felicitie Which Ioies retaile but vtter griefes in grosse For corp'rall pleasure in extremitie The center is of endlesse miserie Now Griefe and Feare though they accompany These evil goods goods evil by abuse Yet they respect all kinde of misery VVhich we conceiue vvhen wee haue not their vse Through vvant vvhereof as through an open sluce Flow all vexations and annoies of minde Into the emptie souâ—e which they reduce To their obedience in rebellious kinde For Reason they in rage doe rudely binde The Body hereby puling pines away Like to a Bladder whose winde is out strain'd By such degrees as it doth by the way A whyning make as if the same were pain'd So fares the Body by the Minde constrain'd Till she be breathles she breathes out but mone For want of Goodes but fain'd her griefes vnfain'd Doe drie vp quite the Marrow of the Bone As if shee were in wretched plight alone For as al good Affections doe proceede From the opinion which we haue of Good So doth th' opinion of evill breede All ill Affections and each evil moode For ill Conceipt conceaues this cursed Broode Now the first touch of ill is call'd Offence FroÌ„ whence if it contynewe foorth do budd Griefe Envy Hate and fell Impatience As Loue proceeds from true Goods residence And sith ther 's nought that doth to Earth belonge In which both Good and Ill in deede or sho Are not like Phisick-Potions mixte amonge Therfore froÌ„ thence may be drawne VVeale or VVoe As they are tane sith both from thence doe flo For that which likes some some doth most displease According to the humors which they owe Some take repose in that which most disease As some delight in VVarre but most in Peace And the more inly that offences touch So much the more they doe thereby offend The inward'st is the better part by much Then that which thereto doth annoyance send To the tormenting of the VVhole doth tend Offences done to the externall Sense Are not so grievous as those which doe wend To the internall Noâ— is VVitts offence So sore as that which doth the VVill incense Nay if our VVill be not offended we Can suffer what not without al offence In which respect we willingly agree That FrieÌ„ds reproofs should proue our patience When with our Foes we would not so dispence Likewise oâ—r selues of our selves so may speake That others speaking so would vs incense And make vs mortally revenge to seek Thus VVill bee'ng pleas'd nought can our patience breake Then sith Offence most grieves the tender'st Sense Therefore are they offended soon'st of all Whose Mindes and Bodies haue most excellence And are most delicate and speciall Bee it by accident or naturall And mong the Hoast of Natures Creatures Man Is hard'st to please and most to Anger thrall For he with nought will beare nor suffer can Yet al haue cause this wayward VVaspe to ban If therefore One it be so hard to please How much more hard to please an Hoast of Men What can be saide or done so wel but these Will all or some of all speake there agen They care not against whom nor where nor when Aske Generalls if this be true or no Who though they make their Purs-strings cracke agen To please the Presse yet they shal not doe so But some will murmur and speake broadly to For some are so invred fault to finde That they offended are without offence Nothing they heare or see but irkes their minde So all offendes them without difference And to be thought of tall intelligence Their Tongues dispraise what their Thoughts highly praise Because they weene great praise proceeds froÌ„ theÌ„ce For he thinke they that sees what to dispraise Sees and knowes how t' amend it many waies How many may we heare and see of these Who with bent brow scue looke and mouth awry Sleightly survaie the workes that wise men please Protesting them to be but poore And whie Because they proue their VVitts base povertie They faine would faine to haue vnfained skill In ev'ry thing wherein they faults espie And by depraving VVitt t' haue witt at will When all 's but fain'd and strain'd and passing ill When Men adore their owne sufficiencie And weene their excellence doth check the Skies What marvel i st if al beneath the Skie They check and through their selfe-conceite dispise Who but to see their owne woorth haue no Eyes These Men are inly mov'd with much offence When they another see by Vertue rise Because high State they weene should recoÌ„pence No others but their onely excellence Bee they most poore yet be they much more proude Exclaiming on the tymes wherein they live For Men of woorth say they with parts indow'd The tymes doe not respect nor wil relive But wholly vnto partlesse Spirits giue Thus doe they melt awaie in Envies fire And whilst hart-burnings theÌ„ of rest deprive They them bestirre to part that is intire And CommoÌ„-wealthes orethrow so to aspire These vnwise wittie Mal-contents are they That egge on Men vnwise and violent T' attempt the over-sway of Princes Sway Or rather to confound their government That so they might be made preheminent For sly Vlysses must point out the place Gainst which the force of Aiax must be bent And Men made desp'rate hold it no disgrace To be directed in a desp'rate case These waspish over-weening idle Drones Are mortal plagues to ev'ry Publike-weale Right anti-Kesars vndermyning Thrones Yet Princes hardly shal their motions feele Vntil their States and Seates begin to reele And then too late perhapps seeke fast to sitt VVheÌ„ they must rest vpoÌ„ the pointed Steele These are th' effects of mal-contented VVitt Which not lookt to wil haue a madding fitt All which proceedeth meerely of Offence CoÌ„ceav'd by hateful natures hard to please VVhich mischiefe and great inconvenience Bring to a State and neither Land nor Seas Can possibly be priviledg'd from these VVho still doe feare their mis-imploied time VVill bring vpoÌ„ theÌ„ that which wil displease VVhich to
of Kings Whose Crownes are ever subiect to her shot There like a Snake that hisses not shee stings And oft ere shee is seene Confusion bringes For not without iust cause doe Poets faine That shee as one of the infernall broode Doth poison sucke to vomit it againe And makes of Snakes her flesh-consuming foode Which makes her like a blind-worme without bloud Who often creepeth like this abiect VVorme Not wotting which way each way but the good And in Preferments way shee doth enorme All feete shee meets with which none can reforme Envie therefore the hart doth macerate Because the Tongue dares not the griefe disclose That makes that griefe still on the hart to grate Which the leane looke alone in silence shoes Yet eies shrinke in as loth to tell the woes And looke ascue as if in looking straight They might directly so discouer those All which makes woe to haue the greater waight The soule and bodie so to over-fraight One said beholding one with envie pin'd I know not by thy lookes which all doe loth If they fare well or thou ill for thy Minde Is vext alike alike thou look'st for both Which subtill speech included simple troth For envi's griev'd no lesse for others good Then for her proper ill and is as wroth For others praise as if hers were with-stood And for both sucks alike her Subiectes bloud Shee envies all to all except envie And that shee envies to if it exceede Like Argus shee nere sleepes but when her eie Is charm'd by Mercuries sweete sounding Reede For envie flattered is well agreed When all respect is had of her and hers And all neglected els her All to feede No more till shee neglected be shee stirres Then as before her selfe shee straight bestirres The sunne at highest shee resembles right Though base shee be and darke as nether Hell For as the sunne obscureth things most bright And makes the light of things obscure excell So envie seeks men famous most to quell And praiseth most men least deserving praise Such as their deerest fame to shame doe sell All such if any at all shee most doth raise And all men els doth most of all dispraise The more Men want of what they faine would bee The more their want with envie is supplide The lesse if prowde they are in their degree The lesse they can their betters farre abide And horse prowd Beggars they like Kings will ride Now as each Vice doth in it beare about An inbred plague so in this doth reside The plague of plagues to weare it selfe quite out With fretting gainst the rich or roiall Rowt The envious privie to their owne defects Doe witnesse to themselues their small esteeme For which the VVorld they see them still reiects Through which they inly burst with griefe extreme But dare not let the world them envious deeme For no Affect is lesse disclos'd then this Because it makes men lesse then worthlesse seeme Therefore the much more dolorous it is For griefes doe breake the heart if vent they misse What Common-weales and mighty Monarchies What glorious Kings and famous Generals Yea which is strange what heau'nly Hirarchies Whose wretched state and miserable fals By envie wrought remaine in Capitals Whence all may see how actiue and how fell This Furie is who rests in Funerals Or when on earth Men rest i◠such an Hell That to th' infernall may be Paralell FRom Envy springs ay-watchful Iealousie Ore-plus of Loue as iealous Lovers would Which worse then Hell hates al Rivalitie And cannot brooke that any other should Possesse that wee or ours would or doe hold Yet some restraine it onely vnto Loue For being as they say more manifold It Obtrectation hight which who doth prove Shal finde the Minde vnlike it selfe to moue For she can thinke of nought but that alone That makes her iealous and when shee 's restrain'd Of former freedome shee is not her owne But like a Body bound t' a Racke is pain'd And thinks of nought but paine be'ng so constrain'd This is the Linx in Loue that never sleepes And oft too oft by Lust is entertain'd Who through nine walles of Mudd or Mettle peeps And so like Argus Loves beloved keepes Now as the thinges belov'd are good or badd So iealousie is good or badd thereby If Men be iealous of their thoughts that gadd From the chiefe Good good is that iealousie And in a Prince t is no impiety When he suspects Ambition in his State Nor in the mari'd ist an Heresy If loving iealousie without debate Doe keepe each others Love from cause of hate Like may bee sedd of Parents Kinne and Frendes So longe as it aymes but at like respect An harmelesse iealousie from harme defends Those whom they governe and by kinde affect Such ieal'usie doth in God our good effect Which makes him watch vs where wee wake or sleepe VVho in his loue thereby doth vs protect From al those vnseene ills that on vs creepe And by the same his honor safe doth keepe But iealousie conceau'd through cause vniust Be it in VVeddlocke Freindshippe or where not Makes Loue a Languishment for false mistrust Is not by God but by his Foe begott Which Loue with Lust doth evermore besott Hence come the Quarrells twixt the mari'd Paires When they through iealousie are overshott This makes Affraies too oft of great Affaires And ruynes that which loyal Love repaires The fell disturber of Loves sweete repose Copesmate of Care tormenter of the Minde The Canker of faire Venus sweetest Rose The Racke that over-racks the over-kinde The over-watchful Eye of Loue stil blinde The Hart of Caution wherein ay are bredd The vital Sp'rites of Arte to State assign'd Soule of Regard alive when it seemes deade All this is Iealousie that holds the Heade The Caucasus whereto Loues Hart is bound The Vulture which the thoughts thereof devoures The Primum mobile which turneth round The Braine which to the rest vnrest procures A Sore which nought that 's good for ought recures That 's Mummy made of the meere Hart of Love A temp'rall Hell whose torment still eudures The Pennaunce of Mistrust which Lovers proue All this is Iealousie which I reprove And now to ende where we should haue begunne When we began to touch corrupt Affects With Pride because from her al Vice doth runne As from the Fountaine which the Soule infects Which may be thus describ'd by her effects A swelling of the Hart which doth proceede From Selfe-conceite that gainst the Soule reflects And showes more glorious then it is indeede Which makes vs thinke our gifts al mens exceede THis Prodigie this more then mounstrous Pride This Soules envenomn'd Botch This Sourse of Sinne Can nothing lesse thē hir owne selfe abide When shee doth see her selfe another in If shee her selfe doth hate what can shee wynne But hate of all
Robert Lord Sidney Baron of Penshurst c. THy vertue and the conscience of the grace Thou hast vouchsau'd me not deserving it Doth like two spurres provoke my will and wit Thy name with my loues lines to interlace Thy honor'd name name honored of all That honors grace by man made glorious Can of it seâ—fe rowze vp the dullest Muse To make thereof divine memoriall Then should â— it commende to Monument No miracle should I perfourme thereby Sith it by Nature liues eternally Such life to Sidneys being incident And sith divine S r Philip liues in thee Be thou that Monument and so ease me I. D. To the Right Honorable the Lord Home c. The place meÌ„ say thou holdst great Lord in court Was held before by three Superlatiues Most wise most lov'd most lowly in high port The place I weene hath such prerogatiues Then were thy vertue not in that degree The vertue of the place would it reiect But it s a powrefull argument to mee That thou art vertuous Lord in each respect The rather sith thy Liege that plac'd thee there Doth heaue vp none so high but for high worth Whose Iudgements eie is admirable cleere Which warrants me to put thy praises forth My coulors ready are I lacke but light Which I will haue to paint them out aright I. D. To the Right Honorable the good Lord of Kinlosse c. Praise that proceedeth from a Poets Pen That faines by nature may want powre perchaÌ„ce To adde renowne to the renownes of Men Whom goodnesse without glozing doth advance If then my Pen though it too open be To gloze disabled be by Envies spight To register the right that 's due to thee Yet should it wrong thee to conceale thy right Thy VVorld-conteÌ„ning Thoughts the world do make As knowledging the ods twixt good and Ill To rev'rence thee for thy rare goodnesse sake Which harts with loue mouthes with praise doth fill They stile that praise but with one only word Which being Good with God doth still accord I. D. To the Right Noble Lady the Lady Rich. TO descant on thy name as many doe Sith it is sit t' expresse thine excellence I should deere Lady but allude vnto That vvhich with it compar'd is indigence Yet to bee rich was to bee Fortunate As all esteem'd and yet though so thou art Thou wast much more then most vnfortunate Though richly-well thou plaid'st That haplesse part Thou didst expresse what Art could never sho The Soules true griefe for losse of her Loues soule Thine Action speaking-passion made but ô It made thee subiect to a Iailes controule But such a Iaile-bird heauenly Nightingale For such a cause sings best in greatest bale I. D. To the intire Body of the Kinges Maiesties most Honorable Privie Councell WHere Loue devided is shee hardly can Be like her selfe But when shee is intire In sacred flames shee burnes more hot then fire Bee it in abstract Formes or mortall Man Yet Loue and reverence are due to those Whose wakefull wits still worke for publike good So rev'rence I your honor'd Fatherhood As Founts from whom our publike proffit floes In you wise Pilots of this ioy-fraught Barke Barke of our blessed Common-weale it is To make her keepe her course in lasting blisse Which charge requires your well-directing carke You cannot better spend lifes benefit Then for so good an ende at Sterne to sit I. D. To my much honored and intirely beloued Patronesse the most famous Vniversitie of Oxford TO mount aboue Ingratitude base crime With double lines of single-twisted Rime I will though needlesse blaze the Sun-bright praise Of Oxford where I spend some gaining daies Who entertaines me with that kinde regard That my best words her worst deedes should reward For like a Lady full of roialtie Shee giues me Crownes for my Charactery Her Pupils crowne me for directing them Where like a King I liue without a Realme They praise my precepts my LessoÌ„s learne So doth the worse the better wel governe But Oxford ô I praise thy situation Passing Pernassus Muses habitation Thy Bough-deckt-dainty VValkes with Brooks beset Fretty like Christall Knots in mould of Iet Thy sable Soile's like Guians golden Ore And gold it yeelds manur'd no mould can more The pleasant Plot where thou hast footing found For all it yeelds is yelke of English ground Thy stately Colledges like Princes courtes Whose gold-embossed high-embattl'd Ports With all the glorious workmanshippe within Make Strangers deeme they haue in Heaven bin When out they come from those celestiall places Amazing them with glorie and with graces But in a word to say how I like thee For place for grace and for sweete companee Oxford is Heav'n if Heav'n on Earth there be JOHN DAVIES To the most Honorable and Valorous Knight Sir Thomas Erskin c. HOny of Hybla if my Pen could dropp Nay Nectar subtilized to the Spright Were not too sweet to varnish Vertues Propp That holpe t'vphold our staie in Treasons spight Gainst Traitors did thy trustinesse appeere VVho were the Foiles to make thy Tâ—uth to shine How blest wert thou that did'st thee so besteere As made Treas'n pay for her demaund a Fine How art thou bound to Opportunity That put her Fore-locks freelie in thy Fist And how ought we to praise thy valiancy Where through and through our Kinges we all are blist One hardie Hand ioyn'd to a valiant Kinges A Tribe of Traitors to confusion bringes I. D. To the thrice Noble and valorous Knight Sir Edward VVingfield TO thee Belonas choisest Champion Whose woundes if steept in dew of Castalie As they deserve would make thee such an one As Pagans vs'd for God to glorifie How oft hast thou thy selfe to wouÌ„ds expos'd To let in glory through thy gored sides That through thy flesh it might be so dispos'd As in each part thereof it now abides How prodigall hast thou bin of thy bloud No more is left theÌ„ meerely life maintaines The fatt Calfe must be kill'd to do thee good Thy hart to comforrt and to fill thy Vaines O t is a glorious prodigalitie That spends what not for God Conterie I. D. To the Noble discreete and wellbeloved Knight Sir Henry Nevill THere was a Time when ah that so there was Whie not there is There is and was a Time WheÌ„ Men might cal Gold Gold Brasse but Brasse â— And saie it without check in Prose or Rime Yet should I cal thee Gold some Brasse perchance VVould saie err'd because I nere toucht thee And so did cal thee through meere ignorance Or which is worse through abiect Flatteree I am too ignorant I doe confesse To iudge thy wooâ—th which worthiest Men coÌ„mend Yet may I say I hope and not transgresse Th' art Vertue Valour Truth and Honors friend All which presume thou art not gilt by guile Because thy noble name denies the vile I. D. To the Right VVorshipfull and most worthy Knight Sir Edward Dyer
good hart will haue consideration of his meate diet Eccl. 30.25 Eccl. 10.17 Note Simil. a Corne. Psal. 144. 13 Pro. 27. 26. The person that is ful despiseth an hony-combe but vnto the hungry Soules as hunger-bitteÌ„ Soldiers every bitter thing is sweete Prov. 27.7 * The fore part of the Scull Psal. 104. 1â— Eccl. 31.28 When the righteous are in auctority the people reioyce but when the wicked bear rule the people sigh Prover 29 2. * Psal. 144. 9. Ps. 119.67.71 God King Sir Phil. Sidâ— Sir R. Sidney Sir Ed. Dy. Sir Ed. Wingfield The light of the kings couÌ„tenaÌ„ce is life his fauour is as a clowde of the later raine Prover 16.15 * 1. Tim. 6.15 Rom. 19.16 * Psa. 64.45.6 2. Pet. 2.4 In Gâ—d are all sith without him are no Ioyes Math. 11 2â— Deut. 32.42 Ramuâ— Paris Rochel They disease thereby killing and ease them being killed 2. Kin. 11.1,2,3 2. Kin. 16. 3. 2 Chro. 28.16 * 2. Kin 6.26 27,28,29 2. Sam 7.18 Gen 10.6.8.10 Isai. 66.19 Sir Roger Williams f P. Parmâ— Ioh. 10.12.18 * Christ the true God of Wisedome the onelie Sunne inâ—lightning our Intelligence * The secrets of the highest Heaven are farre aboue the reach of humane Reasonâ— * Every knowledge hath its beginning of the senses which are often deceiu'd Therefore all scieÌ„ces which are deriu'd fast rooted in the senses are vncertaine deceiptfull a The vnderstanding abused by the misreport of the inferior senses diverts the will from embracing good obiected to hir 3. Kinds of Appetites in all creatures The naturall apetite two-folde Soules Vegetatiue The natural desire how devided The sensitiue apetite two-fold a Though Beastâ— haue much more perfect outwaâ—d senses then Men yet can thâ—y not imploy them reasonably as Men doo b Free-will is not avoided by grace but established because grace healeth the Will that is giveth vs a will to righteousnes Aug. de spiritu littera Cap. 30. c That we doâ— will wellâ— God worketh of himself without vs and when we will so well that we doe accordingly God worketh togither with vs. August De gratia libero arbitrio Cap. 17 d God draweth vnto him but he draweth none but the willing e God giues regenerate Men free-will to do well but the reprobate haue free-will onely to doe evill Musculus coÌ„moÌ„ places f Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that to come When Man pleaseth God God wil please Man All is to be given to God who prepareth the good-will of Man to bee holpen and helpeth i being pâ—epared Aug Enchir. ad Laurent Cap. 22. g These are Beasts in humane shape whereof the World 's too full h Griefe Ioy are alwaies Consociates of our will i The will naturally cannot desite that which in nature is evill Will makes Reason to attend her The Wil may obiect or not obiect what shee will to the Minde The vnderstaÌ„ding straineth out of the secret hidâ— causes of thinges that which to wisdoÌ„e is incident Wil exacting the saÌ„e * The Wil refuseth Good being found not for being good but not being so good as it willingly would hauâ— Iâ—l spirits may provoke our faÌ„tasies wilâ— It is a kind of bondage to haue powre wil and liberty to doe ill Whosoever seekes felicity where it is not shall finde infelicity where it is Reason and mans desires shoulde be in continuall league The Hart and Minde beeing at Vnity procure the tranquility of the Affections The Braines and Hart are the Seates of Reason and the AffectioÌ„s Sin is nothing because it was made without him without whoÌ„ nothing was made that was made a Sinne. b The scriptur c That is betweene Reason and the Affections Reason Concupiscence Ire 3. speciall powres of the Soule Anima Mens Animus Ratio Spiritus Scientia The soule vseth not the ministry of the outward senses when shee is swallowed vp with divine meditations The soule being divine works divinely if shee bee not hindred by her Clog the body The Hart the Mirror of the Minde A cleane Hart and a cleane soule are convertible * Natures providence for Manns good should lift vp his minde to the consideration of the loue of a greater Good The Hart is the fountaine of naturall heate The Hartes motion is double * A motiue to brotherly loue taken from the disposition of the Members The flesh of the Hart is the firmest flesh of any part of the Body * Iniustâ—ce makes great Kinges lesse then Fame can take notice of The Hart is hang'd in the Brest by even counterpoise Many good comâ—lexions are ill in conditions Mutual loue is to be learned from the mutuall assistaÌ„ce of the partes of the body Vertues Throne is erected iust betweene extreames * Murder themseluâ—s a The Soule Vegeâ—atiuâ— dâ—siâ—es to Be The Sensitiue to be well The reasonable to be best and therfore it never rests till it be ioyned to the best * Eviâ—l cleaves to each worldly Good as Canker doth to Silver * Ioy and sorrow as Plato affirmes are the Ropes wherewith we are drawne to the embracing or avoiding of euery action * Iudgement foregoes the Affections * The Affections may work without souÌ„d advisement a The Soule worketh by motion and the Body by Action * Phisicke can extenuate the Humors that make the Body vnapt to execute the workes of Vertue * Humors be the children of the Elements An Element what 2. Elements in Phisick-Arte Complexion what Wel tempred Complexion what Il CoÌ„plexion what The Bodies temper is fiue waies discerned A natural reason for the gurmaÌ„dizing and quaâ—fing of the Flemmings The Coulor shews the bodies temper The reason why men cholericke of coÌ„plexion are â—oone angry A humor what Howe the meates are changed to Humors How the Humors raigne in mans body How when the Planets rule in mans body Precise dates assigned to severall changes of mans age in his life Psal. 31.11 * Paint the face * Bis puer The Aire wee breath may hasteÌ„ our age Causes of the Aiers putrification consequently of grosse witte The passions of the Aier do affect our Minds The situation of the Place makes the Aier good or badde Foode good or badd helpes or hinders Witte a The Hart Brayne * Wine moderatly taken cheeâ—es â—he Haâ—t spiâ—itâ— 3. Offices of Drinke f Vomittâ— g Gluttony Drunkenâ—sâ—e are he horrible sepultureâ— of mans reason iudgment Temperate exercise available to minde and bodie Natural heate The Sons of Adam borne to labour Divinity oft in dreames A natural reason for the divinity of Dreames Over much watching debilitates our wittes This waking care breaketh the sleepe as a great sickenesse breakes the sleepe Eccle 31 2. â—â—re enemy â—o sleâ—pe and â—â—â—epe coÌ„â—orâ—â—â— of Care Care a CaÌ„ker to Minâ—e and Body a The laboure of like Bodies be not a like painfull For glory in a Prince makes the laboure lighter then that
of a Pesant because he wotâ—s it wil be notable Inward ioy annihilates outward paine Esay the Prophet so martiâ—ed S. Lawrence S. Stephen Act 7.56,58 One Martyr begets many Dan. 3.22,23 Sorrow doth occuâ—ie the the place of extreame ioy Petrarch Extreme ioy being suddaine is enemy to nature Simil. Shame may bring life to confusion in generous spirits Quod capio perdo quod non capio mihi seruo Body Soule Heate naturall Phisitionâ— Mirth makes mans yeareâ— as many as hiâ— haires The AffectioÌ„s follow the qualities of the Humors Sicknesse iâ— as Seneca saith the chastisement of intemperaÌ„ce The Harâ—s affects begett the Mindes Deere are fatted but to be killed So Epicures c. The power of The will is derived from Knowledge Prâ—ctise the Mothâ—r of Habit. The Soule is possest in patience if shee possesse patience Frst the crosse and then the Crowne a Affliction being familier with vs doth make vs most familier with our selues b As a man caÌ„not know him selfe if hee know not God so he cannot know God well if hee know not him selfe So inseperable are these knowledges * The end of worldly pleasure is the beginning of Payne Wealth makes men wanton * Ample fortunes haue as ample passioÌ„s * Prov. 13.10 * Our â—nemies will tell vs wherein wee are faulty which friends will forbeareâ— so may we profit by our foesâ— Affliction is the best Tutresâ—â— to make vs know the World Custom is another nature Custom is overcome by â—ustome When the affections are called vertues or Vices Sin inhabites but is not habituall in the godly Simil. Simil. Simil. Simil. In knowing our soules we know â—he wel-head of al our Actions The Minde turns winds the body by the Affections of the Hart. Little suffiseth Naâ—ure but nothing Opinion As a little Colloquintida dâ—th marre a whole pot of pottage so covetousnesse doth make all other vertues abhominable The best vse of worldly things isâ— to contemne worldlyâ— It thingsâ— Plato A simil a Affections move the Soule moderately but Perturbations move her most violently A Simil. b When IudgmeÌ„t is betraid the Affections are misguided Therfore moderate fasting feedes the Soule c Ills takeÌ„ for good grieue the mind vpoÌ„ triall d Passion is easiest extinguished when it begins to kindle e A wise man rules and is not ruled by his Affections f Constancie holdes the Hart that holds wisdoÌ„e Ill is the privation of good Good is the obiect of loue and Desire To bee angry with evill is good Pride is a moÌ„ster compounded of many Affections A Simil. A Simil. a Where Passion raignes Reason obayeth b The Eie is the Index of the Minde Eccl. 13.26 Confounded looks bewray meÌ„s lewdnes d The countenaÌ„ce showes how the Hart is affâ—ctedâ— Not to dissemble is not to lyue Teares quench the â—â—â—e of immodâ—â—ate PassioÌ„ f Mirth is too light for the gravity of Maiestie g Vertues self-loue alone is Vertuous The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and thâ— violent take it by force Mat. 11. 12. The Hart coÌ„ceaues two kindes of Ioy or Griefe Likelyhood is the life of hope touching mundane matters The hope of the impious is full of feare Innocencie dreades no danger Hopes winges are pennipotent The Patriarck Abraham Gen. 32.26.28 The Senses would dy that feaâ—e might â—ot â—iue Feare is vtterly haâ—tlâ—sse Gods feare expels feare Eccle. 1.12 The Belly becomes loose though force of Feare * Iob. 41.16 Courage comes from Hope * Six-penny Champions Iob. 2.7 Gen. 4.8 * God * God is the Fountaine of all Power * Sorrow remaines after sinne for sin to make the Soule detest sinneâ— a Too great Light is as offensive to the Eye as too little b God is by Intelligence apprehended of vs. Note which of the outward senses is the most supreme c Seeing is the Soveraigne of the outward SeÌ„ses why d The outward senses are the Dores whâ—re thrâ—ugh Sin enters into our Soules The Divell knowes not the thoughts of Man A Simil. The inferiorst interior sense coÌ„ceiues more pleasure then all the outward senses can The pleasures of the minde doe far excell those of the body The more brutish the pleasures bee the more paine is taken in their execution Griefes doe more annoy vs then Pleasures delight vs. * Gods coÌ„maÌ„dements meÌ„tioned in the Decalogue Bodily pleasures are but paines coÌ„pared to those of the minde * Eccles. 2. * God the Father fatherâ—leâ—â—â— Civill Policie Crownes are purchased often vniustly by bloudy coÌ„quests Policy vnder God is the overruler of all vnder heaveÌ„ To Princes wee must giue our reasons by waight our woâ—ds by measure Similie All Policie ought â—o tend to publicke profiteâ— Simil. Where the worde of the king is there is poweâ— and who shall say to him what dost thou Eccles 8 4. A Caveat for great subiects Men shoulde not bee divels to shun teÌ„porall death or to be Gods on earth That which in privat persons is called Choler in publike is called Fury cruelly Sal. Rigor often buyeth her pleasure with perill of life Mercy truth preserue the King for his throne shaâ—be established with Mercie Prover 20.28 He that is careles of his own liâ—e is Lord of anothers Senâ— * Which mischief though with extream difficulty prevented if at al avoided yet al the means to escape it are these 4. Enquiry Punishment InnoceÌ„cie Destenie * By repreheÌ„sion which S. Basil cals the healing of the soule SalomoÌ„ an ornameÌ„t of fine gold Pro. 25. and David a precious Balme Psa. 41. Tacitus saith every notorious execution of iustice hath some taste of iniustice therin yet sith it wrings but some in particular it is amply recompeÌ„ced in the coÌ„mon good a Iteration of reveÌ„g for one fault is faulty Punishmente is the companion of iniustice Plato b Salus fâ—r the soâ—es growing from overmuch severity a Austere and iust Maiestrats are like the Ligatures of Chirurgions which hurt them that bee wounded for though those Bands be imployd to cure loose meÌ„bers yet they putt the Patient to much paine b By the resistance of those that should obey the lenitie of those that coÌ„mand is diminished Tacitus Vsurie is a sweete poison compounded vpon the ruines of good men d A temperate dread suppresseth high and stout stomakes feare in extremitie stirres men to presumption or desperate resolution provoks them to try conclusioÌ„s daÌ„gerous Piety makes Authority most potent e The mother of a wary person knows not what belongs to Teares Paul Emil. f Superfluity in BaÌ„quets Aparrell are tokens of a diseased CoÌ„mon-weale or which is rather in daÌ„ger of death Seneca g A kingdoms superabuÌ„daÌ„ce if it be managed by a lascivious voluptuous Prince is the cause of the subversioÌ„ thereof h Fâ—are terror are slender bonds to bind loue Tacitus Simil. i A gentle intreaty is of more force then an imperious coÌ„maÌ„d Claudian k It is an easie matter to governe good men Salust l O impious people
accursed times that doe constrain Princes to doe this for the safety of thâ—ir States bodies that is so perrillous touching the State of their Souleâ— m Ere the Subiect be in Armes A Subiect placed in high dignitie hath more adoo to hold it then others to gett it Brutus n Tacit Histâ— Abraham and Lott must part when their wealth is over growne o All Wisdome assisted both by nature and Arte is little ynough to effect so great an Act by reasoÌ„ of the perversnes of maÌ„s nature p They ought to feare many whom many feare q Familiaâ—itïe in Princes breedes contempt in Subiectes a Maiestie in a Prince is no lesse commendable then behooful b A Crowne devided vvill serue no kings head c The Creator of all coupled Envy a Kingdome together Seneca d The Multitudes love is light their hatred heavy e To attain to Empire ïs a work humane but to retaine it being attayned is a grace divine Innovation most dangerous to a state f Over much pittie bringes oveâ—much perill to Soveraignes An ynch of liberty more then ought maks the CoÌ„mons much more loose then they should WheÌ„ the Rod is in the magistrats hand he may correct but if it be out hee may bee corrected It is a sure guarde of thy principality if thou doe not suffer great commaundemeÌ„t to indure long Livie 4. Hardly caÌ„ meÌ„ keepe a mean in dignities surmounttng mediocritye Wee read but of one Scilla that having gâ—tâ—eÌ„ absolute empiry gaue it over voluntarily Simil. Not to bee overcome with praises acclamations of people is incident to God only Simil. We ought to endevor even by laws to hinder strife and partakings among nobles Ari. 5. Pol. c. 8. * Scripture * Divinity Kings shoulde bee so framed as they may be altogither good or halfe good and not altogither wicked but halfe wicked Ari. â— Pol c II * The divine Precepts The Soule is the true lover of Truth Proverb 17. These are the last and therfore the worst daies Aug. in Psal. 5. A Kingdome is a schoole of deceipt Sen. Thyest. We bear mâ—st reverence to Maiesty a far off It is a great felicity not to be overcome of great felicity Poets Historiographers haue powre to giue immortality The Golden Worlds returned froÌ„ exiâ—e Yet learning and Armes should bee in league by the law of nature * Yet if some mens wittes were measured by their wealth they would be accounted Salomons that are nothing else but money-baggs ïn whoÌ„ there is nothing but money As poore as a Poet. a It is good to doe well so it is also to support well doing b But Poets lie open to a mischiefe for â—as Alchimists are suspected for coyning so are Poets for libelling c Good and ill renowme are immortal and prevaile even over the remembrance of Tyme which Poets have powre to give When Poets coÌ„mend mens names to monument they neede no Tombes d Lascivious obscene c. e As good no compleyning as complayning for no good The putâ—ing vp of one iniurie be ettes another f They that possesse all thinges want nothing but a man that will speake the truth Seneca g Prov. 25.23 The further Flatterers and Avaritious persons stand froÌ„ the Soveraign the surer hee stands Take away the wicked froÌ„ the King and his Throne shal be established in righteousnes Prov. 25.5 h The Frogs in AEsop insulted vpon the Logg and held it in scorne i Not to be able to do evill is great power It is an excellent necessity not to bee suffered to do evill k God governs that common weale that is governed by a written law Aristot. l Statute of Reteyners It is an Aphorisme amonge the Lawes of the 12. Tables Let the protection of the People be the chiefest Law m Civill Policy n Ouer-weening a pestileÌ„t disease of the Mind most familiar with Fooles o Take couÌ„cell of thine owne hart for there is no maÌ„ more faithfull to thee then it Eccles. 37. 13. p He is more discreete with whom provident councels that carry reason with them do prevaile theÌ„ prosperous deliberations which happen by chaunce Tacit 2. An. Treasons prevaile on the sodaine good Councells gather sorce by leisure Tacitus Hist. * The faster meÌ„ run being out of the way the further they are out of the way Experience is the eie of humane wisdom A Prince ought to bestowe more in getting a wise couÌ„celler theÌ„ in achiueing a coÌ„quest Quintus Curtius Wher no couÌ„cel is the people fall but where manie couÌ„cellors are ther is healâ—h Proveâ— 11.14 Simil. A good councellor is an Argust o the CoÌ„moÌ„-weale * They will distracte his thoughts and government requires the whole man To bee well seene in history necessarâ—e in a Magistrat SalomoÌ„ knew all in all 1 King 3.12 Eccles. 1.16 The Councellor should bee vertuous for hee supplieth vertues place which is in the middest Those whom the king will know shal bee to wel known but those hee looks strange vpon no man wil know theÌ„ A man maye light a candle at noone and seek amoÌ„gst a multitude yet misse to sinde such an one * Minions are for the most part so It is daÌ„gerous ventering abroade the Aire is so infectious Maximilian the Emperour answered one that desired hiâ— letters pattents to ennoble him I am able quoth he to make thee rich but Vertue onelie mâ—st make thee noble b It is better to bring honour to a mans house then to diffame it being there already c Act. 17.26 The higher the Sunne is the lesse shaddow he maks the greater a mans vertue is the lesse glory he seekes d They will make sale of the Princes favour to the preiudice of his people Eccl. 38.33 f They are as the feete nâ—cessary members nor could a common-wealth stand without them howbeit they are as the feete furthest remoued from the head being ReasoÌ„s Seate g Crafts-men h Had men no other fault yet are they therfore vnfit for government because so desirous to governe Authority should be denied to such as seeke it given to those that like wise meÌ„ refuse it i Example of rich men doth much good or hurt in the coÌ„mon-weale k Alexander Severus causâ—d such to be deposed and severely punâ—shed that bâ—ught their Offices saying they sold deerer in retaile then they bought in the grosseâ— l The Philosopher saith God is an infinite actuall VnderstaÌ„ding m Honor is the Prize for which Vertue endureth what not Honors given to vertue in former times Simïl a From whâ—m the libâ—rty of disorder is taken awaâ— he iâ— over-ruled for his owne benefit b Romulus Remus c Scipio Affricanus d The oath of xpiaÌ„n Kinges is I will minister Lawe iustice and protection aâ—ight to every one It behâ—ues theÌ„ theÌ„ to see that their vnder-Maiâ—strates make a coÌ„science of thâ—er owne oathes the Kingesâ— * To mak laws for others traÌ„sgresse theÌ„ our selus is to teach others
â—o traÌ„sgres theÌ„ a They that favor sin are aâ— worthye of death as they that coÌ„mit the sin Rom 1.31 The way by precepts is obscure long but by exampleâ— shoâ—te plaine Senec. b Princes and Priests ought to be the Exchequers of Gods inestimable Graces c Good works ar much more perswasiue to good life theÌ„ good wordes d Good life is the effect and glory of the church militaÌ„t of the good Pastors thereof Blessed is the Prince Priest whose liues serue for vnwriâ—en law Mâ—s-goveâ—nment â—or the most parte iâ— cauâ—e of rebellion an aâ—gument of the goodnes of ours WilliaÌ„ Duke of Normandy Others harme teach vs to shuÌ„ what caused them Brittanâ— Saxon Dane It is a glorious matter to coÌ„quer but a much more glorious to vse the Conquest well The way to establish a state purchased with the sword A consequent of removing great ones in a newe-conquered kingdome 20 And odde descentes of Kings and Queens since the conquest As this of this Conqueror France Our glory shame Avaâ—ice and Pride the perverters of Peace It is meer madnes to trust the Crown in their handes that long to put it on their owne heads Rich 1. taken prisoner in Austria The sincerest minds may be teÌ„pted aboue their strength by the glitering glosse of a crown lying within reach The Pope interdicted the land By poison as some saie Edward 1. All kings that thought so thrivâ—d the better * WaÌ„ ScotlaÌ„d That which is gotâ—eÌ„ with the Sword must so bee mainetained which little instrument can remooue Obstacâ—es bee they never so gâ—eat or keep them downe that wold rise without permission To rule is as much as to amend that which is amisse or awry b A Prince once in obloquie doe hee wel or ill al is ill taken of his subiects Tacitus Hist. Simil. Claw-backs and Sinn-soothers d The more wealth the more woo if evil imployed Edward 3. The divine Vengeance sleepes not though it wincks Richard of Burdeux One evil corrupteth another and evill put to evill is cause of mutuall destructioÌ„ h God executes his owne iustice by the iniustïce of others i Present pleasures take away the thought of future paine Henry 4. k A Kinge should be able to councell as chiefe councellor and direct as chiefe Captaine Henry 5. l Vengeance attends the 3. and 4 generation of mercilesse maÌ„quellers Henry 6. Rich. Duke of York claimed the crowne in Parliament * No king iâ— but halfe onâ—â— The fruites springing froÌ„ the powâ—e of ParliameÌ„ts to make Kings in England * Germanicus because one or two in the Army had only a purpose to salute him by the name of Emperor was never wel brooked til by his own death he had paide the price of other meÌ„s rashnes Tac Hist. * No wisdome prevailes against Gods decree Edward 4. a The effects of civil warre for looke how much Peace is betâ—er then warr so mâ—ch is â—orraine invasion better then civill dissention b Civill warre tenâ—es to the preiudice of the yet vnborne c Kings houses yeeld many such Vermine d For a poore and hungry Army cannot observe military disciplin Casiodorus e Ambition vpon the least opportunitie setts vpoÌ„ what so ere hinders hir rising f More coÌ„mon weales are ruined for want of good obayers theÌ„ good commanders g Iealousy is glued to loue and to a Crowne h Birth Bequest Laws of God Nature Nations and ReasoÌ„ togeather with all kingly worthines makes good our now kings possession i Neerenesse of blood doth oft put hartes furthest a sunder in Kâ—ngdomes cases k The Lawe it selfe will rather admitt a mischiefe theÌ„ an inconvenience l He alwaies shal be suspected hated of the Prince in possession whoÌ„ men doe account worthy or like to be Prince in succession Tacitus Hist. The Valor fierce courage of the great Cousin displeaseth the iealous Soveraigne Tacit. m All crafty Achitophell-like councels are in showe pleasant in execution hard and in event deadly dangerous n A BaÌ„kerours peace is in civill discord his discord is in peace o Gods Iudgments are inscrutable but none vniust p Iustice equal in quality quantity for Henry 6. and his Sonne were murdered c. q Man ought not to vse maÌ„ prodigally Seneca Richard 3. r Vnder this King to do ill wasâ— not alwaies safeâ— alwaies vnsafe to doe well as Tacitus reports of Neros raigne Princes that tyrannously governe their people haue greater cause to feare good men then theÌ„ that bee evill They which coÌ„teÌ„n peace and covet honour doe lose both peace honor A good cause in publike war like the Cape Bone spei coÌ„ducts to the laÌ„d of triumph Hen. 7. A good prince makâ— war that hee may haue peace and endures labor in hope of rest Salust Eccles. 5 8â— * Where God is praised meÌ„s endevors are blessed * Two things doe establish the Throns of kings prudeÌ„ce pietie the one aâ—earing in their Actions the other in their manners 1. King 3.12 Homer faineth all the Gods to sleep except Iupiter implying ther by the care of a good King for his subiectâ— Princes ought to measure their Actions by the standerd of their Laws as this did Hen. 8. His sword was so successefull as made his neighbours glad of his friendship feareful of his indignation Mercie may haue her excesse in humaÌ„ things Clemency is most daungerous where wheÌ„ soft quiet dealing draweth on more evil then severityâ— * Forrain CoÌ„questes were costly in achiving costly in holding oft no lesse costly then dishonoâ—rable in forgoing * In liberal larges to his friends servants Our Kinges might haue had a double intrest in their subiectes The hearts of Kings are in his hands that disposeth all things to effect his inevitable decrees Beheaded him He knew it was not the speach of a wise man to say who woulde haue thought it Edw. 6. Simil. a For private good b Disorder mother of Confusion c Sedition the plague of perverâ—nesse d Fortune ofteÌ„ reserveth tâ— the hardest chanceâ— them whoÌ„ she advaÌ„ceth to the greatest dignity The fortunate cannot doe ill iâ— they would He is made wise too late that is made wisâ— by his owne hâ—rme and irrecovâ—rable lâ—sâ—e f Dâ—pâ—â—t from thâ—â—e enemies and bewâ—re of thy fâ—iendes Eccle. 6.13 g Frailty is ful of falshood h There is nothing more profitable to mortall men then distrust Euripides i They that stand with all worldes will stand with no world if the world stand not with theÌ„ Queen Mary k Love covers the multitude oâ— sins in our neighboure what should it doe theÌ„ in our Soveraignes that haue more meanes inducemeÌ„ts to sin theÌ„ private peâ—sons l Queene Elizabeth m All that vnderstand the worth of blessed Peace will say Amen to a praier for Peace God will rather heare the Orisons of theÌ„ that pray for Peace theÌ„ the TruÌ„pets that proclaime warres n So often wee play with Gods
iudgmeÌ„ts because we feele not the force therâ—of that at length like the Fly in the flame we are consumed of them o Civill warre is faâ—re worse then Tyranny or vniust iudgmeÌ„t Plutarch in Bruto p Gods commandements A Recapitulation of what hath bin discoursed touching the Kings of England their governments William Conqueror q Vis vnita fortior New Lords new Lawes r To hurt and heale for more health is holsome s Blessed is the affliction that procures greater perfection t Soone ripe soone rotten Edward 1. Longshancks Edw. 2. Rich. 2 Hen. 6. Edw. 5. a Ambition gathers resistles strength in a Kings weakenes Maiesty without magnanimity is vnassured Livie 2. â— b I haue seene servaÌ„ts on horses Princes walking like â— servaÌ„ts on the ground Eccl. 10.7 Edw. 3 Hen 4. Hen. 5. Edw. 4. Loving feare a sure guarde to Soveraigns No kingdâ—me free froÌ„ Ambition Kingdoms the obiects of fortune Envy Simil. a PerfectioÌ„ humane AmbitioÌ„ a sore of the minde incurable b An inevitable incoÌ„venience Richard 3. a Ambition would destroy al to be aboue all Hen. .7 Vniust peace is to be prefer red before iust warre Livie Yet open war is more secure theÌ„ suspitious peace Tac. 4. Hist. Great heapes are made of many litle thiÌ„gs in peace brought to nothinge in warre Peace good government the Parents of Prosperity God selleth vs riches for the price of labor We are said to be well backt when wee are no worse frended a Gold makes al thinâ—s pregnable b Money is the very sinâ—wes of a State Mucian c The good of the Subiects is the obiect of the good â—rince d Money saith Thucidides makes weapoÌ„s forcible and profitable Cyrusâ— was wont to say he heaped great treasures wheÌ„ he enriched his friends Subiects f Let Kinges that desire to live in peace provide in time thinges necessary for warre g Tiberius of Constantinople accounted that for counterfet coyne that was levied with Teares and cryings of the people h The bitings of enraged necessitie are most dangerousâ— Portiuâ— latro Hen. 7. a true Paâ—terne of a wise and vertuous Prince Hen. 8. Bounty doeth cover manie faults Avarice obscureth many vertues Guiftes doe superinduce the heart to loue He more respected honor then profit Edward 6. Qâ— Marie Contempt in subiects is the conâ—usion of government Qâ— Elizabeth Act. 5.35,36 37,38,39 The Mindes pleasurs much more pleasant theÌ„ corporal delightes Sensuall persons are vselesse burdens to the earth The senses soone weery of their pleasures Wine sicknes 2. Obstacles that lets the mâ—ndes actions Simil. Wee ought to propose nothing to the minde vnworthy of her Simil. Sense must awhile forbear pleaâ—ures to make them more pleasaÌ„t * The pleasurs which sense receiues from natural things are more pleasant theÌ„ those froÌ„ Artificiall * Nothing vnder the SuÌ„ne long coÌ„tents therefore wee should seeke contentment aboue the Sunne * Birdes Simil. None know it but they that feele it a The propertie of true felicity is alwaies to coÌ„cent the desire and exclude feare b St. Paule Loue doth descend not ascend How love is bredd Doating bâ—ings loathing God should simply be loved for his own goodnes It is selfe-loue to love God for his bounty towards vs onely b Loue made vs to loue God is mans beginning his end The order of loues progres He workes in vs both the will and the deede Selfe-loue is iustifiable wheÌ„ we loue our selues for god only Beauty is a speciall cause of loue God the FouÌ„t of all Beauty Painting the face * Without coulor of Reason Outward argues inwarde beauty Sinne is conceived in the womb of concupiscence * They rather ruine then repaire the â—ender honors of women A well teÌ„pred body makes a like tempered mind ordinarily An vnchaste eie loues to looke vpon â— light eie Beauty â—igniorizeth the sense The beauty of a WomaÌ„ cheereth the face and a man loues nothing better Eccl. 36.22 * Maried Adultery Luxury wantonnesse slouth Pride c. are sins in Specie the Genus to all these is Caro. 4. Kindes of divine furie Loues force is vnvtâ—erable Alexander Mag. b Plutar. in Alexand. Loue is lawlâ—â— Lust is blinde Such lovers are as sensles as the stones which they loue Lust is most willfull O toile intollerable Quoth Speculation Beâ—uty promisâ—th more honesty then deformity 3. Causes of loue viz Pleasant pâ—ofitable honest Perfect loue God the Exchequer of Beauty Goodnesse is mother to loue beauâ—y Goodnes hath made 4 especiall beautieâ— The little consideration we haue of Gods goodnesse towards vs is the cause of our coldnesse in loue to him The loue that is bought is â—â—ark nought A natural reâ—son why loue descendeth In him we liue move haue our being To know godâ— loue is the way to make Man loue All true loue is either Amor Coeâ—i or amor Seculâ— this of our neighbouâ—e that of God As â—here is no lâ—ue without faith so there is no faith without loue Loue of all humane Affections is the most puiâ—ant passionate b Loue is the Bond that vnites God man Brothers by redemption ought to be more neere deere to each other theÌ„ Brothers by creation In good desires there is pleasure and paine * God When loue is in the height of perfection â—owe favoure iâ— bredd Reverence springs from powre and goodnesse Simil. We reverence God more for his goodnesse then for his powre To whom honor and reverence are due vpon Earth Mercy and compassion Affectes flowing from loue Loue hath nothing in private Man made of earth CompassioÌ„ extendeth her vertue to man and beast Mercy Iustice are godâ— almightie Armes Gods Mercie triumpheth over his Iustice towards Man Priâ—ces and Maiestrates Inhumane affections howe bred 4. Perturbations froÌ„ whoÌ„ do flow al immoderate passions of the soule Wherefore God doth blesse man with abundance There is no greater temptation theÌ„ never to be teÌ„pted no sorer punishmeÌ„t then of God never to bee punished Sinne offers the senses their severall satisfactions Vertue without adversitie withereth and loseth her force There is no other passage to heaven theÌ„ through the fire of Afflictions Griefe fear accompanie transitory riches Simil. Good Affects proceede froÌ„ the opinion of good and evill froÌ„ evill OffeÌ„ce what All mundane things are as they are takeÌ„ Offenses against the outward Senses are much lesse osâ—ensiue then those against the inward * Nothing moues our patience that moves not our will Man of all creatures hardest to please * Who so pleaseth all doth more then he that made all Some to bee thought more iudicious are most censorious Criticks of these times A Foole may make the wise ridiculous to Fooles These be men of partes that would have al whollie The coÌ„plaint of base male-contents * Without good partes Divells incarnate tempt meÌ„ desperate * The PestileÌ„ce which infects al that comes neere it * They walke like Devills invisible A
were the first Astronomers Metaphisicks and Philosophers The steweâ— once stoode where now Play-houses stand The Peacock Neither delighteth he in any maÌ„s legs Psal. 147.10 Reproofes wher they are wel deserved must bee well paâ—ed b Meant of those that haue nothing to commende them but affected acting offensiue mouthing c W. S. R B. d Simonides saith that painting is a dumb Poesy Poesyâ— a speaking painting Roscius waâ— said for his excelleÌ„cy in his quality to be only worthie to come on the stage and for his honesty to be more worthy theÌ„ to come theron f â—her is good vse of plaies pastimes in a CoÌ„moÌ„-weale for thereby those that are most vncivill pâ—one to moue war and dissention are by these recreations accustomed to loue peace ease Tac 14. An. Ca 6. Though these words be vnfit â—or his mouth yet he fits his mouth to these words The ende of Artes giues theÌ„ their true valuation Gentlemen should hate Pride â—owe sith she is become the HaÌ„gmaÌ„s loue Hell the home of Pride The third wombe * Of mine vnderstanding * All Philosophers have erred touching the Soule Crates Hippaâ—châ—s Leucippus Democritus Diogenes Hippias Heliodorus A diametrical repugnancie of opinions amoÌ„g the Philosophers touching the soul. Critias Hippocrates Galen Heraclitus Aristotle Plato Seneca Hippocrates Strato Diogenes Stoickes Democritus Hierophilus Empedocles Galen Epicures Pythagoras Man is the HorizoÌ„ between Angels and Beastsâ— as far from Beasts as Angels Aristotle Christians differ touching the soules beginning Thomas Aquinas his opinion touching the soules beginning Diverse opinions concerning the souls continuance Plato Some make two distinct things of the Soule and vnderstanding Some suppose that humane soules are portions of the divine nature Our minds do remember Sciences not learne them Plato a Truth it selfe faith no vncleane thing can enter into the heavens Galat. 5.21 A Proverb God and the world are epitomiz'd in man Microcosmos The agilitie subtilty and capacity of the Soule Man is said to be man in â—espect of his humane Soule When the Minde is busie the outward Senses be at rest Life Sense depend vpon the Soule The Soule is no Quality but a SubstaÌ„ce The Soule is of capacity to comprehend Heaven and Earth The more the soule doth the more it may receiue The soule is in a sorte infinite We may enter into anothers minde with our mind No matter caÌ„ hold 2. formes at one instant of contrary kindes The lesse flesh the body hath the more wit the soule hath commonly That cannot give Sense that is seÌ„slesse nor intelâ—igence that is vnintellectual The Soule not subiect to Time Time is the Soules subiect The Soules food Truth argues shee is immortall like her foode The doubt of our Soules immortality prooves their immortality God the Fountaine of Reason The eternitie past overwhelmes the Soule as being too great for her capacitie but that which is to come she can and doth coÌ„ceave a Nature made nothing in vaine The Soule caÌ„not pâ—ssiblie perswade her selfe that shee is mortall No Athist but would faine dye the death of the righteous The Soule is taught by naturall reason by the light of nature that shee is immortall Simil. The actions of our Soules proue their immortalitie b The Soule is not subiect to the impression of the Senses because she is of an incorporall nature The Soules discourse surmountes the reach of the outward sense Our Reason doth oft correct our erring sense The Sunnes magnitude c Demonstration is the Piller wheron al scieÌ„ce depeÌ„ds The Soule makes generall rules of many particulers but seâ—se insists vpon particulers The true esseÌ„ce of things is vnknowne and to man knowne by their accideÌ„ts and actions Who vnderstaÌ„deth his waies and the storm that no man can see for the most part of his works are hid Eccle. 16.21 In theÌ„ which wil not vnderstand true doctrine ignorance is sinne and in them which caÌ„not it is the paine of sinne The soule is free from sin as shee was made by God Sinne deriues her force froÌ„ the soule To God all things are lawfull that like him and nothing likes him that is vnlawfull a Some certaine things though true are not vttered of God without daÌ„ger whoÌ„ we seem best to knowe when we confesse him and his councels to be incomprehensible b In doubâ—full matters wherin we may be ignorant without danger it were better suspend out iudgements then offer occasiâ—n of contention Calv. c Warrantably d Divine matters are ful of obscuâ—ity Cat. e Thâ—s secret must be lookt vnto not into f Faithfâ—ll ignorâ—unce is â—etter then rash knoweledge a Sinne flowes from Adam to the soule and enters into her when she first giues motion to the body The fault of Adam only infects the soule b It is farre off what may it be and it is a profouÌ„d deepnesse who caÌ„ finde it Eccl. 7.26 c Since the elementary diuine partes of MaÌ„ are corrupted one by another and both from AdaÌ„ they must be borne againe by elementary divine meanes by Water and the Spirit d Eccl. 25.3 Nature sittes in a precious Stone as in her Throne of Maiestie * Rebata Vertue Albion * Salomon Vanity is instant to gett attention because sense is betraide therby * H. 8. Leicester Essex Worcest * Death the fine of al flesh * Ne-vile * CoÌ„versation * William Wainflet Bishop of Winchester * Hen. 6. Ed. 4. Eccle. 2. 15. * A steele â—nstâ—ument * Faire wâ—iting * For writing Phil. 2. Hisp. Rex Totus non sufficit Oâ—bis