molten lead do never want â—hat iust excuse vnanswerable argument Neck 〈◊〉 neck that polisht ivory weares â—ilver pillar whiter far â—hâ—n towers of polisht ivory are Negro V. Aethiopian Nemesis â—â—st goddesse of revenge sterne Rhamnusia â—other of fate and change 〈◊〉 bearer of eternall providence Daughter of frowning iustice â—hich from black clos'd Eternity â—rom thy darke cloudy hidden seate â—he worlds disorders dost descry Which when they swell so proudly great Reversing the order nature set Thou givest thy all confounding doome Which none doth know before it come Neptune The aged father of the floods The wavie Monarch The great sea Admirall The trident armed God Whose state Is next to Ioves Great ruler of the floods The king of surges The Saphyr God of seas The Monarch of the sacred floods The father of the swelling Maine Cerulean God The God whose trident calmes the Ocean The god that earth doth bind In brackish chains He that girds earth in cincture of the sea Whose vast embrace ensphears whole earth He that all lands Girds in his ambient circle and in air Shakes the curl'd tresses of his Saphyr hair The watry King that holds the three tooth'd scepteâ— The god that rides In his blue chariot o'r the surging tides That makes the roaring waves shrink when they feel The heavy burthen of his pressing wheel Whose threeforkt scepter rules the sea Tâ—e Saphyr visag'd God Great master of the floods The unresisted power of the deeps King of waves He that unlocks The gaping quicksands undermines the rocks Saturns warry son Joves watry brother Sea Deitie Tattarean god The universall Admirall Nereides That on the Dolphines back ride o'r the seas Their finning coursers Thet is virgin train The Watry powers goddesses Deities The Nymphs that float upon the watry seas The wanton Nymphs within the watry bowers That o'r the sand with printlesse foot Chace ebbing Neptune That on their heads wear caps of pearly shells Green goddesses of Seas gray Doris daughters That in low corall woods String pearls upon their Sea green hair Psamathe Thetis Doâ—o Galenae Clotho Galaâ—aea Eucrato Glauce Leucothoe Proto Doris Spio Cymodorea Idya Endore Sao Eunica Dynamene Thâ—iaa Pasithee Eulimenâ— Cymathoe Mâ—lite Pherusa Phao Agave Poris Nesaea Erato Panopa Protomedea Hyppothoe Actaea Lâ—ssiaâ—issa Pronaea Euagore Pantoporea Autonone Neso Eione Beâ—oe V. Hesiods Theogonia v. 230. 346 Glauconome Alimeda Hipponeo Laomedia Liagore Cymo Eupompe Themiste Euarne Menippe Petâ—aea Nemertea Ocyrâ—oe Cydippe Tyche Acaste Clyâ—ie Ianthe Lycoris Plexaure Nestor That miracle of aged eloquence He that three ages saw Eloquent gravity The Pylian sage That liv'd to see a treble age Net Corded toyles corded snares Corded mashes Windowie toyles Masht in the net Never The sun shall change his course and find new pathes To drive his chariot in The loadstone leave His faith unto the North. The vine withdraw Those strict embraces that infold the elme In her kind armes ere c. First shady groves shall on the bâ—llowes grow And sea weeds on the tops of mountains show Their flimy chires Heavens fiâ—es shall first fall darkned from their spheare Grave night the light weed of the day shall wear Fresh streams shall chace the sea tough plowes shall tear Their fishie bottome c. Before Sooner fleet minutes shall back rescued be Soonner expect the harvest from the sand Sooner every star May in his motion grow irregular The sun forget to give his welcome flame Unto the teeming earth December sooner shall see primrose grow And swift-pac't rivers in soft murmures flow No more shall mead be deckt with flowers Nor sweetnesse dwell in rosie bowers Nor early buds on branches spring Nor warbling birds delight to sing Nor April violets paint the grove The fish shall in the Ocean burne And fountains sweet shall bitter tuâ—ne The humble oake no flood shall know Black Lethe shall oblivion leave Love shall his bow and shaft lay by And Venus doves waâ—t wings to fly The sun refuse to shew his light And day shall then be turn'd to night And in that night no star appeare No joy above in heaven shall dwell Nor pain torment poor souls in hell Can earth forget her burthen and ascend Oâ— can aspiring flames be taught to tend To earth Then c. Can hills forget their ponderous bulks and fly Like wandering Aromes in the empty skie Or can the heavens grown idle not fulfill Their certain revolutions but stand still And leave their constant motion to the wind T' inherit Then c. Sooner the sun and stars shall shine together Sooner the wolfe make peace with tender lambes Sooner shall rigid Boreas first take wing At Nilus head and boisterous Auster spring From th' icie floods of Izland Then c. You may sooner part the billowes of the sea And put a bar between their fellowship Sooner shut Old time into a den and stay his motion Wash off the swift houres from his downy wing Or steal eternity to stop his glasse Sooner the pibbles on the hungry beach Shall â—illop stars and the mutinous winds Throw the proud Cedars up against the sun When Poe shall wash the topps of Matine hill Or the sea swallow lofty Apennine And strange effâ—cts of love new monsters joyne That Tygers may from hindes seeke lusts delight And the meeke dove is troden by the kite When flocks the Lyons friendship entertain And wanton goats affect the brackish main Then c. Sooner the mountains shall want shady trees Sooner the ships shall not â—aile on the seas And rivers make recourse unto their springs The rivers shall recoile unto their springs The sun shall from the west his course begin The earth shall first with shining stars be fill'd The skies unto the furrowing plough shall yeild The water shall send forth a smoaking flame The fiâ—r shall yeild water back again First shall the birds that welcome in the spring All mute and dumbe for ever cease to sing The summer Ants leave their industrious pain And from their full mouthes cast their loading grain The swift Maenalian hounds that chasing are Shall frighted run back from the trembling â—â—are First nature shall become preposterous No element shall hold his constant seat Heaven shall be earth and earth Joves starâ—y house Fier shall be cold and water shall give hea Summer shall give a snowie livery Unto the ground and does shalllyons fright Through aire the crowes whiter than snow shall fly And the daies brightnesse turne into the night The fish shall not inhabit in the flood And silver swans shall take a jetty die The chaâ—ing boare shall not then haunt the wood With wings then oxen shall divide the skie Marble shall then the wax in softnesse passe The chicken then shall prey upon the kite In the vast welkin shall the staggs seâ—ke grasse The dog forget Arcadian wolves to bite Stars shall enamel earth and from the tree No leaves shall dangle eagles court the dove The highest mounâ—ains then shall levell'd be
Like other creatures only want the gall The birds that bear a rainbow in their neck The feathered emblems of chast love The feathered coursers of the Queen of love Dreams The creatures of the drowsie brain Sleeps airy shapes Her sences keep a festival The fancies revels The fantasies of night The slattering visions The sweet oftence of erring fancy The fancies Chaoâ— The fancies poetry Delighted fancies play Shape feigning Morphâ—us in the dead of night Sent from the King of rest with speedy flight Presents c. As ominous as was Calphurnia's dream The night before her Caesar dyed Prophetick fancy Fair sanguine dreams that seeâ— to chear the night With beauteous shipes and rosie wings Such Caesar had before the day He conquer'd Pompey in Phaâ—salia With strange â—ormes and shadowes ominous Did my last sleep my greedy soul entertain The smoaky clouds of sleep Sleepes shadowie operations The images presenting day desires Rest-disturbing fancieâ— The sleepy brood hatcht by the wings of night Confused shewes thrown from sleeps horny wand A ghastly dream that did last night surprize The frighted fancy The mocking of unquiet â—lumbers Black illusions of the night Chrystal visions The maygame of the shaping fancy The fancies wardrobe rifled thrown on heaps Drink Drunkard With generous wines they chear Their heightned spirits Empty the bowles of wine and brains of wit One that will be a man to morrow morning One heele trips up the other Makes indentures as he goes A blind man with eyes and a cripple with legs on A speaking tost A living sponge Soused in liquor Drunkenness Audacious thief that oft before ones face Steals man away and leaves a beast in place One outlawd by himself all kind of ill Did with his liquor sâ—ide into his veins That â—orfeits man and doth dâ—vest All worldly right save what he hath by beast The soul eclypst The raving fancy Puffing his cheeks blearing his curious eye Studding his nose with vitious heraldry While pearls and rubies doth his wine disclose He makes his purse poor to enrich his nose So far drowned in dâ—ink he needs the Crowner to sit on him That hates nothing more than an unfill'd can Twenty of the dogs dayes rain in his nose All about him are under the line His nose in the cup in winter saves the labour of a tost And is enough to give his drink a second brewing With bowles so full At once they fill their bladders and their skull That to no seat confine Their wounding feet Drought v. Famine Thirst A fiery thirst Sups up the vital humour and doth dry Their beauties up into Anatomy Leaving not so much moisture that they may Use their throats for complaint Each bears an Aerna in his thirsty breast They all complain yet rests not any where So much of moisture as to make a tear They drink The stale of horses and the gilded puddle That beasts would cough at To Drown Drowned So headlong Ino with the load she bears Fell and the sparkling waves did fall in tears Struck down by Neptunes trident To make themselves a shipwrack Dying in water to revive in fire VVhom Tnetis in her silver bosome took That fiâ—d their tombe and watry grave VVithin the silver bosome of a wave To whom rude tempests â—ave Made an unhappy and inglorious grave The waves that were above when as she fell For fear flew back again into their well Doubting ensuing times would on them frown That they so rare a beauty helpt to drown Her fall in grief did make the stream so roare That sullen murmurings fill'd all the shore A jewel never sent To be possest by one sole element Let 's drown him once again within our tears Entomb'd within the watry main The saphyre-visag'd God grew proud Imagining that Ganymed displeas'd Had left the heavens therefoâ—e he on him seas'd VVhom swelling waters do embalme Neptune for ever do bewaile his death And all the Nimphs tear off their sea-green haire Drumme The tongue of war mocking the loud-mouthed thunder The clamorous harbenger of blood and death VVhose doubtful musick doth delight The willing ear and the unwilling fright A sound whose concord makes a jarre ' Tâ—s noyse in peace though harmony in war Dust. The batter'd center flew In clouds of dust rais'd from the horses hoofes That beat a thunder from the groaning earth Clouds of dust did flie As great as Thracian whirle-winds blow about Ore the skies face and put daies bright eye out The mounted dust like smoak obscur'd the skies The swartish clouds of dust did sute their arms in gray As if the emulous earth meant to have Clouds as well as the aire The naked wind appareld her self in dust The Aire is choakt with dust Dwarf Natures Epitomy manual Compendium Enchyridion Natures lesser volumes short-hand Decimo sexto Man in the Print of Amsterdam A walking thumb Whose voice more than his stature can Tels us that he is a man Jack of the clock-house A thrum of man Dandiprat Hop-on my thumb Who when he stands on tiptoes seems to sit Pigmie E. Eagle THe Bird that bears Joves awful lightning in her golden fears Joves fowle that in her talons bears Impetuous thunder Joves winged Armour-bearer Joves feathered squire The imperial Airie peoples King That cleaves the Clouds and bravely bold doth think With firmer eyes to make the suns eye wink That dares the brightest Radiance of the sun The biâ—d that fixtly can oppose her eyes Against the proudest light in all the Skies The princely bird that through the azure Skies At Joves command with fiery lightning flies Of all the winged crew ordaind the head For faithful service in his Ganymed The birds that change their aged plume And a new age with newer wings resume Ear. The fleshie laborinth The mazie holes The bodies scouts The Ecchoes winding mazes The watchful sentinels Hearing Portals The crooked narrow allies The winding entries The portâ—ls that let in the sounds Insatiate concave In whose incirclets if you gaze Your eyes may tread a lovers maze The tippe no jewel needs to weare The tippe is Natures-Jewel there The winding rounds That give an enterâ—ainment to the sounds The hearing Organes that drum unto the soul To give ear v. Attend. To lend a listning ear a yielding ear obedient ear With glad allowance gave his counsel ear To grace with glad attention To lend soft audience To give no ear He hears me so as rocks the roaring waves That beat their brows As the tempestuous seas the hopeless Mariner Earth The worlds great pedestial Our globy Grandame The Skie encompast Globe The â—olid center The center of the vast circumference The flowry mantled stage The lower Globe The fruitful surface of the pregnant soil Enricht by the labourious plow-mans toyl The solid Globe ballanc't in weightless Airâ— Earth-quake The ague of the earth Earths grumbling fitâ— The center pants with sudden throweâ— The trembling earth a sad distemper showes The feavourous earth did shake The aguish earth trembles in
unfram'd Ere nature had that face they chaos nam'd Ere Titan did the world with light adorn Or waxing Phoebe filld her wained horn Ere the self-poysed earth in the Aire was plaâ—'d Or Amphytrite the vast shore embrac'd To all Eternitie v. Ever Ethiopian Upon whose brow And curled locks the scorching sun doth show His lasting tyrannie A wainscot face Which in the clearest light Bears in his face still a continued night Whose face wears natures mask natures vizard That dive the bâ—iny seas For those gay things which so much fancy please Gods image cut in Ebony or Jet Eve Nosooner woman than a wife The general universal Grandame The bride Taken from out her sleeping husbands side Satans first factour Temptations handsel On whom the Devil first did make essay To â—y his cunning in the tempting way Evening Phoebus bright chariot now had run Past the proud pillers of Ascmena's son The sun doth gallop down the western hill The eb of day the winter of the day The Autumne of the light When doubtful light Draws on the dewie chariot of the night To Thetis watry bowers the sun doth hie Bidding farewel unto the gloomy skie The labour of the day now near at an end From steep Olympus Phoebus steeds descend When the eye of heaven Is quite clos'd up and hath with earth made even The drooping light Begins to treble the encreasing shades Now hasty Titan to th' Hesperian seas Descends Phoebus now enters the Tartessian main The old age of the day When day doth end And Phoebus panting steeds to seas descend The day declines his light And earth-born shades had clothed the world with night The day grown old and weak The evening now descended and did steep The eyes of all men with desire of sleep The day grows old And gins to shut in with the Marigold The neat-heards kine do bellow in the yard And dairie maides for the milk pâ—epar'd Now great Hyperion leaves his golden throne That on the dancing waves in glory shone For whose declining on the western shore The oriental hils black mantles wore When the gentle Aire Breaths to the sullen night a soft repair Now the setting Sun To drown as much of his bright orb begun As the Moon wants when after ful she wainâ— Or grows near ful when daies last light Gives place to the approach of duskie night Night in her black shade Shuts up the day The setting sun doth hisse Drencht in the sea The declining of the parting day Now Titans orbe halfe drowned in the seas Gave part to us part to th' Antipodes When the declining lamp Trebles the shadowes and the evening damp Begins to moysten and refresh the earth When day yeilds up his right To the succeeding Emperess of night The envious west Too greedy to enjoy so fair a guest Calls Soll to bed where ravisht from our sight He leavs us to the solemn frowns of night The drooping light Expiting of the day Day in her death-bed Day undressing What time the bright sunâ— fiery teame Towards the western brim begins to draw Arrival of the night The sullen night now her black curtains spread Lowring the sun had tarried up so long Whose faire eyes closing sofâ—ly stole to bed When all the heavens with dusky clouds were hung When birds wild musick burthen every bough And with their chiâ—pings lullaby the day Hushing the silent night Sleepy light When as the sun hales towards the western shade And the trees shadowes three times greater made Phaebus ray sunk in the seas Sols steeds retire To quench their burning fetlocks and to steepâ— Their flaming nostrils in the westerne deepe The suns half buried in a cloud Whose raies the vapours of approaching night Have rendred weak and faint The declining sun Had hurried his diurnal load To th'borders of the western road By this time had the heavens surrounding steeds Quell'd their proud courage turn'd their fainting heads Into the lower hemisphear to coole Their slaming nostrilâ— in the western poole Night had laid the sun to sleep Now night begins to muffle up the day The wether rings his bell The toyling ploughman drives his thirsty teames To tast the slippery streams The droyling swineheard knocks away and feasts His hungry guests The Box-bill Ousil and the dapled Thrush As rivals meet at their beloved bush The morning of the Antipodes The day growes old the low pitcht lamp hath made No lesse than treble shade And the descending damp doth now prepare T'uncurle bright Titans haire Whose westerne wardrobe now begins â—'infold Her purples fâ—ing'd with gold To cloath his evening glory when th' alarmes Of rest shall call to ly in Thetis armes Time hath lodg'd the sun The weather rings his evening bell The curle-pate waggoner of heaven Had finisht his diurnal course and driven His panting steeds down to the western hill When silver Cynthia rising to fulfill Her nightly course le ts fall an evening tear To see her brother leave the Hemisphear The golden-headed charioteâ— of heaven With hasty speed his prouder rains doth bend His panting horses to their journeys end He blushes and with unrestrain'd careere He hurries to the lower hemispheare And in a moment shoots his golden head Upon the pillow of fair Thetis bed When the candles begin to inherit the Suns office When lights make an artificial day When the Sun like a noble heart shews his greatest Countenance in his lâ—west estate deceased day The Sun makes speed to leaue our west to doe his office in the other hemisphear as if he meant to carry news what stars he left behind Nights black contagious breath Already smoaks about the burning crest Of the old feeble and day wearied Sun The waining of the Sun The bat doth flie Her cloistered flight to sullen Hecats summonâ— The shade born Beetle with his drowsiâ— humme Hath rung nights yawning peal Seeling night Skarfs up the tender eye of beauteous day When like Elinar wiâ—h his evening beamss The Sun hath turn'd to gold the silver streams The treble shades begin to damp The moistened earth and the declining lamp invites to silence Light thickens And the Crow makes wing unto the woods Good things of day begin to droop and drowse Whilst nights black agents to their preys do rowsâ— The west but glimmers with some streaks of day Now spurs the lated traveller apace Unto the timely Inne When as the Nightimgale chanteth her Vesper And the wild forresters couch on the ground The long shades of the hills appear The Sun is fled to Thetis bed When night entombs the dying light What times the gray flie winds her soultry horn The Even-star bright Towards heavens descent had slopt his burnisht wheel Phebus goes to rest Inning his Chariot in the glooming West The Sun in golden Cstariot burld Now bid good morrow to the nether world The evening damp Begins to fall and heavens declining lamp Bespeaks the doubtfull twilight day grows old Invites the fowls to roost the sheep to folds When day
shore An heap of bodies shipwrackt on the sea I write and having written I destroy Because my lines have bounds but not my joy So joyes the Pilot that hath scap't a grave In the swell'd bosome of an angry wave And after all his shipwrack't hopes at last Doth in that port his joyful anchour cast Which hath occasioned many pious aires And been the subject of his serious praiers Can fate present What after this I can call discontent More proud am I of this than Phaeton When Phoebus flaming chariot he did guide Before he knew the danger coming on Or else than Jason when from Colchos he Returned with the fleeces victory Then on his neck shedding a shower of joy That ten-years travell'd Greek return'd from sea Nere joyd so much to see his Ithaca Pouring himself into embracements Loosing himself in Labyrinths of joy So joy'd Andromeda freed from her chaines And the grim monster His breast scarce holds his joyes whose fancy works On golden wonders I know not whether I then was more compos'd of joy or joy of me for I seemed not merty but mirth it self As glad as was the wandering youth of Greece When he from Colchos brought the golden fleece Like sea-men that descry the land at last For whose glad sight they get the hatches under And to the Ocean tell their joyes in thunder Shaking those barnackles into the sea At once that in the wombe and cradle lay As Nymphs and Shepheards when the timbrell rings Or crooked Dolphin when the saylour sings Whose joy and mirth Transcends the united pleasures of the earth What angels tongue can let The world conceive our pleasures when we met Who could have seen how that kind Roman dame Orecome with joy did yeild her latest breath Her son returning laden with such fame When thankful Rome had mourned for his death Might have beheld her personated right When I approached to sight Like as a man whose hourely wants implore Each meals relief trudging from doore to doore That hears no dialect from churlish lips But newes of Beadles and their torruring whips Takes up perchance some unexpected treasure New-lost departs and joyful beyond measure Is so transported that he scarce believes So great a truth and what his eye perceives Not daring trust fearing it is some vision Or flâ—ttering dream deserving but derision I am too narrow to contain my joy The Merchant when he plowes the angry seas And sees the mounting billowes fall upon him As if all elements and all their anger Were turn'd into one vow'd destruction Shall not with greater joy embrace his safety My joy cannot shew it self modest enough without the badge of bitternesse my tears My plenteous joyes Wanton in fulnesse seeke to hide themselves In drops of sorrow Imparadis'd An extasie of joy Drunken with joy Ready to leap out of their skin Glove Whose fine proportion showed well what a dainty guest was wont to be lodged therein The hands sheath Glutton v. Voluptuous That dis-people all the elements to please their palates That impoverish seas And aire dispeople their proud tast to please That greedy tyrant to obey Who varies still his tribute with the day His health by surfets forfeiting Veâ—st only in the kitchen Alchimy Philosophy To tire their glutted appetite Chain'd by the teeth unto their meat and drink Digging his own grave with his teeth Witty and ambitious appetite Three elements at least dispeopled be To satisfie judicious gluttony Nice palates Knowing stomachs That never fast but presently after dinner The whole world is his confectionary Banquet beagles That wears his brains in his belly That cannot judge the controverted câ—se Twixt meat and mouth without the bribe of sauce That gull the seas Their witty appetite to please That eat The heads of parâ—ets tongues of nightingales The brains of peacocks and of ostriches And could they get the Phoenix Though nature lost her kind she were their dish Apicius Geta Galba Vitellius Heliogabalus Sybarites Abderites Sardanapalus Goates The bearded heard The wanton flocks The bleating flocks Which powle the steepest mountains motly rocks God Almighty essence arbiter of fate Who wisely governs what he did create Whose unresisted hands do tear The clouds with dreadful thunder The great Disposer The gâ—eat director of the rolling stars Emperour of Angells King of stars The great Creatour To whom nothing's so great as to resist nothing so smal as to be contemned The first and last of things Whose great arme spans the East and West And tacks the center to the sphear The great Three-one That sees the secret chambers of the heart And with his knowledge can prevent our thoughts Goodnesse's eternal fountain Searcher of the heart The spirit that all the world maintains And the poiz'd earth in empty aire susteins Great self-subsisting nature One accent of whose breath hath power To ruine heaven and earth and in an houre To build a thousond more The worlds great Architect That his mansion hath on high Above the reach of mortal eye All living creatures that doth feed And with full hand supply their need That with his miracles doth make Amazed heaven and earth to shake That by his all commanding might Did fill the new-made world with light Gods Eternal beings Awfull powers Immortal essences Heavâ—nly dwellers The blest Celestials The deathlesse powers Heaven imbowred Gods That on immortal thrones reside Heavens tenants that in heavenly Halls Haveblest abodes Ever-being states The heavenly housed powers Skie-thron'd powers Heaven-housed states Deities Immortal Synod of the glorious skie That do the fates eternal courses know And tell of things to come That have the power To trouble or compose all things below their bower The powers that never vary state Immorral guests Which with Ambrosia and Nectar feast Great Berecynthia's deathlesse prâ—geny To Go up and down To keep their pathes To apply their steps To taske their steps to To divide their nimble paces To taske the feet Direct the steps Gold Pretious dirt Fairer dunghill Mechanick trash Jove knew thee when he courted Danaae And Cupid wears thee on that arrowes head That still prevailes On Ida once the Martial maid Venus and Juno did to mortal eyes Naked for thee their sacred bodies show The bait of avarice The glittering oare India's rich bowels Tagus Pactolus sands The misers God The general charme Bright son of Sol much brighter than his father The golden ore That lies on Tagus or Pactolus shore That pure sand The Indians find upon Hydaspes strand The golden apples of the Hesperides The golden fleece The Golden number Golden rule Bills of this metal slackt At'lanta's pace And on the amorous youth bestow'd the race Venus the Nimphs mind measuring by her own Whom the rich spoiles of cities overthrown Had prostrated to Mars could well advise Th' adventurous lover how to gain the prize Nor lesse may Jupiter to gold 〈…〉 For when he turn'd himselfe in 〈…〉 Who can blame Danaaeor the bâ—â—â—en tower That they withstood not th'
each other Their parents knew not Tymber from his brother Like Spencers Amias and Placidas Natures disguise Humane paralels An apple â—left in two iâ— not more twin Than these two creatures These hands are not more like One sand resembles not another more VVater and water are not more alikâ— Nor have two eggs a lesser difference Like Vibius and Pompâ—y Two bees are not more like or figs or ants Like as Eamelus mares Neighbouring upon Identity Narcissus to the thing for which he pin'd Was not more like Lilly The spotlesse flower Which Juno's milk did spring That had their colour from the milk Of Juno when she sleeping nurst the great And stout Alcides v. White Lips Ruby cherrilets The sister corals that each other kisse The sister rubies The mooving leaves of coral Soft warmer coral Those leaves of damaske roses The folding coral valve's of the moâ—th The melting rubie corals Loves assured tests The melting rubies on her cherry lip Are of such power to hold as on one day Cupid flew thirsty by and stoopt to sip And fastned there could never get away Banks of blisses Where love plants and gathers kisses Soft coral gates Lips fit to be th'utterers when The heavens would parly with the chief of men That breath gums and spice Unto the east and sweets to paradise Lips where mines of rubies grow Those speaking pomanders The coral berries Rosie twins Warme porphyrie Lips which like threads of scarlet show Whence graceful accents sweetly flow Tast her lips and then confesse If Arabia doth possesse Or that honey Hybla hill Tasts like those that thence distill Which sâ—ich the blushing from the orient That with delight and pleasure Through a sweet smile unlock their pearly treasure Congealed Nâ—ctar Transplanted paradise The ruby poâ—â—als of our words The two leav'd ruby gate To which a pearl-portcullis make a graâ—e Two swelling welâ—s of coral round behem With smiling showes two rowes of orient gems As sweet and red as early cherries Two twin-cherries died in blushes Which those faire suns above with their bright beams Reflect upon and â—â—pen â—ashful pearls adding more rednesse to their native hew By blushing at their own sweet beauty Which never part but that they show Of pretious pearl a double row Dianâ—'s lip Is not more smooth and rubeous Melts in the touch A lip Would tempt to an eternity of kissing Those sister kissing cherries Which sweetly blush for this That they one another kisse The wax whereon love prints a kisse Loves rubie alcars That sweet divided union Litle v. Dwarfe Dwarfish Nature made thee To shew her cunning in Epitomie Small printed things Diminitives Live To see the sun adorne the darkesome earth To enjâ—y the prâ—viâ—edge of breath To â—eed on aire The fates still draw my lengthened thread Mine eyes enjoy the benefit of life Sâ—ll nature gives Lâ—fe to my veins Whilst breaâ—h gives motion to my â—oyled limbes While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe Life Thin smoake and empty shadow wich the wise As the fooles Idol soberly despise The fading rose the running sand the spurring post The shadow of a dream Light and inconstant aire Fortunes bable That waving brat tost on the sea of fate The pilgrimage of mans laborious dayes The even-spun twine A span of fâ—ailty plung'd and orb'd about With floods of biâ—ternesse That knot of soul and body which nothing can untiâ— but the eye of heaven In which each gaspe of breath Are minutes posting to the hour of death Short life v. Vntimely death Like that armed crue Grown from the dragons teeth That to fate Are tenanrs to a shorter date Like the beasts of Hippanis Whose life in one day's spun drawn out and cut Long life To count many years Whose life doth swell the number of his years To reach Tâ—â—honus years or aged Nestors Or the wrinkled Sybil. Courteous fate Draws out his thread with an unweary hand To fill the number of his dayes To groan under the burthen of his years Whose long dayes even rust the â—ithe of time Private life That peace of passions noble banishment That close happinesse without either pompe or envy Whose ambition goes no farther than the border of his village That prefers the liberty of the country before the pleasures of the court whom chains cannot tempt though never so well made and gilded over That life without pompe or rumult but with more solid joy and satisfaction Whose armour is an honest thought And simple truth his highest skill Whose state can neither flatterers fear Nor râ—ine make accusers great Lives of himself though not of lands And hâ—vâ—ng nothing yet hath all That thâ—nks glory a lye and state grave sport And counâ—â—y sicknesse above health at court That seeks no higher prize Than in unenvied shades to â—it And sing his Mrs. eyes That â—ast in hours secure from courtly strife The soft oblivion of a quiet life No war disturbs his rest with fierce alarmes Nor angry â—eas offend He shuns the law and those ambitious charmes Which great mens doors attend Lives to himself and glitteâ—ing titles shuns He lives unenvied honour crowns his ends Which gentle peace Enjoy pure innocence the rich increase Of various gifts what pleasure the broad fields Caves living waters and coole Tempe yeilds Lowing of beasts sweet sleeps by shades obscur'd Woods savage chace the hardy youth inur'd To live with little whom no labour tries Justice here left her last impression when She fled from the defil'd abodes of men V. Sandys Ovids Metam lib 8. page 295. Fab. Philemon Baucis lib. 11. page 397. Fab. Aesacus Horace Epod. 2. Liver The bodies sponge the bloody conduit The buâ—â—e furnace The concrete blood The shop the mint the fountain of the blood The bodies almoner Dispenser of the blood To looke To chain their eyes to To feast the eyâ—s upon To surfet the eyâ—s upon To read ore a thing To traffick with the eyes To run ore with eyes To fix his gazes on To river his eyes on a thing So Clytie look't upon the sun Till she turn'd Heliotrope Mine eyes Have been attentive on this exercise To peruse with eyes To lend an eye On him she claspt her eyes To talk to discourse with eyes To addresse the â—ight Survay with curious eyes Close prisoner to the object To own no other object To shoot the eyes To throw our eyes on To tie the eyes To weigh with Chrystal skales To view with captivated eyes To oppresse with his eyes To nayle the eyes upon To drink with eyes the nectar of her sight Center the scattered radiant of the eye Upon one object To entertain the eyes c. Upon his face all threw their covetous eyes To feed to feast the greedy eyes To crack the eye-strings with a fixed view To cast lots Their votes to the dispose of lots they strait refer Electing chance for their blind arbiter Loud v. Noise One that may be heard to th' Antipodes That talkes as if he spake to the
Aristorle v. Learned Atlas of learning Magazin of arts That walking library Great Alexanders Tutors The learned Stagyrite Monarch of sciences That ruled as he thought fit The whole monopoly of wit Soul of philosophy Natures great torch Plate's great scholler Great Register of Natures secrets Armes Delicious armes In whose white circle love writ all his charmes Faire Cynthia wisht his armes might be her sphere Grief makes her pale because she moves not there Sweet fleshy prison Whose sweet embraces might quicken death Whiter than Juno's were sufiduing charmes The ivory prison of her armes Loves swathing bands Happy bondage Cupids shâ—kles Armes Armour Harness habilaments greaves guyses van-brasse pouldron coâ—selet gantlet curasse shield helmet sallet target burganeâ— â—uâ—rions tates Enclosed about With glittering walls of steele Hous'd in steele cas'd box'd in armes coated in mayle Arrow v. Swift The feathered wood outruns the hunting eye And cuts a passage through the yeelding skie Whose sharpned point cleaves the divided aire The bows swift messenger with an angry errand Artificial That net of brasse which Vulcan did bestow About the guilty bed could never show Such art Natures ape Here went beyond her copy in the shape Where art and miracle draw equal breath Others men wonder at but this adore VVhere art it self might go to schoole And all her skill taught hence to this referre Asse That slow dull creature which doth learn far more By punishments than precepts That beast which old Silenus doth bestride VVhen he amongst his Nimphs and Satyrs rides Assent VVith glad alowance gave his counsel eare To give a yeelding obedient eare Astonisht v. Amazed VVhose soul is gone upon some serious etrand And left the corps in pawn till it come back Amated stupified To stand like stags at gaze Stand as with ghosts affrighted The understandings extasie Intranced soul Astraea VVhich when the other goddesses were gone Remained in the hated earth alone The glittering Virgin of the Zodiack Just Virgin goddesse That bears the equal sword Astronomer Register of heaven privie counsellour to the planets A breathing almanack The heavens notary Star-cleark Star-divine That walks along the lofty stars And backs the clouds sitting on Atlas crown That stars prophtick language understand That know aright The Gods and all the orbes to whom for fight Of planets and the motions of each star Not great Egyptian Memphis might compare That wisely studious are To trace the motions of each star How swift they travel and how far That with their Jacobs staffe can walk to heaven VVhose eyes dismount the highest spheare That bores And threads the sphears with his quick piercing mind He views their stations walks from doore to doore Surveyes as if he had design'd To make a purchase there he sees their dances Their full-eyed aspects and their secret glances That search the courses of the rolling spheares That audit of the stars have made Have measured heaven conceived how earths thick shade Eclypst the silver browes of Cynthia bright And her browne shadow quencht her brothers light The true Endymions that embrace above Upon mount Latmos their imperial love Great Queen of heaven about whose bed for guard Millions of archers with gold shields do ward True Atlasses the pillars of the poles Empyreal pallace that send Their spies to see what 's done in every spheare Keeping their state intelligences there The hungry star-fed tribe well skil'd in heavens Physiognomy Talmud Albumazer and Erra Pater That know the heavens as if they had been there And helpt each Angel turn about his spheare The earthly Godfathers of heavenly lights And give a name to every fixed star That to the heavens direct their curious eyes And send their minds to walke the sparious skies That walk by Cynthia 's light and lift their eyes To view the ordered armies of the skies The heavens they measure with imagin'd lines And when the Northern Hemispheare declines New constellations in the south they find Asswage To calme still quiet sing asleepe to lullaby slake coole compose to give allay pacifie Atheist v. Wicked That knowes no God more mighty than his mischiefes Whose wickednesse is grown to such an height As makes the earth groane to support its weight That pursue Deeds after which no mischief can be new To whom murthers are but resolute acts and treasons matters of greater consequence Doing such things as might the Devil shame Which if in hell no other pains there were Makes men fear hell because they must be there Replenisht villain Abstract of all vice Stigian quintessence for whose sinful sake Schoolemen new tenements in hell must make Whom neither law Of God or man can keepe in aw Fearing that God he flouts at and dreading that deity which he denies Athens The city nam'd by Pallas Minerva's sacred city The learned noursery of Greece Mopsopian Gecropian University Erecthaean towers Pallas beloved city Atlas Whose brawny shoulders boulster up the stars Where Titans panting steeds his chariot steepe And bathe their fiery feâ—locks in the deepe Knocking his browes against heavens brazen doore Whose lofty pillars tack Heaven to the earth Which shrouds His airy head in hanging clouds He that the noble burthen bears And on his back supports the sphears Attend. Attentive To hear with such attention As if they heard the inquired oracle Pronouncing of thair fare As if the words they heare Were not received but grafted in the eare And with a greedy eare Devoured up his discourse To hear with sucking ears Eare was al their sence To drink with thirsty ears The soul climbes up into the eare With double ravishment She hung uppon his melting lips attent With greedy ear she hung Upon his words dropt from his melting tongue With due attention lent a chained eare The soul dwelt in the ears A melting eare Prepared for soft attention To tye chain linke lock the eares unto the tongue Still silence did enlarge the eare For quick attention The soul is planted in the ear Every sense made hast to be all ear The greedy ear clings to the speakers lips Avarice v. Covetousness Augurs That lightnings motions understand Birds flight and entrals op't Who divine by sight Of slain beasts entrals and the various flight Of birds Aurora v. Morning The blushing goddesse which doth sway The dewie confines of the night and day Who fâ—om the glowing East displaies Her purple doores and odoriferous bed VVith plenty of dew-dropping roses spread VVhich as she in her lightsome chariot rides Scatters the light from off her saff on wheeles Aged Tithonus beaureous wife Memnons fair mother The Muse patronesse Autumn Pomona loads her lap with delicates Winter begins to chide away the flowers Smeard with crusht Lyaeus blood The sober mean twixt youth and age more staid And temperate in summers wain repaires His reverent temples sprinckled with gray haires The evening of the year when the thresht sheaâ—e Looseth its grain and every tree its leaf When birds do cease their notes And stately forrests â—'on their
to rob their fragrant combe Whether collecting their delicious dew From various thyme and other flowers not few Whether extending in rare symmetry With wondrous art their waxen canopy And arching even so many thousand cells Whether conducting their too full supplies Elsewhere to plant their goodly colonies Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdome Where some like Magistrates correct at home Other like merchants venter trade abroad Others like souldiers armed in their stings Make booty on the summers velvet buds Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of â—heir Emperour Who buâ—ied in his majesties surveyes The singing masons building roofes of gold The civil citizens kneading up the honey The poor mechanick porters crowding in Their heavie burthens at the narrow gaâ—e The sad-eyed justice with his surly humme Delivering ore to executioners The lazie yawning drone So painful bees with forward gladnesse strive To joyne themselves in throngs before the hive And with obedience till that houre attend When their commander shall his watch-word send Then to the winds their tender sailes they yeeld Distresse the flowers depopulate the fields Bed Loves Altar The voluntary grave The dear repose for lims with travel tired Pallet couch Warmer grave Beggar Whose hourly wants imploâ—e Each meals relief trudging from dore That struggle with their strong necssities And with afflicted language pity crave That hear no dialect from churlish lips But newes of beadles and their torturing whips That wage against th'emnities of the aire Clad in windowed rags pelting against the storme v. Poore Beginning Blooming dawning infant morning portal threshold cradle infancy bud bloome blade Gam-ut Alphabet Elements youth nonage pupillage minority childhood porch front entry commencement Belides The cursed daughters of fierce Danaus Belus damn'd neeces whose kinsmens blood accuse VVho ever draw the water which they loose Those youthful sisters who in vain Still water poure into the fatal tun Yet that as empty as when they begun Belerophon He that the flame-breathing Chymera slew He that the Muses winged horse bestrid He that first bridled horse And taught th' untamed beast an ordered course The bearer of the fatal letters Bellona v. Pallas To whom no sacrifice doth stand for good Not mingled with the sacrificers blood Mars grim-lookt sister Jovâ—'s blew-eyed daughter VVars triumphant maid Eelly Natures kitchen Natures cook-shop Insatiaâ—e beggar Importuning craver Birds The aires nimble winged guests Natures choristers minstrels minstrelsie The summers waits VVinged minstrels Musitians Sweet heralds of the spring The winged conforts The forrest Quire The airy quire Artless songsters The free inhabitants of the pliant aire The chirping choristers The aires feathered parishioners The quirisâ—â—rs of May. The denizons of aire The slitting pinionists of aire The Sylvan quite The feathered people of the skie The feathered quiristers which on their spraies Chant to the merâ—y spring and wooe the flood Or with their musick court the sullen wood Feathered Musitians of the spring The airy people That with wild musick burthen every bough And in the evening hush asleep the day The aires Musitians sing And carol to the flowry spring VVild inhabitants of the aire The winged travellers that trace the skie That with their chirping lullaby the day That in their leavie cages sing A welcome to th' approaching spring The wing'd Musitians that awake the morne That with their horny haut boyes musick make The warbling chanters of the wood VVinged crew train troope chattering flocks The airy passengers The woods wild burgesses The living ships with feathered sailes Sylvanus winged songsters The chirping consorts of the aire The citizens of path-lesse woods Bitter As the gray wormwood Hemlock Gall Hellâ—bore As coloquintida or aspicks tongues Black Sable ebon jetâ—y gloomy dusky pitchy sooty 〈◊〉 Black as the sooty mcore or negro jet As nights black mantle as a starless night Black as the sullen night Or consciences where guilt and horrour dwell As Acheron and the dark streams of hell Black as Illytian pitch Cover'd with a vaile of jet Blew Blew as the freezing skie Or the bright colour in Bellona's eye Azure Blind Rational moles to whom even day is night VVanting the common benefit of light VVhose eyes aâ—e muffled in eternal night Beauties unfitting judge To whom colours are uselesse That sees but by his ear Casting up his blind eye to the sun as if he would hunt for light Blind as the beetle Like Polypheme That makes no difference twixt the Sun and Stars But by the heat Midday groper Blood Crimson flood purple deluge blushing ruby nimph Purple crimson-sweat streams brooks dew With damaâ—k eyes the ruby blood doth peep And ran in branches through het a zure veins The ruby nimph within the crimson brooks Dissolved rubies liquid coral Vermillion spring The red-sea of the lesser world active torrent Blush The Virgin-die the rosie-blush ensign of modesty And in her blushes Lies modesty as in a bed of Coral So blusht Calisto and the Virgin crew When in the fount Joves rape on her they knew So blusht Diana when Actaeon saw Her naked in the fount to dy the cheeks in blushes Such is the colour which the Clouds adorn Shot by the Sun-beams or the rosie-morn Venus so blusht when she was found By all the gods in bed with Mars and bound In Vulcans net So apples shew upon the sunny side So Ivory with rich Vermillion dide So pure a red the silver-moon doth stain Then when the beaten brass do sound in vain Even so the purple morning paints the skies Her face flâ—sht with imbosomed flames The rosie dye that decks the morns uprise Flusht in her face Her vertuous blood Struck with respective shame So looks the Rose When she her taintless beauty doth disclose She lookt out And all the Air she purpled round about Clad all in Crimson shame sits in her cheeks Her cheeks struck with a rosie red As setting Suns do give unto the west When morning tempests are preâ—igured Vermillion signal in a guilty cheâ—k Warm blood upon the guilty cheek Her cheeks a deaper scarlet were Than the chaste mornings blush Lifes blood which from the heart is sent In beauteous field pitcheth hie crimsome Tent In lovely sanguine suits the Lilly cheek Whilest it but for a resting place doâ—h seek And changing oftentimes with sweet delight Converts the white to red the red to white The lovely blush the paleness doth distain The paleness makes the bush more fair again Have ye beheld when fresh Aurora's eye Sends forth her early bâ—â—ms and by and by Withdrawes the glory of her face and shrowds Her cheeks behind a ruddy mask of clouds Such were her looks Have you beheld when Titans lustful head Hath newly div'd into his sea-green bed With Thetis how the bashful Horizon Enforc'd to see what should be seen by none Looks red for shame and blusheth to discover Th' incestuous pleasures of the heaven-born lover A sweet Vermillion
edicts of fate As certain as the stroke of death v. Destiny Or the last judgment day Changeable Begot by Proteus on a Cameleon Bâ—got in the change of the moon Engendered by the wind and weather-cock A Protâ—us that can take What shape he please and in an instant make Hâ—msâ—lf to any thing be that or this By voluntary Metomorphosis As Vertumnus Waxing and waining an hundred times in a minute As the mother of Talegonus Such Metra daughter to the hungry king More unconstant than the giddy wave As pliant wax still new impressions takes Whose resolutions aire So loose and easie that a ruffling wind Can blow away More than Proteus or the subtile race Of Polypus who roving to rob more Transforme them hourely to the wavie shore whose minds In various change strive to outvie the winds That tread on globes and circles The apes of fortune that desire to be Resolved on as â—ickle wheels as she The planets at their birth which rulers were Were all irregular Whose mids change oftner than the Greek could dream That made the Meâ—empsychos'd soul his theam The tide of minds I wonder his soul finds not some way to kill his body to which it hath been so long united Begot when the moon was in conjuction and all the other pâ—anets drunk at a morris dance A skittâ—sh mind as if their souls were made of changeable taffaty Their mind is alwayes like the moon in her last quarter ever upon the change That may contend for varying shapes With the blew Proteus or the horned flood Chaos v. Confused That undigested lump and barren load Where jarring seeds of things ill-joyn'd aboad v. Ovid. 1. Meâ—am The confused jumble medley The worlds Embâ—yon The creatures noursery The mingled lump of things Natures gallimauphrey Enough for to confound Unnumbeâ—ed woâ—lds Heaven was with earth confus'd And stars with rocks together crush'd and bruis'd Charmes v. Ovid. 7. Metam Medea Ovid. Epist Hipsipile to Jason In words dark and perplexed nine times thrice Inchantments mutters with her magick voice Circe waves her magick wand Thrice turns she to the east twice to the west Thrice touchâ— him with her wand three charmes exprest From Erebus and Chaos conjures night With all her gods and Hecate intreates Homer Odyss 10. Virgil. Aen. 4. Dido Lucan lib. 6. With tedious mumblings The moon perplex't with tedious charmes below Till shee on under hearbs herâ—jâ—lly throwes Charon Hells grim botes-swain hells scowling ferryman The burning streams old ferriman That wafts pale ghosts over the stygian lake Hells ugly untrim'd waterman The stygian sculler That plies the passage ore the filthy flood With crabbed countenance hoare haires which stood Ruggedly overgrown ore all his chin His goglingâ— eyes star'd as they flames had bin Virg. Aen. 6. In ragged robes and tattered old attire With a strong pole thrust in the pudly mire He drives his boat assisted with one sayle And ore the black streams meager ghosts he hales Charâ—bdis Whiâ—ling Charibd is with her sucking waves Suppes up the seas and gives the ships their graves With yawning swallow Sups up huge waves which broken in do follow And thrice again disgorgeth them on high Dashing its wavie vomit to the skie Chast As the sweet dew that loads the heads Of drooping flowers All her kâ—sses do speak her virgin The blushes of her cheekes speak innocence Warmed with a bashful heaâ— Call snow unchast and say the ice is wanton if she be so Chast as the maiden blossomes of a rose Sweet as the spring it buds in The Phoenix self although but one may sooner be no virgin Chast as the Nuns first vow as the cold hermits cell Chast as the bashful morn Chast as the vowes of Nuns or Anchorites prayer Whose beauty is the shrine of chastity Immuâ—'d in snow whose greatest heaâ— is like to that faint light The glow-worme shoores at the cold brest of night Cloystered in ice That in her lilly bosome weares The spotlesse flower of whiâ—e chastity Whose coole thoughts feele no hot desires That serve not Venus flames but Vesta's fires As chast as ice such as were never seene In wanton dalliance such as until death Never smelt any but their husbands breath â—ucrece Diana Penelope Vestals Sabine women â—ato Hippolitus Curius Jâ—piter would court her did he know A shape whereby to tempt such chastity Her lips in pure and vestal modesty Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin You may sooner tempt A votary or move a Sâ—ythian rock Than shoote a fire into her chaster brest A Camphire constitution Fit for the golden age and Saturnes raigne Almost afraid to ly with her self Chast as the hardned rock Whose kisses were so chast that love seemed to play there without darts Chast as the eyes of turtles Diana apparelled in the gâ—rments of Venus such a wanton modesty she had and inâ—icing sobernesse A breast as cold as hemlock One whose blood is snow-broth who never feeles The wanton stinges and motions of the sence Chast as the unblowne bud VVhose lips blush at their own sweet kisses Chast as a picture cut in Alabaster As Ysickles That curdled by the frost from purest snow And hang in Diana 's Temple She was alwayes hidden either under a veile or in her chamber and all the world might suspect heâ— to be faire but there was scarce any knew it buâ— her mother In Chrystal chaines All love is bound within her icie veins Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes Her breath as the perfume of sacrifice Chast as the aire Holy Nuns breath in prayer Cheeks Two banks of fairest flowers Enricht with sweetnesse from the twilight showreâ— VVhereon those jars which were so often bred Composed are betwâ—xt the white and red Those plots where half-ros'd lillies lie Not one by art but natures industry Each Indie in each cheek where met Vermillion with a silver tincture set Cheeks lightly staind with red Like spotted marble newly polished which enclose The smiling â—ulip and carnation rose Beauty times sterne rage to shun In her cheeks lillies hid her fom the sun When she meant to triumph in her May Made that her Eâ—st and there she broke her day Cheeks in which two pits do lie To bury those slain by her eye Cheeks with kindly clarret spread Aurora like new out of bed Either cheek discloses Mingled bathes of milk and â—oses Or like the fresh Queen apples side Blushing at sight of Phaebus pride Blushing lillies where scarlet were a blot Aurora blusht at such a sight unknown Seeing those cheeks were redder than her own Transplanted Paradise Beauties tempe Elysium Have you seen carnation grow Fresh blushing through new flakes of snow Have you seen with more delight A red rose growing through a white Have you seen the pretty gleam That the strawberry leaves in creame Such was the tincture of her cheekes Child v. Infant A man in a small letter Natures short hand Stenography The best copie of
cheekr Aurora did display Her golden locks and summon up the day Twice twenty times and rests her drowsie head Twice twenty times within old Tithons bed Five times had Hesper Titan warnd away Five times again did Lucifer appear Waving the standard of the glorious day Thrice had the bright surveyor of the heaven Divided out of the day and night by even And equall houres Five morns had cleard the Air with Phoebus light And from the pole remov'd the damps of night Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his Diurnal ring Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quencht his sleepy lamp Or foure and twenty times the Pilots glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass Now fifteen times had Phoebus gone to rest Inning his Chariot in the gloomy West David Kingly Prophet Israels sweet singer Jesses stout son Holy song-man The holy Father of wise Salomon The father of rebellious Absalâ—m That with his sling the mighty champion sâ—â—w The pious O pheus of the Jewâ— Deaf A culvering discharged at his ear would scarcely bore it Deprived of the hearing sence To whom the greatest talkers are as dumb One that enjoyes that benefit that he never hears himself ill spoken of Deaf as remorseless seas Natures drumme lies in his eares unbraiz'd Deaf as th' Icarian rocks Death Natures bold Pursivant The forgetful lake The Eclipse of life The graves purveyour Sleeps younger brother The Stygian bay Eternal sleep within a bed of dust The two-long-joyned lovers sad divorce The dark and common period Tyrant ore tyrants thou which onely dost Clip the lascivious beauty without lust The pale-fac't sergeant that layes us in our â—able chest Natures rude serjeant the moth of natures Art The common extinguisher of natures candles The first Alchyâ—nist to calciâ—e into dust The living bodies Lifes Epilogue The unsparing Pursivant with Eagles wings That knocks at poore mens doors as well as Kings The sad stipend of the first transgression The child of sin Great pale-fac't tyrant Sad message of the â—ullen bâ—ll Death attends Natures pale-fac't baylâ—ffe The parting stirrup at the journeyes end That night Which from the living takes the last of light Hate and terror to prosperity â—e put my eye-bals in thy vaulty browes And ringe these fingers with thy hous-hold worms And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust Come grin on me and I will think thou smilest And kiss thee Miseries love and wish That onely can Measure the true dimensions of a man Which is at best An unexpected and unwelcome guest Grimme executioner to destiny Birth-day to Eternity Unchanged law of Nature The best and last Physitian Vntimely Death To Whom the Fates owe yeares Abortive darkness veils the setting light The crime and sad mistake of destiny The untimely seisure of the greedy grave Th' extortion of the rigorous fares Exacting fate Deaths supererogation to the â—ates Death-bed v. approaching death When the latest sand Of the spent hower-glass is now at hand And as she spake that word her voice did alter Her breath grew cold her speech began to faulter Fain would she utter more but her faint tongue Not able to goe forward faild and câ—â—nge To her dry roof when the drum of death Beats a cold march When deaths pale-slags advanced in his cheeks His eyes turning round in the dance of death Lips trembling as though they kist their neighbour death Ready to take his oaths to be deaths true liege-man Death swims and baths her self within his eyes He gasps for breath as the grave gasps for him That hath â—id the last stage of life Lises candle twinckles within the socket When he hath bid the world and life adieve And set one foot within grimme Charons boaâ— Expecting every minute deaths sad summons Lifes â—wilight When his last testament and grave Is made an icy stifness benums by blood Deformed Her eyes do sink into their holes As if they were afraid to see the light Her breath infects the Aire and sowes a pestilence 'T is known that she hath eyes by the holes onely Which have crept further in than her nose out Her quarrelling teeth Of such a colour are that they themselves Scare one another and do stand at distance Nature made her when she was disposed to just And length of time hath made her more ridiculous Caâ—idia new come from the jawes of hell Natures Errata faulâ—â— escaped natures Print Which who so hath to wife Shall nere be cuckolded unless for spight By some that durst not do 't but in the night For fear of loathing her Never sin was at so high a rate But one nights hell with her might expiate A shape the Poets were afraid to fain For fear the shadow might infect their brain With hollow yellow teeth or none perhaps With stinking breath swart teeth and hanging chaps With wrinckled neck and stooping as she goes With driveling mouch and with a sâ—iveling nose Whose face gives a prospect which might well Give a surphet to a weak stomack Her nose seemed to threaten her chin Her tears like rain upon dirty furrows Disgracing weeping with her countenance Her hands those golden golls Tears in her eyes did seem there to bewail Their own disgrace Like Chaos or an unlickt Bears whelp That carries no impression like the dam The very dogs bark at him as he goes Crusty batch of Nature A face not worth the scorning Notclean enough to spit on Made by one of Natures unskilful and idle prentises A nose at enmity with all others and against which no possible defence but a pair of Spanish gloves That blunders all the rivers he passeth through and avoids thâ— sight of Painters and glasses lest they should shew him the pattern of his visage Goggle-eyed sparrow-mouthed gubber-toorhed canker-eatengummes hook-nosed rotten-teeth Morphew-fact beetle-browed her nose and chinne half meet to make the teeth friends that are fallen out A breath stinking up and down the room a nose dropping Winter and Sâ—mmer A Bavarian poke under her chinne lavâ—-â—ard dugges like two double juggs bloody-fallen-singers scabbed-wrists Cow-wasted tand-skinne splay-footed gouty legs stinking-feer Dowdy Gorgon Blouze Gobrian Mother Fulsome Cavida Mopsa Niso Fustilugs That needs no other proof besides her face To proclaim her witch So far from being faire None could be foule that did with her compare Natures trespass Made up of natures worst deformities She spied her filthyness and fain she would Have blusht if through so much dirt she could Natures Heteroclite with some member defective Or redundant Natures solocisme A naturall vizard like a winters Apple shrunk up together and half rotten The Chaos of a man Aesop Thersites Demagoras The Sun doth almost fear to lend his shine Least the reflection of his purest raies From such a dung-hill as she bears about Might chance to infect the universal Aire So that a general plague should give the world A second deluge and make Aire prevent The Doomesday of
her misdeeds That daâ—k shadow ever waiting on shining vertue That banquets in anothers miseries Epicure v. Glutton Voluptuous That â—ect which acknowledge no greater evill than pain nor hâ—gher blâ—sse than pleasure An easie soul made tender with delight Which thinks that he hath forfeited that houre That adds not to his pleasure or his power Epitaph In deathlesse verse Bestowing same on noble sepulchers The lying postscript of a perjur'd stone The sad elogium of a speaking stone Epithalaminm The Nuptial song Hymenaean verse Thou that dwell'st on Helicon That to men dost virgins hale With sweet flowred Margerum With a smiling look appear Let this day with pleasure spring Nimbly dance the flaming pine VVith good auguries come wed Like a myâ—tle ever green VVhere the Nymphs their sports pursue Come O with a willing mind Sunk in Thespian rocks where chill To the Bridegroome call the Bride As when closely creeping vines Chastest virgins you who may Make the aire with Hymen ring Fairest souls that shine more bright Than your nuptial tapers light And with deeper piercing dart Beams af love into the heart Modest Hymen dare not here At your sacred rites appear Blushing that his paler light Is by you eclips'd to night And your power far above All that presidents of love He his saffron robes neglects And his garlands disaffects All his tapers all his flowers All his fillets all his powers All the pleasures all the sweets That attend the geniâ—l sheets All his chains and loving bands He resignes into your hands Mâ—y soft joyes now you are wed Be the curtains for your bed May faire honour and delight Câ—own your day and blesse your night May your oft repeated kisses Bring with them as many blisses And the warm embrace of love Be soft as Downe on Venus Dove May the pleasures of your bed Pass the hairs upon your head And your joies out-vie the sand O thou faiâ— Uranias son Hymen O thy brows impale Take thy Safferon vail and come Yellow stocks of woollen weare Shrill Epithalamiums sing Shake in that fair hand of thine Those two to an happie bed On the shore of Cyprus seen Fostering it with Rosie dew Leave the Aonion Caves behind Aganippe's waters drill In Affections fetters tyde Claspes the Oake in amorous twines Taste the like another day Hymen Hymenaeus sing What 's that we see from far the spring of day Bloomd from the East or fair enameld May Blown out of April or some new Star filled with glorie to our view Reaching at heaven To adde a nobler Planet to the seven Say or do we not descrie Some Goddess in a Cloud of Tiffany To move or rather the Emerging Venus from the sea 'T is she 't is she or else some more divine Enlightned substance see how from the shrine Of holy Saints she paceth on Throwing about Vermillion And Amber spice â—ing the chaste Aire with fumes of Paradise Then come on come on and yield A savour like unto the field When the bedabled morn Washeth the ears of corn Lead on fair pair of Nymphes the whilest her eyes Guiltie of somewhat guild the straw-berries And cherries in her cheâ—ks ther 's cream Already spilt her rayes must gâ—eam Gently thereon And so create lust and temptation To surphet and hunger Help on her pace and though she lag yet stir Her homeward well she knows There is her heart where ere she goes See where she coms and smels how all the street Breaths Vâ—neyards and Pomgranates oh how sweet As a fir'd Altar is each one Breathing pounded Cynnamon The Phoenix nest Built up of odours burneth in her brest Who would not there consume His soul to cyndars in that rich perfume The while He burns to embers in the pile Hymen O Hymen tread the sacred ground Show thy white feet and head with marioram crownâ— Mount up thy flames and let thy torch Display the Bridegroom in the porch In his desires Towring more more disparkliâ—g than the fires Shew her how his eyes do burn And roul about and in their motion turn Their balls to ash heaps hast Or else to nothing he will wast Glide through the banks of virgins then and pass The showres of Roses luckie four-leav'd grass The whiles the clouds of younglings sing And drown you with a flowry spring Whilest some repeat Your praise and bless you covering you with wheat Whilest others do divine Blest be the Bride on which the Sun doth shine And thousands gladly wish You multiply as doth a fish Why theâ— on forward fair aspitious Bride And come upon the Bâ—idegroom like a tide Bearing down time before you hie Swell more and loose your selves imply Like streams which flow Encurld together and no difference show In their moâ—t silver â—un Into your selves like wooll together spun Or blend so as the sight Of two makes one Hermophradite Welcome at last unto the threshold Time Thron'd in a saffâ—on evening seems to chime All in kiss and so enter if A prayer must be said be brief The easie gods â—or such contempts have onely myrtle â—ods To stroak not strike fear you No more wild Nymphs than they would have you do But dread you more offend In that you do begin than end And now you are enterd see the codled cook Runs from his torâ—id zone to pâ—y and look And bless his dainty mistress see Now th' aged whisper this is she Who now must sway Us peace shield her she 's pretty yea and nay And the smiâ—k butler thinks it Sin in his wappery not t' express his wit Each striving to devise Some ginne to take her eyes Now if we must for Ceremony sake Bless a sack posset luck go with it take The night charm quickly you have spels And Magick for to end and hells To pass but such And with such torture as no God would grutâ—h To live there and for ever frie Yea and consume and grow again to die And live and in that case Love the damnation of the place To bed to bed sweet Turtles now and write This the long day and that the shortest night And yet though short for you for me I count this night as long as three Lying alone Estrige That drops her egs upon the naked land And wraps them in a bed of hatching sand Exposed to the wandering traveller And feet of beasts which those wild deserts tear Eternitie The soft down of Eternitie Unfathom'd circle Endless duration The boundless Ocean of conceit That great uncenterd vast circumference That knows no limits unconfined by time From all Eternitie Ere by the sphears times motions were created Ere the astonisht spring Heard in the Aire the feathered people sing Ere time had motion or the Sun obtaind His Province ore the day Ere the worlds great Creator did From the dark formless Chaos light divide Sâ—ablish eternal lawes to which he tide His creatures and himself and did divide The worlds set ages by unchanged fate When fea and earth and heaven was yet
crazie now being she is grown thus cold But frost 's not all our grief we that so sore â—ffer its stay fear its departure more For when that leaves which so long hath stood 'T will make us count from since the second Flood Frown The Hieroglyphick of anger and deniall T' unsmooth the forehead with observ'd distast Furrowing the forehead with an unseen plow To fold the brow in angry frowns The tempest of the face the discontented brow To muffle up the face in frowns The hated strangers fee. The cloud that hangs upon the brow A forehead gathered into frowns A look drest up in frowns â— Brow knit up in clouds of wrath â— Brow whereon dwells anger â—corn fits in state upon his â—urly Brow â— vineger verjuice face To wear a frown upon the brow â—uffled his brow like a new boot Contracted brow To purse the brow To furrow up the face The rising furrows in the brow The sour countenance More angry wrinckles on his brow appear â—han hunted lions in their Fury were Fruit. Summers pregnant treasures Tribute Autumnes burdens The dangling pendants of the trees Pomona's jewels Fruitfull Natures chiefest wardrobe no other soil Doth more reward the industrious plowmans toil With rich encrease no other pastures keep More horned heads more wealthy fleeced sheep Where the bleating flocks And horned herds do graze the labouring ox Wearied in those fat furrows ne'r deceives Hopes which the greediest husbandman conceives Whose tender paps with plenty overflow Fury v. Anger Rage Furies Daughters to old night The Nymphs of Nemesis In snaky curls they twist their dreadfull hair Whose tresses dangle down with hissing snakes And crawling adders with their forked tongues The sisters with their hissing hair Who on the faces of the guilty stare With dreadfull Torches infernall Harpieâ— Eumenedes With snaky curls that on the guilty seise Black midnight imps Erynnis had encompass'd all The Town her snakie hairs and burning brand Shaking us when she rul'd Agave's hand Oâ— the self-mainâ—'d Lycurgus The sullen broods of evil spirits Upon her horrid brows did serpents hisse Her komb kemb'd poyson down Whose scourges wound All guilty souls A sulphureous vapour from her eys possest the fair And sweet complexion of the abused air With pestilence The ghastly Sprites that haunt the gloomy night Black Pluto's messengers Posts Executioners Snake trest sisters with knotted whips of wire Malignant Spirits periwig'd with Snakes Hells hatefull hags Murthering Ministers that in their silent substances Wait on natures mischief Unhallowed hags fell Ministers of fate The diâ—e Tartarean monsters hating light Begot by dismal Erebus and night The Jades That drag the tragick melancholly night V. Virgils Alecto Aen. 7. V. Sands Ovids Met. l. 4. p. 141. Lucans Phemon lib. 5. And with their drowsie slow and flagging wings Clip dead mens bones and from their misty jaws Breath forth contagious darknesse in the air Megaera Alecto Tisiphone Furious v. Angry Mad. VVho would have seen the picture of Alecto or with what manner of conutenance Medea kill'd her own children needed but take his face for the full satisfaction of his knowledge in that point Nor Dindimenian nor the Pythian Priest Are wiâ—h such Fury by their gods possess'd Nor Bacchides nor Corybantes so VVhen on shrill brasse they iterate their blow G. Gale v. Wind. VVhispering Gale A Came dallying with the leaves along the Dale VVhich whispers out its tale In such soft language as but fills the sail The flitting Gales That cool the bosome of the fruitfull Vales. Natures soft fan The airs cool whispers Soft spirits of the air The wind pants out small gusts as out of breath Gamester Blacking the night with oathes and imprecations Spending the day In cursing fortune and his fruitlesse play That civil gun-powder which can in peace Blow up whole houses and their whole increase Thâ—t spends his time In oaths and exclamations on his fate That makes his whole estate a lottery Bewitched with their hopes they nere give ore Looking to gain their own or to win more There is but a cast at dice betwixt him and a beggar Ganimed Joves beauteous Catamite Whom Joves majestick bird to heaven trust up To â—iâ—gle nectar in his genial cup. From Ida's shady top Juno's fair rival Garden v. flowers Pleasant place Garland v. Crown Leavie twines wreathes Flowry chaplets Verdant incirclets Glorious impalement of the brow Garments Vestment habits habiliment array raiment livery robes mantles garbe weeds vestures The bodies sheath scabbard Fairest covers of the foulest shame Foule fair marks of our misery Gemmes The pibbles paving Neptunes court The riches of the unsounded deep That gay purchase which doth make The scorched Negro dive the briny lake As rich a gemme As ere enamoured glorious diadem Bâ—ight gemmes Adding new splendour to the diadems The wealthy store Of Ganges and the Erythrean shore Such Cleopatra wore When she first Caesar met The rich seas spoiled store The pride of natures store Rich spoyles of the Eastern shore Shell-fish spoiles What the diving Mooâ—e ' Mongst the red weeds seeks for in th'Easterne shore Some ly in dead mens skulls and in the holes Where eyes did once inhabite there were crept As 't were in scorne of eyes Reflecting gemmes That wooe the slimy bottom of the deep And mock the dead bones that ly scattered by Rescued from the covetous sand To make the seas hid wealth adorne the land And though the Sun did hold his light away You might behold this gemme by its own day Which impart To wondering eyes the workmans art That which the Sultans glistering bride doth wear To these would but as glow-wormes eyes appear The Tuscan Duke's compared showes thick and dark These lâ—ving stars and his a dying spark Ghosts v. Souls departed Dislodged soules Airy shapes Fleeting shades Airy mockeries Unsubstantial phantasmes Sightlesse substances Cold midnight wanderers Glad This day I received my private Gospel Swell swell my joyes and faint not to declare Your selves as ample as your causes are I did not live till now this my first houre Wherein I see my thoughts reacht by my power The earth receives me not 't is aire I tread And each step that I take my advanced head Knocks out a star in heaven More glad than is The teeming earth to see the long'd for Sun Peep through the hornes of the celestial ram My joyes like waves each other overcome And gladnesse drowns where it begins to flow It is the only way to make me contradict my selfe when I accountâ— my selfe miserable I have not any discontent which is not lost in the joy I receive This sweetnesse all the bitternesse of my spirit in my most sensâ—ble dâ—stasts Eenough to blot out all the story of my misfortune I surfeit with excessive joy Can there be a thing Under the heavenly Iris that can bring More joy unto my soul or can present My Genius with a fuller blandishment The raven almost famisht joyes not more When restlesse billowes tumble to the
venturous youth of Greece To hazard more than for the golden Fleece Bright Phebaean hair Where perfum'd Meanders are That amorous cordage glistering groves As if that nature for so rare a piece Had meant a shadow Whose curious tresses dangle all unbound With unaffected order to the ground Her tresses falling down As loath to be imprison'd on her Crown I saw the soft air sportively to take To divers forms and sundry shapes to make it Natures rich fan whose wires are drawn Softer than the threads of Lawn And are softer than the leaves On which the subtil spinner weaves That net of beams able to captive Jove Vulcan need not a finer stronger net For Venus and her Champion to set On whose radiant hair Cupid sits fettered in a golden snare Her dishevel'd hair Hung down behind as if her onely care Had been to reconcile neglect and art His hair becomes him like the star That ushers in the day Locks some curled some forgotten with such a careless care and art dissembling art as she seem'd she would lay them for a pattern whether nature simply or nature help'd by cunning were the more excellent A net able to have caught Jupiter When he was an eagle It was doubtfull whether the hair grac'd the garland or the garland the hair Whose odour fills the ambient air Which loosest fastest riâ—st The golden sea whose waves in curles are broken The wanton winds with beauties so divine Ravisht staid not till in her golden haire They did themselves in sweetest prison twine And fain the sportive winds there would their stay Have mad but forc'd by nature still to fly First did the puffing kisses her locks display Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece Nature there pâ—aid the spider and hath wove A golden meshâ—â—'intrap the hearts of men Like a Laconian maid Ties her neglected haire in curious braides Locks so aptly twin'd That every haire a soul doth bind Insnating all beholders Like to the silk the curious Seres spin Which from their crown Phoebus and Bacchus wisht were hanging down Small as the wâ—eâ—y net Which Vulcan once for Mats and Venus set Haile The candid balls of ice The candid pellets of the skie The northwest wind under the weeping kid Never so thick his vollies racketed Of bounding balls of icie pearl The gunshot of the skies Halcyon The azure-plumed Halcyones VVhose birth controlls the raging seas Birds of calme that brood upon the charmed wave Hands Natures hand-maids The bodies victuallers A wealthy palme VVhich holds the sweating of the Eastern balme VVhence Jove might sip out nectar Fingers the darts of love Which with a touch might make a tyger meâ—k So soft so feeling delicate and sleek As Nature wore the lillies for a glove As might beget life where was never none And put a spirit into flinty stone Where whitenesse doth for ever sit Nature her self enameld'd it Where with a strange compact dothly Warme snow moist pearl soft ivory There fall those saphire-coloured brooks Which conduit like with curious crooks Sweet Ilands make in that sweet land As for the fingers of that hand The bloody shafts of Cupids war With Amethists they headed are Which without stroke subdue Which with their whitenesse make one desire to touch them and with their softnesse rebound a desire to look on them In whose comparison all whites are inke Writing their own reproach to whose soft seizure The cygnets downe is harsh and spirit of sence Hard as the plough-mans hand Hang'd Chok't with a hempen squincy To dangle from the cursed tree To go to heaven in a string To take a turne at Tyburne Happie V. Fortunate I am in Elysium I will pronounce this for my birth day Plact in the Apogaeum Zenith of all happinesse Whose blisse Meets his desires or prevents his wish One that hath so much happinesse as puzzles his soule to find subiect for another wish Envy to cry could scarce forbear Finding no argument could urge a tear I am too great for Fortune to bereave Though much she ravish she much more must leave My blessings are above low fear Like Nâ—obe before Latona's doome Blest Beyond the treasures of the balmy East Every day Rose with delight and with it to us set An happinesse which Jove would be More proud of far than of his deiry VVrites a non ultra to his blisse â—n happinesse which none can have but he â—ust blush to call ought after misery Hard. Hard as the ploughmans hand As the camels câ—llows knee As adamant VVhich nought can soften but the blood of goats Hard as the unrelenting tyrants heart As the Scythian rock As fire-engendring flint As the stiffe ribs of iron As the lasting marble As solid brasse As the rockie stone Harpies The virgin raping fowles Stimphalian monsters Tâ—â—tarian birds Aello Ocypete Celaeno â—ore horrid monsters direr plagues than those Or wath of Gods from Styx yet never rose Like fowle with virgin faces purging still Their filthy paunches arm'd with talons ill And ever pale with famine Jupiters dogs Daughters of Neptune and old Tellus Parents of prodigies Phineus tormâ—ntours which with hooky clawes Snatcht all his meat to glut their filthy mawes Harvest v. Autumne The reaper panting both for heat and pain VVith crooked rasor shaves the tufted plain The full ears humbling their flowry top Are even as ready with a grateful crap To think the husband for his painful toyle The summers green is girded up in sheaves Borne on the bear with white and bristly beard Now the industrious harvester Scorched all day with his own scalding heat Shaves with keen syth the glory and delight Of motly meadows When Ceres yellow locks are shorn Hast v. Swift Each step the other strives to overgoe VVith hasty feet swallowing the tedious way VVith speed that went before the winged thought VVith speed untainted by delay VVith a lovers speed Steâ—'d in his reeking sweat Each envious pace vies to be first Hast looks through his eyes VVith such speed He 's almost dead for breath hath scarcely more Then will make up his message With as much hast as they would fly death To spar to give wings to feather flight to post Hate To pursue with a stepdames hate The tender swallow hateth lesse the cold He hates me like a dog or snake The Gods cannot more hate the Stygian lake Pursues him with Vatinian hate Bupalian hate God loves not goodnesse more than she hates thee Unreconciled hatred When these agree Nature will reconcile antipathies So plants love oyle So vines the colwort love So sheep love wolves Swounds at the very name And sinks as if he mean the Antipodes To see and leave this loathed hemispheare Wherein I breath Haven Harbour port safe station of the tossed barge Câ—lme bosomes that embrace the shâ—p The weary seamans wish and hope The long expected shore That hath occasioned many pious aires And been the subject of the seamans praier Hawke The common terrour of the doves The
all day upon some mossie hill His rural throne arm'd with his hook his scepter A flowry garland is his country crowne The gentle lambs and sheepe his loyal subjects Which every year pay him their fleecy tribute Thus in an humble statelinâ—ssâ— and majesty â—e tunes his pipes the woods best melody â—en that want but little because they desire not much Wiâ—h whose face the sun hath had too much familiarity That on his scrannel oaten pipe doth sing His rural ditties Amorous Shepheards and gamesome Dorilus Philiâ—ides Celandine Colâ— clout Doridon Thenot. Pieâ—s Nâ—lkin Duddy Hobbin Alexis Sylvan Teddy Rowly Perigot Willy Philocel Cleon. Theâ—â—ylis Strephon. Claius Roger. Rocket Rollo Remond Dover â—â—ptol Thomalin Jockin Philos. Cladon Palinode Wernock Shepheardesses Kala. Phillis Amarillis Chloe Phloe Marina Marinda Fâ—da Rosaline Walla Pastorella Sylvia Dorinda Melina Lycoris Galataea Laurinda Lalage Neaera Shining v. Bright Beâ—ming sparkling glittering spangling radianâ— Brighter than the vestal fire â—ike Tâ—gus or Pactolus golden sand Throwing darting a piercing beam Whose luster far excells All that is found in mines or fishes shells Ship Hulke pinnace gally carrack barke fregate Floating bowers castles VVooden horses Sâ—a-coaches sea-wagons Floating houses Linnen winged sea fowle VVater-treaders The winged pine Bridging the Ocean The birds with woven wings Skarfed barke Sea horse The billowes tennis ball The waves shuttlecocks Thin-rib'd bark Reeling vessell Crooked vessell VVinged castles of the sea Bottome Skiffe Cray Scallop Flying towers Bring home to us and make both Indies ours Shipwrack v. Tempest The ship as it were tearing out her own bowells to feed the sea greedinesse leaving nothing within it but despaire of safety anâ— expectation of a loathsome end Some sate upon the poupe weeping and wailing till the sea swallowed them some more able to abide death than fear of death câ—â— their own throats to prevent drowning some prayed there wanted not them which cursed as if the heavens could not be more angry than they were A monstrous cry begotten of many voices was able to affect with a fear a mind that had not prevented it by reason The precious wares give more And makes addition unto Neptunes store Spice all the waters and enrobe The roaring billowes with the rustling silke The Tyrian goods Enrich the wealth-devouring floods v. Sea fight Shoote To send an arrow from the â—wanging bow To discharâ—ge the bow A winged flight The archer drew which flew as swift as sight He took the arrow by the nock and to his bended brest The oxie sinew close he drew even till the pile did rest Upon the bosome of the bow his strength an orb did make To make aâ—re sigh with darts The nock stands to the string so strong she drew That both the horne ends meete The feather'd wood they from their bowes let fly To set on wing a dart And in his side he lodg'd the dart The arrow takes a sad rest in his heart The barbed head shot through his breast Shoulder Where neck and brest their native closure take Shout v. Noyse Loud To tear the aire A voice that purchas'd every ear Loud exclamatâ—ons cleave the yeilding aire Sibyll Aged Prophetesse Cumaean maâ—d Euboan virgin Amphrisian Prophetesse Persian Libyan Delphian Cumaean Erythraean Samian Hel espontan Tyburtine Albunean Cuman That on loose leaves left writ their prophesies The frantick prophetesse Who in her deep steep rock doth prophecie And all her notes and names in leaves she writes And what in leaves she written leaves indites â—â— meeter modules and locks in her cave And there untoucht they lye in order brave But if the door being ope the wind displace them And out of door the whilking puffs do chase them She never cares to catch them in again Sicknesse v. Feaver The moth of nature The fighting humours The harmony of nature out of rune The bodies tempest earthquake The dissolution of the bodies league That wholly puts a man into the hands of the phisitian That makes all the chaires and stooles in his chamber â—â—ke phisick Deaths harbenger Sighs To Sigh The legates interpreters issue daughters off spring â—mbassadours c. of imbosom'd griefs That sad warme aire Sobs every accent part And sighs ascend from her astonisht heart His burning sighs inflame the aire Sad sounds aires breath Those killing accents A deep-fetcht breath which seem'd of power to kiâ— The breast that held it Tâ—ers and sighs The stormes and showers of nature From the hearts center hal'd That gently whispering wind My thoughts imprison'd in my secret woes Wiâ—h flamy breaths doth issue oft in sound As if the heart wedg'd with a sigh Would rend in twain The burning breath Those sad disturbers of the quiet aire Duâ—â—be language of the soul opprest Teaching the angry wind to sigh Grinding a groane Cloying the bosome of the idle aire Her sighs in stormes arise And ill aboding tears burst from her eyes Signe Bâ—dge token livery cognisence argument witnesse Testimony symptome symbol crisis signal remonstrance Probate hierogliphick embleme character Silent Silence The grave of thoughts As silent as the house of sleepe No crested fowles shrill crowing here awake The chearful morne no barking sentinel Here guards nor geese who wakefull dogs excell Beasts tame or savage no wind-shaken boughs Nor strife of jarring tongues with noises rouse Secured ease No door here on their creeking hinges jard As still as midnight Clamour grew dumbe unheard was shepheards tongue And silence girt the woods no warbling tongue Talkt to the Eccho Saâ—yres broke their dance And all the upper world lay in a trance Silent as death As the shade where chaos lay before the winds were made Only the curled streams soft chidings kept And litle gales that from the green leafe swept Dâ—y summers dust in fearfull whispering stird As loath to waken any singing bird To be Silent Silence ties up her tongue Now silence lockt the organs of her voice To lock his thoughts within his silent breast The secrets of nature Have not a greater gift of silence Give it an understanding but no tongue My tongue shall never take knowledge of a word Delivered to me in nature of your trust I am Harpocrates When you discover secrets to him you hide them Concealed in eternal night My tongue shall be close prisoner to my heart To silence she her lips confin'd To seale the lips Silk-wormes Those little weavers that their tâ—ske so ply And work so fast on leaves of mulbery The Persian wormes whose weary summer toyles So long hath been the rusling Courtiers spoiles Sing Song v. Sweet sounding Sweetly breake the yeâ—lding aire With her voice embalmes the aire Sonnets laies roundelaies carrolls canzons warbles Descants stanzos well-divided breath Harmonious aire Skin The bodies alabaster sheath The native shiâ—t The bodies oldest clothes Silenus The foster father to the God of wine Who when he reeleâ— from his dull asse the cries Of Satyrs eccho rise up Faâ—her rise Who weakly hangs upon his tardy asse That â—ald bigge bellied Satyr
her sister Element Nature was idle and weary of her work When she shap'd her The fingers crooked are As Nature made them for no other use But for to scratch her ugly face There 's Art lies coucht even in mishapness And he that drawes the foulest monster worse Doth in it pencill out the best of skil 'T was Natures pride to shew that skill in her Or else she made her for her common foyl To set of all her slips in woman kind And is not she the Queen of Drabs v 〈◊〉 Pastor Lib. 2. Song â— Whose head is peâ—iwigd with scabs Whose hair hangs down in curious flakes All curld and crispt like crawling snakes The breath of whose perfumed locks Might choke the devil with a pox Whose daintie twinings did intice The whole monopoly of lice Her fore-head next is to be found Resembling much the new plowed ground Fâ—trowed like stairs whose windings led Unto the chimney of her head The next thing that my Muse descries Is the two mil-pits of her eyes Mill-pits whose depth no plumme can sound For there the God of love was drownd On either side there hangs a souse An eare I mean keeps open house An eare which alwayes there did dwell And so the head kept sentinel Which there were placed to descry If any danger there were nigh But surely danger there was bred Which made them so keep off the head Something for certain caused their fears Which made them so to hang their eares But hang her ears Thalia seeks To suck the bottle of her cheeks Her cheeks whose pride did make them â—ise Contending to out-face her eyes Upon her cheeks I 'de longer stay But that her nose calls me away Her nose on which all beauty sat Her Indian Ruby nose that 's flat Help Muses now I have begun That as her nose my verse may run Help furies you that cannot flatter I know her nose affordeth matter For on her nose there hangs I wot A curious Pearl of Chrystâ—ll snot As purely white as whitest rose A dainty gemme for such a nose But now methinks Thalia skips Intending to salute her lips Although she fears her lips are such 'T is almost pain of death to â—ouch I 'de wish the divill so much bliss Those dayly to be damm'd to kiss But where shall I find words uncouth To rake the kennel of her mouth Whose wryness with a certain grace Sets out the beauty of her face Whose dreary gapings might affright The lustful Incubus of night And Succubus might be affraid Hereafter to come near a maid Whereout in curious posture hunge The spungy flie-flap of her-tongue As if that nature did contrive To hang her whilest she was alive Her teeth were fixt like Eagles clawes Upon the ruines of her jawes Which there were plac'd like pikemen tall Something inclining to their fall Whose ripen'd age did yield them mellow The curious gold was noâ— so yellow I think she had them by descent From her first father Adam lent Her chin a little lower stands Much like the cape of bon ' sperance Which kindly nature stretched so To point her way as she doth go Come Muses at Apollo's beck And wreath an halter for her neck Her neck was next which might have bin A fiâ— supporter for her chin But nature to supply her lack Had dâ—awn her neck up to her back V. Sir Philip Sidney's description of Mopsa Arc. 1. lib. Degenerate To hold a wing Quite from the flight of all his ancestours Unmindful of his fathers glorious name He makes his fathers honour be his shame That bastard well-begot By Degrees And as a lovely maiden pure and chaste With naked ivory neck and gown unlaâ—'d Within her chamber when the day is fled Makes poor her garments to enrich her bed First puts she off her Lilly silken gown That shrikes for sorrow as she layes it down And with her armes graceth a wastecoat fine Imbracing her as it would nere untwine Her flaxen hair insnaring al beholders She next permits to weav about her shoulders And though she cast it back the silken slips Sâ—ill forward steal and hang upon her lips Whereat she sweetly angry with her laces Binds up the wanton locks in curious traces Whilst twisting with her joynts each hair long lingerâ— As loath to be inchaind but with her fingers Then on her head a dressing like a crown Her breasts all bare her kirtle hanging down And all things off which rightly ever be Call'd the foul fair marks of our miserie Except her last which enviously doth feize her Lest any eye partake with it in pleasure Prepares for sweetest rest till Sylvans greet her And longingly the down bed swels to meet her So by degrees c. Delay That spediest lamely comes to great desires The stone that waiting suiters grinds By whom at Court the poore mans cause is sign'd Who to dispatch a suit will not defer To take death for a joynt Commissioner Delay the woers bane revenges hate The plague to Creditours decayed estate The test of patience of our hopes the rack That drawes them forth so long until they crack Vertues best benefactour in our times One that is set to punish great mens crimes Delight To view with ravisht eyes How lay I all dissolved in delight To surfet with delight Delight too strong for staid conceit Deluge When as the ancient world did all imbark v. Dubertas end of the second day v. Sands Ovid. Metamorph 1. lib. p. 7. Within the compass of good Noahs ark Seven persons onely were relieved from death The solid Globe was but a sop When Proteus drave his finny flock To feed on cliffes of steepy rocks And to the Elms top fishes clave Where Turtles used their seats to have And Does by nature fearful â—ride To pass the Oceans stormy tide Despaire v. Miserable When every woe could by dispaire be brought Pâ—â—sents it self unto the troubled thought Hopeless misery Destinies v. Fates The fatal Ladies Daughters of night and secrecy That draw the chain of destiny Upon whose threads both lives and times depend And all the periods of mortality The impartial maids Inexorable three The impartial tray that spin the fatal twine The Adamantine sisters Stern nimphes The great pair royal of unchanged maids Destroyed The very ruines now ly ruined With scarce such reliques as may prove a being In former times Burâ—ed in its own dust Devil v. Pluto Nights black Monarch sly parent of revolts and lâ—eâ— The grand accuser of the brethren The Stygian prince Mans restlesse enemy The general adversary of humane nature Hells envious tyrant Master of the damned crew The old malicious serpent The roaring Lyon every hour Seeking his prey and ranging to devoure That grand professour of destructive arts The prince of hell VVho whilome from heavens glory fell Like an infectious exhalation Shot through the sphears That all shapes Doth counterfeit to perpetrate his rapes Mans inveterate foe The soul of envy Dew The mornings tears