the motion or ebbing and flowing of the sea 2. Saturn married his sister Ops which is the earth of whom hee begot many children because by the heavens influence upon the earth all things are ingendered the heaven is as it were the father affording influence and the earth the mother surnishing matter for generation 3. Saturn was painted like an old man bare-headed in a tagged garment holding a hook and a key in his hand devouring of his children by which they did understand the antiquitie and long continuation of times and by â—is bare â—ead they meant that time reveales all things therefore the priests used to be â—are-heâ—ded in Saturns sacrifices onely The ragged garment shews that time wears and consumes all things which was also meant by his devouring of his children and by the hook or sickle which hee hath in his hâ—nd the key may note that time openeth and discloseth all secrets 4. This picture of Saturn may have reference to the golden age of the world iâ— which men lived till tâ—ey were very aged which was expressed by Saturn's gray hairs and worn garment which garment also shews that men were not then given to pride and curiositie of apparell His baâ—e head shewed the honestie and truth that was then which indeed is naked whereas lying falshood and deceit are still covered 5. Saturn taught the Italians the use of husâ—andry tâ—erefore hee was called Sterculius from dunging of the ground the hook or â—ickle is the instrument of mowing or reaping of corn the gray hairs bare head and ragged garment shew that husbandmen live long have hardie bodies and are not nice in their apparell 6. Saturn devoured all his children except Jupiter Juno Neptune and Pluto to signifie that all compounded bodies are destroyed by time but the four elements to wit Fire Air Water and Earth because of their simple nature are not subject to corruption 7. I finde Saturn described sometimes with six wings and yet â—low-paced having feet of wooll to shew that time seems to goe away slowly and silently whereas indeed it â—â—les very swiftly or this may expresse the slow motion of the planet Saturn who moves slowly by his own motion but swiftly by the motion of the Primum mobile to wit he spends but four and twenty hours by the common motion but thirty yeers in his particular motion this swiftnesse also of time was expressed by that fiction of Saturn transforming himselfe into an horse a swift running creature when hee had carnall commerce with the Nymph Philira of whom hee begot Chiron the Centaur 8. Because Saturn is a cold planet and malignant breeding melancholie and other â—ad effects in mens bodies therefore they painted him like an old man sad and carelâ—sly clothed and slowpacâ—d with a serpent in his hâ—nd biting of its own taile to signifie the virulencie and biting cares that accompany mâ—lancholie or else to expresse the nature of the yeer returning into it selfe like a ring or a snake with its taile in the mouth anâ— because the lion dog and wolfe are mâ—lâ—ncholiâ— creatures therefore they expressed Saturn sometimes with the heads of these three beasts 9. Saturn's genitals were cut off by Jupiter and cast into the sea and of them and of the seâ— froth Venus was begot by this may be meant that old age which is called Saturn is made unfit for generation because Jupiter that is wanton and intemperate youth hath weakened the body and as the Orator saith Corpus eâ—â—oeâ—um tradit senectuâ—i whereas that man who hath been temperate in his youth is vigorous and lustie in his old age nihll habet quod accuset senectuâ—em Or else by this may be meant that the coldnesse of Saturn is tempered by the heat of Jupiter and so Venus is begot for there can be no procreation where cold is not tempered with heat Or again by this may be meant that Saturn Jupiter and the sea are required to produce Venus that is to say that Time the Influence of heaven and Moisture are required for procreation 10. As Saturn served his father Coelus in cutting off his genitals so is hee served by his son Jupiter It is just with God to punish those men with rebellious and cruell children who have been rebelliouâ— and cruell themselves against their parents 11. Whaâ— a cruell god was Saturn who defiled himself with the blood of his own father devoured his own children and would not be satisfied in his sacrifices but by the blood of innocent infants Satius est pecudum more vivere quam deos 〈◊〉 sanguinarios colere saith Lactantius lib. 1. de fals relig 'T is better to live like beasts then to worship such cruell wicked and bloody gods By this wee may see that the Gentile gods were indeed Divels delighting in the destruction of men whereas the true God whom wee worship is mercifull and gracious and delights not in the death of a sinner who will have mercy and not sacrifice who would be worshipped by the bloud of beasts to save the shedding of mans bloud Had not then the Romans a bloody religion who not onely worshipped such a bloody god but fettered his feet also to their pillars â—xceâ—â— onely in their Saturnals that hee might not goe away from them The Egyptians were wiser who excluded him quite out of their Cities affording temples to him onely in the Countrey And at last the Romans themselves began to abhorre such a bloudy god when in the Proconsulship of Tiberius they crucified his Priests for offâ—ring infants to him They were injurious to heaven when they called such a bloudy butcher the son of hâ—aven who should rather have been named the son of hell to which by Jupiter hee was thruâ—t downe His priests as Tertullian shews were initiated in a scarlet garment which they used to wear a sit colour to expresse their sanguinarie disposition to these it seems the Roman Cardinals have succeeded both in their colour and bloudy mindes who are guiltie of the bloud of many thousand good Christians so that at this day Rome is still Vibs Saturnia and the Popes pallaco may be called Sedes Satuâ—nia and his fâ—stivall dayes Saturnalia 12. Wax tapers or candles were wont to be burned upon Saturns altars to shew that hee brought the light of knowledge and civilitie into Italie which before lived in the darknesse of ignorance and rudenâ—sse therefore in his Festivall kept in December the Romans used to send away candles and other presenâ—s which they called Saturnalia to each other from hence it seems the Papists borrowed their custome of burning wâ—x candles on their altars and the giving of New-â—eers gifts 13. Saturn is so called a Saturando from filling or satisfying for hee being the first that taught men the use of corn did fill or satisfie them and as hee â—id fill so his wife the Earth did help therefore shee was called Ops. 14. By Saturn wee may understand the trees â—erbs and plants with the fruits
the Light 9. Amphion may be said to be killed by Latonâ— when musicall knowledge is lost by negligence and oblivion 10. Our Saviour Christ is the true Amphion who by the preaching of the Gospel hath built his Church and made us who were but dead and scattered living stones in this building his Musick hath quickned us and his love hath united us 11. Amphion was said to build the walls by the help of his Musick because perhaps he imployed Musicians at that time who by their musick incouraged the builders and made them work the better ANDROMEDA See PERSEUS ANTAEUS HEe was a Giant fourty cubits high begotten of Neptune and the earth with whom when Hercules did wrestle still as he was slung on the ground his strength increased which Hercules perceiving lifted him from the ground and squeezing him to his brest slisled him The INTERPRETER 1. ANtaeus was King of Tingitania who compelled his guests to wrestle with him and then killed them This is the trick of Tyrants who make use of their strength and power to undoe and ruine the weake and meaner sort and here wee may see what danger it is for means men to contend with Princes and great ones they can expect nothing but ruine Polenâ—ioris iram sapiens nunquam provocabit Seneca 2. The bignesse of his body shewed that earth and water were extraordinarily predominant in him therefore hee was called the son of Neptune and the Earth 3. A covetous man is like Antaeus the moâ—e that his affections touch earthly things the stronger is his covetousnesse till hee be listed up from the earth with heavenly thoughts and then covetous thoughts die 4. Satan is like Antaeus for the more hee is beat down by the Herculean strength of Gods Word the more violent and fierce hee groweth but being squeezed by the brest-plate of justice hee loseth his force 5. Satan deales with good men as Hercules with Antaeus hee flings them down by oppression and persecution but when hee perceiveth that by this means they grow stronger and more resolute hee lifteth them up by â—pride and prosperity by which many are overthrown which grew strong by adversity 6. The Sunne like Antaeus when hee is come to his perigaeum or that point neerest the earth hee begins to gather strength which increaseth till hee come to his apogaeum or that point in heaven farthest from the earth and then his force begins to weaken 7. Hee that will cure a Feaver with hot things or an Hydropsie with cold and moist things hee doth as Hercules to Antaeus increase the disease by applying things of the same nature whereas diseases should be cured by contraries 8. Every thing in its own element with Antaeus doth gather strength and prospereth but being put into another element dieth as fishes in the air and beasts in the sea APOLLO HEe was the son of Jupiter and Latonâ— born in Delos hee kill'd the Serpent Python the Giant Tyâ—ion Marsyas the Musician and the Cyclops that made Jupiters thunder with which his son Aesculapius was slain for which fact Jupiter banished him and drâ—ve him to feed Admetus his sheep and to hâ—lp Neptune in building of the waâ—s of Troy hee was the god of Wisdome of Physick of Musick and Arching The INTERPRETER 1. BY Apollo may be meant God himself for as they painted Apollo with his harp and tho three Graces in one hand with a shield and two arrows in the other so by this perhaps they meant that God was not onely a punisher of wickednesse but a rewarder of goodnesse as hee had two arrowes so be hath many punishments but yet he hath the comfortable harp of his mercy to sweeten them in the other hand and having but two arrowes hath three graces to shew that hee hath more mercies then punishments and therefore the same hand that holds the arrowes holds also the shield to shew that even when his arrowes flye at us yet with his shield hee defends and supports us God shot his arrowes at Abraham when hee raised so many Kings against him yet at the same time hee forbids him to feare for faith hee I am thy shield Gen. 15.1 And that by Apollo was meant the supreme God is plain by the Alsyrians in joyning the pictures of Apollo and Jupiter together whom they painted with a whip in one hand and the thunder in the other to shew that God hath diversitie of punishments according to the diversitie of offences some gentle some more rigorous For this cause the Egyptians represented him by a Scepter with an Eye to signifie both his knowledge and providence by which the world is guided And they painted him with wings to signifie the 〈◊〉 of his motion by which it appears that Jupiter and Apollo were with them one and the same god 2. I finde that Apollo is painted with one side of his head shaved the other hairy by which I think they meant that whileâ—â— the Sun shined to one hemispere the other was dark for by his hair they meant his beams and by his baldnesse darknesse caused by his absence 3. By Apollo is ordinarily understood the â—unne which as his name sheweth is both the destroyer and preserver of things he is the son of Jupiter because he is a part of heaven or because he was created by God he was born of Latona because God brought light out of darknesse and the Sun out of the Chaos born in Delos which signifieth manifestation for the Sun discovereth all things he kill'd Python the Serpent because the Sun by his heat disperseth all purrefied vapours and cleareth the air from mists for of purrefaction venemous beasts are procreated so he kill'd Jupiters Thunder-maker because the Sun cleers the air and consumes those exhalations and moistures of which Thunder is ingendred When Apollo was born Diana his sister who was first born was the Midwife to bring forth Apollo that may signifie that the Sun is freed from his eclipse and darknesse when the Moon departeth from him he is still Beardlesse to shew his perpetuall youth his long hair shews his beams he feedeth sheep because his heat produceth grasse hee is carried in a Chariot drawn with four horses to shew his motion and the four seasons of the year or the four parts of the Artificiall day as his horses names do shew Atythraeus Actaeon Lampos Philogeus for he is red in the morning cleer about nine of the clock in his full splendour at noon and draws to the earth in the evening hee is the god of Wisdom not by infusing the habit or essence thereof but by preparing and fitting the Organs for the use and exercise thereof therefore Southern people are more subtile wise and ingenious then the Northern And because from the Sun divers predictions are gathered of the alteration of Weather and other sublunary mutations he was called the great Prophet and god of Divination hee was also called the god of physick both because
because this mixture is perpetuâ—ll and the strange shapes shew the varietie of strange forms brought in by generation shee had no power over Vlysses became the soul cometh not by mixtion of the Elements or generation 3. By Circe I suppose may be fitly understood death caused by Sol and Oceanus grand-childe because death and corruption proceed out of heat and moysture the poysoning of her husband shews that death is no accepter of persons Sol carried her in his chariot for where the Sun shines there is death and corruption her turning of men unto beasts shews that man is like the beast that perisheth yea a living dog is better then a dead man but shee hath no power over Vlysses that is over the soul which is immortall death hath no power the four hand-maids that gathered poyson for her were Adams pride gluttonie infidelitie and curiositie which made Adams death poyson all his posteritie 4. By Circe may be meant the divell who hath caused beastly dispositions in the nature of man and hath poysoned us all as Circe infected Vlysses fellows but not himself so he poysoned Jobs body but had no power over his soule and because God had set his love upon man and had rejected him for his pride being an Angel he to be revenged poysoned man as Circe did Scylla 5. Circe is physicall knowledge consisting much in herbs shee is the daughter of Sol because herbs proceed of his heat shee turneth men into beasts because some physicians searching too much into nature become beasts in forgetting the God of nature shee dwelt on a hill full of physicall simples to let us understand wherein the Physicians skill and studie lyeth hee hath no power over Vlysses the soule but the bodies of men hee may poyson or preserve his four hand-maids are Philosophie Astronomie Anatomie and Botanie or skill of simples 6. Sinne is a Circe chiefly drunkennesse and whoredome which poyson men and turn then into Swine Circe hath both a cup and a rod with which shee poysoneth men so in sin there is a cup of pleasure and the rod of vengeance though Vlysses fellowes were poysoned yet he would not himself be enticed by Circe but by means of the herb Moly and his sword hee hath defended himself and made Circe restore his fellowes again to their wonted shapes so Governors and Magistrates must not be overtaken with the Circe of drink and fleshly pleasure howsoever others are but they must use Moly that is temperance in themselves and use the sword against this Circe in others COELUS THis was the son of Aether and Dies who married with Terra and of her begot Giants monsters Cyclopes Harpes Steropes and Brontes hee begot also of her the Titanes and Saturn Mother Earth being angry that Coelus had thrown down his sons to Hell caused the Titans to rebell against him who thrust him out of his kingdome and Saturn out off his testicles out of the drops of bloud which fell from them the Furies were engendred The INTERPRETER 1. COElus and Terra make an unequall match therefore of them proceed strange and monstrous children the matches of Nobles and pesants prove for the most part unfortunate and mischievous Sique voles apte nubere nube pari 2. By Coelus I understand the upper region of the air for the aire is called heaven both by Poets and Divine Scripture this may be said to be the son of Aether and Dies not onely because it is alwayes cleer free from clouds and mists but because also it hath the nature of elementary fire to which it is next for it is hot and dry as that is and more properly may this fire be called Aether from its continuall burning then the heaven which hath no elementary heat at all his marriage with the earth of which Titans Cyclopes c. are procreated doe shew that those fiery Meteors in the upper region of the air are procreated by its heat and motion of these thin and dry smoaks which arise out of the earth the names of Steropes and Brontes shew that lightning and thunder are generated there in respect of their matter which being received within the clouds of the middle region cause the rumbling as if there were some rebellion and warrs within the clouds Saturne his sonne that is Time the measurer of heavens motion shall geld his father that is the Heaven shall grow old and in time shall lose that power of generation for this shall cease when there shall be a new heaven and upon this new change in the heaven the Furies shall be engendred that is the torments of the wicked shall begin 3. They that geld ancient Records Fathers and Scripture are like Saturne rebelling against heaven being encouraged thereto by those spirituall monsters enemies of truth who were thrust down from heaven and that light of glory wherein they were created unto the lowest Hell and of this gelding proceeds nothing but Furies that is heresies schismes dissentions 4. Saturnious Tatianus and his Scholars the Encratites Originists Manichaeans and all other hereticks who have condemned matrimonie as an uncleane thing and not enjoyned by God they are all like Saturne being assisted by their brethren the Monsters of hell and doe what they can to geld their father Adam of his posteritie and to rebell against heaven and what ensueth upon this gelding or condemning of wedlock but furies and all kinde of disorder and impurity 5. The children of Heaven and of the light must not as Coelus did joyn themselves in their affections to the earth for of this union shall proceed nothing but Monsters to wit earthly and fleshly lusts thoughts and works which will rebell against our soules and geld us of all spirituall grace and of our interest in the kingdom of heaven and then must needs be engendred the Furies to wit the torments of conscience CUPIDO OF Cupids parents some say hee had none at all others that hee was engendred of Chaos without a father some say hee was the sonne of Jupiter and Venus others of Mars and Venus others of Vulcan and Venus others of Mercury and Venus c. Hee was the god of love painted like a childe with wings blinde naked crowned with roses having a Rose in one hand and a Dolphin in the other with bow and arrows c. The INTERPRETER 1. I finde Cupid painted sometime standing close by Fortune to shew how much fortune prevails in love matters and sometimes I find him standing between Mercury and Hercules to let us see that love is most prevalent when it is attended on by eloquence and valour 2. There is a twofold love to wit in the Creatour and in the Creature Gods love is twofold inherent in himselfe and this is eternall as himselfe therefore hath no father nor mother Or transient to the creature This love was first seen in creating the Chaos and all things out of it therefore they said that Love was engendred of Chaos without a father and
bounty should stil be joyned with sinceritiâ— their smiling face shews that gifts should be given freely they are stil young because the remembrance of a good turne should never grow old they have winged feet to shew that good turns should be done quickly biâ— daâ— qui cito dat 5. They that will be bountifull must take heed they exceed not lest they make themselves as naked as the Graces are painted there is a meane in all things and no man should go beyond his strength he may be bouâ—tifull that hath Euronyme for his wife that is large possessions and patrimonies as the word signifieth 6. There be many unthankfull people who are content still to receive benefits but never returne any these are they that strip the Graces of their garments and have reduced free hearted men to povertie 7. The Graces are called in the Greek Charites 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from joy or from health and safety and they still accompany the Muses Mercurie and Venus to shew that where learning eloquence and love are conjoyned there will never be wanting true joy health and contentment 8. I thinke by the three Graces may be meant three sorts of friendship to wit honest plâ—asant and profitable honest and pleasant friendships which are grounded on vertue and delight looke towards us because they both aime at our good but profitable freindship lookes from us as aiming more at her owne gaine then our weale which as Seneca saith is rather traffick then freindship but all friendship should be naked and without guile and hypocrisie like the Graces still young and cheerefull and still nimble and quick to help 9. By the three Graces I suppose also may be meant the three companions of true love of which Aristotle speaks to wit 1. good will or benevolence 2 concord or consent of minds idem velle et idem nolle 3. bountie or beneficence these three like three Grace look one upon another and hold each other by the hands these ought to be nâ—ked pure still young and where these three are found to wit good will concord and bountie there shall not be wanting the three Graces that is 1. Thalia a flourishing estate 2. Agalia honor or glory 3. Euphresyne true joy and comfort for these are the handmaides of love 10. Faith hope and charitie are the three divine Graces pure and unspotted virgins daughters of the great God sincere and naked without guile looking upon one another and so linked together that here in this life they cannot be separated one from the other but their positure is somewhat different from the other Graces for of the other two look on us the third hath her back to us but in these three divine sisters one only looketh to us to wit charitie the other two faith and hope fix their eyes from us upon God faith is Aglaia the glory and honor of a Christian hope is Euphrosyne that which makes him joyfull we rejoyce in hope and charitie that is Thalia which would make our Christian state flourish and abound with all good things if wee would admit of her companie amongst us but by reason there is so little charitie I doubt me there is as little faith and hope for reject or admit of one you reject and admit of all CHAP. VIII H HARMONIA See CADMUS HARPIAE See BOREAS HEBE SHe was the daughter of Juno begot without a father only by eating of lettuce for Juno being invited to a feast by Apollo into Jupiters house shee presently conceived by feeding upon lettuce and bare this Hebe who for her beauty was made Jupiters cup bearer till she disgraced her self by a fall in Jupiters presence at a feast where shee discovered her nakednesse by which means shee lâ—st her office and Ganymed was chosen in her room The INTERPRETER 1. BY Juno is meant the air by Apollo the Sun by Hebe the fertility of thâ— earth which is caused by the air being warmed with the Sun and refreshed with cold and moist exhalations which is meant by the lettuce 2. By Hebe is meant the Spring by Ganymed the Winter both are Jupiters cup-bearers both moisten the earth Hebe is beautifull because the Spring is pleasant but when Hebe falls Ganymed succeeds so when the pleasant time of the yeer is gone Winter follows 3. I think rather that Heâ—e was the daughter of Jupiter and Juno for Jupiter being the heaven and Juno the air by the influence of heaven upon the air is caused both serenity and fertility in this inferiour world 4. Jupiter would have none to serve him but such as were beautifull as Hebe and Ganyâ—hed neither would God be served in the Tabernacle by such as had any deformity or blemish much lesse can they be fit to serve him who have deformed and maimed soules God is beauty it self Christ was the fairest amongst the sons of men and he will have hiâ— sister and spouse to be all fair and for this cause hee hath redeemed his Church that shee might be without spot or wrinkle or any such thing 5. Though Hebe had disgraced her self yet Jupiter married her afterward to Hercules by which is intimated that youth is accompanied with strength and vigour of body 6. Hebe was the sister of Mars to signifie that warrs doe accompany youth and fertilitie or richnesse of soyl 7. Hebe had a temple erected to her at Corinth which was a sanctuary for sugitives and idle persons so idlenesse and wantonnesse abound mosâ— in those Countries which are blessed with a temperate air and a fruitfull soile 8. Hebe was wont to be painted in the form of a childe clothed with a rich garment of divers colours and wearing garlands of flowers on her head by this they represented the nature of the Spring which is the infancie and beauty of the yeer clothed with partie coloured fields and meadowes and graced with delightfull and fragrant flowers 9. Adam was created beautifull both in body and soule therefore God delighted in him and made him his servant but by his fall hee discovered his nakednesse in the fight of God and Angels therefore was rejected and banished from Gods presence and that earthly heaven in which hee was but afterward God taking pitie of him married him to Christ the true Hercules who only by his power subdued all the monsters of the world 10. Though Junâ— was at the feast with Apollo in Jupiters own house yet shee conceived not till shee ate lettuce this may signifie that the influence of heaven and heat of the Sun are but universall causes and do not work without the concurrence of the secondary and that the matrix is unapt to conceive if there be not a due proportion in it of heat and cold for if it be too hot it corrupteth the seed so excessive heat is a main cause of sterility 11. Jupiter would be served by young Hebe and young Ganymed to signifie that God will be served by us in our youth which
begot multitudes of children called Nereides from him Tethys the daughter of Coelum and Vesta the mother of rivers and fountains Glaucus one of the chief sea-gods who before was a fisherman Thetis the daughter of Nereus and Doris Triton the son of Neptune and the Nymph Silacia be wes Neptunes trumpetter c. The INTERPRETER 1. OCeanus is called the son of Coelum and Vesta that is of Heaven and earth because the Sea hath its preservation and motion from the Heaven and by it is incompassed and by the earth it is born up as a child by the mother 2. Oceanus is called the Father of all the Gods because all things have their original from moisture without which there can be no generation nor corruption hence Thales made water the originall of all things and for this cause the Poets speak of such multitudes of children that were of Neptune or the Ocean for indeed the Sea is more fruitful of Fishes then the earth is of other living creatures and because all springs and rivers proceed from the sea they called Oceanus the father of all the Nymphes 3. The Gods are said to be feasted by Oceanus either to confirm that opinion of some that the stars are fed by the vapours that arise out of the sea and are converted into clouds for the stars being of a fiery nature are tempered by these moist vapours as they think this was the Stoicks opinion which is resuted by the Aristotelians and is touched by Virgil Aen. 1. Conveza polus dum sidera pascet Or perhaps by the Ocean feasting of the gods may be meant that the chiefest dainties that Princes feed on are either from the sea or conveighed from remote Countries by Sea But observe that the Gods feasted themselves in the Sea where is much water but no wine by which I thinke is intimated that great men should be temperate in their Feasts but now our gods have forsaken drinking of water and will feast no longer in the Ocean Wine is the liquor we feast with the gods retained their honour while they were content with water but men degenerate into beasts while they intoxicate themselves with wine 4. The Ocean was painted with a Bulls head either to signifie the violent â—ushing of the sea against the shore or to expresse the bellowing noise the Sea makes he is also painted sitting in a chaâ—iot with his wife Tethis drawne by foure wheeles accompanied with Tritons and Sea Nymphes by the chariot is meant the swift motion of the Sea and by his company are understood the diverse sorts of Fishes which are said to waite upon the Ocean becauâ— they have their being and habitation in the Sea 5. Iâ—â— no is said to have her education in the Ocean be cause of the vicinity the Ayre hath with the Sea boâ—â— in situation and nature for the Water is quickly coâ—verted into Ayre and this agâ—ine into Water thâ— Cloudes are begott of Sea vapours and they fall agaiâ— into the Seas lap and thus is Juno educated and nourished in Oceanus Or else by this may be meant as 〈◊〉 thinke that riches whereof Juno was goddesse areâ— maintained and got by Navigation 6. Oceanus 〈◊〉 a great friend to Prometheus for hee was a wise 〈◊〉 and provident and a good Astronomer they thaâ— would finde the Sea favourable to them bad neede 〈◊〉 wife and provident and observant of the 〈◊〉 timâ— of Navigation and be skilfull in Astronomie and Oâ—ographie too to know the Rocks Quick-sands Shelves Shoares and Courses of the Tides hee that in theâ— is not Promotheus will prove Epimetheus and repenâ— him of his Navigation which Palinuâ—us knew wheâ— he checks Morphâ—us Aâ—n 5. for counselling him to falâ— asleepe being in a dangerous Sea betweene Sicilie and Italy Mene salis placidi vulium fluctusque quieâ—os Ignorare jubes mene huic considere moustro 7. Neptunus Oceanus Nereus Terbys Glaucus Thetis Triton Phorcus Proteus and divers others mentioned in Poets are but different names of the same thing to wit the Sea Nereus Thetis Proteus are said to transforme themselves into divers shapes to signifie as I thinke the divers colours of the Sea water which sometimes lookes greene therefore they gave the Nereides greene haire Viâ—idet Neâ—eiâ—um comas sometimes white there Tethys iâ— painted with gray haires and a white garment and partly also to intimate the Antiquity of Navigation and partly as suppose the cares and feares of Sea-men for 〈◊〉 facit â—anos and Sea-men become sooner gray-hayred then others the Sea-water also lookes sometimes blue therefore the Seas are called Caerula by the Poets and the word Glaucus which was the Sea god signifieth the blue colour and Tibris is described by Virgil in a blue vaile or mantle Eum glauco velabaâ— amictu Carbasus Sometimes also the Sea-water wâ—ll looke red as in a storme And sometimes blacke an lipithite often given to the Sea by the Greek Poets Or else this transforming of the Sea gods into so many sâ—apes may signifie the divers faces of the Sea for sometimes it lookes with a smiling countenance in calmes sometimes it frownes as in stormes and roares like a Lyon hence Omnia traâ—sformat sese in miracula rerum Ignemque 〈◊〉 seram sluviosque liquentes 8. Proteus was king of Egypt who used to have in his scutcheons and ensignes sometimes the figure of a Lyon somtimes of a Bull or of a Tyger or of a Dragon or of Fire hence arose the fiction of Proteus transforming himself into divers shapes Fiet enim subito Sus hoâ—ridus aâ—aque Tigris Squamosusque 〈◊〉 sulva ceâ—vice Leoenâ— And by this is represented a wise Prince who ought to â—â—commodate himself to all changes and â—ccasions and to use his government accordingly for there is nothing here perpetual and sometimes as occasions and times and mens dispositions alter so must also government both in Church and Staâ—e That French king was too much like Proteus who would have his Son learn no more latine then this qui nescit diâ—â—imulare nescit imperare 9. Proteus was a wise man and a Prophet who foreknew future things Quae siuâ— quae sueâ—int quae mox ventura 〈◊〉 in this he was the type of a ship-â—aster who ought to be skilfull in the weather and in those things which belong to his Art of Navigation and withall to have a foresight in the changes of the weather for want of which knowledge and providence many ships are cast away 10. Proteus never playd his part so much as now a dayes is you look upon mens opinions both in Religion and other things into what multitudes of shapes is Religion now turned if you look upon mens garments into what monstrous shapes do men turne their bodies almost every moneth if you look upon Sophisters in their disputes what windings turnings and intrical changings of words and propositions shall you find that you know not where to hold them Tot variae illudunt species totque ora feraâ—um Truth was