are compelled To euerie part of this our lower ayer Whereby they purge it And make it soe fayer All Merchants and Saylers are highly bound To the time when first this Meteor was found Two and thirtie windes Maryners finde out By which they saylen the round worlde about To east and west Indies fayre Virginia Guyana Chyna Pâ—ru and Gynnea And whatsoeuer the Southerne Pole descryes VVhat hidde treasure in America lyes The winds discouer to great Brittania The noble Empire of old Albania Another commoditie Shepheards finde By the excellent nature of the winde When a watry-cloude from the sea is taken By the winde it is all-in-peeces shaken And so disseuered into drops of rayne To comfort the withered and parched plaine The scorched-grasse on the loftie Mountaine Reuiu's it selfe and getteth life againe For if this watry clowde should whollie fall The weight would destroy and ouer-whelme all These are not winds of monstrous generation But naturall windes of gentle inclination The earth-quake is a simple Meteor Ayrie and vncompounded as before An Ayrie vapor closed in some deâ— Or concaue of the earth remote from men Serching for an issue and finding none Beateth vp and downe seeking to be gone But all in vayne then being fast enclosed It shak's the earthe in searching to be losed This is the cause of great Tellus trembling A man in a shaking Feuer resembling What future euents it doth prognosticate I will not presage th' effect is intricate But if a smale vapor be of that power To shake the whole frame of the earth in one houre How may proud man full of infirmitie Susteine the furie of the Deitie Of the Whirle-windes we haue spoken before Neyther will we as now adde any more But that they be not Meteors contaâ—ned In the Fire or Ayre but to both restrained A storme is of a windie propertie With force dispersing vapors watery With great droppes of rayne so beating the place As if it would beate the skin off a mans face Such fearefull stormes are hurtfull to the Tree's They pinch the Cattell and destroy the Bees Beate down the Hearbes and grasse blades of graine Wherewith the Shepheards must their flockes sustaine The fearefull Thunder must not be forgot Of ayerie and watry vapors begot Drawne by force to the highest Region where it may haue no perfect Mansion Rowleth in the ayer with fearefull sound Till water gets issue to moyst the ground Then downe it falleth with drops violent Therefore be sure it cannot bee permanent Now comes the watrie Element in hand Enuroning round the habitable-land A bodie moyst fluent circular and thinne Penetrable and colde containing therein Innumerable fishes of great varietie Differing in magnitude and qualitie Continually moouing in forme circular About the brim of this earth particular The substance of this Element ouerspred And the bodie of this earth enuironed So that the face thereof could not be seene But hidden lay as if it had not beene Till almightie Pan this watrie Element Gathered togither from the Continent Into one vaste-roome station and place Leauing faire Tellus with vnuailed face Drie and vnmantled without viriditie Hard and solide without humiditie Then gan the mountaines of Armenia Burning Tartarus Aetna in Sycillia Sacred Olympus Parnassus Crowned By the Muses Hermon renowned Tabor Horeb euer blessed Syon Sometime Iehouah's habitation All rocks and hilles though they were farre distant Appeared eminently at one instant The Dales and Plaines and barren Wildernesse Appeared drie all voyd of comelinesse For Flora yet was hidden in her Bower Grinding her colours fit for euerie flower Greene Vitrioll Violet Vermilion To garnish vp the Queenes Pauilion The siluered Ceruse and Cuchenella The azured Blew and Purpurella With these colours must be enamiled The flowers which Tellus haue apparelled Naked therefore and void of Ornament Pan discouereth this earthly Element And these huge waters he diuided That some in Clowds aboue th' earth should go That with distilling drops of moysthâ—ng raine Might comfort Tellus parched face againe The rest might keepe their perfect â—â—ation T' ingender fish and further nauigaâ—ion He made it of continuall motion To keepe the fishes from corruption He made it salt aboue for speciall reason That it might the slymie fishes season In twentie fower howers it ebbs and flow's twise Impossible therefore to be ouerflowen with ice The cause of this swift agitation Is mightie Phaebes alteration For as she wanes or doth in light encrease So doth the Sea her floods augment 〈◊〉 cease The cause of her saltnesse is by accident Of Phoebus piercing beames so vehement Bringing from the Seas foundation Drie vapours which by inflamation Are burn'd to salt by the heate of the Sunne And hence the saltnesse of the Sea begunne For waters themselues haue no sauâ—â—r at all But as it comes by cause accidentall Hence are ingendred moyst Meteors Almightie Iouah's strong Ambassadors The Mist the Deaw the Frost the hollow Clowd That doth the Elementall vapors shrowd The Raine the Snow the fearefull Haile the Sleete Wherewith in Februarie or March we meete The Sleete can neuer in the Summer fall For then the middle Region's coldst of all The Mist is a vapour which all men knowe And doth of watrie Exhalations growe If it ascendeth before it doth raine Of much Raine it is a token certaine But if it doth rise when shower is eâ—ded Fowle weather 's gone and th' aire amended It is the matter also of the falling Dewe Which doth the face of great Flora renewe And if this vapour be foggie and thicke The raine will ensue then speed away quicke If not raine then snow or haile without doubt Shall be the issue therefore looke about But if this myst appeare subtile or thinne Then shall the sweete Deawes or sharpe Frosts begin But in Summer Deaw in Winter the Frost Do follow the myst in euerie coast The cause of the Deaw as Shepherds do finde Is Luke-warme breathing of the Southern winde The cause that hindereth the Deaws generation Is the Northren winds cold inflation The aptest times for the Deaw to abound Spring Haruest faire-day when no winds do sound This Meteor worketh mightie effects And is high prized for many respects When hearbs and grasse are parched and combust And Phoebus burning flames colours them like dust Then comes the Deaw and doth them recreate Making them fresh virent and fortunate The bowels of the beasts it maketh soluble And all the grasse more sweete and voluble A wonder yet heâ—e-hence is collected Which some Wise shepheards hau'n obiected How Manna a Deaw which is hot and drie Withering the hearbs and making them die And now is taken for purgation Should haue a contrarie operation And nourish th'Israelites in the Desert The solution is for men expert This is wonderfull to a mortall eye Yet is no matter in th' Almightie The Frost to vs men most profitable Though it
Her robes vnmade her Coronet vntwin'd Nor was the quintesence of nature fin'd Neither was yet great Astrophill awake That might her entertainment vndertake Cinthia replyed not as one resolued Her will to put in execution Oftentimes her sacred soule reuolued Which way to make a dissolution Of this her bodies constitution And justly knowing t wa's not in her power Determined to stay her fatall houre And yet to spend in contemplation The better part of her remaining daies Which vow she keepes in veneration Witnesse her learned Poems and her Layes So often crowned with Arcadian Bayes Thus long sitting silent in that place Aurora gan to showe her blushing Face Then all the Ladies hasted to depart And Cinthia turn'd her to Eâ—dimionâ— With wordes of grace proceeding frâ—m her heart She thank'd him for his former caâ—tion This Mount quoth she take for thy mansion Here shalt thou dwell and feede thy little flocke I with my Ladies will encrease thy â—â—ocke The stately Garland of her blessed 〈◊〉 For beautie matchlesse incomparable With greatest fauours grac'd this coâ—ntrie Swaine Particulers will be admirable Of esteeme they were vnualuable And out of doubt they had been durable If worldly enuie had been curable He liu'd a while in reputation Expounding Oracles of Theologie His flocke was had in estimation As guided well by his Phylosophy Profoundly could he chaunt that misterie In languages of higest Poetrie Vnfolding riddles of antiquitie I left the Shepheard in this happy stâ—â—e Feeding his lambs in mirth and iolliâ—ie But it fell out when I return'd of late His mirth was moane his solace misâ—â—ie Loe heare worlds-glasse of mutabilitie He wrung his hands and made a ruâ—ull moane His drops of teares might pierce a Marble stone I wondred how his blessed Comâ—edie Could haue so suddaine alteration I ask'd the cause of this his Tragaediâ— Hee answered enuies sophisticatâ—â—â— I thought to write the whole narratiâ—â— But â—ith Tragaedies haue a bloody eâ—d During his life he will not haue 〈…〉 â— B. FINIS To the right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Smith of Olde-Hunger Knight a worthie fauourer of learning YOur ancient loue to him that wrote this Booke Hath made Ourania speake an English verse The Greekish Ladies of Castalion Brooke Entombed are close couch'd in Sable-herse The mourning Cypresse and darke Popler-tree Aâ—e testimonies of their lowe degree Endymion lay's aside his Hebrew Reed And bids Ourania harpe Philosophie Whereof his English Lambs and flocke may feed Till Phoebus rayes dispell obscuritie He will'd her yet such pleasing Musicke sing As might conâ—ort with Aristotles wing Such as delights Arcadian Cynthia And comforts Schollers at their idle times Viewing the secrets of Ourania As she will chaunt them in her homely Rymes Wonders aboue and all within this round Must be the subiect of her daintie sound Shee sings of Sunne and Moone and wandring starres Of vncouth Elementall Meteors Comets Heraulds of death and dreadfull warres Fire ayre winds vapours Ocean showers And whatsoeuer you can thinke vpon Ourania sings so bids Endymion Read learne and heare trie ponder write digest Words matter song truth arte wit Misterie Commend Ourania take her to your guest Shee 'l teach the yonger Lambs Philosophie Such Mysteries as neuer English Pen Afforded yet vnto the view of men N. B. To my Worshipfull â—renâ—h 〈◊〉 Stone Esquire Counsellor at the Law and Secondarie of the Counter in VVoodstreet London NO liquid Oyle proceedes froâ— a Pumice-stone Nor Alchimist produce an Oyle from thence T is hard indeed if thou wert such a one As lou'd a Scholler onely for his Pence But since th'enclosing of Endymion He found some Oyle from Secondarie STONE Counsell they say is no commaundement That 's false if counsell be but equitie Whereto a man must be obedient If he aspire vnto faelicitie No wrong had seazed olde Endymion If he had taken counsell of a Stone Things past and things to come be different For they are gone and these are in expect Thinke not on former dayes maleuoâ—ent The fates to come worke contrarie effect And cause thee blesse the day the place the houre That thou receyued'st Endymions Pâ—ramour Ourania sings obscure Philosophie Like Bats and Owles in silent darkâ— some night In Olderne times she chanted melodie Of highâ—er straine And when she comes to light Shee'lâ— sing thee such a blessed Madrigall As thâ—â— shalâ— thinke the lay Caâ—â—â—â—iall â— B FINIS Vera. Calandra Hastingua Ashebie de la Zouch Agape Wrotha Musophila Herberta Phileta Clara. Candida Iehoâ—a Eloâ—â—m Theos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tiâ—or The Deitie written by 4. Letters We call'd that Good which now we call God Abba Father Ben Sonne Ruach Spirit Angels not made before Heauen The Reason Place Circumscrip Definitiue Repletiue Cosmos the world Ten heauens Coelum Empyreum Primum Mobâ—le Coelum Stâ—llâ—ticum 〈◊〉 Hyades Arist. de 〈◊〉 Caster of figures 1022. starres knowne The end why the stars were made Three other heauens or Orbs. Saturne ♄ Iupiter ♃ Mars ♂ Sol. ☉ Day and night before the sun was made Genes 1. Venus ☿ Mercurius ☿ Lun◠☽ Apostrophe ad Herâ—â—nam qu◠〈◊〉 Maâ—iam Pemb. The Moone the 39. part of the earth Lympet a round shell which womeÌ„ lay vpon the nepples of their sore breasts The Element of Fire Fiery meteors What a Meteor is Comets They Signifie want of corn The shortest and longest time that Comets endure Starres of Helena Castor and Pollux When that Comet is called Helena when Castor and Pollux The profit we reape by this Comet Fyerie vapors in Church-yards and about places of â—xecuâ—ion Colours about or aboue the Moone A circle about the Moone Galaxia a shining white path in the midddest of Heauen in a frosty-night The starres of Note that maketh Calaxia cleere Cassiopeia 13. Cygnus 1â— Aâ—uila 4. Caâ—da Scorpionâ—â— â— Sagitarius 3. Centaurus 6. Nauis Argolâ— 23. Gemini 1â— Aâ—riga 7. Perseus 1â— Sporades Stella dispersa sine or dine 〈◊〉 the rayne-bow Raynebow in the Night Thunder-bolt and lightning whirle windes drie Prester Spoutes of water in the Sea The vse of this point of Phylosophy The Ayre Three Regions of the Ayre The middle Region coldâ— The highest hot The Ayrie Meteors simple Included Meteors Windes Windes 32. Another coÌ„moditie by the winds viz. to make raine Earthquake The Profit we get by this Meteor A stormy-winde Thunder Watrie Elâ—ment What are the waters aboue the earth The cause of ebbing and flowing Saltnesse of the Sea Watrie Meteors eight The Mist. Deaw The cause The Hinderance Fittest time for Deaw The effects of Deaw Manna a woÌ„derfull deaw The Frost It killeth wormes and hurtfull humours This Cloude compared to a Spunge Raine Snowe Lime-twigs Snow-water The vtilitie of snow Snow gendreth Cristall Haile The reason of Haile in Summer and not in Winter Sleete Sleet alwayes in Februarie or March and neuer in December A question Answer Earthly Element The Earth Mother of all Creatures therein She hath 7.
fitter were his hands to vse a pen Then mannage Armes with any Maâ—shall men But making vertue of necessitie He made a show as if he ment to fight Vpon his feet he started suddenly To shield these Ladies from that manly Knight No question there had beene a noble sight To see him wield a woodden rustie â—ooke That fitter were to mannage sacred â—ooke O how the Shepheard would haue 〈◊〉 his stumps And laid about him with his smoâ—tie Boke His woodden Crooke had giuen such deadly thumps As would haue stricken downe a falling Oxe So would the Knight haue feard the Shepherds knocks As if a Bulrush hit him on the Crest Or if a Gnat had stung his armed bâ—est But all was well no terror was intended The Knight nor car'd nor knew Endymion He rein'd his Steed and lightly downe discended And with a Courtly disposition Lift vp his Beuer whereby euery one Knew him to be the mightie Astrophill Whose prayse is paynted with an Angels quill Prince of all Poets in Acadia Magnanimous of euerlasting Fame Of chiefe regard with famous Cynthia Appollo parted with him halfe his name And gaue him skill darke ignorance to tame Appollo twined with his learned hand The Lawrell Crowne which on his head doth stand But when my Cynthia knew 't was Astrophill She ranne to claspe him in her daintie Armes But out alas it passed mortall skill Inchaunted was the Knight with sacred Charmes His bodie dead of yore the more our harmes O noble Drayton well didst thou rehearse Our Damages in dryrie Sable verse Thrice Cynthia tri'd to folde him in her armes But all in vaine she nothing comprehended Her vitall blood that all the bodie warmes Forsooke her veynes and to her heart ascended For loe she fainting fall's as life were ended Making most wofull lamentation Yet Astrophill still kept his station The worthy Nimphes that circled Cynthia Amazed at her fall made such a crie As wak'd the Satyrs of Syluania And feeding Lambs did greatly terrifie The Shepheard in a mortall trance doth lie The tender Ladies had the better hart Setting all cowardice and feare apart Nymbly they tooke and rubbed Cynthia Till she reuiu'd who lifting vp her â—yes Behelde the Elsin of Arcadia And cri'de deare brother do not â—eâ—porise Nor do thou Ladie Cynthia despise Why speak'st thou not to her that loues thee best What dismall humor hath thy minde possestâ— With that as from a deepe concauâ—tiâ— A siluered voice and words of greaâ— import Proceeded from the Knight with Maiestie Distinct pithie plaine but wondâ—oâ—â— short Yet such as vnto vs gaue great comfort A man a ghost a knight a potentate Humane diuine forcible laureate Dies liues fights not yet mortally doth wound Death life time fortune wisedome learning wit Nature Arte forme languages proâ—ound Glorious earthlie-pompe fame exâ—â—lling it No earthly thing eternally shall siâ— Vertue Pietie and pure Sanctitie Shall weare the Crowne of immortalitie These words the trembling Shepheâ—rd did reuiue They were so full of raritie and choyse Resembling skill of Astrophill aliue The sound he thought was not vnlike his voice Endymion did mightily reioice And said aloud or thou arâ— Astrophill Or thou hast learn'd this Sonnet from his skill Shepheard quoth he I am and am not hee I am not perfect Astrophill but 〈◊〉 The shade which now appeareth â—â—to thee Is substance spirituall framâ—d by Arte What mortall was is slaine by deaâ—ly Dart Of Thanatos corrupt consum'd to â—â—st Such is the end of all this worldly 〈◊〉 But what art thou that sitst among these bayeâ— Vnfold to me for I must needes be gone I was reader quoth he in former daies Vnto great Astrophill but now am one Stripped and naked destitute alone Naught but my Greekish pipe and staffe haue I To keepe my Lambs and me in miserie Art thou quoth he my Tutor Tergaster He answered yea such was my happie chaunce I grieue quoth Astrophill at thy disaster But fates denie me learning to aduaunce Yet Cinthia shall afford thee maintenance My dearest Sister keepe my Tutor well For in his element he doth excell And for thy selfe I bring thee happie newes Thou shalt inioy a long and happie peace Which former bloodie wars and death ensues For ciuill heate in Albion-soyle shall cease And noble blood shall perfectly encrease Church-men heareafter shall agree in one Bannishing sects and superstition Pride shall be turned to humilitie Each man shall keepe himselfe in his degree Discurtesie shall be ciuilitie Wanton Maydes shall modest Matrons bee Noe Man shall seeke the fruite of others tree Noe Rapine swearing or abusion Noe Murder ribauldrie confusion Each man shall seeke to doe his neighbour right Greene grasse shall florish in Westminster Hall You shall discerne a beggar from a Knight Extortion and briberie shall haue a fall Golde exchanged for thinges caelestiall Vertue Truth Honestie Religion Shall Tryumph in the brittish Regyon Caesar shall see his foes subuersion No man shall lift a sword against hâ—s Crowne His issue shall not feare dispersion Christo Mastix shall be tumbled doâ—ne Peace faith loue ioy honor in euery Towne Trumpets shall sound and bels shaâ—l ring for ioy Virgins and boyes shall sing Vine â—â— Roy. Reuerend olde age shall bring thee to thy Herse And glorie shall adorne thy progenie Eternall fame shall blaze in golden verse Thine honorable life and destinie Renowned Poet 's of highest Ingenie Shall decke thy Tombe with euerlasting fame And with goulden pens celebrate thy name And when thy bodie shall consume to dust Resting it selfe in deepe obscuritie With dreadfull Trumpe shall rise againe the iust Thy bodie shall surpasse in dignitie The welkin which thou seest in Maiestie Meane while thy spirit a substance diuine In tryumph rid's in equipage with mine About the Orb 's and Spheares caelestiall Dignified with euer shining light Viewing the majestie imperiall Clad in a vesture of the purest white Which Amnos made before the world was dight Where thou with me and I with thee shall sing Eternall prayses to the immortall king These blessed Nimphs enuironing thee round Thrice noble by their propagation Neeces to Astrophill of honor â—ound Of modest vertuous inclination Happie shall be their generatâ—â—n And blessed they till Ioue haue wâ—ought his will And caus'd them mount the 〈…〉 Astâ—ophill And now my Cinthia time sommons me henee My newes been done I can no longer stay He mounted Pegasus and hy'de from thence Piercing the welkin vanished away Leauing the Ladies in wofull dismay Lifting their heads and gazing on the skies Obseruing the course as Astrophill flies Galaxia tooke him in her splendent armes Sweetely she couch'd him in her Canapie She seal'd the passage with her counter charmes To guard her sleeping Knight from Ieopardie Without regard of impaciency Cinthia would needes ascend Olympus hill To liue or dye with blessed Astrophill Nature perswaded her to stay a while Her time prefixed was not yet assign'd The fatall Sisters would not cut her file