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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00977	The purple island, or, The isle of man together with Piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies / by P.F.	Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.	1633 (1633)	STC 11082.5; ESTC S5142	154,399	335

Double I came why should I single leave thee Why of my better part dost thou bereave me Two prest thee first why should but one depart Restore thou trait'rous bed restore that better part 48 Thus while one grief anothers place inherits And one yet hardly spent a new complained Griefs leaden vapour dulls the heavy spirits And sleep too long from so wisht seat restrained Now of her eyes un'wares possession gained And that she might him better welcome give Her lord he new presents and makes him fresh to live 49 She thinks he lives and with her goes along And oft she kiss'd his cheek and oft embraced And sweetly askt him where he staid so long While he again her in his arms enlaced Till strong delight her dream and joy defaced But then she willing sleeps sleep glad receives her And she as glad of sleep that with such shapes deceives her 50 Sleep widow'd eyes and cease so fierce lamenting Sleep grieved heart and now a little rest thee Sleep sighing words stop all your discontenting Sleep beaten breast no blows shall now molest thee Sleep happy lips in mutuall kisses nest ye Sleep weary Muse and do not now disease her Fancie do thou with dreams and his sweet presence please her FINIS ¶ To my deare friend the SPENCER of this age Deare friend NO more a Stranger now I lately past Thy curious Building call'd but then my haste Deny'd me a full draught I did but taste Thy Wine was rich and pleasing did appeare No common grape My haste could not forbeare A second sippe I hung a Garland there Past on my way I lasht through thick and thinne Dispatch'd my businesse and return'd agen I call'd the second time unhors'd went in View'd every Room each Room was beautifi'd With new Invention carv'd on every side To please the common and the curious ey'd View'd every Office every Office lay Like a rich Magazen did bewray ' Thy Treasure op'ned with thy golden key View'd every Orchyard every Orchyard did Appeare a Paradise whose fruits were hid Perchance with shadowing Leaves but none forbid View'd every Plot spent some delightfull houres In every Garden full of new-born flowers Delicious banks and delectable bowers Thus having stepp'd and travell'd every staire Within and tasted every fruit that 's rare Without I made thy house my thorough-fare Then give me leave rare Fletcher as before I left a Garland at thy Gates once more To hang this Ivie at thy Postern-doore FRANCIS QUARLES FINIS * American * Sannazar * Bartas * Spencer * Delos * More mortuum * A book called Christs Victorie and Triumph a The foundation of the body is the bones Bones are a similar part of the body most dry or cold made by the vertue generative through heat of the thicker portion of seed which is most earthy and Fat for the establishment and figure of the whole b A cartilage or gridle is of a middle nature betwixt bones and ligaments or sinews made of the Lime matter and in the same manner as bones for variety and safetie in motion c Some of these even as bones sustain and uphold some parts d Both these are knit with ligaments A ligament or sinew is of nature between grisles and nerves framed of a rough and clammy portion of the seed for knitting holding the bones together fitting them for motion e Upon the bones as the foundation is built the flesh Flesh is a similar part of the body soft ruddy made of bload indifferently dried covered with the common membrane or skinne f The whole body is as it were watered with great plenty of rivers veins arteries and nerves g A vein is a vessell long round hollow rising from the liver appointed to contein conduct and distribute the bloud It hath but one tunicle and that thinne the colour of this bloud is purple h An arterie is a vessel long round hollow formed for conveyance of that more spritely bloud which is elaborate in the heart This bloud is frothy yellowish full of spirits therefore compast with a double tunicle that it might not exhale or sweat out by reason of the thinnesse i A nerve is a spermaticall part rising from the brain and the pith of the back-bone the outside skinne the inside full of pith carrying the animall spirits for sense and motion and therefore doubly skinned as the brain none of them single but runne in couples k The veins convey nourishment from the liver the arteries life and heat from the heart the nerves sense and motion from the brain The will commands the nerve brings and the part executes the mandate all almost in an instant l The whole body may be parted into three regions the lowest or belly the middle or breast the highest or head In the lowest the liver is sovereigne whose regiment is the widest but meanest In the middle the heart reignes most necessarie The brain obtains the highest place and is as the least in compasse so the greatest in dignitie m The parts of the lower region are either the contained or containing the containing either common or proper the common are the skinne the fleshie pannicle and the far the proper are the muscles of the belly-peece or the inner rimme of the belly n The skinne is a membrane of all the rest the most large and thick formed of the mixture of seed and bloud the covering and ornament of parts that are under it the temper moderate the proper organ of outward touching say Physicians o The native colour of the skinne is white but as Hippocrates changed into the same colour which is brought by the humour predominant Where melancholie abounds it is swarthy where flegme it is white and pale where choler reignes it is red and firy but in sanguine of a rosie colour p The skinne is covered with the cuticle or flourishing of the skinne it is the mean of touching without which we feel but with pain It polisheth the skinne which many times is changed and as it is with snakes put off and a new and more amiable brought in q The fat cometh from the airy portion of the bloud which when it flows to the membranes by their weak heat which Physicians account call cold grows thick and close r The fat increaseth inward heat by keeping it from outward parts and defends the parts subject to it from bruises s The fleshie panniele is a membrane very thick sinewy woven in with little veins t The proper parts infolding this lower region are two the first the muscles of the belly-peece which are eight foure side-long two right and two crosse u Peritonaeum which we call the rimme of the belly is a thinne membrane taking his name from compassing the bowels round but longer every where double yet so thinne that it may seem but single It hath many holes that the veins arteries and other needfull vessels might have passage both in out * The

who can end in death where deaths no ending have 57 For ever had this Isle in that foul ditch With curelesse grief and endlesse errour strai'd Boyling in sulphur and hot-bubbling pitch Had not the King whose laws he fool betrai'd Unsnarl'd that chain then from that lake secur'd For which ten thousand tortures he endur'd So hard was this lost Isle so hard to be recur'd 58 O thou deep well of life wide stream of love More deep more wide then widest deepest seas Who dying Death to endlesse death didst prove To work this wilfull-rebell Islands ease Thy love no time began no time decaies But still increaseth with decreasing daies Where then may we begin where may we end thy praise 59 My callow wing that newly left the nest How can it make so high a towring flight O depth without a depth in humble breast With praises I admire so wondrous height But thou my sister Muse mayst well go higher And end thy flight ne're may thy pineons tire Thereto may he his grace and gentle heat aspire 60 Then let me end my easier taken storie And sing this Islands new recover'd sear But see the eye of noon in brightest glorie Teaching great men is ne're so little great Our panting flocks retire into the glade They crouch and close to th' earth their horns have laid Vail we our scorched heads in that thick beeches shade CANT II. DEclining Phoebus as he larger grows Taxing proud folly gentler waxeth still Never lesse fierce then when he greatest shows When Thirsil on a gentle rising hill Where all his flock he round might feeding view Sits down and circled with a lovely crue Of Nymphs shepherd-boyes thus 'gan his song renew 2 Now was this Isle pull'd from that horrid main Which bears the fearfull looks and name of death And setled new with bloud and dreadfull pain By him who twice had giv'n once forfeit breath A baser state then what was first assign'd Wherein to curb the too aspiring minde The better things were lost the worst were left behinde 3 That glorious image of himself was raz'd Ah! scarce the place of that best part we finde And that bright Sun-like knowledge much defac'd Onely some twinkling starres remain behinde Then mortall made yet as one fainting dies Two other in its place succeeding rise And drooping stock with branches fresh immortalize 4 So that'lone bird in fruitfull Arabie When now her strength and waning life decaies Upon some airie rock or mountain high In spiced bed fir'd by neare Phoebus rayes Her self and all her crooked age consumes Straight from the ashes and those rich perfumes A new-born Phoenix flies widow'd place resumes 5 It grounded lies upon a sure foundation Compact and hard whose matter cold and drie To marble turns in strongest congelation Fram'd of fat earth which fires together tie Through all the Isle and every part extent To give just form to every regiment Imparting to each part due strength and stablishment 6 Whose looser ends are glu'd with brother earth Of nature like and of a neare relation Of self-same parents both at self-same birth That oft it self stands for a good foundation Both these a third doth soulder fast and binde Softer then both yet of the self-same kinde All instruments of motion in one league combin'd 7 Upon this base a curious work is rais'd Like undivided brick entire and one Though soft yet lasting with just balance pais'd Distributed with due proportion And that the rougher frame might lurk unseen All fair is hung with coverings slight and thinne Which partly hide it all yet all is partly seen 8 As when a virgin her snow-circled breast Displaying hides and hiding sweet displaies The greater segments cover'd and the rest The vail transparent willingly betraies Thus takes and gives thus lends and borrows light Lest eyes should surfet with too greedy sight Transparent lawns withhold more to increase delight 9 Nor is there any part in all this land But is a little Isle for thousand brooks In azure chanels glide on silver sand Their serpent windings and deceiving crooks Circling about and wat'ring all the plain Emptie themselves into th' all-drinking main And creeping forward slide but never turn again 10 Three diff'ring streams from fountains different Neither in nature nor in shape agreeing Yet each with other friendly ever went Give to this Isle his fruitfulnesse and being The first in single chanels skie-like blue With luke-warm waters di'd in porphyr hue Sprinkle this crimson Isle with purple-colour'd dew 11 The next though from the same springs first it rise Yet passing through another greater fountain Doth lose his former name and qualities Through many a dale it flows and many a mountain More firie light and needfull more then all And therefore fenced with a double wall All froths his yellow streams with many a sudding fall 12 The last in all things diff'ring from the other Fall from an hill and close together go Embracing as they runne each with his brother Guarded with double trenches sure they flow The coldest spring yet nature best they have And like the lacteall stones which heaven pave Slide down to every part with their thick milky wave 13 These with a thousand streams through th' Island roving Bring tribute in the first gives nourishment Next life last sense and arbitrarie moving For when the Prince hath now his mandate sent The nimble poasts quick down the river runne And end their journey though but now begunne But now the mandate came now the mandate's done 14 The whole Isle parted in three regiments By three Metropolies is joyntly sway'd Ord'ring in peace and warre their governments With loving concord and with mutuall aid The lowest hath the worst but largest See The middle lesse of greater dignitie The highest least but holds the greatest soveraigntie 15 Deep in a vale doth that first province lie With many a citie grac't and fairly town'd And for a fence from forrain enmitie With five strong-builded walls encompast round Which my rude pencil will in limming stain A work more curious then which poets feigne Neptune and Phoebus built and pulled down again 16 The first of these is that round spreading fence Which like a sea girts th' Isle in every part Of fairest building quick and nimble sense Of common matter fram'd with speciall art Of middle temper outwardest of all To warn of every chance that may befall The same a fence and spie a watchman and a wall 17 His native beautie is a lilie white Which still some other colour'd stream infecteth Least like it self with divers stainings dight The inward disposition detecteth If white it argues wet if purple fire If black a heavie cheer and fixt desire Youthfull and blithe if suited in a rosie tire 18 It cover'd stands with silken flourishing Which as it oft decaies renews again The others sense and beautie perfecting Which