above Thus one mans Fall anothers Rise doth prove 256. To a certain Man Doctor beginning O begin to be Now Ductior more learn'd for thy degree 257. Beside Women and Children Read through the sacred writ though they surmount * Mat. 14.21 Women and Children pass not in account Women and Children are not Officers Nor are they trained up or arm'd for wars Women and Children for their Garments have Long Coats they beardless are and never shave Women and Children will Tears quickly shed And are by Flatterers soon led-misled O with what Arts do you man-kind destroy Thou woman Venus Cupid thou her Boy 258. A Nose of Wax Do sacred Scriptures promise good unt ' us Our Faith believes it soon is credulous Do they require our duty Then O then 'T is durus sermo difficult for men 259. Heavens Ladder 1 Cor. 13.8.13  y   t  h i  t r e i a p a h o F C H Three Vertues as by steps ascend in t ' Heaven Good Hope by four by five Faith Love by seven Hope to the Moon Faith doth to th' Sun aspire But Charity to th' highest Heav'n and higher 260. Of Battus Thy Tongue thine Heart interprets let thine Heart Be silent e're thy Tongue thy Mind impart Th' interpreter must silent stand as long As the Embassadour doth use his tongue 261. The Praise of the Ass. Be ye not like an Horse or Mule which have no understanding With Horse and Mule why was not th' Ass brought on Because he was to carry David's Son 262. A pair of impair Courtiers The Carper the Parasite They well agree not nor keep equal ways This all things praiseth that doth nothing praise 263. Four causes of man What is Mans form but a bad mind vain will What Principle Material But Nily Suspect not matter with the form respect Th' Efficient and End On these reflect 264. The last Line Sad Death is of a merry Life last Act A serious Life doth Joys in Death attract 265. Upon the Death of Rich. Vaughan Bishop of London 1607. I who thee living did most justly praise Well knowing that thy worth deserv'd the Bays Ah thee now dead why praise I not more full Joys did my wit make brisk Grief makes it dull While with more Tears than Verse I found thy knell My Tears confound my Verse my words farewel 266. Of Life and Death One way to Life to Death a thousand 's had 'T is well Death is a good thing Life a bad 267. Of decrepit Paul A Builder Thou build'st an House wherein to die not dwell Whether thine House or Tomb thou canst not tell 268. Of Sextus a Prodigal Robber We thee confess Munificent who thine Not only giv'st but tak'st from me what 's mine 269. On Zoilus Thou spar'st the Dead the Living dost envy I will not therefore wish my self to die 270. A Pair Royal of Friends To the English-Scots Britains Scots-Welsh Britains Welsh-English Britains In friendship this doth seem a royal pair When three between one love commands the Chair To make a pair in Love if there be three Each of the three must then twice numbred be 271. A Kingdom divided This world hath nothing pertinent And this World cannot stand because divided ' t is 272. The Ring of Concord To the Britains in Parliament 1607. Scotland the Jewel brings to make the Ring England the Gold the Goldsmith is the King Speed Europes Peace lest else the Ring-like year Before the Ring be finish'd disappear 273. Britain As thou wert i' th' Beginning now as then So O so be World without End Amen 274. Steganography To the curious Reader Why that my Verses are obscure dost say Not well to b' understood without a Key An Epigrammatist must not dilate 'T is therefore fit he should abbreviate 275. One God One Adam was the Father of all Men Nor can there be more Gods than Fathers then 276. To the Lady Arbella Stuart If in bare words were honour I could raise Could write a thousand Verses in thy Praise My Muse may by thy worth ennobled be But my poor Muse can nothing add to thee FINIS An Anagram of the Authors Name Invented by D. Du. Tr. of Paris JOANNES AUDOENUS Ad Annos Noe Vives Of the same A Distich This Anagram is false concerning thee But of thy Book it verifi'd may be D. Du. Tr. Med. Of the same Of Thee thy Book this Anagram is right Thou brought'st thy Book thy Book brings thee to light John Rosse J. C. A Temples EPIGRAMS OF John Owen AN OXONIAN AND CAMBRO-BRITAN Three Books Two Dedicated unto Henry Prince of Wales One unto Charles Duke of York Englished by Thomas Harvey LONDON Printed by R. White for Nevil Simmons at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard and for Thomas Sawbridge at the three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain 1677. The Author to the Reader IN th' Authors Praise according to the Mode Dost wonder thou canst find nor Verse nor Ode No Patronage can to my Verses add For if they 'r good they 'r good if bad they 'r bad The same to the same MIne Epigrams are not like strifes nor are They like a Lawyers Client at the Bar None can our Verses nor have Kings such power If low make lofty lofty if make lower EPIGRAMS OF John Owen A CAMBRO-BRITAN To Henry Prince of Wales The First Book 1. To Prince Henry IN Love for Custome Books we Dedicate And I the Prince choose for my Principate 2. To Mecaenas I for my Verses no Mecaenas look I want one for my self not for my Book 3. To Marcellus A Lawyer Thou wert Paulinus Patient for it Let him thy Client be Then are you quit 4. To Henry Prince of Wales Thy Breast Brain Reason Head Affections Heart In thee with good Effects perform their Part Thy Wit thy Courage Reason rules thy Sense Thine Head compleats thine Heart with Eminence Wales had three noble Princes * Three Princes of Wales surnamed Great Great surnam'd And Thou Great Prince shalt be the fourth proclaim'd 5. Mercury Gallo-Belgick Not ev'ry Tree will make a Mercury This Artist yet doth to 't all Woods apply 6. Orpheus Orpheus did fetch his Wife from Hell But when Fetch'd any Wife her Husband from that Den 7. Academical Vests To the Students of Oxford and Cambridge Why are you Students and our Clergy clad In black their Vestments wearing fable sad Is' t that our Muses for Apollo mourn Or for Mecaenas closed in his Urn Mecaenas yet left Heirs 'T is true some one Heir of his Goods but of his Goodness none 8. Wheter Peter were at Rome Whether at Rome Saint Peter ever were 'T is doubtful doubtless Simon was is there 9. To Be and Have 'T is good to Be and Have A Greek I think Once said an Alman added and to drink 10. To Ligurinus Arr'us thy Wife doth till doth fill The seed He sow'd but thine 's what Harvest it doth breed 11. Thou
To the same Thou who before thy Birth a burden were Unto thy Parent born her honour art 3. To the Reader of his Book Lest this my Book displease the candid Eye I fear and fear lest it with Fools comply 4. The Virgin Birth of Elizabeth Queen of England 1602. England and Scotland are united by Th' auspicious Birth of thy Virginity T' unite then multiply's of greater worth And thou best Parent by not bringing forth 5. To the Hollander 1602. Thou not against Minerva's will didst fight Whil'st Englands Pallas back'd thee with her might But thy fate chang'd Death like Ulysses come Took hence thy Pallas and Palladium 6. To James King of Great Britain c. The Golden Age is come long since foretold When but one King should wear Brute's Crown of Gold Who should the Britains that divided were Unite of Peace should th' Olive Branches bear That having Peace all good unt ' us comes forth We now may say most truly from (a) For Owen Grandfather to King Henry the seventh came from North Wales And King James from thâ— North of great Britain the North. 7. To the Prince Great Britaines Hope son of so great a Sire Half of each Parent for Example higher Almost than imitation in rare Parts Follow'd by few belov'd in all mens hearts Hadst thou these vertues from thy Sires instinct Or from thy Mothers Breasts from both I think 't 8. Basilicon Doron to the King None needs this Author none this Book proclaim He This This Him resounds with Trump of Fame 9. To the Lady Mary Neville Thy Glass reflects thee fair fame calls thee chast Thou nor from Glass nor Fame a fable hast Fame that of all things hath the swiftest wing Dares not presume thy fame to stain or sting 10. Of her daughter Cecily No Painter can delineate the mind Yet in this Picture thou thy self maist find 11. To the Candid Reader My good Verse best indifferent mine ill Kind Reader thou dost call with candid will To the malevolent Reader My bad Verse worst indifferent my good Thou call'st black Reader so thy censure stood 12. Hercules By-way Some in Quadruples some in Triples erre Th' Herculean Duple is most sinister 13. Of Vertue Vertue contemneth praise though praise incline To Vertue Shadows as to Bodies joyn For Vertue 's real praise but verbal bare As Bodies something Shadows nothing are 14. Lifes Dyal From East to West without return am I Born yesterday live this day next day die 15. Of God So great thy Greatness Euclide could not show And such as Aristotle did not know 16. Of an Atheist There is no God the Fool in secret saith But none so soolish as to make 't his Faith If none a God deny who 's th' Atheist he Who doth desire that there no God should be 17. Charity As Wives where loveless there do faithless prove So 's Faith depriv'd of Charitable love 18. Dives and Lazarus The Gospel doth a nameless Rich man blame Where Lazarus hath an eternal Name 19. Increase and Multiply The first man was at first but one till God Of him made two evening the number odd After when God unt ' Eve did Adam tye God made them one again to multiply God first made one then two then as before He made them one to multiply the more 20. Union Divine is Union Division evil's For there 's one God innumerable Devils 21. Three Tempters The World Flesh Devil are three Sophisters In Logick he in Rhet'rick they converse 22. The Spirit and Flesh. Me Flesh and Spirit hither thither force Jove Caesar are in me Competitors Peace to you both were you but once at Peace Peace then in all the world would soon increase 23. Man to Man a God Wolf Man is to man a God a Wolf why when For Christ's a God Adam a Wolf to men 24. God's word Men few things see God all things sees foresees Hence men speak often God but once decrees 25. The Broad and Narrow way The Scripture bids us strive 't is our concern To walk the Narrow way to Life eterne If that way leads us not t' inherit Bliss The broader way will lead us down to Dis. 26. St. John Baptist. The Baptist Christ preceded as the Light Precedes the Sun brings day dispells the night 27. Of Autumn Autumn shakes off the Leaves and for man's use Produceth fruit let us the like produce 28. The Misery of Life Who long would live wretched although and poor That is he would be wretched more and more Poor-wretched Irus dies against his will That iâ— he would be poor and wretched still 29. Of Nature and Grace Nature like to the Moon gives pallid Light Grace like the Sun more splendid shines and bright 30. The Catechism Twelve things thou must believe must pray for seven And ten things do if thou wilt enter Heaven 31. A Rich Man Why are few rich men sav'd because their bent Repents Expences nothing else repent 32. O guileful Hopes O rather guileful things our Hope a friend Most faithful us concomitates to th' end 33. The Redeemer One man by dying man from Death hath freed Which was to man for one mans sin decreed Christ all things did post-pone lost man to win Contemn'd-condemn'd O Adam for thy sin 34. The Holy Spirit As Doves to whitest Houses soonest come So th' holy God makes cleanest Hearts his home 35. Fortitude The Wise doth know the Just will do what 's right Who dares thus shall b' esteem'd a man of might 36. Of a King Law where 's no King 's like light when Sun 's away King where 's no Law 's like Sun without a Ray. People first chose a King The King with them Made Laws yet subject to the Diadem 37. A Welch Man English and Scots by name are one with thee Now Welch-man sole thou shalt not British be 38. English-Scots Disjoyn'd in Laws what Law shall them conjoyn The Kingdoms safety best of Laws divine 39. Henry the Roses James the Kingdoms To the King The Roses English colours Red and White Like Cadmus new-sprung Host ingag'd in Fight And as the Twins which one Egge did include Do Rise and Set in a vicissitude As Day the Night as Night succeeds the Day The Roses so did bear alternate sway Till Mother Mona (a) A British Proverb Mon Mam Gymri in English thus Anglisey the Mother of Wales British Angles'y An Isle which Tacitus not tacitely Recordeth happy Mother happier By bearing British Owen Theodor From whom arose a Noble Prince a Rose Whose Wife and Mother sprung from Stem of those Who thousand dangers pass'd in Nuptial Bed United (b) Remarkable here that the Triple Empire of Britain by a certain occult Fate was restored to the British Blood 1 The Kingdom of Scotland by Stuart 2 The Kingdom of England by Tyder 3 The Empire of the whole Island by James the first descended from both both the Roses White and Red. Which Union lest Change or
Masters can perform great things 84. Of Ruffus An Hypocrite Thou sayst that Ignorance makes men devout Thou then shalt be the chief of all that Rout. 85. To the English A Probleme Wherefore do Spanish French Italian Sleight Wives They reckon Women not * Hommes Femmes Hombres Mugeres Huomini Donne Humane 86. To Cinna A Physician Thou cur'st Diseases How Thou kill'st the Sick And what thou dost like Judas thou dost quick Thy Patient is blest Thou wilt not wrong His Patience to let him languish long 87. We have one Advocate in Heaven One Advocate we have in Heav'n saith Paul Are no more Advocates within that Hall 88. To one young in years old in manners Why doth the Gout which doth unt ' age belong Thee vex A Souldier Scholar and so young The Gout mistook it saw thee grave and sage And took thee for an old man fulâ— of age 89. Anger is a short fury Though wrath be short 't is not for fury sit If furious 't is fit to shorten it 90. To Henry Good-yeer Knight Kal. Jan. 1610. What new-years Gift shall I present to thee I wish (a) A good year thy Name thou many years mayst see 91. Love Active and Passive To Pontia Wilt know what differs I'm lov'd from I love That I suppose My knowledge this doth prove 92. To the Prince My dreams by night are much of Royal Gold But in the morning there 's no Gold all 's cold If thou O Prince wilt with thine Hand assist I shall have Real Gold not in a Mist. 93. Arithmetical Division To J. S. Merchant 1607. Though living thou give nothing to thy Friends The total Sum at Death in nothing Ends. 94. The Court Louse The pratling Parasite through all the court To Grandees Chambers make their most resort So this vile Beast the Louse doth ost infest Mens Bodies but their Heads above the rest 95. Aesculapius Three-fac'd The Physick Doctor seems three-fac'd to be Unto the Sick God Man and Devil 's he In giving Physick he doth seem a Man If the disease be cur'd a God he 's than If Health 's restor'd and the disease destroy'd When Doctor comes for Fees Satan avoid 96. Of Galatea The Stag 't is said his Horns doth yearly mew Thine Husband daily doth his Horns renew 97. Waters and Earths Epithalamy All generated are in Earth and Water Both these God hath united former later That nothing to Man-kind unkind should prove Th' Earth lieth under Water flows above Earth's waters Wife Both one Globe constitute And well concurr Humor doth (a) The Ground Hume salute 98. Of the same Why Water which flows round doth slow from th' Earth 'Cause Thirst this should not suffer nor that Dearth 99. Death 's in the Pot. To Court Criticks Is Death i' th' Pot or Port that is in (a) With the antient Latines Olla and Aula signifie the same Court For Plautus saith Pot Court the same import 100. The Deluge A double Probleme Why saith the (a) So sound as a Fish Proverb As a Fish so sound Fish sole was sav'd when all the World was drown'd All drown'd why were the Fish from drowning freed Because the Mother would preserve her breed 101. A Cole of Wood. Born in the Fire and perishing thereby Woods spoiling I deserve by Fire to die 102. Of Gellia Thou from thy youth a Papist wert But now Worse Papist art How Catholick art thou 103. Of Aulus As ost as Sickness casts thee on thy Bed Or hollow Tooth doth ake or stupid Head O would I were in Heaven from this smart Thou sayst Thine Heir saith O would thou wert 104. A Woman what Creature Virgins untouch'd want sense and Husbands grant To them their sense but then they Reason want 105. Reason and Oratory Rhet'rick's the Palm and Dialect's the fist This Combats that Triumphs within the List. 106. Testicles To signifie the Sex or is our Name Call'd Testicles t' attest thy Sin-thy Shame 107. Upon the Death of Hen. Cuff 1600. Learn'd well in Greek happy thine Alpha was But thine Omega hapless prov'd Alas 108. Of Festus Wilt marry now th' art old If thou bâ—â— wise With Lillies learned Grammer first advise There indeclinable the Horn thou 'lt find Old men have seldome that hard Rock declin'd 109. Sir Thomas Moore Imprison'd Moore to guess what would befall Inspects his Urne in an Urinall He saw no signs of Death But had he seen The Kings the signs there of his death had been 110. Of Cornelius Thou knowst Th' art Horn'd tacite Cornelius Now thou shalt be Cornelius Tacitus A Tripple Lie Vented Invented Painted 111. On Tullus Carvers invent the painters paint a Lie Who vents it Thou Thou dost adventure high The End of the First Book THE SECOND BOOK OF JOH OWENS Epigrams To Prince Henry 1. To Henry Prince of Wales GOD grant thee will the best the Truth to know Who gave these gifts can * It is good to be Great better to be Learned best to be Good greatest Gifts bestow 2. To James of Great Britain c. King the Best-Greatest Tyrants are fear'd of all fear all Nor wants Their fearing force fearful concomitants No need for thee O thou great King of Kings Best King to fear such formidable things 3. Hysteron Proteron In Englishâ— The Cart before the Horse Cambridge and Oxford words so plac'd in force Are like to these The Cart before the Horse 4. On a decrepit Husband of a third Wife First Clotho Lachesis thy second wife Thy third wife Atropos cuts off thy life 5. Love Imprison'd-Liberty Peace-war sweet-sowre Hope-fear Gall-honey Love doth laugh and lowre 6. Minos A Judge who to be Just on Bribes doth look Is like a Fish which while it takes is took 7. Doubtfulness Both I suspect know neither ready either To credit Phoebus he can tell me whether 8. To the Princes Secretary Honours mens former Manners ' change in Fine 'T is the worlds course but 't is no course of thine Thou changed dost not change 'T is strange to see Some follow fortune but she follows thee 9. To Thomas Puckeringe Knight and Baronet Dear Thomas if to speak such things be fit I first did exercise thy noble Wit I thy first Tutor was thou Pupil mine I am not what I was but still am thine 10. Three Draughts First draught thirst past present the next abates And the third future thirst anticipates 11. A double Riddle Tell me t' her Mother that was spous'd what (a) Eve womaâ— Her (b) Adam Mother being Man Her (c) Goâ— Father no Man 12. Of Faith A five-fold Anagram True Faith is sure no Schismatick nor Greek Nor Creete whose Faith is fleeting or to seek 13. To Sir Edward Cooke Knight a learned Lawyer Judge c. The Laws of Nature Nature of the Laws Thou knowst thou judgest Clients and their cause Thine Answers our Apollo are more clear Than th' Oracles that were at Delphos were Thou cutt'st off present
intreats 94. Of a certain Bedlam for Fools Bride-well for Knaves is best To which of these thou wilt thou mayst b' a Guest 95. The Mother Church You be Christs Brethren I his Spouse thereby I am your Sister call'd your Mother why 96. Of Sects Five Senses in a man the Sophist finds Three Souls But who can tell how many minds 97. Life in the Blood Moses the Legislator did confine Life in the Blood In Christ's Blood I do (a) My Life mine 98. To Thomas Baron of Ellesmer Chancellour of England a Consolation upon the death of Mary his only Daughter an excellent Woman 1612. Nestor no doubt and old Mathusalem Saw many Funerals and wept for them Long livers live oft see their Childrens Urns An happy man unhappy Fortune mourns I of thy Children grieve thy Loss to see But glad that they saw not the loss of thee 99. On a foolish Writer Thy Books eternal are My vote I spend For neither they beginning have nor end 100. To his three Mecaenates E. N. G. S. and R. O. You strive still may you strive which of you three Should be the best Mecaenas unto me This Strife a strife-less strife I will foment And wish your Emulation permanent You by this noble Strife have nothing lost And I thereby great profit have ingrost 101. Upon the Death of Prince Henry 1612. Dead is the Prince bewall'd with Floods of Tears Great Britains Hope his Parents Joys and Fears His second no man but his German Brother And but his German Sister not another A Prince while living honour'd dead belov'd Both of his Countrey while he liv'd he prov'd While I these things with weeping Eyes perpend Salt Tears from both mine Eyes like Floods descend Reader believe me this me so doth touch That I can speak no more I weep so much 102. To the Prince his Ghost Thou living didst m' an yearly Stipend give Lost now because thou didst no longer live Yet O I wish thou hadst surviv'd thought Had nothing gain'd by thy superstity Though neither of us now can t' each incline Yet who can barr my thanks unto thy Shrine 103. To the same Prince Henry I said (a) Epigram 1. lib. 1. To E. Noel thou shalt my Caesar be but I Must now alas Thou wast my Caesar cry The End of the Third Book The Epilogue To the Readers The British Owen with his Latine verse Is here rais'd up in English from his Hearse Here many things of note accost your Eye 'T were pity such-so many things should die Not but that they survive in what he writ Yet all our English understand not it If any thing seem in the Scene obscene 'T is wash'd and here wrapp'd up in Linnen clean You need not fear to lodge between the Sheets They be perfum'd with Aromatick Sweets I wish t' ye all a sweet-a safe repose By day by night And thus the book I close Tho. Harvey Epitaphium Johannis Owen in Templo Divi Pauli Londini Parva Tâ—be Statua est quia parva Statura Supellex â— Parva volat parvus magna per ora Liber Sed non parvus honos non parva est Gloria quippe Ingenio haud quicquam est majus in Orbe tuo Parva domus texit Templum sed grande Poetae Tum verè vitam cum moriuntur agunt Posuit Reverendus Pater D. Johannes Williams Episcopus Lincolniensis Magni Sigilli Anglia custos This Epitaph thus Englished Thy Statue Stature thine Estate thy Book All little great Men yet on this do look Nor is thine Honour or thy Glory small For greater wit than thine is not at all Thy little house in a great Temple lies A Poet lives not truly till he dies Tho. Harvey FINIS