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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57657	Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1962; ESTC R21749	84,753	182

from the eating grave O Lord thou art that King and I The slave who for my sins must dye And to my dust return O raise me by thy mighty aid In that last day from deaths black shade And from my silent Urn And let me not with Castor trace So often too and from that place Where night and darknesse raign But joyn me to these winged wights Which far above heavens twinkling lights With thee in blisse remain CENTAURI THese were half horses half men begotten of Ixion and of a cloud which was presented unto him in the form of Iuno with which he was in love they quarrell'd with the Lapithae and carried away their wives being in drink for which cause many of them were killed they were given to many naughty qualities but Chiron who was Achilles Schoolmaster for his wisdom and justice was much commended but was wounded accidentally by one of Hercules his arrows which fell upon his foot out of his hand and was cured by the herb Centurie and was then made a Star THE MYSTERIES MAny many men are like Centaurus whose fore-parts are of a man but hinder-parts of a horse they begin in the spirit but end in the flesh their yonger yeers are spent civilly their old age wantonly and profanely 2. Kings have oftentimes Centaurs for their Counsellors Achilles had Chiron for his Schoolmaster they have mens faces fair and honest pretences for their advice but withall a horse tail for the event is cruell and pernicious oftentimes these are children of clouds a for their intentions are oftentimes wrapped up in a cloud and mist that they cannot be discovered 3. A drunkard is a right Centaur a man in the morning and a beast in the evening the son of clouds for whilest he is sober he is heartlesse melancholly and as a dead man but when his head is full of clouds and vapours arising from the wine then he is full of life talk and mirth and then he is most given to quarrell with the Lapithae even his dearest friends and to offer violence to women 4. Mis-shapen and hard-favoured men have harsh and ill-favoured conditions 5. Every regenerate man is in a sort a Centaur to wit a man in that part which is regenerate and a beast in his unregenerate part 6. There is no race or society of men so bad but there may be some good amongst them one Chiron among the Centaurs as one Lot among the Sodomites and one Iob among the Edomites 7. Drunkennesse whoredom and oppression are the overthrow of Kingdoms as we see here by the Centaurs 8. Sin is a Centaur having a mans face to perswade but a horses heels to kick us in the end 9. Where things are not ruled by Laws order and civility but carried head-long with violence and force we may say that there is a Common-wealth of Centaurs 10. A Comet may be called a Centaur as having a horse-tail and the wisdom of a man in fore-telling future events it hath its generation in the clouds or air and upon the sight of it blood-shed wars and desolation follow 11. Just Chiron was wounded by Hercules but was afterward placed among the stars so although might doth oftentimes overcome right here yet the end of justice and goodnesse shall be glory at last 12. Our life is a Centaur for it runneth swiftly away and as the Centaurs are placed by the a Prince of Poets in the gates of Hell so is our life as soon as we are born in the gates of death Nascentes morimur 13. Governours Souldiers School-masters should be Centaurs to have the wisdom of men and the strength and courage of horses He that runs in the way of grace Must carefull be He fall not lest he lose his race And victory What folly is 't to play the Saint At first and in the end to faint It 's not enough to seek and know God whil'st we 'r yong And when age on our heads doth snow To dote on dung A good youth who in age doth fail A mans head hath but Centaurs tail So drunkards when they roare aloud And fight and swear They shew that they 'r of that same cloud That Centaurs were He that in drink will fight and force A woman is both man and horse So every sin at first appears With man-like face But we shall finde within few yeers The horses trace Sin looks on us with smiling cheeks But in the end it flings and kicks And as the Centaurs had swift heels To run away So hath our time which runs on wheels And cannot stay O that we could consider this How short a time how swift it is O Lord so order thou my time That all may see My fall's as hot as was my prime In love to thee That so of me they may not finde A man before a horse behinde CERBERUS PLuto's dog begot of Typhon and Echidna hee had three heads and Snakes in stead of hair and lay in the entry of Hell who by Hercules was drawn from thence who vomited when he saw the light and of his foame sprung up the poysonable herb Aconitum or Wolfbain THE MYSTERIES CErberus is a glutton whose three throats are his three-fold desire to eat much often and varieties he lyeth in the entry of Hell for gluttony is indeed the gate of Hell and that which brings many men to untimely deaths Plures gulâ quem gladio and intemperance of Diet causeth oftentimes that Bulimia and Canina appetentia dogs appetite which is an unsatiable desire of eating the effect whereof is vomiting This proceeds of Typhon and Echidna heat and cold to wit of the heat of the Liver and cold malancholly humours of the stomack when the stomachicall Nerves are too much refrigerate but this is sometimes cured by Hercules the Physitian 2. Cerberus is a covetous mā a whose greedy desire of having is never satisfied he is Pluto's dog for he makes riches his God which like a dog he is continnually watching his wealth and by consequence his desire of having proceedeth of Typhon the Gyant and the snake Echidna that is of oppression secret cunning the 3 heads or as some writ a hundreth heads do shew his unsatiable desire his snakie hairs doe shew how uggly he is in the sight of good men and how much by them abhorred he lyeth in the gates of Hell from whence gold cometh for his affections are there and his punishments are already begun in this life he lyeth in a den as lying basely obscurely and when he is drawn out from thence by Hercules the King to any publicke office or service for the state he frets and foames and at last against his will or else profusely without judgement vomits out his wealth as a misers feast is alwayes profuse and this breeds a poysonable hearb which is bad example 3 Death is Cerberus which is Plutos dog Satans mastiffe by which he bites us Typhon that is the devill begat death upon