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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00024	Peace with her foure garders Viz. fiue morall meditations: of concord, chastitie, constancie. Courtesie. Grauitie. Eschew euill, and doe good, seeke peace and ensue it.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1002; ESTC S118662	30,466	62

knowledge to accord Their wrathfull furious Passions euermore Plato the Gods immortall doth adore That they him reasonable made no Beast A Man no Woman But it glads him more That he knew humane Arts and heau'nly best By which he thought himselfe in life and death most blest The Emperour Traiane when his friends him blame As carelesse of imperiall Maiesty Because so mild sweet gentle he became And affable to all his company Said he would so be in high Sou'raignty To others as if else he priuate were He wish'd to find the royall Dignity With whom all good men ought be free from feare But cruell vile malicious neuer should come there Philip who had by Liberalitie Obliged as he thought to him a Nation Receiued nought but Scorne for Courtesie Wherefore his Courtiers mou'd with indignation Perswade their King vnto reuenge and passion Soft said the Prince if these men doe requite Our benefits in such a scornefull fashion They vs for iniuries will more despight True patterne of a prudent patient gentle Knight Is Iury barren then of gentle deed Because I onely of the Nations tell The liues of Abram Isaac Ioseph reade And see how they in Courtesie excell When as betwixt the Heardmen strife befell Abram leaues to his nephew Let the Plaine His Courtesie the Angels greetes so well Their errand gently they to him explaine Yea gracious God to him familiar talke did daigne Most gentle Iacob courteous like thy Sire Though Laban churlishly thee handeled Let all thy patient gentlenesse admire When thou didst see thy Dina rauished And for her Rape a Nation slaughtered Thy gentle Ioseph into Egypt sold Who when he sees his brethren humbeled Could not his heart and eyes from weeping hold The Dreames thus prouing true which he before had told Though Shemei barke Dauid forbids to smite Oh let him curse my sonne me seekes to kill The Lord with Blessings may his Curse require If in his fauour I continue still I shall returne else be it as he will Mephibosheth must haue his fathers land And at his Table eate of Bread his fill Chimham in old Barzellais roome shall stand And nothing be denide him at King Dauids hand But Kings and People all learne gentlenesse Of our most courteous gentle King of Kings Who when he walk'd on earth in lowlinesse And was the Lord and Maker of all things Neuer vs'd bitter words nor threatenings But was to meanest courteous gentle mild The Lord rebuke thee Michael onely sings When Satans malice would haue him beguil'd Of Moses body but he neuer him reuil'd As of the head so of the members learne Mildnesse Humanity and Gentlenesse Speeches morose and countenances sterne Neuer agree with worth and noblenesse Nor to the vessels of true holinesse And Dames that soft and tender are by kind Adorn'd with Natures goodliest gracefulnesse Be gentle humble soft and meeke in mind So you with God and Man shall grace and fauour find No vertue so adornes a valiant man Nor vertuous Dame whom valiant men doe loue As courtesie which best direct them can To beare themselues in all as doth behoue Whether them God hath plast to rule aboue Or wait below it them befits to know Their Duties that none iustly may reproue Their rudenesse in not giuing what they ow Who giues each man his due doth great discretion show Nothing more wins mens hearts than gentle words Nor their affections than sweet lookes delight If Men like Beasts should make the strongest Lords And be enrag'd one at anothers sight Societie of men would perish quight The rules of Policies and States would faile Mens liues should be in hazzard of each wight That them by force or cunning would assaile Yea sauage Beasts against their weakenesse would preuaile Rude manners those that haue them doe infest And grieuous are to all they deale withall But gentlenesse in Angels Man and Beast Is much commended and belou'd of all The Poets want the Gods in heau'n to call Most gentle bountifull and amiable But Fiends and Furies cruell tetricall To first they Temples build and prayers fable Counting th' other dreadfull and abominable If Socrates a froward wife would beare As men ride horses wild that they may know To rule them better that well tamed were Much more should Christians sweetly beare the blow Of proud and cruell worldlings heere below And not to grieue at their prosperitie Though heere they seeme in wealth and blisse to flow Alas such stand in places slippery And in their haughty pride shall perish suddenly Who that most wicked Sect doe imitate That would all friendship and acquaintance shun That they might heere enioy more happy fate And partners of no others losse become One burthen is inough for any one Oh! why should others losses them molest By this is all Humanity vndone And man made more vngentle than a beast The Heathen therefore did such beastlinesse detest The first and speciall Duty which we ow Is Loue to God which we call Piety Next is the Mercy we to men do show And this indeed is true Humanity This is the summe of all Diuinity And this to Piety doth Practice ioyne All loue the Lord in words but doe deny Their hearts and hands to Mercy to incline God grant they both in vs together may combine Chiefe Band amongst men is Humanity Which who would breake deserues eternall palne From one man all deriue their pedigree And therefore Kinsmen all in him remaine From one God we our soules doe all obtaine And so we brethren are and neerer ioyn'd In Soule than Body And we hope in vaine If all into one head be not conioyn'd And feele not all one Spirit working in our minde Inhumane cruell Beasts which take delight Without iust cause Gods image to destroy Torment kill torture cruelly despight When God would haue all liue in amity Oh measure others by thy misery No man without anothers ayd can liue He that denies helpe in aduersitie None at his need vnto him helpe shall giue As none shall be forgiu'n that doth not heere forgiue No man that doth obey Dame Natures hest Can hurt a man much lesse him spoile or kill Learne of the gentle meeke and harmlesse beast How he Society doth couet still The Shepheards gentle Flocks the Plaines do fill Wolues Beares and Tygres loue to Lord alone Where they their yong ones with the fat may fill And forrage all the Countrey for their owne Lo Mercy there is strange where Misery 's vnknowne Such in their Complement are onely kind And where they kindnesse may receiue againe Oh be mine heart to gentlenesse inclind Not for base recompence reward or gaine But for his sake who for my sinne was slaine But ouer-courteously I doe abuse My Readers patience with vngentle straine Yet if he gentle be he cannot chuse But my most willing mind though not my Verse excuse MEDITATION 5. Of Grauitie MY Muse now fares like some Geometrician That hauing view'd on Globe terrestriall The Earth and

sword or shield And leades him by the eye-lids to her snare Heau'ns from such subtill vile allurements shield All those that haue a Conscience and care Their hearts fit Temples for thy Spirit to prepare Purge vs with Hyssope and we shall be pure Wash vs we than the Snow shall be more white Our Soules and Bodies Temple shall be sure A holy house wherein thou mayst delight But I the vertue for the vice haue quight I purpos'd Chastity here to commend But Lust so fiercely with my Muse doth fight I scarce mine owne am able to defend Therefore with Prayer I my Meditation end Oh thou that mad'st my Soule a little King And in this little-world my-Body plac't It subiect making to the ordering Of Reason wherewith thou this King hast grac't Set first of all the Soueraignes Kingdome fast Whereby his Subiects he may rule aright That is affections keepe most pure and chast But most in spirituall chastitie delight To which adde Constancie of which I next do write MEDITATION 3. Of Constancy SO oft as I the Splendour do behold Of heau'nly Graces linkt in golden chaine Which them so firmely doth together hold That all they but as one seeme to remaine My Soule is so delighted with their traine That she desires to dwell with them for ay But oft employment pleasures cares and gaine Mine eyes and heart so draw another way I fleshly motions more than spirituall obay And as these Graces ioyn'd my soule delight So doth each singled out by Meditation Sing I of Loue I loue with all my might If Humblenesse she workes humiliation So Faith Repentance Hope Iustification By Righteousnesse imputed Mercy kind Ioy Patience Fortitude chast Conuersation Peace Meeknesse Prayer Zeale eu'n all I find Do alwayes to my Song both sute mine heart and mind But such are my Corruptions innate Hels malice and the worlds enticements vaine I can no longer hold that happy state Than I in Contemplation remaine This is the cause my Muse is now so faine To sing of Constancie that heau'nly Grace Which all the rest doth ay with vs retaine Most glorious Grace the lustre of whose face Both heau'nly Loue and all her Peeres for euer grace For without Her the rest are all but showes Like Corne by high-wayes side flourish awhile And seemes more glorious than that which grows Vpon best bottom'd dunged tilled Soyle But as that onely doth our eyes beguile With flourishes in calme and gentle spring But Summers heate and frosts it 's verdure spoile Eu'n so these rootlesse Vertues flourishing Aduerse or prosp'rous Fortune to confusion bring Thou that art from Eternity the same Without least shadow of Variety Like to the Sun heau'ns pure world-lightning flame Constant in beate course and serenitie Three yet subsisting in one Deitie Who though thou seem'st to change with things below Art farre in truth from Mutability Oh make mine heart in vertue constant grow That thence as from a Fountaine this Discourse may flow We Constancie a Perseuerance call In some good purpose for in eu'ry thing We vndertake right must be first of all Resolu'd of next our firme perseuering A vaine vnsettled idle wauering Without iust ground by Proteus Poets faine Who on himselfe as many formes will bring As he hath idle notions in his braine Or base desires and Lusts which in his heart remaine But in good purpose to stand fast and sound Not onely man-like is but most diuine Like God in whom no change was euer found For as the Sunne this worlds pure crystall eyne In heau'n doth alwaies with like glory shine Though by the varying Medium's here below It seeme more glorious in the Summer time Than when Eolian blasts darke clouds do blow So Constance is the same though alt'ring oft in show This Constance is with Patience a twin Begot by Iupiter of Fortitude Mother and Babes as like as neere of kin Who hath one with all three must be indude These lift vp to heroicall habitude And come from Iustice and a prudent mind If Fury Rage Wrong Rashnesse do intrude We them no vertues faire but vices find With whom Minerua nor the Graces euer ioyn'd Patience and Constancie in this agree Effeminate faint hearts ay to oppose And men relieue in all extremitie Vndanted resolute who will not loose That liberty they haue the Good to choose Thus seeme they one now marke their difference Patience all wrongs with courage vndergoes For without Suffering's no Patience But Constance is in ioy and paine a firme defence Without Compulsion free for Vertues sake Patience constrain'd oft by necessity Most cheerefull valiantly doth vndertake To beare what cannot well auoyded be One good end Constancie propounds which she Onely regards but noble patience Before her will all euils conquerd see Which her oppresse in flesh or conscience Both haue braue resolution and sound confidence No fury of the headlesse Multitude No Tyrants rage a constant mind can shake Though all the world turne to a Chaos rude The ruines crush him may but can not make Him stagger nor Ioues thunder make him quake The Sea may roare the waues mount to the skies And threaten him to drowne in deepest Lake But Fury Rage Waues all he doth despise And when hopes outward faile his inward highest rise He constant perseueres vnto the end Like some good traueller who giues not in Till he attaine the place he doth intend And as the Souldier that the towne would winne Fights stoutly till he conquers all within Eu'n so in Buildings Arts or Merchandize In any Worke or Science we beginne It is the end where all our glory lyes He runs in vaine that faints before he wins the Prize Though all her meanes all her strength do saile Yet feares she not to hold out to the end She 's still the same and nothing can preuaile To alter any Good she doth intend To whom the heau'ns true Constancie do send Within their hearts to dwell on all occasions Effects most admirable thence transcend She fils the heart with such secure perswasions They it defend from all faint-hearted base inuasions A constant man the most disastrous fate With a most pleasing forehead entertaines Integrity so sweetens his estate As in a pleasant Calme he ay remaines With her he alwayes in his heart retaines Hope Prudence Fortitude Right Temperance And when him Troubles Losses Griefe or Paines Assaile so stoutly patience doth aduance He liueth most secure not subiect vnto Chance Braue noble Constance who art neuer sound Except dame Prudence thee accompany Thou on her counsels and aduice dost found Thy setled resolutions all whereby Thou standst most firme for Truth and Honesty Nothing can thee thus well resolu'd withstand In vaine and euill things no constancie But base peruersnesse we do vnderstand Iust honest profitable's all she takes in hand For perseuerance in a thing that 's ill Is to this Vertue no lesse enemy Than they that by affections guide their will With vaine inconstancy and leuitie