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The epigrams of P. Virgilius Maro, and others With the praises of him and his workes. Also his epitaphs composed by diuers illustrious persons. And lastly, the arguments of his workes. Englished by I.P. louer of learning.
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Penkethman, John.; Virgil, attributed name.
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all 6 In praise of the Aeneid By Ouid. WAndring Aeneas lofty Romes beginning No worke hath Italy more glory winning 7 Of Virgils want on writing By Ouid to Augustus YEt happy he whose Muse thy Aeneid bred Armes and a man brought to a Tyrian bed Yea in verse Bucolicke before but yong Phyllis and Amarillys loues he sung 8 Of Virgil. By Christodorus ANd whom for Eloquence Ausonia chose Her fauourite sweet Swan-like Maro flourisht Whom with renowne at Rome where Tyber flowes His country as another Homer nourisht 9 Vpon Virgil and his workes By Sextus Propertius in his 2. Booke Elegy 24. PHoebus-fenc'd Actium Virgd it delights That he could sing with Caesars nauall fights Who with Aeneas conflicts now restores The citie ruin'd on Lauinian shores Ye Greeke and Latine writers backwards stand Some greater worke then th'lliad is in hand Thou by Galesus where Pines shading breed Thyrsis and Daphnis singst with slender Reed And how Ten apples could a Maid infect And from the printed Teat a Kid select He 's blest that buyes loue at so deare a Rate Though Tityrus doe sing to her ingrate Blest Corydon that tempts Alexis chaste The Husbandman his Lords delights to taste Though wearied with his pipe to rest he layes him The gentle Hamadryades doe praise him The precepts of old Hesiod thou dost sing What field yeelds corne what vallyes grapes doe bring As Phoebus if the learned Lute he take And play thereon such Musicke thou dost make Here may I conclude his praises with two lines vpon his Georgickes written by our most witty and famous Epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen late Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford deceased Thus Englished TRim verses of Grounds Tillage Maro writ Who thereby tills the Readers fields and wit Epitaphs vpon Virgil. By diuers illustrious persons 1 Palladius HEre am I couer'd whose late rusticke pen Through woods and fields came to the armes of men 2 Asclepiades I Maro sung of Mars a man sheepe corne Buried in Naples but in Mantua borne 3 Eusebius Here Virgil lies that pastures did reherse Good husbandry and Troian warres in verse 4 Pompelianus The Poet that sung battailes fields and sheepe Dy'd in Calabria and here lies asleepe 5 Maximianus Virgil by Verse of cattell grounds and warres Hath merited fame lasting like the starres 6 Vitalis My verses woods grounds warres my place of birth Mantua name Virgil my graue Naples earth 7 Basilius Vnder this heape the Poet Maro lies That woods fields warres in verses beautifies 8 Asmodianus The Shepheards Poet here vntimely prest Country and combats I in verse exprest 9 Vouianus Here lies wit-honour'd Maro whose Muse came From woods to fields from fields to Mars his game 10 Eugenius Precepts I writ of Pasturage and tyllage Then Armies vntill Death of me made pillage 11 Iulianus Here sleepeth Virgil that in sweetest measures Vtter'd Pan Ceres and Bellona's pleasures 12 Hilasius Shepheards and Plowmens cunning I that taught And set forth fights this Tombe am vnder brought The same Authour vpon Virgils picture Maro thy Picture foyles the fatall dart Whom Nature tooke we see restor'd by Art Another by the same Authour So great a Poet feeles no hurt by death Whose Verses honour keepes him still in breath Virgil or another in his name Me Mantua Brunduse Naples bore tooke holds Whose volume pastures plow-lands armes infolds Vpon his Daphnis By an vncertaine Authour In Daphnis wailing for thy Flaccus fate With Gods learn'd Maro thou mak'st him a mate By an vncertaine Authour I Shepheard Plowman Horseman stout did Pasture my Goats with leaues till my grounds with spade out-stand my enemies with hand Now seeing I haue before inserted an Epigram made by M. Iohn Owen giue me leaue in this place to annex his owne Epitaph which is ingrauen in a plate of Brasse and fixed vnder his monumentall Image formed and erected by the most exquisite Artist M. Epiphanius Euesham withinthe Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul thus Englished SMall was thy state and stature which doe claime Small statue through great lands thy small Booke flies But small thine honour is not nor thy fame For greater wit then thine the world denies Whom a small house a great Church shelter giues A Poet when he dies then truly liues The Arguments of Virgils workes viz. 1. Monostichs of all his workes He sings in sundry strifes the Shepheards Muse Grounds tillage learnedly he shewes in measures Teacheth to graft and plant without abuse Beasts nurture next and Pales with her treasures Bees ordring then with honies gifts and pleasures To Carthage comes Aeneas wandring farre Reports the manner of the Troian warre The same Reporter shewes his proper courses Death on her selfe loue-burnt Eliza forces His fathers graue with sports Aeneas graces Then Ghosts he visits and infernall places He enters Latium and th' Italian bounds Here Turnus from his roofe warre-thundring sounds A mother and young men her sonne lament To death is Lausus and his father sent Reneng'd Camilla by a speare extinct With spirts infernall Daunus sonne is linkt 2 Tetrastichs of his 4. Bookes of Georgickes WHat man in Bucolicks and read how well In tillage and in vines trees plants heards bees Troyes Poet was Tetrastichs here shall tell Each bookes contents who viewes my writing sees 1 What makes Corne thriue he shewes what wether 's meet For Husbandmen the fields with ploughes to greet How casting seeds he should manure the soyle To reape much profit for his cost and toyle 2 Earths tillage hitherto and season-skill Now fings he vine-leaues and the virent hill What places Bacchus and the vineyard sute And th' Oliue branch that beares the chiefest fruite 3 Pales and Shepheards through the world renowu'd Ordring of cattell and grasse clothed ground What soile to beasts or lambes we should assigne All these our Poet shewes in verse diuine 4 Then Realmes of dew-bred hony sweetly smelling Bees bred in Hybla and their waxen dwelling What flowres they sucke with swarme collecting drifts He shewes and their moist combe celestiall gifts 3. Monostichs of his 12. Bookes of Aeneids I Th' first Aeneas comes to th' Lybian Queene i th' second be Troyes warres and ruine seene The third his wandring shewes and buried sire The fourth Eliza vext with Cupids fire Games in the fifth and burning Ships appeare Hell in the sixth is search'd and Spirits there To th' destin'd land the seuenth Aeneas brings Warres preparation th' eighth ' gainst foemen fings They fight i th' ninth whose Captaine is remote Mezentius flies i th' tenth to Charons boate i th' last but one hard Mars a virgin spild i th' last by armes diuine is Turnus kild 4. Pentestichs of the same 1 AT Iuno's suite winds Aeole setting free To Affricke driues the Troians wandring fleet Ioues words to Venus grieu'd a comfort be Dido in Carthoge doth Aeneas meet Cupid Iulus like her heart doth greet 2 Aeneas mou'd warres fortune doth relate The horse how guilefull Greekes with Sinon were The citie ruin'd
wrought And stayd the waters as they past along The senslesse Rockes alluring with a song And Trees attending such sweet-sounding Layes Him as they say one shadow'd in his wayes Yea more he made by pleasing speeches milde And ciuill by lips learned people wilde To one Societie this Orpheus brought them Polisht their Manners rude and Iustice taught them 7 Of Gaming HAte Lucre mad Desire doth deeply grieue Old men flie Fraud vnskill'd the skill'd beleeue Gamesters their mindes must with their money lay Shun spightfull Strife when thou art queld in play Play ye secure that still haue coyne in store Who comes in monyed so departs no more Couetous Gamesters goe by weeping Crosse Good men loue peace leaue Anger hauing losse No man in Game can euer luckie bee Wrath make the Furies Foure at first but Three Chastise thy raging spirits true to play Timely fly fighting and put Ire away 8 Of the Letter y. THis Two-horn'd letter of Pythagoras Seemes to do denote how Men their liues doe passe Steepe on the Right hand Vertues way is bent Which at first sight hard entrance doth present Yet giues the wearied Rest when they attaine The highest Top the left way broad and plaine Shewes a soft iourney but the bounds at last Captiu'd by steepe Rockes headlong all doe cast For whosoere for Vertues loues endures Both praise and honour to himselfe procures But he that artlesse Luxury pursues Or Sloth and labour offerd doth refuse With inconsiderate minde his time shall spend In shame and want and reape a wretched end 9 Of the 12. Labours of Hercules CLeone saw him first the Lion fell Next Lerna's serpent Shaft and fire did quell After with life th' Erymanthian Bore did part Which done of golden hornes he reft the Hart. Those won the Birds of Stymphalus he foild Then th'Amazonian of her Belt he spoild By seuenth toyle he purg'd a Stable full By eighth he triumpht in th'expulsed Bull. By ninth both Horse and Master he confounded For Geryons end Spaine his tenth glory sounded Apples of Gold were his eleuenth gaines And Pluto's Porter period of his paines 12 A good Man A Wise good man where wisdomes God in many Yea many thousands hath found hardly any Himselfe doth censure and search euery where And what Repute with all sorts he doth beare Round like the World abiding and secure Lest his plague Out-side blemish doe endure He weighes in Cancer when the day-light ends How farre the night in Capricorne extends And with iust Ballance himselfe poyseth well Lest either Cleft appeare or Angle swell That all his parts may equally befit And that the Plumbe line may not swerue a whit He must be sollid all no emptinesse Let erring fingers force in him expresse Let not his Eye lids be to sleepe inclinde Ere he his daies whole actions call to minde What he hath slipt what done in out of season Why this fact wanted comelinesse that reason What I haue past why this opinion stood Which for me to haue chang'd it had beene good Why pittying him that feels wants bittersmart I suffered Griefe with an effeminate heart Why would what I should not and why gaine Rather then goodnesse did I entertaine Whether in Speech or Lookes harsh any knew me Why Nature more then Learnings vertue drew me Thus passing through what he hath sayd and done And not long after Setting of the Sun All things reuoluing with the Bad offended He giues the Palme to th' Good by him commended 13 Of the ages of diuers liuing creatures THe life of Man most commonly outweares Being complete fourescore and sixteene yeares And these nine times exceeds the pratling Crow Yet doth the Hart that age foure times o're goe And thrice his yeeres expirde the Rauen dies But those the Phoenix nine times multiplies Yet th'Hamadriades Nymphs past compare Breathe nine times longer then that Bird so rare Those creatures vitall fates these bounds restraining The rest God knowes the secret Age ordaining Some men set before them these two others AHedge three yeeres a Dog three hedges courses A Horse three Dogs a Man out-liues three Horses 14 Of the Muses inuentions CLio things done doth afterwards reherse Melpomene shewes all in Tragicke verse To wanton words her minde Thalia bends Sweet sounds from hollow reeds Euterpe sends Terpsichore loue with Harpe moues rules augments With songs lookes dances Erato contents Calliope indites heroicke lines Vrania notes heauens motions starres and signes Speaking with gesture Polymneia stands And figures all things with her learned hands These on all parts Apollo's vertue guides And he ith'midst embracing all abides Of the same in prose Clio inuented Histories Melpomene inuented Tragedies Thalia inuented Comedies Euterpe inuented Flutes and such like Terpsichore inuented The Harpe Erato inuented Geometrie Calliope inuented Letters Vrania inuented Astrologie Polymneia inuented Rhetoricke 15 Of our Image in the water Distichs varied 12. seuerall wayes 1 THe looker sees his lookes in water cleare As in an obiect-myrror they appeare 2 Pure formes from water to the sight doe passe As from the splendour of a looking glasse 3 The fountaine represents our likenesse right Such as the steele-glasse which is plaine and bright 4 Still Waters figures opposite no lesse Then myrrours through their brightnesse doe expresse 5 Springs voyde of mud dissemble our Aspects As each bright myrrors orbe the same reflects 6 Cleare Water is the chrystall mirrors ape For either to Spectators tels their shape 7 Fountaines most cleare shew faces seeming true Like Glasse that women for their dressing view 8 As the Beholders forme Steele-glasses take So Formes their Image in the water make 9 Feign'd Shapes in Conduit-heads the Right ingender As to each face the Glasse a face doth render 10 The Spring vntroubled Shape for Shape doth yeeld As Substance Shadowes in a Glassie field 11 Bodies in quiet Springs are seene againe As Images appeare in Mirrors plaine 12 The Viewer viewes himselfe in glassie Brookes As in that brittle stuffe whereon he lookes 16 Of a Riuer Frozen Distichs varied 12. seuerall wayes 1 WHere Ships did vse to plow yok'd Oxen drew When once hard Winter did the Waters glew 2 The Floud beares Wheels where Shipmen sails did strike So soone as Frost congeales it Marble-like 3 Hardned with Winters cold the Waters bore Waines drawne with Oxen that Ships cut before 4 To solid Ice the Riuer being chang'd Indures the Wheele where fleeting vessels rang'd 5 The Carres where Ships were wont haue past the flood Since turn'd to Ice like Marble it hath stood 6 A road for Carres where Ships did run is made With Frost the Waters being firmly laid 7 In place of Ships the Trackt of Wheeles is found Since Icy Winter the loose Waters bound 8 Yok'd Oxen draw the Waine where Ships did reele Winds hauing hardned Waues to beare the Wheele 9 The Beast now drags where Mariners did sound The Riuer being turn'd to massie ground 10 The Streame with cold extreme now firme abiding Beares