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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

thy honour will due Trophees raise ERYCHTHONIUS THis was a monster or a man with Dragons feeet begot of Vulcans seed shed on the ground whilst he was offering violence to Minerva the virgin which monster notwithstanding was cherished by Minerva and delivered to the daughter of Cecrops to be kept with a caution that they should not look into the basket to see what was there which advice they not obeying looked in and so grew mad and broke their own necks THE MYSTERIES VUlcan shedding his seed on the ground is the elementarie fire concurring with the earth in which are the other two elements and of these all monsters are procreated and by Minerva that is the influence of heaven or of the Sun cherished and fomented though not at first by God produced but since Adams fall and for the punishment of sin 2. Vulcan offering wrong to Minerva is that unregenerate part of man called by the Apostle the law of our members rebelling against the law of the minde of which ariseth that spirituall combate and strife in good men which is begun by the flesh but cherished and increased by the spirit till at last the spirit get the victorie 3. Minerva that is he that makes a vow to live still a virgin must look to have the fierie Vulcan of lust to offer him violence and so he shall never be free from inward molestation and trouble therefore better marrie then burne and if he intertains any unchast thoughts though his bodie be undefiled yet he is no pure virgin as Lactantius a sheweth that Minerva was not because she cherished Erychthonius therefore an unchast minde in a chast body is like Minerva fomenting Vulcans brat he is a pure virgin sayth a S. Hierom whose minde is chast as well as his body and this he ingeniously confesseth was wanting in himself 4. Minerva that is wisdom hath no such violent enemie as Vulcan that is firie anger which doth not only overthrow wisdom in the minde for a time for it is short fury but is also the cause of Erychthonius that is of all strife and contention in the world 5. War is a firie Vulcan an enemie to learning or Minerva the cause of Erychthonius of monstrous outrages and enormities and oftentimes fomented by seditious schollers and learning abused 6. Erychthonius is a covetous man as the world shews for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is contention and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is the earth and what else is covetousnes but a presumptious desire of earthly things and the cause of so much strife and contention in the world this monster came of Vulcan the god of fire that is of Satan the god of this world who reigns in the fire of contention and in the fire of Hell and is fomented by Minerva the soul which is the seat of wisdom 7. Tertullian b sayth that Erychthonius is the devil and indeed not unfitly for he is the father of all strife and of avarice he hath a mans wisdom or head to allure us to sin but a Dragons feet to torment us in the end for sin whosoever with delight shall look on him shall at last receive destruction 8. Let us take heed we pry not too curiously in the basket of natures secrets lest we be served as Cecrops daughters or as Pliny and Empedocles were 9. A Magistrate or Governour must be like Erychthonius who was himself King of Athens he must be both a man and a Dragon if the face of humanitie and mercy will not prevail then the Dragons feet of vigour and justice must walk 10. If any firy or chollerick Vulcan shall offer us wrong we must wisely defend our selves with Minerva and conceal the injury our own grief as she did Erychthonius 11. Though the preserving and cherishing of Vulcans childe is no certain proof that Minerva lost her virginitie neither did shee lose it though Vuloffred her violence because there was no consent yet it becoms all chiefly virgins to aovid both the evil the occasion therof that there may be no supition 1. Why Vulcans fire With Vesta did conspire To make the monster Erychthonius It was because Man would not keep Gods Laws But run the course that was erroneous 2. There was no hell Nor death till Adam fell Nor monster or deformed Progeny Minerva's thigh Nor Sols resplendant eye Did neither cherish nor such monsters see 3. Now Vulcan sues Minerva to abuse And to pollute her pure virginity So doth the coal Of lust inflame my soul The flesh against the spirit strives in me 4. O if my minde Could peace and freedom finde From inward broils and Vulcans wanton eye O if the fire Of lust and all desire Of earthly things in me would fade and dye 5. My soul is vext And too too much perplext With angers fear and fiery violence Which breeds in me Much strife continually That darkneth both my judgement and my sence 6. And how shall I Resist the tyrannie Of Vulcan if I have not arms of strength Therefore O Lord Lend me thy conquering sword That I may be victorious at length EUMENIDES THese were the 3 furies the daughters of Pluto and Proserpina or of hell darknesse night and earth in heaven they were called Dirae in earth Harpiae in hell Furiae they had snakes in stead of hairs brasen feet torches in one hand and whips in the other and wings to fly with THE MYSTERIES COmmonly these 3 furies are taken for the tortures of an evill conscience proceeding from the guilt of sin they cause feare and furie as the word Erinnys signifieth hell is the place of their aboad and where they are there is hell the tortures wherof are begun in the conscience of wicked men 2. There are three unruly passions in men answering to these three furies covetousnesse is Alecto which ●ever giveth over seeking wealth and indeed this is the greatest of all the furies and will not suffer the 〈…〉 r to eat injoy the goods that he hath gotten a 〈…〉 riarum maxima juxta accubat et manibus p 〈…〉 contingere mensas this is a Harpie indeed 〈…〉 ly delighting in rapine but polluting every t 〈…〉 hath b contracting omnia faedat immund 〈…〉 may be called Iupiters dog or rather a dog 〈…〉 manger neither eating himself nor suffering others to eat the other furie is Megaera that is en●●● full of poyson and snakie hairs the third is Tisiphone which is inordinate anger or a revengefull dispositiō the burning torch and wings shew the nature of anger all these have their begining and being fr●● Hell from darknesse and night even from Satan and the two-fold darknesse that is in us to wit the ignorance of our understanding and the corruption of our will but as the Furies had no access unto Apollo's temple but were placed in the porch c ultricesque sedent in lumine Dirae although otherwayes they were had in great

qualitie adherent to beautie either true or apparent which causeth love in us now that love which all creatures have to creatures of their own kind in multiplying them by generation is the childe of Vulcan and Venus for it is begot of their own naturall heat outward beautie by beauty I mean whatsoever we account pleasing to us whether it be wealth honour pleasure vertue c. 2. The reasons why love was thus painted I conceive to be these Cupid is a childe because love must be still young for true love cannot grow old and so die amor qui desinere potest nunquam fuit verus Hee hath wings for love must be swift he is blind for love must wink at many things it covereth a multitude of sins he is naked for amongst friends all things should be common the heart must not keep to it self any thing secret which was the fault that Dalila found in Sampsons love he is crowned with roses for as no flower so much refresheth the spirits and delights our smell as the rose so nothing doth so much sweeten and delight our life as love but the rose is not without prickles nor love without cares the crown is the ensigne of a King and no such King as love which hath subdued all the creatures rationall sensitive vegetative and senslesse have their sympathies the image of a Lionesse with little Cupids playing about her some tying her to a pillar others putting drinke into her mouth with a horne c. do shew how the most fierce creatures are made tame by love therefore he hath a rose in one and a Dolphin in the other to shew the qualitie of love which is swift and officious like the Dolphin delectable and sweet like the rose his arrows do teach us that love wounds deeply when we cannot obtain what we love some of his arrows are pointed with lead some with gold he is wounded with a golden arrow that aimes at a rich wife and cannot obtain her to be wounded with leaden arrows is to be afflicted for want of ordinary objects which we love and so his burning torches shew that a lover is consumed with grief for not obtaining the thing loved as the wax is with heat Ardet amans Dido Vritur infaelix Caeco carpitur igne Est mollis flamma medullas Haeret lateri laethalis arundo c. These are my conceits of Cupids picture other Mythologists have other conceits applying all to unchast and wanton love whose companions are drunkennesse quarrelling childish toyes c. Alas my soul how men are vext That fix their love on gilded dung Which when they want they are perplext And when they have it they are stung Great riches wounds With cares mans heart As wealth abounds So doth their smart Doth not the love of earthly things Devest men of their richest robe And then they fly away with wings And leaves them naked on this Globe Besides all that They blinde men eyes That they cannot Behold the skies And doth not earthly things besides With burning torches men torment And with sharp arrows wound their sides So that our dayes in pain are spent Then why should I Affect these things Which misery And sorrow brings This love makes men like foolish boyes Who place their chief felicity In bits of glasses shels and toyes Or in a painted Butter-flye So riches are Which we alas Scrape with such care But bits of glasse Lord let me see thy beauty which Doth onely true contentment bring And so in thee I shall be rich Oh if I had swift Cupids wing Then would I flee By faith above And fix on thee My heart and love That Christ is the true God of Love Christ is the onely God of Loves Who did his secrets all disclose Whose wings are swifter then the Doves Who onely hath deserv'd the Rose Thou onely art That potent King Both of my heart And every thing Both Principalities and Powers And all that 's in the sea and land Men Lyons Dolphins Birds and Flowers Are all now under thy command Thy Word 's the torch Thy Word 's the dart Which both doth scorch And wound my heart It was not Cupid sure that spoil'd The gods of all their vestiments But thou art he that has them foil'd And stript them of their ornaments Then thou alone Deserves to be Set in the Throne Of Majesty Sometime a Crown of Thorns did sit Upon that sacred head of thine But sure a Rose-crown was more fit For thee and Thorns for this of mine O God what love Was this in thee That should thee move To dye for me Thy youth is alwayes green and fresh Thy lasting yeers Lord cannot fail O look not on my sinfull flesh But mask thy eyes with mercy's vail O Lord renew In me thy love And from thy view My sins remove CYCLOPES THese were the sons of heaven their mother was earth and sea men of huge stature having but one eye which was in their forehead they lived upon mens flesh Polyphemus was their chief he was a shepherd and in love with Galathaea he having devoured some of Vlisses his fellowes was by him intoxicated with wine and his eye thrust out These Cyclopes dwelt in Sicily and were Vulcans servants in making Iupiters thunder and Mars his chariots c. THE MYSTERIES THese Cyclopes are by some meant the vapours which by the influence of heaven are drawn out of the earth and sea and being in the air ingender thunder and lightning to Iupiter as their a names shew they dwelt in Sicilie about hill Aetna because heat is the breeder of thunder they were thrust down to Hell by their father and came up againe because in the cold winter these vapours lie in the earth and by heat of the spring are elevated wise Vlisses overcame Polyphemus that is man by his wisdome and observation found out the secrets of these naturall things and causes thereof Apollo was sayd to kill these Cyclopes because the Sun dispelleth vapours 2. I think by these Cyclopes may be understood the evill spirits whose habitation is in burning Aetna that is in Hell burning with fire and brimstone being thrown down justly by God from heaven for their pride but are permitted sometimes for our sins to rule in the air whose service God useth sometimes in sending thunder and stormes to punish the wicked they may well be called Cyclopes from their round eye and circular motion for as they have a watchfull eye which is not easily shut so they compasse the earth to and fro they may be sayd to have but one eye to wit of knowledge which is great for outward eyes they have not their chief food and delight is in the destroying of mankinde Polyphemus or Belzebub is the chief who having devoured Vlisses fellowes that is mankinde the true Vlisses Christ the wisdom of the father came and having powred unto him the full cup of the Red wine of his wrath bound him and thrust out

kill their sins Diana was midwife to bring forth Apollo so the Church travells in her birth till Christ be formed in us and brought forth in our holy lives and as it fared with Diana's temple which was burned by Erostratus so it doth with the Church whose Temples have bin robbed defaced and ruinated by prophane men Who would a chaste and constant virgin be Must shun the worlds impure society And idlenesse for want of exercise Corrupts our limbs and kills our souls with vice On cloud-transcending meditations We must have still our conversations In Cities chaste Diana never dwels But in green woods and on the airy hils In woods she hunts wilde beasts on hils she dances And on her shoulder blades her bow advances Oreades about her in a ring In measures trace the ground and sweetly sing Oh that I had Diana's wings that I From tumults to these calm retreats might flye Where she amongst her Nymphs doth reign as queen Where Flora keeps her fragrant Magazin Where wood-Musitians with their warbling throats Chant forth untaught but yet melodious notes Neer Chrystall-brested rivers O that I Could still enjoy this harmlesse companie Which know not pride nor malice nor deceits Nor flattery the moth and bane of states O that I had Diana's silver bow To kill my beastly sins before they grow Too savage if I had the nimble feet Of her two Stags then would I be as fleet As they to run the way of Gods commands Then would I hold the Lyon in my hands And Leopard O if I could subdue My wilde unruly fins a savage crew O let my weary soul be carried Lord In that bright silver chariot of thy Word And let thy fear and milk-white innocence Be these two Stags to draw my soul from hence And whil'st my glasse runs in obscurity Let me not lose my virgin purity And let not fair Diana thy chaste love Thy spotlesse Church thy silver feather'd Dove Abuse her self with grosse idolatry And lose the honour of virginity Let that Ephesian perish with disgrace Who would her Temple and her state deface Let no Records eternize that foul name And let it not be mention'd but with shame CHAP. V. E ELYSIUM THe Elysian fields were places of pleasure in which the souls of good men after this life did converse enjoying all those delights which they affected in this life THE MYSTERIES ELysium is a place of libertie as the word sheweth for they only enjoy it who are loosed from their bodies not only Poets but scriptures also have described those heavenly joyes under earthly tearmes for our capacitie there is Paradise in which is the tree of life there shines another Sun then here to wit the sun of righteousnesse there are rivers of pleasure there are the flowers of all divine graces there is a perpetuall spring the Musick of Angels the supper and wedding feast of the Lamb the new Ierusalem all built of pretious stones the fountain of living waters all kinde of spirituall fruits the continuall breath of Gods spirit c. And as none could enter the Elysian fields till he was purged so no unclean thing can enter into the new Ierusalem the blood of Christ must purge us from all sin and as they must passe Acharon Phlegeton and other rivers of Hell before they can have accesse to those delightfull fields so we must passe through fire water troubles and persecutions before we can enter into heaven and thus we see the Gentiles were not ignorant of a reward for good men and of punnishment for the wicked You that delight in painted meads In silver brooks in cooling shades In dancing feasts harmonious layes In Chrystall springs and groves of bayes Draw neer and I will let you see A Tempe full of majesty Where neither white-hair'd Boreas snows Nor black-wing'd Auster ever blows But sweet-breath'd Zephyr still doth curl The meads and purest streams here purl From silver springs which glide upon Rich Pearl and Orientall stone Here on the banks of Rivers grows Each fruitfull tree here Laurell groves Ne're fade here 's a perpetuall spring With Nightingales the woods still ring Meads flourish here continually In their sweet smelling Tapestry The Pink the gilded Daffadilly The shame-fac'd Rose the white cheek'd Lilly The Violet the Columbine The Marigold the Eglantine Rosemary Time and Gilli-flowers Grow without help of Sun or showers Vines still bear purple clusters here New wine aboundeth all the yeer The ground exhales that pleasant smell Which doth all earthly sents excell And this place of it's own accord Doth all these benefits afford There needs no husbandmen to toil And labour in this happy soil Rage tyranny oppression Fraud malice and ambition And avarice here are not known And coals of discord are not blown But in this blessed mansion Dwels perfect love and union Here are no cares nor fears nor death Nor any pestilentiall breath Which may infect that wholsom air But here 's continuall dainty fare Ambrosia here on trees doth grow And cups with Nectar overflow Tables with flowry carpets spread Are still most richly furnished Drums Trumpets Canons roaring sounds Are never heard within these bounds But sacred Songs and Jubilees Timbrels Organs and Psalteries Sackbuts Violins and Flutes Harps silver Symbals solemn Lutes All these in one joyn'd harmony With Hallelujah's pierce the sky Here 's neither night nor gloomy cloud Which can that world in darknesse shroud But there 's an everlasting day Which knows no evening or decay There shines a Sun whose glorious fire Shall not with length of time expire And who shall never set or fall In Neptunes azure glassie hall Here are no birds or beasts of prey Here is no sicknesse nor decay Nor sorrow hunger infamy Nor want nor any misery Nor silver-headed age which bows The back and furrows up the brows But here 's the ever-smiling prime Of youth which shall not fade with time Mirth plenty glory beauty grace And holinesse dwell in this place Such joys as yet hath never been By mortals either heard or seen What tongue is able to rehearse What Muse can sing or paint in verse This place to which all earthly joys Compared are but fading toys Sure if I had a voice as shrill As thunder or had I a quill Pluck't from an Angels pinion And if all tongues were joyn'd in one Yet could they not sufficiently Expresse this places dignity Which golden feather'd Cherubims And fire-dispersing Seraphims Have circled with their radiant wings To keep away all hurtfull things O thou whose glory ne'r decayes When these my short and evil dayes Are vanish'd like a dream or shade Or like the grasse and flowers that fade Lord let my soul have then accesse Unto that endlesse happinesse Where thy blest saints with warbling tongues Are chanting still celestiall songs Where winged quiresters thy praise Still Caroll forth with heavenly layes When shall my bondage Lord expire That I may to that place retire When shall I end