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Virtus rediviva a panegyrick on our late King Charles the I. &c. of ever blessed memory. Attended, with severall other pieces from the same pen. Viz. [brace] I. A theatre of wits: being a collection of apothegms. II. Fœnestra in pectore: or a century of familiar letters. III. Loves labyrinth: a tragi-comedy. IV. Fragmenta poetica: or poeticall diversions. Concluding, with a panegyrick on his sacred Majesties most happy return. / By T.F.
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Forde, Thomas.
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companions Lam. Well fear not Sâ—â—â—la already I Have found a way to case thy mind I have A little money left and there withal Soon shall I purchase a small flock for thee Where thou shalt live secure and free from fear Enjoy thy little with content there is A shepherd lately dead whose flock I 'll buy And thou shalt be it's Mistris Samela Sam. Uncle my thanks shall ever ready be For you as always is your care for me But let your haste prevent my comming griefs For griefs have wings wherewith they flie to us Comforts are leaden heel'd and move but slow Lam. Fear not I will dispatch it suddenly The shepherd Doron's brother's lately dead And he hath the disposal of the flock As soon as I can find him we will try If reasonable price will make them ours Enter Doron See where he comes preventing me Doron The merry shepherd whither away so fast Dor I 'm running for my life Sir my brother 's Lately dead and I 'm afraid death will catch Me too if I don't make haste I 'm sure Carmela has half cut the thred of my Life in twain with the hook of her crueltie Besides Moron's sheep are roving to find Their master and they I go till they lose Themselves if I find them not the sooner Lam. Moron what was he a kin to a fool Dor. Why he was my own brother Sir Lam. I thought so Dor. I must be gone Lam. Nay stay Doron what wilâ— thou take and we Will ease thee of the trouble of thy sheep Dor. By my troth Sir and you shall have them but What will you give me and you shall have His flock ay and me too if you will for I think Carmela won't Gives him gold Lam. Will these content thee for thy sheep Dor. Ay marry this is something lik you Shall have them Sir were there as many Of them as there are hairs on their Backs They talk of a golden fleece But I think I have made their fleeces Gold now Come Sir I 'll deliver you the sheep Exeunt Scaen. 6. Enter Menaphon Forlorn forsaken and the object made Of all the shepherds storms what shall I do Love is no god Fortune is blind and can Not help sleep flies and cares possess my head Mirth makes me melancholy company Yields me no comfort when I am alone A thousand fancies do distract my thoughts And when I try to drown my cares in wine They swim aloft and will be uppermost I 'll try if I can sing my cares asleep Ye restless cares companions of the night That wrap my joyes in clouds of endless woes Spare not my heart but wound it with your â—â—ight Since love and fortune prove my equal foâ—s Enter Pesana Farewel my hopes farewel my happy dayes Welcom sweet grief the subject of my layes Pes Now will I take time by the fore-lock and Creep into Menaphon's breast through the cracks His minion Sâ—â—â—lâ— has made in it Aside Friend Menaphon what is your courage cool'd Men. Cold entertainment hath my courage cool'd Pes You know where you might have been let in long E're this without assault or batterie But you 'r serv'd in your kind for being coy Now you have met with your mate friend I hope Men. She set my heart on fire by her presence That will not be put out by her absence Pes Then I see you mean to follow her with Your suit and service still for all her scorn Men. No she hath wounded me too deep to make Pursuit after her therefore let her go Pes Now then you know what 't is to be slighted So once you slighted me now I 'll slight you Exit Men. Ah cruel love whose musick is compos'd Of Lovers jars an discords mixt with sighs If I turn traytor once more unto love I 'll rob him of his deitie and pull His little Kingdom down I 'll pull his wings And with the quils made into pens and dipt In saddest lovers tears in stead of ink I 'll Satyres write against his tyrannie Exit Scaen. 7. Enter King Agenor Plusidippus and Euriphila Kin. Why then my Plusidippus will you leave Us and your fortunes It is my resolve To make you heir to my crown my Son And Successor Plu. Great Sir I would not be Fondly injurious to my self or you Or so prophane unto the gods to slight Their and your gifts when proffer'd me so fair I must obey their dictates and my vowes Which call me to Arcadia till when I cannot rest Give me your Royal leave To go I will engage my hopes and all My future happinesses to return In so short a time as you shall limit me Kin. Then daughter since it must be so I can Not tell how to denie his just request But see you part with him in friendship And The like Sir I require of you to her Exit Plu. Far bâ— it from me to denie so fair Requests Lady in signe hereof I take This parting kiss and may it cancel all Miscarriages and seal Loves covenants And thus I take my leave but for a while Eur. Then take thee this my dearest heart and bear It with thee may it be a charm to keep Thy chaste affections from a Strangers love May your return shorten my tedious hours Since I neglect mine own content for yours Exeunt Scaen. 8. Enter 2 Lords 1 Lo. It seems our Kink hath pretty well out-grown His griefs and now he meditates new Loves 2 Lo. The fire of love hath thaw'd his frozen breast And turn'd his cold December into May His Scepter 's chang'd into a sheep-hook He Is gone on pilgrimage to seek a wife Amongst the shepherdesses there is one Whom I have seen and he is gone to see May vie with Juno for precedencie Who in the habit of a Country lass Carries a Prince-like countenance and grace In th' Arcadian Plains she keeps a flock Of sheep whose innocence and whiteness she Surpasseth whilst the shepherds daily strive VVho shall bid fairest for this fairer prize 1 Lo. And he 'l out-bid them all if that will do But what a motley mixture will it be To see his grey hairs joyned with her green And springing youth The strange effects of love VVell may she be his nurse but not his wife VVhat 's love in young is dotage in old men 2 Lo. Love can create an Autumn Spring inâ—uâ—â— New spirits in the old and make them young Besides Honour 's a bait frail women know Not to resist who would not be a Queen Exeunt Scaen. 9. Enter Samela Once more doth Fortune flatter me with hopes Of a contented life now am I free From jealous Menaphon's suspitions And without fear enjoy my wished love Enter Melecertus See where he comes the picture drawn to th' life Of my dead Maximus my former joy Mel. All hail unto the fairest Samela And to her happy flock I envie them She is their Mistris I her servant am Long since my heart was hers may she
table would say Behold Diogenes also hath his parasites Lewis the 10th was wont to brag of his own Kingdom of France that it far exceeded all other Kingdoms wanting but one thing and being requested to know what that was he answered Truth The great Antiochus brought Hannibal to his treasures and shewed him his gold his silver his wealth and treasures and asked him if all that would not please the Romans Yea said Hannibal it would please the Romans but not satisfie the Romans A Councellor of State said to his Master the King of Spain that now is upon occasion Sir I will tell your Majesty thus much for your comfort your Majesty hath but two enemies whereof the one is all the World and the other is your own Ministers Domitian perceiving many of his Predecessors in the Empire to be hated asked one how he might so rule as not to be hated the party answered Tu fac contra By not doing what they did When M. Cicero stood for the Consulship of Rome Q. Cicero wished him to meditate on this Novus sum Consulatam peto Roma est Alexander having a souldier of his name that was a coward He bad him either leave off the name of Alexander or be a souldier A brave Roman Captain told his souldiers That if they could not conquer Britain yet they would get possession of it by laying their bones in it It was a smart answer which Mr. Durant a witty and learned Minister of the Reformed Church of Paris gave a Lady of suspected chastity and since revolted when she pretended the hadness of the Scripture Why said he Madam What can be more plain then Thou shalt not commit adultery It was the saying of the dying Emperor Julian He that would not die when he must and he that would die when he must not are both of them cowards alike Aristippus told the Sailers that wondred why he was not as well as they afraid in the storms that the odds was much For they feared the torments due to a wicked life and he expected the rewards of a good one It was cold comfort Diogenes gave a lewd liver that banished complained he should die in a forreign soil Be of good cheer man wheresoever thou art the way to hell is the same It was the admonition of dying Otho to Cocceius Neither too much to remember nor altogether to forget that Caesar was his Vncle Isocrates of a Scholar full of words asked a double Fee One he said to learn him to speak well another to teach him to hold his peace Euripides when he brings in any woman in his tragedies makes them alwayes bad Sophocles in his tragedies maketh them alwayes good whereof when Sophocles was asked the reason he made this answer Euripides saith he represents women as they be I represent them as they ought to be Sir Henry Wotton was wont to say of Sir Philip Sydneys wit that it was the very measure of congruity Having in Italy acquaintance with a pleasant Priest who invited him one evening to hear their Vesper musick at Church the Priest seeing Sir Henry standing obscurely in a corner sends to him by a boy this question writ in a small piece of paper Where was your Religion to be found before Luther To which Sir Henry Wotton presently under-writ My Religion was to be found then where yours is not to be found now in the written word of God To another that asked him whether a Papist may be saved He replied You may be saved without knowing that look to your self To another that was still railing against the Papists he gave this advice Pray Sir forbear till you have studied the points better for the wise Italians have this Proverb He that understands amiss concludes worse To one being designed for the office of an Embassador requesting from him some experimental rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his Negotiation Sir Henry Wotton gave this for an infallible Aphorisme That to be in safety himself and serviceable to his Country he should alwayes and upon all occasions speak the truth for said he you shall never be believed and by this meanes your truth will secure your self if you shall ever be called to any account and it will also put your adversaries who will still hunt counter to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings He directed this sentence onely to be inscribed on his Tomb-stone Hic jacet hujus sententiae Author Disputandi pruritus fit Ecclesiarum scabies Bolislaus the 4th King of Poland who bearing the picture of his Father hanged about his neck in a plate of gold when he was to speak or doe any thing of importance he took his picture and kissing it said Dear Father I wish I may not doe any thing remissly unworthy of thy name A gentile spirit said to an old man who caused his grisly hairs to be painted with the lustre of green youth Poor fool although thou couldst deceive the whole world with thy hair yet death well knoweth they are grey Sit te Proserpina canem It is said a French King enquiring one day of a Wise-man after divers instructions to govern himself and guide his Kingdome this Wise-man took a fair large sheet of paper and for an infinite number of precepts which others use to produce upon this subject he onely wrote this word Modus measure or mean One who having lived free from the bonds of mariage caused to be set on his Tomb Vixit sine impedimento He lived without hinderance A mother grieving for the death of her son said That all her evil came from loving too much what she might lose Amabam miser a periturum c. An old humourist vapouring once that women had no souls was answered by a modest Lady Sure Sir you are deceived for I can produce a good text to the contrary My soul doth magnifie the Lord and it was a woman that spoke it Isocrates had an excellent wit notwithstanding finding himself destitute of countenance gesture and confidence he never durst to speak in publique contenting himself to teach even to his decrepit dayes and commonly saying He taught Rhetorick for a 1000 Rials but would give more than 10000 to him who would teach him confidence It was the saying of Lewis the French King to Henry the third of England who asking him in those times of implicit faith whether he would goe sooner to the Eucharist or to a Sermon He answered I had rather see my friend than hear him onely spoken of One said that Aristotles School was a great Scold It was not said improperly of him who having passed his grand Climacterique That he was got loose from his unruly passions as from so many lyons and wolves A French Baron not long since meeting two Capuchins going bare-foot in cold frosty weather with their scrips upon their backs a begging and knowing them to be Gentlemen of a good Family he said How grossly are these men cozen'd if there